Posted on 05/02/2017 5:26:10 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
So much has been said recently about the rivalry between the House Freedom Caucus and a group called “The Tuesday Group,” a group of largely unnamed so-called “moderates” in the House. The leadership of the Tuesday Group is named, and some members willingly speak to reporters about their agenda. The group boasts of a membership of somewhere between 40 and 50 members, but only a few have outed themselves as part of the secretive backroom group.
The most vocal member is one of the co-chairs named Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvanian Republican whose liberty score reveals that he votes liberal 72% of the time. Along with Dent, Elise Stefanik of New York, who votes liberal 81% of the time, and co-chairs the group along with Dent and Tom MacArthur of New Jersey who has a record of voting 70% liberal. Chris Collins of New York is a member, and votes 77% liberal, along with Adam Kinzinger of Illinois who votes 67% liberal, Pat Tiberi of Ohio, who votes 60% liberal, John Faso of New York who hasn’t a liberty score yet because he’s new, Barbara Comstock of Virginia who votes 81% liberal, Fred Upton of Michigan who votes 66% liberal, and Rodney Davis of Illinois who votes 70% liberal. Others stay largely away from claiming they are part of the group, but I have been able to identify about half of the group and the picture of the membership emerges as a group of liberal enablers of Democratic policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at jenkuznicki.com ...
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“Moderate” like “Progressive” is just a code word for liberal. For some reason, Liberals hate to be called Liberal. Understandable.
I doubt any of the Tuesday Group folks look that good. ;-)
The Tuesday Group are the ‘RATS 5th column. They sabotage & weaken from within.
The Tuesday Group, The Freedom Caucus, The Liberty Caucus...
Groups that meet to push their legislative agendas.
It appears to me the biggest group of Republicans in the House are in the mushy middle, probably the most of whom don’t have strong feelings about anything other than staying in office and collecting campaign contributions.
The second biggest group are the liberal Republicans, discussed in this article.
The smallest group appears to be the conservatives: the Freedom Caucus and a few others who may not officially be members of the FC but usually vote along the same conservative lines as the FC.
Since the Dims are almost monolithically far-left, it is no surprise that Fedzilla never gets smaller. The conservatives are likely outnumbered by about 6 to 1.
Finally.
An article that starts to unmask the real problem inside the Republican Party: the treasonous Tuesday Group.
These are the people we need to expose and expunge.
From the article:
“Here’s a list of the Tuesday Group leadership, and members who have been publicly identified in media reports.
Charlie Dent, R-Penn. (House website) co-chair
Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. (House website) co-chair
Tom MacArthur, R-N.J. (House website) co-chair
Adam Kinzinger, R-IL (The Hill)
Bill Johnson, R-OH (Roll Call)
Dan Donovan, R-N.Y. (Roll Call)
John Katko, R-N.Y. (Roll Call)
Leonard Lance, R-N.J. (Roll Call)
Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J. (Roll Call)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fl. (Roll Call)
Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn. (Roll Call)
Chris Collins, R-N.Y. (Roll Call)
Pat Tiberi, R-OH (WBALTV)
Rodney Davis, R-IL (WBALTV)
Erik Paulsen, R-MN (Vox)
Mike Coffman, R-CO (Roll Call)
Carlos Curbelo, R-FL (Roll Call)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA (On the Issues)
David McKinley, R-W.V. (nopanet)
Fred Upton, R-MI (Detroit News)
John Faso, R-N.Y. (The Hill)
Martha McSally, R-AZ (Chicago Tribune)
Pat Meehan, R-PA (AP)
Mike Turner, R-OH (Breitbart)
Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J. (Detroit News)
Tom Reed, R-N.Y. (Roll Call)”
Nice work by the author in preparing this list.
Primary them all.
Notice they are also Cheap Labor Express stooges.
Notice they are also Cheap Labor Express stooges.
Notice they are also Cheap Labor Express stooges.
Charlie Bass NH
Tim Murphy PA
Jaime Herrera Beutler WA
Uber RINOs bump for later....
Here is our first list of the primary-ees. Easy pickings.
Good work by the author. These people have been sabotaging godd governance since Reagan.
There are reasons they’ve been so successful despite voters turning to conservatism.
One is that since they represent ‘purple’ districts they could likely be defeated by a Democrat: so the Leadership gives them more than those in ‘safe’ districts. More money, more power, more legislative victories.
Another is that they are generally from ‘rich’ districts and can steer donations to other Members (that’s the greatest power a Member can have in congress).
They affect media coverage of issues and Members. 90% of what the media ‘reports’ is input from them and the Dems. Both of whom have views that profit the media.
Politico has a story about what a damging sign it is that Fred Upton doesn’t support the new repeal/replace- since Fred supported every attempt to repeal it when Obama was president... (and the vote was meaningless). fake News, indeed.
And they’ve got outsized influence now in Leadership- despite being opposed to everything Republicn voters want.
“Here is our first list of the primary-ees. Easy pickings.”
I agree.
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