IS THE PALMETTO STATE’S GOP DELEGATION STILL A “CONSERVATIVE” FIREWALL?
|| By FITSNEWS || It’s decision time for “Republicans” in Washington, D.C. – especially members of South Carolina’s GOP congressional delegation. On January 6, they must choose between their party’s establishment and the taxpayers they’re supposed to be representing.
And their voters matter … tremendously.
Here’s the lay of the land: As our friend Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government (ALG) noted in this column, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner has lost the support of rank-and-file GOP voters.
“Fully 60 percent of Republicans surveyed want someone new to be Speaker,” Manning wrote, referring to a new poll of GOP voters. “Discontent among Republican House members over the handling of a variety of issues during the lame-duck session, most notably the decision to fully fund President Obama’s top three priorities — ObamaCare, the Environmental Protection Agency and his executive amnesty — have created a rebellion within his own conference.”
Good. We’ve never had much use for Boehner, who has been utterly worthless except in two areas: Capitulating … and getting drunk.
We’re glad he’s once again being challenged – and we hope the GOP can muster the votes necessary to oust him.
Will some of those votes come from the Palmetto State, though?
We sure hope so … although the early signs aren’t good. Boehner reportedly has at least three of the six “Republican” congressional votes from South Carolina already locked up – while three more are said to be undecided (and actually leaning toward Boehner).
Not good …
In 2011 the Palmetto State’s GOP delegation in the U.S. House – Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy, Mick Mulvaney, Tim Scott and Joe Wilson – emerged as a principled, consistent pro-taxpayer voting block. Duncan, Gowdy, Mulvaney and Scott were all swept into office on fiscally conservative platforms in the Tea Party wave election of 2010 – and their arrival forced Wilson (a longtime fiscal liberal) to start tacking to the right as well.
Several things have happened since then, though.
First, liberal “Republican” Tom Rice was elected in 2012 from the newly created seventh congressional district. His arrival – as we predicted – enabled Wilson to start voting with the liberal wing of the GOP again. Also, Scott has moved to the U.S. Senate and been replaced by former S.C. governor Mark Sanford – who has been a source of nothing but drama and scandal since returning to Washington.
According to our sources, Rice and Wilson are rock solid pro-Boehner voters – as they were in 2013 when an attempt was made to oust the liberal Speaker. We’re also told Gowdy is planning to vote for Boehner – which is as surprising as it is disappointing to hear.
The remaining three lawmakers – Duncan, Mulvaney and Sanford – will be “interesting to watch on Tuesday,” according to one D.C. source.
Frankly, none of them should show any hesitation in giving Boehner the “thumbs down.” After all, national “Republicans” pulled the plug on supporting Sanford during his 2013 special election campaign against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch – while Duncan got the shaft in his bid to land a seat on the U.S. House’s Energy and Commerce committee.
Why would either of those lawmakers now show loyalty to Boehner? They shouldn’t …
Mulvaney? He was the only member of the South Carolina GOP delegation who didn’t back Boehner’s 2013 reelection – meaning the die is already cast for him.
Of course for a coup to succeed, someone has to stand up as an alternative.
“No one in conservative movement is happy with Boehner,” a source close to several S.C. delegation members told FITS. “But the problem has been the senior conservative leadership hasn’t stepped up to challenge him.”
Some have contemplated such a challenge – only to leave conservatives in the lurch at the moment of truth.
“Jeb Hensarling for example,” our source explained. “(He) keeps teasing conservatives that he could run and (so) folks hold off on running because of him. Then he balks and it’s too late in the game for a replacement.”
That’s too bad … Boehner won his job thanks to a Tea Party revolt against the administration of Barack Obama. Yet all he’s done since assuming power is accommodate Obama’s agenda. “Republicans” don’t really want to continue down that path, do they?
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We will vote however the special interests that pay us tell us to vote. Why bother wondering?
Whores are whores, but one can always place bets on how many johns they “do business with” in a given period of time, or how much effort they put into pleasing their clients.
Yes, place bets. That’s about as much influence as you liberals have here in the south. You must like the way we do things, if you choose to live here. We appreciate your patronage, stooge.
The SC delegation’s votes matter tremendously? We’re screwed.
