Kathleen Parker Rips Conservative Caucus for Perpetual ‘Amateur Hourness’

On Fox News Sunday, Washington Post conservative columnist Kathleen Parker diagnosed a pathological case of “amateur hourness” in the House GOP.

Parker was referring to the 54 “rabble rousers” who killed a vote on Department of Homeland Security funding last Friday, forcing the House GOP to partner with House Democrats to pass a one-week funding extension to prevent a DHS shutdown. This is the same caucus that forced a full government shutdown in the fall of 2013 by tying funding of the Affordable Care Act to both a spending bill and raising the debt ceiling.

“Once again the Republicans have put themselves in the position of being seen as the obstructionists, the people who can’t govern,” Parker said.

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She then addressed rumors that this self-same caucus was plotting a coup for Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) job.

“I think it’s less a problem of [Boehner’s] leadership than it is this fifty-person rabble rousing crowd who are never going to vote with anyone,” Parker said. “They came to vote against. They wanna fight these unwinnable battles, and when they fail to win…they blame leadership, instead of understanding that it’s their own amateur hourness.”

Host Chris Wallace told those “rabble rousers” to direct their Twitter mentions to Parker. “I think we’re already in constant contact,” she said.

Watch the clip below, via Fox News:

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