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Let the games begin

Jan 6, 2015 5:37AM PST

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Obviously you don't know the 'rules'
Jan 6, 2015 6:24AM PST

They weren't trying to actually unseat him.....they needed to have other names in the 'hat', so to speak in order to make sure he DID get the votes to stay put or the Dems would have had the chance to put Pelosi back on the list of choices. Interviews I've seen show that, yes, they aren't all happy with Boehner, but he's better than Pelosi so they made the decision to 'hedge the bet' and Republicans won. Boehner didn't have to fend off the Tea Party as the article suggests because if you look at the vote count, the two who 'ran' against him didn't get anything even close to a 'real' vote count and didn't expect to.

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That's your story and you're sticking to it.
Jan 6, 2015 11:12AM PST
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RE: They weren't trying to actually unseat him.....
Jan 6, 2015 8:15PM PST
They weren't trying to actually unseat him.....they needed to have other names in the 'hat', so to speak in order to make sure he DID get the votes to stay put or the Dems would have had the chance to put Pelosi back on the list of choices.

I guess Boehner doesn't know the rules of engagement.

Boehner takes revenge, Foes find themselves losing plum committee posts.

John Boehner is getting revenge.

After he secured his third term as speaker Tuesday afternoon, losing 25 votes on the House floor to some relative-unknown members of the Republican Conference, Boehner moved swiftly to boot two of the insurgents from the influential Rules Committee. That could be just the start of payback for the speaker's betrayers, who might see subcommittee chairmanships and other perks fall away in the coming months.