Posted on 06/16/2015 9:30:48 AM PDT by cotton1706
Displaying a rare flash of anger, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday chastised the nearly three dozen Republicans who voted against a procedural rule that structured how a critical trade package was brought to the House floor.
“I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy about it,” Boehner told reporters after a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file members at the Capitol Hill Club. “You know, we’re a team. And we’ve worked hard to get the majority; we’ve worked hard to stay in the majority.
“And I expect our team to act like a team, and frankly, I made it pretty clear I wasn’t very happy,” he added.
In the meeting, Boehner told his fellow Republicans it was “nonsense” that some of them had voted against leadership, according to a GOP lawmaker in the room.
His remarks, which sparked applause, are notable because GOP leaders for days have been highlighting Democrats' "civil war" over trade.
Boehner didn't just give GOP rebels a tongue lashing. GOP leaders also booted three defectors — Reps. Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Steve Pearce (N.M.) and Trent Franks (Ariz.) — from the Republican whip team after they voted against the trade rule, National Journal reported.
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It is time for conservatives in Congress to make a stand against Boehner and call him out on this.
Is he in tears like usual?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that nonsense.
He has never rammed through conservative bills like he Rams thru
liberal spending bills like Cromibus and Obamatrade.
Well Johnny, get with the team for a change.
Much like McCain refused to be very critical of Obama in 2008, but was savage against a conservative who tried to primary him in the following Senate election.
Boehner will be irrelevant when Trump beats the bejabbers out of the bitch.
This a-hole has to go.
Fits this thread too..
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/three-booted-from-gop-whip-team-as-leaders-crack-down-20150616
“June 16, 2015 House Republican leaders are cracking down on rebellious members after a near-disaster on a trade vote last week, but another imperiled rule coming to the House floor Tuesday is making it difficult to punish the members who leaders need to pass the measure.
Reps. Cynthia Lummis, Steve Pearce, and Trent Franks have been removed from the whip team after they sided with GOP rebels to vote against a rule governing debate on a trade bill, according to sources close to the team.
Lummis, a deputy whip and a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was perhaps the whip team’s highest-ranking bridge to the conference’s most intransigent members. Pearce and Franks are also very close to House conservatives...”
Man, they’re pushing hard for their crony donors!
And what exactly what have you done with that majority, Johnny?
Need to get rid of Boehner....yesterday.
Boehner must have really received a tongue lashing from the Chamber of Commerce.
You didn't do squat, you freakin' boozehound. That majority was handed to you and you pissed it away.
Now go take a drink and go kiss Nancy Pelosi.
“I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy about it,” Boehner told reporters after a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file members at the Capitol Hill BOEHNER “You know, we’re a team. And we’ve worked hard to get the majority; we’ve worked hard to stay in the majority........”
YEAH! RIGHT! WE the PEOPLE worked hard to create a “team” that would listen to We the People. We won the elections of 2014 and what good did it do? NOTHING we were promised has come to pass and instead YOU and YOUR OBAMA TEAM have given Obama EVERYTHING he has asked for!
BRAVO for the few who have the guts to stand FOR WE the People and AGAINST the ESTABLiSHMENT!
Boehner is actually worse than Obama in some ways. He is the traitor inside the city walls. Not enough bad stuff can happen to this bastard.
Boehner’s definition of ‘teamwork’: “Do what I say or I’ll cry like a little girl about it!”
And WE, THE PEOPLE didn't give you that majority so that you could be Barry Soetoro's catamite.
We gave you that majority because we expect you to OPPOSE Barry the Kenyan Socialist Usurper.
Lead, follow or get out of the way, Johnny, ya big dummy!
Pound Sand Bonehead!
The Republicans cannot get rid of Boehner. Even if a majority of the Republicans in the House vote to elect a new speaker, Nancy Pelosi and all of her Democrats will vote to retain Boehner as speaker. Boehner and Nancy are team mates. The Democrats are damn lucky to have that fool Boehner as speaker, and they know it.
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