Posted on 03/05/2015 6:15:08 AM PST by cotton1706
The House Freedom Caucus doesn’t have a Web site. It’s not completely clear exactly who belongs to the group. But in the just-completed fight over Homeland Security funding, it was hard to miss the influence of the insurgent conservative bloc as it clashed with GOP leadership.
The small group of far-right renegades has emerged as the latest embodiment of the internal GOP resistance to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio); as a general rule, they are unpredictable, opaque and completely unwilling to back down from any fight against President Obama and his agenda.
As the unified Republican majority looks to the next big legislative battles over the debt ceiling, the federal budget and the Export-Import Bank, the Freedom Caucus may be the best illustration of how intra-party discord could dramatically slow the pace of business in this Congress and likely bring it to a complete halt.
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I’d like to know all the names in this “small group”....based on what I’ve seen from some of the Georgia RINOs we have (even a couple of the new ones), I’m thinking their names won’t be on that list.
Any chance the House Freedom Caucus will grow as the reps who voted against our Constitution and identity as a nation hear it from the voters back home?
Boehner just goes to the Dems for votes that he cant get from these folks ensuring that the bills that get to Obama really stink.
I’d prefer “knife in the back” to “thorn in the side”.
Metaphorically, of course ;-)
They must have done something right, the Washington Post sounds upset.
What small group? Boehner led to the left and 2 out of three Republicans went to the right. When over 2 out of three members of your caucus don’t follow you, you have a major leadership problem.
“Any chance the House Freedom Caucus will grow as the reps who voted against our Constitution and identity as a nation hear it from the voters back home?”
Well, there were 28 who voted against Boehner for Speaker, and then 54 last week who voted against his three week-funding plan. Then 167 who voted against the clean funding (but most of those were likely ass-coverers).
So yes, I think the number will grow over time.
Such an even-handed analysis...the terminology “...right wing renegades...” was so uplifting, sort of like getting a gold star on a grammar school homework assignment!
It’s only a flesh wound? Efforts need to be redoubled.
Does not seem to be hindering him from carrying Obama’s water
House Freedom Caucus
Jim Jordan, Ohio, and Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina, taking leadership rolls.
Only the leaders and Scott Garrett of New Jersey, John Fleming of Louisiana, Matt Salmon of Arizona, Justin Amash of Michigan, Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Mark Meadows of North Carolina are public members.
At that point, they’ll hold a symbolic shift in power and start over with back stabbing Freedom.
We need a RINO jump, similar to the Buffalo Jumps of yore.
Thank you....as I suspected none of my Georgia representatives are on it.
I love how people who actually believe in the Constitution are labelled “Far Right”.
The Freedom Caucus needs to become the Freedom Party.
The GOP is wholly owned by The Cheap Labor Express.
Their purpose is to block conservatives, not represent them.
The citizens need representation.
The GOP is represent the employers of the illegal aliens.
The Democrats are representing the illegal aliens.
Somebody has to represent the citizens.
Priebus and the GOP Leadership don’t know the damage they have done. They took the commonly taken road of surrender, but we were watching this time. I am never pulling the R lever again. I will vote for conservative republicans and Libertarians (John Cornyn won’t be getting my R-lever default vote)
[ I love how people who actually believe in the Constitution are labelled “Far Right”. ]
When the correct term is “Constitutional Moderate”
Just like how Liberals (normally a term meaning all out liberty) are Fascists.
The Pro-Regresives have been manipulating the language for over 100 years because it is easier for them to manipulate t he language that it is to admit what they are REALLY AFTER.
Boehner’s problem isn’t the conservatives. His problem is the RINOs!
The Rinos NEVER help him out, NEVER put the caucus before themselves, NEVER accept the slightest compromise.
The conservatives have done all that- but enough is enough.
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