Do it, and be done with the lying fraud!
Not quite big enough, unfortunately.
I can’t think of a single “good” thing to say about Boehner. He has been an enabler for 0bama and probably the worst possible “Leader” for the GOP. In short, he’s a worthless POS!
So typical.
We limit ourselves.
We have the power.
We can force the issue.
We don't need any more help than what we have on hand.
And we chicken out, because we just want to be a little more sure of ourselves.
So....they had 7 more than they needed but not 8 more so they cowered.
Got it.
Maybe a millionbillionziooiontrillionquintillion would have been another good number. Or 4. Either way.
This reads as “We want to make sure we have enough cowards to cover the cowards we KNOW will back out in the vote. So we just cowered and avoised it all.
This whole story is a fairy tale. Hensarling is never, ever going to go against Boehner. He is chairman of the financial services committee. That is a money printing position worth many millions in campaign “donations”. No beltway type would do anything to jeopardize that winning lotto ticket.
Thinking about this, we just had a group of people even more moronic than Obama voters bitching about their reduced paychecks.
Yea....we can count on them.
They literally just admitted they had the votes to unseat Bhoner and did not. Remember that everyone, before EVER defending the GOP EVER AGAIN. Because you will be reminded.
...Yup .... it was so large that he got re-elected with only a few dissents! I be he is really shaking in his boots.
< / Sarcasm >
Like nearly all the Republican strategies... they DIE on the launching pad because there is NO LEADERSHIP or follow through.
Further proof that these guys are not up to the job of taking on the socialist thugs!
In other words: They didn’t have the guts to stand up for We the People.
I am DONE with the Republican party. I’ll vote (I) or not at all. The only thing they do with my vote is pretend to be on my side.
It's ALWAYS 'one'. Always.
geez and Hiltler almost got to Moscow. Losing is losing. Dick Armey almost got Newt’s job, but now both are just fqt guys on TV. The folks that let the speaker survive in his job are like all the folks that almost reached the top. /rant off
Big deal. They didn’t pull it off and that’s all that matters. that’s like saying, “we only lost by 1.” yeah, but you still lost.
Roll Call and the Hill are two sources I take with a grain of salt.
We can all kiss a National Right to Work law goodbye. Boehner has consistently fought against RTW.
And as usual, their testicle shrunk right up into their abdomen when it came time to fight for our country.
And these would be the people to vote to send our kids to die for our country and they can’t even cast a damn vote.
Probably was Bachmann. Per a thread yesterday, she changed her vote at the last minute.
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Regardless, those 25 can expect 2 years of retribution for their insurrection. They apparently bluffed and lost. Now, they have lost significantly more.
Per some threads, it was only going to take 17 to stop Boehner. If they had 25, even 24, they did themselves no favors by changing their minds.
this makes pretty good sense. i count about 15 or so true, tea party, conservatives in the house. there’s maybe 15 more hangers on who will sometimes stiffen their spines and vote with us, so the number 25 is a little lower than what one would expect if a revolt was going to be successful. i bet they wanted to get more than that.
i commend them for trying. that alone took courage. to even mount any kind of challenge to a sitting speaker would be pretty rare, i’m guessing. uh oh, i guess i’m going to be in the minority on this. better to damn them all as failures and sellouts.