FOX News: Frank Luntz's Republican debate focus group poses for pictures after the first debate.
Posted on 10/10/2015 9:18:31 AM PDT by Lester Jackson
[NOTE: this is Revised and Updated for this posting]
Many conservatives across the land have rejoiced over the withdrawal of Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker election. They shouldn’t. House Republicans are largely a collection of phonies.
In my view, there are only two who have earned the Speakership: Louie Gohmert and Steve King. I am confident that few conservatives would disagree that these two Representatives have demonstrated honesty, courage and outspoken defense of true conservative principles. Each towers far above the rest of the field. The election of anyone else as Speaker would be a travesty, indicating Republican business as usual.
I will not rehash what I wrote in detail in August: The Deceptive Misuse of Legislator Voting Records.[1] But, faced with this golden opportunity, it is critically important for genuine conservatives to understand that few House Republicans have anything but contempt for them.
I pointed out that, during the Boehner reign, there were but a few roll call votes that vastly exceeded the importance of all the rest. Let’s not forget that, last December, after a major Republican victory, Speaker Boehner rammed through a bill called Cromnibus. This bill effectively nullified the 2014 Republican electoral victory, saved the ObamaCare monstrosity (for a second time under Boehner!), and enabled President Obama to continue to dictatorially further law breaking by aliens. As Sen. Ted Cruz put it in a magnificently courageous speech:[2] “anyone watching Congress right now would have little reason to think that an historic election occurred only a few weeks ago.” (Print,[3] S6764a; Video.[4])
Either of the two current Speaker candidates, Jason Chaffetz or Daniel Webster, could have stopped Cromnibus dead in its tracks by blocking its even being considered by the House. But both voted to allow[5] consideration. Chaffetz even voted for final passage.[6] In fact, 67 Republicans voted for final passage of Cromnibus, but only 16 voted to stop it from being considered at all. In other words, 51 Republicans boasted of voting against passage of a bill they could have defeated by preventing it from even being voted upon.
Among the heroic 16 were Gohmert and King. (Since January 2011, King heroically has fought a courageous battle to prevent implementation of Obama Care.) Given their long history of principled courage placing them so far above everyone else in the House, if either of them is not elected Speaker, conservatives will see more of the same and they will have no cause to rejoice.
And it would be a time for tears if House Republicans elected a faux conservative,[7] such as Trey Gowdy, again[8] inexplicably being touted. According to many reports, fellow Republicans, including ostensible conservatives, have been pressuring Paul Ryan to seek the Speakership. But this is what conservative giant David Horowitz[9] had to say about Ryan: “Paul Ryan is a nice man and is a very bright man but he hasn’t got a political brain cell.”
In sum, conservative joy is premature and tears may be warranted in the end. If conservatives really are serious, they should press either Louie Gohmert or Rep. Steve King to run for Speaker and then make clear that, if one of them is not chosen, the Republican Party has no claim on conservative support.
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Copyright © 2015 by Lester Jackson, Ph.D.
[1] http://www.westernjournalism.com/exposed-the-deceptive-misuse-of-legislator-voting-records/ [2] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3296977/posts [3] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2014-12-12/pdf/CREC-2014-12-12.pdf [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNY8xWNpp_o [5] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll561.xml [6] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll563.xml [7] http://www.redstate.com/diary/freedomrepublican/2015/01/06/trey-gowdy-is-not-a-conservative-leader/ [8] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/425255/report-mccarthy-out-leadership-race-eliana-johnson?target=author&tid=901597 [9] http://www.c-span.org/video/?321533-1/book-discussion-take-prisoners ((36:40)
I would love to see Gohmert or King as Speaker.
I don’t think that is possible because there are far too many weasels owned by The Cheap Labor Express in the GOP caucus.
The best that could be hoped for is a Speaker who is not owned by The Cheap Labor Express, even if he/she is not a stalwart like King or Gohmert.
Marsha Blackburn comes to mind.
Is this a joke?
Republicans won historic victories in 2014 and did absolutely nothing about it except aid and abet Obama.
Does everyone in news land have such short selective memories?
FOX News: Frank Luntz's Republican debate focus group poses for pictures after the first debate.
There are AT LEAST 30 Republican Members who will vote with the 188 Democrats to make Pelosi,or, more likely Hoyer Speaker if this keeps up.
King??
House Speaker John Boehner’s sudden resignation Friday “signals that the crazies have taken over the party,” New York Republican Peter King said Friday.
“I think it signals the crazies have taken over the party, taken over to the party that you can remove a speaker of the House who’s second in line to be president, a constitutional officer in the middle of his term with no allegations of impropriety, a person who’s honest and doing his job. This has never happened before in our country,” King said in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Friday afternoon. “He could have stayed on.”
Boehner has done “an outstanding job,” King said, adding that he was “extremely disappointed” upon hearing the news of his resignation.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/john-boehner-resigns-peter-king-reaction-214083#ixzz3oBTbyNbh
Not Peter King NY, Steve King IA
Peter King is a Democrat in an R jersey
Steve King has been one of the principle reasons we don’t already have amnesty for illegal aliens.
Peter King? He is one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress...
edit, never mind I see you meant Steve King. And no, not the author Steven King haha
Since Boehner hasn’t scheduled a vote for a new Speaker and plans to ‘stick around’, it is incumbent on the members of the House to inform him that if he doesn’t schedule a vote at least two weeks before his exit that they will bring impeachment procedures against him.
He can leave with a small bit of honor or leave as an impeached Speaker.
The good King is Steve King (IA), who was mentioned in the article. Good guy, though IMO Gohmert is a better choice for Speaker.
The bad King is Peter King (NY), who has never met a Muslim terrorist he didn’t like.
got it, thanks!
Yeppers, I thought the same thing at first, so don’t feel bad :-}
You have quoted the wrong “King”, sir. Apologies will be accepted.
It’s good news. But there is work to be done yet.
Why is no one stepping up to lead? Is every last one of them compromised?
Agreed. We’ll get a GOPe. Let’s at least hope he isn’t a gaffe-prone moron like McCarthy.
what a nattering nabob of negativity this dude is. We get it....no guarantee we’ll like the new Speaker...but it won’t be Boehner and it won’t be McCarthy. Three weeks ago that was unthinkable.
This dude trying to hard here....
If you were a careful reader or at all well informed, you would have known that there is more than one Representative named King. I was referring to STEVE King of Iowa, not PETER King of NY.
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