Boehner, GOP Leaders Purge Conservatives from Powerful Committees

Breitbart News ^ | 3 Dec 2012 | Matthew Boyle

[Veritas_et_libertas]

House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.

Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.

Huelskamp, a freshman elected during the 2010 tea party wave, thinks the leadership move to pull him from the powerful committee is revenge for him standing up for conservatism. “It is little wonder why Congress has a 16 percent approval rating: Americans send principled representatives to change Washington and get punished in return,” Huelskamp said in a Monday night statement. “The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement."

[Eagle of Liberty]

How does a 3rd Party solve ANYTHING?

A 3rd Party.......we don't have a 2nd Party right now, at least not one that is interested in playing the political game like it is a battle instead of it being a game of patty-cake.

There is a reason why the "Republican" Party was out of power in the House for 40 YEARS. It was either Incompetence or Collusion.

[Michael Barnes]

The asshats in D.C. are more concerned about “managing the country by way of the Federal Government” than doing their constitutional job and getting the Federal Government off our backs! They don’t give a rats ass about the individual citizen in this country, just how they can continue to bleed us dry and feed their beloved government and numerous un-needed agencies.

[sheana]

Check and see if you can do it online. I could/did.

[Kansas58]

If we do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, who do you come up with the math for conservatives to control the country at large?

Also, what “committee assignments” do the tin-foil-hat 3rd Party types get, if by some miracle any one of them gets elected to Congress?

[central_va]

A lot of conservatives have given up participating in the political process altogether. A third party, that represented their political views, might bring them into the process. This would not cause harm, just increase participation in general.

[Political Junkie Too]

One of the systemic problems with Congress (both chambers) is that the outgoing Congress gets to vote for the leadership of the new incoming Congress. The new people that we vote in don't get to participate in the vote for their own leadership.

Usually, we say that future Congresses are not bound by the votes of prior Congresses, apparently except for the votes on future leadership positions.

-PJ

[Kansas58]

Wrong!
Any “Third Party” effort on the Right will only help the Democrats.

[Eagle of Liberty]

If we do not have the numbers to control the Republican Party, who do you come up with the math for conservatives to control the country at large?

Okay. I do agree that the Democrat Machine is currently a monstrosity. They have won in the arena of educating our youth and they have won in the arena of social media. The GOP pretty much surrendered on the education front after passage of the "bipartisan" "No Child Left Behind" bill.

Just read this interview with W during the 2000 election with PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/vouchers/interviews/bush.html - the underlying assumption of the interviewer on almost EVERY question is that the typical American is a moocher who cannot manage a school choice voucher program.

NCLB - The legislation was proposed by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2001. It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), George Miller (D-CA), and Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH). The United States House of Representatives passed the bill on May 23, 2001 (voting 384–45),[6] and the United States Senate passed it on June 14, 2001 (voting 91–8).[7] President Bush signed it into law on January 8, 2002.

In my utopia, I would love for the Republican Party to stand for SOMETHING. Right now and for a long time, they have not. So I go back to that was either incompetence or collusion. Either way, a "second party" does not exist at the Federal level. It is an illusion. IMO, we should spend much of our energy over the next few weeks doing some in depth research all the way into the inner workings of the GOP. Only then can we begin to take back control of anything.

[Eagle of Liberty]

IMO, we should spend much of our energy over the next few weeks doing some in depth research all the way into the inner workings of the GOP.

Need to add one more thing. Even IF the GOP can be revamped, the branding has been so tarred, do you even think the brand in a marketing sense can be recovered?

[Darren McCarty]

I know exactly what we're up against since I've been involved in a few campaigns and have at times worked in the business and still have ties to those who do - people who were tea party before tea party. I fully know that talk is cheap, although Tim Walberg's a good guy.

The questions to all 3rd party pushers are this. How are you going to get your candidates elected? How are you going to get the 35%+ or so needed to win or at least compete in a 3-way race? How are going going to get enough seats at various levels of government (county, state, national) to even decide as the swing group which bills pass, let alone control the legislation?

[Darren McCarty]

People like you are stuck in an overthrown paradigm that assumes the game of politics will continue as it always has as long as we play within the boundaries the Soviet machine has constructed for us.

Here are the rules.

Candidates file for office. There are primaries for the two parties. The winner of that primary moves to the general. There are usually four or five candidates on the ballot for the general election. The two major parties get 95-99% of the vote in almost all elections. That's because the voters decide that is the case. If people actually wanted 3rd parties outside of a protest vote, those third parties may win some of those races. Voters aren't buying what they are selling.

Not one 3rd party pushers has explained to me HOW they can win. "If's" aren't good enough.

[Darren McCarty]

We need a candidate who can undercut the base in Butler County, and rack up big margins in Miami and Clark Counties.

