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Weber, Backing Gohmert Over Boehner, Says ‘Retaliation’ Has Begun
RollCall ^ | January 6, 2015 | by Matt Fuller

Posted on 01/06/2015 10:55:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Updated, 1:10 p.m. | The 114th Congress is barely underway, but Randy Weber, R-Texas, says he’s already paying a price for making known his intentions to vote against another term in leadership for Speaker John A. Boehner.

Weber, who is backing the long-shot speakership bid of fellow Texan Rep. Louie Gohmert over Boehner, has been removed as the lead sponsor of a nuclear energy bill expected to brought to the floor in the 114th.

During a small meeting Tuesday of about 10 members of the Texas delegation to discuss the speaker’s race, Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Weber that the speaker’s office had called and said Weber could not be the sponsor of that legislation, Weber told CQ Roll Call.

“You know, I’ve already been retaliated against. I’ve been taken off of a bill,” Weber said. ”The retaliation begins.”

The speaker’s office denied that Weber had been targeted.

“That is not true,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told CQ Roll Call when informed of the story. “The speaker did not make such a call.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: boehner; boehnerretaliation; boehnerrevenge; elections; gohmert; gope; housespeakervote; randyweber; retaliation; weber
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To: Logical me

I would disagree but I don’t think you are incorrect.


21 posted on 01/06/2015 11:20:45 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Jim Robinson

If my state wasn’t closed primary, I’d leave the GOP.


22 posted on 01/06/2015 11:21:52 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Jim Robinson

The ink isn’t even dry and already Boehner is lying.

It’s open war on conservatives.


23 posted on 01/06/2015 11:22:54 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Jim Robinson
“The speaker did not make such a call.”

Yeah, but McCarthy or Scalise did, or one of their henchmen.

24 posted on 01/06/2015 11:24:03 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: montag813

I second the motion.


25 posted on 01/06/2015 11:32:00 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: Da Coyote

I agree! Am so sick of all this crap. John Boehner will NOT do a single thing to stop Obama! I still think they have something on him but he’s such a crybaby that I have no faith in him or any of those idiots around him who run around acting like kings!


26 posted on 01/06/2015 11:32:37 AM PST by Cricket24 (Defund Obamacare. Better yet.....REPEAL IT!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Perhaps he should change his affiliation to Independent then?


27 posted on 01/06/2015 11:33:17 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Jim Robinson

If you take on the political big dog, you better take him out or he will have his revenge. He’s not going to kiss and make up.

That’s just the way it is, always has been, and always will be.


28 posted on 01/06/2015 11:34:12 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: DannyTN

They are all “in bed” together. I never used to believe that but after 30 years of watching this stuff....They really only care about us at election time. Today proved that with new reps who were voted in by conservatives and the tea party turned around and crapped on them! May they all rot in HELL!


29 posted on 01/06/2015 11:35:43 AM PST by Cricket24 (Defund Obamacare. Better yet.....REPEAL IT! (Yeah, like that will happen with Boehner as Speaker!))
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To: Moonman62

I am thinking of changing my party affiliation to Libertarian. I don’t care anymore if I vote in the primary!


30 posted on 01/06/2015 11:37:11 AM PST by Cricket24 (Defund Obamacare. Better yet.....REPEAL IT! (Yeah, like that will happen with Boehner as Speaker!))
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To: RJS1950

Hey!! There. are lots of us Buckeyes just as sick today as you are about this whole disaster. I’ll join an alternate party just as soon as a serious. and viable one is formed!!!


31 posted on 01/06/2015 11:38:22 AM PST by buckeye49 (HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY-TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Just another day in the next round of a House of Cards.


32 posted on 01/06/2015 11:42:12 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: boomop1
The 28 should vote present on every bill Boehner puts up for vote, until he resigns.

They need to do what all of us should do, change their party affiliation. Same in the Senate, deny the GOPe majorities then maybe they would actually listen to the Conservatives, but they won't unless they do something to end this oligarchy.

33 posted on 01/06/2015 11:46:36 AM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Jim Robinson

And when the third party comes into being, they’ll be shocked, I tell you - shocked at the disloyalty!!!


34 posted on 01/06/2015 11:47:03 AM PST by rejoicing
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To: Da Coyote

One wonders if voting for the Stupid Party in 2016 is of any use.


35 posted on 01/06/2015 11:48:02 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: Jim Robinson

Boehner is a nasty piece of work.


36 posted on 01/06/2015 11:48:59 AM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: Jim Robinson
“You know, I’ve already been retaliated against. I’ve been taken off of a bill,” Weber said. ”The retaliation begins.”

Does this surprise anyone? If you're going to shoot at the king make sure you kill the king.

37 posted on 01/06/2015 11:50:50 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Jim Robinson
“The speaker did not make such a call.”

Semi-bald face lie!!! His aide made the call.

38 posted on 01/06/2015 11:54:36 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: alloysteel

If the conservatives in the House would hang together they could actually do a hell of a lot of damage to the GOPE screwing up their legislation and making them cut deals favorable to conservatives or be outed even more to the conservatives still on the Republican plantation in their collusion with the democrats. But the conservatives won’t hang together so they shall hang separately as the old saying goes.


39 posted on 01/06/2015 11:57:19 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Cricket24

They don’t care about you at election time. They just need you to think they do. They need your vote for power.

Then it’s back to good-old-boy politics and protecting one another’s personal interests. Same as it ever was.


40 posted on 01/06/2015 11:58:38 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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