Posted on 12/16/2013 1:40:52 PM PST by cotton1706
In a new fundraising email, the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) said House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is targeting conservatives in the same way that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status.
"What these leaders are doing to conservatives is no different from what the IRS got caught doing to them this summer," Senate Conservatives Fund executive director Matt Hoskins wrote in the email sent to supporters on Monday. "They're using their power to discriminate against people they see as a political threat."
The fundraising email on Monday follows Boehner strongly criticizing conservative outside groups for urging lawmakers to oppose a two-year budget deal introduced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA).
Hoskins continued that Boehner had joined Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in declaring "war on conservatives."
"John Boehner called conservatives 'ridiculous' for opposing the budget agreement that increases spending, raises taxes, and funds Obamacare while Mitch McConnell previously called us stupid 'traitors' who should be locked in a bar and 'punched in the nose,'" Hoskins wrote in the email.
Hoskins also cited the recent firing of Republican Study Committee executive director Paul Teller, who had been secretly working with the outside groups Boehner criticized, as well as the National Republican Senatorial Committee blacklisting Republican consulting firm Jamestown Associates for working with SCF.
"Unfortunately, their attacks go beyond words," Hoskins continued. "A top conservative aide in the House was fired last week for opposing John Boehner's budget and Mitch McConnell has blacklisted political firms that work for conservatives."
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It’s time for the Bonehead to go.
Boner must loose his speakership if not his slot in the House. He is a perfect example of an elitist professional serial politician - holds office again and again by getting paid off by special interest groups who fund his campaign chest.
The only sure way for that to happen is for third party members who wouldn’t vote to elect him Speaker because he can’t control them get to hold the balance of power in the House.
So, we aren’t allowed te power to descriminate? We just have to shut up and send the GOPe a check?
Bwahahaha. Time for this one to go home.
After they came up with that “imperfect” debt ceiling hike there was a caucus for the new session of Congress earlier this year and only 15 or less Republican members were willing to oppose Boehner.
He is exercising iron gripped control over individual members using the power available to him as Speaker.
73 percent of Republican members voted to increase spending and taxes in the budget deal last week.
If Boehner is to be replaced, a third party caucus not under his control will have to emerge.
I’m not necessarily endorsing it, but stating what needs to happen to make Boehner’s removal happen.
THESE are the kind of methods you use to play the game.
Movie Part 2 : GOPE strikes back!
Wait until these clowns find out that a strong message deliverd with conviction, only needs 10% of the funding that the same old tired cliches require.
I donated to Senate Conservatives an hour ago.
Boehner is sounding more and more like an enemy of legitimate conservatives. He needs to change the tone of his statements.
If the RINO win, stay home and laugh when the RINO loses.
I'm done holding my nose for these moderate pukes who want to hold the Dems' hands.
Boner is just one man. There are plenty in the house who could get rid of him but won’t because either they like him in power or they’re afraid. Either way, they need to go, too.
The only thing I hate worse than a Republican is a Democrat. :-)
ABSOLUTELY.
In my heart I would LOVE to see a third party flush the GOP down the drain along wit the Dems.
However, the reality of the situation is it is much harder to start a new political party from the ground up than to take over the mechanism of an existing party from the bottom up.
The Communists learned this back in the 1940s and 1950s. They go NOWHERE trying to get people elected. So, instead of continuing down that road, they took over the Democrats from the bottom up.
We must do that with the GOP. By taking over the County and State Committees and local municipal offices, we can strangle the John Boehners and Mitch McConnells and force them out of the party or bend them to our will.
Think about it. Its much more realistic. The Tea Party movement CAN succeed.
I won’t support an option here, but will tell you that the Republican Party insiders resisted the real attempts to take them down by the highly organized Ron Paul forces with great success in 2008-2010-2012.
The GOPe changed rules, changed meeting places, whatever it took to retain control at the grassroots level.
In fact, if such a fight ever does take place, you will know that the “Tea Party” is making waves.
Can a “Tea Party” movement that is in some cases astroturf created by the establishment itself be as strong and committed as the Paulistas to real power and real change?
If “Tea Party” challenges don’t lead to those kind of desperate fights I described above I would suspect if the fight is a real one.
If anything, it seems to me that a real fight that changes things is very uphill. Rand Paul himself and his father seem to have made peace with the GOPe in preparation for Rand’s 2016 presidential run.
In Canada, there was a third party route chosen in the 1990’s and it took a decade for the insiders-business donors to realize they had to make concessions to the grassroots to create a new “Conservative Party” to replace the old “Progressive Conservative Party” there.
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