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Dec. 5, 2012 12:52pm Becket Adams

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday removed “several of Congress’s most outspoken fiscal hawks from committees dealing with fiscal matters” because of their unwillingness to be “team players,” TheBlaze’s Mytheos Holt reports.

Among the “purged” are Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), who lost their seats on the House Budget Committee, and Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), who was removed from the Financial Services Committee.

Amazingly enough, Rep. Amash claims he was never directly informed of his removal from the House Budget Committee. He says he learned of his demotion through the media.

And you better believe he is unhappy with this. First, his Facebook response:

And here’s his Twitter response:

Still waiting for call from GOP leadership. Are they too embarrassed to explain they booted me for working to reduce debt?

— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) December 5, 2012

Needless to say, Rep. Amash is not alone in his frustration with GOP leadership. The Tea Party supergroup FreedomWorks on Wednesday challenged Speaker Boehner to reinstate the fiscally conservative congressmen.

“On behalf of our million-plus FreedomWorks members nationwide, I strongly urge you to restore Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), and David Schweikert (R-AZ) to their respective committees,” the letter begins.

It continues:

Many in the grassroots freedom movement are angered and disappointed by the news that the House Republican Steering Committee has purged three strong fiscal conservatives from their assignments on key committees. While no public explanation has been given for their removal, nor have they have been directly informed of it, there is strong evidence that they were removed solely because their votes were not in lockstep with leadership. It seems plain that the leadership hopes to enforce party discipline by punishing dissent. When did it become a crime to stand up for fiscal common sense and constitutionally limited government?

These legislators are popular with grassroots freedom activists because of their commitment to limited government principles. Rep. Amash, who has been removed from the Budget Committee, has a 100 percent FreedomWorks lifetime rating. Rep. Huelskamp, removed from the Budget Committee, has a 96 percent FreedomWorks lifetime rating. Rep. Schweikert, removed from the Financial Services Committee, has a 96 percent FreedomWorks lifetime rating. These principled legislators have stood with the Constitution even when it was unpopular to do so and have routinely voted against big spending bills. They should be praised, not punished.

If the Republican Party wants to become the majority governing party, it must stop alienating the millions of grassroots citizens upon whom it depends and whose principles it claims to share. House Republicans should not ostracize their own members for holding the Republican view that Washington should not spend money it does not have.

We applaud these three constitutional guardians for taking principled stands against bloated bills that would cripple our economy and add to our national debt. These men are voting the way that they promised their constituents they would—on principle. I strongly urge you to restore Congressmen Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert to their respective committees.

As of this writing, Speaker Boehner has not yet responded to inquiries regarding the removal of Reps. Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert.

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Comments (241)

Jamesjim
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:00pm
Boehner is an empty suited RINO, and as such he is unworthy of respect.
He has, he is, and he will continue to fold every-time he is called on to honor his oath of office to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States Of America.

He shames himself and he shames his country as long as he remains in office.

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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:39pm
  Ditto…
  
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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:50pm
  Stick a fork in the Republicrats, they’re done!
  
  How to you blow the momentum they had in the 2010 elections to lose miserably to our Sewer Rat-in-Chief one year later? “Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory,” should be Boehner’s logo!
  
  If Boehner had a shred of self respect, he’d resign. Oh, and John Sununu should be banned from contact with any American voter!
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:05pm
  Boehner is a spineless RINO. No doubt after he caves on the fiscal cliff he’ll be flying off to Hawaii for a round of golf with Obama during his $4 million taxpayer funded vacation.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:32pm
  Apparently the republican party does not work for you – cuz Boehner was just recently re-nominated for another speakership….
  
  http://m.christianpost.com/news/old-guard-staying-pelosi-mcconnell-remain-in-leadership-posts-84953/
  
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- GBT2012
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:35pm
  Agreed!
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:40pm
  Boehner has got to go. There has to be someone else willing to pick up that gavel and do what’s right for America. May I suggest Paul Ryan for starters.
  
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- DRSAVAGE24
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:12pm
  As budget committee chair, paul ryan likely was involved in the decision to oust these guys. Pay attention to which politicians get pushed by people like Hannity (for instance Marco Rubio and Allen West) and they are likely every bit as establishment as Boehner. Wake up. That is the only way Ryan got on the Romney ticket. If you think he is any better than Boehner you’re fooling yourself.
  
