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23 Conservative Leaders Warn Boehner Not to Punish GOP Dissenters
The Daily Signal ^ | January 7, 2015 | Rob Bluey

Posted on 01/10/2015 8:12:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A coalition of 23 leaders in the conservative movement today urged Speaker John Boehner not to punish Republicans who voted against him for the House’s top job.

Boehner, who removed two of those dissenters from the powerful Rules Committee after the speaker vote, is now rethinking the decision, according to Politico. A total of 25 Republicans did not vote for Boehner.

>>>> The 25 Republicans Who Did Not Vote for John Boehner

“It is unacceptable and disappointing to see that some conservatives are already being punished by you and your leadership team for disagreements over policy and the direction of the conference. This must end immediately,” the 23 conservatives wrote in a letter from the Conservative Action Project.

Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent, two Florida Republicans who opposed Boehner, lost their seats on the Rules Committee. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, said he was being punished for voting for another candidate.

“I’ve already lost the authorship of one bill,” Weber said. “Look it shouldn’t be that way.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who received three votes for speaker, called Boehner a “sore winner” for seeking retribution.

Some of Boehner’s allies want the speaker to take a tough stand after surviving the most divisive speaker election since 1860. That could spell trouble for Reps. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., and Mark Meadows, R-N.C., two subcommittee chairmen.

“We need to get to the bottom of the guys who voted against [procedural motions], and we need to understand why they voted against that, and then we need to know why people voted against the speaker yesterday,” Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Politico.

Nunes is reportedly drafting a resolution prohibiting members who vote against the speaker from chairing a subcommittee.

Boehner, however, signaled the punishment might only be temporary.

“We’re going to have a family conversation,” Boehner said at a Wednesday press conference. “Which we had this morning about bringing our team together. And I expect that those conversations over the next couple of days will continue.”

Last week, Boehner’s spokesman told The Daily Caller, “Boehner has said publicly that there will be no retribution for ‘no’ votes.”

Conservatives want Boehner to keep that promise.

“It is incumbent upon you, as the leader of Republicans in the House, to provide unifying and inclusive leadership,” they wrote.

The letter was signed by the following 23 leaders:

  1. Edwin Meese III, former attorney general for President Ronald Reagan
  2. David McIntosh, former member of Congress from Indiana
  3. Becky Norton Dunlop, former White House adviser to President Ronald Reagan
  4. L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of ForAmerica
  5. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council
  6. Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund
  7. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List
  8. Colin A. Hanna, president of Let Freedom Ring
  9. Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks
  10. David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United
  11. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots
  12. Tim Wildmon, president of American Family Association
  13. William L. Walton, vice president, Council for National Policy
  14. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, retired U.S. Army general and executive VP, Family Research Council
  15. J. Kenneth Blackwell, chairman, Constitutional Congress
  16. T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., former domestic adviser, President Ronald Reagan
  17. Alfred S. Regnery, chairman, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund
  18. Richard A. Viguerie, chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
  19. Andrew C. McCarthy, former federal prosecutor
  20. Frank J. Gaffney Jr., president and CEO, Center for Security Policy
  21. Allen Roth, president, Secure America Now
  22. Paul Caprio, director, Family PAC Federal
  23. Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government

Two of the signers, Meese and Dunlop, are affiliated with The Heritage Foundation.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; cryingcheeto; gop; gope; johnboehner
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1 posted on 01/10/2015 8:12:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!


2 posted on 01/10/2015 8:12:40 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I notice there are no signators from the US Chamber of Commerce.


3 posted on 01/10/2015 8:16:20 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Edwin Meese III... reminds me of what Reagan might say about today’s republican party.


4 posted on 01/10/2015 8:17:24 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

....And just what are they gonna REALLY do about it?


5 posted on 01/10/2015 8:18:34 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Boner will reply: “I won”.


6 posted on 01/10/2015 8:18:40 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Jim Robinson

Why isn’t Jim on that list?

Because we here at Free Republic say, “FUJB!”

This poster wholeheartedly agrees with Jim.


7 posted on 01/10/2015 8:19:58 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The mere fact that ANYONE could be punished for not particularly liking a clueless country clubber indicates a very, very deep problem.
8 posted on 01/10/2015 8:20:32 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Boehner has huffing and puffing, and threatening to blow Obama, but not until he does everything he can to destroy conservatives, and get them out of his way.


9 posted on 01/10/2015 8:21:30 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Boehner will give this serious consideration (after discussing w Nancy).

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10 posted on 01/10/2015 8:24:21 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

who is Devin Nunes and how do we kick him out of the country?


11 posted on 01/10/2015 8:25:15 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Boehner values his ties to the Democrats more than he does conservative legislators in his own party.


12 posted on 01/10/2015 8:27:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Notice how these political scumbags like Boehner are tougher on conservatives than they are on democrats and others working to destroy the country?


13 posted on 01/10/2015 8:28:14 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Mixed feelings on this one. I’m certainly not a fan of Boehner, and wish there had been enough votes to force the second vote and/or oust him.

That said, I also think if you’re going to try to oust your leader, you’d better be prepared for the consequences if you fail.

Imagine if you were a county sheriff, and one of your senior deputies came out to support the other guy against your re-election campaign. Ditto if some close corporate ally turned rival tried to oust you as CEO of a company. Who in their right mind would willingly put that deputy/rival/etc back in a position of trust and confidence? I sure wouldn’t. It would earn no respect from your opponents, and it would also be seen as a sign of weakness, further undermining one’s position.

Boehner is a squish, a RINO, and a disconcerting shade of orange, but I don’t think he’s a fool. You Play, You Pay. It all comes down to that, IMHO.

You all may now begin flaming me, as I am sure it’s coming, LOL.


14 posted on 01/10/2015 8:30:01 PM PST by DemforBush (You're gonna wrestle SHUTE?!? Shute's a monster! A genuine geratoid!)
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To: DemforBush

Boehner is like Romney, he only shows his fangs against other Republicans, but when it comes to Democrats, they fold like a cheap suit.


15 posted on 01/10/2015 8:31:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My rep, Luke Messer, was rewarded for his loyalty to Boner with the position of GOP policy committee chairman.
We Hoosiers have memories like elephants.


16 posted on 01/10/2015 8:31:50 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ConservativeMind
This Jim is missing from the list ...
17 posted on 01/10/2015 8:37:42 PM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What this team fails to realize is Boehner plays for the other team. He capitulates and rolls over for the Dems, but certainly won’t for the conservatives in the party.


18 posted on 01/10/2015 8:43:17 PM PST by Swanks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

> “We’re going to have a family conversation,” Boehner said at a Wednesday press conference. “Which we had this morning about bringing our team together. And I expect that those conversations over the next couple of days will continue.”

Boehner has no excuse for ramming through more than a trillion dollars of funding in a LAME-DUCK session.

He could have easily introduced a short stopgap measure that would allow the New congress to get seated before taking up the budget. But Boehner took away their rightful responsibility and rammed more than 1600 pages of legislation through in 2 days.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE, NOT ONE FOR WHAT BOEHNER DID!


19 posted on 01/10/2015 8:44:32 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: P-Marlowe; Lazamataz
I notice there are no signators from the US Chamber of Commerce.

a.k.a. The U.S. Chamber of Communism (Lazamataz), a.k.a. The U.S. Chamber of Crony Capitalism (Mark Levin), a.k.a. the U.S. Cheap Labor Chamber of Commerce (Tom Marr), a.k.a. Gringos de Mexico (me).

20 posted on 01/10/2015 9:00:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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