Jim Leads the Revolt

Our congressman was the first out of the gate saying he wouldn't vote for Boehner. (Yay, Jim!) Elect the right guy in the first place, and you don't have to tell him how to vote, just send him a note of thanks.

This formula — elect the right guy in the first place — sounds like something Neil dG Tyson would say. (Reminds me of Will Rogers's advice: buy stock in a company where the stock price will go up; if it don't go up, don't buy it.) Our guy Jim sounded like the Real Deal when he was running, but I had my… cynicism in general, more than doubts about him in particular, I guess. He's turning out to be the most solid congressman in our state, if not one of the best in the House.

“When our Constitution is under assault and House Republicans give away our Constitutional power of the purse, they share the guilt of abandoning our founding principles,” he said.

He concluded by pointing to the cromnibus as the primary reason he will vote against Boehner as speaker.

“The CR/Omnibus legislation sufficiently undermines the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution that it warrants my pending vote against the Speaker,” Bridenstine said. “Speaker Boehner went too far when he teamed with Obama to advance this legislation. He relinquished the power of the purse, and with it he lost my vote.”

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