House Speaker John Boehner was re-elected to a second term as leader of the lower chamber today on the first vote despite grumblings from conservative quarters.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), appointed to conference chair for the 113th Congress that gaveled in this afternoon, nominated Boehner.
The nomination received a standing ovation.
McMorris Rodgers’ counterpart on the left, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), nominated Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for the role.
There were no additional nominations from either side. The vote was 220 for Boehner, 192 for Pelosi, and 15 voting for others or voting present.
Boehner needed 218 votes to win. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) skipped the beginning of the vote, but voted for Boehner when her name was called at the end of the roll call.
Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.) voted for 112th Congress Rep. Allen West (R-Fla).
Incoming Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine and Florida Rep. Ted Yoho voted for Eric Cantor, along with Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.), sparking “ooohs” from the chamber.
Cantor stood up and voted for Boehner, and tweeted soon after, “It is an honor to serve with @SpeakerBoehner. I look forward to continue working with my friend to help all Americans.”
The Blue Dog Democrats had some fun with the vote. Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) voted for Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Pro-life Democrat Bill Lipinski (Ill.) voted for Cooper.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), upset about being committee-ousted by Boehner, voted for Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho). Labrador didn’t vote. Tom Massie (R-Ky.) voted for Amash.
Another spurned GOP, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), voted for conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Jordan voted for Boehner.
And yet another, Rep. Walt Jones (R-N.C.), voted for former comptroller general David Walker.
However, Rep. Dave Schweikert (R-Ariz.), also stripped of his seat on the Financial Services Committee, voted for Boehner.
Shame!
If you want a real feeling of outrage and disappointment watch Bill Whittle’s speech (Google Best Speech of 2012 Bill Whittle). If the “Stupid Party” just said half of the things Whittle said the Democrat Party would seize to exist over night. I watched it and cheered, pumping my fist in the air. We’re always getting stuck with worthless Rinos like Boehner and all the other worthless frauds. They are the reason we are in the trouble we’re in today: we have no opposition party to the Democrats.
Here’s the link. You won’t be able to watch it and not be furious because destroying the Democrats would be so easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgxlp2UJI5I
Business as usual. What’s new?
Then to hell with the GOP. I will never give money to the party. NEVER! If there is an individual that I feel deserves help I might give. But to the party? They can go to hell. They don’t give a damn about this country, about the Constitution, liberty or anything else. They don’t care that they are selling us, our children, and their children into economic slavery. Maybe it’s a good thing that Romney did such a crappy job of running. If he had won his “RINO-ness” would have just delayed things.
Check out the Constitution Party. Donate to and support them.
NEVER go third party! Upset with Republican members of Congress of either chamber primary them with someone else who’ll actually stand for principle. Third parties lead to indefinite Democrat control.
Wrong. The Republican Party shrinks to 3rd Party status and caucuses with the Constitution Party. Until then the Constitution Party members caucus with the GOP. In the mean time, the conservatives in the Constitution Party will have more leverage because they are outside the GOP, and the GOP will have to negotiate.
The transition is necessary.
We’re done. May as well move to the new land of opportunity where business and the people who build it are actually appreciated and not demonized: Russia. Of course, you have to live long enough to spend the money you do make, assuming Putin leaves you with anything. But at least they appreciate wealth there. Who would have thought that the Russians would turn into bigger capitalists than Americans. Wow.
Embrace The Doom, folks. Embrace it as you would a wild-eyed lover.
It’s surprising, in way, at just how close Pelosi came to winning…in another way, it isn’t surprising, at all. The Pubbies are holding on to power in the House by their fingernails. Split, torn, in-fighting…
Here is exactly how it will play out.
Seriously dude, there was never any chance for peloser to “win” the Speakership. It is not a one vote who gets the most. It is who gets a minimum of 214 votes. For the vile scumbag peloser to have won, 13 republicans would have had to vote for her and her entire caucus too.
Repubs actually are ok in the House if they will buck up and stop the marxist obama. Unlike the Senate… House seats are not decided by racist parasites in the inner city voting 100% for democrats.
