Posted on 09/26/2015 5:38:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
Allies of Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) are infuriated with the right wing of the House GOP conference, which they blame for his resignation.
GOP lawmakers who’ve stood by Boehner’s side throughout his rocky five-year tenure as Speaker bitterly blamed the right flank for forcing a contested leadership race less than a year after the party won control of Congress in the 2014 midterm elections.
A fired-up House Ethics Committee Chairman Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), speaking not long after Boehner dropped the bombshell at a Friday conference meeting that he’ll leave Congress at the end of next month, ripped into hard-line conservatives.
He accused them of opposing Boehner at every turn, and noted they have “never had a horse of their own.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.
Leadership allies are frustrated by what they see as a repeated exercise in futility.
They argue that the lawmakers who repeatedly tangled with Boehner aren’t team players, and they said a new leadership team shouldn’t cater to them.
Boehner repeatedly saw conservatives vote against the GOP rules governing debate on legislation. Those votes are supposed to be tests of party loyalty.
They also argue Boehner repeatedly bent to conservative critics on spending issues, only to see them stab him in the back.
“Frankly, I thought our leadership in too many cases has been too accommodating, too quick to appease those who will not govern,” Dent said. “They give far too much procedural consideration to those who will not vote for the bills at the end of the process. That’s going to end. We’ve had enough of that.”
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Anybody taking names?
Charlie Dent,another RINO incompetent.
I will bet that peter king is over on fox news talking about this
Angry allies of Boehner:
Full of fury and signifying NOTHING.
We opposed Boehner because he would not stop what Obama wanted. To the contrary, he did everything possible to HELP Obama.
Representative Dent can stick his bleats up his a$$.
Another Progressive republican.
“....... too quick to appease those who will not govern.....”
The essence of the problem, they consider themselves rulers of the people rather than protectors of the free republic.....
Is this from the Onion?
There..........Fixed it.
Democrats
the FOUNDING FATHERS set up the Constitution and the 3 branches of the government with CHECKS and BALANCES just so things would not change rapidly or radically and would take a CONSENSUS within the CONSTITUTION...
all congressmen should be made to read it and take a test on what it means
SINCE THEY TOOK AN OATH TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND IT... BUT DONT...
we dont need carpenters in congress....we need LEADERS
WITH MODERN POLLS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS KNOWN AND CONSTANTLY IGNORED... I SUGGEST CONGRESS WAKE UP AND START REPRESENTING WE THE PEOPLE....
They sure are making it easy to identify them as RINO’s for the next election.
Any who support must also leave Congress. You guys just don’t get it, do you?
I would counsel that we need to be a little tempered in our celebration. The closer we get to their homeland, (K Street) the harder and dirtier they will fight.
Boy, their shill sure knows how to fracture her English.
They may be "furious with" the right wing, but Boehner's allies certainly are not infused with the spirit of the right wing. Were they "infuriated with the right wing," they would well be furious at the actions of the Democrats with which the GoPee sellouts have colluded and collaborated for whatever paltry pieces of silver bought their pitiful souls.
I appreciate FReepers...or anybody...who can read and discern.
Which team ?
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