Posted on 03/04/2014 7:56:52 AM PST by cotton1706
House Speaker John A. Boehner, who has tangled repeatedly with the right wing of the Republican Party, has not been invited to this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a major snub at the annual gathering and a sign of the top Republican officeholder’s struggle to find common ground with grass-roots activists.
People familiar with CPAC’s planning, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said the American Conservative Union, which hosts the event, never sent an invitation to Mr. Boehner, in part because it wanted the focus this year to be on leading conservative thinkers at the grass-roots level and not at the congressional or party leadership level.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who addressed the conference last year, was not asked to give his own speech, but rather to serve on one of the conference’s panels.
“We wanted this to be about conservatives, not party leaders in Washington,” one source said.
Despite that, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who has fallen out of favor with some grass-roots conservatives and faces a tea party-backed challenger in the party primary this year, will address the conference, his office said.
Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, used to be a regular at CPAC, but the three-day gathering that begins Thursday will mark the second in a row that he has missed after passing up an invitation last year. The speaker has grown increasingly vocal in recent months about his frustration with tea party members of the House Republican caucus who have broken with leadership on key votes.
The antipathy is mutual.
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A ray of sunshine.
Wasn’t it Boehner that started purging real conservatives from House Committee Leadership positions as soon as he had been given a second term as House Speaker?
Seems to me that he went on the attack against US to begin with.
He must be relieved of duty as soon as it’s possible.
There’s the door pal. Beat it. And don’t come back.
“a sign of the top Republican officeholder’s struggle to find common ground with grass-roots activists.”
I haven’t seen anything other than a struggle to sell us out to the left.
AFAIAC, he can rot in Hell.
Bet he doesn’t get invited to the annual NAACP convention either — Much for the same reason — NOT Black NOT Conservative.
“Wasn’t it Boehner that started purging real conservatives from House Committee Leadership positions as soon as he had been given a second term as House Speaker?”
Yup, and he also gave himself five votes on the Rules committee to consolidate his own power over legislation and everything else.
FCK HIM!
I'm disappointed that Santorum is on the list of speakers. Sure, he's a "good" Christian, but he's a pretty lousy limited government conservative. The research I did on him when he was in the primaries last time around, indicate a politician who wears his personal religiosity on his sleeve to make himself look saintly (which the Founders never did, though they openly referenced Christianity in forming the Constitution and Declaration of Independence) but who lacks entirely the will or intention of shrinking government.
Being against abortion doesn't make you a conservative. It makes you against abortion. I know many liberal Democrats who, like me, are Christians who hate abortion. They are not limited government Christian conservatives ... and neither is Santorum. *sigh*
I’m cranky this morning — it is very GOOD news that CPAC is snubbing Boehner! In spite of other things about CPAC that tick me off!!! {^) Coffee only now has kicked in!! It’s good news here about Boehner! Hooray!!!
He will get an invite from his friends, the DNC.
The bonehead just said a few days ago he is in a great position and will easily retain his speaker-ship. Just like the democrats, bonehead is doubling down on his failures.
Exactly.
The sonovabitch needs to fired. No question at all about it.
PS: I did NOT vote for my Rep Pete Olson (TX-22) in the primary race today, simply because he REFUSED to make a commitment to oppose retaining Boehner as Speaker.
wow....wow.
He’s the highest ranking Republican in the country, and just got snubbed.
Wondering if it wasn’t mutually done...his office has to know he’d get a mixed reception, at best.
Gowdy or Gohmert, either one, to depose the cryer.
Mister Boehner is an awful negotiator and he seems (from my distant vantage) to be pitifully unprepared.
I do not think that he is a bad person, just a failure at SOH, and deserving of the snub and implied insult.
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Nanny nanny boo boo.
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