Posted on 03/06/2015 4:49:16 AM PST by cotton1706
Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker.
And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.
A number of right-wing Republicans, long-wary of Boehner's commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama's policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands.
But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they'd rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. Replacing him with a Tea Party Speaker, they say, would only bring the legislative process — already limping along — to a screeching halt.
“I'd probably vote for Boehner [because] who the hell is going to replace him? [Ted] Yoho?,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said Wednesday, referencing the Florida Tea Party Republican who’s fought Boehner on a host of bipartisan compromise bills.
“In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they're going to change the world,” Pascrell added.
Liberal Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) agreed that for Democrats, replacing Boehner could lead to a worse situation.
“Then we would get Scalise or somebody? Geez, come on,” said Grijalva, who referenced House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). “We can be suicidal, but not stupid.”
Boehner, who has grappled with dissent from the Tea Party wing since he took the Speaker's gavel in 2011, has seen opposition to his reign grow this year, even as he commands the largest GOP majority since the Hoover administration.
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Any Conservative who ever votes for a non-conservative Republican at this point is a complete idiot.
Finally, a Republican Democrats show affection for - one who can be relied upon to loyally do their bidding.
Boner for once is pleased conservatives don’t have the votes to oust him.
I am just wondering why I voted in November period!
What is the point of having the majority when the Dems still run Congress due to the cowardly fools on our side who keep getting elected.
We need the cry for his removal to be so loud that he steps down.
The fact that the enemy is protecting him is sufficient cause.
So there you have it.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans?
NOTHING.
My coward congressman, John Carter - CINO TX, had a doctors excuse for missing the vote for Speaker and his letter responses and his phone screeners won’t say how he would have voted.
It’s been obvious for years that half of the elected Republicans in Congress, if not more, would enter a coalition government with the Democrats to stop a conservative takeover.
And it’s also obvious that conservatives on this site and elsewhere are deluded about their electoral strength.
The electoral strength will come, I’m convinced, but only AFTER separation from the Democrats in drag who make up the core of the modern Republican Party.
My head is spinning but they've become the GREATER of two evils. They lied about their intentions in order to get elected.
Conservatives should elect Pelosi speaker.
First, it makes no difference.
Second, she can’t pass anything that counts that isn’t already passing.
Third, it gets rid of Boehner.
Fourth, it threatens all the RINO committee positions and perks if they won’t support a conservative speaker or it forces them out of the Republican Party and clears the deck for the 2016 Republican primaries for actual Republicans.
I’ve been saying this is the only way to make the Tea Party insurgency work since 2011.
The GOP Congress during the 2014 elections declared a Red Line in the sand against Obama’s unconstitutional actions. This was as valid as Obama’s Red Line to Syria.
The only time Republicans in the government get real excited about opposition, is when it comes from the RIGHT.
That is the only opposition they gear up for 100%.
The GOP is becoming the adversary here, in my opinion.
Boehner needs to switch parties. PERIOD.
Boehner’s been bought off....or worse blackmailed.
This is just an amazing thing to behold. Somehow we now find ourselves with a republican majority in the House and the Senate and the democrats are still in control, calling the shots, getting their way. I see these things transpiring before my very eyes and I am left completely dumbfounded. Being sane in an insane world is driving me crazy.
To defeat the democRATs, we must first defeat the Republicans.
Kiwi, Trevor Loudon is the author of The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress. In this video clip, he "names the names" of Marxists in Congress, unions, and the Democratic Party. A Film based on his book is due out later this year.
"People, you have got at least 100 members of your House and 20 members of your Senate who would not get a basic FBI security clearance to clean the toilets at any military base in your country. And neither would your president. Do you think the Soviets would tolerate 100 pro-Americans in their Duma? Do you think the Castros would tolerate 100 pro-Americans in their so called parliament?More than 20 of your Congressmen have been in Cuba in the last three years.
This is a contemporary problem. The American media does not touch it. You have got treason right in the heart of your government, folks.
Pelosi did commit the fraud that made Obola
the pRes_ _ent, and today it is clear
that Boehner knew about it BEFORE THE FACT
and helped the treason AFTER THE FACT systematically.
LIARS. This is fraud — and McConnell and Boehner
are at the heart of the dagger against the
heart of the American People and the US Constitution.
Conservative Congress critters should just go on strike. Not show up for votes etc.
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