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Furious Boehner allies lash out
thehill.com ^ | 9/26/15 | Christina Marcos

Posted on 09/26/2015 5:38:31 AM PDT by cotton1706

Allies of Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) are infuriated with the right wing of the House GOP conference, which they blame for his resignation.

GOP lawmakers who’ve stood by Boehner’s side throughout his rocky five-year tenure as Speaker bitterly blamed the right flank for forcing a contested leadership race less than a year after the party won control of Congress in the 2014 midterm elections.

A fired-up House Ethics Committee Chairman Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), speaking not long after Boehner dropped the bombshell at a Friday conference meeting that he’ll leave Congress at the end of next month, ripped into hard-line conservatives.

He accused them of opposing Boehner at every turn, and noted they have “never had a horse of their own.”

“Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.

Leadership allies are frustrated by what they see as a repeated exercise in futility.

They argue that the lawmakers who repeatedly tangled with Boehner aren’t team players, and they said a new leadership team shouldn’t cater to them.

Boehner repeatedly saw conservatives vote against the GOP rules governing debate on legislation. Those votes are supposed to be tests of party loyalty.

They also argue Boehner repeatedly bent to conservative critics on spending issues, only to see them stab him in the back.

“Frankly, I thought our leadership in too many cases has been too accommodating, too quick to appease those who will not govern,” Dent said. “They give far too much procedural consideration to those who will not vote for the bills at the end of the process. That’s going to end. We’ve had enough of that.”

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To: cotton1706

Yay! the pro baby butchery wing of the party.


61 posted on 09/26/2015 7:31:52 AM PDT by Moorings
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To: cotton1706

Rope.

Tree limb.

Some assembly required.

(Now, had he done what we TOLD HIM TO DO................)


62 posted on 09/26/2015 7:40:43 AM PDT by Flintlock (Our soapbox is gone, the ballot box stolen--we're left with the bullet box now.)
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To: wita
“Hey Dent! I got a carpentry idea for you! How about we as carpenters build gallows on the Mall for the likes of you treasonous bastards?”

Our freedoms have been sold out by these treasonus pukes on so many fronts.

If there was a general understanding of how this is being accomplished by Sustainable Development/Agenda 21 there would be truckloads of lumber and rope headed to DC right now!

63 posted on 09/26/2015 7:50:53 AM PDT by Captain7seas
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To: cotton1706

Isn’t it a big time and debate saver, when the enemies of conservatism and America stand on the rooftops to scream how much they hate them both?

They have just shown the Tea Party and conservatives where to target their money and strength for the next primary elections. So find us true conservatives to run against them, and beware the “faux conservatives” who will lie like dogs until the day of the election, then take off their masks.

Like Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, of North Carolina, who swore up and down that she was a conservative, until elected, then immediately came out of the closet as a hardcore liberal.

The best bet is a checklist given to potential candidates.

On it are the most important conservative positions on issues. And their *oath* that they intend to carry them out, signed by them.

With the condition in clear print, that if they fail to do so, this checklist represents their resignation from office, and cannot be renounced or reneged. And that their failure to carry out the duties of their office according to this shall be determined by a vote of their Republican constituents in office, who were registered Republicans at the time of their election.


64 posted on 09/26/2015 8:09:05 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Resettozero; AndyJackson

Nope, just an honest question as he had made a very finely and accurately drawn point about usage. I’m taking the point as a distinction, “ the platoon was infuriated by ( as in “was inspired by “) the commands of the general,” rather than the usage in the article which would mean that the general made them angry at him. So, I wonder about “enraged by “ in the same context. Maybe the prefix “in-” vs. “”en-” has something to do with it, if it is different, but I don’t know Latin; I’ll ask my daughters when I think of it.


65 posted on 09/26/2015 8:09:31 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

Now I understand.

Grammar forward!


66 posted on 09/26/2015 8:12:00 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Captain7seas

It wouldn’t take all that much actually. One rope, one gallows, and one perp, that is all it would take. Treason isn’t worth your life, and so a continuing saga of cultural destruction by oath taking treasonous blastards would end suddenly.


67 posted on 09/26/2015 8:14:03 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita

The real problem of course would be finding a judge and jury that would honestly examine the evidence and reach a conviction.


68 posted on 09/26/2015 8:17:15 AM PDT by wita
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To: cotton1706

“Team players”, “party loyalty” = capitulation and selling out. Good riddance to the Orange One and may Dent be ousted as well.


69 posted on 09/26/2015 8:33:45 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: exit82
Angry allies of Boehner:

What is amazing is that these imbeciles don't get that they are supposed to be the allies of the Republican constituency that voted them into office more than a walking talking hand wringing tear sodden cheeto.

70 posted on 09/26/2015 8:54:35 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: cotton1706
We don't need carpenters, we need fighters. This Dent guy is an idiot. Boehner’s job was to the voters who elected their GOP representatives. NOT to Obama and NOT to the “carpenters guild”. This guy needs a call. 62% of republicans are sick of him and his ilk. 72% of Americans think the US has become weaker under Obama. Dent is a joke.
71 posted on 09/26/2015 8:59:13 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: cotton1706
“Frankly, I thought our leadership in too many cases has been too accommodating, too quick to appease those who will not govern,” Dent said. “They give far too much procedural consideration to those who will not vote for the bills at the end of the process. That’s going to end. We’ve had enough of that.”

Then change for R to D, you effing idiot.

72 posted on 09/26/2015 9:00:11 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: AndyJackson

Power in the sense that they think they are better and superior to the ordinary citizen. They consider them selves better because after all THEY are in DC. It is the hobknobbing and partying and shoulder touching with those whom they think are important. It is corrupt and indecent. If you think that drunk Johnny believes that he is ‘just one of us’ you are mistaken. Internally he believes that we are rubes and unworthy.

IF George Washington were of this ilk he would have gone ahead and taken the kingship offered him. Instead, the humble man lead for awhile because he was needed and then he returned to being a citizen. Oh that those in DC would have learned from our great founders


73 posted on 09/26/2015 10:36:00 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: cotton1706
He accused them of opposing Boehner at every turn

Aaaahhhh, but the strawberries, THAT'S where he had them!

74 posted on 09/26/2015 10:38:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cotton1706

“”“Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.”

Boehner wasn’t building a barn door, he was building a coffin.


75 posted on 09/26/2015 11:09:40 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: raybbr

Republicans should be identified by either PR or CR.

PR Progressive Republican

CR Conservative Republican


76 posted on 09/26/2015 11:11:22 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Resettozero

Not fearful. I never said be fearful.

I said be alert and vigilant. I am happy, nay thrilled, Johnny is gone. I just know there is so much more to do.


77 posted on 09/26/2015 5:44:10 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Resettozero

Not fearful. I never said be fearful.

I said be alert and vigilant. I am happy, nay thrilled, Johnny is gone. I just know there is so much more to do.

Be happy but he ain’t gone yet. There is enormous damage he can do even now


78 posted on 09/26/2015 5:45:04 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: cotton1706

later


79 posted on 09/26/2015 6:11:59 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: cotton1706

Furious -— NOPE “Foolish” Boehner allies lash out ... There - that’s better...


80 posted on 09/27/2015 3:28:22 AM PDT by ICCtheWay (1)
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