Rep. Louie Gohmert Challenges Boehner For Speaker

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 5, 2015 | IBD EDITORIALS

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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.

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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.

The part that Boehner doesn't understand is that it was not a "seeming mandate" it was a "seething mandate" to cast compromise aside.