Louie Gohmert announces challenge to Boehner for Speaker in New Congress

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“I’m putting my name out there today to be another candidate for Speaker,” Gohmert said on "Fox and Friends."
Gohmert said that after “years of broken promises, it’s time for a change.”

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) on Saturday announced that he would not support Boehner for Speaker.

"This is not a personal attack against Mr. Boehner, however, the people desire and deserve a choice," Yoho said in a Facebook post. "In November, they resoundingly rejected the status quo."

“Eventually, the goal is second, third, fourth round, we have enough people that say ‘you know what, it really is time for a change,' ” Gohmert said Sunday. “'You deceived us when you went to Obama and Pelosi to get your votes for the cromnibus. You said you’d fight amnesty tooth an nail. You didn’t, you funded it.' ”

Gohmert said, if elected, he would ”fight amnesty tooth and nail. We’ll use the powers of the purse. We’ll have better oversight. We’ll fight to defund ObamaCare.”

“In 2010, Boehner and other leaders said if you put us in the majority, we will have time to read the bills,” Gohmert said. “That hasn’t happened. We saw that with the cromnibus, again.”

“We’ll get back to appropriating and we will go through regular committee process, so every representative from both parties will have a chance to participate in the process and not have a dictator running things,” he added.

"With a growing Republican majority in the House and a historically high number of liberty-voting fiscal conservatives within it, there is an urgent need replace Speaker Boehner with fresh, bold leadership that better represents the views of the whole caucus," FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said in a statement on Sunday.

“Speaker Boehner has kicked fiscal conservatives off committee positions for voting against his wishes, caved on numerous massive spending bills at the eleventh hour, and abused the legislative process to stomp out opposition by holding surprise votes and giving members little time to actually read the bills before they vote," Kibbe added.

The conservative group will urge activists to contact their representatives ahead of Tuesday’s vote.

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After Boehnner sat down with Obama/Reid and plotted his $1.1 Trillion budget - to completely neuter the new congress and take away their power of the $ pursestrings...

Boehnner has lost all ability to criticize dems/liberals/obama.  He's part of that world now.  Complete.

I LOVE the idea of Boehnner facing a conservative challenge. Kick out mcconnell too in the senate.

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After Boehnner sat down with Obama/Reid and plotted his $1.1 Trillion budget - to completely neuter the new congress and take away their power of the $ pursestrings...

Boehnner has lost all ability to criticize dems/liberals/obama.  He's part of that world now.  Complete.

I LOVE the idea of Boehnner facing a conservative challenge. Kick out mcconnell too in the senate.

They don't come much more conservative than Louie Gohmert, that is for sure.

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They don't come much more conservative than Louie Gohmert, that is for sure.

at this point, it is COMPLETELY fair to call out bullshit RINOs, in congress and their supporters.

They gave obama his $1.1 trillion.   They own this deficit bullshit now, and the amnesty/obamacare funding that comes with it.  And it's not like they rubberstamped obama's budget - they wrote the motherfcker, and used obama to help sell it lol - just to prevent Cruz and friends from making a NEW budget in Feb 2015 and crushing the major spending.

Anyone that support RINOs is a fcking liberal democrat now.  There's no other way around it, and it can't be argued.  RINO = LIB.  Period.

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They don't come much more conservative than Louie Gohmert, that is for sure.

They don't come much dumber either

sorry, that's redundant

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They don't come much dumber either

sorry, that's redundant

C'mon admit it, you want Palosi back in don't you..Hahaha.

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C'mon admit it, you want Palosi back in don't you..Hahaha.

haha