Posted on 10/09/2015 8:03:43 AM PDT by Rockitz
10:47 UPDATE:
During a live interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) of Pennsylvania pointed the finger at House conservatives for the chaos in the House.
“If we don’t change the political dynamic, the next speaker will suffer the same fate as Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH),” Dent said. He says he hopes to “marginalize” conservative members.
Leadership has bent over backward to appease conservative members, only to have these members vote against leadership, Dent said. He described the Republican meeting as “group therapy.” He also told Bash “The issue is how do we change the political dynamic?”
10:40 UPDATE:
The Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz counters the entire Washington establishment’s push for Ryan by making the case that Ryan is by far the worst possible candidate for Speaker of the House.
“There is nobody in modern politics whose record and true priorities are more divorced from their rhetoric and public perception,” Horowitz wrote, adding that if Ryan does ascend to the highest job in the House of Representatives it would be an effort by the establishment to gloss over the truth about his non-conservative voting record.
“Unlike McCarthy or some of the other choices, Ryan’s ascendancy to the speakership would be hailed as fresh change. In fact, it would serve nothing more than putting the prettiest face on the ugliest policies,” Horowitz wrote.
Horowitz added that, now that former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and current House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)along with Ryan, the three “Young Guns” who steered the House GOP in an anti-conservative direction–have fallen, it’s time for the last “Young Gun” to go down too.
“It’s time to let the Young Guns go the way of the Whigs,” Horowitz wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Watch what this lying, cheating weasel, John Boehner does. He feels the K-Street Gravy Train drying up for himself and his GOPe cronies so he’ll start shopping democRAT votes for whoever he selects as Speaker. It’s a page out of his old playbook to bypass the House conservatives.
Easy, Dent and 100 more of his Democrat pretending to be Republican buddies, can resign and go back to being Democrats.
By permission from the author:
Why this upcoming vote for Speaker of the house of Representatives is so very, very important? Let’s first look at the US Constitution, the Supreme Law of the United States of America.
Article II.
Section 1. clause 6
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or Inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
(Modified by: Amendment 20 & Amendment 25)
Section 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Now let’s look at the line of succession, in the event the President either dies or is removed from office.
Order of Presidential Succession
According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, the Senate president pro tempore1 was next in line after the vice president to succeed to the presidency, followed by the Speaker of the House.
In 1886, however, Congress changed the order of presidential succession, replacing the president pro tempore and the Speaker with the cabinet officers. Proponents of this change argued that the congressional leaders lacked executive experience, and none had served as president, while six former secretaries of state had later been elected to that office.
The Presidential Succession Act of 1947, signed by President Harry Truman, changed the order again to what it is today. The cabinet members are ordered in the line of succession according to the date their offices were established.
Prior to the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no provision for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. When a president died in office, the vice president succeeded him, and the vice presidency then remained vacant. The first vice president to take office under the new procedure was Gerald Ford, who was nominated by Nixon on Oct. 12, 1973, and confirmed by Congress the following Dec. 6.
The Vice President is first inline to be president, but if he too were either to die or be impeached at the same time as the president, then it is the Speaker of the House
Folks, with the very liberal Boehner out of he way, a man who believes in this nation, as Speaker of the House could very easily be the next president.
“If we don’t change the political dynamic, the next speaker will suffer the same fate as Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH),” Dent said. He says he hopes to “marginalize” conservative members.
THIS is the dynamic that needs to change. Instead of trying to "marginalize" the conservatives the GOPe needs to work with them to advance conservative issues. If not, why should the conservatives and the GOP base support the GOPe?
I know Tim Scott is a S.C. senator, but it would be great to have him or a conservative female as Speaker just to be able to throw the Racism or sexism charges back at the dims and msm.
The Cheap Labor Express will not give up control of the GOP easily.
Many more districts need to Cantorize their weasel.
“He says he hopes to “marginalize” conservative members.
Leadership has bent over backward to appease conservative members, only to have these members vote against leadership, Dent said.”
Tell me Representative Dent, why would you want to marginalize the very folks who most represent adherence to the Constitution and a republican form of Government?
Obama needs Boehner or someone like him so the GOP can cave and close Gitmo for him
I've been thinking the same. These are plain and simple grifters scamming their way into the lap of luxury by taking money from the corporations that ultimately run this country. They couldn't find a way to get elected as Democrats in their respective districts so they ran as Republicans. They seriously need to be PRIMARYed in the next election.
NOT Paul Ryan-Pelosi! “You Have To Pass ObamaTrade To See What’s In ObamaTrade”
That isn’t a compromise, it’s an Obama take it or leave it.
There’s two sides to this coin. Most RATs and many GOPe types like cheap low-tech labor. There’s whole other class of these weasels that are selling their souls to import cheap high-tech labor using H1-B visas.
With the long view of hindsight we ought to ask whether these rinos actually wanted to win these recent presidential elections?
ICIRR = Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights
In posting the announcement on his Twitter and Facebook pages, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said, “This is not Rep. Ryan’s first time in Chicago but it is his first time at a pro-immigrant event in our pro-immigrant city. Let’s show Rep. Ryan – an influential voice among House Republicans – the enthusiasm and strength of Chicago’s pro-immigrant community, and in so doing impress upon him that by standing with immigrants he’s standing on the right side of history.”
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/04/16/new-immigration-reform-duo-luis-gutierrez-and-paul-ryan/
It is really sad to think that congress has become so corrupted that there may not be one left who would make a good speaker.
Is that what we are calling our ruling oligarchs now? The donor class?
Scratch most professional politicians, for example Rubio, and you will find an unprincipled grifter who simply choose a party he believed he could use to get elected to office.
He doesn't want to marginalize Democrats; he'll reach across the aisle to them.
It's members of his own party that he wants to marginalize.
-PJ
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