No More Tears! Boehner Resigns

No more tears!  Speaker John Boehner has finally been driven out of office.  Conservatives around the country are buoyed at the prospect of a House that will finally act upon the principles for which they were elected.  But that is easily said than done.  The House leadership is polluted with establishment republicans.  The general consensus is Boehner’s underling will ascend the throne.  Here is an excerpt from the Politico:

  

Though McCarthy is the heavy favorite to succeed Boehner, who announced Friday that he would step down at the end of October, it's unlikely he'll be unopposed.

Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) said Friday he plans to run for speaker, though he faces redistricting problems back home. Webster was nominated for speaker by hard-liners at the start of the current Congress and received a dozen votes.

The real competition, though, may be for the leadership jobs directly under the speaker.

Among those who are expected to run for majority leader, or are at least thinking about it, include Georgia Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the Budget Committee; Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the current majority whip; House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington; and Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, who runs the Rules Committee and is former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Let’s hope Rep. Daniel Webster can garner enough votes to topple the statist in the House and cut the heads off this hydra monster.

Source: 

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/john-boehner-resigns-who-will-replace-him-214065#ixzz3mrT0d8W8

http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/25/conservatives-cheer-john-boehners-resignation/

Time for a New House Speaker

Rep. Mark Meadows Calls out Speaker Boehner

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) has decided to take the Speaker of the House to the woodshed once again.  The first time Mr. Meadows voted against Boehner which resulted in the loss of his subcommittee chairmanship.  He was reinstated shortly afterwards.  Now, the congressman has filed a motion to kick Boehner from his exalted post.  Here is an excerpt from the Washington Times:


In the resolution, Mr. Meadows says Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, “has endeavored to consolidate power and centralize decision-making, bypassing the majority of the 435 Members of Congress and the people they represent.”

He accused the speaker of limiting debate, pushing legislation to the brink to compel votes in a state of crisis, and moving to “punish Members who vote according to their conscience” instead of how he wants.

 The Meadows resolution says Mr. Boehner has caused the Congress to “atrophy,” making it “subservient” to the executive and judicial branches.

If that isn’t the truth!  I don’t believe Congress has been this ineffectual in the history of the republic.  Chances are this resolution won’t pass, but at least Rep. Mark Meadows has publicly stated what the rest of us have been saying.  I’m sure the Potomac potlickers will cower under the table.

Source:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/28/john-boehner-coup-mark-meadows-files-motion-oust-h/

Two NC Congressmen Defy Republican Establishment

I am proud to say two congressmen from North Carolina voted against Speaker Boehner.  Their constituents wanted a change in leadership and they listened, unlike many others, including my congressman, Robert Pittenger.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two U.S. House Republicans from North Carolina were part of a GOP bloc that voted Tuesday against re-electing Ohio Congressman John Boehner as House speaker, while one conservative Republican reversed course and backed the sometimes controversial leader.

Boehner was re-elected to the top job in the U.S. House despite opposition from conservatives. 

Eleventh District Congressman Mark Meadows and 3rd District Congressman Walter Jones, both conservative North Carolina Republicans, voted against Boehner, according to news reports. Instead, they backed Florida Republican Congressman Dan Webster, a favorite among the tea party. Boehner is unpopular with the more stridently conservative wing of the GOP. 

Meanwhile, Mark Walker, a conservative freshman representing the Greensboro-based 6th Congressional District, issued a news release to explain why he backed Boehner.

"This was a difficult vote, as I share the frustrations expressed by many of my constituents, but I cast my vote today with a sense of optimism," Walker said in a news release. "I plan to keep the speaker, and the whole House leadership team, accountable – to encourage them to pass conservative legislation and not buckle under pressure from the White House or Senate. When I believe legislation is not in the best interests of the 6th District of North Carolina and the American people, I will have no problems voting against leadership."

And what was Rep. Robert Pittenger’s response to Cromnibus that he voted for? ‘Let’s go govern!’  Yeah, that’s why I didn’t vote for him in the primary or in the general election.  Pittenger is an establishment sycophant and a disgrace to his district. 

Source:

 http://www.wral.com/two-nc-congressmen-vote-against-boehner/14333177/#p1gcX6xjjcqrPLUt.99

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/12/cromnibus-obama-senate-warren-obamacare-gruber-column/20299871/

Republican Establishment Startled by Boehner Opposition

Speaker John Boehner and his establishment cronies are startled by the volume of protest calls that flooded Capitol Hill demanding their representatives change leadership in the GOP.  So much so, the orange man is reconsidering punishment for those who refused to vote for him.  The Washington Examiner reported the following:

The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker.

