83 percent of respondents to a National Review Online poll support Boehner’s plan
So do the following conservatives:
Rep. Mike Pence
Citizens Against Government Waste
National Federation of Independent Businesses
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
Financial Services Rountable
Rep. John Campbell
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallon
The Manchester Union Leader
columnist S.E. Cupp
Myron Ebell, Freedom Action
Thomas Sowell, conservative economist and columnist extraordinaire
115 private-sector job-creating organizations, state, local and national, ranging from the Aluminum Association of America to the Brick Industry Association, the American Meat Association, Associated General Contractors of America, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, the National Restaurant Association, the Texas Retailers Association, and the Wisconsin Grocers Association (just to give a taste of the breadth of the support)
Keith Hennessey
The Wall Street Journal editorial page (Republicans who oppose Boehner’s debt deal are playing into Obama’s hands.)
National Review as an institution
John Bolton
Fred Thompson
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Americans for Tax Reform and Grover Norquist
Yuval Levin
James Capretta
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan
James Pethokoukis
Mark Thiessen
Brit Hume (Hard-liners rejecting Boehner “are playing with fire,” could “blow it” by not supporting Boehner, will likely end up with “far less than they will get with Boehner.”)
George Will
Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West
Majority Leader Eric Cantor
Rep. Kristi Noem
The Chicago Tribune
Fred Barnes
Townhall’s Guy Benson
Matthew Continetti
Charles Krauthammer (it would be “suicidal” for Repubs to kill Boehner plan)
Laura Ingraham
Haley Barbour
William Kristol (To vote against John Boehner on the House floor this week in the biggest showdown of the current Congress is to choose to vote with Nancy Pelosi. To vote against Boehner is to choose to support Barack Obama. It is to choose to increase the chances that worse legislation than Boehner’s passes. And it is to choose to increase the chances that Obama emerges from this showdown politically stronger.)