If rebubs will use the power of the purse they have. They will win the House again in 2014. In fact, there is little reason the house should go D in any election. It did in 2006 because the left ran centrists. That gambit is gone as those “blue dogs” lost to conservatives after being used by the POR leadership. I would hope the lesson has been learned by some.
“Embrace the doom”; Or suck on the end of a .22 pistol.
All Americans are going to be blood donors; No exceptions; No age limit. They don’t care if you are HIV positive. There are some HIV positive members of Congress that need your blood more than you do.
A party, whose platform hailed the “Arab Spring” is a lost party. Pray tell, how are they any different than the Dems, other than in some talking points?
Rinos do what they do best, they duck for cover.
And what else can one expect, when many of its members abandoned Rep Bachmann in her stalwart defense of American ethos – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/12/17/u-s-rep-michele-bachmanns-courageous-front-line-defense-against-muslim-brotherhoodshariah-law-as-they-advance-towards-the-kiddies-too-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
They are empty suits, even when compared to the Dems. Why? Because at least the Dems play for keeps. This sorry set of losers – not so much.
not empty suits …criminals would be a better description of the RINOs
She is not who claims to be. Watch these clips! Some consequences of her vote from the first video!
Bachmann Addresses Security Provisions in the Patriot Act! Did she listen to voters who voted for her? No!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mos0blynBiI&feature=digest
Front of the Guerena Residence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR0d-85PEcI&feature=youtu.be
Secret Service Interrogates 7th Grader For Facebook Post, Without Parental Consent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSFbWtB_44&fe…
And Bachmann voted for the crybaby.
The GOP voted to continue their feckless habits so I am done with them. You are kidding yourselves if you think the party/Speaker will change and worse you are helping to push this country over the real cliff if you think the people that have brought us to this point will now be different in the future.
Not one thing Boehner has done in recent years suggests he is capable of learning from from what we like to hope are just mistakes. He forces his way on us, when we flood their phones he pretends he has heard us, and then proceeds to do exactly what he was going to do whether we were mad or not. The fault lies not in our stars but in our passive acceptance of failure from our stars.
Fiscal Cliff Over, Now the Attack on the People Begins By Kevin Zeese Global Research, January 02, 2013
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fiscal-cliff-over-now-the-attack-on-the-people-begins/5317610
It is crystal clear. Obama beat Boehner like a drum. D.C. is incapable of cost control. They quibble about tax increases that are an order of magnitude smaller than what is required to fund our elephantine government. So, with much bellowing at the cliff, both parties kicked the can down the calendar, til February. If they can not accomplish some semblance of cost control by that sorry day, the Fed will become impotent to protect the dollar, and our economy will fall off the cliff, for some long term, perhaps a generation. We are seeing it in energy and food.
I expect hyperinflation, or stagflation, and a culture of chronically unemployed, a Japan repeat.
America screwed up; we voted for these people last November.
I’m curious. In this vote for speaker who provided a solid challenge to Boehner?
No seriously look at the votes. Cantor was an option buuut he voted for Boehner.
Literally you folks are pissed that Boehner won even though he had no challenger.
And what does it say about the GOP that no one challenged him?
If half of the Republican voters who get angry at the GOP when is disappoints them in the same old way would stop allowing themselves to be talked into supporting the GOP the next time “because this time it’s different” we would have a better GOP. I think the sad reality is that GOP voters find it more acceptable to pretend the GOP will someday do the right thing, despite their experience, than they are willing to recognize THEY keep betting on the wrong horse. The problem is with the voters that refuse to learn, even from personal experience, no matter how many times they have the same experience. If WE don’t change nothing else will change.
It’s time to give up on the fantasy that the GOP will be effective. Take over the GOP or replace the GOP. If you now help the GOP you continue the same dysfunctional pattern that has brought us to this point.
