Attendees of a Colorado fundraiser for Rep. Scott Tipton (R) are reporting that Republican Speaker John Boehner called presidential hopeful Ted Cruz a “jackass.” According to The Daily Caller, two attendees reported that Boehner said that he was glad that the 2016 presidential race kept “that jackass” out of Washington and away from telling him […]
Fed up with John Boehner, pro-life Republicans are staging a sit-in at his office later this month. At issue is the “The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” (H.R. 36) which would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy but would provide for exceptions in the case of rape or incest. The act was stalled in […]
Speaker John Boehner appears to be ready, willing and able to give House Minority Leader and former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the keys to the House of Representatives – and has done so twice in less than a week. At issue is the continued funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which some Republicans […]
The Tea Party meltdown over John Boehner’s re-election as House Speaker is in full throttle already with several conservative websites, such as World Net Daily (WND) and Tea Party News Network (TPNN) publishing hate-filled articles about their failed coup and the impending demise of the Republican Party. The ultra-conservative yahoos at WND were particularly vested […]
As one might expect after all the bluster from the Tea Party and other extremely conservative groups, John Boehner is facing some opposition in his bid for re-election as Speaker of the House. The Washington Post reported after the January 2013 vote that Boehner “survived a mini-rebellion among the most conservative members of the GOP […]