"By going out and not voting for the conference choice, you’re not attacking John Boehner, you’re really attacking the Republican conference that you say you’re part of.”
Posted on 01/05/2015 6:39:53 AM PST by maggief
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) called GOP challenges to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) “pretty unprofessional and very disappointing” on Monday.
Cole, a close ally to Boehner, said the challenges aren’t serious and blasted Republicans trying to unseat the Speaker for not trying to do so when the GOP held its internal discussions late last year.
“Well, I don’t think they’re very serious,” he said while appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe" of the bids by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) to challenge Boehner for speakership. “And frankly, they’re pretty disappointing in the sense that anyone who wanted to run could have run in the conference elections and none of them did. So by going out and not voting for the conference choice, you’re not attacking John Boehner, you’re really attacking the Republican conference that you say you’re part of,” Cole said.
Gohmert, Yoho and other Boehner critics argue the Speaker didn’t do enough to stop President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Some conservatives wanted to withhold funding for the government over the order, which gave legal status to 4.5 million immigrants.
Several Republicans have joined the charge against Boehner, though it appears opponents remain short of the nearly 30 GOP votes they’d need to unseat him.
Incoming Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) said Sunday that she expected Boehner to be elected again.
“We voted in our conference in November, and … it was near unanimous,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “I think there was one weak voice that didn't say, that may have said ‘nay.’ There hasn't been a campaign or any phone calls that anyone has received, so I expect that will move forward very smoothly.”
"By going out and not voting for the conference choice, you’re not attacking John Boehner, you’re really attacking the Republican conference that you say you’re part of.”
theres actually some truth in this. Theres no challenger. All those Conservative GOP representatives and noone want to be leader
We are quickly seeing who has the thickest files at the NSA.
Just think if the wankers vote present to protect themselves, we could see Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of a Republican House. (Check the rules) That has humor written all over it.
Thanks for the detailed reference!
Well lookee here, this Boehner bum lickin’ clown needs a verbal excoriation, a azz whoopin’, and a recall.
Where do we find thses guys? He is worried about being professional and the whole country is being ruled by a commie who cares not at all for being “professional.”
“Well, I don’t think they’re very serious,”
Clueless in Oklahoma. :-)
Doing ObaMao’s bidding as leader of the opposition party is unprofessional at best, treasonous at worst.
Unprofessional? Oh yeah, that must be because the US is an aristocracy. Once elected to a position you have a right to that for life. It’s just like being dubbed a knight.
Not as unprofessional and disappointing as Boehner has been.
I trust Louie Gohmert. He's one of the very few in Congress I can say that about.
That there are so few among the many who are worthy of trust is what is very disappointing.
If it's true we get the government we deserve, it sucks to be US.
Thanks! I got right through as well.
I encouraged my congressman to NOT vote for Boehner, and specifically TO vote for Gohmert.
I asked the staffer if they had received any other calls, and he said "yes, there is apparently some kind of robo-call going on", and asked me if I was calling because I had watched the news or just what. I replied that I had been watching what Boehner has done during his term as Speaker, making backroom deals, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and generally being a disappointment at every turn. I also strongly encouraged him to NOT dismiss these calls as mere "robo-calls", that to do so would be a serious mistake. I pointed out that a LOT of people pay close attention these days, and we are tired of being lied to and betrayed, that we want them make something happen using the victory they were handed in November.
I hope they listen.
Oh yeah, I also encouraged him to stop by Tom Cole's office and give him some more coffee as he apparently needs to wake up!
She also stated they were getting a lot of calls.
5.56mm
WashPost: McConnell Pledges to Avoid ‘Scary’ Excesses and ‘Strident Stands’ of ‘Far Right’
By Tim Graham | January 5, 2015 | 8:39 AM EST
The Washington Post is positioning the Senate conservatives as “scary” in Monday’s editions. Online, the headline was “New Senate majority leader’s main goal for GOP: Don’t be scary.”
Liberal congressional reporter Paul Kane relayed that Democrats think that appeasing “far-right conservatives” will lead to Republican defeats in 2016:
Democrats are dubious of McConnell’s pledge to avert edge-of-the-cliff moments. They believe he will run into the same problems that have bedeviled House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) during the past four years — including the inability to corral rabble-rousers such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to support an agenda that conservative critics will probably view as not bold enough in challenging Obama. Appeasing those far-right conservatives will lead to an agenda that Democrats hope to exploit in 2016.
Well Tom, Speaker Boehner’s continuing lies to his peers and constituents, and his refusal to fight for the Constitution and Conservatism, added to his outright capitulation to Obama have been “pretty unprofessional and very disappointing”......
“It’s not fair that they didn’t give us time to severely arm twist and punish them for their revolt back when we could have done so at our leisure. Doing it this late in the game, when we are much less able to coerce and intimidate them is like cheating!”
“If the Japanese had been gentlemen, they would have given the US a week’s warning before their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor!”
Wow, the American people are really letting him have it on his fb page. I wonder if he even reads it. I do know that when you post on fb, a copy of that post is sent to your private email, so he has to see these. We the people want him OUT! He betrayed us and we have no use for this POS.
Excellent.
We don’t want ‘professional’. We want conservative, Constitutional and accountable.
What a dipshit.
call and pretend to be an underage male prostitute.
The call screener will wave you right on through for a chat.
 Who's Sorry Now? |
Exactly. This guy is another example of an elitist snob politician who thinks "the little people" work for him, not that he is supposed to be working for the people.
He needs to go.
Clean up in Oklahoma-on aisle 2016!
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