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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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
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To: Libloather
Don't they have to actually win first?


41 posted on 11/28/2021 6:02:24 AM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Libloather
...given the unprecedented level of violent threats that lawmakers still face months after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Said without citing a single example.

Because she can't.

42 posted on 11/28/2021 6:03:12 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Candor7

McCarthy probably wears a thong...


43 posted on 11/28/2021 6:06:01 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Liz
. . . some Republican states have aggressively packed voters of colors into single districts or failed to draw a single minority-majority district at all.

I think we all see what MSN is doing here. Damn the GOP if they pack all these voters into a single district. Damn the GOP if they don't draw a special distict for them.

44 posted on 11/28/2021 6:06:19 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Candor7

McCarthy needs to start with ejecting Cheyney and Kinzinger as well as stripping the 13 GOPe weasels who voted for in support of a number of Jao Bai Dan regime initiatives

Until he instills voting discipline, why bother going after other side.

But alas McCarthy is a GOPe wussy and wont do anything. Pelosi showed her contempt for him by scheduling an early AM vote after his 8 hour stint delaying vote. GOPe would have pulled a comparable bill -


45 posted on 11/28/2021 6:10:06 AM PST by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: Candor7

McCarthy needs to start with ejecting Cheyney and Kinzinger as well as stripping the 13 GOPe weasels who voted for in support of a number of Jao Bai Dan regime initiatives

Until he instills voting discipline, why bother going after other side.

But alas McCarthy is a GOPe wussy and wont do anything. Pelosi showed her contempt for him by scheduling an early AM vote after his 8 hour stint delaying vote. GOPe would have pulled a comparable bill -


46 posted on 11/28/2021 6:10:33 AM PST by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“”one of the Democratic Party’s biggest stars after leading the first impeachment against Trump in 2019””

Without having to give up one shred of evidence he swore he had. What’s he saving it for?


47 posted on 11/28/2021 6:11:28 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Libloather

I’m a big fan of not turning the other cheek when it comes to confronting Democrats who start something. No more Mr Nice Guy. Payback should be harsh.


48 posted on 11/28/2021 6:34:53 AM PST by chuckee (t)
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To: Libloather

I’m a big fan of not turning the other cheek when it comes to confronting Democrats who start something. No more Mr Nice Guy. Payback should be harsh.


49 posted on 11/28/2021 6:34:53 AM PST by chuckee (t)
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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 or promoted violence against their political opponents the way Greene and Gosar have.

Stopped right there. I must have missed where these Democrats stood up and said, “Stop all this Russian collusion nonsense”.

50 posted on 11/28/2021 6:40:26 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Libloather

quote “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.”

um... remember when President Bush blew up the twin towers?

yeah, I DO!

I wouldn’t let any democrats sit on any committee!


51 posted on 11/28/2021 6:42:18 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Libloather
Tipping?


52 posted on 11/28/2021 6:44:21 AM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Leep

“And the repubs are going to defund pbs/npr and planned parent (no father one parent)hood.”

This has been a long term promise of the GOP. It has never happened when they controlled the House (all appropriations bills begin in the House) or when they’ve controlled the House, Senate, and White House.


53 posted on 11/28/2021 6:59:28 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Soul of the South

That is why I said it


54 posted on 11/28/2021 7:00:34 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Leep
And the repubs are going to defund pbs/npr and planned parent (no father one parent)hood

...an' remove CRT from and rebuild the military, an' complete the wall, an' punish all those guilty of and/or complicit in the steal, an'.....an'.....an' give me a pony!

55 posted on 11/28/2021 7:24:59 AM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siati armati!)
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To: Libloather

None of them embraced conspiracy theories or promoted violence?

You mean none of them embraced the Russia Collusion Hoax or the Klantifa/Burn Loot Murder riots?


56 posted on 11/28/2021 8:17:22 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

How about booting them from the country?


57 posted on 11/28/2021 8:51:48 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Liz

Wow - yikes


58 posted on 11/28/2021 10:20:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Bon of Babble
...given the unprecedented level of violent threats that lawmakers still face months after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Said without citing a single example.

Because she can't.

forget about examples, what about evidence?????

59 posted on 11/28/2021 10:36:22 AM PST by true believer forever (Fight the Attacks against Trump: PLANT YOUR FEET, LEAN INTO IT, BEAT IT BACK. )
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To: Salvey

Don’t forget “debunked”


60 posted on 11/28/2021 10:51:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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