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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