GOP Representative: Mitch McConnell ‘Next Guy in the Crosshairs’

National Review ^ | September 25, 2015 | JOEL GEHRKE

[george76]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will be the next target of conservatives frustrated with party leadership, according to one of the conservative representatives who pressured House speaker John Boehner in the weeks leading up to his resignation. “Next guy in the crosshairs will probably be McConnell,” Representative Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.) said in a text message to Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah), ...

That fits a theory of Boehner’s struggles that is common among the outgoing speaker’s friends and foes alike — that his unpopularity among the grassroots stems more from McConnell’s failure to take advantage of the Senate majority than anything House Republicans have done. If that’s true, then Boehner’s departure can hardly be expected to ease the tensions between GOP leadership and the conservative base or preempt more leadership fights in the future.

People are frustrated with out Republican leadership, with Boehner and McConnell, and it’s not usually the third or fourth question that comes up — it’s the first question that comes up,” Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.), who voted against Boehner in January,

[Joe Boucher]

Mon o man,
Boehner and his worthless partner in capitulation?
Both gone?
And obammy fading, hillary in a death spiral!!!
Pelosi, reid,and now if only McCain would just go away it would be the start of goodness.

[Cats Pajamas]

McCain is a tumor

[V K Lee]

Neither one is my senator... I apologize for Cornyn who is.

ONTOH Sen Cruz is also my senator and he makes all the difference. Thank you Sen Cruz!

[West Texas Chuck]

gobble gobble gobble

[Dr. Sivana]

That is why they go along to get along. Last time I checked, McConnell is worth 32 million dollars and has never held a job in private sector. He is one of the leaders in the Washington Cabal.

On marriage #2 he married into a wealthy family and scored on the death of his mother-in-law a few years ago. He's a dime store John Kerry.

[PhilCollins]

Speaker Boehner quit, forcing the Ohio government to pay for a special election. In 2007, after Rep. Pelosi became speaker, ex-Speaker Hassert quit, forcing the Illinois government to pay for a special election. In 1999, then-Speaker Gingrich suddenly quit, causing the Georgia government to pay for a special election. All three of those republican leaders were inconsiderate to their states. If they didn’t want to be leaders, anymore, they should have resigned from their leadership roles and served, as congressmen, until the end of their terms.