Posted on 12/03/2012 6:26:04 PM PST by 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."
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“How does a 3rd Party solve ANYTHING?
No, it does not solve anything.”
If the Washington Pubbies keep going the way they’re going today, they won’t have to worry at all about a third party.
They will BE the “third” party.
Me,too.
So...what do the Dems have in their little black book on Boehner?
Yep, and I got a long memory too about which specific in-house hypocrites attacked us like feral dogs for not jumping aboard the ABO train as it screeched toward the cliff.
YES!!!!!!!!!
The best I could muster was a spirited anti-Obama campaign with my friends and family. After the McCain debacle drove me out of the Republican Party, I couldn't manage anything good to say about Romney except that he probably isn't a Marxist revolutionary.
I don’t need to “lie” to myself. My district has been there, done that, and fired Joe Schwarz.
I will always cherish being called a traitor, told I hate America, accused of voting for Obama and the rest...by people who also said that only an idiot sticks to their principles.
FR has a lot of smart people on it. But that crew proved that idiots walk among us?
Can ANYONE logically explain to me how abandoning one’s conservatism to CAMPAIGN for liberals is conservative, American, in accordance with the ideals of the Founders, or MAKES ANY F’ing sense AT ALL?!?!?
It’s one thing to say, “I gotta”. But quite another to trash everyone who does not comply and go full lib singing the praises of that which we oppose.
I thought not.
Your district isn’t the entire United States of America, and Joe Schwartz wasn’t running the entire Republican Party.
I don’t think you understand what we’re up against. Stop listening to what Republicans have said and just pay attention to what they actually have done. Their record is horrifying to an intellectually honest small government conservative.
It’s batterd woman syndrome. Or Stockholm. Many refuse to see the problem and go along eternally with their captor/tormentors.
The GOP literally is less conservative than the mid 80s dems under O’Neil. Look at what they are advocating.
We just have to let them go. And if we have to let FRiends go to them/stay with them, so be it. They have NO ROOM to talk RE: the blacks in America clinging to the Dem plantation.
Tick Tock
You have absolutely no clue what time it is.
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.
The GOP is our generation's Judenrat to the MarxoFascists. Collaborators with a domestic enemy who are working to exterminate Conservatism from any influence in the New Order.
Permanent separation from the cancerous and infiltrated parties are necessary if Conservatism is to survive at all.
If history bears repeating, it won't simply be a political ideology the GOP and DNC will eradicate - eventually they will criminalize it altogether - and follow with actual eradication of people. The GOP being the Judenrats of the MarxoFascists now in power.
Exactly
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.
The GOP hasn't learned a thing and are apparently so enthused with their wannabe democrat-lite modus operandi, they're doubling down on it once again.
Bohner did not come to that decision on his own. Conservatives, Christians and Tea Party sympathizers apparently clearly aren't on the GOP Christmas list this year or for any year to come if this is true.
agreed.
this should be mutual if its true
The Republicans lost the popular vote for the Presidency 51% to 47%, and maintained a majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans also held on to a majority of governorships.
I don't know what your comment means. Parties have survived far far worse defeats than this last one.
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