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Is Speaker Boehner in trouble?
Conservative media mogul Matt Drudge, of the Drudge Report, has been running a poll since yesterday about whether John Boehner should remain speaker. Currently over 420,000 people have voted 84% against Boehner.
This as the House prepares to vote today for Speaker.
Conservative media outlet Breitbart.com is reporting that some conservatives in the House Republican caucus believe they have the votes to dump Boehner:
The Speaker of the House will be elected today and some conservatives believe they have the votes necessary to oust John Boehner. In an appearance on CNBC, American Majority Action spokesman Ron Meyer said there are more than 20 House Republicans willing to vote for someone other than Boehner on Thursday when the 113th Congress convenes to elect a Speaker. Another source from a different organization has similarly confirmed that more than 20 have planned to oppose Boehner….
Despite rumors that he might do so, Boehner did not resign at a Republican conference meeting Wednesday night.
The reason why some, including Landry, thought Boehner would resign Wednesday is because that group of members supposedly approached Boehner and offered him a way to avoid the public fight that will likely take place on Thursday. An emergency Republican conference meeting was called on Wednesday evening and Boehner’s decision not to resign sent a message to those who want to unseat him that he believes he will survive tomorrow’s vote.
Another issue is it is not enough to simply remove Boehner, there has to be a replacement. And Eric Cantor’s no vote on the fiscal cliff deal is indicating to some that he may want the job:
House speakers typically don’t even vote at all unless it is necessary to break a tie. So it may have been a clarifying moment when speaker of the House John Boehner and House majority leader Eric Cantor parted ways on the deal that ended the long national nightmare known as the fiscal cliff. Boehner voted for the bipartisan agreement negotiated between Vice-President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; Cantor breathed the final moments of life into the opposition.
In fact, the House Republican leadership team split right down the middle on the legislation. House majority whip Kevin McCarthy voted against; House Republican conference chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers sided with Boehner and voted in favor…
Cantor had tried to establish himself as the right flank of the debt ceiling negotiations in the summer of 2011, famously irritating the president. But many conservatives regarded this as ambition talking more than principle. When the majority leader said out loud what most Republicans were thinking about the fiscal cliff bill, however, there was admiration.
One thing is clear, even if Boehner can maintain his position he is going to have continual difficulty finding consensus on compromise legislation.
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whoever takes his place is going to be under more pressure to oppose any kind of “compromise” so getting rid of boehner isn’t go to do anything any good
IMO, the basic problem facing Boehner is his willingness to negotiate directly with Obama. He should absolutely reject that option.
Boehner and Reid should require the two chambers to do the work, while inviting WH staff to all committee meetings.
Either way though, the central question is the same. Is Boehner, along with Obama / Reid, willing to relinquish power?
So Eric “Creep Vibe” Cantor, then? Or maybe Kevin “Jagoff Young Gun” McCarthy? Or perhaps the Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver, himself? Crazy-ass renegades from the asylum, every last one of them.
Comedy at its finest.
Whatever happened to the Repubs promise in 2010 to focus on jobs? (It was based on giving the “job creators” continued tax breaks and reducing regulation, as if that has proven to work.) If they replace Boehner with Cantor, even less will get done in the “do-nothing” Congress. But getting things done for the vast majority of people isn’t what Repubs are there for, as we all know.
last summer when the grand compromise was first discussed a 4 trillion over 10 years figure was raised. Of that the BIG ZERO wanted 1.6 of it to be revenues/tax hikes. Boehner said it should half of that .8 trillion. The deal was dona at the .625 trillion. Contrary to the media propaganda it seems Boehner won and massive entitlement cuts will take place over next couple of years. thanks for nothing democrat leadership
PS watch harry reid capitulate on meaningful filibuster reform which he could have done in 2008. lets all do the kabuki happy dance together now children…….
Our TV ran a poll asking if the Congress could be trusted (not sure if trusted or expected) to resolve the financial crisis. 95% said No.
But on the positive side, 5% said Yes. So there’s that…
Obama needs Boehner to stay speaker.
The Fiscal Cliff Kabuki games on tuesday? apparently got very messy
Harry Reid does not like Boehner
Obama and Biden under cut Harry Reid
Boehner got under cut by Cantor
a new speaker will cause the White House a lot of heart burn.
the big problem is how good would speaker Canto be at playing Kabuki Games?
the Kabuki Game of all Kabuki Games is coming up in a few weeks! cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicade will require Great Actors!
There is no desire on the part of the repugs to help the 99%, just check the fate of the aid to Sandy victims. The only thing that brought that back to life was the criticism of repugs from those states affected. Many of the people affected were/are dims so the house of reps had no desire to help them, but they couldn’t snub the dims without also snubbing the local repugs, and when christie (a repug favorite) jumped in, the house couldn’t continue to ignore the problem. So, the real action of the house is whether they will elect a repug that will reluctantly reach some compromise with the dims or will they elect someone that will continually throw red meat to the dims by going back to the opposing every thing that originates with dims or that dims will be willing to support.
It’s almost as if House conservatives were unhappy with a balanced deficit reduction bargain that increases the deficit by $4 trillion. They’re never satisfied, are they?
I don’t want Cantor. He’s a bigger asswipe than Boehner.
Very good points. The whole mess resembled “Survivor Beltway” with everybody taking a jab in the back from a once trusted ally. THis whole DC bunch is the most despicable collection of self-serving individuals I have every seen in my 61 years.
84% hoping Boehner goes, per Drudge, is hardly revealing. Anything else would be a surprise there.
And does it make one whit of difference who the GOP House speaker is nowadays? I doubt it. The end result would always be the same.
I get what you are sayin’, but…
The TP just got stomped at the polls in November so any agreement should have included a much more progressive outcome than what we got. The radical right elements in the House should have been nearly irrelevant to making a deal, not central.
Looks like Boehner just got re-elected. Whatever. More of the same.
Think Progress on the vote:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/03/1393801/john-boehner-re-elected-house-speaker/?mobile=nc
Oh well……….rather fight the devil that you know and all that. I think that’s from Shakespeare….or Mad Magazine.
Betcha he was sweatin’ it out tho.