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LOL that he is!
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Furious Boehner allies lash out
By Cristina Marcos - 09/26/15 06:00 AM EDT
Allies of Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) are infuriated with the right wing of the House GOP conference, which they blame for his resignation.
GOP lawmakers who’ve stood by Boehner’s side throughout his rocky five-year tenure as Speaker bitterly blamed the right flank for forcing a contested leadership race less than a year after the party won control of Congress in the 2014 midterm elections.
A fired-up House Ethics Committee Chairman Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), speaking not long after Boehner dropped the bombshell at a Friday conference meeting that he’ll leave Congress at the end of next month, ripped into hard-line conservatives.
He accused them of opposing Boehner at every turn, and noted they have “never had a horse of their own.”
“Any jackass can kick down a barn door. It takes a carpenter to hang one. We need a few more carpenters around here. Everybody knows it,” Dent said off the House floor.
Leadership allies are frustrated by what they see as a repeated exercise in futility.
They argue that the lawmakers who repeatedly tangled with Boehner aren’t team players, and they said a new leadership team shouldn’t cater to them.
Boehner repeatedly saw conservatives vote against the GOP rules governing debate on legislation. Those votes are supposed to be tests of party loyalty.
They also argue Boehner repeatedly bent to conservative critics on spending issues, only to see them stab him in the back.
“Frankly, I thought our leadership in too many cases has been too accommodating, too quick to appease those who will not govern,” Dent said. “They give far too much procedural consideration to those who will not vote for the bills at the end of the process. That’s going to end. We’ve had enough of that.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a member of Boehner’s inner circle, suggested a new leadership team should implement new conference rules that would make the chamber more functional.
“You just can’t continue to have a super-ultra-minority continue to try to dictate what happens in the House of Representatives. It’s a big problem,” Nunes said.
Boehner said Friday that he wanted the House to avoid the drama of voting on a motion authored by conservative rebel Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) to oust him as Speaker.
He insisted he would have survived the vote if it had taken place.
“Listen, it was never about the vote, all right? There was never any doubt about whether I could survive the vote. But I don’t want my members to have to go through this and I certainly don’t want the institution to go through this,” Boehner said at a Capitol news conference.
Others weren’t so sure. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) told reporters outside the GOP conference room that he didn’t believe Boehner had the votes to survive.
Boehner’s move is expected to allow Congress to pass a short-term spending bill that would prevent a government shutdown next week.
Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) referred to the group of hardliners who had been making demands of Boehner in that fight as the “shutdown caucus.”
“Those within our party who insist on continuing to divide us and shut down the government, they can take a small victory today. It's unfortunate,” Jolly said.
The hardliners who pressured Boehner to step down will likely play an influential role in the leadership shakeup.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) appears to be in the strongest position to succeed Boehner as Speaker. Many other lawmakers are already gauging support from colleagues to run for majority leader and whip.
The House Freedom Caucus, which is comprised of about 40 conservative lawmakers who’ve frequently opposed Boehner, plans to meet with each leadership candidate before offering endorsements.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, acknowledged that they likely won’t have the votes to install one of their own into the leadership hierarchy. But the Freedom Caucus expects they’ll have the power to sway who can win.
“I don’t think that the conservative wing of the party has enough mass to get one of our own elected. We certainly have enough mass to influence the outcome,” Mulvaney said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/255026-furious-boehner-allies-las...
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Good to see them upset, it is time for change and of course the RINOs have no desire for that.
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Eric Greitens Launches MO Gubernatorial Campaign – But Goons Push A...
Sep 26th, 2015 3:19 pm by
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But, Greitens would not speak with conservative pundit Adam Sharp about his former life as a Democrat.
His goon squad kept pushing Adam away.
Here’s the video–The Navy Times reported:
Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, who has never before sought elective office, said on Saturday that he is running for Missouri governor as a Republican in 2016.
Greitens played up his political inexperience while criticizing government during an announcement in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights.
“I’m running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward. Like you, I’m tired of the career politicians and lobbyists who are ruining our state,” Greitens said.
Greitens, 41, served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, was a Rhodes Scholar and White House fellow and has written three books that combine stories of his military service and humanitarian work with lessons on leadership. He’s a founder of the nonprofit group The Mission Continues, which connects veterans with volunteer work to ease the post-military transition.
Greitens is also a former Democrat who just a few years ago was recruited by the party to run for Congress.
