John Boehner will retain his leadership position as Speaker of the House. Twenty-five voted against him including Chris Gibson.
Maybe Boehner will get the message and act more aggressively pushing a limited-government, free-market agenda.
It begins
And so it begins:
“Rick Santorum has invited former aides to Washington next week for a “private briefing” on his plans for a possible 2016 presidential bid …”
Go away Rick.
Then it gets worse:
“Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced Saturday night that he would be ending his Fox News talk show to gauge support for a possible presidential campaign …”
Go away Mike. Far, far away.
Senate GOP agenda
Bloomberg Politics has a story on the incoming Senate Republican majority’s agenda:
“… Mitch McConnell said in an interview airing Sunday that the divided-government mandate voters issued in November means Americans “want things done in the political center, things that both sides can agree on.” … “We’ll be voting on things I know he’s not going to like,” McConnell said …”
Hopefully this will include the reciprocity bill.
House leadership challenge
Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert announced that he will challenge John Boehner for House Speaker in the new Congress. Florida Congressman Ted Yoho offered up his name as well, although it seems a half-hearted effort and more of just his way of expressing disapproval over Boehner’s leadership.
I don’t know much about Gohmert, but Boehner is a wimp and it is time for him to go.
Excerpts from Cuomo’s second inaugural address
Some gun excerpts from Gov. Cuomo’s second inaugural address:
“… we made New York safer by passing sensible gun control … After Sandy Hook when we saw the massacre and we saw the children killed and we said, enough is enough with this lunacy of guns, and you needed a big state to pass sensible gun control who did it? The State of New York did it. We did it first. That is who we are and that is what we come from …”
Um, no, we’re not actually safer:
“The number of shooting victims has skyrocketed across the city this year — up 43 percent in just the last month — while fewer guns are coming off the streets, NYPD statistics reveal … In the last month alone, 129 people were shot, according to the latest CompStat figures, or 43.3 percent more than for the same period last year. Since January, there has been an overall 13.2 percent increase in shooting victims, while 10.2 percent fewer guns have been recovered compared to 2013 …”
Grimm resigns
Another corrupt politician goes down, Congressman Michael Grimm (R-11).
Leading GOP candidates to replace him include Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, who is vocally antigun, and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who voted for SAFE. I believe her excuse for doing so was Bloomberg made her do it.
Leading Democrat candidates include Assemblyman Michael Cusick, who also voted for SAFE, and former antigun Congressman Michael McMahon.
Bloomberg came up short
Remember when Mike Bloomberg said he’d spend $50 million to challenge the NRA in this years elections?
He ended up spending half that:
“… The second biggest donor, billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also spent much of his cash — about half of his $27.7 million total — through his own PAC, Independence USA PAC. And, like [Tom] Steyer, Bloomberg had mixed results that raised questions about the effectiveness of his strategy, which sometimes seemed in conflict with itself …”
Telling it like it is
Fox Business News contributor Charles Payne tells it like it is:
The NAACP blaming guns for the brutal murder of two NYPD officers isn't a surprise. The org must stick with this narrative for 2 reasons.
— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) December 24, 2014
A) it excuses the slaughter of blacks by blacks removing accountability
B) creates boogeymen of evil white racists making killing machines
— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) December 24, 2014
Boosting Hillary
Fox News reports, “Dems race to back Clinton even before 2016 announcement“:
“High-profile Democrats are jumping on the “Ready for Hillary” bandwagon, supporting Clinton for president before she even enters the race — boosting her presumptive candidacy and potentially their own political fortunes …”
And driving another nail into Andrew Cuomo’s political coffin.