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Actions have consequences...let the tears begin

Jan 7, 2015 8:48PM PST
23 Conservative Leaders Warn Boehner Not to Punish GOP Dissenters

Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent, two Florida Republicans who opposed Boehner, lost their seats on the Rules Committee. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, said he was being punished for voting for another candidate.

"I've already lost the authorship of one bill," Weber said. "Look it shouldn't be that way."

Nunes is reportedly drafting a resolution prohibiting members who vote against the speaker from chairing a subcommittee.


Probably will be a bun fight at the family dinner.

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"a house divided can not stand?"
Jan 7, 2015 9:24PM PST

there's the retaliation factor and it will hit for sure after the next election and Boehner will be out of the position.

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Maybe...but until then
Jan 7, 2015 11:29PM PST
A Week Is a Lifetime in Politics

By November 1984, Reagan was getting favorable grades from 60 percent in the Gallup Poll and, more importantly, was carrying 49 of the 50 states while wining a landslide re-election.

In 1988, Reagan's vice president, George H.W. Bush won his own White House race, and as he prepared in 1991 to run for re-election, he looked unbeatable. After Saddam Hussein had invaded and occupied Kuwait, President Bush 41 and his secretary of state, Jim Baker organized a 32-country coalition to drive Saddam from Kuwait, won support for that action from both a Democratic Congress and from the United Nations and then, in a remarkable four-day military offensive, won the first clear-cut American military victory since 1945.

President Bush in the winter of 1991 — a year and a half before his re-election day — stood at an unprecedented 89 percent favorable in the Gallup Poll. One by one, leading Democrats — **** Gephardt, Al Gore, Lloyd Bentsen, Bill Bradley, Mario Cuomo — who had openly or secretly lusted after the presidency saw Bush as unbeatable and came to the same decision: some variation of, "Rather than run, I choose to spend more time with my family."

Only five Democrats rolled the dice that year —Tom Harkin, Bob Kerrey, Jerry Brown, the late Paul Tsongas and Bill Clinton. By Labor Day of 1992, President Bush's favorable number in the Gallup had plummeted to 29 percent, and he would lose that November to Bill Clinton. A week is a lifetime. .