If Boehner can't get his deby ceiling bill passed, I'll enjoy watching the Republican party tear itself apart
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Brian (aka trav007)
Jul 28 '11, 20:38
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Payback may be coming for congressman's 'disloyalty'
Thursday, July 28, 2011 02:41 PM
By Joe Hallett
The Columbus Dispatch
Jim Jordan's open defiance of Speaker John Boehner's efforts to solve the debt-ceiling crisis could cost the Urbana Republican his safe House seat in next year's election.
Two Republican sources deeply involved in configuring new Ohio congressional districts confirmed to The Dispatch today that Jordan's disloyalty to Boehner has put him in jeopardy of being zeroed out of a district.
"Jim Jordan's boneheadedness has kind of informed everybody's thinking," said one of the sources, both of whom spoke only on condition of anonymity. "The easiest option for everybody has presented itself."
Jordan's rural 11-county district, which has a 60 percent Republican voter index, "is easy to cannibalize because it stretches so far," the other source said.
Hostilities between Boehner and Jordan, whose districts abut each other, broke out into the open this week as the speaker struggled to line up votes from tea party conservatives in the House for his plan to raise the debt ceiling while cutting as much as $3 trillion over the next decade.
Jordan, a tea party favorite who leads the 170-plus member Republican Study Committee, has stymied Boehner's efforts to raise the debt ceiling. Yesterday, the rift exploded when it was discovered that a key aide to the committee sent emails to conservative groups urging them to push undecided Republicans to vote against Boehner's plan.
The undermining of Boehner was the last straw for Statehouse Republicans controlling the redistricting process in Ohio, saying Jordan's refusal to be a team player should cost him his job.
"He doesn't know it, but he solved a problem for Republican line-drawers by (figuratively) standing up and saying, 'I'm a jerk and I deserve to be punished,' " said one of the sources.
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