House Conservatives Plot to Oust Boehner

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/04/10/house_conservatives_plot_to_oust_boehner.html

House Conservatives Plot to Oust Boehner


National Journal: "Several dozen frustrated House conservatives are scheming to infiltrate the GOP leadership next year--possibly by forcing Speaker John Boehner to step aside immediately after November's midterm elections."

"The conservatives' exasperation with leadership is well known. And now, in discreet dinners at the Capitol Hill Club and in winding, hypothetical-laced email chains, they're trying to figure out what to do about it. Some say it's enough to coalesce behind--and start whipping votes for--a single conservative leadership candidate. Others want to cut a deal with Majority Leader Eric Cantor: We'll back you for speaker if you promise to bring aboard a conservative lieutenant."

"But there's a more audacious option on the table, according to conservatives involved in the deliberations. They say between 40 and 50 members have already committed verbally to electing a new speaker. If those numbers hold, organizers say, they could force Boehner to step aside as speaker in late November, when the incoming GOP conference meets for the first time, by showing him that he won't have the votes to be reelected in January."

[yeoman6987]

1. Boehner said he was stepping down as Leader in 2015 anyway

These Republicans are such a waste. The energy they use to spotlight stupid things is incredible and quite frankly unbelievable.

[global1]

2. Let's Hope The People Of America Speak And The Dems Take The House......

in November. Then Boehner wouldn't be a factor anyway.

It is doable - if we start now and continue through November talking up GOTV and really push the turnout numbers. I know that many believe that the gerrymandering that the Repubs did will allow them to keep the House - but - the Repubs have been on the wrong side of every issue out there and at least where I'm from - many of my Repub friends are embarrassed to say they are Repub.

We need to push that meme as many Repubs are on the fence and can't muster up support for their Party anymore. They are beginning to realize that they've been voting against themselves and shooting themselves in the foot.

My gut is that it won't take too much nudging to get current Repub voters to vote Dem in November as they are seeing the damage that their Party has done to this country.


GOTV - talk it up people.

[riqster]

3. Damn skippy. GOTFV!