For the GOP leadership, the flood of calls was a game changer. It thrusted the leadership into triage mode as it scrambled to heal the growing rift among House Republicans.

 “We’ve never been lobbied quite like that,” House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “We yesterday began a new era of circumstances, and one is that we have members who are going to solicit the outside in ways that they have not previously.”

 Boehner was so agitated by the phone calls that he raised the issue to his rank and file in a private meeting Wednesday morning, those in the room reported.

 Boehner was defensive, according to witnesses. He told GOP lawmakers he has long espoused the Tea Party principles that the callers accused him of abandoning.

Had Speaker Boehner espoused Tea Party principles, he wouldn’t have shoved CRomnibus down our throats.  We are playing the long game.  Sooner or later, the American people are going to realize Washington D.C. is the problem and not the answer.  One of these days, the states are going to have to call for a constitutional convention.  That is if the people still value our founding principles.

Source:  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anti-boehner-calls-rattle-leadership/article/2558339?utm_content=buffer5113c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Orange Man Cryeth!

Speaker John Boehner decried the moniker bestowed upon him by conservatives.  A title he richly deserves after shoving CRomnibus down our throats.

“During my years here when I voted, I had the eighth most conservative voting record in the Congress,” Boehner said Thursday, rebutting the conservative criticism. “And it does pain me to be described as spineless or a squish.”

“And I tell you what pains me the most is when they describe me as the establishment,” Boehner continued. “Now, I’m the most anti-establishment speaker we’ve ever had.”

“Who was the guy that got rid of earmarks?” the Ohio Republican said. “Whose the guy who believes in regular order? Me. Who believes in allowing more members to participate in the process from both sides of the aisle? Me. I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin. And I’m going to do my best to show all of our members, Democrats and Republicans, and those members who voted against me, that I’m up to the job I was given.”

Here is what one democrat had to say about Boehner’s CRomnibus:

Retiring representative Jim Moran (D., Va.) says that Democrats got “virtually everything” they wanted in the cromnibus package that’s going to a vote in the House tonight, as he praised the bill in terms that could double as the conservative critique of the legislation.

Moran says that “the Republicans are indicating they need 80 Democrats” and he’s frustrated that Democrats won’t provide the votes.

“In 20 years of being on the appropriations [committee], I haven’t seen a better compromise in terms of Democratic priorities. Implementing the Affordable Care Act, there’s a lot more money for early-childhood development — the only priority that got cut was the EPA but we gave them more money than the administration asked for,” Moran told reporters Thursday evening after exiting a Democratic caucus meeting in which White House chief of staff Denis McDonough tried to convince members to back the bill.

When Democrats praise you, there’s a problem!

Kudos to the 25 congressmen who voted against the orange man.  There should have been more.  It just goes to show you how much of a stranglehold the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other special interest have on Capitol Hill.

Source:  http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/08/boehner-im-the-most-anti-establishment-speaker-weve-ever-had/

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/boehner-allies-out-for-revenge-114007.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394497/house-dem-gop-gave-dems-virtually-everything-we-wanted-joel-gehrke

http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/06/25-republicans-not-vote-john-boehner/

Obama is Lincoln Incarnate?

Obama is no Lincoln.  This so-called president has never led from the front.  As a matter of fact, he hasn’t even bothered to lead from behind.  No, this man is a political opportunist, who’ll capitalize on the events unfolding before him.  Until the events are ripe, that’s when he’ll come off the golf course or some fundraiser where the sheeple fawn over his majesty.

But that’s not how the Media will play this tragedy.  To them, Obama is the savior of the republic, who deigns to come down from Mt. Olympus and grace the plebeians with his omnipresent wisdom; he’ll unite a do-nothing Congress whose Tea Party faction is undermining the will of the people.  Savior Obama is Lincoln incarnate.  So says the Media.  So says the republic.

But somewhere in the hinterlands is the truth.  The Democrats shuttered the Senate republicans, and the House majority were feverishly at work on a budget:
 
Until a call from the president on Wednesday, Senator McConnell says he had had no contact from any Democrat on the fiscal cliff since Thanksgiving. “The phone never rang, so here we are five days from the New Year and we might start talking,” he said in a floor speech on Thursday.

On the House side, Speaker Boehner, who faces a reelection for his post on Jan. 3, says the House has already passed legislation on May 10 and Aug. 1 to avert the entire fiscal cliff, so now the "Senate must act."

