Hmmm, sorry about that. It looks like I pasted in the same text twice. The original document is a PDF, and sometimes copying from the document grabs more than you intend....
Called our congressman, throw Burner out.
...... The Republican Party absolutely knew they had to work as a team to defeat and replace Speaker Boehner .... So when the vote for the Speaker of the House was held ... they cohesively worked together as a well co-ordinated team .... and voted to keep him as Speaker.
..... Yeah ..... It's like Deja-vu all over again.
Thanks for the research. Would like to see more about what happened during the period when the Republican Party replaced the Whigs but that would be hard to find I think.
“Progressives agreed to vote for the Republican candidate only on the ninth ballot, after the Republican leadership had agreed to accept a number of procedural reforms favored by the progressives.”
This is the key most people are missing.
Boehner should make a deal with conservatives- give them x, y, z for their vote for Speaker- and he just won’t do it. It’s insane and only happens because the media is so afraid of losing money if conservatives reduce the government borrowing and spending that supports consumer spending.
Boehner sets the record for lowest votes.
That makes him “an historical figure” LOL!