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Could Boehner Lose the Speakership? (more and more stories! Is something bubbling??)
cbs2iowa.com ^ | 12/30/14

Posted on 12/30/2014 5:46:48 AM PST by cotton1706

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS2/FOX28) -- Next week, lawmakers will return to Congress. Often a formality, the new session will have to elect a new Speaker of the House. But a growing number of conservative Republicans are mounting a challenge to Speaker Boehner. In a radio interview last week, North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones said he's meeting with more than a dozen Republicans considering to submit another name for the leadership. Though pundits see the challenge as a long shot, the hope of Boehner's opponents is to deny him a majority of votes so that he's forced to drop out of the race. Most believed to be challenging the Speaker are doing so behind closed doors, but in a post on Twitter, Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky hinted he would oppose Boehner, by posting a sign that reads "Next Speaker Please." Far-right factions of the Republican party are upset with Boehner over his unwillingness to challenge President Obama's executive orders on immigration policy before the end of the year. Most in the Republican party still support the Speaker. An aide for Speaker Boehner says there will be no punishment for members of his party who choose to vote against him.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boehner; dumpboehner; elections; fireboehner
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1 posted on 12/30/2014 5:46:48 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
Is something bubbling?

Sewage backup???

2 posted on 12/30/2014 5:49:44 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: cotton1706

Yes! Boehner!

Oh, excuse me. I misread. I thought the question was “Is something blubbering?”


3 posted on 12/30/2014 5:51:07 AM PST by GilesB
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To: cotton1706
An aide for Speaker Boehner says there will be no punishment for members of his party who choose to vote against him

LOL... sure....

4 posted on 12/30/2014 5:52:22 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: kjam22

I’m thinking pubbies are so relieved to learn that B won’t punish them if they vote against him./sarc

I’m hoping that enough vote against him to run him off as speaker-—and if that happens he won’t have the power to “punish” them. (or anyone else.)


5 posted on 12/30/2014 5:59:41 AM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: cotton1706

Crybaby totalitarian wannabe. Resign, John.


6 posted on 12/30/2014 6:00:54 AM PST by PGalt
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To: cotton1706
John, will get back to you later.

He's waiting at the Tiki Hut Bar for his pal Obama to show up after he gets off the 18th green.

7 posted on 12/30/2014 6:02:33 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: cotton1706

If Boehner is denied 218 votes, how many Republicans will vote for Pelosi?

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.


8 posted on 12/30/2014 6:02:38 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: cotton1706

If the Republicans split the vote for Speaker, can the Dems vote, en masse, for Pelosi and then she can win the Speakershiip???


9 posted on 12/30/2014 6:02:39 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: originalbuckeye

What is the difference between the two anyway?


10 posted on 12/30/2014 6:06:15 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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11 posted on 12/30/2014 6:13:36 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: cotton1706

Boehner ain’t going anywhere................


12 posted on 12/30/2014 6:15:42 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: originalbuckeye
If the Republicans split the vote for Speaker, can the Dems vote, en masse, for Pelosi and then she can win the Speakershiip??

Yes, the voting for Speaker of the House is simple majority voting of all members with no regard to party unlike the Senate where only the majority party elects the leader. This is how Boner and other RINOs have stayed in power because they have enough Republicans on their side to prevent challengers from not just beating them, but also outvoting the RATS meaning that voting against them puts the RATS in charge.

It's pretty sickening to know that there are that many Republicans who would rather see Pelosi as Speaker again rather than vote against Boner. Bear in mind that many of them are the same ones who whine about Cruz and Lee putting principles over politics. Fake phony frauds they are.

13 posted on 12/30/2014 6:16:28 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: originalbuckeye

No, to win as speaker, one must win a majority of the votes [not a plurality].

So even if Nancy had more votes than boehner, she would not win unless she got 218+ votes. But with 179 dems, she can’t. In that case there is a re-vote.

Embarrassment of embarrassments to beohner would be this scenario. He would not run again for speaker - and if he did and was subsequently elected, he would be unimaginably weaker to his own party.


14 posted on 12/30/2014 6:21:05 AM PST by Principled (Government Slowdown using the budget process!)
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To: cotton1706; All

I e-mailed my Congressman days ago. I encouraged him to vote AGAINST John Boehner for Speaker. However, he was just elected in November, replacing Steve Stockman, who needs to be put in an alcohol rehab, or mental hospital, somewhere. So, being a new Freshman Congressman, he probably won’t have the intestinal fortitude to buck a powerful man like Boehner.


15 posted on 12/30/2014 6:22:29 AM PST by Din Maker (Is anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM as the possible GOP nominee in 2016?)
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To: cotton1706

He’s been worse than useless, like Darrell Issa and Juan McCain. As their ‘best men’, we’ve done everything but lift them on-and-off the bride. It’not looking good.
The Democrats may break the “two terms and out” executive branch phenomenon with the leadership these two have shown.
Then the new GOP will join the Whigs in history’s landfill.

Even my own rep, Pence’s replacement Luke Messer is looking wobbly. The Beltway syndrome?
Political power: use it or lose it, boys!


16 posted on 12/30/2014 6:23:52 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Red Badger

Why would he? The Weeper and his gang are all running unopposed.


17 posted on 12/30/2014 6:25:13 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Dahoser

It’s pretty sickening to know that there are that many Republicans who would rather see Pelosi as Speaker again rather than vote against Boner.
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Please re-read that sentence and tell me if that is what you meant to say. It doesn’t make sense. Did you mean to say: “...rather than vote FOR Boner”?


18 posted on 12/30/2014 6:27:13 AM PST by Din Maker (Is anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM as the possible GOP nominee in 2016?)
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To: tumblindice

Power.
Get it.
Use it.
Keep it.
Repeat................


19 posted on 12/30/2014 6:28:48 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger; All
Boehner ain’t going anywhere................ _______________________________________________________

You are prolly right. But, to deny him a mandate, might get his attention and remind him that there is a Conservative wing of the Party who will dog him, and cause him much misery, for the next two years, if he continues to crap on them.
20 posted on 12/30/2014 6:34:14 AM PST by Din Maker (Is anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM as the possible GOP nominee in 2016?)
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