Posted on 01/08/2015 8:50:10 AM PST by kristinn
It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls.
There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers.
The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker.
For the GOP leadership, the flood of calls was a game changer. It thrusted the leadership into triage mode as it scrambled to heal the growing rift among House Republicans.
“We’ve never been lobbied quite like that,” House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “We yesterday began a new era of circumstances, and one is that we have members who are going to solicit the outside in ways that they have not previously.”
Boehner was so agitated by the phone calls that he raised the issue to his rank and file in a private meeting Wednesday morning, those in the room reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
After the meeting, he told reporters he may reverse the punishment against two lawmakers who ran against him Tuesday.
Let's see if this happens.
“We yesterday began a new era of circumstances, and one is that we have members who are going to solicit the outside in ways that they have not previously.”
Okay , I’m tired, maybe I just can’t read it, but WTF is he saying?
Pete needs to run for Congress where he now lives...with his new wife, in Florida.
There oughta be a law...
“I called my rep and told him to vote against Boehner. He voted for him anyway”
Me too.
And yet, all those Representatives voted Boehner anyway.
And they’re really sorry they did that, but the vote is now over.
So shut your racist faces and go pay your taxes - your government is broke. :)
My representative lost my vote with her support for Boehner. I will not under any circumstances vote for her again.
He’s trying to blame the calls on ‘outside’ groups.
But the honest grassroots nature of the disgust with him was undeniable.
Wrong. They weren’t rattled in the least or they’d not have voted him back in.
“Thrusted”?
Thanks! That felt good! The guy that answered my call seemed sympathetic and unsurprised.
‘In yo’ face, America.’
I called my POS loser critter MICA and it felt good. Local office lackey sounded a little down.
Great letter... I will use this as a draft to my congressional turd!
People should prank call Boehner’s office every 5 minutes for the rest of the year.
Triangulation and BS. The gop wing of the uniparty is too busy laughing at the rubes in flyover country to be bothered with anything approaching reflection. The reporter didn’t mention how long the laughing fits lasted.
One thing to notice, and I’ve seen it twice, is the meme that the opposition wasn’t “planned” or “organized” and thus couldn’t be supported. So think about this for a moment. This bunch of lickspittles couldn’t vote for an opponent to boehner because the opposition didn’t have a good enough plan. So what precisely did boehner have to offer as a plan? 101 ways to capitulate? Was there some sort of powerpoint presentation on collaboration and betrayal?
“In two years, you will all fall in line. These guys know it.”
Thry’ve done the political calculus and decided that conservatives can be safely ignored.
And when a new party forms and they die out. We will get the last laugh. They are the new whigs.
This guy Pete Sessions is a worm. Is this why he ignored the calls.
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