Posted on 01/06/2015 10:55:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Updated, 1:10 p.m. | The 114th Congress is barely underway, but Randy Weber, R-Texas, says he’s already paying a price for making known his intentions to vote against another term in leadership for Speaker John A. Boehner.
Weber, who is backing the long-shot speakership bid of fellow Texan Rep. Louie Gohmert over Boehner, has been removed as the lead sponsor of a nuclear energy bill expected to brought to the floor in the 114th.
During a small meeting Tuesday of about 10 members of the Texas delegation to discuss the speaker’s race, Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Weber that the speaker’s office had called and said Weber could not be the sponsor of that legislation, Weber told CQ Roll Call.
“You know, I’ve already been retaliated against. I’ve been taken off of a bill,” Weber said. ”The retaliation begins.”
The speaker’s office denied that Weber had been targeted.
“That is not true,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told CQ Roll Call when informed of the story. “The speaker did not make such a call.”
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What did he expect? “Politics ain’t beanbag” as Mr. Dooley used to say.
Name names and document everything. Shine bright light into that squalid backroom. It’s your best defense and the best for the country.
Why mess with the libertarian party when there is one that is already established and stands for the same things we do? A party that would welcome us as new members, the Constitution Party.
Does anybody know much about them? Millions of new members, some old school democrats too, and new money with plenty of enthusiasm the republicans could kiss their azzez goodbye.
It is painfully obvious we are going to get exactly nowhere the way we are going now.
Liberal Republicans will be glad to learn that you are no longer voting in primaries; that will strengthen the liberals’ grip even more.
Yeah, I should have been more clear about that. If a viable party can be formed I’m right behind you.
They win a landslide election and then they throw it away and chuck their own base...
You are so right, as you never fail to mention Romney in any of your posts.
My Party Was Gone.
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