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 ...
The bass turds were in-your-face telling us that the election didn’t matter and they were going to continue to govern against the will of the people.
I hope they get harassed continually.
Bout time for me to get a new rep I think.
They don’t look rattled to me.
normally close to home when talking to a rep representing a rep or senator close to home am talked to nicely but every dang time I call D.C. they are rude and basically tell me to SHUT UP ... Am growing tired of them ... Tired of that D.C. attitude!
Really? Then prove it by revoking Obama's illegal alien action and the ACA.
Otherwise, kiss off Boehner.
Dang, am one cat tired of scratching for these politicians. Is it time to scratch back and claw all these politicians like the true TIGER America is yet?
ditto
but.....the message was received
And they ignored everyone...
My Rep is Dave Reichert. He gets an F- rating from Conservative Review, because he’s basically a Democrat that caucases with the Republicans. He voted for Boehner.
Since I now know there is no benefit in having a Republican majority in the House without also having a conservative majority, there is no longer a reason to cast my vote for Reichert. I’ll be letting him know this.
Right, John. Everyone buys that. Just read the comments on your own Facebook page to see how widespread that belief is. Resign, you miserable excuse for a statesman.
>> we have members who are going to solicit the outside in ways that they have not previously
The arrogance and cluelessness inherent in that statement is utterly breathtaking.
I supported McSally even though I don’t even live in the same state. But I fear she is going to turn out to be a dissappointment in terms of how she votes, Hope I am wrong. We’ll see.
Yes, and I also (may have)spent $1 to send the NRCC a message.
First Name: Illcontribute
Last Name: Whenboehnersgone
Address: 123 Colddayinhell
They may have difficulty matching that name and address to the card #.
Nice how our supposed servants in representative government refer to us disparagingly as "the outside" without even a hint of introspection.
I see they quoted Raul The Tool. Yeah, he heard from us all right. BTT
“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.”
I think you are too late, Sessions. This was not a warning shot across the bow, to let you know that you have a problem. That happened years ago. This was the last warning before a whole chunk of your crew abandoned the sinking ship.
In two years, you will all fall in line. These guys know it.
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