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- contkmi
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:35pm
  Amash is my congress critter. He’s one of the best out there. If it limits our freedoms, he votes no in spite of the consequences he may face or how unpopular he may look. If it means the fed.gov spends more, he votes against it.
  
  Many times, he’s one of the three in the 432-3 votes. If it doesn’t follow the Constitution to the letter, he votes against it.
  
  That Boehner would pull the $h!t he’s pulling, I’ve lost all respect for the speaker. He has no right to be a leader of what should be a conservative party. This may be the straw that breaks the back of my voting. I will vote for Justin but most likely not for another GOP member unless and until he/she can prove to me that they’ll be a true conservative.
  
  Looks like the Libertarian party may be getting bigger.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:07pm
  he Republican party is leaving me.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:13pm
  Either the republicans will let the Amash/Schweikert type of politicians into their party – or the GOP will die and Libertarian/Constitution Parties get bigger,….The GOP controls their own fate
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:21pm
  Justin Amash got a 93% on the freedom index – which is one of the highest scores. If we dont stand up for this guy – nobody will
  
  http://www.thenewamerican.com/files/Freedom_Index_112-3.pdf
  
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- Truthbeliever2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Do you smell that GOP supporters and Republicans??? Smells like you got a bunch of Socialists in your party. Tell me again what a GREAT country we live in. I bet you sheep can’t wait for the next election when the “GOP” shoves another Progressive Rhino down your throat. It won’t matter though. In your absolute ignorance you will cheer him/her as the next George Washington.
  
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- jimbo_from_suwanee
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:28pm
  Omega Patriots arise! RINOs/liberals/socialist/progressives/communists. All the GCF (Government control freaks) need to be politically destroyed where ever possible. RNC see you later!
  
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- Beck_Art-Obama_In_Pee_Pee
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:09pm
  The Progressives(communists) have completely infiltrated and subverted the Democrat Party and have almost completed the same with the Republican Party.
  
  THAT IS WHY there will not no investigation into the Obama “election win” fraud … the “vote early vote often” ballots … the ballot auto-changing-to-Obama machines …
  
  DOES IT MATTER? YES! Not that we would expect much difference between Barack “ObamaCare” Obama and Mitt “RomneyCare” Romney. But because WE ARE AMERICA.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:13pm
  Yeah the Republicans are done ! They are cowards and traitors, Time to remove Boehner and Cantor from their power! Any conservatives should form a new party and distance themselves – It’s not going to be pretty in 2014 !
  
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- enblazen
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:22pm
  I only hope Ohio is preparing a true conservative to run against Boehner in 2014..
  
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- Haasbola
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:33pm
  Yes too true, we need to actually open our minds to what Glen and Freedomworks are saying, the GOP is done, in its existing form. Get rid of it all together or just change the group, Bonehead Boener or how ever you spell it is the wrong person.
  
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- Rice Water
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:52pm
  It’s called “negotiation” guys. The way it goes is that you talk tough going in, and gradually meet halfway while trying to get as much stuff as you can. You’re never going to get results equal to the promises that are made during campaigns. Unfortunately, in a system that involves 535 lawyers, it’s about as good as we’re going to get.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 9:42pm
  Boehner is feverishly trying to keep his gavel, and he’ll do whatever it takes to hold onto that power. If that means making really bad deals, like giving up $800 Billion before negotiations even start, then so be it. If that means throwing the Tea Party members overboard and firing Conservatives, then so be it.
  
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- milez5
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:50am
  Well, the speaker isn’t really an empty suited RINO. What he is is afraid. He, like the rest of the Republicans can’t accept that the Republican party has destroyed itself as a national entity by allowing, even endorsing the mass immigration of third world people into this country who have thereby—along with white leftists, gays and union members granted the Democrats a permanent majority in the presidency, the US Senate and the US Supreme Court. He desperately wants to believe that there is some way to redeem the Republican party as a national party. Sadly, it’s too late for that.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:25am
  Where is the McConnell story? It is more than significant that the Senate DEMOCRATS refused to vote on Obama’s budget proposition. Perhaps now more of the public will realize that Boehner should be putting these proposals to a House vote. The Democrats do not want to vote on Obama’s ridiculous first proposal…. Boehner can put it on the floor– let the country see what the duly-elected House thinks of it. Get back to the method the Constitution provides for establishing a budget. If they can’t work it out– well I guess the country will get what it voted for.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:31am
  Boehner appears to be just a coctail loving politician with fire and drive of a limp noodle. We need someone with ******. We need the next Washington or Reagan. We need help. The GOP is selling us out and we need a big movement to the Libertarian party. I’m already gone.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:31am
  James,
  You’re short sighted in your response Boehner isn’t a Rino the truth is The Republican party leadership are all CINO’s
  
