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Title: Boehner Leads House GOP in Crackdown on Tea Party Dissent
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URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Jo ... 2015/06/25/id/652150/?AID=7236
Published: Jun 25, 2015
Author: Melissa Clyne
Post Date: 2015-06-27 11:58:49 by BTP Holdings
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Boehner Leads House GOP in Crackdown on Tea Party Dissent Image: Boehner Leads House GOP in Crackdown on Tea Party Dissent (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) By Melissa Clyne | Thursday, 25 Jun 2015 10:19 AM Fed up with the most conservative faction of its party "throwing a wrench" in its agenda, the House GOP leadership is laying down the law and taking a heavy hand with dissenters, Politico reports. The 30 or so tea party members who attempt to foil the party’s agenda by opposing leadership with nay votes on procedural motions, known as rules, will receive harsh and swift punishment, according to the website. "When we are entrusted by our team with a position of responsibility, we have an obligation to live up to those responsibilities," House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday while addressing the Republican Conference. "We are in the majority. Part of being in the majority is advancing an agenda — a conservative agenda. You may not agree with every part of the agenda, and when you don’t, you can vote your conscience. "But voting against rules is not a vote of conscience; it is a vote to hand the House floor over to Nancy Pelosi." Example: Florida Rep. Richard Nugent stopped receiving financial support from corporate PACs and was barred from congressional trips to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay after he supported fellow Sunshine State Rep. Daniel Webster in his bid to oust Boehner as speaker, according to Politico. Both men were both booted from the Rules Committee. Members of Boehner’s leadership team told The Hill that "they’re not urging Republicans to vote against their conscience, as some conservatives argue; they simply want votes to bring legislation to the floor for a debate. When Republicans vote against rules to bring legislation to the floor, it dilutes the power of the majority and gives Democrats leverage that they lack in their numbers." The vast majority — some 200 members of the caucus — favor consequences for those who dissent from the majority in the form of "stripping the rebels of gavels, denying them travel, halting campaign cash and blocking their bills from the floor," according to The Hill. "The fact is we’ve got more than 200 rank-and-file members who are royally ----- off at those guys for voting to turn the House floor over to Nancy Pelosi," a senior GOP leadership aide told the website. "There’s plenty of anger to go around, but the large majority of it is from members who believe much more punishment should be doled out." While Boehner "has shied from widespread crackdowns" during his tenure, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise have issued direct warnings about dealing with party heretics. "McCarthy has privately told committee chairmen they need to ensure their senior members are voting with the party," according to Politico, and Scalise "has privately encouraged stiffer punishment for wayward Republicans. He kicked a few Republicans off of his vote-counting team after they bucked leaders on procedural votes." Members who vote against procedural motions, considered "tests of party unity," are viewed as publicly rejecting leadership, The Hill says. "When you’re elected to serve in the majority, it’s a great honor and privilege," Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent, a centrist, told The Hill. "And with that honor comes a governing responsibility. And by taking down rules and empowering, in this case Nancy Pelosi, you’re really undermining the majority. "Look, if you vote against the rule, you know you’ve got to get off the whip team. It’s that simple. Nobody should be surprised or upset about that." Read Latest Breaking News from http://Newsmax.com www.newsmax.com/Newsfront.../id/652150/#ixzz3eHKWgmjy Poster Comment: I had some woman call and ask if I was a member of the Tea Party. I told that I was not, but I believed in what they were saying. ;)
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
This is pure Judyasm too -- berserk, brash vindictiveness.
Tell your a reserve milita member in service of the us constitution. ______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
The Huffington Post | by Mollie Reilly U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
I hope that Bevin crushes the slime-ball.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
============================================= McConnel, Boehner, Graham, McCain Club control the GOP. They in turn are controlled by (fill in the blanks). Settle in, knowing there will never be another fair and honest election in US history. They who control the economy controls the government. They who control the government control the ballot box. They who control the ballot box control YOU. U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
They have this vitriolic hatred for the tea party -- I'm damned if I know why. The TP had a wild, wonderful heyday 6 years ago and has been basically comatose since. The politicians live in such a drugged-up fantasy land that in this respect they're caught in a thoroughly ridiculous time warp. Boner's got nothing better to do than try to stomp out alternatives to the Beast.
========================================================== U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Bought out once in office, is my best explanation. Like all the whores in deecee. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Bought out once in office, is my best explanation. Like all the whores in deecee. Anti-tea party GOP group hosting Amelia Island getaway Boehner Business Allies Take On Tea Party - TP earmarked as 'Taliban Minority" CPAC Organizers Make Statement With Boehner Snub How the Tea Party lost the 2014 midterms U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
That is exactly, precisely it. I even remember the article (wish I'd saved the link) listing those that got elected and how they were cajoled into selling out.
They have this vitriolic hatred for the tea party -- I'm damned if I know why. The TP had a wild, wonderful heyday 6 years ago and has been basically comatose since. The politicians live in such a drugged-up fantasy land that in this respect they're caught in a thoroughly ridiculous time warp. Boner's got nothing better to do than try to stomp out alternatives to the Beast.
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
I had some woman call and ask if I was a member of the Tea Party. I told that I was not, but I believed in what they were saying.
#3. To: BTP Holdings, NeoconsNailed, titorite (#0)
Mitch McConnell On Tea Party Challengers: 'We Are Going To Crush Them Everywhere'
Posted: 03/09/2014
Everywhere'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he isn't worried about tea party-backed candidates challenging GOP incumbents in this year's midterm elections.
"I think we are going to crush them everywhere," McConnell told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday. "I don't think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country."
McConnell is one of several senators facing tea party opposition in their primary races this spring. McConnell's main opponent is Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin, who has spent the campaign attacking the senator's conservative credentials.
As the Associated Press reported last month, McConnell and other GOP incumbents have started to come out aggressively against these candidates, using opposition research to undermine them.
“Mitch McConnell is clearly in trouble in this primary or he wouldn’t be attacking Matt Bevin and declaring war on conservatives,” the Senate Conservatives Fund's Matt Hoskins told the Times.
However, polls in the race tell a different story. A survey released last month by GOP firm Wenzel Strategies found McConnell with a 42 point lead over Bevin, while a Bluegrass Poll pinned McConnell's lead at 26 points.
The Kentucky primary will be held May 20.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...p_ref=politics
#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#3)
#5. To: Lod (#4)
I hope that Bevin crushes the slime-ball.
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#3)
#7. To: NeoconsNailed, Lod (#6)
They have this vitriolic hatred for the tea party -- I'm damned if I know why.
Boehner Mocks Tea Party Caucus
#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
The TP had a wild, wonderful heyday 6 years ago and has been basically comatose since.
#9. To: Lod, NeoconsNailed (#8)
The TP had a wild, wonderful heyday 6 years ago and has been basically comatose since.
Is John Boehner "One of Us"? - $10,000 chicken dinners Republican Elitist Party (REP)
#10. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#9)
Bought out once in office, is my best explanation.
#11. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#3)
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