Posted on 06/20/2015 4:04:41 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
The House Republican crackdown has reached a new level of severity.
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz has stripped North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows of his subcommittee chairmanship, just days after he defied leadership on the House floor by voting against a party-line procedural motion.
“Sometimes the coach needs to make a change on the field,” Chaffetz (R-Utah) told POLITICO Saturday. “He’s still a valuable contributor, and I really like Mark Meadows, he’s a good person. But I need to make a change.”
Losing a subcommittee chairmanship midway through a congressional session is among the most serious punishments thus far in Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) majority. Boehner and his leadership team have grown frustrated with Republicans who vote against the procedural “rule” motion. Those votes — which allow the Republican leadership to bring a bill up for debate and a vote — typically fall along party lines. But a group of conservatives has voted against the measures, mostly in protest of Boehner’s leadership. Republican leadership sees the move as unacceptable —akin to ceding power to Democrats.
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I suspected Chaffetz was on the other side, this confirms it.
Punishing people for standing up for America.
Excellent tagline.
The Uniparty protecting their trough.
Why wouldn’t they? GOP voters never, ever punish them at the polls.
IMO there’s a good chance 2016 will be different in that regard.
Chaffetz has gone native. Time to permanently retire him.
These batars don’t want you to represent you constituents !! they want you to represent the chamber of commence. The party is now irreperably split.
Yep. They are bought and paid for by the chamber.
“Punishing people for standing up for America.”
Repubican-led House of Representatives=Soviet Duma. And we thought Obama was bad, Boner is worse!
Chaffetz sounds like he may run against Mike Lee in a primary next year if UT has a primary.
Keep voting Lesser of Two Evils and this will continue.
2016 will be a reckoning for GOPe.
The skunky EXEMPT GOP punishes ANYONE who
dares do what the voters want, who dares
defend the US Constitution.
They are truly the Gave.Obama.Power (GOP) party
which backstabbed their voters, over and over.
Oh yes.
95 PERCENT OF ELECTED REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS EITHER FAKE CONSERVATISM OR REPUDIATE IT........
“Of, By and For the People”, well, maybe someday
Boehner is an enemy of the Republic.
Cowards do his bidding.
This burns me up! Mark is my representative and has voted the voice, and will, of his constituents. I WILL NOT forget in 2016 the two faced GOP! Promise!
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