I assume they spoke the very first words, to Boehner himself:
"YOU'RE FIRED!"
Posted on 09/26/2015 11:42:13 AM PDT by Steelfish
GOP Representative: Mitch McConnell ‘Next Guy in the Crosshairs’
by JOEL GEHRKE September 25, 2015
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will be the next target of conservatives frustrated with party leadership, according to one of the conservative representatives who pressured House speaker John Boehner in the weeks leading up to his resignation. “Next guy in the crosshairs will probably be McConnell,” Representative Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.) said in a text message to Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah), according to National Journal’s Sarah Mimms. Lee replied that he doubts that will happen. Still, Salmon’s speculation reflects a theory of Boehner’s struggles that is common among the outgoing speaker’s friends and foes alike — that his unpopularity among the grassroots stems more from McConnell’s failure to take advantage of the Senate majority than anything House Republicans have done.
If that’s true, then Boehner’s departure can hardly be expected to ease the tensions between GOP leadership and the conservative base or preempt more leadership fights in the future. “People are frustrated with out Republican leadership, with Boehner and McConnell, and it’s not usually the third or fourth question that comes up — it’s the first question that comes up,” Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.), who voted against Boehner in January, told National Review last week. “It’s happening at tea-party events, but it’s [also] happened at Republican breakfasts, it’s happening at donor meetings — there’s a deep frustration.”
Representative Trent Franks holds the same view, but believes that it can be relieved by the elimination of the filibuster rather than a change in leadership. “Unfortunately, the Republican base and even many esoteric Republican observers are not truly cognizant of how the Democrats’ insidious use of the filibuster is beginning to tear the House conference apart,” Franks said.
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Mitch, you and Bonehead could do the hororable thing as a pair.
Honor=Sepuku
McCain and Grahamnesty will be severely verklempt.
Hororable= Honorable.
Has the chamber of commerce said anything about Boehner’s retirement?
Mitch McTurkeyneck
Not going to happen - wish it would because McConnell has been a major disappointment for as long as I can remember. He flat out lied during his last campaign about what he would do (oppose Obama), but he has 4 more years until he has to pretend he is going to fight again. The Senate by it’s very nature and personality is not mutiny material.
McConnell has demonstrated for years that he cares nothing about opposing noise. He only has to care once every 6 years.
When the “leaders” fail time after time after time, they’ve got to go.
They are “leaders” for the GOP-e like trying to re-establish the Im-Ex Bank for crony capitalists.
I assume they spoke the very first words, to Boehner himself:
The turkey wiilll have to be dragged out by his jowels. He’s the problem and no solution...
On behalf of Sen. McConnell, please consider the following.
Even though patriots have had three election cycles to establish a 2/3 conservative majority in the post-17th Amendment ratification Senate, enough election cycles to have replaced every member of the Senate by now, conservatives still only have an anemic, simple majority control of the Senate, not enough to remove House-impeached lawless presidents from office or activist justices from the bench.
The bottom line is that apathetic patriots can take part (all?) of the blame for unconstitutionally big federal government imo.
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Noting that the Senate, not the Oval Office, is the most unconstitutionally powerful office in the land imo, the ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who pass unconstitutional House tax appropriation bills and refuse to remove lawless presidents and activist justices from office along with it.
{has 4 more years until he has to pretend he is going to fight again.}
He’s 73 now. If he doesn’t die off, he’ll probably retire.
His loyalty to those he serves will keep him from resigning.
(And that would be the lobbyists.)
The people of Kentucky could have taken care of him for us!!
But PLEASE do not make Cornyn leader. He is worse than slimy.
surrender mitch. resign now.
Give him his empty shell and send him home
Sorry he isnt going anywhere and we are not going to get the change we want with Boner gone.
There are not enough real conservatives — yet— in either chamber of congress to get it done.
This is a sad fact but a fact nonetheless. The GOPe needs to make nice with either the Tea Party or the Dems to get a speaker in there and we know it will be the Denms. Boner has already seen to that.
Maybe when Trump is elected things can start.
He’ll have to be removed in a casket ...
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