~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
Three months after Florida Congressmen Richard Nugent and Daniel Webster joined two dozen other GOP reps in a failed attempt to oust John Boehner as Speaker of the House, Boehner now in his third term as Speaker has exacted his revenge on the two Florida reps by booting them from key positions in the House Rules Committee.
Reps. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., will fill the positions, meaning that Webster and Nugent have been permanently ousted. The two lawmakers served on the Rules Committee in the 113th Congress, but were excluded from the roster approved by lawmakers in the hours after they voted against Boehner….
Congressional representatives Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and TedYoho (R-Florida) announced this weekend that they would challenge John Boehner for Speaker of the House when 114th Congress convenes this week. H/t The Blaze.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) spoke to Tucker Carlson on Fox & Friends about the need for someone to step up and run against Speaker Boehner in this new Congress. He echoed what many House Members are saying that there needs to be new leadership, not just the status quo and he is happy to accept the challenge.
In a daring move just days before the next election for House speaker, Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., today offered himself as an alternative to incumbent Speaker John Boehner, the party establishment’s choice….
‘The American people have allowed us to choose who is best suited to lead the House by electing a deep bench of diverse and qualified members,’ Yoho said in a Facebook message. ‘Our Republic is built on choice, and if needed, I would stand up to give our members that option….’
Barack Obama…arrogantly rewrote immigration law from the Oval Office at the expense of Congress, the Constitution, and our sovereignty. Again, almost without a peep out of Republican Leadership. Our Founding Fathers presumed that each of the three branches of government would jealously preserve, protect, and defend their Constitutional authority. It takes a Speaker who both understands and believes his sworn duty is to use all the powers of his office to defend and restore the proper constitutional balance of powers. Instead, our Speaker has placed Obama’s executive amnesty on the path to permanent full funding.
Conservatives have seen their initiatives blocked by the Speaker while he twisted arms for Obama….
Like President Obama, Speaker Boehner must have heard voices that didn’t vote. Together they crafted the CR/Omnibus, a $1.1 trillion spending bill which funded the government for 10 months and blocked our newest elected Republicans from advancing conservative policy and delivering on campaign promises. With this vote, Republicans gave away the best tool available to rein in our liberal activist President: the power of the purse. The power of the purse is Congress’ Constitutional strength….
The CR/Omnibus legislation sufficiently undermines the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution that it warrants my pending vote against the Speaker. Speaker Boehner went too far when he teamed with Obama to advance this legislation. He relinquished the power of the purse, and with it he lost my vote.
Rest assured, this is just the beginning to challenge the speakership of John Boehner, a Progressive Republican establishment politician.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Thursday charged his own Republican leadership with abusing House procedures this week in order to quickly pass a defense bill that no one had time to read, and an immigration bill that was watered down in a way that favors President Barack Obama.
Gohmert ran unsuccessfully to be the chair of the House Republican Study Committee, a group that reflects the views of more conservative Republican members. But he said perhaps his loss was fortunate, since it frees him up to criticize GOP leaders when necessary.
‘Maybe it’s fortunate,’ Gohmert said on the House floor. ‘I’m not the RSC chair, so I’m here to complain about the abuses when they happen by our own leadership.’
The huge defense bill authorizes a total of $557.1 billion in spending for fiscal year 2015. As they so often do, this bill passed easily in a bipartisan 300-119 vote on Thursday, and the Senate is expected to take it up next week.
But Gohmert said that while he thinks there are many good things in the huge bill, it was only cleared by the House Rules Committee Wednesday night, which meant no one had time to read and understand the bill.
‘We didn’t have the three days that were originally promised by Republicans,’ he said. ‘I voted no against a process that takes something as important as our national defense, and said, ‘here you go, here’s the whole thing, trust us, vote for it.’’
‘You can’t push a bill this important on us,’ he added. ‘I couldn’t in good conscious vote yes.’
In the final vote, 32 Republicans voted against the bill. During the week, many Republicans complained about language in the defense bill that designates hundreds of thousands of acres of land as protected wilderness areas, and creates new national parks. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have both criticized the House bill for those reasons.
The immigration bill that the House passed yesterday would nullify Obama’s executive action on immigration, but it was criticized by many Republicans because it’s a bill the Senate doesn’t have to take up, and in fact, the Senate will not consider it. Many Republicans are still hoping that the House takes up a must-pass spending bill next week that prevents the administration from implementing Obama’s immigration plan.
But Republicans like Gohmert were also critical of the substance of the bill. Gohmert noted that the bill was re-written in the House Rules Committee to say the president cannot exempt whole classes of people from immigration laws, except if there are ‘humanitarian purposes where the aliens are at imminent risk of serious bodily harm or death.’
