Posted on 12/31/2014 11:21:10 AM PST by cotton1706
House Speaker John Boehner's not waiting until New Year's Day for a hangover -- his headache is already here.
Back-to-back House Republican dramas in the final week of the year are the latest indication that many of the issues the GOP hoped to leave behind when they take full control of Congress next week — an unruly base and scandal-prone members — will continue to dog them in the new year, and might even kick off 2015 with an attempted coup on the Speakership.
Though Boehner was successfully able to convince Rep. Michael Grimm to resign on Monday after pleading guilty to a felony tax evasion charge last week, Rep. Steve Scalise, the majority whip now embroiled in scandal over a 2002 address he gave to a white supremacist conference, remains a tougher mess to clean up, leaving the speaker open to attack from the left and the right.
In a coordinated move, both Boehner and his deputy, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, issued back-to-back statements of support for Scalise on Tuesday afternoon. But the fallout of his appearance at a conference of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization — a group founded by the infamous white supremacist and former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke — continued into Tuesday night as multiple national newspapers issued op-eds calling for Scalise to resign.
But some in the party's right flank are aiming their fire at Boehner.
Facing calls for a coup from his conservative base in next week's speaker race that grew louder on Tuesday, Boehner can't afford to let Scalise, a former Republican Study Committee chairman and one of his strongest links to that conservative base, go.
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Because you and your ilk have screwed us over time and time again you a$$hole!! We really don't give a damn if you think this is an inopportune time!! Step down!!
What a typical, misleading, false narrative promoting headline and story this is.
It is a text book example of leftist media bias.
There is nothing in oppurtune about it,we just had an election that was just as much about dumping this Rino as it was about dumping Obama’s policies,the election for speaker is when? Who says you can’t dump this fool?
Boehner can’t afford to let Scalise, a former Republican Study Committee chairman and one of his strongest links to that conservative base, go.
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Read Levin’s comments or Jeffrey Lord’s piece .... Scalise is NOT conservative and has done a lot to destroy conservatism. The “link” to the conservative base is a figment of somebody’s imagination. He’s screwed up the RSC to the point Lord says they should start over. It’s a mess .... if the Repubs can’t clean up their own house & get it in order, they’ll be worse than the “useless” I expect in 2015. Boehner & his ilk need to go, pronto & period.
“Who says you can’t dump this fool?”
Why Tom Davis of course. See below:
“Tom Davis, a former Virginia congressman and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, warned that starting the new Congress with a coup attempt would be “catastrophic” for a party hoping to sell itself as the capable and effective alternative to Democrats in the 2016 elections.”
This is the crap they worry about.
To sum up: The scandal involving Scalise is completely fake but might be a danger to someone else (Boehner), but the kinds of fools who talk to CNN think that would be a bad thing because, come on, how can we stay in power if we don’t back the same guy who has consistently refused to use the power except to punish people on his own side?
Yep. Makes perfect sense. Why are we reading CNN again?
Fock Bonor. A Sotoro rump swab.
Slate Discovers Scalise Did Not Attend White Supremacist Event
CNN never misses an opportunity to try and set it up that white supremacists and conservatives are the same. How stupid.
Boner must go. He has NO principles.
Do we really think he will let Scalise go over a trumped up scandal?
More of CNN's ridiculousness.
Saul Alinsky: "Make them live up to their own standards".
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