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September 26, 2015, 03:02 pm
Cruz wins Values Voter Summit straw poll for third straight year
By Ben Kamisar, Jonathan Easley and Jonathan Swan
Greg NashSen. Ted Cruz won the Values Voter Summit straw poll for the third year in a row on Saturday, a strong showing of support from evangelical voters for his 2016 presidential bid.
The firebrand Texas senator won a whopping 35 percent in the poll of summit-goers, ahead of runner-up Ben Carson’s 18 percent. That margin is significantly wider than last year, where he edged out Carson by just 5 percentage points.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) took third with 14 percent, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) with 13 percent. Real estate magnate Donald Trump finished a distant fifth with 5 percent.
Carson won the event’s poll for vice president, his second consecutive win for that category.
Family Research Council Action president Tony Perkins announced the results Saturday afternoon to applause from the conference’s attendees. Perkins’ group organized the three-day event.
Eight GOP presidential candidates took to the summit stage in order to make their case to the religious conservative audience—Cruz, Carson, Trump, Rubio, Huckabee, as well as Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), and Gov. Bobby Jindal (La.).
The results confirm Cruz, Carson and Huckabee's strength among religious conservative voters. Each rely on the voting bloc as a core piece of their electorate, but the huge win for Cruz is likely encouraging considering recent polls showing the senator outside of the top tier with evangelicals.
But the figures are surprising for both Rubio and Trump. Rubio's finish shows him continuing to make gains with religious conservative voters as he rises in national polling. But the result is a disappointment for Trump, who had led with evangelicals in two recent polls.
The Values Voter Summit though is Cruz country and several conference-goers mentioned his name first as the person they trust most on issues important to social conservatives when interviewed by The Hill during the event.
William Temple, a 65-year-old pastor from Brunswick, Ga., attended the conference dressed as Button Gwinnett, a Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Describing himself as a leader of the Tea Party’s 2009 “March on Washington,” Temple wore a black Tricorn hat and held a yellow Revolutionary flag embellished with the motto “Don’t Tread On Me.” He said that the signatures printed on his flag were collected at past events from “Tea Party heroes” including Ted Cruz, Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann.
Cruz is Temple’s favorite for the 2016 presidential race because the Texas senator is “right on every Constitutional issue.” Temple said of all the Republican candidates Cruz was “in the best place with evangelicals.”
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Sorry Elite Media: The Crowd Did Not Boo Trump at Conservative Summit – They Agreed with Him (VIDEO)
Yesterday at the Values Voter Summit in South Carolina the conservative crowd booed when Donald Trump was brought up Marco Rubio.
** Rubio is a member of the Gang of Eight pro-amnesty senators.
The liberal media and FOX News immediately claimed the crowd was booing Trump for attacking Marco Rubio.
Sorry Elite Media: The Crowd Did Not Boo Trump at Conservative Summit – They Agreed with Him (VIDEO)
Yesterday at the Values Voter Summit in South Carolina the conservative crowd booed when Donald Trump was brought up Marco Rubio.
** Rubio is a member of the Gang of Eight pro-amnesty senators.
The liberal media and FOX News immediately claimed the crowd was booing Trump for attacking Marco Rubio.
Of course, the elite media was wrong. The crowd was not booing Trump but agreeing with him.
Sadly, FOX News and the liberal media will do anything they can to smear the GOP leader Donald Trump.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/sorry-elite-media-the-crowd...
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They are going to persist in trying to bring him down.At this time they are trying to promote Carson and Carly. Their worst nightmare is Trump because he will not be Silenced!
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Media thumps Trump, but polls show he's winning big
By Niall Stanage - 09/27/15 06:00 AM EDT
Ever since rival Carly Fiorina was widely perceived to have bested Trump at the second GOP debate in California on Sept. 16, media outlets have been lining up to suggest that the front-runner is waning.
Trump has hit back with characteristic vigor. But he has a point, independent observers say.
“The reality is that he does have a hold on some people and he doesn’t appear to be surrendering it,” said Mark Mellman, a veteran Democratic pollster who is also a columnist for The Hill.
Much of the negative media attention has been built around a single poll in the immediate aftermath of the debate, by CNN/ORC.
The survey showed the businessman’s support among Republican voters nationwide had declined by 8 percentage points since the last survey from the same source, less than two weeks before.
That was a sizable decline, to be sure — even though Trump still led his closest rival by 9 percentage points. But no other reputable poll since the debate has shown Trump falling by anything like that margin.
A survey from Fox News released earlier this week showed the businessman at 26 percent support nationally, an increase of 1 point since Fox’s last survey in mid-August. A Bloomberg poll gave him 21 percent — good enough for a 5-point lead over the field and an unchanged rating since the last poll from the financial news outlet at the beginning of August.
