Boehner coup talk puts House GOP on edge

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Growing chatter about a possible coup against Speaker John Boehner has set Capitol Hill on edge.

Talk that conservatives might use a government-funding showdown to overthrow the powerful Ohio Republican has triggered a flurry of behind-the-scenes jockeying among lawmakers eager to move up the leadership ladder.

And that has lawmakers wondering more than ever if Boehner’s days as Speaker are numbered.

“That’s what tells you there’s something afoot. You know there’s some drops of blood in the water, because all the sharks are starting to circle,” said one conservative lawmaker who backs Boehner's ouster.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/254587-boehner-coup-talk-puts-house-gop-on-edge

[hobbit709]

1. Let the night of long knives begin among the pukes.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I hope they eat themselves alive.

[turbinetree]

3. Just think.................................

if he gets the boot how are they going to get lobbyists money handed to them on the floor of the house
Bribes are bribes and you should have been impeached

[titaniumsalute]

4. I cannot for my life understand

how the puppeteers that pull the business strings via lobbyists haven't openly threatened to pull ALL funding for these asshole's campaigns if they opt for another government shutdown. Remember how the Conservative US CHamber came out last time and basically said "STOP IT" to these ass clowns?

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Hahaha. Conservatives forever getting high on their own supply

They're gonna learn that people don't like them. Please proceed, Congresspersons.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. What happens of Boehner is overthrown?

If he is replaced with one of the usual loonies would that not pretty much shut down the house until 2017?

[brooklynite]

7. You mean as opposed to the model of productivity it is today?

[A Simple Game]

9. It would probably improve the Democrats chances of retaking the House and Senate in 2016. n/t

[hobbit709]

12. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. There would be a difference?

[benld74]

8. Power hunger do nothing fools!

[FSogol]

10. LOL at "powerful Ohio Republican"

[totodeinhere]

11. Get out your popcorn folks. Of course the problem is that any replacement

for Boehner would be even worse.

[flamingdem]

13. They're going to make Orangeaid

Republican Kool-Aid

[madokie]

14. Get that fucking drunk out of there

he has no business being in any position of leadership, period.

[Ferretherder]

15. Be VERY careful what you wish for...

...his replacement could be a fucking tea-bagger goon that could be TEN TIMES WORSE!

The only reason they want to replace him is because he isn't trying hard enough to turn our government into a subservient committee of the corporate sponsored oligarchy!

Please, for Dog's sake, guys, don't take this lightly!

[nolabels]

16. Actual or real chaos rarely goes as planned

Yet to know the way that is often used to increase power is through confusion and acrimony and this might not bode well for the most of us. This UNLESS it really gets so far out of hand that that puke corporatist lose control of the situation also.

[Cosmocat]

17. I can't fathom how it wouldn't

end up worse.

The kind of energy that would topple Orange Man isn't being built up on how they need to actually work with the other side.