"Speaker Boehner will attend a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House, where he will continue to stress that the House has already passed legislation to avert the entire fiscal cliff and now the Senate must act," spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement on Thursday.

With no new offers from Republicans or Democrats on Capitol Hill, say many congressional analysts, it's up to a president who has little incentive to shoulder a burden that the congressional leaders themselves have failed to take up.

The analysts believe it’s up to this president to solve our fiscal crisis?  This man can’t even get a budget passed in the democratically led Senate.  But they are right in one respect:  he has little incentive to shoulder the burden.  The MEDIA has seen to that!

H/T:  Drudge Report

Source:  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/1228/Fiscal-cliff-meeting-at-White-House-Will-it-be-Lincoln-moment-for-Obama?nav=87-frontpage-entryNineItem

Obama's Morsi-esque Ambitions

Barack Obama tried to pull a Morsi.  He sent his toady Tim Geithner to meet with GOP leaders behind closed doors and pretty much demanded dictatorial powers.  Speaker Boehner rejected the proposal.  The Senate minority leader laughed in his face.  A spokesman for the progressives’ lord and savior stated that we shouldn’t be surprised.  And quite frankly, I’m not.  I always thought this guy had a totalitarian heart.  Here is the President-for-Life's laundry list:

1. An immediate $1 trillion tax hike through higher top marginal income tax rates as well as higher taxes on both capital gains and dividends.
2. An agreement to raise $600 billion more in taxes later this year by limiting tax deductions for top earners.
3. $50 billion in new infrastructure stimulus spending.
4. Another “emergency” extension of unemployment benefits.
5. An extension of either the payroll tax cut or the reinstatement of Obama’s stimulus Making Work Pay tax credit.
6. A mortgage refinancing program.
7. Billions in new spending to prevent cuts to Medicare reimbursement payments for doctors.
8. An infinite debt limit hike.

When do you think Obama will proclaim our Constitution antiquated and unworkable?  Exactly, when do you predict he will demand emergency powers, until a new governing framework is more conducive for our times?  I believe it’s a possibility.   

Source:  http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/11/white-house-no-surprises-in-geithner-proposal-150744.html

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mcconnell-geithners-presentation-obamas-plan-serious-blow-his-credibility_664233.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://washingtonexaminer.com/morning-examiner-timmy-geithners-letter-to-santa/article/2514754#.ULjT8ZWuUlE

Another Tea Party Purge is Needed in House GOP Leadership

It looks like the Tea Party is going to have to make another purge. Republicans in the House of Representatives are complicit in keeping the status quo. The following report by CNSnews.com should give many a concerned citizen pause:

When Boehner became speaker on Jan. 5, 2011, the federal government was operating under a continuing resolution that had been passed on Dec. 21, 2010 by a lame-duck Congress. That CR expired on March 4, 2011.

On March 1, 2011, Boehner agreed to a new short-term spending deal with President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders to keep the government running past the March 4, 2011 expiration of the old CR. Since March 4, 2011, federal expenditures have been carried out under a series of CRs approved by both the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate and signed into law by President Obama.

At the close of business on March 4, 2011, the total federal debt was $14,182,627,184,881.03, according to the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Public Debt. At the close of business on May 31, 2012, it was 15,770,685,085,364.14. That is an increase of $1,588,057,900,483.11—in just 15 months

The House republicans had a chance to kill a New Deal dinosaur program that caters to a handful of special interest. The Export/Import Bank’s charter was up for renewal last month. The GOP leadership shoved it through without blinking an eye:

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) reached an agreement on the measure last week.

The bill will reach the House floor under suspension of the rules, which requires support of two-thirds of the House for passage.

There could still be some suspense in the outcome because Republicans are split on extending the bank's life. Meanwhile, Ex-Im has strong backing from big business, while it is opposed by fiscal conservative groups like the Club for Growth, Heritage Foundation and Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.

In the past, the bank has faced little resistance, but this time around, conservative Republicans have pressed their case that the bank represents a federal government overreach.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has publicly called for its approval.

This country can’t afford business as usual politics. It’s plain for all to see that the current Republican leadership has to go.

Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/debt-159t-under-gop-house-more-15-months-first-97-congresses-combined

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/01/4531634/ex-im-bank-approves-68-billion.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1007-other/226235-overnight-money-export-import-bank-reauthorization-hits-the-house-floor

Tea Party Defeats Republican Establishment Continuing Resolution

The Republican Party establishment never fails to disappoint. Speaker Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tried to push through a continuing resolution that would keep funding suspect programs that are antithetical to conservative principles:

An analysis of the CR published by the conservative House Republican Study Committee, said that it “continues funding for the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), the UN agency known for its involvement in China’s brutal one-child policy. It also continues $300 million in annual funding to the Title X family planning program, which is a prime funding source for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.”

