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Posted on 01/05/2015 3:56:11 PM PST by raptor22
Congress: With polls showing most GOP voters in opposition to the Speaker's budget deal and saying they would "probably" or "definitely" prefer a new leader, a Tea Party favorite fires a shot heard around the political world.
In 2010, House Speaker John Boehner loved the Tea Party. The grass-roots movement, which arose in opposition to manifestations of big government such as ObamaCare and unlimited taxation and regulation, put the GOP back in control of the House of Representatives and made Boehner Speaker.
But by December 2013, Boehner loved the Tea Party and other conservative groups not so much. They had "lost all credibility," he said, by forcing him and the House in hard-line directions they didn't want to go as they were trying their best with only one-half of the three branches of government.
In 2014, another GOP tsunami washed over Washington, D.C., with Democrats giving the GOP control of the Senate and the largest House majority since dinosaurs roamed the earth.
But rather than dance with those who brought him to power, and with a seeming mandate to cast compromise aside, Boehner and the GOP establishment were perceived as throwing their bestowed mandate away.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
TEA PARTY PING
GO TO HELL BOEHNER!!!!
is this like telling water to be wet?
No more of the Surrender Caucus for me!
GO TO HELL BOEHNER!!!!
He is going to Washington DC to continue his speakership.
so will all radio stations play both classic “Louie Songs” if he takes it?
Boehner is probably out, with a serious veteran such as gohmert stepping up
He can’t have the same stature as everyone pretended and pretends he once had with all the opposition, which would increase if he arrogantly, he and his GOP e buddies, pushed this leveraged ‘election’ through
Now with a credentialed rep finally stepping up. It might be over
But one never knows with these knuckleheads
Louie should at least become the shadow leader.
TEA PARTY PING
You support Boehner?
I support reality.
TEA PARTY PING
Tea Party! Dump Boehner! Please!
On the bright side at least he is being challenged and his treachery is being openly discussed in public
YoHo and Gohmert have called him and his leadership team liars and not trustworthy based on their lies to members to table the cromnibus and then shanghaied them by working ratz to get it passed.
If nothing more, it will put every R member on notice that in the future you can’t believe or trust a word out of Dysfunctional Erectile’s leadership team on ANY legislation.
Thanks for the ping...
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