Thread: BOEHNER TO CONSERVATIVES: WE'RE 'WATCHING' YOUR VOTES

The Republican Party has a choice. Embrace Tea party Ideals or face extinction

December 12, 2012

The Great Betrayal of 2012

Mike Razar

It looks all but certain that another man named John is about to betray conservative American voters. Last summer, John Roberts fell for the statesman trap and failed to strike down Obamacare. Now it appears that John Boehner is about to follow him into infamy by agreeing to raise taxes in return for an empty bowl of promised spending cuts. I hope Mr. Boehner sees the light, but that now appears remote. He is too intoxicated with dreams of approval from the liberal establishment.

There are calls for a third party. That would be a huge gamble, but first all Congressional Republicans must go on the record with their votes. Those who vote in line with their promises should be supported. Those who support the appeasers should be defeated in the next round of primaries. Those who cave should have tea party challengers by early next year.

I have always believed in the integrity of Eric Cantor. Let him lead the opposition or stand down. Personal loyalty must take second place to the good of the country. Funny isn't it that both sides are saying that. Every Republican must decide on the record. There is no place to hide.

It is a matter of personal integrity for every Republican representative and Senator to oppose any tax increase at this time. I don't care about Grover Norquist, the man. I disagree with him on most issues. I do care about not electing people who run on a promise of no tax increase, only to abandon that pledge days later. Don't let them fool you by claiming the "pledge" is a decade or more old. They didn't renounce the pledge before Obama won. To renounce it now is an act of craven cowardice and betrayal. They should just resign.

The Republican Party has a choice. Embrace Tea party Ideals or face extinction. There is no room for fence sitters. John Boehner won't you please come home. But if not, please go home.

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Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

What's your opinion of House Speaker John Boehner?

• Maybe he'll destroy the Republican brand before 2014 come around

No MAYBE about it!

TEA’D OFF

Ron Paul warns Republicans not to further anger their base

By John Hudson Wednesday, December 5, 2012

• PHOTO: J. Scott Applewhite/AP, Cliff Owen/AP
  
  Left: Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Right: Dick Armey is out as the leader of FreedomWorks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ron Paul has a message for his fellow House Republicans trying to tame the Tea Party: Don’t. You’ll only make them angrier.

Paul is sounding the warning after GOP leaders booted four Tea Party supporters off the Budget and Financial Services committees in hopes of advancing a deal with Democrats that would keep the country from going off the fiscal cliff.

And Paul, retiring after 15 years in Congress, knows of what he speaks because he is a founder of the Tea Party movement.
The Texas representative told the Daily that the rare move by the Republican Steering Committee will harden the conservatives — three just wrapping up their first term — not soften them.

“They’re going to punish freshmen legislators? If you’re looking for dissension, then you’re going to get it,” Paul told The Daily. “These congressmen will never cave. They’re going to get the support of the people … They will become heroes.”

A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner insists the Steering Committee based its decision on several factors but detailed none of them to The Daily.

However, a GOP leadership aide told NBC News that the four members — Michigan’s Justin Amash, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, Walter Jones of North Carolina and Arizona’s David Schweikert — were “clearly not team players.”

Last year, the foursome opposed the Budget Control Act, which raised the ceiling on the national debt. Before the measure, a stalemate between House Republicans and the White House threatened to send the country into default.

Amash echoes Paul’s assessment that the Steering Committee’s strong-arm approach will backfire.

“It just emboldens us,” Amash said. “I talked to a number of conservatives in the conference who are appalled at what happened. The leadership team have a growing rebellion on their hands.”

Tea Party umbrella group FreedomWorks, which just lost leader Dick Armey after a nasty fight about its future, is outraged by the calculated reassignments.

“This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would — on principle — instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion-dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America,” president Matt Kibbe said.

Paul doesn’t have strong enough words for the crackdown, calling the move unconscionable.

“It was amazing,” he said. “You get punched for actually having sincere beliefs.”

TEA’D OFF - The Daily

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