It’s OK, Gohmert has thrown his hat in the ring. (It’s really hard to type that without laughing). Just when things couldn’t get any dumber, out trots this frighteningly idiotic blowhard. Thanks a lot GOP.
A poll by The Blaze has Gohmert running a distant second after . . . . wait for it — Trey Gowdy!!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/04/louie-gohmert-is-officially-gunning-for-john-boehners-job/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
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The race for Head Goober is heating up!
I’m going to miss Boenher almost as much as I miss my boner.
I don’t like making plans for the day, because then the word “premeditated” gets thrown around in the courtroom
“I don’t like making plans for the day, because then the word “premeditated” gets thrown around in the courtroom”
Excellent!
Ha Ha Ha….That is very funny. I laughed for almost 10 minutes at that. Smart way to sum up the ridiculousness in courts and with law these days.
…their arrival forced Wilson (a longtime fiscal liberal) to start tacking to the right as well.
TBG doesn’t like the cut of Wilson’s jib.
No one who holds the speakers job is ever going to be popular.
Boehner needs to go but we do not know the most inter workings of the House. I think Boehner controls appointments and you have to walk carefully. We second guessers need to be careful and they need to make sure they have the votes before just jumping out there. I am for term limits which could handle most of these problems but the Speaker can cut SC out almost completely if he desires, I think!
Your friend Rick Manning???….
LMAO: a poll conducted by Pat Caddell and EMC Research, commissioned by the People’s Poll…is where we learn 60% of Republicans loathe the FITS-Sanford arm of the GOP…
Plagiarize and Lie much????? …Hahahaha…How much did Manning pay you to lie for him and steal other peoples’ work???
The media and FITS are scared to death of Boehner getting S#!t-canned…but if America is going to heal itself, the FITS-McCain types MUST go…
Liberal-Tarians like Boehner need their @$$#@$ booted to the curb…I think the New Congress knows they were sent to DC because people HATE the Disaster of Obama. That’s bad news for the Ravenel-Ervin-FITS-Sanford-Davis wing of the GOP/SCDP.
We must OBLITERATE liberals….or America is not worth having…
You might want to start looking for a new country to move to. It’ll have to be a non-socialist, freedom loving country with no liberals. Maybe, Somalia? Yemen?
Yeah Rice and Wilson are Big “liberals”
Silliness.
As to who the SC Delegation votes for?
Who gives a damn?
Boehner will be EASILY ReElected.
But if he doesn’t ….expect to get the S#!t slapped out of your America-Hating Failed Liberal @$$…
The voters kicked your Stupid @$$ in the N*t$ on Nov. 4. And if the GOP does not rip off Obama’s head and crap down his neck……we’ll keep voting out the Democrat @$$-kissers, until we get our country back from you failed and worthless – hand-out begging – pieces of S#!t…
Freedom will never sleep..and liberty will never quit…that’s how we BUILT this country…we’ll not let dullard cowards and slugs like you take it away from us…
Awesome, you’re back! Had to show some friends your shtick. Hilarious as always. You nail the ignorant, angry redneck who’s to stupid to realize how dumb he actually is, perfectly. This trolling character is truly brilliant. Kudos.
Holy Crap! That IS hilarious. I’m going to copy his comments and post them as my Facebook statuses from now on. My friends will think I’m having a stroke!
Be careful, they may think your ignorant @$$ grew a F*#king brain if you plagiarize me…
Most of you liberals are brain-dead Dumb@$$#$, who simply copy and paste the DNC, CNN or MSNBC to show how “smart” you are….
You still think Obama is doing a good job don’t you???…how ’bout post that foolish Bull-S#!t on your FB page, and see how many “friends” take a crap on you…LMAO…
Cool! He did one especially for me! I like how he won’t type out the actual cuss words. Nice touch. Like GrandTango might get in trouble with his mom. Does the GrandTango character live with his parents? I’m assuming he’s middle aged…
I picture a fat, slobby, middle aged wannabe redneck guy sat at his older desktop in a corner of the living room, FoxNews on constant rotation in the background. Yelling at his elderly mother when she asks what he’s doing all day on that there computer…
Ha! You forgot unemployed. GrandTango would think that it’s the fault of immigrants and Obama, of course. Got to blame Obama for everything.
“Honey, what are so upset about?”
“Mom! Obama is destroying the gosh danged country and all you can do is ask if I want another Hot Pocket!”