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- Tom70
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:39pm
  And I thought i was the only one who was onto the weeping RINO, glad to see others are aware that this guy is a stuffed suit who needs to resign or be removed from a position he has disgraced. He is a classic politician Huff and puff for the media and then cut a sleazy deal or in the case of Obama cave completely its probably why we still have Obamacare rammed up out collective ………
  
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- bamanana
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 4:44pm
  If you want Boehner replaced let your state rep. know that you are watching his vote. Louie Goerhmert(not sure of the spelling) of TX would be my vote! This crying rhino represents the republican party not the conservatives and tea party americans who put him in that position with the 2010 elections.
  
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- Standing With Israel
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:36am
  Not just him – the Republicans that nominated him for speaker while pretending to be conservatives for their constituents.
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:53am
  i think boehner personfies stupid these days.
  
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JOHNNYROTEN
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:41pm
you ever been watching a game and betting on it…………it feels like the 2 teams are in cahoots and we are the mark or ponzi……..the game is fixed

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- hauschild
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Ah, very good Grasshoppa!!!
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:57pm
  The political shell game. Just reach its 100 year birthday. Congratulations, America.
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:05pm
  It’s not even subtle anymore is it.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:07pm
  Yeah really. Seems like the 1919 World Series just stays on in a continuous loop!
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:11pm
  Yep Yep…no doubt..
  
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- MFHorn3
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:45pm
  Big Time Wrestling has more integrity than our federal govt.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:35pm
  we tried to warn you guys. It should have been clear after the RNC convention….
  http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened
  
  If you were serious about change – you should have stood up during the election season, because now you are just a warm body to them. If you stood up like us ‘crazy Ron Paul/Gary Johnson’ people, the republican party would never again pull stunts like this….
- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:35pm
  We’re awake now, and willing to collaborate. At least this man is, I swear humbly before God, that I will not rebuke Libertarians anymore, but hear what they have to say.
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Soybomb is right! “The people” have all the power but they wont/cant harness it.
  
  It’s akin to the Tower of Babel
  OR the prison yard with the “separate gangs” (If they ever all came together they could overthrow the guards in a hearteat-theres waaay more of them)
  OR IF Amerikans would STOP feeding the beast it would stop growing in a HEARTBEAT…they would be groveling at our feet..because the feds are akin o a huge fire you must keep stoking and if they had no more logs on the fire…the fire would burn out.>Think about it.
  Theres my parables for the day…lol
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:45pm
  The sad part is that boehner is more conservative than Romney. Oh whoops hush hush back to sleep.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:40pm
  Could it be this was planned so long ago…?
  
  A Christian country arises USA)
  Stealthily mix Catholicism deep within its governing structure
  Corrupt all governing officials with Catholic ideals
  Stealthily mix Catholicism into Protestantism
  Then cause evil to spread much more openly from Government to upset the people
  Romanized Protestants will then want to “take back” government
  A “Protestant” grass roots coalition is formed
  Romanized Protestants INSIST on a Catholic form of government by influencing the vote
  At same time increase in disasters cause economic hardships
  Politicians and Romanized Protestants unite to figure way out of the mess
  A “moral” form of government is agreed upon as good for the people
  A church & state “image of the beast” is then created
  A Communist form of Government is created
  The “community” is uplifted above the individual
  Mark of the beast is then enforced to “get right with God.”
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:55pm
  When asked about… “Liberation theology.” Ratzinger said.. “The ‘absolute good’ (and this means building a just socialist society) becomes the moral norm that justifies everything else, including–if necessary–violence, homicide, mendacity.” Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ~ US News & World Report, Dec 2, 1985
  “Mendacity” means lying. Yup, that’s the pope!
  
