Posted on 12/30/2014 3:12:39 PM PST by cotton1706
Conservative members of Congress are frustrated with House Speaker John Boehner’s (shown) leadership and are expected to opt for a change on January 6, when the official speaker’s election is held. While this vote is typically just a formality, conservative lawmakers are hoping to use the opportunity to remove the Ohio Republican, who has served as speaker since 2011.
After the November elections, Republicans had decided behind closed doors that they would be nominating Boehner (R-Ohio) for speaker and did not offer any other nominees.
“Rep. Boehner was selected as the House Republican Conference’s choice for Speaker last month,” Boehner aide Michael Steel wrote in an e-mail, “and he expects to be elected by the whole House next week.”
But some of the more conservative members of Congress are not on board. Fox News reports that some "disaffected conservative House Republicans" intend to "rebel and vote against John Boehner for speaker of the House" next month.
“Right now, I’ve been meeting with a small group, and we — about 16, 18 — and we’re hoping to have a name of a sitting member of Congress that we can call out their name,” North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones said in a local radio interview before Christmas.
And while most of those planning to vote against Boehner have remained quiet, some have subtly made their points. Representative Tom Massie (R-Ky.), for example, posted a photo of a sign on his Twitter that reads, “Next Speaker Please.”
Likewise, some newly-elected Republican members of the House campaigned on a pledge not to vote for Boehner and have indicated that they will stay true to that promise.
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DUMP Boehner!
New TEA Party Leadership!
If our Repubs can’t even stand up to Boehner how are we supposed to believe they will confront Obama?
“Rep. Boehner was selected as the House Republican Conference’s choice for Speaker last month,” Boehner aide Michael Steel wrote in an e-mail, “and he expects to be elected by the whole House next week.”
All the deals were made on Election night, the GOP Leadership was scared to death by the they won their majority. I guarantee you he has secured more than enough Demonrats to be voted Speaker again, Why do you think they rushed the cromnibus without any resistance or defunding of Obama and the Demonrats? Because they SOLD us out the night they won the Majority.
Yup, get rid of Boehner!
Boehner MUST GO!
If your forces can take the hill but they don’t,
you change leadership, kick ass then take the hill.
Time to do it.
Coup? The electorate spoke in November.
Anyone can say that doesn’t matter, all they want.
A ‘coup’
What a huge group of illogical spoiled people we have running this country, and putting things in print
Not only does boehner have to go, if he does not, the electorate is going to feel as dangerously ignored by the open borders greed gang as a bunch of policemen begging their leadership to quit pushing them into danger with no support.
The dem establishment put deblabla in, and the GOP establishment put boehner in
It has to stop
This journalist is a propagandist
1. They won't, and they never were going to confront Obama. How could they when they are simply a different side of the same coin?
2. They are not 'our Repubs', we are their Grubered voters and subjects, and WILL follow along as they "crush the tea party".
3. Pissed off yet?
“......they SOLD us out the night they won the Majority”..
They, INCLUDING Bohner sold out long before the November elections. He is going to prevail as speaker and we can all thank the demodummie side of the aisle for their votes. I gave up on the rinos long ago.
Good point. Explains everything doesn’t it?
One can only hope that flaccid boner is dumped.
If there is enough of a conservative Republican revolt to deny him the votes he needs from Republicans, enough Democrats will vote for him to put him over the top.
Over the past few legislative terms, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives has been elected by a coalition of liberal Republicans and Democrats. I expect the same thing to happen in the US House, if it is necessary.
Democrats will never permit a conservative to be elected Speaker of the House. If Boehnor were to lose, Democrats know that a substitute conservative will win -- and they can't allow that.
And just imagine what Boehner is going to have to promise those Democrats in order to secure their votes. I bet he would even sign documents to that effect for the Democrats.
the 7th will prove me right when Boehner is back as speaker contorting his tired a$$ to appease anyone but the American People.
There is one thing that all honorable Republicans, whether conservative or liberal, should vote in favor of — namely, having the vote for Speaker of the House made public.
Republican House members were sent to Congress to represent their constituents, not to represent their own selfish interests in secret meetings behind closed doors.
Since there’s such a great difference between John Boehner, who endorses Obama’s policies, and other Congress members who oppose those policies, each Republican Congress member will be making the most important vote of the next two years when he/she decides whom to support in the Speakership contest.
And every Republican in every Republican district should have the right to know how their Congressman voted, so they can hold him accountable.
So, if the vote is held in secret, we’ll know not to expect anything honorable to come out of the Republican-controlled House until January of 2017 at the earliest.
The vote for speaker IS public. Each member must say, out loud, his or her choice for speaker.
But the key vote will be in the Republican caucus. And that won't be public.
...in contrast to Boehner.
A small but committed group of conservatives can stage a coupe d’etat by simply making it clear that that will leave and form a 3rd party if Boehner is not ousted. How many would they need to make the Rinos the minority party to the Dems? I think a lot of Rinos are squishy and would cave in the face of such a threat/promise if they thought they’d lose the majority and the perks that go with it. This strategy is less fool-hardy now that the Republicans control the Senate.
Saving the Republic calls for some bold action!
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