Are Boehner's days numbered? Why Republicans are bailing from House Speaker's ship

New frontrunners emerge for Speaker of the House

Many Republicans seem disappointed with Speaker John Boehner (Ohio), and there appears to be a new challenger for the position.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Texas Republican, Louis Gohmert announced that he will run against Boehner to become Congress's next Speaker of the House on an episode of "Fox and Friends."

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"I'm putting my name out there today to be another candidate for speaker," he said.

Gohmert said the time for a new speaker was evident after "years of broken promises" and Boehner has "deceived us (Republicans)."

"You said you'd fight amnesty tooth and nail. You didn't, you funded it," Gohmert continued.

Representative Ted Yoho, a Republican from Florida, also announced that he would not support Boehner.

"This is not a personal attack against Mr. Boehner, however, the people desire and deserve a choice," he said. "In November, they resoundingly rejected the status quo."

While the 2014 midterm election was primarily a rebuke for the Democrats and President Obama, long entrenched Republican Congressmen also felt the heat.

If elected, Gohmert is already promising to "fight amnesty tooth and nail. We'll use the powers of the purse. We'll have better oversight. We'll fight to defund ObamaCare."

In 2010, Boehner and other leaders said "if you put us in the majority, we will have time to read the bills." According to Gohmet, "that hasn't happened. We saw that with the cromnibus, again."

We'll get back to appropriating and we will go through regular committee process, so every representative from both parties will have a chance to participate in the process and not have a dictator running things."

There is evidence that Boehner is losing support from Republicans and conservatives. The President of FreedomWorks, a Conservative and Libertarian lobbyist group, says support from the hard right is waning.

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"With a growing Republican majority in the House and a historically high number of liberty-voting fiscal conservatives within it, there is an urgent need replace Speaker Boehner with fresh, bold leadership that better represents the views of the whole caucus," said President Matt Kibbe.

"Speaker Boehner has kicked fiscal conservatives off committee positions for voting against his wishes, caved on numerous massive spending bills at the eleventh hour, and abused the legislative process to stomp out opposition by holding surprise votes and giving members little time to actually read the bills before they vote," Kibbe added.

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