A Principled Stand in the Wilderness
Stupidity should hurt, and Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan has been pretty stupid — practically and politically. So here’s his pain:
Jim Jordan’s open defiance of Speaker John Boehner’s efforts to solve the debt-ceiling crisis could cost the Urbana Republican his safe House seat in next year’s election.
Two Republican sources deeply involved in configuring new Ohio congressional districts confirmed to The Dispatch today that Jordan’s disloyalty to Boehner has put him in jeopardy of being zeroed out of a district.
“Jim Jordan’s boneheadedness has kind of informed everybody’s thinking,” said one of the sources, both of whom spoke only on condition of anonymity. “The easiest option for everybody has presented itself.”
Jordan’s rural 11-county district, which has a 60 percent Republican voter index, “is easy to cannibalize because it stretches so far,” the other source said.
I once nearly talked myself out of a job I loved very much — when I was 21 and careless. Jordan is old enough to know better.
I almost never disagree with you, I can’t think of the last time.
But this time I’m as far in disagreement as can be (I think, you don’t seem to think this is a slimy move).
From the article
Jordan, a tea party favorite who leads the 170-plus member Republican Study Committee, has stymied Boehner’s efforts to raise the debt ceiling. Yesterday, the rift exploded when it was discovered that a key aide to the committee sent emails to conservative groups urging them to push undecided Republicans to vote against Boehner’s plan.
He’s doing what he was elected to do.
The freaking dance where Boehner throws out fake “cuts” that are actually just less increased according to a baseline he made up is all about politics as usual while trying to shut up the wingnuts.
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/boehners-new-plan-doesnt-cut-spending/
So Boehner is going to pull a slimy political maneuver to get rid of the uppity person who is against his other slimy, political posturing.
Business as usual isn’t going to work considering how boned we are.
Boehner needs to negotiate with the Dems, not attack the GOP.
Silly Veeshir, attacking the GOP is the defining characteristic of negotiating in a “bipartisan” manner with the Dems.
I agree wholeheartedly – this is nothing but the GOP establishment trying to scare the Tea Party wing into line. Hopefully the next primaries will send the GOP establishment a brutal message in STFU.
Rebel without a caucus
the ORPINO (Ohio Republican Party In Name Only) would do that…absolutely should not….Let’s redraw Kucinich’s district first