House Conservatives Want to Oust Boehner
Friday, 11 Apr 2014 06:30 AM
By Cathy Burke
Conservative lawmakers are
plotting to dump House Speaker John
Boehner as soon as November, the National Journal reported Thursday.
The National Journal said 40 to 50 House conservatives are behind a
scheme to infiltrate the GOP leadership in 2015, and pushing the Ohio
Republican aside would be the first step.
The conservative disapproval with
Boehner has been widely reported.
The rebels' strategies include
backing a single conservative leadership candidate, cutting a deal with
Majority Leader Eric Cantor that would swap support him for speaker in return
for his bringing aboard "a conservative lieutenant," or showing
Boehner at the post-November elections' meeting of the incoming GOP conference
that he doesn't have the votes for re-election in January, the National Journal
reported.
One Republican told the publication
the "nucleus" of the rebellion is inside the House Liberty Caucus,
which includes Justin Amash of Michigan, Raul
Labrador of Idaho, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who all
objected to Boehner's re-election as speaker in January 2013.
Amash, chairman of the Liberty
Caucus, has warned then there would be a "larger rebellion" if
Boehner's leadership team didn't bring conservatives on board.
"There are no big ideas
coming out of the conference. Our leadership expects to coast through this
election by banking on everyone's hatred for Obamacare," said one
Republican lawmaker organizing the rebellion the National Journal didn't
identify. "There's nothing big being done. We're reshuffling chairs on the
Titanic."
Boehner isn't the only target of
the conservatives' ire, the National Journal reported.
Cantor has come under fire from
conservatives recently because of a voice vote maneuver that helped pass an Obamacare "doctor fix" bill.
"I'm getting used to being
deceived by the Obama administration, but when my own leadership does it, it's
just not acceptable," Rep. Matt Salmon of Arizona said last week, after Cantor met
with a group of angry Republican Study Committee members.
"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 has said, the
National Journal reported.
"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."
For his part, Boehner isn't going
anywhere.
"Speaker Boehner is focused
on the American people's top priority: helping our economy create more private
sector jobs," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told the National Journal.
"He has also said—publicly and privately—that he plans to be speaker again
in the next Congress."
The attempted overthrow of Boehner
last year failed in part because conservatives didn't have an alternative
candidate for Republicans to rally around, the National Journal noted.
"Somebody has to step
forward," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, one of 12 Republicans who refused to
back Boehner's re-election in 2013. "This is not something where after the
election you can step forward. There's going to be months and months of
[planning] needed."
John Boehner
John
A. Boehner is the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives, the House leader for the Republican establishment, and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
Note: W. DeVier Pierson
is a member of the Burning Tree Club,
and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States
(think tank).
Stanley
Ebner is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
John
W. Warner is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Committee for
Economic Development.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
David
H. Koch is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the
EVP for Koch Industries.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries
annual conference.
Antonin
Scalia was a guest at the Koch
Industries annual conference, is a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
Jack
Valenti was a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos was the chair emeritus for the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and is married to Tom
C. Korologos.
Tom C. Korologos
is married to Ann McLaughlin Korologos,
and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
William
Randolph Hearst was a member of the Bohemian
Club, and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
Richard
M. Nixon was an honorary member of the Bohemian
Club, and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Bohemian
Club, and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
George H.W. Bush talks about the New World Order; Walter
Cronkite said he is glad to sit at the Right Hand of Satan
Walter
L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian Club, and an anchorman for the CBS
News.
Linda Douglass was
a correspondent for the CBS News, the
communications director, Office of Health Reform for the Barack Obama administration, and the SVP
for the Atlantic Media Company.
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Company.
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was a correspondent for the CBS News,
and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
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Schieffer is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and the chief Washington
correspondent for the CBS News.
William
M. Daley is a contributor for the CBS
News, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and a director at the Boeing Company.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, his maternal grandmother was Madelyn
Payne Dunham, and his signature policy initiative is Obamacare.
Madelyn Payne
Dunham is Barack Obama’s maternal
grandmother, and was an aircraft inspector for the Boeing Company.
Stanley
Ebner was the SVP for the Boeing
Company, is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
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