Posted on 01/05/2015 6:31:27 AM PST by cotton1706
Conservative momentum to oust John Boehner from his position as speaker of the House continued to build through the weekend, with two alternatives emerging and a major national conservative group joining the effort.
On Sunday night, Iowa Rep. Steve King became the latest to express opposition to Boehner for speaker in an op-ed published on Breitbart.com. He outlined a litany of complaints with the Speaker, arguing Boehner hasn't done enough to oppose President Barack Obama's signature health care law or the President's executive action on immigration and pointing to passage of the recent government funding bill, which tackled neither, as evidence.
"We need a Speaker who will help us all keep our oath, including his own, to the Constitution, not one who has consistently blocked our efforts to keep ours. I will vote for an alternative candidate for Speaker," King wrote.
Those frustrations are shared by many of his fellow conservatives, and the passage of the cromnibus last month pushed already simmering tensions with Boehner to a boiling point.
Leadership aides, however, remain confident that Boehner will hold onto his position as the top Republican in the House. Conservatives need to gather nearly 30 lawmakers opposed to him to force a second round of voting in the race.
But the developing coup attempt is the latest reminder for the Ohio Republican that conservatives remain a troublesome and unpredictable force in his caucus.
And it threatens to start things off on precisely the wrong foot for Republicans as they take full control of Congress and seek to prove to Americans they're the party that can govern in time for 2016.
Conservatives say they count at least nine lawmakers who have publicly said they'll oppose Boehner at this point.
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*D*ump
*D*ump
*D*ump
Kick boner,s can down the road.
*D*ump*D*ump*D*ump
How did you get the name “Triple”? :^)
why down the road? we’ll have to deal with it again.
Kick his can to the curb. Let the sewers deal with it.
Throw his sub-IQ loser carcass into the street.
Then turn all lights green.
Bonehead is slime, and should he stay, the Repubs are dead, dead, dead.
Why does the press use a pejorative like “coup” when it is merely a contested election due to dissatisfaction with the Speaker? I know, it’s the job of the media to manipulate and spin the news so as to fit their ideology.
The GOP only has one chance for a ‘new beginning’ and that’s to start off the new congress with a NEW SPEAKER. Anything short of that is yet another epic failure by the weak-kneed GOP.
Not only is it a ‘coup’ it is led by those evil conservatives. Ever notice how CNN and their ilk have turned the word ‘conservative’ into a pejorative? Yet the term ‘liberal’ is rarely if ever used to label Democrats.
Throowwwehhmmmm Ooouuuuttt! ( slurred in Orange Menace Bourbon mist )
“conservatives remain a troublesome and unpredictable force in his caucus that can cause public embarrassment if not out-and-out regime change”
electing a new leader is regime change?
conservatives are troublesome?
Why did I even click the link and read this garbage on cnn.com?
I hope that the new Conservative contenders for the job of Speaaker have a clean background with no nasty photos in the hands of the Administration. The One WILL use them if they do exist.
“Why does the press use a pejorative like “coup” when it is merely a contested election due to dissatisfaction with the Speaker?”
Good point. Boener is up for RE-ELECTION, that’s all. If Romney had (somehow) won in 2012, would that have been called a “coup” in the mainstream media? I know, tough to answer, but no - it would have been called a defeat. Now, in LaHood, it would have certainly been called a coup - the same term they’ll use if a Republican wins in 2016.
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