Posted on 06/26/2015 3:35:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
House GOP leaders and their allies retreated on Thursday, backing off efforts to punish conservative rebels who had bucked leadership on a trade vote.
Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said he was reinstating Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) as a subcommittee chairman, just a week after he stripped him of his gavel for voting against leadership and failing to pay party dues.
And hours earlier, House GOP freshmen balked at a plot to sack their class president, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), for defying leaders amid complaints hes been ineffective at his job. All the backpedaling was an embarrassment for GOP leaders, including Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who just a day earlier had publicly endorsed Chaffetzs decision to strip Meadowss gavel. Both Meadows and Buck are members of the House Freedom Caucus, whose co-founders cheered Thursdays developments.
I think what it really means is that maybe our message is finally getting through some very thick skulls, said one Freedom Caucus co-founder. When you have a crisis in a family, you dont exile people, kick people out. You have to communicate better as a family.
Throughout the week, Freedom co-founders griped to Chaffetz and GOP leaders about Meadowss removal as chairman. The message was clear: This is not helpful.
But it was a GOP conference rule that ultimately helped Meadows win his job back.
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If they were Rebels, they’d be flying the Stars and Bars.
That would certainly bring things to a head.
An old symbol of new resistance.
It's sickening to hear P.C. talking mouths on radio pontificating about how the civil war was ALL about slavery.
Ignorance is bliss.
Also often fatal.
You mean like this one?
Bttt
Too late, Mother———s.
We’re out for BLOOD, now.
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