Posted on 09/25/2015 7:46:43 PM PDT by cotton1706
Grassroots voters in 2014 apparently foiled a secret plan by House Speaker Rep. John Boehner to give his top job to the party’s House Majority Leader, Rep. Eric Cantor, who is a close ally of the GOP’s establishment wing.
The plan suddenly collapsed last June after Cantor’s constituents in Virginia’s 7th district rejected him in favor of his primary challenger, economics professor Rep. Dave Brat. Brat won by blasting Cantor for mimicking Senator Sen. Marco Rubio’s effort to pass the mass-amnesty bill that would further raise high immigration levels.
“The Speaker’s plan was to serve only through the end of last year. Leader Cantor’s loss in his primary changed that calculation,” said a Boehner aide, according to The Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post explains that had Cantor not lost his primary, Boehner would have stepped aside to allow Cantor to fill his place:
“Cantor’s 2014 primary loss was not just a remarkable political turn of events, but a complete twist of history. The Virginia Republican, who had served as second in command in the Republican-controlled House, was stunned in his primary election campaign and decided to leave Congress altogether before his term was up. With no heir apparent, Boehner decided to stick around. But the clear implication from Boehner’s aide was that the original plan had been to usher Cantor into the speaker’s role at the turn of the year.”
That’s not a on-the-record, direct confirmation of the plot — but it matches the public evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Time to instigate a war between Cantor and McCarthy.
Boehner and McConnell need to be impeached, along with Barry Soetero, Eric Holder, and the rest of the National Socialist Democratic racist fascist traitor trash.
Nuremburg II NOW!
It is time to stop holocaust II before the tree watering gets too messy and claims more innocent lines.
Time to instigate a war between Cantor and McCarthy.
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?? Cantor is long gone .... lost his seat June 10, 2014 in a primary to David Brat. He resigned his Majority Leader position effective July 31 & instead of being a ‘back bencher’ for the last 4 months of his term, he also resigned from Congress effective August 18.
Cruz back to limited government... We were so close, but now corporate crony Trump is leading... And he isn’t very constitutional. He has some interesting sound bites... But who can believe sound bites versus records... O wait... There was some president with great sound bites too.. And a liberal record.. Now I get it.
Arent you sick of “now its my turn” mentallity, nice to see thier a##es getting handed to them. Im enjoying this more than the burning of the rats
Watch the flood of cheap-work H1-B visa holders become even greater than it is now.
O wait... There was some president with great sound bites too.. And a liberal record.. Now I get it.
Wrong.. Ronaldus Maximus was a conservative democrat....
Trump was and probably still is a liberal one..
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The Speaker is not required to be a member of the House of Representatives. I got crossed up when I read the title of the thread thinking it in the context of Boehner's resignation and posted before reading that this was a revelation of an historical event. It is not beyond the RINOs to try and stuff his defeat back down our throats.
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