People are policy: GOP Whip lets lobbyist choose his staff

redstate.com ^ | 8/6/14 | Streiff

[cotton1706]

After the untimely demise of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, deputy whip, Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise was elevated to majority whip– the guy responsible for moving the GOP’s legislative agenda forward. Now we have an inkling of what we have to look forward to next session. Via Politico:

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise got some help interviewing potential new hires for his press shop from an unlikely source: a federal lobbyist.

snip

John Feehrey isn’t just any lobbyist. He belongs to the crony capitalism wing of the GOP.

On the McDaniel-Cochran senate race: I guess Mississippi doesn't want Federal money anymore. I betcha there are 49 states that will gladly take it.

In 2009, he supported Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey for Senate… about the time Specter was changing parties.

This is gut-check time for the Republican Party. They can be serious about taking back the Congress, or they can look good losing. Pat Toomey may be ideologically pure, but he can’t win in Pennsylvania.

snip

That Steve Scalise would not wait to crawl and ingratiate himself to the K Street robber barons shows he learned absolutely nothing from either 2010 or from Eric Cantor’s loss. That he does not appreciate the appearance of corruption and misconduct this unconscionable decision conjures up from even the most jaded observer does not bode well for Scalise’s career.

[cotton1706]

I have my suspicions that Scalise was told who to hire, that's how it works.

But whether he hired the guy himself or not, and given the recent immigration game and votes, Scalise, McCarthy and Boehner need to be replaced after November.

[KarlInOhio]

Potomac fever spreads faster than ebola.

[GeronL]

More GOPE, more sabotaging conservatism

[Paine in the Neck]

I have my suspicions that Scalise was told who to hire, that's how it works.

Folks wonder how it is that these people go to Washington and in short order become raging statists. This is the first step - when they put the pods in your office.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Waiting for the RINOs are still better than Rats crowd to chime in.

The GOPe knows why Cantor got tossed. And they are coming back full throttle “in your face” with this. Conservatives can’t work with them anymore than with Rats.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You can’t fight something with nothing.

If the GOPe ditches Conservatism then they and the country will be overrun by the Socialists.

All it’s gonna take at this point is for someone like Fauxahontas to start pushing the right buttons. The country is fed up and is truly ready for CHANGE. ANY change.

[factoryrat]

Limousine liberals, and country club republicans. Two sides of the same coin, and that coin is in the pocket of of the highest bidder.

[RIghtwardHo]

Welcome to when corporations own a Nation.

Citizens United is the beginning of the end for Democracy. The Founding Fathers never intended corporate personhood for good reason. Corporations should NOT have fundamental constitutional rights. It WILL come back to haunt us and Conservatism is going to be the first thing to go. Don’t believe me? Just live a decade or two longer.

[mrsmith]

Scalise helped conservatives on the immigration bill instead of forcing them to go along with Leadership.

Now the GOPe is after him with whatever they can throw.

Naturally, ‘redstate’ is doing their part

[mrsmith]

http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/steve-scalise-immigration-test/

“...he assisted in salvaging a $694 million appropriations measure to bolster resources at the U.S.-Mexico border largely by giving in to the demands of the far-right contingent of the GOP conference — including Reps. Steve King of Iowa and Michele Bachmann of Minnesota — rather than bringing down the proverbial hammer.
There’s anxiety among more moderate parts of the party over how Scalise will help hold the conference together to avoid another government shutdown when the chamber reconvenes next month,
“

[RIghtwardHo]

But it’s a fact. None of that changes he has this lobbyist in there picking and choosing. To whom is he beholden? NOT us.

[trisham]

"Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes,
they just don't know where to look."

~Ronald Reagan

please click the pic
donate today!
Help support Free Republic

[cva66snipe]

Which political party hold the majority of seats in both houses?

A. The Democratic Party
B. The Repiublican Party
C. The Smurf Party
D. The NWO Lobbyist Party