The only choice now is replacement. The Grand Oily Party is simply a patrician subset, more aligned with Wash. DC and politicians of any ideological stripe than the people they pretend to represent. Boehner is as much a creation of the system as Obama. With spoils to be had when the budget is ironed out there was no one who would risk anything. He was as much a beneficiary of Obama’s victory as any Democrat.
When the GOP starts mailing out their junk mail in two years conservatives should gather and make some really good bonfires with it.
Oh boy… Maybe they should’ve voted for Pelosi. She at least kept her troops in order. Seriously though, anyone who voted against Boehner had better watch their back. The purge of true conservatives will continue apace.
Did you see the ear-to-ear smile across Pelosi’s face when she was announcing it. She couldn’t been happier that her patsy was going to stay around to do her bidding.
Exactly as predicted. Not a spine among the entire caucus.
I guess the tea party club was at least smart enough to know they had no answers for anything much less the power to control the entire GOP caucus. Typical of those with all blow and no go. Well, at least they have the cameras and internet sites to expell their noise through.
“…all blow…”; When it comes to that, we pay close attention to you, Zeke.
You could power a regatta, if they could somehow ignore the halitosis.
With all your blow and all your guns, who controls the senate? Who controls the White House? Who lost seats in the House 2012? Who lost seats in the senate 2012?
Guessing all your cutsie commenting hasn’t much influence in the world of reality.
Barrack? Is that you?
Yes sweetheart! What you want for din-din darling?
A moth**fuc**** double cheeseburger; What’d you think?
I guess the Tea Party is dead. They country clubs Republicans got what they wanted and the Tea Party “freshmen” didn’t do anything. Protest votes are useful. Why can’t they see it?
I will NEVER vote Republican again. NEVER. Don’t tell me about a vote for the other side. A vote for Republicans IS a vote for the other side. “It doesn’t matter if it is Demicans or Republicrtats”, Savage once quipped. I’m voting Libertarian or Constitution Party. I’ve had it. I want the Republican party to go the way of the Whigs. They have greased the skids of Obama’s freight train to hell with the contents of their yellow bellies. Be gone with all you simpering worms.
There are two alternative parties that I think encompass the majority of small government proponents, the Libertarian and Constitution parties. If the majority of people stood by their principles instead of tradition, then both of these parties would be major and capable of coalition. The GOP has proven it is not for small government as openly as the media has proven it is not for bias free distribution of information.
I encourage people who are fed up with the GOP to read the platforms of these two parties.
I concur JustAl. Im more of a fan of the Constitution Party. But if we start electing these outsiders and build a campaign financing structure outside of the GOP, then the Conservatives in the GOP could change party affiliation and really increase the size and scope of these alternative parties. This would put conservatives in better negotiating situations, even if they are the minority parties caucusing with the GOP, because the GOP has no control of the money strings. Eventually the GOP would be the minority party in the caucusing coalition.
As for me, Im all in on the Constitution Party.
Check them out here…
http://www.constitutionparty.com/
Re:
“But if we start electing these outsiders and build a campaign financing structure outside of the GOP, then the Conservatives in the GOP could change party affiliation and really increase the size and scope of these alternative parties. ..”
Permit me to disagree. That’ll be very, very time consuming. That’ll give the Democrats more momentum. We’ll fall further behind.
A better approach is just the opposite…..to work to effect reform inside the existing Republican party by somehow getting these very commonsense emphases of the Libertarians and Constitutionalists integrated back into the Republican Part Platform. That way we can work from what strength we have remaining, as we still control the purses strings….we should never surrender whatever slim advantage we have right now.
The House nor we control squat. The last bill came out of the Senate…which hasnt produced a budget in 4 years. Obamacare tax mandate came out of the Senate.
Supposed Center Left newspapers of record are advocating discarding the US Constitution in totality openly.
The horse has already left the barn and ran around the 3 quarters of the track. And the best the GOP can come up with is this?
Sorry Charlie, Im moving on.
The Republican House has had a trump card in their hand this whole time, but they’re too scared to play it. Say NO. That’s it, that’s the trump card. Nothing can get done without the House’s say-so. If the choice is between a bad deal and no deal at all, then no deal it is.
