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.”
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I would disagree but I don’t think you are incorrect.
If my state wasn’t closed primary, I’d leave the GOP.
The ink isn’t even dry and already Boehner is lying.
It’s open war on conservatives.
Yeah, but McCarthy or Scalise did, or one of their henchmen.
I second the motion.
I agree! Am so sick of all this crap. John Boehner will NOT do a single thing to stop Obama! I still think they have something on him but he’s such a crybaby that I have no faith in him or any of those idiots around him who run around acting like kings!
Perhaps he should change his affiliation to Independent then?
If you take on the political big dog, you better take him out or he will have his revenge. He’s not going to kiss and make up.
That’s just the way it is, always has been, and always will be.
They are all “in bed” together. I never used to believe that but after 30 years of watching this stuff....They really only care about us at election time. Today proved that with new reps who were voted in by conservatives and the tea party turned around and crapped on them! May they all rot in HELL!
I am thinking of changing my party affiliation to Libertarian. I don’t care anymore if I vote in the primary!
Hey!! There. are lots of us Buckeyes just as sick today as you are about this whole disaster. I’ll join an alternate party just as soon as a serious. and viable one is formed!!!
Just another day in the next round of a House of Cards.
They need to do what all of us should do, change their party affiliation. Same in the Senate, deny the GOPe majorities then maybe they would actually listen to the Conservatives, but they won't unless they do something to end this oligarchy.
And when the third party comes into being, they’ll be shocked, I tell you - shocked at the disloyalty!!!
One wonders if voting for the Stupid Party in 2016 is of any use.
Boehner is a nasty piece of work.
Does this surprise anyone? If you're going to shoot at the king make sure you kill the king.
Semi-bald face lie!!! His aide made the call.
If the conservatives in the House would hang together they could actually do a hell of a lot of damage to the GOPE screwing up their legislation and making them cut deals favorable to conservatives or be outed even more to the conservatives still on the Republican plantation in their collusion with the democrats. But the conservatives won’t hang together so they shall hang separately as the old saying goes.
They don’t care about you at election time. They just need you to think they do. They need your vote for power.
Then it’s back to good-old-boy politics and protecting one another’s personal interests. Same as it ever was.
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