[INVAR]

Thanks for again proving you have no clue what time it is.

“Winning”via the ballot box???? You’re still stuck in an illusion pal. Who casts the votes decides NOTHING, it’s who STEALS and COUNTS the votes that decide the outcome.

But I guess for cognitive dissonant sufferers like yourself - if the People’s Red Army invaded and conquered us by force of arms, you would still deceive yourself and insist that voting the way you always have in the past - will save you.

There ARE no rules anymore except the ones the Ruling Class oligarchs set to keep themselves in power and us plebes in our place.

The GOP is our generation’s Judenrat. They are collaborators with the enemy.

The rules of life require a divorce and separation from them if liberty is to survive. The GOP is the party of collusion and death.

[redgolum]

The current GOP is not conservative. For that matter, it never has been.

The GOP built a bridge to bring in the social and fiscal conservatives in the 70’s. That bridge has collapsed.

Funny thing is a similar problem is going on in the DNC. Their collation will not hold either.

Interesting times, for as long as our system of voting stands. Which may not be long.

[boxlunch]

There is no more self government at the federal government.
The people have become too wicked and corrupt for the system to last much longer.
It will unravel and it won’t be pretty.
This whole discussion is I’m afraid meaningless.
Only upon a serious spiritual revival will we have a chance to take this country back.
The only political maneuvering that could make a difference is one of two (or both) things.
1. Texas secedes.
2. All conservatives from deep blue states move to presently “purple” states.
I’m in Texas so I’d take either one.

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I sadly agree with all you said.
The moral core of our country is gone, and a republic cannot survive if the citizens are completely corrupt.

[Dead Corpse]

Yes. Vote in the Primaries for only those Selected Candidates that the GOP-e insiders say we can vote for.

How has that worked out for us the last couple of Presidential elections?

This dog don't hunt any more. Time to put it down and raise a new pup.

[Dead Corpse]

Just like the nascent GOP helped the Whigs!

Oh, wait...

[Resettozero]

Instead of suicide missions, you should target Boehner and company in the next primary. Find an electable conservative in Butler County Ohio who is fed up with Boehner, have competent people run his campaign, donate to that campaign, make sure that campaign has a good message, and do what is necessary to win the primary.

And if that fails to oust him, would the voters there be willing to elect a Democrat for 2 years? I would if I could.

[Resettozero]

There is a reason why the "Republican" Party was out of power in the House for 40 YEARS. It was either Incompetence or Collusion.

Or both. And we all have seen the happy pictures of Republicans yukking it up and partying with The Loyal Opposition. The one with Romney and Kennedy comes to mind first. Then the photo of a joyous Linseed Graham and his buds. But that's not nice, is it.

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for your reply. The Republican Party has had a long, sordid history from FDR on.

When the Democrat Party turned Left from “Ask not what your Country can do for you - -, “ to the Party of “We will will give you all of this free stuff from “The Country”, if you’ll keep on voting straight Democrat,” there was a tremendous desertion of Southern Democrats, Law and Order voters, Family Value Voters, and Reagan Democrats into the Republican Party. This effectively also turned the Republican Party to the Left.

While all of this was going on, the Democrats would periodically demand two giant steps to the Left, then find one or two Liberal Republicans to “compromise” with them, and then publicly declare, with great fanfare, that the highest good was achieved and the Nation was saved once again by all of us working together.

They were referring to the “Bi-Partisan Compromise,” and then begrudgingly agreed to consider someday, perhaps, taking one very small step to the Right as an acknowledgement that there really was a compromise.

One could call it the Lefty Democrat Two-Step.

BTW, the Republicans have yet to even recognize that that is what the Democrats do for a parasitic living off of us, the Federal taxpayers.

The result is that the Federal Republican Party in Congress is way to the left of where the Democrats were in the Eisenhower years.

Obama started his career in politics as a Bolshevik Communist, and was warmly welcomed by the leaders of the Democrat Party. This then underscores that the Federal Democrat Party in Congress is basically a blend of FDR Socialism, and a PC version of Lenin’s Communism.

To quickly index important threads, I use a file system based on what I consider to be the more interesting topic of the thread/article.

Yes, there is such a thing as a RINO. It is basically blind to very short sighted, subject to poaching from “friends” across the aisle, dutifully follows the well worn path to defeat, and bravely tries to tolerate the Media tick birds that are forever trying to widen the holes in his/her hide.

Lately, those who throw TEA into the Briney, and those who are for legalizing all of the deadly sins have been doing their best Elephant grumble about starting a third party.

As long as “both” political parties can stop the election winning idea of 50 % + one vote, there will be no third party in Lefty Demokrat America.