Posted on 04/11/2014 6:35:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
Conservative lawmakers are plotting to dump House Speaker John Boehner as soon as November, the National Journal reported Thursday.
The National Journal said 40 to 50 House conservatives are behind a scheme to infiltrate the GOP leadership in 2015, and pushing the Ohio Republican aside would be the first step.
The conservative disapproval with Boehner has been widely reported.
The rebels' strategies include backing a single conservative leadership candidate, cutting a deal with Majority Leader Eric Cantor that would swap support him for speaker in return for his bringing aboard "a conservative lieutenant," or showing Boehner at the post-November elections' meeting of the incoming GOP conference that he doesn't have the votes for re-election in January, the National Journal reported.
One Republican told the publication the "nucleus" of the rebellion is inside the House Liberty Caucus, which includes Justin Amash of Michigan, Raul Labrador of Idaho, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who all objected to Boehner's re-election as speaker in January 2013.
Amash, chairman of the Liberty Caucus, has warned then there would be a "larger rebellion" if Boehner's leadership team didn't bring conservatives on board.
"There are no big ideas coming out of the conference. Our leadership expects to coast through this election by banking on everyone's hatred for Obamacare," said one Republican lawmaker organizing the rebellion the National Journal didn't identify. "There's nothing big being done. We're reshuffling chairs on the Titanic."
Boehner isn't the only target of the conservatives' ire, the National Journal reported.
Cantor has come under fire from conservatives recently because of a voice vote maneuver that helped pass an Obamacare "doctor fix" bill.
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Anybody with two or more brain cells wants to rid us of ‘ol Boner.
Dickinson was a good man but as Adams put it, his Olive Branch Petition put a “silly cast to our doings.”
Dickinson was a Quaker and absented himself from the vote when he knew it was inevitable. He later freed his own slaves.
You reinforce my point. History little remembers our elected representatives who made their career attempting to straddle the middle.
Dickinson absented himself because he did not wish to risk the anger of his fellow citizens by voting “no” nor risk his life, liberty and personal possessions to the crown by voting “yes”. In short, he was a feckless punk looking out only for himself and who only later had an attack of conscience and freed his slaves.
He fails the test of time. That is why there are no high schools, post offices, nor public facades bearing his name.
“You are making a mistake supporting progressive Republicans. “
I did not say that! The people of NH get to decide, not me. But if it’s Brown or Shaheen, do you really want Shaheen?
Bring back “The Hammer”!!!!!!
You’re right that Dickinson isn’t remembered except by people like us. It’s just that as a historian steeped in those times, I recognize that those decisions were not easy ones to make. They were indeed times that tried one’s souls.
THESE are also times that try one’s soul.
The entire leadership needs to be ousted. This should’ve been done a long time ago. Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, et al... (and the Senate, too).
I am doing just that.
Plus, of course, my “Kowboy Keyboarding!”
I believe Boehner is less likely than Cantor, Gowdy, Labrador or Mulvaney to be able to pull off amnesty.
Gowdy has also said he may not be around for too long because he didn’t want the Senate seat.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/9/eric-cantor-falls-hard-from-good-graces-of-conserv/
“Boehner is not considered someone who is an active adversary. Cantor can be seen — on immigration and a lot of other things — as someone who is very resentful of what would be the patriot Republican right.”
Scott Brown is against amnesty. He has called the Dream Act backdoor amnesty. Scott Brown understands that if he panders it is better to pander to women not Latinos.
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