“I know, Dear….”
How many handles do you have Squishy…???…
Hahahaha….Do you think no one else notices that you go into exile after I slap you down… and then these even more implosion-based posts appear…LMAO…You’re not fooling anyone… (>:
Squishy? Who is that? This is my first time here. Sorry, don’t get that one. Wish I could see the exchanges GrandTango has with Squishy. Just pretend I’m Squishy and let me have it!
One
Boz on a roll.
Only blogger I have seen on FITS that says he lives with his mother is ‘Buz’?
Grand Tango just says he lives with his landlord (who’s actually his mom).
Keep it goin Boz.
Ha, he’s got a 15″ CRT and a clicky-clack keyboard with all the letters worn off. He sits on an old Office Max office chair that he bought on Black Friday 16 years ago that has the back busted so it flops back and forth and has to sit on a pillow because all of the spilled Diet Pepsi and Cheetos dust has turned the original cushion into a brick.
“Ma, get off the phone… I need to use the internet!!!”
Not bad Boz.
No one thinks you have a brain, GT. You are the one who posts foolish bullshit. But, by all means, carry on!
[slapping the shit out of Damned Tango]
How sad when you are so intellectually bankrupt you have to copy others comments on a blog to your Facebook. Weird.
I would copy them because they are so funny. Obviously, there is nothing intellectual about the GrandTango shtick. That’s the whole point. It’s weird that people here think it’s serious. GrandTango is most likely some college student just goofing on southern conservatives. Doing a great job of it, judging by the amount of attention given to the clearly comical posts.
You’re like a drunk Clemson fan at a bar. You come up w/ some Stupid-@$$ idea, that you fancy as creative…and everybody is laughing behind your back because you’re so F*#king ignorant…
And you just keep repeating it, because you think people did not hear your brain-dead Bull-$#!* idea….They see it…you don’t need to keep repeating it…
People are not responding because you’re a F*#king idiot…LMAO..
You need to mix the ranting up more. GrandTango will become stale quickly if you repeat the same stuff over and over. Let’s say I’m a homosexual. What does GrandTango think of that?
He’ll start hinting about your contact information.
Funny stuff Boz.
He bet the farm on Clemson over Oklahoma. How much did you
loose, smart guy?
I won big. SEC sucks. ROLL BUCKS!!!!!!
Can any of you homo’s EVER discuss an issue?
They don’t get it. Boehner set Obama up.No immigration reform and ‘chipping’ away at Obamacare until SCOTUS shuts down the funding for expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare.
11 senate seats, 75 house seats, 9 governorships and a gain of over 1500 seats in state legislatures since Obama was elected and all they want to talk about tonight is your penis.
Carry on.
Flip and Tango went up to the Hill to smoke a little GOP leaf,
Flip got high and pulled down his fly,
and Tango cried out, “Where’s the beef?”
Didn’t you fags hire a football coach at Chapin that hung Tampons in the lockers of high school football players in MB?
Wings, Yingalings and Tampons for Tom Ervin’s money givin bitch.
Flip be nimble,
Flip be quick,
Flip jumped over the candlestick.
But Flip wasn’t fucking nimble,
And Flip wasn’t fucking quick,
So Flip went crying home with a charbroiled dick!
Further amplifying the TOTAL SILLINESS of this article?
The American Conservative Union,the folks who sponsor CPAC ,the annual gabfest for various and sundry Right Wingers attempting to “out conservative” each other rated Wilson at 88% “Right” votes last term and Rice at 80%.Real”liberals” that duo!
Thenagain ,even the ACU might not be Right Wing enough for the various Republicans,Conservatives, Libertarians ,Non Republican Republicans who only vote For Republicans or,my peronal favorites, the Right Wingers here who pour forth that crap day in and day out ,then disclaim any connection with the Republican Party, while labeling as”RINOS” ,those they disagree within a party they are not members of,
And the Follies continue!
Mulvaney said in a Facebook Q/A this week he was voting for Boehner this time.
Re-Selection is assured, then.
Mick can out himself out of the Governor’s race. He won’t make it through the primary.
Damn Liberal!
Rice has always had a boner for Boehner.
Does Tinabu have a dick? A cock sucker like you would know, wouldn’t you? Did she show it to ya at the dd and did ‘joe’ and ‘dakota’ suck that ‘green’ piece of meat?
