Posted on 01/05/2015 10:27:13 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
One thing you can certainly say for Louie Gohmert is that he wouldn't be afraid of the media, and too often that has been Boehner's downfall in going up against Obama
I love Louie Gohmert, and I lost my patience with John Boehner a long time ago as House Speaker, but I’m still not finding myself getting too excited about Gohmert challenging Boehner for the speakership. Here’s why, in a nutshell:
Gohmert’s not going to win. The number of House conservatives willing to participate in a rebellion against Boehner at this point is maybe 20 or so. That’s out of 247 in the caucus. Having worked this long to get back control of the Senate, neither House nor Senate Republicans seems interested in throwing over their experienced leader for someone new. The job of the House Speaker involves a lot more than just being conservative. Before he was in the leadership, Boehner’s voting record was quite conservative - enough so that a lot of conservatives were pretty happy to see him elevated when it first started happening. The Speaker has to make a lot of decisions concerning legislative strategy and other inside baseball that don’t have as much to do with ideology as people think. When Gohmert vows to “fight tooth and nail” on certain things, that’s great, but the question is more how you fight, and which fights you choose. There’s a difference between thinking conservative things and being savvy enough to make them happen.
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Louie Louie - - oh baby!
I'm with you - bunch of apologist crapola in the article. "Experience" is not key if one has a working mind and can take counsel from other Conservatives.
Did you call and ask for John Bonners removal or were you coordinating a nap for yourself?
This is why the Right can never get its act together.
I leave the slobbering to you after you wake up Rumpilstiltskin!
Inmaturity? You’re positively catatonic.
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