Posted on 06/24/2015 5:58:02 PM PDT by cotton1706
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his allies are charging ahead with their effort to punish conservatives who have been a thorn in leadership’s side — a purge that is roiling the GOP conference.
The latest victim is Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, who could be stripped of his title as GOP freshman class president on Thursday morning.
Boehner allies have been retaliating against rank-and-file members who voted against a procedural motion earlier this month, nearly derailing a major trade package favored by Republican leaders that is set to clear the House on Thursday.
While the Speaker has lashed out at conservative rebels before, the latest intraparty purge has been particularly aggressive, this time targeting members of the new, conservative House Freedom Caucus who voted against the rule.
Three members of that caucus have been booted from the whip team, and another was stripped of his subcommittee gavel. Buck, meanwhile, faces being ousted as head of the freshman class just months after being elected to that position by his peers.
“It’s clear that leadership has decided there’s going to be retaliation,” he told reporters in the Speaker’s lobby just off the House floor.
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They want to destroy every conservative who dares stand against them!
Why doesn’t Johnson Boner just join the Democraps?
Strip them of everything till there’s nothing left to lose. That’s when it gets interesting.
honestly, i’m hard pressed to see a difference between McConnell/Boehner and Reid/Pelosi.
the end result is always bad news for small government constitutional conservatism.
Jefferson’s quote about the tree of liberty springs to mind...
Any way to recall Boehner in Ohio?
This confirms that any Representative in a leadership position is a traitor, from the Speaker down.
Boehner you and the house leadership are TRAITORS...
Ohio Republican leaders are MORONS...
I think we need get a group up for the next election and walk to every GOP voter in his district and alert them to what a POS this guy is and tell them he is not voting as they think he is. They need come up with someone who can run against him in the Primary and get him the hell out of there. I don’t care if a dem wins, I just want him out on his traitor ass.
John Boehner (D-Ohio)
Fine with me, freshman dem status.
I will not vote Republican again until Boehner is gone. Period. He licks Obama’s hand like a poodle, but attacks conservatives like a pit bull. He is a disgrace.
I am || this close to never voting for another Republican again.
Bingo.
We should send couple hundred thousand letters stating this very fact. I am with you.
Just got another monthly RNC ‘survey’/money request.
I enjoy sending them back with the SCF stickers, “thanks, but I gave via the Senate Conservative Fund”.
Just emailed my Rep, Ted Poe. Gave him an earful of what I think about this disgusting GOP House...
Conservatives are at war with the RNC!
Pure speculation but this type of behavior from someone who is a Republican makes me think someone has something on him and he's been told to reign in his party or else.
Certainly if this type of thing continues instead of being a hold your nose Republican in the Presidential election, I will become a stay at home Republican.
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