Boehner Re-Elected Speaker
This was not a surprise, but the media seems to making a huge deal about how many defections there were from Republicans who did not vote for Boehner. While it was mentioned four years ago, I do not remember so much attention given to the fact that Nancy Pelosi had 19 Democrats not vote for her four years in her first vote to be re-elected as Speaker. Boehner only had 13 Republicans not vote in his favor this time.
By the way, two of the Republicans voted for Allen West, a man who could not even win in his own Congressional District. We can now say we have identified two of the nutjob Congressmen (yes, I said it) in the Republican Party as Louie Gohmert and Paul Broun.
Uno
Allen West was dumb ass though.
The 12 non-Boehner voters
Stockman -> no vote
Mulvaney -> no vote
Labrador -> no vote
Pearce -> Cantor
Yoho -> Cantor
Bridenstein -> Cantor
Broun -> West
Gohmert -> West
Massie -> Amash
Amash -> Labrador
Huelskamp -> Jordan
Jones -> David Walker
Bunu hates black people AND jews
“We can now say we have identified two of the nutjob Congressmen (yes, I said it) in the Republican Party as Louie Gohmert and Paul Broun.”
stupidest comment by Dave i’ve ever read since I found this blog a year ago
as i’ve said if I was a member of the House my vote would have gone to cantor. my patience with Bohener is growing thin.
@freddoso Another note: The model for fighting your party’s leaders is Jeff Flake, not Walter Jones. Flake was all alone, and he got results.
Most of those voting against Boehner or not voting knew he would win anyway. I would like to see if they really had the balls to elect Pelosi as speaker.
Dave is right. Voting for Alan West (who I like) is stupid grandstanding.
“Dave is right. Voting for Alan West (who I like) is stupid grandstanding.”
I agree it’s stupid grandstanding but to call them nutjobs? 8shakes head*
I don’t see much difference between stupid grandstanding and nutjobs myself.
Voting for a guy who is not even going to be in Congress and is not running for the position qualifies as nutty IMO.
I think if we want to “send messages” we should send them to the Democrats.
From Redstate some silver linings in the cliff deal…
http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/02/silver-linings-in-the-fiscal-cliff-deal/
jason – Don’t you understand that when the GOP looks fractured and at war with itself it conveys how strong the party is? The Democrats always look weak because they rarely let these fights occur in public.
The most optimistic take in the above article if you don’t want to bother reading all of it.
Henry Blodget:
To listen to all the moaning out of the House of Representatives yesterday, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Republicans are losing the fiscal battle in Washington.
Actually, they’re winning.
…Ever since the Bush Tax Cuts were first enacted in 2001–temporarily, as a stimulus measure–one goal of the Republican party has been to “make the Bush Tax Cuts permanent.”
For most of the last decade, this goal has seemed like an extremist view: Making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent would drastically reduce the federal government’s revenue. It would also increase inequality and balloon the national debt and deficit–so how could we possibly justify doing that?
And yet now, suddenly, almost all of the Bush Tax Cuts are permanent….when it comes to the broader fiscal battle, the Republicans are winning: The federal government’s tax revenues are at the lowest level as a percent of GDP in the past several decades.
The Republicans, in other words, are well on their way to starving the beast.”
Reason magazine: America Still Renditions Suspected Terrorists Whenever the Hell
Jul – I read your opinion piece. I thought it was good. My only suggestion is to cut down on the !!!!!. You are not writing for a high school newspaper or a cheer leading squad.
Bunu is really agitated today. That is always a good thing.
12. You are right. A dog eat dog fight for the speakership would have been “healthy bloodletting” and the MSM would have portrayed it as a show of strength.
The MSM would have avoided any words like “embattled”, “divided”, “embroiled”, disarray”, etc. and would have embraced the new leader, if there was any, as a powerhouse to be feared by the Obama administration.
If Bunu worried half as much about pork barrel spending as he did about the rights of terrorists the country would be better off.
YO HO
YO HO
My new rep voted Cantor for me!
Pass the rum!
Don’t drink the rum, Mr. Vito. You know alcohol goes right through you.
Red Rum!
Red Rum!
Red Rum!
Red Rum!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s MD!
I read the Jul piece myself, and agree it is pretty good.
Outside of the exclamation points, the “more fair tax bill” (fairer), and the cheap and unnecessary shot at Boehner it was well reasoned and persuasive.
Mr. Vito seems soaked.
No goose and NO DEAL(tm) makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
No goose and NO DEAL makes MD a dull boy.
N/T
Nuclear Timebomb????
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
“We can now say we have identified two of the nutjob Congressmen (yes, I said it) in the Republican Party as Louie Gohmert and Paul Broun.”
2 down, 238 to go.
Paul Broun is definitely a nutjob.