Posted on 01/09/2015 6:45:05 AM PST by cotton1706
“It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls,” Ferrechio wrote. “There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers. The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker.”
Statements from several members who voted for Boehner after the fact indicated just how rattled they were.
“Over the past week, many of you have contacted me asking me to vote against John Boehner for Speaker of the House,” Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS), who faced calls from some powerful state senators in his district to vote against Boehner—potential primary challengers against him next cycle—said in a statement after voting for Boehner. “Americans are frustrated with the leadership in Washington, and they should be. President Obama and his liberal friends are destroying this country and we have to fight back.”
Palazzo added that he met with Boehner the day before “one-on-one and man-to-man” for “more than an hour” and “asked him directly whether he was going to be a conservative leader who will stand up to the liberal agenda of President Obama.”
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“I believe him and am willing to give the Speaker and his team a last chance to put us back on a conservative path for America,” Palazzo said. “If Speaker Boehner refuses to put forward conservative solutions immediately to our nation’s problems, I will vehemently oppose his every move.”
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Sucker!
I can tell you that the Fraud, Marsha Blackburn is catching hell on her Facebook page.
No amount of Kabuki dances, show votes or grandstanding will erase
the stench.
Agree Boehner sold us out more than one time and will do it again.
Week 1.
Has the EXEMPT GOP gotten rid of THEIR RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
from which EXEMPT Boehner (and the other EXEMPT)
have made millions?
NOT a chance.
Has the EXEMPT GOP done one thing to stop the Tyrant
before whom EXEMPT Boehner bows low?
NOT a chance.
We need to send boxes of Tootsie Roll suckers to Congress.One for being suckers and number two for rolling over for Boehner.
So they are using their ignorance as an excuse for their Boehner vote? Perhaps by primary season in 2016, conservatives can find smarter candidates.
Boehner and his supporters, especially his ostensible tea party supporters, should familiarize themselves with Dan Rostenkowski’s fall from grace. Things may get a little hot before ‘16 primary season rolls around if they don’t get right with the base.
Bonehead has put too many knives in our backs for us to trust him. The GOP congress has way too many sellouts and low information legislators.
“”It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls,” Ferrechio wrote. “There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers.””
Is Breitbart accurately reporting? Were there truly only hundreds of phone calls? If that is all the phone calls the conservatives could muster, then we are doomed.
...and John Boehner is one of Obama's "liberal friends" - no matter WHAT he told you in your "man to man" talk with him.
Hundreds of phone calls were to this one rep. That’s very good including some high profile state legislators who could run against him.
Hundreds of phones calls likely got through to many many reps. We can be sure even more phone calls could not get through.
And Boehner told Mr. Palazzo exactly what he wanted to hear, I'm sure.
Boehner is a glad-handing country clubber and not much else. He's obviously not a patriot.
Squishy Boner needs to understand:
a- Unlike himself, the conservatives who voted against him are responding to the voters who elected them
b- Without the Tea Party/ conservatives, Squishy would NOT be Speaker of the House, nor would Republicans control the Senate
Boehner is the wrong target. Better to go after his support base in the House rank and file. He’s only Speaker because they want him there.
I don’t know why he would believe in Boner after he repeatedly stabbed conservatives in the back. He’s like the wife of an abusive drunk who keeps coming back for another beaten.
Palazzo is in for a major effing disappointment.
Brooks said conservatives need to bring more members into their tent and work on electing more conservatives to the House, so that something like this effort could be more successful next time around.
Kind of hard to do when they change the districts to get rid of people like West.
First in 2010 it’s we only have the house, can’t do anything to stop Obamas agenda.
After taking both house and senate, it’s the above excuse.
How many of us would put up with these excuses from anyone else that we hired?
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