New poll shows 60% of Republican voters want John Boehner ousted as Speaker of the House

 A new poll has been released and it is not good news for Speaker of the House John Boehner.

  Here is more:

A whopping 60 percent of voters who voted for Republicans in the last election either definitely or probably want their member of Congress to elect someone other than Boehner on Jan. 6, when Congress convenes, according to the poll. The voters were asked: “As you may know the new Congress will select its leaders in January. If it were up to you, would you elect John Boehner to continue as Speaker of the House or would you elect someone new?”

In response to that question, 34 percent of the GOP voters surveyed said they definitely want someone other than Boehner and 26 percent said they probably want someone other than Boehner. Only 11 percent said they definitely want to keep Boehner and an additional 15 percent said they probably want Boehner to stay. So the poll says some 60 percent of GOP voters want Boehner gone, while just 25 percent want him to stay. Fifteen percent in the poll either don’t know, or are undecided on Boehner’s future.

  The fact that 60% of voters who voted Republican in the last election want to see John Boehner replaced as Speaker is bad enough news on its own for the current Speaker, however the news is even worse when you take into account that only 11% of those surveyed definitely want him to retain his position. The message is clear…

  So what are the chances that John Boehner will lose his position?

  On the surface the chances look promising as it would only take 29 conservatives voting against him to remove him as Speaker, however it must be remembered that John Boehner has a history of punishing conservatives who  do not support his big government agenda 100%.

  Back in 2012 John Boehner punished four conservatives by removing them from key committee positions and it was reported that he threatened to target more conservatives if they did not fall in line. The ultimatum was clear–vote with the establishment or pay the price.

  Knowing John Boehner’s history, how many conservatives out of the 29 needed who would otherwise vote against John Boehner are going to vote to protect their own committee positions instead of doing what the voters are telling them they want to see done in the event that John Boehner holds on?

  It is time for the conservative Republicans in Washington to take a stand on principle and say to hell with whatever committee positions John Boehner is offering them in return for their support for, as we have already seen, John Boehner can remove them from these positions on a whim if they do not fall in line.

  If they sell their souls for committee positions they will become nothing but a rubber stamp for the establishment Republicans and they will have lost sight of why the voters sent them there in the first place.

  So if the choice is between losing a possible committee position now or losing it later why not make a stand now when it counts and you still have an independent, and uncorrupted, voice?