I Wonder If Some People Want Their Vote Back

The Representatives who voted against John Boehner as Speaker of the House are facing retribution. This may be the way things are done in Washington, but I wonder if the people who voted for John Boehner consider this acceptable behavior.

Yesterday the Daily Caller reported:

Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent are both losing their seats on the House Rules Committee, Politico reported Tuesday evening. Both Florida Republicans voted for Webster instead of Boehner earlier in the day.

Such moves seem to contradict recent statements made by Boehner and his office.

Asked last week if any Republicans who voted against Boehner would be punished, spokesman Michael Steel told The Daily Caller by email: “Boehner has said publicly that there will be no retribution for ‘no’ votes.”

John Boehner lied to Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.) in order to get the $1.1 trillion cromnibus funding bill passed (rightwinggranny). Now John Boehner is taking action against those who voted against him after saying he wasn’t going to. It is becoming more difficult every day to remain a Republican. I know there are good men in Congress, but unfortunately their numbers are few.

You Can’t Win If You Are Not Willing To Fight !

The Washington Examiner posted an editorial yesterday about the fight that went on at the Republican convention about rules changes the Romney campaign wanted to make.

The editorial points out:

Ginsberg’s (Romney campaign lawyer Ben Ginsberg) rule change, launched without warning Friday morning, would have given the presidential campaigns the power to replace any of the delegates pledged to them, functionally giving them the power to select every state’s delegation. Many in the conservative movement saw this as a power grab by party insiders at the expense of grassroots conservatives, with the Paul threat serving merely as a bogeyman.

The article concludes:

…As they learned in the Bush era with the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, conservatives often achieve better results by holding a Republican president’s feet to the fire. In the event of a Romney administration, conservatives must learn from this small fight and keep up their efforts. We hope Romney learns from it, too.

The bottom line here is simple. If the conservative wing of the Republican party intends to wrest control of the party from the establishment Republicans (who are not noticeably different from the Democrats on many issues), they need to increase their numbers in Congress and fight hard. We can win this battle without forming a third party–we just need to be willing to fight the battle.

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