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."

[EricT.]

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?

I would ask you the same questions about getting small-government conservatives any seats of power within your beloved GOP, which has a long track record of back-stabbing and marginalizing conservatives at every turn?

[jrcats]

The problem especially here in Florida is voter fraud by the Democrates. I blame the state for not protecting one person one vote instead of election employees stuffing ballot boxes.

[jrcats]

The problem especially here in Florida is voter fraud by the Democrates. I blame the state for not protecting one person one vote instead of election employees stuffing ballot boxes.