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Boehner is feeling the heat from his rank and file, because THEY are feeling the heat from the voters.

So he'll likely back off his heavy-handed, oligarchic, dictatorial tactics.

But I'm not naïve, Boehner will get back at these people in other ways.

1 posted on 01/08/2015 5:24:59 AM PST by cotton1706
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quote “but the prospect of letting the dissenters off easy is galling to some of the speaker’s closest allies, who want blood — and seem angry he isn’t willing to spill it.”

welcome to our world!


2 posted on 01/08/2015 5:29:12 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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The bone head needs to get out of our house.


3 posted on 01/08/2015 5:30:06 AM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed.)
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I had to stop reading at "House conservatives who betrayed Speaker John Boehner", because I started choking from laughing and trying not to barf at the same time.
4 posted on 01/08/2015 5:30:40 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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If Boehner was a grownup, he wouldn't even consider retaliation. That he did shows him to be a petty tyrant. Too bad he couldn't be as forceful with the real enemy — the godless commies on the left.
5 posted on 01/08/2015 5:30:55 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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What constitutional conservatives have to do is form their own caucus and vote against any sellout deals Boehner makes as a block. Otherwise, Boehner will just get a few of them to go along with each of his dirty deals.

Look what happened with the budget. Instead of standing firm, they used Ryan to circumvent conservatives.

6 posted on 01/08/2015 5:30:59 AM PST by grania
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“who betrayed Speaker John Boehner”

betrayed? Man that kinda spin belongs in major league baseball.


9 posted on 01/08/2015 5:36:30 AM PST by V_TWIN
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None of Boehner’s closest “allies” are even in the House. They are the billionaires and America-hating globalists.


10 posted on 01/08/2015 5:36:58 AM PST by Mamzelle
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Maybe take a close look at Ohio—those were the only voters he thanked. Wonder where the bodies are buried?


12 posted on 01/08/2015 5:38:04 AM PST by Mamzelle
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Well IF he looks at his facebook page, although the POS doesn’t have a “comment” button, you have to comment on one of his stupid posts,he is being ripped to shreds! I love it. I was one ripping him up.


13 posted on 01/08/2015 5:40:49 AM PST by southernindymom
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No. They will OWE HIM. (He surmises)


14 posted on 01/08/2015 5:41:05 AM PST by dasboot
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Useless complicit, enabling, treasonous EXEMPT RINO:
"It is good to be king, my most beloved Master."

16 posted on 01/08/2015 5:43:09 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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How benevolent of him.
If he were serious about making things right, he’d kill himself and spare us his Obama cuddling idiocy!


19 posted on 01/08/2015 5:50:18 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Orange, drunk and crying is no way to go through life, son.


20 posted on 01/08/2015 5:51:32 AM PST by chrisser (Silly Wabbit. Trix are for kids. And Cheetos are for Rinos.)
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“some of the speaker’s closest allies, who want blood — and seem angry he isn’t willing to spill it.”

We want the names of these Boehner sycophants.

24 posted on 01/08/2015 6:07:14 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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if they see Boehner waffle, they’ll recognize there’s no fallout from crossing him.

But will there be more fallout for those that did vote for him?

25 posted on 01/08/2015 6:09:21 AM PST by MulberryDraw (But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. Ps 13:5)
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Derp

27 posted on 01/08/2015 6:17:16 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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Yeh I doubt this has anything to do with Boehner’s style. He just came under too much pressure from the public.


28 posted on 01/08/2015 6:18:46 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Boner kissing Pelosi is all you need to know about him. I think the tanning bed has fried any brains he may have had.


29 posted on 01/08/2015 6:26:45 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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Dissenters...betrayal!

Yep, no bias there.

30 posted on 01/08/2015 6:26:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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“We need to get to the bottom of the guys who voted against [procedural motions], and we need to understand why they voted against that, and then we need to know why people voted against the speaker yesterday,” said Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican whom Boehner installed as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “Name calling — saying ‘RINO’ and ‘establishment’ – that’s name calling,” Nunes said. “We need to understand why they voted the way they did.”

Nunes wants the panel that chooses committee assignments to reconvene and take action against the dissenters, and he’s planning to draft a Republican resolution that would forbid people who vote against the speaker from leading subcommittees.

This GOP-E hack Nunes should be TEA Party primary target number 2 right after McCain in 2016.

31 posted on 01/08/2015 6:35:42 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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