Posted on 12/06/2012 3:35:45 AM PST by IbJensen
If conservatives want to keep the House and win the Senate, we need to fire John Boehner as speaker of the House. We only need 16 House votes to do it.
As most conservatives know, Boehner and the House GOP Steering Committee decided to purge four conservative House members from their committee. Congressmen Justin Amash and Tim Huelskamp were removed from the House Budget Committee, and Congressmen David Schweikert and Walter Jones were cut from the Financial Services Committee.
Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert were targeted because they were too fiscally conservative—all three have voted against Boehner’s debt ceiling hikes. Amash and Huelskamp were the only two GOP votes against House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget.
Amash explained that vote at yesterday’s Bloggers’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, “It’s unacceptable to have unbalanced budgets until 2040.”
For anyone outside of DC, this statement seems obvious. Only in Washington is balancing the budget radical.
Many conservatives voted for the Ryan budget because they didn’t want to “let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” I understand that, but we shouldn’t criticize those who actually understand the depth of our debt problem and plan to propose real answers.
If Speaker Boehner wants to purge independent, bold conservatives—I think it’s time he gets fired as Speaker. Not only for the purge. He has failed to effectively win negotiations with President Obama and appointed moderate committee chairs. To the public, Boehner may appear radical but in reality he proposes milquetoast policies, like the tax-hikes he proposed this week.
While the caucus has already voted in support of John Boehner as speaker of the 113th Congress, the final floor vote doesn’t happen until early January.
Everyone thinks it’s a fairytale, but the Conservative Movement is capable of firing Boehner with just 16 votes.
The House rules demand that a Speaker receive a majority—218 votes—to be elected speaker. If no nominee for speaker receives 218, the House remains speakerless—as it did during parts of the Civil War.
If 16 House Republicans were to abstain from voting for Speaker, Boehner would only receive 217 votes.
Once we depose Boehner and cause a firestorm, the Republican caucus will get the memo: Pick someone else! These 16 Republicans only need to hold out until the caucus chooses a new leader.
For Speaker, I suggest members who are anti-establishment, but still have broad support. Congressmen Jim Jordan of Ohio would be my pick. He just finished leading the Republican Study Committee and proposed the best budget we’ve seen come out of Congress.
Republicans and conservatives deserve a more articulate, more conservative leader. In fact, we need one if we want to keep the House majority and take the Senate. Boehner has been Obama’s punching bag and has lost every public battle with the President. Now, he’s waging an internal war on conservatives.
Remember, we lost seats in the House under his leadership. He has failed as spokesman for the movement. Boehner has been in Congress for 22 years, and he looks like and embodies the typical DC politician. Can’t we find someone fresher to lead the party forward?
Bonehead was appointed by K St lobbyists and does there bidding and cod care less about us.
All his former staffers run these K St lobbyist groups and that is how he stays in power !
That is why the Dems and there henchman in the media have not destroyed him
Like They did to Newt and the Hammer !
Boner want to expand govt and spend spend spend because his base is K street not Us !
Right. Boner cries, but never roars.
He doesn’t explain anything. Evidently, he doesn’t know how. The lack of “explaining” is the reason the Republicans are in this mess. They let the lies stand and then later, they try to defend their position. Can’t win being on the defensive all the time. And can’t win letting the left define who the Republicans are.
Same look and voice sound too, and the crying. Its uncanny.
He sometimes fakes a ROAR but he still looks scared.
Weakness with this strategy: if the 16 (or less) lost GOP votes are replaced by Democrat votes, then Boehner will still prevail. After all, the RATs want Boehner to stay right where he is. Think Joe Straus in Austin, the corrupt GOP TX Speaker - he owes his job to Democrats.
I’ve been saying get rid of him for years!!
Practically speaking, the four committee chairmen he fired can be seen as four votes against him. This leaves 12 other Republicans. Twelve out of 230 (others).
But if these 16 (or hopefully more) band together, there is going to be an impressive caucus fight, and one that needs to happen.
In 1972, at the Democrat convention, the radicals finally overtook and displaced the moderates from their party leadership. Since then, the Democrat party has been entirely radical.
Since the Republican leadership prevented any such revolt in the 2012 convention, to try to cling to power, this effort by 16 to depose Boehner may be the beginning of the end of the RINO stranglehold on the Republican party.
And the Republican party would truly be the conservative party. Essential if it is to save America.
I am all for firing Boehner, but we need to stop this myth of Walter Jones of NC being a conservative. He is not. He is worse than Boehner. Not sure why he is included in this list, but he’s absolutely Democrat lite.
Please broadcast to all of us if we can help send the bonehead to the boneyard.
There are only a few humans (and I’m stretching that term) for whom I have more contempt than bonehead.
Of course, at the top of the list is the Obamadork/felon/cretin and general piece of excrement.
If Boehner ever did something right it would be totally out of character, and I would give him credit for it.
No, love him or hate him, The Big Boner really isn't a weak “Speaker” — since he seems to control the House with an iron hand. But he most definitely is a weak “speaker.”
Moreover, at a time when the GOP desperately needs a bunch of articulate spokesmen, he's definitely the wrong man for the job.
Solution:
Start with the recognition that according to the Constitution, the Speaker doesn't need to be a member of the House. Doesn't even need to be an elected official.
Therefore, find the most persuasive, articulate and “least scary” conservative spokesman available, and make him Speaker. Marco Rubio would probably be my choice, but there are plenty of others, both inside and outside of politics.
I'm good with demanding a new speaker because after this debacle of removing these members and not putting up even the weakest of defenses is ridiculous.
He may have had sound reasons to remove them but if he cant defend his actions, he needs to be replaced.
Congressman Steve King for Speaker!!
Newt Gingrich would be my choice.
Your statement:Moreover, at a time when the GOP desperately needs a bunch of articulate spokesmen
Our Speaker is not only not speaking, no one else is either.
Yes we need voices, but they are silent. The only time I ever heard of these two “Conservatives” is when they started babbling about being tossed off their committees.
Where have they been the rest of the time. Only the people in their States know because they use their franking privileges to keep them informed. Speak up Conservatives, lets hear from you.
Thank you for a logical, reasonable explanation.
what if his replacement is worse?
So true.
Bonehead is not the Leader of the GOP. He has become the leader of the DC Party. The inside the beltway party of big government. Vote him out
of leadership or scandal his a$$ out of leadership. Either way, he must go.
Why don’t u give us one example, just one of what Bonehead has done
that makes him an occasional savior here. I can’t think of one. Enlighten
us.
Why don’t u give us one example, just one of what Bonehead has done
that makes him an occasional savior here. I can’t think of one. Enlighten
us.
At this point anybody but Boehnor or Cantor looks good.
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