Robert Costa
Tom Price may challenge Boehner for Speaker if fiscal cliff deal goes south
“Price is the person we’re all watching,” says an aide close to House leadership. “We know he’s frustrated, but we don’t know much else.”
In an interview with National Review Online, Price won’t speculate about his future, but he acknowledges his growing uneasiness. “My concern is that within our conference, conservatives, who are a majority, don’t have a proper platform,” he says. “That’s true at the leadership table and on the steering committee.”
Price says this as an outsider, a position to which he is unaccustomed. Last month, he lost a bid to be conference chairman. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, a Boehner ally, beat him. The final tally, which was conducted by secret ballot, was reportedly close.
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Boehner needs to be primaried out of the party. Him and several others.
astonerii on December 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Won’t it be TOO late if this would happen with Price? The damage will already be done by boehner?
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letget on December 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Price (and others) should challenge the Weeping Boner NO MATTER WHAT. The Weeper of the House has to go. He’s awful. An idiot. A stooge. An imbecile who couldn’t negotiate his way out of a wet paper bag. He was put in power to stop Barky and the lunatic left, not to play golf with the Indonesian and rubber stamp the left’s ridiculous budgetless spending spree. The House was supposed to put the brakes on this stuff 2 years ago. That was what 2010 was all about.
But, the Weeping Boner was more interested in attacking the Tea Party and “understanding” the lunatic Occupoopers (who didn’t even understand themselves). He let the feral govenrment continue on without a budget, never pushing Reid to do his Constitutional duty (or let the feral government start to shut down, as it should have until the Senate did its budget work). The Weeper stalled everything so that we are stuck with ObamaScare and he helped to tank the 2012 elections (the last chance to restore America) with his assault on the base.
The Weeping Boner HAS TO GO! NOW!!
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 10, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Yeah.. Price didn’t almost win because he is powerful and popular. It was close because Ryan endorsed him. Very much doubt he is going to get that endorsement against Boehner since it really isn’t in Ryan’s interest to do so.
Illinidiva on December 10, 2012 at 1:34 PM
The progressive plan.
Destroy the traditional family to create easily led future generations. Check
Infiltrate and take over the education system and indoctrinate the children. Check
Infiltrate the media and prevent any other ideas from being presented. Check
Get the American people addicted to and dependent upon big government. Check
Take over the opposition party, have it promote the same policies as the primary party.
Thus ensuring regression back to feudalism, or in other words, slavery.
Congratulations useful idiots. The democrats have officially gotten you to support their goals while the whole time thinking you were voting for something different.
astonerii on December 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM
To Hades with Boehner.
Schadenfreude on December 10, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Get serious. I live in the district to the south of Boehner’s district. He ain’t going to get primaried. Members of the House will have to knock him out themselves. Screw appearances, and get him out.
BuckeyeSam on December 10, 2012 at 1:45 PM
OMG! I didn’t vote in that race up here in Washington state but think it was on my ballot, I left that choice blank. Next time I’m going to vote for her opponent for sure now that I know she’s a Boehner ally!
FloatingRock on December 10, 2012 at 2:07 PM
He’s a no exceptions pro-lifer, right? Would do good to have him represent GOP and speak publicly, a lot of public speaking.
lester on December 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Get serious. He’s negotiating from the minority, he’s going to have to concede some things if he wants ANY part of his agenda included in the eventual deal. If you primary him or put some extremist in charge of the party, any chance of working to get our agenda passed in the next few years will be impossible. Of course, Tom Price voted for the Fiscal Cliff, in that he voted for the spending cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011, and for the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2013, so maybe he isn’t the far right guy he wants us to think he is.
Weeping Boner? Thats cute. I think the best part about it is that you stole it from the Democratic Underground.
vegconservative on December 10, 2012 at 2:12 PM
We need to primary Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, a Boehner ally and RINO.
FloatingRock on December 10, 2012 at 2:13 PM
What a surprise! A Republican is an ally of the Republican Speaker of the House! Thats one I didn’t see coming, for sure.
vegconservative on December 10, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Also, I used to like Marsha Blackburn but she is no longer tea party, she is entrenched in the corrupt GOP establishment and has made herself part of the problem.
FloatingRock on December 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Someone has look out for the babeez!*
*till the second after they are born, after that “no soup for you!”
Pablo Honey on December 10, 2012 at 2:17 PM
I didn’t steal anything from anyone. I’ve been using that term for years (since he assumed the position) and you point out a thread somewhere that’s a couple of months old? Here’s an earlier reference for you (that you could have easily looked up) though not nearly the first time I used it:
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 10, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Boehner and his allies are just as dangerous and little different from the Democrats and need to be opposed for the same reasons. You need to zoom out of the partisan propaganda battle fought in the MSM and look at the big picture, and realize that both parties really and truly are the same, except on a few peripheral hot-button issues they use to divide the nation.
The Democrat and Republican establishments are, collectively, the problem that America faces. The problem we face as a nation, which is destroying our economy and our future, is the Democrat and Republican elite.
But have no fear, there are a few good men and women in Congress, the people who still believe in limited government and the Constitution, and if we support them and oppose all the bad guys on both sides, we can still save America. In fact I think we’ll have a number of Democrats on our side, (or would have 10 years ago anyway), if we are clearly committed to taking a turn toward more responsible government. It’s something that the people crave and it’s the moral high ground that is easiest to defend and advance.
FloatingRock on December 10, 2012 at 2:25 PM
crying John is a disgrace and should be voted out of office and any leadership position. The guy doesn’t deserve my respect nor any taxpayer’s respect. He is as bad if not worse than Pelosi. At least with Pelosi she stabs you in the the chest not the back like John has done for 2 years. VOTE HIM OUT
unseen on December 10, 2012 at 2:43 PM
i’m sorry I thought that is what a mother and father were for? YOu know a marriage to raise children, provide for them make a family. When did it become the government’s job to look out for a baby? It is government’s job and has been since the founding of the country to ensure LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS. Means first rule keep the baby alive.
unseen on December 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM
the GOP is the majoirty in the house not minority. They control all bills. Without the speaker of the house not one Obama agenda item can get through the HOuse. The GOP is the majority in the house not the mionority the speaker is not dealing for the minority but the majority. Without the House Obama’s entire agenda comes to a stand still. Its call gridlock. The House could at any moment decide to shut the entire federal government down. The house could vote to cut off funding for the armed services to have Obama recall the trrops, to cut off in effect any Obama wish list item. It’s tgime people like you stop listening to the media and read up on the power that the house weilds. The pseaker has all the power he needs to deal with Obama on equal footing.
unseen on December 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM
yep well said ….
conservative tarheel on December 10, 2012 at 3:11 PM
I think I know 4 who would vote for him. Just need 11 more to block Boehner.
cptacek on December 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM
At this stage, I would settle for ABB, anything but Boehner.
The reason is, Boehner has become predictable. The opposition knows his breaking point, and they use it repeatedly. B has decided he cannot take certain losses
Get someone new in there. Let the boehner go back to honorably representing his district. He gets re elected. They like him
Whoever goes against Boehner will be put through the meat grinder by the MSM. They will try to cast opposition as another Newt, to de fang the new leadership
Plus, would you want to meet Cantor in a dark alley, after displacing Boehner?
You have the Tea Party, The Boehner crowd, and the Don’t make waves crowd. Two out of three is a coalition, but the Boehner army will be less afraid to fight disloyalists, than to oppose the WH.
entagor on December 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM