Posted on 01/06/2015 11:30:01 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Iron-fisted U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is moving quickly to punish conservative Republicans who tried to oust him Tuesday during the biennial leadership election.
Hours after the contentious vote, Florida Rep. Daniel Webster – who actively campaigned against Boehner and persuaded 12 GOP members to support him – found himself left off the membership list of the powerful House Rules Committee, where he served for the last two years.
Rep. Rich Nugent, a fellow Floridian who voted for him, suffered the same fate.
'My philosophy,' Webster told reporters after he heard the news that he had been bumped from the committee in a vindictive move, 'is don’t burn any bridges, don’t make it personal.'
'But that's not everybody’s philosophy.'
[BIG SNIP]
......Boehner and his aides had promised in the run-up to Tuesday's mini-drama that there would be no recriminations.
'Boehner has said publicly that there will be no retribution for "no" votes,' his spokesman Michael Steel told The Daily Caller last week.
The speaker also told USA Today in September that no Republicans would lose their committee assignments if they opposed him.
'I just don't think it's necessary,' he said then.
But he also predicted that 'very few' would defect. The 25 who bolted on Tuesday – the largest such group in a century – appear to have changed his mind....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I wish he would be as tough on democrats.
Never trust promises made by a politician.
Good to see that Bonehead can actually act against opposition rather than cavibg. Just figures that his target is conservatives. Liberals have got to be pretty smug about this. Heck, last time that a Speaker bumped this many conservatives off committee was Nancy Pelosi.
Why would he attack his own party?
As much as I despise Pelosi, I hope she is Speaker again in two years.
I will do what I can to make it happen.
He isn’t.
There are really two parties: Big Govt vs Limited Govt. He’s fighting for his party all the way.
What a band of sissy hacks we have in DC. This is disgusting.
FUJB
RINOs aren’t even for limited government.
lol
How many election cycles do Conservatives have to be thrown under the Republican bus to realize that the Republican Party, the Party of moderate Big Government, is not the friend of Conservatives.
90% said so today, and people still aren't getting it.
He’s just another lying, power hungry, drunken, POS like the rest. I can’t wish him well, because I don’t. Not a damn one of them care about “we the people.” All they care about is their power and committee assignments. I also believe the
Bible when it says, “vengeance is mine, I will repay,” saith the Lord. Boehner hasn’t seen retaliation like what he is going to experience.
He’s just another lying, power hungry, drunken, POS like the rest. I can’t wish him well, because I don’t. Not a damn one of them care about “we the people.” All they care about is their power and committee assignments. I also believe the
Bible when it says, “vengeance is mine, I will repay,” saith the Lord. Boehner hasn’t seen retaliation like what he is going to experience.
For all those guys that let down their team; well they let down their voters too. I wish the rest of the rep. congress would turn their backs on them like the police did with the blaz. No confidence.
IOW Boehner makes committee assignments that are good for Boehner, and not according to what is good for the country, the GOP, or anything else.
The Quasi-Bank/Insurance Lobby, govt. Bureaus, and govt. Depts. and their aides, actually don’t wish to have any in Congress or the WH., with the ability to make decisions.
To them, the more incapacitated, culpable, and senile, the better, Boehner fits right in, as does Mitch, and the Undocumented one.
Stupid Sniffles “pisses off” the American people.
At least she doesn’t cry all the time.
The POS speaker is worse than a democrat. I hope the next time this SOB gets drunk, he falls and breaks his face ala.... Harry Reid style.
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