Posted on 03/07/2015 3:49:37 AM PST by broken_arrow1
You can judge a man by friends, the old saying goes. And Congressional Democrats are telling The Hill that they would prefer John Boehner to any conservative insurgent, should a coup attempt to remove him from his speakership. Mike Lillis writes:
Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they'd rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. Replacing him with a Tea Party Speaker, they say, would only bring the legislative process — already limping along — to a screeching halt.
“I'd probably vote for Boehner [because] who the hell is going to replace him? [Ted] Yoho?,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said Wednesday, referencing the Florida Tea Party Republican who’s fought Boehner on a host of bipartisan compromise bills.
“In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they're going to change the world,” Pascrell added. (snip)
“Vote for Boehner, the Democrats’ choice for Speaker,” doesn’t exactly turn on GOP voters. Expect 2016 candidates for the House to face questioning on whether they will support Boehner.
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Vote Republican!
The knife in the back feels better.
T’is the season of trickle down betrayals, woman vs. womb, brother vs. brother
Yoho sounds great to me call their bluff. Having Boehner is apparently no different than having Pelosi so put it up for grabs.
What does it take for Conservatives to see that the GOP can never be reformed and is now just another wing of the anti-American party?
But it was imperative that we voted Republican in NOV 2014.
I can still hear Rush’s pathetic GOTV plea the day before the election.
The GOP is dead—Murdered by its own “leaders.”
How about we just start with changing our own mess. Then we'll worry about the rest. d:^)
” “In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they’re going to change the world,” Pascrell added.”
Ahhh! The unfettered arrogance of professional politicians.
It says something when Boehner has more support from the opposition party then from his base. The man is at heart a liberal Democrat pretending to be a Republican.
OK, don’t replace him but do not stand with him.
Stand against him at every turn.
Force him to fold like the cheap suit he is.
Bring out the dirty laundry on him. Obama cannot be the only person to have the dirty deeds he has pulled. Go public on his a$$. Do not try to bribe him with the data just slam him
“What does it take for Conservatives to see that the GOP can never be reformed and is now just another wing of the anti-American party?”
Conservatives get it. The GOPe are the ones that keep insisting that a RINO is far better than any democRAT and that we’re somehow damaged goods IF we don’t agree.
You know who these people are. They are the ones that are perfectly fine with guaranteed losers like Dole, McCain or Romney.
We need only to remember the events that took place last year during the Mississippi Republican Primary Runoff where the GOPe worked hand in hand with the dems to thwart the will of the people to replace Thad Cochran with a real Conservative. Voter Fraud and Ballot Manipulation were embraced by the Establishment maggots.
“But it was imperative that we voted Republican in NOV 2014.
I can still hear Rush’s pathetic GOTV plea the day before the election.
The GOP is dead—Murdered by its own “leaders.””
I’m sure you are much happier with the current occupant in the White House, right? Geez.
Shameful.
This is exactly what the Democrats in Texas did.
The Speaker of the Texas house of representatives is a liberal leftist, who is only nominally a Republican. But he remains Speaker because he has a tight group of liberal Republicans that vote for him, and *all* the Democrats vote for him, which gives him the majority.
But in that position, he blocks all efforts for gun liberty, to limit abortion, and any other conservative legislation in the state.
It is such a blatant usurpation of power that the Democrats elsewhere have noticed it. They probably offer John Boehner the same deal. If he can just get a handful of liberal Republicans to back him, all the Democrats will vote for him, to keep him Speaker of the House.
This will give liberal Democrats control of the House of Representatives, even if Republicans are in the majority.
If it costs the Republicans the majority, so what? Conservatives are worse off with the Republican majority.
The Dems certainly wouldn’t want a Republican Speaker with a brain attached to a backbone. They can rule the chamber as a minority, thanks to the worst Speaker in history and the Democrat-Lite “moderates” in the majority.
We’re smoking out the traitors and those in complicity with the democrats one by one.
Boehner is in his last term as Speaker one way or the other. And neither Kevin McCarthy or Steve Scalise will move up. They’re done too.
This is a long battle. And the long-time moderates are aging.
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