[Ted Grant]

Win influence.

[Black Agnes]

Like this?:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/03/Boehner-GOP-leaders-purge-conservatives-from-powerful-House-committees

[mrsmel]

Influence to do what? Remember the last government shutdown, when out of all those Republicans, only Ted Cruz and a couple of others tried to use our leverage to block more spending? Who did the rest of the Republicans berate? McCain called him and the TP “wacko bords”. The Congressional GOP went after Cruz with an energy which they never exert in opposing Obama.

They also support amnesty.

Influence to do what?