Upon reflection I think this is actually a good thing for Bachmann to be doing. It’s totally pointless and will lead to nowhere which is good.
This keeps her and her crazy notions away from legislation that could do actual harm.
This is kind of awesome:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-04/john-boehners-hapless-tea-party-opposition
Final step: Pulling it off. Here’s where things went truly, hilariously awry. Any good coup depends on stealth. But on Thursday, an enterprising Politico photographer snapped Representative Tim Huelskamp sitting in open session reading from his iPad—not making this up—the entire roster of the plot against Boehner. Just so there was no mistaking that he was up to no good, the document was entitled “YOU WOULD BE FIRED IF THIS GOES OUT.” Not making that up either.
Worse still, half the roster on Huelskamp’s iPad lost their nerve and bailed out. In the end, only nine Republicans broke ranks. Three cast votes for Cantor (who was visibly disgusted), two for recently ousted Representative Allen West, and one for a former U.S. comptroller general. Several of the plotters even voted for each other. Boehner was reelected Speaker.
What does it mean to “fire” a congressman?
I suspect that this was a message for congressional staff, not for any U.S. representative.
I assume that refers to congressional aides and staffers rather than the congresscritters themselves. They could lose their committee assignments and stuff, though. In 1993 Gingrich saw to it that everyone that joined a coup against him had about as much influence in the House as the custodial workers.
ETA: ninjaed.
Or maybe removed from any committee?
Disgusted that 3 broke ranks? Or disgusted that only 3 broke ranks?
Has anyone come up with the name “Cantor Won’t” for him? Because that’s the only real question I have for him, and I suspect I know the answer.
I was wondering that too.
Just, y’know, disgusted.
Probably both.
I assumed that it was because only 3 broke. But…I guess the article doesn’t really make that clear. I guess in the First Step paragraph, it says that Cantor didn’t really want the job, so maybe he was just disgusted by the shenanigans?
It’s a wonder those clowns win elections. Is it really just Koch Brothers’ money? Would the whole teahadist movement fall apart without that financial underpinning?
Don’t you just love those christians who want to make their religion the official one? An Indiana state senator, who also happens to be the chairman of the Senate education committee, is trying once more to give school districts the power to mandate recitation of the lord’s prayer every morning. The good news is that his fellow republicans apparently don’t think much of this, either, and the bill has been assigned to a committee “often considered a graveyard for legislation according to the Indianapolis Star.”
Wow. How do you get assigned to *that *committee? And is that a good thing, or a bad thing? Either way, it sounds like it’s good for the congresscritter’s golf game. "Say John…haven’t been able to get on the course and work on my slice – can I get on the Legislative Graveyard committee?
I came here to post that.
Oh, well. Let’s just scroll through thinkprogress.org and see what else there is.
Hey, Louie Gohmert says an assault weapons ban could outlaw hammers!
I like to feel like I’ve contributed something to the thread.
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I hope you enjoyed your stay. You won’t be here much longer.
It’s, almost certainly, already illegal to carry a hammer in Texas if you intend to use it as a weapon,
CMC
Also if you intend to use a box of them in place of a brain.
Well, maybe not in Texas.