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- Platonician
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:01am
  @Max jones
  You are either a liberal troll using your anti-Catholicism to divide us or an ignoramus.
  You attack the Catholic Church and claim it’s responsible for the decay of America, when in fact the roots of the depraved secularism that is destroying the USA were sown by protestantism, which since its beginning has weakened western civilization.
  You talk about lying but you wickedly use an incomplete quote of the Holy Father, (Cardinal Ratzinger) distorting his view, when in fact, he was CRITICIZING and explaining what lies behind ‘liberation Theology’ . What he says, paradoxically, can be said about protestantism as well.
  Here is the full quote:
  “The ‘absolute good’ (and this means the building of a just socialist society) becomes the moral norm that justifies everything else, including-if necessary- violence, homicide, mendacity. It is one of the many aspects that show how mankind, when it loses its mooring in God, falls prey to the most arbitrary consequences. The ‘reason’ of the individual, in fact, can from case to case propose the most different, the most unforeseeable and the most dangerous ends. And what looks like ‘liberation’ turns into its opposite and shows its diabolic visage in deeds.”
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:53am
  @Soybomb
  
  I wasn’t ready to sacrifice the hope of getting the socialist ousted from the WH. Voting for an independent was too risky, but what did we do? We followed the GOP’s covergirl over the cliff. He may be a good father, christian etc, but no stamina. I’m Libertarian in the next election. Only a true patriot /conservative will pass the sniff test.
  
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red_white_blue2
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:33pm
These congressmen should be applauded. I thank them for their service. I plan to call Bohner’s office tomorrow to lodge my voice in this as well. If you truly call yourself involved-you must stay involved and not draw back because of the election. We may be tired, but we must never stop fighting.

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- doomytram
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:42pm
  Here Here!
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:05pm
  There is no way to fix the GOP. We elect conservatives, they marginalize them, and isolate them. There are that will only join a new party now. I would have never agreed before this, but now, we have to have a third party constitutional conservative party to give the country a choice to save itself.
  
  When people keep electing the likes of Boehner, McCain, Graham, etc. we have a lot of educating to do.
  
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- Wartface
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:01pm
  It’s too late for a 3rd party! By the time of the next election OWEbama will have bankrupted the country and the US dollar will no longer be the Global currency. Interest on our 20 trillion debt will be so high it will devour every tax dollar taken from us citizens. We will go down in history as the 2nd version of the Weimar Republic. If you have the resources I highly recommend that you start looking for another country to escape to now. With the Patriot Act and NADD enacted the president becomes a totalitarian dictator when there is massive civil unrest… As there will be when everything collapses.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:41pm
  @Wartface
  A month ago, it was “3rd party is evil”. Now it is “too late” for their ever to be 3rd party? Seems like we have jumped 20 ideological steps….What about the step where we try 3rd party to force real reform?
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:01pm
  It’s fairly easy to co-opt most new blood that gets elected. That is the problem.
  
  With offers for them and their families like:
  
  Health Care second to no one else.
  Retirement plan second to no others
  Income much, much larger than the average job pays
  Freedom from prosecution in many of our laws
  
  And all after only 1 term yet, too! It’s the ultimate carrot to hang in front of their noses.
  
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Micmac
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:33pm
The Republican RINO party has moved so far to the left that it has created a chasm between itself and the Constitution and the people. Boehner just exacerbates the problem with his wish-washy behaviors. The man is in freakout mode, along with his cronies. He wants everyone in lockstep with his anachronistic beliefs. The world has moved on without them, as they are too busy protecting their little ignorant fiefdoms. Meanwhile, the Progressives have taken over the ship known as the Democratic Party, taken over the education system, empowered unions, the ignorant, minorities, ad infinitum. All the while the Republicans did nothing. The Republican Party needs to be updated, as it will not happen until the Boehners are purged.

Now this. The Republican Party is a dinosaur in a turbo world. Something has to happen. The Tea Party becomes a real Party… a new party comes forth… something. Something fresh. Oh. the fresh are being squashed.

Adapt or die. This step backwards is the 1st volley and acknowledgement in the demise of a true Republican Party. I think the Republican Party is so far off task and issues it is now moot. We need a viable replacement to fill the void. OR!!!!, we really take over the Republican Party a la the Progressives did. But this takes time and that we don’t have.

