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Conservative Congressman: John Boehner's 'Purge' Was A 'Warning' To The GOP
Business Insider ^ | 12/6/12 | Grace Wyler

Posted on 12/07/2012 8:16:02 AM PST by jimbo123

Conservative Congressman Tim Huelskamp, one of three freshmen representatives ousted from top committee posts this week, slammed the House Republican leadership Thursday, and said that the purge was "a warning" to other members not to go against the party leaders on a fiscal cliff deal.

"I think that was clearly a warning from leadership that 'We're watching your votes, and if you don't vote the way we like it, you might be punished like these three people,'" Huelskamp told Business Insider.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: boehner; goppurge; huelskamp; newyork; ohio
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To: aimhigh
There has to be a better system.

Repealing the 17th and term limits would be a great start in my view.

21 posted on 12/07/2012 12:18:36 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Vinnie

“Me too. And I’m changing my party affiliation to IND.”

I did this 2-3 weeks ago. I feel much better for doing so.


22 posted on 12/07/2012 7:58:06 PM PST by chooseascreennamepat (You can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: jimbo123
And yet you KNOW too many Conservatives will fall in line in 2016. Sad really.

Anyone who supports republicans I treat and think of no differently than a democrat now. The GOP/RNC, republican party have made their bed, now their going to have to sleep in it, ALONE!

The LOSERS win the party and will keep losing, but conservatives are going to be the ones who restore the Idea of America.

GFY JB and the GOP!

23 posted on 12/08/2012 4:28:03 AM PST by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: All

So, I don’t guess the “fix the party from the inside” plan is working out very well. I’ll never vote for another republican. It’s third party or no party.


24 posted on 12/08/2012 1:28:46 PM PST by Terry Mross (I haven't watched the news since the election. Someone ping me if anything big happens.)
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To: jimbo123

Obama reminding Weepy Boner who he *really* works for...

Cheers!

25 posted on 12/08/2012 4:15:13 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Where is the vaunted Tea Party caucus? Are they throwing these four members under the bus in order to curry favour with the GOP leadership?


26 posted on 12/08/2012 4:20:01 PM PST by littleharbour
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To: aimhigh
"The reason our government doesn’t work...

I'm afraid it's much more serious than that. Our Republic no longer functions because we (collectively) are no longer a virtuous and morally upright people. The problem is spiritual in nature, and unless we get right with God, no recovery is possible.

27 posted on 12/08/2012 4:55:41 PM PST by semaj
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To: Vinnie
"I'm changing my party affiliation to IND."

Been there and done that as of yesterday. Never again!

28 posted on 12/08/2012 4:57:35 PM PST by semaj
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To: All; Georgia Girl 2

“I’d like to see 16 of these guys vote agains’t Boehner for the speakership. ..”

Call your Republican congressperson, and tell him/her to vote AGAINST Boehner this January. If he is not replaced with a conservative, who is not afraid to fight, I don’t think our country has a chance, during Obama’s term.


29 posted on 12/08/2012 10:08:40 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: jimbo123

How do we know this DIDN’T come from Obama?

“B-man, dude, you got to get those Tea party freshman
off those committees, then we can talk.”


30 posted on 12/08/2012 10:20:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Nobody in the RINOcrat party will do anything. They are all cowards. That is why we are in the shape we are in now. They are cowards. They are worthless. They buckle and run. Thus, the Soviet Dimocrats have won.


31 posted on 12/09/2012 6:18:34 AM PST by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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To: Vinnie

Amen Vinnie!

LLS


32 posted on 12/10/2012 2:40:18 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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