"Our dhimmi constituents should be grateful and just bow before us and our King,
who has made us, and our Staff, EXEMPT from Laws and taxes.
Our usual punishment of sending the IRS after them will now continue."
Posted on 04/14/2015 3:41:23 PM PDT by Jane Long
Three months after they voted against John Boehner's third term as speaker, two Republicans have been removed from a key committee in retaliation for their dissent.
The House Rules Committee announced on Tuesday that they have filled two positions temporarily vacated by Reps. Richard Nugent and Daniel Webster, who were taken off the panel after they joined 24 conservative Republicans in voting against Boehner in January.
Reps. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., will fill the positions, meaning that Webster and Nugent have been permanently ousted. The two lawmakers served on the Rules Committee in the 113th Congress, but were excluded from the roster approved by lawmakers in the hours after they voted against Boehner.
Nugent and Webster appear to be the only lawmakers to lose committee posts after voting against Boehner. Republican leadership aides told the Washington Examiner the Rules panel is considered an arm of the Speaker's office, and thus has a higher threshold for loyalty that Nugent and Webster did not meet because they voted against Boehner.
House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, praised Byrne for his "commitment to a small, conservative federal government and a strong national defense."
Sessions called Newhouse, "a tireless advocate for prioritizing nuclear cleanup issues, science, and technological innovation during his time in Congress."
Want to get rid of Boner??? Take his booze bottle away from him.
I’m liking the visual of the exploding tanning bed. It could happen. Ask Dingy Harry.
Good one!
Does OH have an abnormally large number of snakes?
Yep.
You must be dreaming. The American people probably think The Battle of New Orleans is a Mardi Gras float.
"Our dhimmi constituents should be grateful and just bow before us and our King,
who has made us, and our Staff, EXEMPT from Laws and taxes.
Our usual punishment of sending the IRS after them will now continue."
I don't know about orange boy, and hard, line and demoncrats in the same sentences...............................Woof!
Can’t last forever. The country got pulled from the brink more than a few times already; what can save it from the edge when their madness remains unchecked?
I don't think you can turn that shade of orange in a tanning bed, I'm thinking spray job. Oh Oh, better get Maaco!
...then paint fume overdose maybe?
” Can’t last forever. The country got pulled from the brink more than a few times already;”
If we last until 2016, a conservative POTUS could save us.
Maybe it’ll be like “Bridget Jones” and he’ll turn purple.
“Punitive Bone-head will pay.”
Doubtful.
He hasn’t paid yet and the ones that tried to make him pay are being marginalized.
It’s a bad move to attempt a powerplay if you don’t have the horses to pull it off.
History will record that when the danger to the Republic was the gravest, the Republicans fielded the sorriest cowardly failures to ever occupy leadership positions in the Capitol from 1999-2017.
It is time for a new party—the GOP has accomplished exactly NOTHING in the three months since it assumed the majority in the House AND the Senate, thanks to the voters of America.
They are praying they can continue the charade—
(Oh, look—there’s Hillary!)— for another 18 months and desperately hold onto power.
And we are tired of getting played.
Exactly. Our message that we sent in 2014 is being completely ignored by the UniParty.
Several folks descended on me like a wolfpack when I mentioned this last time, but nobody should be surprised about this. Boehner knows conservatives don’t trust him or support him, so he’s gonna push out as many people who don’t play ball as possible. It’s not much different than a CEO pushing out that junior VP who has eyes on the old man’s chair. (Or, perhaps more appropriately, a mob boss who is settling family business, LOL).
The point being, Boehner’s more interested in consolidating and hanging on to his own power than he is in listening to the party’s conservative base.
I hope Boehner will be challenged in the primary.
LoL...
"WHY WON'T PRESIDENT CRUZ RETURN MY CALLS?!?"
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