The picture is not substantially different in the crucial early states — and, in some cases, it is even better for Trump.
The Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) released a new survey from Iowa this week in which Trump polled at 24 percent — a 5-point rise over his showing in PPP’s previous poll of the Hawkeye State in the immediate aftermath of the first GOP debate on Aug. 6.
Trump’s support could collapse eventually — as is the case with any other candidate — but there is precious little evidence that his supporters are deserting him.
“The national polling that has come out this week has been mixed,” said PPP director Tom Jensen. “But it’s not something where I would buy into a narrative of Trump declining, unless that was the narrative I wanted. I think, in some quarters, the media people are getting bored [with Trump’s strength] and are ready to write a different story.”
The candidate shares that view quite emphatically. In TV interviews and on his Twitter account throughout this week, he has inveighed against media coverage that he believes is unfair in general and, in particular, is highlighting the most negative polls for him and ignoring the rest.
Four days earlier, he had a tense exchange with Savannah Guthrie, one of the anchors of NBC’s “Today” show. Trump complained that Guthrie was highlighting the CNN poll that showed the big decline rather than NBC’s own online survey in which he had risen 7 points from the previous month.
“You put up the CNN poll, you didn’t put up NBC poll and you’re the ones that are paying for the NBC poll,” he told Guthrie. “So I don’t get it, other than that the NBC poll is a very good poll for Trump.”
Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, underlined the point in a phone interview with The Hill.
Complaining about “dishonesty in the mainstream media,” Lewandowski noted that, while the results of any individual poll are open to debate, “there has been a clear consistency that indicates Mr. Trump is the definitive front-runner for the Republican nomination.”
As of late Friday, the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average had Trump leading the GOP field by 7.7 points nationally; by exactly 6 points in Iowa; by 15.6 points in New Hampshire, and by 15.3 points in South Carolina.
“If his name wasn’t Trump, the pundits would be saying this race is over,” Lewandowski said. “If the name was Bush — and Jeb is in about sixth place, by the way — and he was getting 28 and 32 percent, it would be all over.”
(Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is in fourth place in the RCP national average, though he was sixth in the most recent major national survey, from Fox News.)
Whether the negative media attention truly harms Trump is a complicated question, however.
“The problem with the media is that the voters who support Trump hold the media in contempt. So for the media to try to pound The Donald just reinforces the idea that Trump is correct, and is the hero for a lot of people who are dissatisfied,” said Tobe Berkovitz, a Boston University professor who specializes in political communications.
Berkovitz and other independent observers are careful to note that they are not predicting that Trump will triumph in the battle for the GOP nomination.
Berkovitz suggested that serious investigations into Trump’s business dealings could throw up damaging information.
Jensen of PPP suggested that “eventually voters are going to get tired of his act.” Mellman, the Democratic pollster, noted that “the fact that he has some staying power doesn’t mean the staying power is permanent.”
Still, the virtually-unanimous view is that, regardless of the latest headlines, the Trump phenomenon is not over, by a long shot.
“You can think of all kinds of reasons why Trump might not get the nomination,” said Stephen Craig, a University of Florida political science professor and an expert on public opinion. “But the poll results we are seeing now? Those shifts aren’t enough to hang anything on.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/255032-media-thumps-trump-but-...
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No matter what the media says he is not going anywhere.
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Boehner ally rips Cruz
Greg NashBy Bradford Richardson - 09/27/15 09:52 AM EDT
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) on Sunday slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for celebrating the resignation of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Cole, a Boehner ally, called Cruz’s remarks “classless and tasteless and counterproductive.”ADVERTISEMENT
“This is a guy that for 25 years have a distinguished record in the House – I’m talking about Boehner, certainly not talking about Sen. Cruz – again, who got real tax cuts, real spending reductions, real entitlement reform in divided government,” Cole said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“I would stack his record of accomplishment up against any of these people who are being critical of him.”
“What have they done? Nothing,” he added.
Cruz reveled in the news of Boehner’s resignation at the Values Voter Summit on Friday.
“Yesterday, John Boehner was Speaker of the House,” Cruz said to a cheering crowd. “You all come to town and somehow that changes."
Cole, who was on the Fox News program with Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a Freedom Caucus member, said anti-establishment Republicans in the House don’t understand how American government works.
“We live in an era of divided government and in a system of checks and balances, and if you don’t understand that –” he said as Mulvaney cut him off.
Boehner on Friday announced he would step down at the end of October.
http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/255081-boehner-ally-r...
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