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DonViejo

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Fri Apr 11, 2014, 08:34 AM Apr 2014

GOP loons want Boehner’s scalp – but their plan is doomed to fail - By DIGBY

The problem: Finding a House Republican both ideologically correct and popular enough to win a caucus election

DIGBY


It’s that time of year again: Spring is in the air, a midterm is on the horizon, and a young radical’s fancy turns to revolution. Yes, it’s time for another right-wing plot to dethrone an extremely conservative speaker of the House.

National Journal reports that “in discreet dinners at the Capitol Hill Club and in winding, hypothetical-laced email chains” unhappy Tea Party Republicans are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. John Boehner, the man who has managed to successfully maneuver a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president into passing one austerity budget after another, is considered a squish for failing to bring down the state. This is not the first time. It was only a year ago that similar threats were whispered and nothing came of it. But this time they insist they’re serious. If they could just settle on a plan.

The “Liberty Caucus” led by Justin Amash and Raul Labrador (aka “the wacko-bird” faction) has never liked Boehner and has threatened to form an angry mob. Again. Even Eric Cantor is in their cross hairs since he made what’s now apparently considered an ideologically unacceptable error by allowing what has always been a pro-forma vote to pass with a voice vote. They aren’t just angry. They’re hurt. They feel they’ve been violated:

“It’s an issue of trust. If you want to have a majority that is governing, and a majority that is following the leader, the rest of us need to be in a position where we trust our leadership,” Labrador said this week, adding, “When you have politicians actually playing tricks on their own party, and their own members of Congress, I think that erodes the trust the American people have in the rest of us.”

“I can’t think of a time where I felt my trust had been more violated since I’ve been here—and that’s pretty stiff competition,” Mulvaney added.


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GOP loons want Boehner’s scalp – but their plan is doomed to fail - By DIGBY (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2014 OP
Poor little whiners.... Historic NY Apr 2014 #1
After watching and listening to Boehner during the shutdown and threat to default on the US debt, AlinPA Apr 2014 #2
Yeah, they're all the same. tavernier Apr 2014 #3

AlinPA

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2. After watching and listening to Boehner during the shutdown and threat to default on the US debt,
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 05:40 PM
Apr 2014

I can't tell the difference between him and any other Teabagger, including Michelle Bachman.

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