Posted on 01/09/2015 6:45:05 AM PST by cotton1706
“It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls,” Ferrechio wrote. “There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers. The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker.”
Statements from several members who voted for Boehner after the fact indicated just how rattled they were.
“Over the past week, many of you have contacted me asking me to vote against John Boehner for Speaker of the House,” Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS), who faced calls from some powerful state senators in his district to vote against Boehner—potential primary challengers against him next cycle—said in a statement after voting for Boehner. “Americans are frustrated with the leadership in Washington, and they should be. President Obama and his liberal friends are destroying this country and we have to fight back.”
Palazzo added that he met with Boehner the day before “one-on-one and man-to-man” for “more than an hour” and “asked him directly whether he was going to be a conservative leader who will stand up to the liberal agenda of President Obama.”
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“I believe him and am willing to give the Speaker and his team a last chance to put us back on a conservative path for America,” Palazzo said. “If Speaker Boehner refuses to put forward conservative solutions immediately to our nation’s problems, I will vehemently oppose his every move.”
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Making matters even more interesting was a statement that newly elected Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) had originally issued to the Washington Examiner. Love—who had not promised constituents ahead of time she’d oppose Boehner—had told the Examiner’s Ashe Schow that she believed a vote for a Republican alternative to Boehner to be a vote, in essence, for Pelosi.
“There were no qualified or notable campaigns for speaker within the Republican Party other than John Boehner,” Love said. “Casting a vote for a candidate who has not actively campaigned and does not have the support to be speaker is an indirect vote for Nancy Pelosi, and I will not vote for Nancy Pelosi.”
Love has been hammered by conservatives in the days since not only for voting for Boehner but also for the argument she made to an Examiner reporter who previously labeled the coup effort against Boehner as “farcical,” which essentially accused the 25 who stood up to Boehner of indirectly supporting Pelosi.
In a lengthy statement since provided to Breitbart News, Love admitted that her original comments to the Examiner were inaccurate and apologized.
On Tuesday, my vote for elect John Boehner as Speaker of the House was a vote for Republican Party unity, plain and simple. I don’t agree with everything Speaker Boehner has done or said, just as I have differences with many other colleagues. But I still have faith in our party and the American people who elected us to be in charge of both houses of Congress. Coming off a historic election that sent a strong message to Washington, I believe that now is the time to unify our party and our message around a positive reform agenda, not expose unnecessary division with symbolic votes that allow the Democrats and the media to divert the country’s attention away from our accomplishment. Republicans have substantive differences when it comes to policy and I look forward to having those debates. But I see greater benefit in using our first step to put our best foot forward.
I regret I misspoke when I said a vote against Boehner was an indirect vote for Nancy Pelosi. I understand now that is not the case. But I take serious issue with those who have hastily claimed I have ‘sold out’ or ‘broken my promises.’ On the contrary, my promise was to give a voice to the issues that are important to Utahns. And I have every intention of keeping that promise, and making them proud.
I will fight make this country more free, secure, and prosperous no matter who stands in the way – Republican or Democrat. I will spend every day in Congress defending hardworking taxpayers who want Washington to get out of their way. And I will work tooth and nail to make this government more efficient, effective, and accountable to the people. We can do this as a party, we can do this as a country, and I want to make sure we are all doing it together.
‘Boehner and his supporters, especially his ostensible tea party supporters, should familiarize themselves with Dan Rostenkowski’s fall from grace. Things may get a little hot before ‘16 primary season rolls around if they don’t get right with the base.’
There is nothing my rep, Buddy Carter, can do to get right with me. I asked him not to vote for Boehner and he happily fell right into lockstep with the Permanent Political Class Corruptocrats. So I wrote to him and said I will vote for his Tea Party challenger in ‘16, God willing.
There is nothing Carter can do to change my mind. He had his change and he blew it. Story over.
change = chance
“using the canned response distributed by Boehner’s staff.”
I noticed how so many of the responses were so similar, that obviously there was something they were all using, and adding a little to personalize it. I got one of them from my Ohio rep, and he made sure to note he voted for “fellow Ohioan.”
Boehner’s fall from Speaker will likely be reflective of Rostenkowski’s, although for not the same technical reasons.
The Cryer knows just how close he came, he knows that Gohmert and the 28 “OUT” votes were just the tip of the iceberg. Being spineless in the face of hard resistance, we may see him start to push hard against nobama, simply because the heat on his backside.
Grubbered!
Mia Love is off to a really rocky start. Talk about not ready.
In Texas I was very unhappy with Ted Poe and was not surprised by the Piece of S*** Kevin Brady (my wife will only refer to him in this term!) Both went and voted for the Cheeto, crybaby, squish, wimp, drunk.
Yeah, voting for the drunk and then joining the CBC left a lot of her backers confused and angry on the Facebook page. The comments are extremely bitter, and I hope that she’s getting an earful too by phone.
Blah, Blah, blah......................
Well, I don’t buy it either.
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Well, I don’t buy it either.
Click on the shirts if you want one.
No, they are feeling the heat from their constituents. Gelded Old Pansies.
I don’t respect a single member who voted for Boehner. They always fool the uninformed Republican primary voters.
Dr. Fleming of LA-4 claimed he did not know his constituents opposed Boehner. A doubtful finding; Fleming wants the Vitter seat in 2016.
If you are elected as a representative of a district and your constituents are opposed to something or somebody, why are you voting YOUR way?
This is the major failing of our government. They talk; but they don’t listen. They make laws for others to follow, while exempting themselves.
I'm not for wasting perfectly-good Tootsie Rolls on those a**holes! If I box up anything, it'll be after my next trip to the bathroom...
And I'm saving the biggest, smelliest one for 'I-don't-like-being-called-squishy' John "Orange Is the New Yellow" Boehner.
“Has the EXEMPT GOP done one thing to stop the Tyrant
before whom EXEMPT Boehner bows low?”
is that the same “Tyrant” that Diogenes preferred to see elected over that other 2012 candidate, known as romney?
No. That was the Tyrant that Bishop RomneyCARE
helped as he directed his surrogates to attack
the Palin family in 2008,
and the Tyrant before whom Bishop RomneyCARE
gave up in 2012.
Just wrote my Congress Critter
“Congressman Farenthold
Thanks for the form letter .... Speaker Boehner has quite the literary staff, what did you guys do hire Gruber as a temp?
You were elected as a representative of the 27th District of Texas and when YOUR CONSTITUENTS are opposed to something or somebody, why are you voting “YOUR” way? What a Steer!
Before your first week of this Term you GAVE 1/2 of your Term (OUR REPRESENTATION) to Obama and Reid, (Cromnibus … your BS Cover Your Ass Vote fooled exactly nobody) now this. What do you have planned for an Encore? An endorsement of Elizabeth Warren?”
TT
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