Posted on 02/24/2015 5:40:04 AM PST by cotton1706
The Conservative Political Action Conference is the biggest annual gathering of Republican leaders and conservative activists, but neither Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell nor House Speaker John A. Boehner is scheduled to make the 10-mile drive from Capitol Hill to speak to CPAC this year, underscoring the lingering tensions between Republican Washington leadership and the party’s grass roots.
It marks the first time in years that Mr. McConnell will skip the CPAC gathering, a year after the Kentucky Republican made headlines by holding aloft a gun during his speech. Mr. Boehner last spoke at CPAC in 2010, months before the tea party helped fuel Republicans’ takeover of the House and made the Ohio Republican the speaker.
Both have tussled with their right flank over how best to advance a conservative agenda at the Capitol.
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I am a Constitution Conservative without a political party!
Their mistake. They’ll regret it when the country and the world turns on obama. It’s coming....
If either of these two showed up at CPAC they’d be booed off the stage. And they know it!
"We can't go.
Obama has a meeting for us instead."
“...tussled...” Not really! This man has as his goal to “...crush the Tea Party...” This is poorly defined as a TUSSLE! Thanks, Kentucky...great basketball, politicians, not so great!
And, Johnny boy will take your cherished “subcommittee” chairmanships if you don’t vote as ordered. I really don’t care anything about that...vote as your constituents want! Thanks, Ohio...great football, politicians, not so great!
They both suck.
McConnell/Boehner continue to see conservatives as the enemy. These “leaders” would feel more at home with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Chamber of Corruption lobbyists (their real base).
Why would they be at CPAC? They are not conservatives.
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