5 Elmer will need a bigger gun. Where is an elephant gun when it is needed. John Bonehead has a target on his backside.
6 Duh, it’s what fascist dictators do, they dictate. Republican leadership are all fascist/socialists, just like all the democrat leaders. ...
10 They can’t get Boehner out. Any congress critter who even HINTS at a leadership vote gets torpedoed and loses his committee seats etc.
14 The fix is always in. Between lobbyists combined with lucrative committee assignments...not to mention a little NSA thrown into the mix, the same ones always manage to get (re)elected as *leaders*.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We won't get fooled again!" 1971, Pete Townshend, The Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Who's Next"
A little trip down John Boehner's Memomry Lane (courtesy of Wikipedia) ...
From 1995 to 1999, Boehner served as House Republican Conference Chairman which is the party caucus for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. In this post, he was the 4th-ranking House Republican, behind Gingrich, Majority Leader Dick Armey and Majority Whip Tom DeLay.
In the summer of 1997 several House Republicans, who saw Speaker Newt Gingrich's public image as a liability, attempted to replace him as Speaker. The attempted "coup" began July 9 with a meeting between Republican conference chairman Boehner and Republican leadership chairman Bill Paxon of New York. According to their plan, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Boehner and Paxon were to present Gingrich with an ultimatum: resign, or be voted out. However, Armey balked at the proposal to make Paxon the new Speaker, and told his chief of staff to warn Gingrich about the coup.
On July 11, Gingrich met with senior Republican leadership to assess the situation. He explained that under no circumstance would he step down. If he was voted out, there would be a new election for Speaker, which would allow for the possibility that Democrats—along with dissenting Republicans—would vote in Dick Gephardt as Speaker. On July 16, Paxon offered to resign his post, feeling that he had not handled the situation correctly. Paxon was the only unelected member of the leadership group, having been appointed to his position by Gingrich.
In 1998, Boehner was ousted as the chairman of the House Republican Conference, after his party lost 5 congressional seats.
Good historical info on Bonehead. I still say he is a Dim plant.
“4th-ranking House Republican, behind Gingrich, Majority Leader Dick Armey and Majority Whip Tom DeLay.”
Note that since then, Dick Armey has retired, and both Gingrich and Delay were forced out of office by Democrat “scandal” tactics.
Gingrich was forced out for an affair, which is almost always overlooked for Democrats; Delay forced out on made-up charges by a Democrat prosecutor in Austin. They were eventually thrown out, but *after* DeLay was forced out of office. The prosecutor had to convene several grand juries to find one that would indict.