Boehner starts handing out punishment for dissenters

Tide1986

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Well, these were the right two to retaliate against:

Rules Chairman Pete Sessions of Texas, suggested Tuesday night that “it became apparent to a number of people that there seemed to be a problem” with Nugent’s and Webster’s willingness to play with the team. And on the Rules Committee, which is often referred to as “the speaker’s committee,” teamwork is a priority.
California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, a staunch Boehner ally and the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested getting a spot on the committee is the speaker’s prerogative.“It’s the speaker’s committee,” Nunes said. “It’s his committee that he won outright, so you can’t have people on there that are then gonna vote against rules, and they did it without telling the speaker and, quite frankly, without telling the rest of the conference, which they had a responsibility to do. … A lot of people around here have learned that if you don’t have 218 votes, you give control to [Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi.”
 

TIDE-HSV

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And this is surprising how? It's the standard rules of the game. Take a stand, you'd better be ready to fall on your sword (and take your constituents with you...
 

Al A Bama

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If I were retaliated against like that, when he needed my vote on a specific important bill that he wanted passed, he wouldn't find it!

He'd get my vote when a certain place freezes over!
 

Displaced Bama Fan

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If I were retaliated against like that, when he needed my vote on a specific important bill that he wanted passed, he wouldn't find it!

He'd get my vote when a certain place freezes over!
He won't need their votes. He's more aligned with Pelosi and that ilk. He'll get all the votes he needs with a little compromise to appease his fellow democrats.
 

crimsonaudio

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If I were retaliated against like that, when he needed my vote on a specific important bill that he wanted passed, he wouldn't find it!

He'd get my vote when a certain place freezes over!
And that 's the point - that's how DC runs - it's not about what's best for the country, it's political games an dower grabs.
 

TommyMac

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If I were retaliated against like that, when he needed my vote on a specific important bill that he wanted passed, he wouldn't find it!

He'd get my vote when a certain place freezes over!
What if it was in the best interest of the nation? I think the key word here is "retaliated." Seems like you're depending on him being the bigger man.
 

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