Boner: "You're so mean!"
Posted on 02/28/2015 11:59:23 AM PST by kristinn
Close allies of Speaker John Boehner are worried that his conservative rivals could move to oust him as soon as next week.
Removing a sitting speaker is exceedingly difficult, and such an effort would almost certainly fall short. Yet growing speculation about the possibility of it – coming after Friday’s embarrassing defeat at the hands of conservatives and House Democrats on the homeland security battle — shows how vulnerable the speaker has become.
Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control. The legislative calendar guarantees it won’t get any easier: in the coming weeks and months there will be battles over the debt ceiling, budget, taxes, and spending cuts. The question is how many more of these episodes Boehner can withstand.
Frustration with the Ohio Republican is mounting after dozens of hardliners voted Friday against his three-week funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Hours of frantic leadership meeting ensued. After some backroom maneuvering with Democrats, Boehner was able to push through a one-week bill to keep DHS open.
President Barack Obama signed the bill into law just 10 minutes before a shutdown of the massive federal agency.
The stinging rebuke of Boehner on the House floor infuriated his supporters, who accused opponents of handing Democrats a huge PR victory.
Yet is also left even Boehner backers wondering how viable he remains. They admit these repeated confrontations, in which Boehner can’t muster 218 Republican votes for his proposals and has to turn to Democrats for help, leave him looking weak and ineffective — and thus vulnerable to a conservative challenge.
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Yes, and there have been ‘rumors’ of a palace coup before too. They come to nothing, of course.
I happened to flick on the tube yesterday as the first three-week DHS bill was circling the drain, and there was my state’s brand-new congressman (who voted FOR the extension) sitting directly behind the lying, cheating, adulterous scumbag Kevin McCarthy, truly one of the worst human beings in Washington, and they were both laughing it up like this was all just one big charade party to them.
Which I suspect it is.
Boner: "You're so mean!"
Send the golf club for a spine and two golf balls in a sack Boehner packing. See Boehner has no spine and no balls unless they were supplied by Obama. He is a worthless crybaby!
I suspect you are correct. There is a quote something about when the ballot box cannot be used to effect change, revolution becomes inevitable. Boehner is building up a huge head of steam in a pressure cooker that could have unintended consequences. One could be a walkout of conservatives from the GOP to form a new party, or something else unexpected. The GOP cannot go on endlessly playing the same game and telling conservatives that they have no alternative but to vote for them. A breakup of some type is coming.
What the Hell are you talking about?
Boehner had this thing in the bag. The House passed a bill to fund DHS without funding Obama's amnesty; McConnell F'd it up, and now is trying to exert pressure on the House to pass something they have already passed.
Boehner should have simply told Reid and Pelosi to pound sand. For one brief nanosecond, he had balls, and is now back into cave mode.
Don't blame Politico for this - the Stupid Party strikes again.
Getting rid of Boehner might give the even more cowardly Republicans in the senate some incentive to kick the Kentucky Turtle and his crew to the pavement. This might have been the last straw for Bonehead but how many times have we said that in the past only to have the Republicans in the house giving him a reprieve.
If they can win over a few score more, a lot of things will change in the Peoples Chamber.
By those 50 standing strong, voting on principal, they drive Boner to the arms of Pelosi and the Communists.
Each time Boner goes to that well he becomes weaker and is perceived weaker.
He's become a laughing stock, left and right.
As has Mitch McConnell with the SCATHING article in American Spectator last night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3262501/posts
VERY goot!!!
I’d like to see the SOB and turkey neck gone but I’ve wished that for a long time.
Hope dies eternal.
Matt Salmon’s wife read a note from him to the Arizona Republican Women at a luncheon today. He has formed the Freedom Coalition in the House; has about 40 members and they will NOT vote for any bill that is unconstitutional.
I wish he would run against McCain.
It’s a freebee for Pelosi. She lies and say’s he’ll bring out a clean vote. She’s just laying landmines. Either way, Boehner loses.
Call Frank Underwood and see if he has any dirt on Boehner.
Bah. POLITICO drivel.
It’s an attempt to get Boehner to negotiate on appropriate terms with the conservatives who make up nearly half of his caucus.
There are now 50 or 60 organized members whose votes he has to earn with terms they’ll accept.
The conservatives are organized and are acutely aware of what happened to Cantor for ignoring his conservative constituency.
The media and big donors hate the idea of politicians representing their voters.
You can rest assured they’re ALL lying.
The name of Salmon’s group is the ‘House Freedom Caucus ‘.
It’s a great development!
Thank you. I stand corrected.
“Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control.”
Beyond his control? If he acted like a man and not a wimp, he’d take control. Poor man, everything is beyond his control.
Fold and bend-over Pubbies planning a coup?
LOL
Yeah, right. Like that would ever happen. They had a chance in Jauary 2011, January 2013, and 2015, and didn’t. They don’t have the spines to do it now.
I don’t see our views as ‘opposites’.
The next step IMO is war as you describe.
However this was the first time conservatives organized and made an effectual ‘power play’. I don’t think Boehner expected them to hold together and succeed. They never had before.
So, I ‘m looking for Boehner to deal with the new balance of power in a way other than he has previously -which was to tell the conservatives he’d give them ‘cover’ but none of their legislation. I expect him to negotiate with conservatives now. It’s the obvious and smart thing to do.
Of course he may turn to Pelosi. It would be a blatant error, an insult to his whole caucus, and a drag on the whole party in the next election. But he may.
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