But, the Boehner-type knee jerks I see are going in the wrong direction.

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Locked
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:21pm
I see that after breaking the news about FreedomWorks and Dick Armey’s little $8 million golden parachute yesterday, the Blaze is trying to rebuild their credibility.

I have respect for Amash and his principles, but it’s going to take a LOT more work from FreedomWorks to get back the same.

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- doomytram
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:40pm
  This is just laughable…..a corrupt lying SOS in white house and progressive leftist POS demoncrat senate and house. Then we have a few good conservative people in the house and this happens. Just sit back, eat popcorn, and watch these Obozo’s destroy the country some more.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:15pm
  No kidding Doomy. The GOP needs to realize that becoming more Democrat-lite isn’t the way to secure votes: becoming a viable alternative to the Democrats is. That won’t happen by kicking out fiscal conservatives.
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:10pm
  They hypocrisy of Glenn Beck and Freedom works is astounding. Reflect upon their constant attacks upon Ron Paul, a true Constitutionalist, and their support of the RINO Romney. Now on today’s radio show Beck is calling for Constitutional Libertarianism when he spent a year misrepresenting Ron Paul’s perspective.
  
  I wouldn’t trust Dick Armey’s Freedomworks as far as I could throw them.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Aye Bonnie, quite true. That’s happened a lot with the radio jocks on the supposed Right. They love having the Dr. Paul on for interviews, but come election time if a RINO is up against him, the jocks go full frontal rabid against Dr. Paul (haven’t seen it with his son yet, but trust me, we will). After the election they revert back to nice cooing towards Paul.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:50pm
  @Bonnie,
  
  When I heard Glenn claim the libertarian mantle I physically cringed. I can still hear him and his buds hooting and hollering while lampooning Ron Paul and the “Paul-Bots” this summer.
  
  So what, he’s going to jump on our ship and sink it too? Yeah, that’s what we need…Glenn Beck portraying to the world that he is the prototypical libertarian. Sigh
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:16pm
  Glenn Beck is one of the few in the republican mainstream who can say the right things and wake a few people up. What drives me bat-$hit crazy is how Beck becomes a complete coward come election season….
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:31pm
  There needs to be complete political collapse before anything can happen. The parties must become irrelevant like the makeshift sleds made out of cardboard that you would discard after they got to soggy.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:14pm
  Thats right Longknifed….We got to build an ark before the rain comes
  
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- UnreconstructedLibertarian
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:57pm
  Its amazing how many folks are experiancing such a libertarian epiphany at present. Yep, we were right all along. Its only going to become even clearer in the coming days.
  
  You guys know I don’t differ in the opinions expressed, except on one issue, we don’t need an “ark” before the flood (collapse). We need the rightful “Arks” that should have been buttressing the Constitution for 150 years. The States.
  
  We were never designed to be an “Ark”, but rather a “Flotilla”. An Armada of liberty. Never, never were we supposed to be a singular, centralized, Ark.
  
  Washington is Lost. Double your efforts at the State levels and put pressure on from below. Keep the pressure on from the top too, but make sure the original foundations of liberty are solid – the States. If/when Washington does fall, the States are your only defense in all matters of liberty and survival.
  
  I’m not as big a fan of secession as I am of nullification.
  
  Wake up Glenn Beck, you need to dump Pat Grey for Mike Church – and swap David Barton for Andrew Napolitano. ASAP.
  
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wkw58
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:17pm
We (fiscal conservatives) are VERY frustrated (read : p!ssed off) with Speaker Boehner. Grow a set and a spine. Quit being a wuss. IT’S THE SPENDING STUPID!!!!

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- willingtoupe
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Yea I know! Thats exactly what I said about Bush Jr and Carl Rove that were falsely declaring war again Iraq and costing us Billions to catch Osama rather than targeting Afganistan and Pakistan which would have been cheaper. But now, we all have to pay for it when the Bush Tax cut expire. Either way though, Obama fixed it…with Osamas sea burial.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:09pm
  Yea, now that Osama is dead terrorism and Al Qaeda is gone! Hooray!
  
  Try telling that to Ambassador Stevens genius. Oh wait, you can’t. That’s right, he was murdered by Al Qaeda terrorists while your saviour was in viva Las Vegas.
  
