Conservatives don't foresee challenge to John Boehner's speakership

cleveland.com ^ | 9/18/14 | Sabrina Eaton

[cotton1706]

WASHINGTON, D. C. -- The House of Representatives' most conservative members -- who have grumbled in the past about ousting Ohio's John Boehner from his job as House Speaker -- now say they're happy with their treatment and don't expect to mount an insurrection in the next Congress.

Members of the Republican Study Committee told reporters at their monthly "Conversations with Conservatives" gathering that they believe that newly established Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Whip Steve Scalise -- who chaired the study committee before assuming his new job -- are doing a better job listening to the sentiments of those in the GOP Conference.

South Carolina's Mick Mulvaney said he was pleased that when Republican leaders didn't have enough votes to pass immigration legislation in August, they sat down with conservatives to "get the bill a bit further to the right" so it could pass with Republican votes.

He said that in the past, GOP leaders would have tried to get votes from Democrats, or send Congress home without a vote.

"It is a more bottom-up management style than it has been in the past and the outcomes have been better because they're more conservative," Mulvaney said.

Idaho's Raul Labrador, who challenged McCarthy's bid for Majority Leader, said he felt GOP leaders heard his message that they needed "to start listening to the conference."

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Dump Boehner.

Now.

[Diogenesis]

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand

[arthurus]

It does not matter how the vote in November goes. There will be no change. Most of our stalwart Tea Party candidates turn into Republicans within hours of taking their seats in Congress. If every election this year returned a Republican it, again, would make no change. Republicans may not have liked the Socialism as it was forced onto the country but once it is fact they see limitless opportunities to gain position and income from it. The trend is so ingrained that even a solid Republican government will continue the direction, not just maintain what we have already been cursed with. The only subject now open for discussion os foreign policy. Even that is only for a little while until the Socialist USA has no longer sufficient resources to keep the sea and the sky lanes open and then even to defend itself against a surging masculine enemy like China or Islam.

[NonValueAdded]

and that’s a damned shame

[longfellow]

Start sending them ping pong balls, they can put them in their pockets and pretend that they have a pair.

[hal ogen]

The ability of WDC power to coopt is unlimited. We are doomed.

[TomGuy]

Republicans suffer ‘battered wife syndrome’ from the Democrats.

Conservatives suffer ‘battered wife syndrome’ from the GOP Elites.

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[Starboard]

GOP. The epitome of weakness. A soulless party with no leadership, no convictions, and no direction.

[novemberslady]

They don't care about working people.
They don't care about Christians.
They don't care about White people.
And they especially don't care about VETERANS.

But they laugh and smile and shake hands and play golf.
And take trips.
And travel.
And send money and weapons to enemies that will kill our children.

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: the pork payoffs have all been signed-off on and are in the bag.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Conservatives don't foresee challenge to John Boehner’s speakership”

I started pointing this out in late 2012 with my challenge to freepers then to tell their favorite house conservative to run against Boehner, then pointing out how none of them (like Lou Gomert) want near his job.

They got it too easy, let Boehner shovel the crap (and much of it is crap) while they make their purely symbolic no votes pleasing their near all white congressional districts.

[Starboard]

And GOP voters are like the Charlie Brown character who keeps thinking they are going to really kick the football this time but Lucy always takes it away. The GOP voters fall for the same old trick again, and again, and again.

[Starboard]

Exactly right. Very insightful post.

The GOP voter loses again.

[Ray76]

Boehner installed McCarthy, Boehner told McCarthy and only McCarthy that Cantor was stepping down leaving no time for others to organize. Another Boehner backstab.

RINOs in a pig pen.

[Slump Tester]

Wow - let’s hurry up and vote for these “conservatives”. What worthless POS they are!

[Graewoulf]

Two days ago, Speaker “Blank Check” Boehner approved the spending of $ 500,000,000 of US Taxpayer Dollars to “train” 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels in Saudi Arabia for one year. IOW, another Boehner Bailout Bill to Obama.

Here are a few discussion points that were NOT mentioned by Boehner:

* Each Syrian Muslim Rebel will cost $ 100,000 to train.

* 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will be removed from the battlefields in Syria to a training site in Saudi Arabia for one year.

* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will leave their families with reduced protection from attack by Syrian Army troops, for one year.

* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels will leave their families with NO protection from attack by ISIS troops, for one year.

* The removal of 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels from the battlefields of Syria will help both the Syrian and ISIS troops to more easily take over areas controlled by the Syrian Muslim Rebels.

BTW, did anyone notice if before the US Senate approved Boehner’s Bailout Bill yesterday, did any US Senator mention that removing 5,000 Syrian Muslim Rebels from the battlefields of Syria, was in effect, “Giving aid and comfort to the ENEMY” for the period of one year?

[PoloSec]

I have a very hard time believing this report, the writer of course would not have some nefarious agenda.

[Starboard]

And they especially don’t care about VETERANS.

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I’m a veteran and did some consulting work for the VA some years ago. Maybe its just my particular experience but while there I never heard anyone ask “what can we do to help our veterans today?” No, the daily focus was on empire building and protecting your turf. The VA’s main concern is the VA.

And if the president and congress really cared about veterans they would be relentlessly monitoring the VA. You don’t see them doing that. They don’t do anyhting until politcal pressure is on them. When necessary, they throw some more money at the VA but don’t really solve the underlying problems.

I’m sure there are dedicated people at the working level but at the management and oversight layer it appears to be a different story.

[Starboard]

People in government feel important when they spend money. Just saying.