Posted on 12/16/2014 3:52:39 PM PST by cotton1706
The “cromnibus” bill is soon to become law. The majority of House and Senate Republicans conspired with President Obama to fund his executive amnesty. Where do conservatives go from here?
Yes, we need to pick up the flag and force Republicans in February to actually fight as they are now promising when funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires, but there is an even more important intervening event that must draw our undivided attention.
The vote on whether Rep. John Boehner will be Speaker will occur in January, and 30 conservative House members can deny him re-election. It will be an actual public vote—not a behind-the-scenes, paper ballot vote. Although many would have you believe otherwise, Boehner has not yet been elected Speaker for the new term. House Republicans elected him as their nominee for Speaker in November, but the full House of Representatives needs to vote on his nomination in January.
House conservatives must summon the courage to oppose Boehner’s nomination on the floor in January. It is a moral imperative. You cannot consistently complain about Leadership’s many failures—and the treachery involved with a Speaker fresh off a successful wave election conspiring with President Obama to fund amnesty and enjoy a celebratory phone call in the aftermath—and then vote for him to continue in this role. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, that is the definition of insanity, and it is enabled by a vote for Rep. John Boehner
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Nancy Boehner has been a FAIL from day one
Bring back Mr Newt!!!
“And there my friends is the million dollar question. Are there 30 good men or women in the house with a REAL BACKBONE to go against the establishment rhino’s?”
And you can ask that question with a straight face?
Boehner is a symptom, not the underlying problem.
If the GOPe refuses to allow a decently conservative Speaker then the conservatives should publicly threaten to vote for Pelosi over Boehner and state there would be no difference in the end results. Putting Pelosi back in means all the GOPe would lose their committee chairmanships. That should be a sufficient club to force some compromise! If they don't cave instantly, let Nancy gore some RINOs until they're ready to redo the Speakership vote. The base is mad enough at Boehner to support even Pelosi over him for awhile. Alas, I doubt conservatives have enough strength to justify a complete takeover, but Boehner, and as many of his lieutenants as possible, must go. And at least one competent, pugnacious, conservative must be given a chairmanship from which significant oversight can be done.
"Madame Guillotine, Madame Guillotine, please pick up the white courtesy phone for a message, Madame Guillotine, please. " <click> <fade in "Girl from Ipanema" >
David Horowitz, the old Ramparts bomb-throwing Leftist editor become NeoCon deluxe, has been warning us until he is blue in the face, that "it all comes together at the top."
The cronyism and secret-handshake stuff between Boehner and Obama absolutely proves it: Horowitz is right.
Some here will remember a pretty conservative Senator Nickles from Oklahoma who quit the corrupt Senate in 2005. Inhofe is now 80 years old, Nickles is 66.
Goehmert was a TWO-VOTER against CRomnibus & a solid immigration fighter. Gowdy...not so much.
The speaker of the house does not have to be a sitting member of congress. The majority party can vote in whomever they want.
That's another choice I'd support. He is a little "out there" for POTUS, but he is proven winner at running the house.
We have two Parties whose only consistent Party plank, aside from obeying those who pull their strings, is maintaining only 2 Parties.
Third Party is a tough nut to crack. The establishment wing certainly understands that loss of the conservative base leaves the GOP without much clout and that should result in meaningful negotiations.. The corporate wing may have money but not voters.
I’m sure he could do both. The Speaker is not always the one officiating. If you watch CSPIN you can usually see someone else as acting speaker, but he does otherwise run the show.
Yeah, I don't think so. The national platform and all the state platforms run pretty consistent...smaller government, lower taxes, equal/individual rights and responsibilities etc.
There's nothing really wrong with the GOP planks, the problem is that Republican voters allow the "ruling class" RINOs to ignore them.
But where did that plank about changing the face and culture of America so that a few elites and big donors in the US(global) Chamber of Commerce can bank an extra couple hundred billion off of cheap labor, while costing the rest of us our country?
I’ve been around a long time and I don’t recollect us citizens ever endorsing the 1965 Immigration Act that opened the flood gates of Balkanization and 3rd world immigration. Nor the decades long policy of failing to enforce our immigration laws. Worst of all was the sell out of our self sufficiency, tax base, and manufacturing economy as a gift of free trade to benefit exactly the same people wanting amnesty and temp H1B workers.
I consider myself Independent, conservative, patriotic and USA first, but really not a Republican as I’ve always expressed in my profile.
Enthusiastically spread the word about the “Protest Against Obama Amnesty” rally across America for 2015-01-03 ... Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee (et al) will GREATLY appreciate our support ... A great Patriot turn-out WILL encourage the Senate and House GOP to dump McConnell and Boehner ... God Bless America ... Facebook page “Obama Amnesty National Protest : 2015-01-03” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680NlRI3v2I ... Thanks to All !!!
Why don't you find that plank in any Republican platform and copy/paste it here.
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