  Genius……
  
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KevINtampa
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:16pm
I guess these are the folks they couldn’t co-opt.

The TEA Party was co-opted for a couple of years to get through the 2012 election and it worked. Either way the 2012 election was going to be won by one of their fellow Progressives. Now that that’s out of the way, they need not worry about co-opting any longer. Any true believers in limited CENTRAL government can now be ousted; and the blinded by ego main stream Republican base won’t bat an eye lid. There’s too many useful idiots that are willfully ignorant in the Democrat and Republican parties to change anything. Sigh.

On a side note, Fox News is as equally evil as MSNBC.

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- marvlus
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:45pm
  On a side note, Fox News is as equally evil as MSNBC.
  
  Please explain your sentiments behind this statement.
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:36pm
  What part of what Kevin said did you not understand? It made pefect sense and I agree with him 100%
  Let me spell this out to you (Im seriously not trying to be rude here)
  Republican/democrat= Two wings of the SAME BIRD!
  
  Faux news much “fair and balanced” arguing like a soap opera where nothing ever changes but the people are ALWAYS OUTRAGED and being led like sheep!!
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:03pm
  Fox news is not to be trusted, but I still like Hannity and Susteren. My biggest complaint is how they constantly stack Liberal hacks on their shows. This shows what the producers are up to, which is sway conservative voters. MSNBC, on the other hand, fired Pat Buchanan when he wrote about the Supreme Court being loaded with Jews.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:08pm
  None of the networks are to be trusted….TV news is for people who like to be told what to think
  
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toledofan
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:15pm
It’s obvious that Bohner isn’t a leader and he should be replaced, but, he won’t be because there are too many RINO’s left to cover his back. Pual Ryan would be a great replacement and hopefully, as time goes on, he will be. As an Ohioan I’m embarrassed by Boehner and my fellow citizens for re-electing both Obama and Sherrod Brown. It just goes to show that there are just as much insanity in Ohio as everywhere else except the true red states.

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- drs1969
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:04pm
  I prefer to believe the state was flipped by illegal voters in Cleveland.
  
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thibx
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:15pm
we need newt back, he would shut it down.

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- Small World
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:24pm
  You are crazy Newt is an established Rino.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:08pm
  Thibx, you are right. Gomert put him up for the leader position but no one in the house voted with him.
  
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rickbob
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:14pm
Time for Boehner to go.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:17pm
  You can count on Ohio! :-[
  
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- Small World
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:21pm
  I’ll second that . How do we go about it ???
  
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- justangry
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Not only that, but it’s time for Justin Amash to take the leadership role. He’s a good guy. I get his feed on FB and he explains every piece of legislation up for a vote, how he voted on it and why. I’ve never thought he’s voted the wrong way.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:49pm
  Looks like Crybaby RINO is going to go out with a progressive “Bang!”, however.
  
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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:51pm
  I will donate to the campaign of the candidate with the best chance of beating Bo(eh)ner in his re-election bid. I don’t care if its an openly communist guy who wears a devil costume whenever he appears in public. I’m not one of the prozac dulled drones who forgets either. I will work against him no matter who runs against him.
  I went to a Romney rally. When they trotted out Bo(eh)ner and McLaime to speak I had a sinking feeling. They either wanted to lose or are so completely out of touch with reality that their demise was eminent.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:10pm
  I wonder if fiscal conservatives will even get another chance. Then again, I wonder if the bulk of them have the balls to say ‘enough is enough’ and put in a 3rd party candidate — someone who is not a Dem or Rep?
  
  I predict one of two things will happen:
  1. There won’t be another free election. This guy obama is going to be president/dictator for life (I said that in 2007 and still believe it’s very possible).
  2. If there is a free election, the public will, once again, put a RINO up to run against the Dem instead of the majority of them getting behind a 3rd party candidate (people have very, very short memories).
  
  Then, if 2 happens, we’ll get just more of the same, and so and so will come out about being outraged yadda yadda yadda.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:10pm
  Everything i have seen from Amash would indicate he is the real deal. He is 32, spry, and somehow managed to become a representative without spending 20 years sucking up to the republican establishment.
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:14pm
What the republican leadership does not seem to understand, is that they are shrinking their support base, by doing this… not increasing it. They are just as blind as the democrats. It is time for a REAL conservative party. It may take a while to build it. But, the republican party has simply become democrat lite and just as progressive.

