“Gohmert says he’s rounding up 29 votes to defeat Boehner”:
One of the two Republicans pledging to challenge the re-election of House Speaker John Boehner said conservatives are rounding up the 29 votes needed to defeat him.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told Laura Ingraham on her radio show that the effort to overthrow Boehner stands a better chance than a failed coup in 2012 because this time, disgruntled GOP lawmakers have another choice.
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In addition to Gohmert, Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., announced he is also running against Boehner.
Gohmert and Yoho represent a deeply conservative flank made up of dozens of Republicans, many of them backed by the Tea Party, who are angry about the GOP leadership’s stewardship on spending, immigration and other issues.
Many of them voted against a December spending bill, known as the “cromnibus,” that conservatives said was too costly and failed to curb the president’s ability to implement a unilateral directive to provide work permits and federal benefits to more than 5 million illegal immigrants.
Gohmert said the effort to dethrone Boehner in 2012 was closer than many realized and that only at the last minute did a handful of Boehner opponents back down, thwarting the coup.
“John Boehner came within two hours of losing the speakership,” Gohmert said. “It was so close, I was surprised he would even try again.”
Of course he would. He’s a weeping orange force of nature that cannot be stopped. At least, so goes the implied argument for keeping him.
And we’re the “unserious” ones.
Go, go, Gohmert!
If your representative is a Republican, it might not hurt to contact him or her with a “anbody but Boehner!” missive.
Done. I reminded him that Boehner is the least popular Speaker in living memory.
This reminds me of the very short story told in pictures of the sheep.
Hey, McGehee, who plays Penny and Brain for Inspector Gohmert? We all know who Dr. [he sticks in my] Craw is.
Heh. To me Inspector Gadget will always sound like Maxwell Smart (and I don’t mean Steve Carell).
Sorry, Ferris. It is what it is.
Would you believe … Tennessee Tuxedo?
Getting rid of Boehner should be easy. He’s only 1/435 of 1/3 of the federal government.
MAN.
You should have heard what was on Glenn Beck just now.
Chris Stewart (R-UT), my rep, just called in to defend his vote for Boehner. Apparently, Glenn and Chris have been friends for years, and they’ve had The Talk about keeping one’s soul in D.C.
Which, apparently, included Glenn promising Chris he’d drop a load of bricks on him if he ever thought Chris was losing his way.
And that’s what happened this morning. (I’ll post the link when/if it shows up.)
Stewart, for his part, sounded like a Turing machine that had swallowed the Establican talking points and was spitting them out in an artificial semblance of intelligence. (Yes, I got that construction from Jeff’s rotating banner.)
Amazing how quickly they get colonized, innit?
Oh.
Also.
I was listening last night to the second hour of John Bachelor’s show, which features Thaddeus McCotter, John Fund (NRO), and David Drucker (Washington Examiner).
At the end of the hour they briefly addressed the Boehner vote and were asked to speculate on why Gohmert was challenging Boehner. The consensus?
“Attention”
“Fundraising”
“Attention”
Damn, and I liked that show, too. Bachelor’s third hour consists mostly of an expert in foreign affairs speaking at length (Bachelor lets his guests talk a lot), and it’s always highly informative, beyond what you get anywhere else.
We are so screwed.
So screwed.
I half-listened to the Stewart-Beck exchange. Don’t know Stewart from Adam, to start with. However, I did hear (or think I heard) Stewart claiming he has not changed and maintains his principles despite voting in favor of John Boehner’s PowerForPower’sSakeClique. Stewart then either thinks the voting public which disagrees with him are simpletons, or he is himself a simpleton. Deciding which of those two is the case is relatively easy. “Look, nothin’ up my sleeve! Now watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat!”
The only thing the Democrats have to do to guarantee that Boner gets re-elected as Speaker is to all emulate Barcky and vote “Present”, since the Speakership requires an absolute majority of the number of yes/no votes cast, rather then the 218 needed to get a 50%+1 majority of the full House, and a mere 29 will not be enough to overcome the many dozens who will vote to continue the “losing more slowly” path. Even a dozen “Present” votes would be enough, since they are in no position to reelect San Fran Nan, but can quash the conservative rebellion with minimal effort.
there’s 1 present
4 votes non orange
6 non orange
8 non orange
11 non orange
13 non orange in the g’s
16 non orange in the k’s
18 non orange in the m’s
Said Limbaugh just now in reference to the ongoing vote in the House and in (mocking) the voice of the Boehner PowerForPower’sSakeClique “and it isn’t going to amount to anything.”
What “it” will amount to we might say in response to the self-vaunting of the Boehner PowerForPower’sSakeClique is this: we will see when your seats come up for re-election, and when you may be challenged successfully in primaries, and when you seek to raise money and support from those you have betrayed today and are denied money and support. Tell us when that time comes and you happen to find yourselves on the outside looking in whether the loss of your job in Washington is “anything” or “something”. In the meantime, we expect you will show us all manner of ways in which you do not understand your position, both in word and deed.
20 non orange in the n’s
21 non orange in the p’s
22 non orange
23 non orange in the r’s
Limbaugh is out of touch with the math. He’s stuck on stupid at 29, which number doesn’t take into account the missing House members.
25 non orange in the s’s
27 non orange in the w’s
the ‘ruining class’ luvs some orangeman
Here’s today’s interview, interleaved with a two-year-old interview with Stewart, when he tells Glenn about courage.
“lose his sole”
eh, so his shoes wore out . . . no biggie
NO fish dinner for him tonight.