Was that lunch that day?
Your mind is severely diseased.
psycho
So sorry to hear Gowdy is voting for that cad Boehner. Gowdy was becoming one of my heroes.
For the rest of the delegation? Who cares. They never make a difference with their votes. They are on one side or the other of these pre-engineered, lopsided votes, so who the hell knows what they believe.
How’s that super double serious Bengahzi hearing going? When can we expect the impeachment?
So you expect one man to fight the whole crowd and win, according to your standards, and on your timetable?
Gowdy has done great work on an issue that ought not be partisan. He is but one man,
BENGHAZI,!!!!!
He has other genius Americans like you and a handful of others to help “fight the whole crowd”, ie. reality.
See my post above
Except for grandstanding in front of the camera (like all good trial lawyers do), he ain’t done shit since he became a congressman except change his hair style on a regular schedule
Obviously you don’t know Gowdy well at all.
The only thing Trey Gowdy is for is for himself
The post about Gowdy being an ass-kisser is spot on.
You do have to give credit to FITS for actually posting on something pertinent.
ALL eyes are on the House. If the new House does not attack Obama and the Democrat Party w/ a vengeance…its stay will be short-lived…and we’ll send more troops in to do the job…
Where’s all the unnecessary censoring and capitalization? It’s like the GrandTango trademark. Not one of your better ones.
He’s had the shit slapped out of him.
By his mom who now has to approve all of his comments or she’s going to start buying the Pop Tarts without the frosting.
Squishy is Boz. Hilarious.
Sorry, you’re wrong. Boz is much funnier.
Ok Boz. :-)
Okay Grand Tango.
lol Boz.
Boner’s got flaccid support.
Boenher has got to go. He is sucking Obama and kissing his ass big time. Gowdy’s history, all tough talk but a total wuss. Scott is just in it for the money, so he has to put on an act.
Exactly how many in the SC House delegation or the majority of House delegations from the vast majority of states are NOT in it for the money?
What they make from the House is the only way these people can make the amount of money they make. Plus, all those delicious benefits and, OMG, the perks! the junkets! Just ask the Junket King Sanford, traveling to cross that line across the globe. And, Wilson and his wife and their foreign knick knack fetish satisfied. And, we haven’t touched on campaign funds to pay for every suit they wear and more.
Do you think this bunch could make the kind of money they make now if they had jobs where they had to prove that they had talent, skills and smarts for it?
All the GOP members have had to do for the last 20+ years is memorize Frank Luntz focus group manufactured talking points and they’re off and running…us and the country…into the ground.
Politics…the way to fame and fortune for the truly marginal.
You’re surprised Gowdy would vote for Boehner? Who the f*ck you think put him up for the last Benghazi joke show? Besides, Gowdy never had a thought of his own more than “Who’s ass do I kiss next?”
I contacted my Rep. and pleaded w/ him NOT to re-elect Boehner as Speaker.
Unless we TOTALLY oppose Obama, with Conservatives, America will continue to suffer the Disaster of the Democrat Party. We cannot afford that any longer.
Heard Gohmert is running. Seems right up your alley.
Heard Obama F*#ked up the country…Seems right up your alley….
The stock market is at an all time high, as are corporate profits. Economy is humming right along. The country is recovering from the last administration’s total wrecking of our economy. What country do you live in?
No surprise the Village Idiot liberal Wilson is a Boehner butt-boy. Think this stuttering suck-up is going to jeopardize his seat on Foreign Affairs AND chairmanship of Armed Services subcommittee that lets him and Roxie vacation around the world at taxpayers expense?? Hell no! Wilson and his backstabbing, sleazy sidekick Butch “Bitch” Wallace need to go in 2016. . . .
Boehner does his job well. He is the scapegoat for whenever Republicans don’t get their way, or do something the voters don’t like, or, well, just need someone to bash when they’re pissed off. Same as Mitch McConnell.
Other dumbasses may chomp at the bit for the position because it makes them look more important, but somehow I doubt they actually want the job. No, better to let Boehner take the beatings on their behalf.
A state that lives off federal welfare handouts for roads, education, local jobs because they can’t attract private investment – Hell yes they’ll all vote for Boehner – else they’re districts don’t get the welfare. What a stupid question.