Posted on 12/30/2014 1:56:03 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...........These potential defectors are mostly keeping quiet about it in public, but in a posting on Twitter over the weekend, Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky hinted he would oppose Boehner. He posted a photo of a sign that reads: “Next Speaker Please.”
Such an attempt was tried two years ago, but ultimately failed: a group of conservatives tried to overthrow Boehner during the public vote, but only nine conservatives, frustrated with Boehner’s leadership, ended up voting against him. Organizers of that effort said more people had committed to vote against Boehner beforehand, but backed out before the vote.
And that’s part of the problem with the plan—each House member stands up and calls out the name of the person they are supporting. Members that might be inclined to vote against Boehner are afraid to do so out of fear that others will not follow through with their intentions, leaving them hanging and looking like a fool.
A conservative House aide described the current thinking among those voting against Boehner, similar to the one employed two years ago: To win the speaker’s race, Boehner needs the support of a majority of people present. If everyone in the House votes, that would be 218. The new Republican majority in the House will be 247.
If 20 Republicans vote for someone other than Boehner, under that scenario, the Ohio Republican will not have a majority and the body will have to vote again until someone reaches that threshold.
If this would happen, these conservatives hope Boehner would drop out of the speaker’s race and another Republican candidate would run for speaker.................
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
As well they should!
These article only proves the sad fact that even so many so-called conservatives are political cowards too.
I wonder who’s working to take down the House Whip?
“Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white-supremacist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002, thrusting a racial controversy into House Republican ranks days before the party assumes control of both congressional chambers.
Scalise, 49, who ascended to the House GOP’s third-ranking post this year, confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO. But the adviser said the congressman didn’t know at the time about the group’s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.
“For anyone to suggest that I was involved with a group like that is insulting and ludicrous,” Scalise told the Times-Picayune on Monday night. The organization, founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has been called a hate group by several civil rights organizations.”.........
I’m not so sure, they might make him cry...
The cryin oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go. Both are Soetoro enablers and spineless wussies.
You’re right — Lord knows we’ve all seen enough tears..
Good point. I’m so tired of this racial double standard. Scalise is a fool for even being anywhere near a group like that but it sickens me that the Congressional Black Caucus associates themselves with people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan who are known anti-Semites, and of course that doesn’t matter. Then again Scalise is a Boehner lieutenant so is that really a big loss other than the left seizing on this to score cheap political points by branding the GOP as racists for the ninth billionth time?
As a matter of pure conscience, a true conservative should vote against him. He’s no better than the Rats he claims to be fighting.
Jan 3, 2013: “Twelve Republicans voted against John Boehner’s second term as speaker Thursday, making for a very tense final few minutes of the vote.
At one point, in fact, the number either voting for someone else or not voting reached into the high teens, raising the possibility that Boehner wouldn’t secure a majority on the first ballot. Eventually, a few of those who hadn’t voted — including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) — cast their ballots for Boehner.
Boehner won with 220 votes — six more than the 214 votes he needed. (A speaker needs only a majority of the actual votes cast, not of all members of the House. And here’s the roll call.)
Below is a look at the defectors, whom they voted for, and our best guess as to why it wasn’t Boehner:................”
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.)
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.)
Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.)
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.)
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.)
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.)
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.)
Rep. Tom Massie (R-Ky.)
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.)
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho)
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.)
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never forget that if the constitutional conservatives in the last session weren't frauds they would've gotten Boehner out of there and the HOR could've stopped every awful thing they went along with last term.
This group may be a "hate group" but I couldn't tell it from the name, no more than I can tell that the DemonRAT African-American Caucus is a hate group, but they both are.
Scalise is not conservative/strong enough for me, {he talks a good game...but} so if he goes, I won't lose sleep.
They do have a job to do for their constituents, for which committee assignments and treatment of their bills as powers of the Speaker become important.
Tom Massie = PATRIOT HERO
Kentucky voters: Give him every ounce of your prayers and support.
Now pull the other leg ...
Not like we've never heard this kind of gibberish before. Fire a pansy, hire a pansy. SSDD. And finally, DILLIRGAFF?
Godspeed
......”No sooner did the outrage engine crank up at MSNBC over Scalise’s impeachable bigotry than Rep. Cedric Richmond, the only remaining Democrat in Louisiana’s congressional delegation and an American of African ancestry, defended his personal friend.
“I don’t think Steve has a racist bone in his body,” said Richmond, who earlier this fall had quite prominently accused his former colleague Bill Cassidy of racism for making the latter’s electoral challenge to Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu a referendum on President Barack Obama. “I’m not going to let them use Steve as a scapegoat to score political points when I know him and know his family.”
Oops!”...........
http://spectator.org/articles/61345/smearing-scalise
I would get rid of Boehner because he’s no longer a conservative, if he ever was. He has given this president everything he ever wanted, and the betrayal over the CRomnibus should be a final straw for other conservative representatives.
However, I’d also get rid of Boehner because he’s too easy for the media to target.
Even if they simply swapped him out for another Rino, I think even the establishment would admit they’d get better mileage.
I’d probably expect them to pick a female, Marsha Blackburn, and she’d do a better job and be harder for a black president to attack.
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