The study-committee analysis pointed out that in addition to permitting funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, the Republican-leadership-backed CR also permitted more than $2 billion in additional funding for domestic birth control and international population control through Medicaid and foreign aid programs.

“Note that Medicaid also provides $1.4 billion in family planning assistance to low income individuals,” said the analysis. “The CR also continues to provide international population control funds at a rate of $575 million per year.”

48 House conservatives joined democrats to defeat this bill in a 195 – 230 vote. Democrats voted against the continuing resolution because of FEMA concerns and lack of funding for government motors and environmental boondoggles.

All I have to say is thank God for the tea party. They’re the only ones holding the D.C. establishment into account.

Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/conservatives-stop-new-boehner-cr-permitted-funding-obamacare-planned-parenthood

Socialist Mob Targets Speaker Boehner's Home Office

MoveOn.org and SEIU organized a flash mob on Congressman John Boehner’s home office in Ohio. The Speaker’s employees were wise to lock the doors. These union goons have a violent predilection and no one is safe when confronted by them. We’ve seen their tactics and it isn’t flattering.

H/T: Weasel Zippers

Judge Napolitano's Open Letter to Speaker Boehner

Amen to that brother.

H/T:  The Blaze

Boehner Budget Boondoggle Passes House

Well, the House of Representatives passed the Boehner Boondoggle today. When you have the Democrats, mainstream media, and neo-conservatives praising the Speaker of the House for his deft handling of the budget, you know something stinks.


We are now finding out that the $38 billion in budget cuts is all smoke and mirrors:

The Congressional Budget Office says the fiscal 2011 budget that lawmakers are set to approve today cuts spending by a tiny fraction of the advertised amount, the National Journal reports. A CBO analysis says spending cuts will total $352 million, or less than one-hundredth of the $38.5 billion figure settled on by both parties.


“The nonpartisan budget agency also projects that total outlays are actually some $3.3 billion more than in 2010, if emergency spending is included in the total,” the Journal reports.


The CBO attributed the sudden disappearance of the highly touted cuts to spending increases that did make it into the bill and to accounting procedures employed by Congress to reach its $38.5 billion target.

What a joke and I might add a bad joke at that. Now, we are facing the 2012 budget and also the prospect of raising the debt ceiling, so these spendthrifts can really stick it to the American people. The Democrats threw their asses over a small cut in spending. Here are a few examples of these so-called adults:












I remember the demagoguery during the 1995 budget debate. This is a different time and era. The Republicans need to grow a pair. If we don’t stand up to this juvenile behavior by the Democrats, I don’t think the country can withstand our debt crisis. These so-called adults need to get rid of their middle school mentality and get down to business.


Source: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Congress-budgetdeal-spendingcuts-shrinking/2011/04/14/id/392878

Princess Pelosi Proclaims Republicans Hate Women, Children and Little Puppies Too!

Princess Pelosi donned her crown and took to the House floor to admonish Speaker Boehner and those dastardly Republicans for their draconian budget cuts. Her Majesty pointed a crooked finger and stated that Republicans want to ‘deprive women of primary care when it comes to health and education. Republicans put women and children last.’


I find that laughable. Her party is the one who puts women and children last. Does anyone remember the ACORN scandals and the latest from those baby lovers at Planned Parenthood? These two organizations are huge Democratic supporters and provide pro bono legal advice to teenage sex slavers. I wouldn’t doubt that they participate in black market bestiality and snuff films too.



Pelosi then went on a rant about Republicans not presenting a responsible plan for addressing the deficit. Are you kidding me? She didn’t even provide a budget last year, and she is going to lecturer Boehner! I believe the princess is actually a prince. Somebody should check her jockstrap.

Pelosi, the patron saint of government employees, went berserk after hearing Boehner state that her sacred cow was about to get slaughtered:

"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it," Boehner said during a news conference with reporters at the Republican National Committee. "We're broke! It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money."


"Democrats do not subscribe to Speaker Boehner's verdict that if jobs are lost in this continuing resolution, so be it," Pelosi said. "Maybe so be it for him. But not so be it for the people who are losing their jobs."

My suggestion to Pelosi’s army of government bureaucrats is to get another job. The taxpayer’s teat is dried up. You parasites have killed the host.

Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/15/boehner-if-some-federal-workers-lose-jobs-because-of-gop-cuts-so-be-it/