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OUTGOING GOP REP: WE HAVE ENOUGH VOTES TO UNSEAT BOEHNER
Breitbart ^ | January 2, 2013 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 01/02/2013 6:50:58 PM PST by Buddy Sorrell

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To: chris37

At this point I’d take Lucifer just to watch him torch America and give it the enema we need.


21 posted on 01/02/2013 7:25:47 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Buddy Sorrell
Sit in the truck and cry boner!!...We'll get it...Hell..we'll even put your picture on the wall of past Speakers....But if the kids from the next generation shoot it up.....

DONT BLAME US!...Go home and wallow in your glory...Write a book...do something constructive and live off of it....*S*...You'll starve to death!

22 posted on 01/02/2013 7:28:19 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Artcore

I agree Cantor will be an amnesty pusher.


23 posted on 01/02/2013 7:34:51 PM PST by magna carta
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To: chris37

Yep.


24 posted on 01/02/2013 7:35:43 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Buddy Sorrell

The dems are probably blackmailing him with something.


25 posted on 01/02/2013 7:38:31 PM PST by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: tennmountainman

What?...Change the Cowards Rule?....You must be crazy!...


26 posted on 01/02/2013 7:42:32 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Buddy Sorrell

The article has a mis-leading headline.
If one takes the time to read the article.
Bonehead is not trying to save face

He is trying to negotiate the terms of retaining his speakership.
By saying he will no longer go one on one with Obama,
he is saying his Rino Monkey deal making skills ain’t working.
So then he promises to abide by normal house rules.
3 days to read bills, etc.

Sounds like a desperate man trying to save his job. Not face.


27 posted on 01/02/2013 7:46:03 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Buddy Sorrell

Great...we have enough votes to unseat the spineless wimp, but not enough votes to oust the commie-in-chief working to destroy America. Talk about small victories.


28 posted on 01/02/2013 7:47:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Candor7

I’m with you!!...Does that mean we’re not prejudice now?


29 posted on 01/02/2013 7:53:38 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Vendome

I think that is going to happen.


30 posted on 01/02/2013 8:06:58 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: unixfox

I’ve never been a fan of Boener either but I found this on the web and it could get really bad really fast it this were to happen.

“The process for the vote is a bit complicated. For the time being, the only candidates for nomination would be Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The only way for someone to win the speakership is to win a majority (more than 50 percent) of all votes cast. If everybody votes, that means the winner must ultimately attract 218 votes. There are 234 Republicans in the new Congress, but if Boehner loses 17 of them, it’s enough to kick the vote to a second ballot — something that hasn’t happened since 1923.

Pelosi could conceivably win the speakership, but only if Republicans cross over to vote for her or if enough Republicans actually abstain from voting.”

With as many spineless Republicans in the House I could this nightmare happening.


31 posted on 01/02/2013 8:24:55 PM PST by repubpub ("History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: acapesket

The speaker of the house is not required to be a representative of that body. It can be anyone the membership chooses.


32 posted on 01/02/2013 8:27:29 PM PST by Baynative (Those that work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.)
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To: repubpub
What you have explained is EXACTLY why the Tea Party Caucus needs to stand together and put serious pressure on the republicans in the house. If they are afraid to stand up to the democrats, they should be able to find the courage to let the Tea Party caucus stand up for them.

The congress convenes on January 20. We have 17 days to make them listen!

33 posted on 01/02/2013 8:33:09 PM PST by Baynative (Those that work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.)
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To: Baynative
"The congress convenes on January 20. We have 17 days to make them listen! "

I think that you might be wrong- This current Congress is gone in about 1/2 hour Eastern time. I really don't know what "convenes" means technically, but the next Congress starts 01/03/2013, and their first order of business is to "chuse" a speaker. ( Buckwheat will be Immaculated 01/20/2013)

34 posted on 01/02/2013 8:42:48 PM PST by matthew fuller (We are 9350000 men with battle rifles, not armed because we are free, but free because we are armed.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
We could use a victory, cheap, small or whatever about now. Does anyone know if they made the tax cuts permanent?
35 posted on 01/02/2013 8:58:45 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: matthew fuller
I think you are correct. I plan to stay up late faxing and calling congressional offices to urge them to unite against Boehner, anyway.

I wonder if electing a democrat speaker while the republicans have the majority would in a sense neuter the speaker's role and dilute the power of that position. It seems to me that we'd be no worse off.

36 posted on 01/02/2013 9:04:05 PM PST by Baynative (Those that work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.)
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To: Baynative
It seems to me that we'd be no worse off.

You don't know what you're talking about. Go ahead, get a Dem in that position. Probably what the Dems were really after all along, never mind the blasted fiscal cliff.

37 posted on 01/02/2013 9:13:02 PM PST by madison10
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To: Baynative

I’ve already contacted my Congresscritters, but I don’t think a Rat speaker would help anything- He/she would have the same power as Reid in the Senate to control the items to be voted on or not, and that would be a total disaster.

We need a Conservative Speaker, and a Conservative Party. The Republican Party has proven it’s impotence, and needs to be obliterated completely and replaced.


38 posted on 01/02/2013 9:45:41 PM PST by matthew fuller (We are 9350000 men with battle rifles, not armed because we are free, but free because we are armed.)
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To: Baynative

“It seems to me that we’d be no worse off.”

Sigh. I was screaming about this when everyone was fixated on the presidency. House and Senate are more important. This removes the last check on Obama’s power.


39 posted on 01/03/2013 1:49:14 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: Christie at the beach

“Why have 2 parties now!?”

For the same reason the Soviet Union had elections. So a scripted, totalitarian system can pretend to be representative and feign consent of the governed.


40 posted on 01/03/2013 3:14:41 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Capitol to the districts: "May the odds be ever in your favor.")
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