There is no trump card. We’ve been down this road multiple times.
“Nothing can get done without the House’s say-so. If the choice is between a bad deal and no deal at all, then no deal it is.”
If there had been no deal, the one good thing about the deal they did strike would not have taken place: The permanent extension of the Bush “tax cuts” for those making under $400K (singles) or $450K (married couples). This also would have prompted an acute exacerbation of uncertainty in the stock market & millions who depend on dividend income to help pay bills would suffer as the market would doubtless tank to God-only-knows what levels. “In every cloud there is…..”
“But if we start electing these outsiders and build a campaign financing structure outside of the GOP, then the Conservatives in the GOP could change party affiliation and really increase the size and scope of these alternative parties. ..”
You’re on the right track! How fast can you persuade your comrades to join you?
Sorry Charlie –not directed at you.
What you’re suggesting is a sensible approach, IMO, but one that is going to take some years as Pubbie establishment old fogies retire or die. Meantime, the Republican Party would be well served to stop doing stupid things that lose them gratuitous numbers of voters: Weighing in unnecessarily on the social issues & pandering to the evangelicals.
The Constitution Party has the right principles, but it will never prevail in a nation of moochers, apparatchiks, hermaphrodites, and libertines. Which begs the question: Is it time for a new country?
Best if a separation could occur peacefully, because it is very difficult, perhaps not even moral, to fight against a tyranny which most of the populace sees as a bountiful government that cares for their animal needs and peculiar life styles.
‘Tis indeed a perplexity, one, I suspect, that will be resolved–one way or another–only when the tyrannical administration and the oligarchical congress run out of other people’s money and the Chinese refuse to buy the funny paper. No doubt I’ll be dead by then. Good luck to my son and to his generation.
Miss me yet?
Yea!!! Pizza Hacienda sucks.
While both the the Libertarian and Constitutional Parties have their very natural appeal to all of us concerned with the present direction of the country with the socialistic Democrats; and, while there is nothing more admirable than “back to basics” which formed our Country, both Parties’ actual proportions of the National vote is tiny. Negligible. Non-effective. Nothing to be actually accomplished for voting that way.
So, folks, be hard, be pragmatic….fight for internal reform of the Republican Party, while maintaining our slim hold onto the all important purse strings. Nothing is more vital than controlling the purse strings, or forcing re-appraisals of the socialistic programs of the mob-appeal-Democrats.
If we lose the slight lead in the House we have now, we loose everything to the Democrats.
Again, folks, be pragmatic.
Charlie Brown kicking the football with Lucy isnt pragmatic, it’s the definition of insanity.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me the eleventy billionth time, shame on me.
Right, time for Peppermint Patty to call a two-point conversion. Fake field-goal to wildcat formation, direct snap to Charlie Brown and run the ball in, eight heavy pushing to one side.
Now figure out how to implement that.
The purse strings CAN be tied by the House, Charlie. Without House approval, the “continuing resolution” to keep funding the binge of the drunken Senators, they’re cut off. (Of course, the Rep’s are cut off, and “non-essential depts. are shut down; What’s not to like about that?)
If We can only convince the House to sanction Obama and the Senate by holding to “no continuing resolution until there is an approved budget”, We’ve still got some heavy leverage.
They want crisis? Give them one they choke on.
Never haappen, as we have seen time and again, and again and again, and again, and again.
Stimulus went to baseline and continuing resolutions with no budget for 4 years.
Sorry, without a change of leadership, hoping for a change of outcome is a fool’s foolish foolery.
This time we really mean it, Obama and Democrats!
What a hoot!
We tried pragmatic. We elected how many freshman congressman who were supposed to represent Tea Party values and by February John Boehner was capitulating. Tea Party freshman who wouldn’t play ball were drummed out of committees. A complete change of the guard is the only way anything can change. As long as these establishment dinosaurs cling to Parliamentary procedure and seniority, we don’t have a chance. I’d rather the low-information dolts of the United States get a taste of real socialism while there is still time to vote, than let these Republicans, definitely not small ‘r’, keep giving ammunition to the Obama administration. Unlike these entrenched worms, I would rather go down voting my conscience, than keep casting worthless ballots for the Republican party.
