(September 27, 2015 at 12:34 am)Minimalist Wrote:(September 26, 2015 at 10:26 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The lunatics were going to replace him as leader so why not quit on his own terms?
Boehner got 216 votes just last January when he was elected speaker. That was only 25 votes for someone else. There has been no election in the interim so it is hard to see where the votes would have come from.
You need 50% plus 1 to win. The plot was for the dissidents to pick up some more collaborators in which case Boehner would have needed some Dem votes to win. That would have weaken him tremendously. As it was he barely won the last time.
