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Weber, Backing Gohmert Over Boehner, Says ‘Retaliation’ Has Begun
RollCall ^ | January 6, 2015 | by Matt Fuller

Posted on 01/06/2015 10:55:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Updated, 1:10 p.m. | The 114th Congress is barely underway, but Randy Weber, R-Texas, says he’s already paying a price for making known his intentions to vote against another term in leadership for Speaker John A. Boehner.

Weber, who is backing the long-shot speakership bid of fellow Texan Rep. Louie Gohmert over Boehner, has been removed as the lead sponsor of a nuclear energy bill expected to brought to the floor in the 114th.

During a small meeting Tuesday of about 10 members of the Texas delegation to discuss the speaker’s race, Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Weber that the speaker’s office had called and said Weber could not be the sponsor of that legislation, Weber told CQ Roll Call.

“You know, I’ve already been retaliated against. I’ve been taken off of a bill,” Weber said. ”The retaliation begins.”

The speaker’s office denied that Weber had been targeted.

“That is not true,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told CQ Roll Call when informed of the story. “The speaker did not make such a call.”

(Excerpt) Read more at 3.blogs.rollcall.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: boehner; boehnerretaliation; boehnerrevenge; elections; gohmert; gope; housespeakervote; randyweber; retaliation; weber
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1 posted on 01/06/2015 10:55:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

the drunk bass turd continues as normal...


2 posted on 01/06/2015 10:58:26 AM PST by hadaclueonce (Ethanol is stupid.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“The speaker did not make such a call.”

Presumably he didn’t, but his office did, at his direction. A non-denial denial.


3 posted on 01/06/2015 10:58:51 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Jim Robinson

They just elected Boehner. Frigging traitors. I could tell by their smug grinning smirks. The votes were usually one each for the states. They simply will not do what the people want. They need to be in jail.


4 posted on 01/06/2015 10:59:24 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well at least we know taxes will not go up .../s


5 posted on 01/06/2015 11:00:07 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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I figured the Praetorian for the Oligarchy would be standing under the shadows of the galley ready to pounce on those who would dare defy their rule.


6 posted on 01/06/2015 11:00:37 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Jim Robinson

If I was a liberal in 2015, I’d be laughing and pissing in everyone’s face too.

A “moderate”, “big tent” government clearly means Obamaism. :)


7 posted on 01/06/2015 11:00:52 AM PST by Tzimisce
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How do you remove someone as the lead sponsor of a bill? I am certain there will be retaliation, especially against the uppity People who think they have a choice, but this seems silly.


8 posted on 01/06/2015 11:02:49 AM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: Jim Robinson

The GOP has sealed its doom.


9 posted on 01/06/2015 11:02:54 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Jim Robinson
Weber, who is backing the long-shot speakership bid of fellow Texan Rep. Louie Gohmert over Boehner, has been removed as the lead sponsor of a nuclear energy bill expected to brought to the floor in the 114th.

Establishment Republicans are no better than union thugs and other Democrats when it comes down to it. They just want to better themselves and their minions, and, maybe, placate their voting base on occasion.

10 posted on 01/06/2015 11:03:01 AM PST by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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I know the speaker controls what legislation can be introduced, but I didn’t know he also controls whose name is on it. Maybe the speaker’s office told other members that their legislation would not move forward if Weber’s name was included as a sponsor.


11 posted on 01/06/2015 11:04:38 AM PST by CedarDave
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How can a co-sponsor be “removed”? By taking his name off the paper? He should announce that he is still a sponsor, and credit himself as such. He should also hire a private investigator to look into the personal lives of Boehner and his family and release every word and photo to the tabloids.


12 posted on 01/06/2015 11:05:04 AM PST by montag813
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To: freekitty

If you are going to shoot the king, you had better to hell not miss....

There shall be no second chances. Or mercy.


13 posted on 01/06/2015 11:10:48 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

“A non-denial denial.”

In other words a bald face lie.


14 posted on 01/06/2015 11:12:33 AM PST by Slambat
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The GOP and me are finished. America is finished with that traitor Bonehead. We are done.


15 posted on 01/06/2015 11:13:24 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Da Coyote

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Actions such as these prove how far the GOP has strayed. Don’t be sending me no contribution requests, Mr. B et al.


16 posted on 01/06/2015 11:14:10 AM PST by jayrunner
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When the torches and pitchforks come for the democrats boner and mcconnel and their GOPe supporters will be forked along with the National Socialist Democrats.

God damned Ohio, land of my ancestors; I wish you all of the ill possible for inflicting the disaster of boner on us and the Constitution.

Those bastards don’t represent us, they represent themselves and their phony balony honey pot jobs. Evil wishes to all of them.


17 posted on 01/06/2015 11:14:56 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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I think she's coaching him...


18 posted on 01/06/2015 11:16:55 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Jim Robinson

The 28 should vote present on every bill Boehner puts up for vote, until he resigns.


19 posted on 01/06/2015 11:18:07 AM PST by boomop1
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The GOP, the party of RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
and RomneyMarriage and Boehner/McConnell/ObamaAmnesty
and the Bengazi coverup, and the IRS coverup,
deserves its end.

NOTHING has changed. NOTHING.

The GOP remains the GIVE Obama Power Party.


20 posted on 01/06/2015 11:19:42 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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