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benrush
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:13pm
What did I tell you? The repugnican party is part of the good old progressive network. It’s the two patsy system.

Ron Paul is the only Constitutionally correct candidate we ever had.

All the others PLAY BALL.

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:20pm
  Libertarians are the first progressives, the philosophical leader humanists.
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:12pm
Please stop using the words Bone-r and purged in the same sentence.

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jackact
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:12pm
Good reporting by Holt.
How unfortunate too that registered republican voters cannot determine what exactly the ‘status quo’ is and continue to support the John Boehner RINO beltway establishment.
Next up Boehner will herald Jeb Bush as a ‘fiscal conservative’.
This will cause an additional 3 million conservatives to sit out the 2016 POTUS election.
Tea Party Patriots please try to educate your fellow ‘republisheep’ for they are selling your liberty to the highest bidder.
ENGAGE!

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:06pm
  The GOP completely lost me this cycle. I was borderline for awhile, then.. too much of this garbage in the last few years. All through the 2000s we screamed at them and then sat out in 2006 causing the loss of the house. They didn’t learn their lesson, they NEVER learn their lesson. Until the GOP proves they are going to fight for freedom and fiscal sanity, I have cast my last vote for them, maybe for anyone as it seems voting will become irrelevant soon anyway (if it hasn’t already).
  
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thibx
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:11pm
why can’t everybody up there be like these 4. it would bring this country back from collaspe. with them its all about what can i get and what do i give to be relected. i’m suprised someone has not blown it up. they do no good for the country.

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SamIamTwo
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:09pm
Gotta put up with this crap for yet another 4 years, eh?

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LB
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:08pm
Paul Ryan for speaker

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- 11:11
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:17pm
  Oh YES! (Blaze, what do you have against all caps?)
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:26pm
  Why not? At this point, finding a constitutionalist in the GOP is a lost cause anyway right?
  
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seek.the.truth
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:07pm
RINO’s are underestimating the grassroots movement. Here in PA, it is a force to be reckoned with. Its because of the grassroots voters that the democrats needed voter fraud in Philly to win the state. Wake up Republican party! You need us way more than we need you.

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- drs1969
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Not for 2 years. So screw you, they say.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Apparently don’t matter how outraged you are … voter fraud still kicked your ass. So, what do they have to worry about?
  
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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:54pm
  @JR — you have a really good point there. Next election our voter ID law will be in effect. I know that even that doesn’t insure a fair election.
  
  The way things are looking right now, I am just praying we will still have the right to vote.
  
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:06pm
When the Tea gets kicked out, the Tea takes to Facebook. LOL, like Palin.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:13pm
  So you’re a Boehner fan?
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:13pm
  Don’t worry. We still follow your mom on Twitter.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:15pm
  And when you post you only add stupidity to inequity.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:16pm
  Dang, gotta wipe the coffee off my screen. Didn’t see the mom jokes coming from you squid. Nice timing…well played.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:05pm
  PORK POLE PUFFER Have your laughs while you can diarrhea drinker because you collectivists are about to be purged.
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:17pm
  ProgSlayer, what up cutie pie! Collectivists about to be purged? Certainly won’t be purged by an electoral vote count any time soon! Not sure what you’re talking about there, buddy.
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Sounds like he means to watch your back…and front…and sides.
  
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gyro
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:05pm
you chose leaders to make the big choices
you also chose leaders to make the right choices
you dont chose leaders to screw you over

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- TreeTrimmerJim
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:32pm
  Perhaps your public education is showing. The United States being a Republic elects representation rather than leaders. Its semantic to some, life style to others.
  
  Those people who are elected represent those who voted for them, they do not lead them.
  
  We the People are responsible for the actions of our elected representatives. We are responsible for our actions, even when we choose to remain ignorant.
  
  “Ignorance of the law excuses no man.” ~ English jurist John Seldon (1584-1654)
  
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NashVegasRocker
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:04pm
Try the 10% solution. I heard local radio personality Steve Gill speak about this today on WLAC out of Nashville here and I like his idea (I guess it was his original idea). He said the 4 member should find about 40 more members (I think that was the number he said; enough to make up 10% of the house) and tell the GOP that they will all vote together and also they will will choose a new leader or whatever else they can get done. I agree with Steve that what may end up happening is that the establishment GOP may just see even more join the 10%. Conservatives need to band together and take the GOP over. There are more conservatives in this country than there are libs or moderates.