Gohmert said he cosponsored the original bill, but that he could not support this change. He said the exception language might even be used by Obama to justify Obama’s recent action if it ever became law.
‘The bill that I was willing to cosponsor completely changed in the addition of that exception,’ he said.
Just before the House vote, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he also opposed language in the changed bill that seems to suggest that the executive branch might in some cases be able to exempt whole classes of people from immigration law, and said that language makes the bill ambiguous. King was one of the three Republicans who voted ‘present.’
During Friday’s post-election day luncheon at the White House attended by Barack Obama and leaders of the Republican Party and Progressives, a clearly irritated Obama in the midst of a contentious debate between the parties shut down an attempt by Joe Biden to discuss immigration with John Boehner.
A Republican aide reported to the Associated Press that John Boehner asked Obama for more time to work on the legislation.
Underscoring his intent to take executive action by year’s end, Obama responded that he has been waiting for Republicans to act since 2013 (no mention of all the bills collecting dust in Harry Reid’s office).
Biden then asked Boehner how long would Republicans need and it was at this moment that Obama angrily cut Biden off.
A Progressive aide insisted that Obama was “firm but courteous,” while denying that Obama cut his vice president off…yeah right.
Such actions by Obama would imply one or more of the following, (i) Obama and Biden strategies of implementing immigration differ; (ii) Obama does not intend to collaborate with Republicans on the subject of immigration; (iii) all appearances, photo ops, press conferences, etc. are an illusion aka another Obama deception; and (iv) Obama’s primary goal continues to be one party rule, i.e., the ultimate destruction of the Republican Party.
“….at times like this people try to isolate Israel but we’re here today to stand with Israel not just as a broker or as an observer but as a strong partner and a trusted ally….” John Boehner, National Leadership Assembly for Israel 07282014 (screenshot).
House Speaker John Boehner says the United States must be a strong partner and trusted ally to Israel, not just a peace broker or observer. In a subtle jab at the Obama administration on Monday, Boehner said that means showing solidarity with Israel.
Speaker Boehner’s comments at the National Press Club came as Secretary of State John Kerry has tried to negotiate a humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza war between Hamas and Israel.
Boehner spoke to the National Leadership Assembly for Israel, which was organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
What every American must know as the Benghazi investigation is about to begin involves what happened after the first 9/11 attack. The Patriot Act, was drafted in direct response to attacks on the United States perpetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist agents on 9/11/01. How is it that Philip Kiko, who was part of a group that refused to identify the true enemy of the United States then, all of the sudden the Executive Director of the Committee charged with investigating Benghazi?
As someone who “helped craft the Patriot Act”, Kiko should have understood the matter of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration before crafting it.
It gets even worse. One of the organizations that resides under the umbrella that Kiko is registered to lobby for – Muslim Advocates – has extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, as Shoebat.com has reported.
Kiko must know this. In fact, like Kiko, the President and Executive Director of Muslim Advocates – Farhana Khera – worked directly for a Wisconsin lawmaker as the Patriot Act was being written and debated. Her boss was U.S. Senator Russ Feingold. In her bio, it’s revealed that the Patriot Act was very important to her:
Ms. Khera focused substantially on the Patriot Act, racial and religious profiling, and other civil liberties issues raised by the government’s anti-terrorism policies after September 11, 2001.
Phillip Kiko, who was hired by Smith-Free Group in 2013, is listed as “current employee” of the organization.
It was just a few weeks ago that Progressives threatened to boycott the Benghazi Select Committee when suddenly out of the blue, they reversed their position.
Sudden reversal, of which, immediately brought about suspicions.
Sudden reversal, of which, came only after a plan had been mapped out to protect Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton by ensuring that the truth never surfaces and that unanswered questions remain so while giving cover to the Muslim Brotherhood connection and at the same time discrediting and taking down Trey Gowdy.
John Boehner signed off on the chosen members of the Benghazi Select Committee. That means that Boehner is a party to the cover-up and the plan to destroy Gowdy.
In the end, if Gowdy is discredited, Boehner will not shed a tear.
The American people are supposed to trust Republicans appointed to investigate Benghazi but as it turns out, the Executive Director appointed to the House Select Committee on Benghazi – Philip Kiko – is a lobbyist for the Smith-Free Group, in which his clients include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the radical environmentalist group the Sierra Club, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), National Council of La Raza “the Race” (NCLR), and the National Organization for Women (NOW), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (NLDEF) and others.
And it even gets worse, it also turns out that he lobbied for a group with strong connections to Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S.
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