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Boehner allies: Coup plot boosts Dems
thehill.com ^ | 7/29/15 | Scott Wong and Cristina Marcos

Posted on 07/29/2015 12:21:18 PM PDT by cotton1706

John Boehner’s allies returned fire at Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Wednesday, saying the conservative lawmaker’s half-hatched plot to depose the Speaker has boosted Democrats like Hillary Clinton.

“It’s terrible. It makes no sense. It helps the Democrats. It divides the party,” Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) told The Hill. “We should be spending all of August talking about the Iranian nuclear agreement, not this fool’s errand of vacating the Speaker’s chair.

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“It makes us look like a banana republic,” he continued. “All this does it create chaos, and a real conservative should not want chaos, certainly not needless chaos.”

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), a conservative former pastor who works closely with Meadows, said he, too, disagreed with the North Carolina Republican’s unexpected action. Walberg serves as vice chairman of Meadow’s Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee and considers Meadows a friend.

“The Speaker’s leadership up to this point has not warranted this action by Mr. Meadows,” Walberg said in an interview. “I dont know why Mr. Meadows did it. I don’t support him in that. … We’re friends but I have a lot of friends who have done things I don’t agree with. Mark and I will have a conversation.”

Even lawmakers who are often Boehner foes think the resolution is an ill-advised strategy.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boehner; elections
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To: cotton1706

So what? There’s no difference between them anyway, what is there to lose?


21 posted on 07/29/2015 12:38:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DoodleDawg
The only reason the RINOs are upset is they might not have a leader that will turn away while they do their dirty work....

The Washington Cartel (RINOs) are happy to have the things in life that we, the normal people of America, can't have and probably won't ever have because they are sucking us dry...

Well it's time to stop it....and we need to let the people in the government know (1) we are done with your antics and (2) we want someone to represent us, normal, non politicians in Washington....

22 posted on 07/29/2015 12:42:29 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: stockpirate
What you are saying is true.

This is so typical and is totally sickening and should be a major SCANDAL

Thanks for bringing it to attention.

Sickening!

23 posted on 07/29/2015 12:49:26 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: cotton1706
“It makes us look like a banana republic,”

What makes us look like a banana republic is sending 435 representatives to the House, but then letting only four or five "leaders" decide everything while everyone else is a rubberstamp.

-PJ

24 posted on 07/29/2015 12:53:19 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: cotton1706
“The Speaker’s leadership up to this point has not warranted this action by Mr. Meadows,” Walberg said in an interview. “I dont know why Mr. Meadows did it. I don’t support him in that. … We’re friends but I have a lot of friends who have done things I don’t agree with. Mark and I will have a conversation.”

Sounds like Mr. Walberg needs to hear from his constituents on his faulty thinking regarding Boehner. I've already contacted my Congress critter in support of Meadows' "coup plot", and I hope he succeeds.

25 posted on 07/29/2015 12:55:38 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: cotton1706

How the hell does anyone in the House know what a ‘real’ Conservative wants,,,and when did they start caring about that?


26 posted on 07/29/2015 12:56:50 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: cotton1706
Get rid of Boehner. Like right now.
27 posted on 07/29/2015 12:57:59 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: cotton1706

We look like a banana republic because we don’t have leaders in congress who will stand up to the president’s unconstitutional behavior. Rep. King does not comprehend the fact that while republicans now control congress, as a collective body they have performed, so far, no different than the democrats and America’s pissant, democrat senator Harry Reid.


28 posted on 07/29/2015 1:07:13 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: cotton1706

Look in the mirror Mr. Boehner. What you see is the reason democrats might do better.


29 posted on 07/29/2015 1:09:12 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: cotton1706

“Quite ironic isn’t it? Attempting to remove the leadership that has been intentionally dividing the party would “divide the party.””

King is a GOPe dolt. With a name like Peter King, he ought to apply for a job as a bouncer in a gay bar.


30 posted on 07/29/2015 1:12:14 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Major Matt Mason

“Sounds like Mr. Walberg needs to hear from his constituents on his faulty thinking regarding Boehner.”

Walberg is a rock-ribbed conservative. The only think he must be thinking is that Meadows went about it wrong?


31 posted on 07/29/2015 1:15:42 PM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Major Matt Mason

http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/Tim_Walberg.htm


32 posted on 07/29/2015 1:20:05 PM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: cotton1706
OK Pete King, where are you on defunding Planned Parenthood????

Huh, all you can do is take to the cameras and shove your face to rant against fellow GOP members who don't happen to like the criminal way John Boehner is muscling conservatives to shut them down, ala Tim Huelskamp from KS!!!

You are a real paper tiger. Put up or shut up Peter King!

33 posted on 07/29/2015 1:21:12 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Thanks for the link


34 posted on 07/29/2015 1:36:53 PM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.)
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To: Beagle8U
“Sounds like Mr. Walberg needs to hear from his constituents on his faulty thinking regarding Boehner.”

I don't know anything about Walhberg, but what I have observed is that many are "rock ribbed" conservatives when the party hierarchy lets them, but when it comes to opposing the hierarchy, they are timid little sheep.

35 posted on 07/29/2015 1:40:06 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Deliver us from evil ....")
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To: cotton1706

You’ll never hear any of the GOPES (government over the people {Republican} elite statists) ever dare say why everything that comes out from this regime is a lie or call them the godless,.

Seemingly afraid to remind voters the democrat (in name only) party kicked out any reference to God in their 2012 National Convention. Let alone suggest they’re a democrat in name only not in meaning, party.

Or even speculate why democrats lie so much is because they don’t believe in God or there are the Ten Commandments or even believe there is such a thing as sin.

Why ? Because it’s not being “bi-partisan”.


36 posted on 07/29/2015 1:55:42 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: cotton1706

““The Speaker’s leadership up to this point has not warranted this action by Mr. Meadows,” Walberg said in an interview.”

What cave has Walberg been living in?


37 posted on 07/29/2015 1:56:04 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: cotton1706; All

You’ll never hear any of the GOPES (government over the people {Republican} elite statists) ever dare say why everything that comes out from this regime is a lie or call them the godless,.

Seemingly afraid to remind voters the democrat (in name only) party kicked out any reference to God in their 2012 National Convention. Let alone suggest they’re a democrat in name only not in meaning, party.

Or even speculate why democrats lie so much is because they don’t believe in God or there are the Ten Commandments or even believe there is such a thing as sin.

Why ? Because it’s not being “bi-partisan”.


38 posted on 07/29/2015 1:56:11 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: mosesdapoet
"...boosts Dems"??? boner is a DIM.
39 posted on 07/29/2015 2:45:03 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“, but when it comes to opposing the hierarchy, they are timid little sheep.”

Tim Walberg isn’t one of them.


40 posted on 07/30/2015 8:49:32 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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