Posted on 01/02/2015 2:59:14 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Conservatives have grown used to being a minority in Washington, irrespective of which party controls the White House and Congress. But on Tuesday, January 6, a group of just 29 conservatives will have perhaps its only opportunity to change the course of history and drive the direction of the country.
It would only require 29 House members to depose current Speaker John Boehner. With this leverage, conservatives could negotiate significant reforms from a successor who emerges on a second or third ballot, thereby restoring the mandate given to them by the electorate on November 4.
Tuesday will be a profound time for choosing, and given the way Obama has ostensibly overturned the results of the midterm elections, the Speaker’s election could prove more impactful than the votes cast at the ballot box.
We are not living through ordinary times; we are experiencing a constitutional crisis – one in which the sitting president has threatened to remake our immigration system and other fundamental laws, traditions, and values through executive fiat.
Yet, at the same time, the leader of the Republican-controlled House has admitted to giving the president the green light to implement executive amnesty. More broadly, he has demonstrated time and again that he will pass votes with Democrat support and whip votes together with Obama to avoid fighting the president on the fundamental issues of our time.
At this critical juncture, the few dozen conservatives in the House have two options.
They can allow themselves and the 2014 electorate to remain disenfranchised, helplessly standing by while Boehner passes crucial legislation on amnesty, budget bills, Obamacare, and debt ceiling increases with Democrat support. Or they can seize control of their own destiny by using the first vote of this Congress – the only vote for which Boehner cannot relyon Democrat support...
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We will wait and see.
Not much hope, though, the party of the Chamber of Commerce works mightily to retain its reputation of computer, utter stupidity.
Thanks for posting, Jim
D*mn, I’m getting ready to throw this auto correct out (not blaming myself for proofing, it’s all the machine’s fault).
That’s “complete”, not “computer”.
Good grief, I keep this up and I’ll be considered to be akin to a Professor of Advanced Nothingness working for the Studies Studies Dept of some idiot school.
May it be so, Boehner has got to go!
Fear God, and dread naught.
Microsoft AutoCorrect. Now in Internet Explorer!
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES.
Seriously, Apple and Google’s half-baked attempts at this are total $*!t, for the most part.
“as these members stand before their constituents and gratuitously utter the words “John Boehner,” they will have sealed their own fate for the next two years because they have offered no alternative plan to reestablish a modicum of conservative control over the conservative party. Those self-described conservatives who are reluctant to join this effort have an obligation to put forth other ideas for reestablishing a voice within the party.
On Tuesday, choose wisely and fear no man.”
It would be novel and very exciting if our representatives actually represented we, the people, this time around.
Time for all elected to look at them selves, ask do I represent the Constitution, or did is sell out for silver?
Another interesting thought is what would happen if some of the conservatives would vote with the Rats for Ms. Clueless. Wouldn't be that much worse than Boo Hoo ... they can call for a new election any time ... it would be a lot easier to give her the boot than the Rino ... they would probably have more leverage over the twit than they would have over the cry-baby.
That picture scares me every time.
All Boehner needs is enough Democrats to either abstain or vote "present". They don't even have to vote for him.
The Speaker only needs a majority of the Representatives that actually vote for an individual.
So, you have to ask: what do the Democrats fear more? Boehner as Speaker, or a conservative Republican as Speaker? Once you answer that question, how do you think they will vote?
I called my republican rep’s office this morning and advised him to dump the speaker in the upcoming election. We’ll see.
If the conservatives can’t/won’t pull the trigger on this and force Boehner out, they will never exert enough power in the GOP to change the party’s elitest political control.
More simply, if they won’t unseat Boehner, they will never have any power in the GOP.
If that gif because the Republicans kept their House majority or is it because he loses his Speakership?
It is difficult to tell, at times, whether those are tears of joy or tears of sadness.
Tears tears tears
Rain drops. So, many rain drops. Falling from my eyes. Falling from my eyes. Rain drops. etc...
They don’t have the oysters to do it!
Doubtless many RATs WILL vote for boner. Having him as Speaker is almost as good as having Pelosi.
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