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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Conservatives Are Plotting a Mutiny Against John Boehner
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/house-conservatives-are-plotting-a-mutiny-against-john-boehner/360463/?n3tmln
Several dozen frustrated House conservatives are scheming to infiltrate the GOP leadership next yearpossibly by forcing Speaker John Boehner to step aside immediately after November's midterm elections.
The conservatives' exasperation with leadership is well known. And now, in discreet dinners at the Capitol Hill Club and in winding, hypothetical-laced email chains, they're trying to figure out what to do about it. Some say it's enough to coalesce behindand start whipping votes fora single conservative leadership candidate. Others want to cut a deal with Majority Leader Eric Cantor: We'll back you for speaker if you promise to bring aboard a conservative lieutenant.
But there's a more audacious option on the table, according to conservatives involved in the deliberations. They say between 40 and 50 members have already committed verbally to electing a new speaker. If those numbers hold, organizers say, they could force Boehner to step aside as speaker in late November, when the incoming GOP conference meets for the first time, by showing him that he won't have the votes to be reelected in January.
The masterminds of this mutiny are trying to stay in the shadows for as long as possible to avoid putting a target on their backs. But one Republican said the "nucleus"of the rebellion can be found inside the House Liberty Caucus, of which he and his comrades are members. This is not surprising, considering that some of the key players in that groupJustin Amash of Michigan, Raul Labrador of Idaho, and Thomas Massie of Kentuckywere among the 12 Republicans who refused to back Boehner's reelection in January 2013.
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House Conservatives Are Plotting a Mutiny Against John Boehner (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2014
OP
Mutiny against Boehner and mutiny against the US, if these folks continue to be
Thinkingabout
Apr 2014
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Mutiny against Boehner and mutiny against the US, if these folks continue to be
Elected we will be in for ruination of our great nation.
madokie
(51,076 posts)2. Cantor would be even worse
if that's possible
personally I think they're counting chickens before they hatch. We'll take the house come november.