The evangelicals cloaked as GOP ‘conservatives’ tried this game during the 80s and well…you know the rest of the story. Go start your own party to run on! You only guarantee democrat victories going forward!
And that changes things how?
“be pragmatic.”
Good luck on your admonishment! However, I’m thinking you must find some miraculous cure for the irrational and paranoid delusion that grip most of the people for whom you direct your admonishment too. They’re more tuned into buying more guns and blowing the bugle to charge on and destroy the tyrannical government they see in their minds.
Oh, whoopee…
This kind of news makes me want to start kicking small, furry animals.
Come Jan. 19th I think I might start working on that drinking problem I plan on having for the next four years. New Years resolution, ya know. This is what this government has led me to. Choosing my sanity over my liver.
Next item up for trashing: 2nd amendment.
Yea! I’m with you. If unemployment is such a positive stimulant to the economy, unemployed drunks are worth even more. “The more we drink, the better we feel”; (I may have that mixed up with another song).
Cheers, mate!
The hangover the U.S. is going to have in 2016 is going to have us paying homage to the porcelain God anyway.
Neville Chamberlain wins!!
Peace in our times, or at least a piece of gubamint action in our times.
Neville is so successful that there was hardly a challenge by the other pigs lined up at the feeding at the trough.
“trough”, as in taxpayers.
Demonkrats and Republikans now fully in charge of Amerika having crushed opposition. Congrats Komrades. USSA now in full swing. Suddently nostalgic for days of Moose and Squirrel defeating Boris and Natasha. Oh well! Orwell!
Boehner retaining his apeakership?
It’s a safe bet he will.
The real question, though: does it matter?
Obama has successfully undertaken this nation’s transformation. Are we still a viable bastion of freedom? I have my doubts. I think too many people in this nation are in dire need of a liberty transfusion. As Obama bleeds our nation dry financially; our desire for freedom seems to also be bleeding away.
No longer are we composed of red states and blue states. We no longer live, in Rachel’s opinion, in good old the red, white and blue. Obama has opened the freedom vein and it’s sapping our strength.
In my view, this nation possesses not enough believers in the Constitution and the freedoms it’s supposed to insure to be recognizable as the United States of America that existed for some 200 years.
One of the most egregious elephants in the room, at least as far as I’m concerned is Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. She believes not a whit in our Constitution or American ideals and values. She’s a racist communist. Yet, some Republicans voted for her.
This nation could presently be led by Lenin or Stalin, or Hitler or Mussolini or Obama. Not a dimes worth of difference.
Consequently, today I resigned from the Republican Party. And don’t want to be a Conservative or a Libertarian.
I believe the majority of Americans are the equivalent of tories of 1775; they’re your pathetic neo-coms (new brand communists). The kind who for instance couldn’t care less that our national debt is about to kiss 17 trillion dollars; (a bankrupt nation is a dead nation) or that we incur some 4 billion more in national debt every day. Your tax dollars are streaming directly into neo-coms’ pockets.
I you think my ideas are extreme, think again. I think I represent the mainstream red, white and blue American who puts their hand on their heart and swells with pride when the national anthem is played. There’s less than 75 million of us left.
Boehner retaining his speakership is, the way I see it, close to inconsequential.
However, taking back this nation I don’t see happening without an Alan West/ George Washington type leading the fight, crossing the equivalent of the Delaware on Christmas Day, somehow spreading a freedom fire that sweeps from sea to shining sea.
We have a press that’s consciously helping Herr Obama enslave us. Too few in our mainstream media are willing to paddle against the current stream of hate Americanists. Hannity and his kind are losing their influence.
Getting back our nation?
Unfortunately, I don’t see it happening.
But I think it’s time to at least give it our all; at the least, to die trying.