Monday, December 3, 2012

The Friends of Ron Paul Congressional Massacre

Remember this day, December 3, 2012.

You may recall some of these Congressional House members: Walter Jones of North Carolina, Justin Amash of Michigan, David Schweikert of Arizona and  Tim Huelskamp of Kansas.

Some are House members that were endorsed by Ron Paul in the recent election, others were in general agreement with him. They all have one thing in common, now, the GOP Steering Committee has via the Congressional equivalent of a Richard Nixon Saturday Night Massacre removed them from key Congressional committees.

Roll Call has the details:

Speaker John A. Boehner initiated today a small purge of rebellious Republicans — mostly conservatives — from prominent committees; it’s the latest instance of the Ohio Republican’s clamping down on his fractious conference. 
The decisions were made by the GOP Steering Committee at a Monday meeting, which reviewed a spreadsheet listing each GOP lawmaker and how often he or she had voted with leadership, three sources said.
Reps. David Schweikert of Arizona and Walter Jones of North Carolina were booted from the Financial Services Committee. Reps. Justin Amash of Michigan and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas were removed from the Budget Committee.
According to a source, Schweikert was told that he was ousted in part because his “votes were not in lockstep with leadership.”
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, said, “The Steering Committee makes decisions based on a range of factors.”...
The shuffling is the latest sign that Boehner is flexing his muscle with the right flank of his conference as he seeks a united front during tense fiscal cliff negotiations with President Barack Obama.
A GOP strategist said, “This is a move that the whip team has been advocating for some time. They are using all of the tools at their disposal.”

19 comments:

  1. This is like being kicked off the Titanic. Watch the spineless Republican leadership and its minions cave to Obama on this "fiscal cliff" nonsense, and a million other things over the next year. Who wants to be part of that? Your better as a principled backbencher.

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  2. I guess Boehner has a hard-on for getting rid of any opposition. I miss the days when the Republicans just had a weeping Boehner.

    I wonder when we will see one of those Hitler videos with the subtitles changed with Hitler yelling and screaming about Schweikert, Amash, Jones, and Huelskamp.

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  3. Boner (typo-it stays) is like the NYTimes in 2000. They thought the Internet was a fad, and could be controlled.

    Amash and Co. will rule the house in a few years, and Boner will be out of a job.

    Well, this is if the federal system even exists in a decade...a less than likely event.

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  4. I'm about done with this. I'm getting old. Bad Back. All I see is 2 Party Stalinism. Yeah...The PROBLEM IS RON PAUL!!!
    What to do? Get some copies of _Road to Serfdom_, stuff 'em in glass jars and bury them for the robots to read 1000 years from now? "Hey, 2467YB80, look at this. A note. "We knew what was happening but couldn't do anything about it...HA...HA...HA..."

    Bring on the Party Purges. Get some Elliot Wavers to invoke the P3 Wave. Whatever. Just tell Cave-Man Boehner to just GET OUT.

    I'm done.

    Charles Wilson

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    1. Read the Dollar Vigilante and ' get out of Dodge'! Also, find a good chiropractor. I will treat you in San Miguel if you happen to make it there. Last of all .........Cheer Up! ;-)

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  5. Remember when Libertarians were taking over the Republican Party?

    Good times.

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    1. Yeah. The GOP and the Left Alinsky'd the Libertarians so badly even the hyphenated Conservatives didn't want anything to do with the libertarian trademark, even as they claimed to be conservative. All you read on the internet forums was drugs this, prostitution that, and no mention of any Constitutional stance.
      That was no accident, but trying to maintain control, just the same the TEA Party got blamed for everything from POTUS election losses to Bessie giving sour milk.

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  6. But I thought voting for people like Amash and Schweikert was the way to change things for the better. I'm starting to see a pattern here.

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  7. This is yet another example showing the Repub party for what it really is: an enemy of liberty, just like the Dems. Amash, et al should wear their demotions like a badge of honor and continue to make the case against the statist, warmongering mob that is the Repub party.

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  8. As a result voters will continue to purge Republicans from the House, the Senate and the Presidency.

    Good bye GOP. I'll enjoy watching you implode.


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  9. Yeah, but none of this would have happened if Romney had won....oh, wait a minute.

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  10. There's one party in this country: the Big Government Party. No one with a dissenting view need apply.

    The good news is that the catastrophic failure will flush these cretins from the system like a turd down the toilet. Too bad the middle class will be wiped out in the process....

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  11. GOP reich-wingers cutting off its nose to spite its face. Let them suicide the party, eff'em.

    Because (s)electing reps to obey their oaths has proven totally ineffective, the best course of action now is to mount grassroots, viral negative-ad campaigns to shame and expose these sellout asswipes on both sides of the phony political paradigm.

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  12. Last week Beohner met with Goldman Sachs CEO, this week Boehner purges conservatives from committees. Beohner is nothing but a Goldman Sachs lapdog

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  13. The funny thing is those guys aren't even libertarians, just small-er government conservatives.

    And yet there are still people that actually believe that Rand Paul will get GOP establishment blessing to run for prez without first becoming a full blown neocon.

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    1. Right.
      It ought to be a wake up call to rand supporters...he cannot even stop a Boner.

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    2. Rand Paul has always said he is NOT a Libertarian and IS a Republican. I'm not sure where all this stuff that assumes he is in the same political family as Ron Paul comes from. As far as Republicans go, he isn't the worst but he is talked about like he is a Libertarian sell-out or something. He never was Libertarian, probably never will be, and he is not his father. I would rather have him as a Senator in my state than either John McCain or Jon Kyle, but that's like saying I would rather lose my left arm than my right.

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  14. Don't lay down people! Get on the phone to Boehner's office tomorrow and demand he put them back on their committees.

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