GOP Purges Conservatives From Influential...

It looks like the GOP has forgotten exactly why the conservative Republicans were elected.

Boehner, GOP Leaders Purge Conservatives from Powerful Committees UPDATE: Boehner Scoffs UPDATE:Â Boehner Spokesman Kevin Smith responds- "The Steering Committee makes decisions based on a range of factors."

House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.

Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.

Huelskamp, a freshman elected during the 2010 tea party wave, thinks the leadership move to pull him from the powerful committee is revenge for him standing up for conservatism. â€œIt is little wonder why Congress has a 16 percent approval rating: Americans send principled representatives to change Washington and get punished in return,â€ Huelskamp said in a Monday night statement. â€œThe GOP leadership mightÂ think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement."

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And Mark Levin responds:

Mark Levin goes NUCLEAR: â€œWho the hell does Boehner think he is?â€

We really need to get rid of the RINOs.

Comments: 13

Char H. Dec 5, 2012, 12:04pm UTC

Who are they replacing them with?

Marilyn M. Dec 5, 2012, 6:11pm UTC

Not conservatives, I guess. We need to contact Boehner. I think Fren has a link to do that.

Fren W. Dec 5, 2012, 12:22pm UTC

“Who the hell does Boehner think he is?”

My sentiment exactly.

No one speaks for Conservatives as well as Mark Levin does. Makes you feel good just listening to him.

Marilyn M. Dec 5, 2012, 6:11pm UTC

He does tell it like it is.....and sometimes enough to make you cringe a bit.

Marilyn M. Dec 7, 2012, 6:17pm UTC

Did you see Sarah Palin's take on this?

We send good conservatives to D.C. to fulfill the promises they made to the electorate, and yet when they stay true to their word the permanent political class in their own party punishes them. This won't be forgotten come 2014. Right now the GOP establishment is more concerned about the opinion of the media and the Georgetown cocktail circuit than they are “we the people” who hired them. For all this new talk of how the GOP needs a “populist movement,” it would do them good to remember they already have one; it’s called the Tea Party movement, and it won for them the majority they now enjoy in the House.

- Sarah Palin

Marilyn M. Dec 7, 2012, 6:38pm UTC

Or this?

A conversation with one of the purged, Rep. Justin Amash

Spirit of 1966 Dec 5, 2012, 4:16pm UTC

Sometimes I think we need to re-enact the Normandy invasion, on the shores of the Potomac.

Marilyn M. Dec 7, 2012, 6:17pm UTC

There's a thought.

Leah Christensen Dec 8, 2012, 3:43am UTC

An interesting read.

Matthew M. Dec 10, 2012, 6:50am UTC

I already had zero confidence in the Speaker, for me he is no better than a Democrat. Now him doing this to (at least) two of the best remaining Congressmen is just another nail in the coffin.

For most of these people it's all about power not conservatism or any other ideas we elect them for. So it's no surprise they do this to the few who are principled.

Marilyn M. Dec 11, 2012, 3:53pm UTC

I just hope that people who are outraged are doing more than saying so on online forums.

Big Mama Dec 11, 2012, 4:32pm UTC

True conservatives need to unite Not behind a candidate but behind the cause of saving the USA. By this I mean that there cannot be the continued " if I can't have the candidate I want then screw it" Attitudes. We have to look for the real conservatives regardless of party and start getting them into Congress. Obama can and will be neutered if we get real conservatives into the majority of both the house and Senate in 2014. It is time to start towards that goal right now.

Marilyn M. Dec 12, 2012, 7:17am UTC

And we need to get rid of "leaders" who decide that conservatives should be ignored....when we still do make up the majority of Americans.

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