Posted on 09/18/2013 9:03:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON — If there was any question who’s setting the agenda and direction of the Republican Party in the House it was answered Wednesday when, after forcing Speaker John Boehner to agree to once again attempt to defund Obamacare, Rep. Steve Stockman thanked fellow Tea Partier Rep. Tom Graves — and not the man ostensibly sitting atop the GOP’s top perch.
“[Americans] want to defund ObamaCare and keep the government open. Thank you to Tom Graves and others who worked to make this happen,” Stockman said in a press release blasted out to national media. “Republicans should listen to the people who gave them control of the House to stop ObamaCare. If we don’t stop ObamaCare, voters will find someone who will.”
Stockman’s snub of Boehner was remarkable beyond the fact that he ditched the traditional approach of publicly bowing to leadership after winning a concession. As speaker, Boehner is supposed to not only set the agenda for the entire House but as the most powerful elected Republican in the country, he’s the party’s philosophical course.
But with a gang of 30 to 40 Tea Party members willing to openly defy him, Boehner finds himself very much on the outside looking in when it comes to the agenda, working overtime to contain the chaos that has become the GOP. And with conservatives forcing Boehner to swallow their demands for another vote on defunding Obamacare as the price for even considering not shutting down the government, it’s been on full display this week.
One of those conservatives, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who has been a thorn in Boehner’s side, said that the group of members who opposed Boehner’s original plan to avoid a shutdown were becoming increasingly effective.
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Thank God !
Teanami!
America, are you listening? Can you hear us yet?
The RINO’s can join in the fight for our country or they can start packing to go back to the world they helped destroy.
If they could keep it shut down until the 2014 elections with the support of a majority wanting to defund Obamacare, it would be like Picket’s Charge for Obama and the hard core liberal leftists.
“The TEA Party is dead” WILL become famous last words.
Jolly well better get someone besides Boehner to message this.
Sounds good, now hold on to 'em.
He didn't "find" himself there. He put himself there. He could still be part of it if he wants to be.
God bless America. She isn’t quite rolled, yet, but we need to double the Lee petition!
THAT is our homework. Shall we get crackin’?
I’m “crackin’” as long as I breathe. God bless Free America!
If Boehner is going to make a habit of caving, he might as well learn to cave to conservatives.
You are also a great American!
Where do they get this drivel?
If the nations wasn't pressuring their reps (lots of them) to pressure the eunuchs who claim to be in charge, the conservatives would have been gleefully tossed under the nearest bus.
My guess is these days lots of Democrats can feel the heat.
The new guys are twittering, paying attention to the Constitution, logic, conservative talk radio and the antics of their opponents in the Uniparty.
They are leaving a wake in their trail. Just way out ahead. They don’t care about the media, and they shouldn’t. The media is getting left behind in its hypocrisy, I daresay.
There are no new young stars in the Dem party. And none in the GOP establishment.
the media will not be beat by the libs’ coming around to believe us. It will get left behind in its irrelevance.
Just my opinion.
A NYT headline today is that the anarchists in the GOP have made a power move.
Anarchists.
The Constitutional protectors. The ones- the only ones- doing their jobs, the NYT calls ‘anarchists’.
They are now in their Norma Desmond stage.
They are Gloria Swanson, in four star makeup, plastic eyelashes and penciled brows, dead guy in the backyard pool.
It’s unbecoming, and they are burying themselves in irrelevance.
And the ‘anarchists’ don’t express a care in the world what these papers are saying about them.
Please folks, we are in the fourth turn, leading the race, and....we can see the checkered flag waving victory in the Defund Obamacare finish line effort by the House Pubbies!!! Senators Lee and Cruz were just on “Hannity”....fighting the good fight, leading the charge to winning!!! Cruz/Lee urging all to get at least four kindred spirt folks to Sign/Endorse the petition listed below to defund Obamacare!!!
Need your help, NOW!!! Please, get four folks you know to sign and endorse the Lee/Cruz petition to defund Obamacare. We are about to go over the 1,500,000 signature mark. The defund petition is on fire growing rapidly. Need to shoot for 5,000,000 signatures, like right now...TODAY!!! Give the Pubbies the real backbone we need to defeat/Defund Obamacare!!!
Or.....post this same message across the internet to all Conservatives, Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, Labor Union members, Seniors, Young folks, etc.
(WWW.DONTFUNDOBAMACARE.COM)
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