IF YOU COME AT THE SPEAKER YOU BEST ONLY MISS, LIKE, 3 OR 4 TIMES…5 TOPS
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) January 6, 2015
Boehner dismissed the challenge to his speakership, and in the end, only 20 or so of the village idiots voted against him. Accordingly, they are already being beaten about the head and neck:
After he secured his third term as speaker Tuesday afternoon, losing 25 votes on the House floor to some relative-unknown members of the Republican Conference, Boehner moved swiftly to boot two of the insurgents from the influential Rules Committee. That could be just the start of payback for the speaker’s betrayers, who might see subcommittee chairmanships and other perks fall away in the coming months.
Boehner’s allies have thirsted for this kind of action from the speaker, who say he’s let people walk all over him for too long and is too nice to people who are eager to stab him in the back. The removal of Florida Reps. Daniel Webster and Rich Nugent from Rules was meant as a clear demonstration that what Boehner and other party leaders accepted during the last Congress is no longer acceptable, not with the House’s biggest GOP majority in decades.
Should be fun to watch, because their incentives are not within the house power structure. Their incentives are on the wingnut welfare/AM radio/Regnery press crowd.