Boehner fallout: ‘D.C. status quo is crumbling’
Triumph, relief and worry over successor to House speaker
GARTH KANT
WND.com
Sept. 25, 2015
WASHINGTON – “Christmas came early,” was the dry but joyous first reaction of former Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas.
“Speaker Boehner correctly read the tea leaves,” was the succinct summation of former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
As leading conservatives, Bachmann and Stockman often locked horns with House Speaker John Bohener, R-Ohio, who told fellow Republicans on Friday morning he will resign from Congress at the end of October.
“The people no longer wanted what he had to sell: being told yet again that he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, fight Obama,” Bachmann told WND. “People wouldn’t stand for that answer anymore because too much is at risk for America.”
She asserted, “The decision today from Boehner tells me people are fighting back so loudly, the status quo is crumbling in D.C.”
But, as for a likely replacement, Bachmann lamented, “Unfortunately, a Speaker McCarthy represents more of the same.”
Next in line in the power structure, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was immediately viewed as Boehner’s likely successor. He is considered part of the GOP establishment, often at odds with House conservatives who want to fight Obama administration efforts more vigorously.
Conservatives attempted to oust Boehner during speaker elections, held just after the historic landslide Republican victory in the House in the 2014 midterm election.
An aide to Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, reminded WND that “Mr. King started this fight” and the weakening of Boehner when he nominated Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla., in January and got the most votes for him, out of all the no votes against the speaker.
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