Posted on 09/08/2015 6:44:56 PM PDT by cotton1706
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), one of the 28 Republicans who publicly supports replacing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)with a Republican alternative, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Boehner does not have enough support within the Republican conference to win re-election with just Republican votes.
Therefore, Mulvaney said, should there be a vote on a privileged resolution on a motion to vacate the chair of the House of Representatives—a fancy term for a vote to remove Boehner from the speakership—the only way Boehner can keep his job is if Democrats vote for him to bail him out.
“The math depends on the Democrats, doesn’t it?” Mulvaney told Breitbart News in a phone interview on Tuesday afternoon. “I think if all the Democrats were to vote against John, he’d lose the Speakership, but I don’t think anyone knows where the Democrats stand.”
Technically, the magic number for Boehner to lose re-election without a Democrat infusion or some kind of shenanigans where members don’t show up to vote or something akin to that is 29 Republicans voting against him. There are 28 Republicans publicly opposed to Boehner’s re-election, but many more privately who have confirmed that they can’t vote for Boehner to Mulvaney and others. Many more are teetering on the edge of becoming public, and Boehner’s team is certainly terrified, as Politico’s Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan detailed on Tuesday morning.
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He will not survive unless he prostitutes himself with the enemy
Throw the bum out!
If the demonrats bail him out does that officially make him a demonrat?
I wouldn’t put it past him to cut a deal with the Rats to give them some choice committee chairmanships in exchange for their support.
He's already done that.
If the Democrats vote to save his butt, kick him out of the Republican caucus.
They won’t get rid of him. He is a liberal functionary.
Boo Hooner is a traitor to conservative values. Let me give you specifics and you make up your mind.
1. I orchestrated funding of obamacare 4 times
2. He orchestrated funding of illegal dictator amnesty.
Pick it up from there. I detest the bastard and wish him nothing but ill.
You meant AGAIN.
This guy is such a worthless POS!
The only way to get rid of him might be for the Republicans to agree to vote for Pelosi and then throw Pelosi out.
God save us from the worthless GOPee.
I bet that Pelosi will save his ass. Boner only cares about Boner keeping the speakership. Nothing else matters to him.
Can somebody educate me?
Are they talking about replacing him as Speaker during this current session of Congress, before the 2016 elections?
Or are they setting things up for the Speaker election after the 2016 election happens?
We would have to see what happens in the 2016 elections, among other things, to see how big a margin the GOP still has in the House after those elections. And who gets elected president in 2016 could influence the speakership selection process too.
No. Now. There is a motion to vacate the chair, which would require a vote.
Leave Boehner alone! *crys*
The Democrats should all vote for him. He’s been their best friend and an enemy to conservatives.
If the Democrats help him remain Speaker he really will be a Democrat in an R jersey.
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if the dems were smart...they would cut a deal with the most liberal house member in the republican party.
who is that?
peter king maybe?
He’s such a pompous windbag, he would do it.
he would need all the Dem votes, and then what....30 liberal republicans who he promises plum committees?
This is of course what happens in Texas every two years wehre there is a house majority of GOP but a liberal speaker
>> He will not survive unless he prostitutes himself with the enemy
... which he will happily do.
Anyway, “the enemy” is relative. The ‘rats our OUR enemy, but they’re Boner’s pals.
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