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- Watchingtheweasels
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:39pm
  Here’s the problem: As far as I know, when progressives took over the Democratic party, there was no resistance, at least no effective resistance from the blue dogs. Perhaps there weren’t enough of them left after the Reagan revolution. However, the progressive Republicans like Boehner are putting up a stiff fight to any attempt by the Tea Party to take over the GOP. Understand that they are willing to lose supporters in order to keep their progressive hands on the levers that control the GOP. Given that, I don’t know that an effective takeover of the GOP can be accomplished. Perhaps it’s simply time to trash it and vote for someone else.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:02pm
Freedom Works has proven to be a joke itself with the THEFT of $8 Million Dollars ! If any true conservatives are really fed up with Boehner they should get a coalition to oust him and Eric Cantor from power !

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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:06pm
  Boehner – Resign or commit Suicide – The choice is yours you Communist Traitor B’Tard !
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:21pm
  be nice
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:42pm
  Giving him the choice is being nicer than the alternative.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:47pm
  I was being Nice :)
  
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lani59
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:00pm
It time to purge Boehner once and for all. The Reps in the house need to get rid of this RINO who caves in to Obama every time. I hope this purge will do the trick and get an uprising going to eliminate Boehner.

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- gyro
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:06pm
  or turn him around he seems to bend with the wind
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:09pm
  When you’ve been purged, it’s hard to do the purgin’. Nice try though.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:31pm
  How can you guys talk about republicans throwing Boehner out…..THEY JUST RE-NOMINATED HIM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO! And with no honest opposition! While you all were crying about Mitt Romney after the election, the republican party booked two more years of genuine progressivism
  
  http://m.christianpost.com/news/old-guard-staying-pelosi-mcconnell-remain-in-leadership-posts-84953/
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:59pm
  I love the way people talk about throwing out Bonner or Obama, Impeach! LOL
  BOTH parties are having a party at our expense and doing exctly what they want to do while your “outrage” continues.
  BTW Did anyone notice GWB the fathers book was called “going FORWARD”? Seems to be a term all these Progressives LOVE. Even Romney professed to be a Progressive.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vvx7qLtrPkk
  http://www.politicususa.com/Beck-Bush-McCain.html
  
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 12:59pm
I’ll buy all those guys Eggs Benedict for breakfast during the Christmas Season. We at least owe them that much.

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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 12:57pm
Guess elections matter huh? ***** is there because Ohioans elected him and the representatives that we all send to congress elected him as speaker. I don’t know what to say, you get the government you deserve. Maybe some of y’all will stop voting for RINO’s at some point.

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:03pm
  Need to have the ‘tea party’ publish and keep current a “RINO List”.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:05pm
  That’s the problem, Rothbardian. You don’t find out they’re RINOS until they’re elected.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Tea Party? You mean the GOP? That little experiment is over dude. It was co-opted.
  
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- RavenGlenn
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:14pm
  The funny part is the way you call them RINOs. I’m sorry mate, but they are Republicans in name and spirit. When the overwhelming majority of the party is made of these so-called “RINOs”, then it’s the fiscally conservative/small-government ones that are the actual “Republicans In Name Only”.
  
  Folks cannot keep clinging to this notion that the Republican party is the party of small government and fiscal responsibility. It simply isn’t and hasn’t been since MAYBE Regan.
  
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- benrush
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Actually, it’s fairly simple to ascertain who knows the Constitution and votes by it, and who doesn’t.
  
  We tried to tell you before the election. But you all laughed and derided the “paulbots”.
  
  You do get what you deserve.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:07pm
  BENRUSH… Right or wrong (and this has some definate wrong attached to it)… you are a marked man / woman if you are in anyway attached to the “Ron Paul” camp in ideology, admittance or hard-headedness.
  
  It’s going to be a test of wills… and there will be some “payback” and “blowback” for old alliances from here on out.
  
  Obama is POTUS…and payback is certainly a mother in a number of ways…
  
  Jus sayin’…
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:01pm
  yes both sides have been hit by that now.
  
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