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GOP eyes booting Democrats from seats if House flips
The Hill ^ | 11/27/21 | Cristina Marcos

Posted on 11/28/2021 4:25:57 AM PST by Libloather

Multiple House Democrats who are frequent top targets of the far right face the prospect of losing their committee assignments if Republicans win back the chamber next year.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has threatened to retaliate after Democrats stripped GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) of committee seats this Congress, warning that some liberal lawmakers “will need the approval of a majority to keep those positions in the future.”

None of the Democrats singled out by McCarthy as examples of who could be removed from House committees have embraced conspiracy theories or promoted violence against their political opponents the way Greene and Gosar have.

But that’s not stopping Republicans from warning of a scorched-earth environment if they win back the House, as many poll watchers expect.

McCarthy has also pledged to restore Gosar's and Greene’s committee assignments.

Democrats maintain that they’ve only adhered to a precedent of taking punitive action against lawmakers who promoted political violence in the absence of a formal rebuke from GOP leaders.

“Let me be clear: If a Democrat did the same thing, I would introduce the same resolution,” said Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who led the original resolution to censure Gosar for posting an anime video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging swords at President Biden.

Democrats defended last week’s vote to censure Gosar and take away his committee seats as necessary given the unprecedented level of violent threats that lawmakers still face months after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. But some Democrats acknowledged that the possibility of Republicans engaging in payback is real.

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To: Libloather

Reps love Committee assignments. The Reps make big bucks for these assignments. Basically, they’re rewards.


21 posted on 11/28/2021 5:05:11 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Jim Noble

I guess I needed a “/s”


22 posted on 11/28/2021 5:05:49 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Libloather

This is the problem. They are “eyeing” it, but it should be a slam dunk.


23 posted on 11/28/2021 5:07:13 AM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: Russ

‘None of the Democrats singled out by McCarthy as examples of who could be removed from House committees have embraced conspiracy theories or promoted violence against their political opponents the way Greene and Gosar have.‘
None of those Democrats embraced the conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia? Really??


24 posted on 11/28/2021 5:10:46 AM PST by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: cld51860

Usually when someone threatens to do something..
It’s almost a sure sign they won’t actually DO anything about it.


25 posted on 11/28/2021 5:13:16 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Libloather

Why not boot them all?


26 posted on 11/28/2021 5:18:19 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: All

H/t sodpoodle

DEMOCRATS ETERNAL LEGACY

Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born,
while others are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of their rights.

If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

If you cheat in an election nothing happens to you, but if you point out the mathematical errors
of that election you are a conspiracy theorist, disdained and compelled to pay billions.

People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

Democrats see countries go Socialist and collapsing, and say it seems like a great plan for us.

Then there’s the rich Bidung legacy:
Afghanistan,
vaccine mandates,
endless COVID variants,
election cheating,
violence in the cities,
defunding the police,
confiscating our guns while arming terrorists, etc.
border swarms
getting mega rich on a govt salary
living large while taxpayers struggle.


27 posted on 11/28/2021 5:21:32 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

Great meme.


28 posted on 11/28/2021 5:21:40 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah, but stupid Democrats are such easy targets.


29 posted on 11/28/2021 5:24:06 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Libloather

“None of the Democrats singled out by McCarthy as examples of who could be removed from House committees have embraced conspiracy theories”

Like all of those who voted to investigate the 1/6 Trump conspiracy to generate an insurrection?


30 posted on 11/28/2021 5:24:44 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Libloather

Not to worry.

It was once said that the mark of a real politician is ‘knowing what to do with power.;’

The ‘Republicans’ have NO clue what to do with power. Don’t believe it?

How could they fail to (refuse to) get behind Trump, the ‘in-your-face’ success story and proven winner !!


31 posted on 11/28/2021 5:26:52 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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The dim rats should be booted from the country…but they are like roaches…


32 posted on 11/28/2021 5:28:55 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Libloather

McCarthy is a blowhard phony,we need Jim Jordan


33 posted on 11/28/2021 5:31:24 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: Gay State Conservative

Ask yourself why you never hear “far left” characterized by anyone on the left. It’s because they can’t define it.


34 posted on 11/28/2021 5:31:26 AM PST by fwdude
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To: Gay State Conservative
“Far right”...I stopped reading right there.

"The Hill" ... I stopped reading there. :-)

35 posted on 11/28/2021 5:34:39 AM PST by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: Libloather

evin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has threatened to retaliate >>>>>

I would be surprised if McCarthy retaliated about anything, He is a wuss throug and through.

We need some one like Tom Delay was as Speaker.


36 posted on 11/28/2021 5:35:03 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Gay State Conservative
"Far right"

That's the Demonicrat/enemedia phrase for those who are not traitors the the United States of America.

37 posted on 11/28/2021 5:41:03 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Gay State Conservative
"Far right"

That's the Demonicrat/enemedia phrase for those who are not traitors the the United States of America.

38 posted on 11/28/2021 5:41:03 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Gay State Conservative
"Far right"

That's the Demonicrat/enemedia phrase for those who are not traitors the the United States of America.

39 posted on 11/28/2021 5:41:03 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Libloather

First the Republicans would need to boot Liz Cheney, Collins, Murkowski, Romney from committees.


40 posted on 11/28/2021 5:43:14 AM PST by Hattie
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