Jindal Urged as House Speaker by Variety of GOP Legislators

BALTIMORE, Maryland October 8, 2015 - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a current Presidential Candidate who has, for the first time, started to get a bit of traction in the polls, has been prominently mentioned as a person who could step in and assume the Speaker of the House position to be vacated at months end by current speaker John Boehner.  Maryland First District Republican Andy Harris - himself mentioned as a possible candidate for the position by Rush Limbaugh - made that revelation in a live on-air interview with Baltimore radio station WCBM.

According to Harris, Jindal's name was circulated among Representatives on both sides of the Speaker controversy.  Another name circulated was that of former speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia.  Gingrich said earlier in the week, in an appearance on the Shaun Hannity Show, that he would accept the job if called to serve.  Harris cautioned, however, that Gingrich's reputation for using a so-called strong arm "top down" leadership style would have to be openly addressed before he would be acceptable to members of the "Freedom Caucus," a group of some 32 elected Representatives who vehemently opposed Boehner's leadership.  The Freedom Caucus consists of mostly Conservative Representatives who were among Boehner's strongest critics.  Harris is a member of that caucus.  Boehner said yesterday that he would stay on as Speaker - even beyond the end of October - until a new Speaker is selected by the GOP, which holds a strong voting majority in the House of Representatives.  Some have worried aloud that Boehner will use this controversy to extend his stay as Speaker.  He had earlier announced his intention to resign the Speakership and his Represntative's position.  The announcement came after he and Senate President Mitch McConnell of Kentucky came under fire for their open penchant for schmoozing it up with the uber Left President, Barack H. Obama.  Both veteran GOP Legislators short-circuited all of the parlimentary moves available to them in the GOP's strong opposition to both Obamacare and the nuclear arms treaty with Iran.  Giving up the so-called 'power of the purse' especially roiled the Freedom Caucus because both men had campaigned for re-election last fall on their promise to "do everything in their power" to repeal the socialist-like legislation which subjects Americans, for the first time, to mandatory requirements with regards to health insurance, so-called 'death panels' and other aspects commonly found in health programs in socialist countries.  Even in the wake of Boehner's resignation, McConnell remains under heavy fire and many expect his resignation soon.  There are continuing rumors and talk that the interests of both men are more coincedental with the interests of the National Chamber of Commerce and other similar interests, and not those of GOP voters, although both profess to be conservatives.