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MCCARTHYISM? GOP SOURCE SAYS MAJORITY WHIP DRAFTED BOEHNER PURGE LIST
Breitbart ^ | 121212 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 12/11/2012 10:53:59 PM PST by Fred

A House GOP source has confirmed to Breitbart News that House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy was the one who drafted the secret criteria list House Speaker John Boehner used in his purge of conservatives from House committees. The source, someone with inside knowledge of how Boehner conducted the purge, told Breitbart News that McCarthy crafted the list, which included a scorecard of where several conservative members stood on certain votes. According to the source, it’s unclear at this time whether McCarthy made the list of his own accord or if he did so at the request of somebody else in GOP leadership – like Boehner or House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boehner; cantor; kevinmccarthy; losers; rino
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To: MrShoop
Before McCarthy gets strung up, I’d like to know a little more, because he is been a reliable conservative vote (even though he is from California).

Too late. Snap decisions have been made. Those displeased with all things, or who have financial or political incentive to stir divisions, have settled on a GOPe purge talking-point. Doesn't matter who did it, why it was done, who the replacements were, that liberals were also replaced... it's a grand purge by the establishment.

Democrats don't need help defeating our agenda, in-fighting more than solves that problem for them.

61 posted on 12/12/2012 8:04:39 PM PST by newzjunkey (feh)
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To: Fred

I’ve been crossing swords with this P.O.S. since we were both in the Young Republicans twenty years ago. He’s an establishment RINO and always has been, but he’s been schmoozing his way up the ladder for a decade now and gaining favor among some conservatives because he raises money and talks a good game. So glad his true stripes are finally showing.


62 posted on 12/12/2012 8:20:52 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: A Navy Vet

There is no benefit to a circular firing squad.

Call Osama’s bluff.

Offer to raise the top tax rate back to 39.6% as long as Hussein agrees to concrete immediate spending cuts.


63 posted on 12/12/2012 10:08:29 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: Lazamataz; hosepipe; Ken H
In regards to my earlier post (below)I confused Laz with Ken
H. It's Ken H who is the decrepit 105, and Laz is the even sprightlier-than-us 92.

FR began 2/97, so let's make original Freepers of that year as
old as the world's oldest people, or 105. So 7 years would be equivalent
to 1 year as a Freeper (just like dogs!). This makes old Laz
a decrepit 105, but hosepipe and me are a sprightly 98.

64 posted on 12/12/2012 10:14:16 PM PST by jobim (.)
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bump


65 posted on 12/12/2012 11:40:18 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: DemforBush
"I guess I’m surprised that that Breitbart’s writers are surprised that McCarthy had a hand in this. I mean, party Whips *do* tend to be the guys who keep tabs on individual members, and dole out party discipline to an extent (though less so in our system than in the UK, etc.)"

But McCarthy had made nice-nice with Tea and Tea allied freshman; in retrospect, in exactly the same way Steny Hoyer herded the Blue Dogs into a pen, and we all know what happened to the Blue Dogs in 2010...

66 posted on 12/13/2012 12:22:06 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Own It.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
"I enjoyed him in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Here he is checking Jonn Beaners's pod."


"Hee hee. Stop it. That tickles. I'll cry!"

67 posted on 12/13/2012 12:24:10 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Own It.)
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To: Vaquero
"...Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy was a PATRIOT!..."

Book out on Joe McCarthy by Michelle Malkin...

68 posted on 12/13/2012 2:17:34 AM PST by Does so (Dims don't think ... they PLOT!)
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To: Fred

I don’t know much about this McCarthy except that he comes from a state with one of the most moribund Republican parties in the nation. And there is no solution in sight.


69 posted on 12/13/2012 4:32:32 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Theodore R.

‘moribund Republican party’

You deeply understand the GOP in CA... there is nothing they will not do for money..


70 posted on 12/13/2012 9:08:56 AM PST by Fred (http://thebubblefilm.com/)
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To: Theodore R.

however, Tom McClintock would be great in leadership in congress


71 posted on 12/13/2012 9:10:06 AM PST by Fred (http://thebubblefilm.com/)
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To: ladyjane
These guys are addicted to power. They don't want to lose it.

And, if We The Sheeple weren't so hopelessly addicted to Big Government, RINOs would be extinct.

In other words, the pot's right. Screw the rich and gimme more stuff. /s

72 posted on 12/13/2012 9:48:47 AM PST by newgeezer ("... no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God." --Rom. 13:1)
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To: Fred

let me guess, Kevin McCarthy is probably very familiar with the statement Reaganism is dead


73 posted on 12/13/2012 9:58:11 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: jobim

On 9/10/98 I was eight years old! (-:


74 posted on 12/13/2012 2:27:41 PM PST by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: MeganC

Congratulations on your precocious Conservatism! I was just about to turn 29, for the Reagan revolution, when I became a Conservative. It’s a good sign that young folks like yourself are engaged and carrying the torch!


75 posted on 12/13/2012 3:14:54 PM PST by jobim (.)
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To: jobim

I “officially joined” January 1, 1998, so I’ll soon be 15 as well!


76 posted on 12/13/2012 6:38:47 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: MeganC
I was 10 Years old!

Great minds think alike I suppose!

77 posted on 12/13/2012 8:41:19 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: jobim
Ah ha. It's an old fogies convention. I'm just a newbie here compared to you guys...{;)}

Same old stuff in the house, it's like a brutal presidential campaign. The GOPe's first priority is to destroy any movement toward conservatism first, regardless of whether that's fiscal or any other stripe.
Take [count em] steps to left and call out anyone standing to your right; a member in poor standing or worse. Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Off subject; Subject = TV ... It's not about entertainment. It's not about information. It's about control. ---- They're proving it works!

I'm lucky, I have no time for it anyway. Ongoing boycott (some football, baseball, and hockey excluded) for the past 10 or so years. No weather, no news, I suppose a few presidential debates are also excluded as webcasts.

Best Holiday Good Cheer to all my Freeper friends. God Bless and Merry Christmas.

78 posted on 12/14/2012 5:53:52 PM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

Nice to meet another September 1998 Freeper. I’m sure your wisdom is greatly appreciated here. And a Blessed & Merry Christmas to you, sir!


79 posted on 12/14/2012 6:28:02 PM PST by jobim (.)
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To: zerosix
I defer to my senior, by 9 months and 9 days.

I feel something especially precious about Christmas this year, as it speaks so poignantly of a time gone by, not just 2000 years, but the past 50 or so too in a personal way, and I for the first time feel it slipping into the past, that we are onto new turf as a nation, as a culture. I fear what we have wrought.

A Blessed and Merry Christmas to you, Z.
80 posted on 12/14/2012 6:34:44 PM PST by jobim (.)
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