After Boehner Claims He’s the ‘Most Anti-Establishment Speaker We’ve Ever had,’ Glenn Beck had an Idea
Photo Credit: BreitbartBy Erica Ritz. After newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he is the “most anti-establishment speaker we’ve ever had” in response to criticism from conservatives, Glenn Beck issued a formal invitation to the speaker.
“Here’s my offer,” Beck said on his radio program Friday. “There aren’t many shows that appeal to the Tea Party crowd, the non-establishment GOP, as much as this one. … We are putting out an official invite to John Boehner to come down, spend an hour with me on radio or television. He can have his choice. … We’ll work it to his schedule. But I would love to spend an hour with John Boehner and have him show America [who] he really is.”
“John, you and your cronies can ask anyone,” Beck continued. “I have never sandbagged anyone. I always tell them in advance what they’re in for. … It will be a tough interview, but it will be a fair interview. I will let you speak, but it is going to be a tough interview.”
Beck has long railed against Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for being “establishment” Republicans who are disconnected from the needs of the American people. He even started a campaign to “defund the GOP.” (Read more from this story HERE)
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Boehner Retaliation Haunts Republicans Who Supported Him
By Matthew Boyle. House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to retaliate, or exact “revenge” as Politico puts it, against at least two House members who voted against him is haunting Republicans who supported him conference-wide and sparking a discussion in the party about the role Boehner should play as Speaker—and Republican members should play in challenging his authority.
On Tuesday, the largest rebellion by members of a political party against a sitting House Speaker seeking re-election since the Civil War broke out on the House floor. Twenty-four House Republicans voted for someone other than Boehner. Declared candidates were Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Ted Yoho (R-FL), and Daniel Webster (R-FL). One other member, Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX), voted “present.”
The mere fact that three candidates ran against Boehner from within his party, and that so many members voted against him—and many others are having trouble defending their votes for Boehner to angry constituents back home—gave even the Speaker himself some pause, he said at a press conference on Thursday.
“Listen, I’ve given some thought to this as you might imagine,” Boehner responded when asked why there’s so much conservative opposition to his speakership from both inside Congress and outside, where leaders such as Fox News’ Sean Hannity has called for Boehner to go many times. (Read more from this story HERE)
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