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Weber, Backing Gohmert Over Boehner, Says ‘Retaliation’ Has Begun
RollCall ^ | January 6, 2015 | by Matt Fuller

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at 3.blogs.rollcall.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: boehner; boehnerretaliation; boehnerrevenge; elections; gohmert; gope; housespeakervote; randyweber; retaliation; weber
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To: Jim Robinson

What did he expect? “Politics ain’t beanbag” as Mr. Dooley used to say.


41 posted on 01/06/2015 12:09:35 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower" curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: Jim Robinson

Name names and document everything. Shine bright light into that squalid backroom. It’s your best defense and the best for the country.


42 posted on 01/06/2015 12:11:07 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Cricket24

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.


43 posted on 01/06/2015 12:11:18 PM PST by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: Cricket24

Liberal Republicans will be glad to learn that you are no longer voting in primaries; that will strengthen the liberals’ grip even more.


44 posted on 01/06/2015 12:22:27 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: buckeye49

Yeah, I should have been more clear about that. If a viable party can be formed I’m right behind you.


45 posted on 01/06/2015 3:31:11 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Jim Robinson
They don't call the GOP the "Stupid Party" for nothing.

They win a landslide election and then they throw it away and chuck their own base...

46 posted on 01/06/2015 3:56:29 PM PST by Gritty (A new future is to be written, a new American moment, and I'm going to seize it-Obama 12/27/14)
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To: Diogenesis

You are so right, as you never fail to mention Romney in any of your posts.


47 posted on 01/07/2015 6:56:15 AM PST by IWONDR
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To: Jim Robinson

My Party Was Gone.


48 posted on 01/07/2015 6:59:21 AM PST by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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