Posted on 01/18/2015 6:38:56 PM PST by cotton1706
Speaker of the House John Boehner has rewarded Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), one of the most well known candidates who challenged him in his successful effort to be re-elected Speaker, with a powerful Subcommittee Chairmanship.
The news that Gohmert and others who publicly rebelled against Boehner have received gavels to chair powerful House subcommittees rather than one-way tickets to the House basement has angered several Boehner loyalists.
On Thursday, Gohmert said he had been named chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the Natural Resources Committee.
According to current practice in the House, committee chairmen have the authority to select their own subcommittee chairmen.
But if Speaker Boehner had explicitly told Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), whom he selected, that he did not want Gohmert as a subcommittee chairman in that committee, it is a virtual certainty that Gohmert would not have received the appointment.
An anonymous Boehner loyalist serving in the House told the National Journal the appointment of Gohmert as chairman of a subcommittee “is a major slap in the face.”
Another rebel who voted against Boehner’s re-election as Speaker, Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC), was also named chairman of a subcommittee.
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Boehner loyalists... Is there such a thing as loyalty in the liberal GOP? ..
“We have your backs....” Not
Louis can't be bought with money, but the power of being head of a committee, that's just another kind of making nice, DC style.
I love Gohmert, but if he starts kissing boner butt, we'll know that the bribe worked.
I hope I'm wrong.
Your recollection is wrong. Gohmert ran against Boehner. He voted for himself as did others.
OK, I’m seriously thinking I shouldn’t post as I run out the door.
Seesh, that was humiliating.
Heck, that ain't nuthin' Eagle. You just didn't recollect right. Sometimes I post stuff that is seriously stupid!
Well, OK, but let’s not tell anyone else.
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