How bad can it get???
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 ...
I believe he was saying kiss his ass...
My rep is one of those who sends out newsletters about how conservative he is, then votes for Cromnibus and supports Boehner.
I just visited his Facebook site: response from the constituents is overwhelmingly negative. We see Boehner as part of the problem, not the solution. If my rep. were to hold a Town Hall meeting today, he would probably be met with torches and pitchforks.
Dear Representative Coffman,
We cannot tell you how disappointed we are in your vote for John Boehner for Speaker. Couple that with your vote for the CRomnibus bill we have decided you do not represent us.
Enclosed is a card you sent saying the Republicans are in a great position to go toe-to-toe with Obama. Based on your actions it is a lie…you are just trying to assuage us while you are really beholden to the Establishment Republicans who are really no better than the liberals. You voted to fund Obamacare. You voted to fund amnesty. You lie.
Our political system is broken and you are symptomatic of the collapse. The people voted for Republicans because they want, we want, Obama stopped. We don’t need legislation passed. We need the damage that has been done by liberal socialists undone.
Please lick someone else’s shoes. You do not have our vote in 2016.
Sincerely,
How bad can it get???
Thank you for the telephone number. I’ll keep calling until they get sick of hearing my voice.
Triage mode. Is that what they call it when a third of your base doesn't show up to vote in the 2016 elections?
LOL! :)
We need to get to the bottom of the guys who voted against [procedural motions], and we need to understand why they voted against that, and then we need to know why people voted against the speaker yesterday...Name calling — saying ‘RINO’ and ‘establishment’ – that’s name calling...We need to understand why they voted the way they did.”Nunes' attitude is more befitting of a legislator sitting in North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly or Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power. Here's hoping that next year, the voters of the eastern San Joaquin Valley will replace this Stalinist with someone adheres to true-blue American values.Nunes wants the panel that chooses committee assignments to reconvene and take action against the dissenters, and he’s planning to draft a Republican resolution that would forbid people who vote against the speaker from leading subcommittees.
“We’ve never been lobbied quite like that,”
And, in true “tea party” fashion, there was no central organizing force for that lobbying: it was spontaneous individual & likeminded grass-roots. It was voters who made the big GOP win in November, dismayed that the GOP promptly ignored the obvious reasons why the GOP won.
Of course, the hard Left will insist it was a well-funded somethingorother by the Koch Brothers or some such, orchestrated to make the base _think_ they were acting as individuals.
Yes, the “lobbying” was the kind politicians fear most: organic, individual, grass-roots, principle-based, pissed-off voters motivated & acting pretty much on their own and by word-of-mouth, by the tens of thousands, overnight, with no organization by those with ulterior motives. A whole lotta voters just spontaneously exercised their “soap box”, and will have few qualms about using the “ballot box” next - even if that means the despised opposition winning.
The arrogant bastards will continue to ignore the will of the people until there is nothing left of the republican party. The reelection of Boner shows how completely out of touch republicans are with the voters who put them in office.
Representative Mike Coffman
1508 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative Coffman,
We cannot tell you how disappointed we are in your vote for John Boehner for Speaker. Couple that with your vote for the CRomnibus bill we have decided you do not represent us.
Enclosed is a card you sent saying the Republicans are in a great position to go toe-to-toe with Obama. Based on your actions it is a lie…you are just trying to assuage us while you are really beholden to the Establishment Republicans who are really no better than the liberals. You voted to fund Obamacare. You voted to fund amnesty. You lie.
Our political system is broken and you are symptomatic of the collapse. The people voted for Republicans because they want, we want, Obama stopped. We don’t need legislation passed. We need the damage that has been done by liberal socialists undone.
Please lick someone else’s shoes. You do not have our vote in 2016.
Sincerely,
Maine has its first GOP rep in many years. Bruce Poliquin, supposed conservative. I’m not in his district (I have the rich commie Pingree) but it was hoped by the conservatives here that he’d serve Maine well. Blew it with his first vote.
Leadership? What leadership?
Tax it, then regulate it, then subsidize it.
Good luck with THAT : )
The leadership we MIGHT have had, if Boehner had been hit and killed by drunk driver.................................
I figure that between this and the GOPe putz they're going to run in 2016, they're going to get themselves a nice repeat of 2006.
You’re welcome, but be warned, y’all will likely join me on the kooks and crazies list!
I’ll probably have Secret Service at my door cuz I was ranting about how if he doesn’t change his ways it will be his last term in office, but got cut off by the machine at a spot that taken out of context could sound bad.
Notice that at no point did Boehner even give a hint of a suggestion that because of this he would change his evil ways.
Instead, I imagine that the reality is that his arrogance is such that he will redouble his efforts to do those things that were and are so offensive to conservatives.
He will try to be extra humble in his dealings with Obama and the Democrats. He will reach across the aisle at every opportunity.
He will push very hard for the Republicans to embrace “the big tent” of illegal aliens. And work very hard against improving border security.
He will push for more and more spending of all kinds. If Obama wants $3 trillion in deficit spending, Boehner will push for $7 trillion.
FU Kenny Marchant!!! There were only 3 Texas reps that voted against Boehner. Pitiful...
Great letter!
Send them a check for two cents. (and not a penny more!).
(It costs them more to process it than they'll get.)
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