Speaker Boehner on Borrowed Time Says Rep Louis Gohmert

Posted on 24 February, 2014 by Rick Wells



The rumblings are getting a little louder and more direct regarding the longevity of House Speaker John Boehner’s tenure in that position. One of those raising questions is Texas Representative Louis Gohmert.

Rep. Gohmert is a Tea Party favorite and no-nonsense supporter of smaller government, the rule of law and the Constitution. He also believes Representatives should be counted and stand with their constituents. On that score, Boehner gets low marks.

Congressman Gohmert predicted in an interview with WND that Speaker Boehner will no longer be speaker “by next January,” regardless of the outcome of midterm elections.

He doesn’t believe the leadership change will be the result of a coup. Acknowledging that support is heading in that direction, Gohmert says, “I think people are ready for a change.”

Gohmert and a lot of other believers in the Constitution would see that as a positive development.

He says, “We’ve got to have someone who is smart enough to realize” it was Harry Reid (D-Nev.) who shut down the government, not the Republicans.

Gohmert said of the current state of the GOP that:

  • He feels that Tea Party values are held by a majority in the GOP
  • Primary Challenges to GOP establishment incumbents by true conservatives is a good thing
  • He believes the GOP establishment fears the principled Tea Party candidates
  • A Tea Party candidate could realistically win the presidency.



In regards to winning elections, Gohmert just formed a political action committee called GOH conservative.

He plans to be prepared to meet the Republican establishment assault of Karl Rove head-on by raising money to respond to an expected “war on the Tea Party.”

Gohmert said, “Someone asked me why I am going on the attack. I said, ‘You don’t understand, setting up this PAC isn’t an attack; it’s a defense against those who want to attack tea-party candidates.’ I want to raise money to help conservatives. And to show them we can raise money and we will help.”

Rep. Gohmert believes that the GOP has stopped listening to the base of the party, and moved too far toward the left in an effort to win elections at all costs. That hasn’t produced positive results and has probably been counter-productive, resulting in an unprincipled Democrat-lite rather than reflecting conservative, traditional GOP values.

While acknowledging that Rove had withdrawn a statement in which he stated he was at war with the Tea Party, he said, “There just too many people who feel like the tea party is a threat instead of recognizing it like they should, as a God-send. Instead of being afraid of the tea party, I think they ought to embrace it.”

He thinks the GOP leadership is responding to a perceived threat to their power saying, “I guess that’s a fear of something one doesn’t understand, because this is a group that, clearly, got us the majority in the House in 2010,” he said. “And they’re rising up and getting active for us.”

Clearly Rep Gohmert is standing on his principles.

Rick Wells is a conservative Constitutionalist author who contributes to conservative media outlets. “Like” him on Facebook and “Follow” him on Twitter.

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