Posted on 01/07/2015 10:17:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A day after winning his third term as Speaker, John Boehner (R-Ohio) said his conference had begun a "family conversation" about how to respond to the 25 conservatives who revolted and voted against him on the floor.
Boehner confirmed that the Rules Committee agreed hours after the Tuesday vote to boot two of the defectors off the committee: Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who challenged Boehner for Speaker, and Rep. Richard Nugent (R-Fla.), who voted for his fellow Florida Republican.
But the Speaker said no final decisions had been made, suggesting Webster and Nugent could rejoin the committee, even as some rank-and-file members complained bitterly about leadership’s retribution in a closed-door GOP conference meeting on Wednesday.
“We had a situation yesterday where we had to constitute the Rules Committee because of some of the activities on the floor. Two of our members weren't put back on the committee immediately,” Boehner told reporters.
“We're going to have a family conversation … about bringing our team together,” he continued. “And I expect those conversations for the next couple of days will continue and we'll come to a decision about how we go forward.”
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The response should not be to cower to Boehner and Co, it should be to FIGHT them tooth and nail if they continue ‘retribution’, they must be made to pay, even if it is voters in 2016 giving them the ‘boot’!
“Last month, House Republicans met to decide who our candidate for Speaker would be. That was the time for those who wanted to provide a different choice to speak up.”
Was that before or after the CRomnibus?
My Representative, Raul Labrador, needn’t worry about his committee assignments, parking place, 0bamacare-exempt status, cushy retirement plan, or luxury towels at the House gymnasium, thank heaven. He kissed Boehner’s butt like a good little boy. I believe the term for that is “leadership”.
The only solution in two years is to vote for Boehner’s opponent in 2016, even if it is for a democrat in the general election.
That will send a message to whomever is the next Speaker. That will get the attention of the GOPe.
“And he just created 25 new Democrats.”
I don’t know about that, but if those 25 still caucus with the Republicans, they are idiots. They should caucus as “Conservatives” and see who joins them.
That’s how you handle this sort of retribution. Leave, and let them come to you when they need you.
Unfortunately, Boehner comes from a district full of morons.
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Could have been, but I don't know. Even if they were, had Boehner pushed cromnibus through by then?
I don’t give a shi! about Bonehead. Hope most of the GOP will warn him to get back to the job of rejecting his buddy King Obama and start restoring our Country. Real sick of this cry baby. Gonads gone.
Ask Obama, John, he’s an expert at it.
I have never liked Boehner. He is nothing but a bully who does nothing except go after his own people. The hell with the November vote! Wasn’t the CRomnibus passed in December?
I am not voting for any Republican who doesn’t keep his word and doesn’t vote the way he ran for election. If you’re going to have democrat lite, it might just as well be a democrat. I have to admit that I used to hate people who thought that way BUT they were right. I am DONE! How about those Republican WOMEN! Are they worthless or WHAT?
“pure genius”
Welcome to the unapologetic fold. I’m done with traitors.
Mr Critter Boehner,
I hope and pray that I can live long enough to take a bodeacious Obama on your grave, you miserable POS.
and did they/we know in November that he was going to be such a sell-out dick in December?
That is what I would do. Start a conservative caucus and cause as much mischief and hell raising to promote conservatism as possible. Inflict as much pain on both parties and show their stupidity at every turn.
What is the downside of a conservative caucus coming out and pointing out the duplicity and screwing the Uniparty is giving the people.
And offering real world alternatives to the Uniparty idiocy.
I registered independent today - after 39 years in the Republican Party - sent a copy of the application to the GOP headquarters.
They do have spines of jelly.
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