{"id":50222,"date":"2015-01-05T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50222"},"modified":"2015-01-04T18:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:32:51","slug":"boehnless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50222","title":{"rendered":"Boehnless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It matters not so much exactly who the GOP elects as Speaker of the House, with two special criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not John Boehner,<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s an actual conservative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/228429-gohmert-announces-challenge-to-boehner\">Louis Gohmert the guy<\/a>? \u00a0Hell, I&#8217;d go for just about anyone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With a growing Republican majority in the House and a historically high number of liberty-voting fiscal conservatives within it, there is an urgent need replace Speaker Boehner with fresh, bold leadership that better represents the views of the whole caucus,&#8221; FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaker Boehner has kicked fiscal conservatives off committee positions for voting against his wishes, caved on numerous massive spending bills at the eleventh hour, and abused the legislative process to stomp out opposition by holding surprise votes and giving members little time to actually read the bills before they vote,&#8221; Kibbe added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The conservative group will urge activists to contact their representatives ahead of Tuesday\u2019s vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see a Trey Gowdy. \u00a0 I&#8217;d go for just about anyone over Boehner.<\/p>\n<p>Take note, Minnesota Republican delegation to DC: \u00a0make it conservative, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=6&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CEIQFjAF&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Ftatler%2F2015%2F01%2F02%2Fpoll-60-of-gop-voters-want-boehner-out-as-speaker%2F&amp;ei=bdupVObpBYqzyQSl_IGwAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHTmpRlC7lT-xsT5R9zNb-dE2GwWw&amp;sig2=bhTVgcKsnL2Iy_pRSmru1Q&amp;bvm=bv.82001339,d.aWw\">give up on the 2016 election<\/a>\u00a0right now.<\/p>\n<p>And take that lesson &#8211; moderate hamsters do not pack the gear &#8211; forward with you to the Presidential race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It matters not so much exactly who the GOP elects as Speaker of the House, with two special criteria: It&#8217;s not John Boehner, It&#8217;s an actual conservative Is Louis Gohmert the guy? \u00a0Hell, I&#8217;d go for just about anyone: &#8220;With a growing Republican majority in the House and a historically high number of liberty-voting fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50224,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222\/revisions\/50224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}