Majority Whip Steve Scalise Seeks Help From Anti-Tea Party Lobbyist

breitbart.com ^ | 8/6/14 | Charlie Spiering

[cotton1706]

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has been seeking help from a federal lobbyist while putting together his new staff, according to a Politico report.

The report shows that John Feehery, aligned with the lobbyist shop Quinn Gillespie & Associates, “sat in on and participated in multiple official interviews with job candidates,” helping Scalise put together his press operation.

Part of the old establishment, Feehery managed communications for Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Tom Delay.

But Feehery has a history of being critical if not outright hostile about the Tea Party.

“It is time to get rid of the Tea Party. They are an embarrassment,” he wrote in a January post titled, “Tea Party Must be Crushed”

Feehery described he modern Tea Party as ”a collection of wing-nuts, racists, hucksters, extremists, con-men and front-men, who collaborate with Hollywood and left-wing organizations to plot the demise of Republicans in good standing.”

Chief among the “good” Republicans, he wrote was Mitch McConnell, who he described as “probably the most conservative leader of either party in the history of the Senate.”

In another article, Feehery expressed his “distaste” for Tea Party as a “rag-tag group of nihilists who are doing their level best to bring down the Republican Party.”

“They hate common core standards. Hate Obamacare. Hate extending the debt limit. Hate reopening the government. Hate the NSA. Hate immigrants. Hate the establishment. Hate big corporations. Hate Labor. Hate the Federal Reserve. Hate foreigners,” he wrote. “Hate. Hate. Hate. But hate is not a policy agenda.”

[trisham]

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[cotton1706]

“Chief among the “good” Republicans, he wrote was Mitch McConnell, who he described as “probably the most conservative leader of either party in the history of the Senate.”

Has he never heard of Bob Taft??

[GeronL]

GOPE War on Conservatism continues

[BAW]

“Can’t we all just get along?” //snarc//

[ozzymandus]

Sounds like Feerey has a lot of hate for conservatives.

[joshua c]

Gee, John, it sounds like you hate the tea party.

Why you be hatin’ on me all the time!

[Servant of the Cross]

Says a lot about the gOpE Congress if a dude like this is elected to leadership.

And nothing good.

[trisham]

He sounds more than a little nutty.

[SharpRightTurn]

It appears Scalise is going to feel right at home with Cantor’s successor, McCarthy, and with the Weeper.

[loveliberty2]

Shameful comments about ordinary Americans whose devotion to the founding principles brought them together in a movement loosely referred to as a Taxed Enough Already group whose acronym became villified and smeared by "progressives" of both political Parties!

America's founding principles are the very principles by which such constitutionally illiterate politicians and political hacks as this man are allowed to tout their distorted views. Sadly, so-called GOP-e tyrants are little different from those in the Democrat Party who dominate and rule Washington today.

"...nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams

"This was a favorable moment to shut and bar the door against paper money." [This statement referred to a proposed provision in Article I, Section 8, that would have read 'and emit bills of credit (paper money) of the United States,' which the Founders rejected by an overwhelming vote.] - James Madison- Notes of the Federal Convention 1787

"...there have always been those who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government. There is but one safe rule...confine (it) within the sphere of its appropriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or impose taxes except for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution....Every attempt to exercise power beyond these limits should be promptly and firmly opposed." - Andrew Jackson's Valedictory

"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views...." - Jefferson's Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge for Virginia

"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it....It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free." - James Madison

"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson-First Inaugural Statement of Principles of Good Government

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article): As "Part of the old establishment, Feehery managed communications for Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Tom Delay. "

When leadership brings in the "TROJAN HORSE ", it's time to leave,
since they are are all hell-bent on their own destruction .
The gopE are no longer relevent to me, nor to the majority of undecided voters .

[ckilmer]

Luckily the whips job is being done out of Lee’s and Cruz’s offices.

[RIghtwardHo]

Yeah. Hold your nose and vote GOP because it is working out SO well.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - John Feehery, aligned with the lobbyist shop Quinn Gillespie & Associates - - - “

Anybody know much about this pseudo-Republican, or the clients of Quinn Gillespie and Ass.?

[navyguy]

It’s because of illiterate asshats like this guy that I give the golf pants Republican establishment a piece of my mind every chance I get. They are completely detached from reality.

[pallis]

The GOP, grand old patrons, is an embarrassment to conservatives, the Constitution and the history of this country. They fit in well with the circus of clowns paraded around Washington.

[Night Hides Not]

Sounds like Feerey has a lot of hate for conservatives.

A requirement to draw appearance fees from MSNBC. Just ask Scarborough & Steele.

Boy, Ari Fleischer's stock has really fallen, too. The only places I see his face now are milk cartons and MSNBC.

[LegendHasIt]

"“They hate common core standards. Hate Obamacare. Hate extending the debt limit. Hate reopening the government. Hate the NSA. Hate immigrants. Hate the establishment. Hate big corporations. Hate Labor. Hate the Federal Reserve."

He says that like it is a bad thing.

[nitzy]

This sounds eerily similar to how John Boehner brought in Rebecca Tallent, John McCain's immigration expert, to craft the language in the House's solution to the current border problems.

The fix is in folks.