Posted on 02/28/2015 11:59:23 AM PST by kristinn
Close allies of Speaker John Boehner are worried that his conservative rivals could move to oust him as soon as next week.
Removing a sitting speaker is exceedingly difficult, and such an effort would almost certainly fall short. Yet growing speculation about the possibility of it – coming after Friday’s embarrassing defeat at the hands of conservatives and House Democrats on the homeland security battle — shows how vulnerable the speaker has become.
Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control. The legislative calendar guarantees it won’t get any easier: in the coming weeks and months there will be battles over the debt ceiling, budget, taxes, and spending cuts. The question is how many more of these episodes Boehner can withstand.
Frustration with the Ohio Republican is mounting after dozens of hardliners voted Friday against his three-week funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Hours of frantic leadership meeting ensued. After some backroom maneuvering with Democrats, Boehner was able to push through a one-week bill to keep DHS open.
President Barack Obama signed the bill into law just 10 minutes before a shutdown of the massive federal agency.
The stinging rebuke of Boehner on the House floor infuriated his supporters, who accused opponents of handing Democrats a huge PR victory.
Yet is also left even Boehner backers wondering how viable he remains. They admit these repeated confrontations, in which Boehner can’t muster 218 Republican votes for his proposals and has to turn to Democrats for help, leave him looking weak and ineffective — and thus vulnerable to a conservative challenge.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The biggest problem is that the conservatives in the House are not in a majority of the party, just like the Senate
Beware the Ides of March
They should be worried. That’s the only thing keeping him from caving.
Close allies of Speaker John Boehner are worried about what they will do with their well-used 'Boehner kneepads' if his conservative rivals oust him as soon as next week.
Coup? Attempting to unseat Boehner as speaker through parliamentary procedure is a coup? No, Obama’s unopposed power-grab is a coup.
Boehner does not just look weak and ineffective. He is weak and ineffective. He has been completely ineffective since becoming Speaker and I believe he has been weak all his life.
Boehner is compromised and that needs to come to light to force his sorry ass out. It will probably drag down others as well and make for a nuclear dirty secrets fight but it needs to happen. D.C. is a cesspool and it needs drained if this country is to survive.
She says she got a guarantee from Boehner on a "clean bill" vote next week in exchange for the short-term DHS funding.
Boehner's chumps insist nothing of the kind was offered.
National Journal, which admittedly is often full of crap, says either Pelosi's people will be outraged or Boehner will have completely betrayed his people.
I would post the story on a new thread but dunno how, sorry.
Link is Here
Just another effort by the news media to stir up he Republicans! I’m very suspicious especially coming from POLITICO.
Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control.
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Oh bull. The guy is a Unicrat who wants bigger government and more corruption.
I miss Tom DeLay.
Read the stupid article....Nobody is talking about a coup and the article goes on to say why it is next to impossible to pull off but politico writes an article about a wild hair, so the next question is why?
“Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control.”
What a crock. Only at Politico.
Boehner is constantly buffeted by his own weakness and corruption as well as his subservience to Mitch McConnell. He needs to go and soon.
Well, there were reports that Boehner double crossed conservatives in the manner that the cromnibus bill was handled last year and accusations that he lied to members to get their votes, so there is a history of such charges.
Yet, but as the article states, on appeasing and useless efforts, Boehner does not automatically have the deciding majority he can control - having to go to the other side for allies.
The fact that he has to do this is extremely telling of his motives and actual respect he has for the citizens that gave his party in the House and in the Senate the historic margins they got last November.
If he can only rule the roost by intimidation of his own members and begging the opposition for the rest of the votes needed, he is not a leader, period. He’s a conniving hack who seems to be able to fool his district time and again, but he is no leader.
We took his right hand man in the primaries in the November runup. We should be working on getting him cut off at the knees the same way when he has to go back and lie to his district again.
Me too!
Me too....except he didn’t have a true backbone either! Only Republicans give up their seats...!!
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