Posted on 07/27/2011 5:16:40 PM PDT by ejdrapes
Message to RSC Members: Get in or Get Out 12 Comments Rep. Jim Jordan, the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), is taking massive heat from many of his own colleagues within the RSC for his public opposition to the Boehner debt deal. RSC staff is being called out by name for doing their job effectively. Calls are coming from all Leadershipistas to fire the RSC staff. These members—such as Rep. Renee Ellmers (NC)—don’t like the fact that they are perceived on the wrong side of where the conservative movement ended up. Some are threatening to quit their membership in the House of Representative’s predominant conservative caucus. If that’s what they think, they should submit their resignation—today. I’d like to give everyone a brief understanding of what the RSC’s role is in Congress. I know because I worked there for over four years, served under three different RSC chairmen, with a two-year stint as its staff director. The RSC is the conservative movement in the House of Representatives. It is not an arm of the elected House Leadership. It is not a cheerleader of everything that Leadership is doing. In fact, its job is to push Leadership as far to the right as is possible and flat out oppose it when necessary. As a result, Leadership often has a rocky relationship with whoever is the Chairman of the RSC because he or she is a political counterweight on whatever they are trying to do. Now let me add a dynamic to the picture. A lot of—let’s be generous here—casually conservative Members of Congress like to join the RSC in order to be perceived back home as a 100% winger, but in reality, these Members are in the “Just Happy to Be Here” Caucus. They don’t fight, they often take bad votes if their Leadership wants them to, and when the RSC Chairman decides to fight, they often make his or her life absolutely miserable. Some threaten to quit the RSC. It is part of the territory. In spite of all that abuse, and in spite of being from Ohio as Speaker Boehner is, Jim Jordan is proving to be one of the most effective Chairman in the history of the RSC. I know because I’ve worked for some of the others. Instead of being raked over the coals, he should be honored as a patriot. Message to RSC Members who don’t like how the RSC is being managed: Get out.
Posted by Russ Vought
Wednesday, July 27th at 5:28PM EDT
“But even as it trims deficits, the president’s budget would add $7.2 trillion to the debt held by the public between 2012 and 2021.
Obama’s 2012 budget is sure to stoke the debate over how to get the government’s fiscal house in order.
On the president’s right, Republican lawmakers are calling for even deeper cuts and hankering for a fight now over 2011 spending. At the same time, many Democrats and liberal advocates are expected to lash into the administration for the depth of some of his proposed cuts.”
http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/14/news/economy/obama_budget/index.htm
Ah. Memories of the Valentine’s Day Massacre Budget of 2011
$9T has disappeared
Now 0bama and the Dem/Communists want $7+ T more.
The 2010 ‘Deemed’ budget: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37893
All kinds of families have members who are dependent on government at various levels for salaries or other incomes. Even most businesses are dependent on government empoloyees or government as customers. That’s the political fix we’re in, and that’s one of the causes of the default process that we’re in. Another is the lack of manufacturing due to regulations against new, small, domestic competition.
Gonna call Jim’s office tomorrow-—he’s in the district right next to mine-—and congratulate him and tell him I’m sending $100 for his next campaign.
STOP FREAKING SPENDING! Morons.
All this discussion about elections is irrelevant. The US is tanking economically now. Any form of tax increase is insane.
We need honest government and honest leaders, who have the courage and determination to start the solution of this economic nightmare. Instead, they lie and cut deals for their own self interest. This is how great empires of the past have ended.
TWB
House Freshmen who support Boner will likely not be around for a Sophomore term—Just sayin’
Wasn't she the one who took the place of the drunk - "Who are you"? NC House member?
Didn't take her long to flip.
Oh, well. Primary her ass.
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