Posted on 09/26/2015 5:38:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
Allies of Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) are infuriated with the right wing of the House GOP conference, which they blame for his resignation.
GOP lawmakers who’ve stood by Boehner’s side throughout his rocky five-year tenure as Speaker bitterly blamed the right flank for forcing a contested leadership race less than a year after the party won control of Congress in the 2014 midterm elections.
A fired-up House Ethics Committee Chairman Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), speaking not long after Boehner dropped the bombshell at a Friday conference meeting that he’ll leave Congress at the end of next month, ripped into hard-line conservatives.
He accused them of opposing Boehner at every turn, and noted they have “never had a horse of their own.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.
Leadership allies are frustrated by what they see as a repeated exercise in futility.
They argue that the lawmakers who repeatedly tangled with Boehner aren’t team players, and they said a new leadership team shouldn’t cater to them.
Boehner repeatedly saw conservatives vote against the GOP rules governing debate on legislation. Those votes are supposed to be tests of party loyalty.
They also argue Boehner repeatedly bent to conservative critics on spending issues, only to see them stab him in the back.
“Frankly, I thought our leadership in too many cases has been too accommodating, too quick to appease those who will not govern,” Dent said. “They give far too much procedural consideration to those who will not vote for the bills at the end of the process. That’s going to end. We’ve had enough of that.”
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> ““Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.”
Uh huh ....
Carpentry as in the TRILLION DOLLAR PORK-LADEN-FOR-CRONIES EXECUTIVE AMNESTY FUNDING 1600 PAGE LESS THAN 2 DAYS FOR REVIEW ... FRICKING ***LAME-DUCK*** SESSION CR-OMNIBUS ...
that the tan-booth drunk rammed down the throats of conservatives after lying to them ???
The drunken coward couldn’t manage to wait a few weeks for the new Congress to be seated before ramming this abomination through because he knew the new Congress would never sign up to such a cesspool of corruption.
Carpentry my ass.
Hey Dent! I got a carpentry idea for you! How about we as carpenters build gallows on the Mall for the likes of you treasonous bastards?
The GOPe crowd has no desire to govern. They don't want to make hard choices on the allocation of scarce resources to effect the public good.
They have abdicated governance to the social democrats and only ask in return their cut on the deal. Having become a majority, they can hold out for a high ransome indeed.
it all boils down to forcing Obama to veto the spending bill and then allowing the government to go without money until the president capitulates
it is that simple
Only K street could have fired Bonehead .
Boner got his power by planting all his former Aides at key K street lobbyist firms ! He hold the record for that fact and he controlled the big donors.
It appears Mccarthy undermined him .
Mccarthy was planting stories at this same rag about how conservative love him while in fact Mccarthy despises conservatives .
But Mccarthy gets big bucks from the Silicon Valley and Zuckerberg owns him .
Read and weep.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/kevin-mccarthy-technology-silicon-valley-107997
Boner is losing it. Good riddance.
“The GOPe crowd has no desire to govern.”
Right. They’re content enough to have big titles, exist in the lofty social set, attend fancy dinners and events, forego the healthcare system which they’ve inflicted on their peons back home, jet around the country/world. Why mess that up by governing? Govern? Eeeewww. It’s hard!
Hey Dent! I got a carpentry idea for you! How about we as carpenters build gallows on the Mall for the likes of you treasonous bastards?
Frankly, Scarlett, IMHO, that is precisely where we are headed if the GOPe doesn’t wake up soon. This “governing” business has certainly gotten out of hand.
“Rather fearful counsel there, counselor.”
Not really. But this ain’t my first rodeo.
As I said, they will be fighting harder and dirtier.
Watch Fox this week end, they will telegraph the GOPe strategy
Keep an eye out for Peter King. he is a vicious bastard, but he cannot keep his face off TV and sometimes he cannot keep his mouth shut.
I also expect the “Political Insiders” to have some very good insight.
But as usual, time will tell.
Sorry Charlie, but we won’t be satisfied until the GOPe is a minority in the party.
bump
BS. They GOPe are just trying marginalize conservatives to grease the skids for McCarthy.
How about “enraged by?” And , if you have a minute, can you go over “shall” and “will?” As in “ “goodness and mercy shall follow me... and I will dwell....”
Pelosi created Obamacare.
Boehner fully funded it.
That's about it.
We have a great opportunity to retire at least 25 RINO’s next November. Just takes some good old grass roots activity similar to what bray has modeled in Oregon. Get the like-minded conservatives out to vote in both the primary and general elections and don’t waste a penny tying to change a stubborn lib’s mind.
More than that they are pissed because they may lose some prime committee appointments.
the peace negotiations will result in conservative gains in leadership
that is what the whole issue is about
yesterday morning Boehner had his Ceaușescu moment on the balcony and realized he no longer had complete control
he chose not to be shot
The ones filled with the most corruption are making themselves known, now that their comfortable little cart has been upset.
Boehner said Friday that he wanted the House to avoid the drama of voting on a motion authored by conservative rebel Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) to oust him as Speaker.
He insisted he would have survived the vote if it had taken place.
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