REPORT: TOP BOEHNER ALLIES DEPARTING CONGRESS

Breitbart ^ | April 3, 2014 | by MATTHEW BOYLE

[Jim Robinson]

House Speaker John Boehner’s top allies are racing out the door to retirement, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

Top Boehner allies that are retiring in 2014 include four committee chairmen: Reps. Mike Rogers (R-MI) of the Intelligence Committee, Buck McKeon (R-CA) of the Armed Services Committee, Doc Hastings (R-WA) of the Natural Resources Committee and Dave Camp (R-MI) of the Ways and Means Committee. One of Boehner closest friends, Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA), is retiring this year, and another—Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)—may lose his seat in a primary in Idaho against conservative Bryan Smith.

“In a Capitol where accomplishments are built on relationships, some of Boehner’s most trusted confidantes won’t return next year, when lawmakers must again address the U.S. debt ceiling and possibly grapple with immigration policy,” Bloomberg’s Michael Bender and Derek Wallbank wrote. “Replenishing his support system will be crucial for Boehner as the limited-government Tea Party movement -- which often equates deal-making and compromise with weakness -- has complicated management of the House Republican majority.”

Notably, Simpson, a top Boehner confidant, suggested Boehner has yet to decide whether he will come back to Congress next year.

“That’s a challenge for Boehner if he decides to run for speaker again,” Simpson said about how will Boehner address the exit of many of his top supporters.

[DCBryan1]

They know the storm is coming!

[DCBryan1]

They don’t want to be around when the SHTF. Our national debt is a ticking time bomb and they know it.

DING DING DING! A winner!

[kingattax]

boehner is useless. he gotta go, mang.

[PhilDragoo]

Yesterday after hearing Ted Cruz call for repealing every word of ObamaCare I called our Steve King and said again for him to replace Boehner. Years ago it was Michele Bachman I suggested. There's a Braveheart-with-a-better-ending coming November, seated next January.

[VRWC For Truth]

The ship is sinking and the rats are fleeing.

[Fledermaus]

Too bad Fred Upton isn’t on that list. Or Darrel Issa. What tools.

[Starboard]

Thank you.

Things are going to get really ugly. Economically, politically and socially. Those in high profile positions want to get out of town before the tornado hits.

Creating the mess is so much more fun than cleaning it up.

[Jim Robinson]

I’m terrible about picking political winners, because my first choice will be the conservative, ie, pro-life, pro-family, pro-small (constitutionally limited) government, pro-defense, pro-constitution, pro-gun, pro-drilling, pro-free enterprise, pro-liberty, etc. Liked Gowdy before I found out he was weak on illegals. How about Louie Gohmert?

[Psalm 144]

“Boehner also recently purchased a luxury condo in Marco Island, FL, prompting a new round of speculation about the issue by GOP insiders.”

I am confident that one day there will be photos released of Boehner and Charlie Crist bathing together, sharing little tropical drinks and damning troglodyte conthervativth.

[onyx]

Thank you so much!!
God bless and keep you, dearest Phil Dragoo!

[BigEdLB]

So who can be gotten to replace Agent Orange next January as Speaker.

[lentulusgracchus]

Trying to re-create the days of Bob Michael hasn’t worked out as he expected.

Bob Michel was the Luser Deluxe minority leader that Democrats loved to patronize and despise. On his last day in the House, the 'Rats amused themselves by letting Michel hold the big gavel for half a minute or so ...... the motives behind that "gesture" were absolutely impossible to calculate.

But critics of congressional "incivility" <bitch, bitch, bitch>, when asked, always go back to the end of Michel's Lusership, which was the moment when House Republicans quit letting 'Rats push them around. That's when, the MediaRats say, "things got nasty" ...... uh, huh.

(Republicans who were there remember instead the "Class of Watergate" in 1975 and their smug moral superiority and unwillingness to treat with "tainted" Republicans, even as the 'Rats threw the Vietnam War, sandbagged President Ford, and prepared to take history into receivership with an incoming Prog-Stalinist Democratic majority in Senate, House, and White House under Jimmy Carter.)

[itssme]

I'd be interested in hearing Mark Levin's opinion on who should replace boehner. He's been pushing hard to get rid of boehner and mcconnell, as have many others.

[hinckley buzzard]

This says more about the future of the GOP caucus than any poll. These members of the old boys club won't be asked to play with the new guys who will be swarming in in January. Boehner's days as Speaker are clearly numbered and they all know it.

[dfwgator]

[hinckley buzzard]

The question is timing. With the GOP poised to make major gains in both houses, why should the leadership choose now to retire? With both houses, they have the first opportunity in years to do something constructive for the country they all claim to love so much. Instead, they bail. Makes no sense unless you assume they see the end of their leadership influence. That spells T.E.A.