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Flood of Anti-Boehner Calls Rattles Leadership
The Washington Examiner ^ | Wednesday, January 7, 2015 | Susan Ferrechio

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; boehner; boehnerspeakervote; dumpboehner; firebohner; teaparty; uniparty
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To: kristinn
From the article.

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.

101 posted on 01/08/2015 11:15:34 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: kristinn

“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?


102 posted on 01/08/2015 11:17:38 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Windflier

Pete needs to run for Congress where he now lives...with his new wife, in Florida.


103 posted on 01/08/2015 11:17:41 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Night Hides Not
Pete needs to run for Congress where he now lives...with his new wife, in Florida.

There oughta be a law...

104 posted on 01/08/2015 11:19:26 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“I called my rep and told him to vote against Boehner. He voted for him anyway”

Me too.


105 posted on 01/08/2015 11:21:29 AM PST by mickie (My grandson is a Marine~~so proud of him)
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To: kristinn

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. :)


106 posted on 01/08/2015 11:26:33 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: kristinn

My representative lost my vote with her support for Boehner. I will not under any circumstances vote for her again.


107 posted on 01/08/2015 11:33:04 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Excellence

He’s trying to blame the calls on ‘outside’ groups.
But the honest grassroots nature of the disgust with him was undeniable.


108 posted on 01/08/2015 11:33:12 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: kristinn

Wrong. They weren’t rattled in the least or they’d not have voted him back in.


109 posted on 01/08/2015 11:35:28 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: kristinn
Those idiots actually think we listen to them!

110 posted on 01/08/2015 11:47:09 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: kristinn

“Thrusted”?


111 posted on 01/08/2015 12:40:34 PM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: wewereright

Thanks! That felt good! The guy that answered my call seemed sympathetic and unsurprised.


112 posted on 01/08/2015 12:45:21 PM PST by EasySt (Time to build that gulch...)
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To: kristinn

‘In yo’ face, America.’


113 posted on 01/08/2015 1:09:33 PM PST by onedoug
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To: kristinn

I called my POS loser critter MICA and it felt good. Local office lackey sounded a little down.


114 posted on 01/08/2015 2:11:36 PM PST by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: george123

Great letter... I will use this as a draft to my congressional turd!


115 posted on 01/08/2015 2:36:44 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: kristinn

People should prank call Boehner’s office every 5 minutes for the rest of the year.


116 posted on 01/08/2015 3:32:38 PM PST by Windy City Conservative
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To: kristinn

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?


117 posted on 01/08/2015 3:53:35 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (The uniparty: celebrating over 150 years of oligarchy and political control!)
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To: demshateGod

“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.


118 posted on 01/08/2015 3:55:14 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (The uniparty: celebrating over 150 years of oligarchy and political control!)
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To: RKBA Democrat

And when a new party forms and they die out. We will get the last laugh. They are the new whigs.


119 posted on 01/08/2015 4:29:56 PM PST by Mozilla
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To: kristinn
“We’ve never been lobbied quite like that,” House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions

This guy Pete Sessions is a worm. Is this why he ignored the calls.

120 posted on 01/08/2015 5:19:08 PM PST by Moorings
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