Wednesday, January 7, 2015

To the country's great embarrassment, elected representatives of the people "high-fived" John Boehner after he flexed his muscle in the House of Representatives-UK Daily Mail

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1/6/15, "'They p***ed him off': Conservative Republicans lose committee assignments in retaliation for voting against Speaker John Boehner in contentious leadership election," UK Daily Mail, David Martosko


"Boehner attracted high-fives among his supporters in the House for flexing his muscles, even as conservatives' flak bursts all around him.

'It's about time,' a Republican congressman told DailyMail.com on Tuesday evening. 'This is a new ball game, and the speaker doesn't have to put up with childish antics anymore. You mess with the bull, you get the horns.'

The lawmaker spoke on condition of anonymity.

The changing landscape he referred to reflects a new and enlarged Republican majority that will give Boehner and his allies new breathing room and spare them the strategic problem of how to attract the support of tea party members and others on the party's right wing.

With 246 out of 435 House seats in Republican hands – Democrats control just 188 – centrist Republican leaders can now afford to alienate conservatives without risking the embarrassing failure of key pieces of legislation."...via Lucianne




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