It’s time to purge
The vote against Boehner was really a vote against the Republican Party. It was a protest against Republican policies and against the Republican establishment.
Boehner should invite the 12 who voted against him to leave the GOP. He should bar them from attending any Republican Conference meetings. He should strip them of all committee assignments. He should instruct the NRCC to view those seats to be held in the hands of non-Republicans, and find candidates to run for them. He should instruct Republican allies on the outside — business groups, corporate PACS, trade associations, the Chamber of Commerce — to cease to give these members any campaign contributions. The Speaker should instruct the Appropriations Committee to deny all spending requests made by any of these 12 members. These members shouldn’t be allowed to travel on any congressional delegation trips.
They aren’t Republicans. They shouldn’t be allowed to masquerade as Republicans.
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Purge nothing. It’s time to abandon ship.
MelonCollie on January 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM
And Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to masquerade as Republicans, but here we are…
Gatsu on January 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Yo,John Feehery,
Make it clear, go kiss Commie Nut Case Pres. Obama ass in public.
You need some mental health assistance.
“Apachewhoknows a coward when he reads ones bull shit.”
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 15, 2013 at 12:38 PM
So the GOP leadership is some kind of aristocracy beyond any criticism or replacement?
What a moron.
Although he’s right in one regard, the GOP needs purging – getting rid of the RINOs who have lead the party to disaster.
Rebar on January 15, 2013 at 12:39 PM
And, no reindeer games until you learn to keep step.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Good golly, they’ve gone nuts.
Fallon on January 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Who the hell is John Feehery?
Common Sense Floridian on January 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM
So apparently John Boehner is king of the Republican party.
What an ass Feehery is.
The GOP is holding on by it’s finger nails and he thinks they throw away 12 seats because Boehner got all butt hurt.
Why should we replace 12 when we can replace one…?
NeoKong on January 15, 2013 at 12:42 PM
In other words: “Slice like a f***ing hammer.”
What an idiot. Maybe he should make sure all the Republican guys get shirts too.
Rocks on January 15, 2013 at 12:42 PM
John you’re right.
I’m a conservative friedman economic school, small (l)ibertarian, non confrontational social leaning conservative, hawk who has volunteered for the GOP and donated since I was 16 years old which if my midheimers’ disease is not following me is now 24 years or 6 Presidential cycles.
I naively thought that the man who I saw on the TV in 1979 when I was a poor kid in a government subsidized borderline slum smile and say, “I know we can do better and America’s best days are to come when we get the government out of the way of business” was the ideological bearer of the soul of the GOP. I foolishly thought George Bush the elder was going to continue Reagan’s legacy, I was wrong but worked for him in 1992 as well, tolerated Bob Dole ‘getting his turn in 1996′, and tried to look the other way on rove and bush the youngers’ attacks on my distaste for the welfare state as ‘heartless conservatism’ to be replaced by new and improved ‘compassionate conservatism.’ The party responded to an economic downturn that was stalking the US economy since 2007 and nominated John ‘backstabber” McCain who never met a Donk bill he couldn’t back and I volunteered and donated.
Mitt Romney was not my choice but I had decided in the wake of the failure of 2008 that I would back whoever the nominee was but Ron Paul and I did by lord i did.
You got 6500 dollars of my money, my vote, my trust, and my passion.
I have yet to see King Putt be stopped once on anything of note. He holds the nation hostage has exploded the debt, is spending my son into slavery, my grandchild likely into a defacto 2d tier national power state all in the name of some envy fueled Marxian notions on “fairness.”
John you are doing a great job representing the GOP.
I am about 3 days away from not being a member.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 12:47 PM
I didn’t realize Boehner’s speakership was engraved in stone. This is one of the dumbest things I’ve read in awhile. And that’s saying something.
Bitter Clinger on January 15, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Isn’t John Feehery a Republican consultant whose livelihood depends upon the goodies given out by liberal establishment Republicans?
I wonder how much money this bottom-feeder made off of the last election?
mintycrys on January 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Oh and John I’m from John Boehner’s district on my mom’s side have been to the bar know his family indirectly, have donated to John directly, worked for Mike DeWine and saw him in the wings as he was coming up, will still support him because I know he is a decent man negotiating with a madman.
I may even support John Boehner if I leave the party until what comes next takes hold.
I will never donate to the GOP national commitee if it is the party of Chris Christie more than the tea party overtly.
Good luck when you can hold you national convention in a phone booth.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM
This is why nobody wants to be a rethuglican. Jerks like feehery think they can dictated who gives what to whom, Go ahead Boehner. Do what this jerk wants. It will just bring on the revolution a little sooner and place more patriots in the camp of your opposition.
Old Country Boy on January 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM
I didn’t realize Boehner’s speakership was engraved in stone. This is one of the dumbest things I’ve read in awhile. And that’s saying something.
Bitter Clinger on January 15, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Read my post above.
I am a John Boehner supporter about 3 days from leaving the party when Barry tries to EO guns away and we bargain with him.
If the GOP is determined to bargain to “just” 85% insanity forever I am going to the back of the train with me and mine and praying and not paying for a drop more of their diesel to run the train.
Have fun New EUtopian GOP.
I ain’t playing your rigged game anymore.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Feehery representin’ binge and purge Republicans… Sounds about right.
Fallon on January 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM
This ain’t John Boehner this is his “establishment friends” firing a warning shot across the bow to the Tea party.
I have encouraged a lot of people to work with the GOP to stop the commie, I am not ever going to encourage anyone to settle on soft socialism being the best we can get.
