The biggest problem is that the conservatives in the House are not in a majority of the party, just like the Senate
Beware the Ides of March
They should be worried. That’s the only thing keeping him from caving.
Close allies of Speaker John Boehner are worried about what they will do with their well-used 'Boehner kneepads' if his conservative rivals oust him as soon as next week.
Coup? Attempting to unseat Boehner as speaker through parliamentary procedure is a coup? No, Obama’s unopposed power-grab is a coup.
Boehner does not just look weak and ineffective. He is weak and ineffective. He has been completely ineffective since becoming Speaker and I believe he has been weak all his life.
Boehner is compromised and that needs to come to light to force his sorry ass out. It will probably drag down others as well and make for a nuclear dirty secrets fight but it needs to happen. D.C. is a cesspool and it needs drained if this country is to survive.
She says she got a guarantee from Boehner on a "clean bill" vote next week in exchange for the short-term DHS funding.
Boehner's chumps insist nothing of the kind was offered.
National Journal, which admittedly is often full of crap, says either Pelosi's people will be outraged or Boehner will have completely betrayed his people.
I would post the story on a new thread but dunno how, sorry.
Link is Here
Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control.
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Oh bull. The guy is a Unicrat who wants bigger government and more corruption.
Read the stupid article....Nobody is talking about a coup and the article goes on to say why it is next to impossible to pull off but politico writes an article about a wild hair, so the next question is why?
“Five years into the job, he’s a leader consistently buffeted by forces beyond his control.”
What a crock. Only at Politico.
Boehner is constantly buffeted by his own weakness and corruption as well as his subservience to Mitch McConnell. He needs to go and soon.
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!
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
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.
“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.