Conservatives bite back at House GOP leadership over purge (Boehner channels Stalin)

Wash Post ^ | 12/5/12 | Rachel Weiner

[jimbo123]

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) took a public shot at House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Tuesday night, in the wake of a shake-up that knocked a small group of conservatives off prominent committees.

Justin Amash ✔ @repjustinamash Still waiting for call from GOP leadership. Are they too embarrassed to explain they booted me for working to reduce debt? 4 Dec 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite

Amash, a libertarian-leaning conservative, was taken off the House Budget Committee. Tea party-backed Rep. Tim Huelskamp (Kan.) was taken off Budget and Agriculture. Reps. Walter Jones (N.C.), a rare moderate, and David Schweikert (Ariz.) lost their spots on the Financial Services Committee. Amash, Huelskamp and Schweikert were all first elected in the 2010 Republican wave.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

What you said in this post is a long way from what you said previously.

[suijuris]

Certainly you are wise enough to know that I did not mean an actual accomplice to Stalin's rise to power as they are not even of the same generation or period in history. But rather by implication, that Boehner is possibly an unwitting accomplice to a potential future Stalinesque regime.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Obama is far closer to Stalin than Boehner.

[Bainbridge]

I don’t think you understood what I was telling granny. She claims that criticizing Boehner was being done by extremists. Using the word the way the left does.

[wastoute]

Like you, I suspect we have come to within months if not weeks of deciding. Do we die on our knees or on our feet?