Boehner Set To Survive Latest Tea Party Revolt

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by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE #2: All four Colorado Republicans vote for Boehner. "Rebellion" ends with a whimper.

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UPDATE: Another key Colorado vote for John Boehner:

NOW: @RepMikeCoffman votes Boehner for speaker. #COpolitics #9NEWS

— Brandon Rittiman (@BrandonRittiman) January 6, 2015

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John Boehner.

Fifteen House Republicans have now publicly proclaimed that they will try to strip John Boehner of a third term as speaker of the House.

That’s well short of the number needed to push the public election into full chaos, but House Republican leadership is closely monitoring every movement at this stage, and working to shore up support for the Ohio Republican.
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As many as 35 Republicans can vote against Boehner and he could still retain the speaker’s gavel, according to the latest estimate of members who will be present and voting for a speaker candidate, giving GOP rebels some leeway to oppose him.

Among Colorado's Republican delegation, incoming hard-right Rep. Ken Buck told reporters today that he will vote to keep John Boehner as Speaker of the House in the 114th Congress. All four Colorado House Republicans are under pressure from the "Tea Party" grassroots to join the #FireBoehner campaign, but we'd say Buck's support for Boehner is a bellwether indicator that he will be re-elected. That said, the Grand Junction Sentinel reports Rep. Scott Tipton was still a bit cagey as of yesterday:

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., didn’t expect to decide until today whether to support Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for another term heading the House.

Tipton left the door open on Monday in commenting on the choice of a speaker, noting that he has disagreed at times with Boehner and that he is a member of the Republican Study Committee, which comprises most of the conservative Republican members of the House and is the well from which most of the opposition to Boehner springs.

Boehner also has helped raise campaign funds for Tipton, however.

“I’m willing to talk to the others,” who have announced their plans to challenge Boehner, Tipton said Monday in a telephone interview.

With a lively conservative grassroots in his district to contend with, Tipton has to play these situations carefully. But in the end, we'll be very surprised if Tipton joins in what will in all probability a losing effort–far better for Tipton to pay lip service to it, while keeping Speaker Boehner available for fundraisers.

We'll update with anything surprising that happens today.

21 thoughts on “Boehner Set To Survive Latest Tea Party Revolt”

bullshit! says:

January 6, 2015 at 10:34 am

Where are the Republitrolls? I'd love to know who Moddy and AC are backing.

No doubt the answer is whoever they are told to back, but I'm still curious.

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1. BlueCat says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 11:30 am
  
  Thought at least Modster would be back after vacation. Guess the Borg is on hold while fabricating sufficient Borg responses for the New Year. We all know how loathe the poor dear is to venture an independent thought.
  
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2. Moderatus says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 1:01 pm
  
  You're funny. Sorry you missed me! Have I ever given you reason to believe I don't like John Boehner?
  
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  1. BlueCat says:
    
    January 6, 2015 at 1:28 pm
    
    Have we ever given you reason to believe we're paying much attention to who you like?
    
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  2. BlueCat says:
    
    January 6, 2015 at 1:32 pm
    
    PS. Please note bullshit didn't say anything about you not liking Boehner. I do hope working on reading comprehension is one of your New Year's resolutions, dear. Then you could at least make inane arguments in reference to something that was actually said.
    
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    1. MichaelBowman says:
      
      January 6, 2015 at 2:49 pm
      
      Geebuz…this pipeline is a Nothing Burger. I wish the Democrats would start calling it the Poverty Pipeline.
      
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  3. JeffcoBlue says:
    
    January 6, 2015 at 1:56 pm
    
    Like BS said, you like who you're told to like. So whatevs.
    
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BlueCat says:

January 6, 2015 at 1:55 pm

Here are the votes for speaker. Note Colin Powell got one.

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1. BlueCat says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 1:58 pm
  
  Collin, that is, and also the most votes against a Speaker since 1923.
  
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  1. FrankUnderwood says:
    
    January 6, 2015 at 3:43 pm
    
    We're seeing a lot of analogies to the 1920's………..
    
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    1. BlueCat says:
      
      January 6, 2015 at 6:39 pm
      
      All we need is a Scopes trial.
      
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BlueCat says:

January 6, 2015 at 3:30 pm

An early Valentine for our little Modster….

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1. BlueCat says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 3:33 pm
  
  What's really touching is the interracial aspect…. white and orange love. So sweet.
  
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  1. FrankUnderwood says:
    
    January 6, 2015 at 3:43 pm
    
    lol…………..good one!
    
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    1. BlueCat says:
      
      January 6, 2015 at 6:41 pm
      
      Is that a gavel you've got there or are you just glad to see me? Bet this gets copied, printed and hung up over modster's bed in his mom's basement.
      
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2. FrankUnderwood says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 4:55 pm
  
  Pelosi should be grateful he didn't try slipping her the tongue
  
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  1. yameniye says:
    
    January 7, 2015 at 4:33 pm
    
    Are you insinuating the Orange One is straight?
    
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MichaelBowman says:

January 6, 2015 at 6:33 pm

Brace yourself for two years of Boehnernomics:

Republican economics is “magical-mystery math”

Dynamic scoring would make it easier to enact tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, because the tax cuts wouldn’t look as if they increased the budget deficit.

Incoming House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) calls it “reality-based scoring,” but it’s actually magical scoring – which is why Elmendorf, as well as all previous CBO directors have rejected it.

Few economic theories have been as thoroughly tested in the real world as supply-side economics, and so notoriously failed.

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1. BlueCat says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 6:43 pm
  
  Hang on. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
  
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2. mamajama55 says:
  
  January 6, 2015 at 8:31 pm
  
  They must be counting on the general ignorance of the American public where economics is concerned. Those who, like myself, are semi-literate in economic vocabulary terms will conclude that it’s all incomprehensible mumbo jumbo, and hence, that it doesn’t matter much what math is used.
  
  If this “dynamic scoring” method is adopted by the CBO, the only glimmer of light we will have on it is the transparency policy adopted early on for all agencies in the Obama administration, providing that all CBO budgets and analyses be published online. Even if the CBO director is replaced by a “mystery math friendly” one, I don’t think that the CBO can get away with being the only Federal agency not publishing its numbers online.
  
  https://www.cbo.gov/about/transparency
  
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yameniye says:

January 7, 2015 at 4:34 pm

Voodoo Economics means having to fudge the numbers. A good start is to remove confidence in the CBO numbers. And, they did do that.

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