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Update: Boehner elected Speaker, loses 25 votes
Hot Air ^ | January 6, 2015 | Allahpundit

Posted on 01/06/2015 10:45:36 AM PST by C19fan

If you took the over on 19 votes, you won! There were 25 defectors on the Speaker, a number tantalizingly close to the 29 they needed. But then, that makes sense:

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; boehner; boehnerspeaker; giveobamapowerparty; gop; gop4amnesty; gop4obama; gope; gopenablers; house
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To: C19fan
Political theater.

Yes, they think we're that stupid.

21 posted on 01/06/2015 10:55:28 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Da Coyote
Bye, GOP.
Not nice knowin’ ya.

No, not really:

(Proverbs 25:14)
Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.

23 posted on 01/06/2015 10:55:59 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: grania

You of course are correct.

The last few days were the final negotiations on who could vote how, who was going to appeal to the “crazies” (you know, us, the Base), and whether it was going to look like the party was being responsive.

Now back to kowtowing to K Street, setting up fat contracts for the contributors to pig out on, and negotiating with Mexico over just how many of its unwanted “citizens” we have to take.


24 posted on 01/06/2015 10:56:03 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Excellence

Trey Gowdy is a coward and a fraud.
A fake conservative.


25 posted on 01/06/2015 10:56:10 AM PST by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: C19fan

Was it seriously in doubt?


26 posted on 01/06/2015 10:57:01 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Excellence

I said all along this was going to just be a figurative vote.

To vote against the Speaker and not be able to win is putting your congressional career in a bottle and putting in on the shelf until Boner is done. The equivalent of pissing in his cornflakes, no wonder a newly-elected congress person like Mia Love was afraid to do it.

Look at the list of names and think about how many of them have provided conservative leadership in the past. Or are names you even recognize.


27 posted on 01/06/2015 10:57:01 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: C19fan

Co-opted before they’re even sworn in. That’s how they do it, folks!


28 posted on 01/06/2015 10:57:03 AM PST by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: skeeter

Bunch of spineless, panty waists. I am now officially an Independent.


29 posted on 01/06/2015 10:57:10 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: FR_addict

Independents are fine, friend, especially because many of them ~were~ Republicans but got disgusted with the liberal drift of the party (they’re the MOST conservative of Republican voters (some, anyway..), it’s WHEN Democrats are allowed in Republican Party Primaries that we have a problem.


30 posted on 01/06/2015 10:57:24 AM PST by JSDude1 ( .)
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To: KeyLargo

Mia love voted for him and Trey Gowdy either hasn’t voted or voted for boner.

ANYONE who DIDN’T vote actually voted FOR BONER.

Gowdy just lost my respect, he’s another RINO who still thinks we are to stupid to hold them accountable.

ACTIONS MATTER, WORDS DON’T

GUTLESS RINO COWARDS—MIA LOVE, TREY GOWDY and ............


31 posted on 01/06/2015 10:57:54 AM PST by Chainsawj (I'm a 1 shot, 1 kill bringer of fate.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

And just how do you expect that to happen? Duh - we tried.


32 posted on 01/06/2015 10:58:02 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: C19fan

What a farce.


33 posted on 01/06/2015 10:59:02 AM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: C19fan; afraidfortherepublic

Rush reported that Grothman/WI voted for Boehner...very disappointing, I hope Rush was wrong for a change.


34 posted on 01/06/2015 10:59:09 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: mrsmith

WRONG!

More votes Must have come through after I started looking.
Rats!


35 posted on 01/06/2015 10:59:31 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Just goes to show that the Republican Party and the Democrat Party, by and large, have the same values and vote the same way. Boner is for amnesty, Obamacare, and more government and less freedom for every American. He agrees with Obama on almost everything.

Uniparty.

Fully agreed.

IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT.
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36 posted on 01/06/2015 10:59:47 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Excellence

Mia LOve, Trey Gowdy———RINO LOSERS.

GUTLESS COWARDS

ACTIONS MATTER...........WORDS DON’T.

gowdy-—YOU FAILED THE TEST.


37 posted on 01/06/2015 11:00:12 AM PST by Chainsawj (I'm a 1 shot, 1 kill bringer of fate.)
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To: C19fan

C’mon folks we’ve all been played here. Boehner was never in danger to lose his speakership. That’s fine. What that Bonehead doesn’t realize is he’s riled up the hornet’s nest, namely us. We don’t have to waste our time calling his office. We’ll just walk out on the party. Our numbers are significant enough to end the GOP. No more acting like the separated couple always looking for reconciliation. It’s time to divorce ourselves from the Republican Party.


38 posted on 01/06/2015 11:00:24 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: C19fan

As expected. The real action is happening at the state level. Our GOP coalition is made up of a fairly wide tent. Going forward we’ll need to pass laws that capture agreement with a majority of that coalition. There’s a lot of room for agreement.

The victories come from changing the thoughtspace. That’s already occurred with guns and abortions. We’re winning the fight against the welfare state and Islamism as well. It just takes time.


39 posted on 01/06/2015 11:00:34 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: tennmountainman

We definitely need a new party


40 posted on 01/06/2015 11:01:17 AM PST by GeronL
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