Boehner in trouble?

[Warlord]

According to POLITICO his future as Speaker is at stake over the recent DHS funding/shutdown showdown.

See:

John Boehner allies fret coup attempt



http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/john-boehner-allies-fret-coup-attempt-115616.html?hp=t1_r

[Zippyjuan]

He couldn't even get a three week DHS funding bill through. Had to settle for just one week after criticizing the Senate for not quickly passing a funding bill. The Senate bill would have run through September- the end of the fiscal year. For some reason, the House didn't want to fund DHS that long- despite Boehner claiming that it was the Senate who did not want to fund it. "The House did it's part. Now it is up to the Senate."

[erowe1]

Of all the things that would do it, how could it be this?

[thoughtomator]

Even if Boehner goes down, the next five (at least) guys waiting in line are all just as bad as he is. Rigged game is rigged.

[Warlord]

Even if Boehner goes down, the next five (at least) guys waiting in line are all just as bad as he is. Rigged game is rigged.

Not always. lets see what happens

[thoughtomator]

Not always. lets see what happens

Do you have a data point to substantiate that it is not always?

[surf]

i'm hoping they go with Bernie Sanders

[enhanced_deficit]

He couldn't even get a three week DHS funding bill through. Had to settle for just one week after criticizing the Senate for not quickly passing a funding bill. The Senate bill would have run through September- the end of the fiscal year. For some reason, the House didn't want to fund DHS that long- despite Boehner claiming that it was the Senate who did not want to fund it. "The House did it's part. Now it is up to the Senate."

Maybe he didn't want to.

Feb 15th Headline: Boehner Says Homeland Security Could Go Unfunded (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?469420-Feb-15th-Headline-Boehner-Says-Homeland-Security-Could-Go-Unfunded&)


Seems like dems/swc team attacking him.

[phill4paul]

This is, what, the fourth or so time I've heard this meme?

[Zippyjuan]

Maybe he didn't want to.

Feb 15th Headline: Boehner Says Homeland Security Could Go Unfunded (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?469420-Feb-15th-Headline-Boehner-Says-Homeland-Security-Could-Go-Unfunded&)


Seems like dems/swc team attacking him.

It was members of his own party.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/28/dhs-funding-vote/


The House voted 357-60 for a mere one-week spending bill. With the Senate already having approved the measure. President Obama signed the bill into law late Friday night.

But that legislation was passed only after efforts to pass a slightly more substantial stopgap – a three-week funding bill – melted down on the House floor Friday afternoon. Though it had been expected to pass, 52 Republicans defected and joined Democrats in opposing the leadership-backed legislation.

This led to bad blood late Friday between House Republicans who joined Speaker John Boehner in supporting the bill, and those who peeled off. One senior House GOP source told Fox News that the nearly 200 Republicans who backed that bill were “super mad” at those who left them hanging.

"There are terrorist attacks all over world and we're talking about closing down Homeland Security. This is like living in world of crazy people," tweeted Rep. Peter King of New York, a former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.

In the end, Boehner was able to pass the one-week measure with the support of some Republicans, as well as Democrats – after Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told her caucus they could reverse course and back the last-ditch measure.

[enhanced_deficit]

It was members of his own party.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/28/dhs-funding-vote/


"There are terrorist attacks all over world and we're talking about closing down Homeland Security. This is like living in world of crazy people," tweeted Rep. Peter King of New York, a former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.

Ofcourse but Peter "IRA terrorists were ok" King crowd is not that big in GOP.

[Zippyjuan]

Roll Call vote on the failed three week version if anybody wants to see how a Representative voted. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h104?utm_campaign=govtrack_feed&utm_source=govtrack/feed&utm_medium=rss

I suspect that some of the "Nay" votes were those who wanted the Obama Immigration part back in it.

Massie was one of the "Nay" votes.

Anyhow- they need to do it all again next week.

[angelatc]

Roll Call vote on the failed three week version if anybody wants to see how a Representative voted. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h104?utm_campaign=govtrack_feed&utm_source=govtrack/feed&utm_medium=rss

I suspect that some of the "Nay" votes were those who wanted the Obama Immigration part back in it.

Massie was one of the "Nay" votes.

Anyhow- they need to do it all again next week.

SO was Amash. That article mentioned it was largely the newly formed "Freedom Caucus." I wondered if that was something that those guys were involved with

[Uriel999]

I'd actually respect Boehner if he had let DHS go unfunded....forever.

[Dianne]

Boehner should have gone down a year ago. He's an Obama shill probably being blackmailed by the NSA.

[Zippyjuan]

SO was Amash. That article mentioned it was largely the newly formed "Freedom Caucus." I wondered if that was something that those guys were involved with

Apparently the Freedom Caucus is a group of nine members of the House of Representatives. It is "invitation only" and wants to limit its total membership to just 30 or 40 people.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/412775/meet-freedom-caucus-joel-gehrke


“We’re going to focus on what we believe middle-class voters sent us here to do,” Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), the de facto chairman of the organization pending leadership elections, tells National Review Online.

As a caucus devoted to moving leadership’s agenda to the right, the group has a chance to take over the traditional role of the Republican Study Committee, which many lawmakers believe has strayed from its founding mission as an organization designed to pressure moderate GOP leaders to adopt more conservative positions. National Journal first reported that such a group was forming. Jordan, a former RSC chairman, wants to avoid any tension with the longer-standing group. “I like to think that a smaller, more cohesive, more agile group can buttress and support some of the good policies and good ideas that are coming from the RSC,” he says.

The group has nine founding members, including Jordan and Representatives Raúl Labrador (R., Idaho), Justin Amash (R., Mich.), Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), John Fleming (R., La.), Scott Garrett (R., N.J.), Mark Meadows (R., N.C.), Mick Mulvaney (R., S.C.), and Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.). The founding members will decide who receives an invitation to join the group; to finance the hiring of staff, they’ll also pay “mortgages,” a higher level of funding for the organization than the rest of the dues-paying members will be required to provide. They hope to cap the group at around 40 lawmakers, and expect to debut with more than 30 — a crucial number, because it takes 29 dissents to block the House Republican majority from passing a bill.

The group does not conceive of itself as yet another in the long line of conservative rebellions against House Speaker John Boehner, though. The lawmakers hope to refine the process by which conservatives pressure leadership, so as to shape policy outcomes while avoiding melodramatic floor fights between Republicans.

[cindy25]

i'm hoping they go with Bernie Sanders

Walter Jones would be a great speaker