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To: Cincinatus' Wife
... his bid — or other Republicans’ bids — for the speaker position don’t create a serious risk that Democrats could slip in a victorious candidate.

Actually this would seem to be possible. I think many of us could use a short tutorial on the mechanics of the vote.

So if there are any experts here in FR-Land:

Is the vote timed?
Can you change your vote before it is finalized?
Things like that.

14 posted on 01/04/2015 5:34:49 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: InterceptPoint; All

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/02/29-conservatives-can-oust-boehner-as-speaker/

“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.........”


15 posted on 01/04/2015 5:36:01 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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