Fire Away Christie wing why should I settle for 85% tyranny I am forced to be complicity in when i can settle for 100% tyranny that makes me as liberals say ‘nobly oppressed?’
Game on boys.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Did someone order a hissy fit?
Kataklysmic on January 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM
This article is intended to alienate general public GOP members with reservations against Boehner.
theperfecteconomist on January 15, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Wait. I thought we needed a big tent. You mean that only goes one way?!
So confused. [Not really.]
stvnscott on January 15, 2013 at 12:56 PM
I cannot see any way in which your incredibly brilliant master plan could ever conceivably result in anything other than total, absolute GOP control of the House, Senate and Oval Office for the next five hundred billion gajillion years, at barest minimum.
::bangs head rhythmically against desk, sobbing brokenly all the while::
Kent18 on January 15, 2013 at 12:58 PM
This article is intended to alienate general public GOP members with reservations against Boehner.
theperfecteconomist on January 15, 2013 at 12:56 PM
I believe so too.
The New England wing wants us to lose, and is trying actively to destroy the party.
I was not convinced of it until Christie gave up his V card to Obama and the shameless PorkCannon binge they want.
Okay NE “Bestest GOPers” not a problem you win the party is yours.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 12:59 PM
The GOP would be better off without John Feehery, just saying.
theperfecteconomist on January 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM
…. nuf said
lm10001 on January 15, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Indeed.
If we are not standing for anything, if we are not the party of minimal interventionist government and individual liberty we have no reason morally to exist and should end the charade that we are not a one party state with media as truth ministry.
I counted on the GOP to protect me from the collectivists, protect my birthrights as an American, and educate the electorate on the virtues of free markets and liberty.
If the mission statement of the GOP has devolved to “we’re here to empower Barack Obama with your political donations to 85% strength at 110% of the price!’ it is time to move on focus on local and state politics and destroy the federal Government’s extra constitutional powers through whatever moral means are necessary.
The Constitution was passed and is morally binding ONLY because of the Bill of Rights, there is a “built in corrective system” if the people think the Bill of rights need altered called the amendment process.
I don’t see “King Putt craps out an EO” anywhere in the document.
That is the line.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM
I agree. No discipline or loyalty. Just agents of chaos. The CINOs should be purged.
tommy71 on January 15, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Should President Obama do the same?
Should he consider that anyone that voted against him voted against America?
Would it be ok for him to purge those people from the country? To let people know to not do business with them?
If the vote was just a pro forma masquerade they should stop wasting our time and just crown Boehner as king of the GOP and forgo any future votes.
JadeNYU on January 15, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Should President Obama do the same?
Should he consider that anyone that voted against him voted against America?
Would it be ok for him to purge those people from the country? To let people know to not do business with them?
If the vote was just a pro forma masquerade they should stop wasting our time and just crown Boehner as king of the GOP and forgo any future votes.
JadeNYU on January 15, 2013 at 1:10 PM
I’d very much prefer Obama would purge me if it resulted in states that didn’t vote for him being kicked out of the union.
Absolutely, let his fans pay his bill.
I count 11 trillion and climbing.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Related: 63% of GOP Voters Think Republicans in Congress Out of Touch
theperfecteconomist on January 15, 2013 at 1:14 PM
I have no problem with what John Feehery writes. Let these 12 Republicans form a conservative/libertarian party of their own. If done right, along the lines of the Tea Party Patriots 3 foundational principles, I think the majority of voters will support it. Otherwise, as we near $22T in debt, Democrats, Republicans and Liberty will all “hang together”.
elfman on January 15, 2013 at 1:17 PM
And Democrats shouldn’t be able to masquerade as Democrats when they’re really the Communist Party.
The Rogue Tomato on January 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM
No no……you misread the article. This is saying that the actual conservatives should be purged for opposing the CINOs like Boehner.
topdawg on January 15, 2013 at 1:19 PM
We tried cleaning them up in 2010 and unfortunately it failed. They are now in the process of pushing us out of the party. Best to help that process along and start fresh with a new party. The GOP is unreformable.
Doomberg on January 15, 2013 at 1:21 PM
I agree. In some cases they are crypto-democrats. In other cases they are the RINOs who say “I am a conservative first and a Republican second”. Fine, let them create their own party and quit screwing mine up.
crosspatch on January 15, 2013 at 1:22 PM
John Feehery is President of QGA Public affairs “a strategic advocacy firm dedicated to helping its clients achieve their legislative and communications objectives in Washington D.C.” In other words he is a parasite.
Purge the lobbyists.
Ted Torgerson on January 15, 2013 at 1:24 PM
You squishes are doing a good enough job of that on your own
topdawg on January 15, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Crosspatch good luck.
I am a Reagan republican and that means something, strong defense small government, less regulations.
I keep on trying to convince myself my defense of medicare D as a sustainable notion was a betrayal of my beliefs and is part of what is killing the nation.
I have done a lot of “bargaining.”
I’m just about done, most especially if this is the party of joisey buddah more than Texas.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM
As if you actually needed the help.
Kent18 on January 15, 2013 at 1:27 PM
The ’94 gang became what they beheld instead of doing what we sent them to do.
Time to fire them all and start over or leave.
harlekwin15 on January 15, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Oh he needs help allright.
MelonCollie on January 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM
Try it Boehner. I DARE YOU.
portlandon on January 15, 2013 at 1:50 PM
Oh wow … now LOOK who wants to PURGE!
Frankly – I hope Boehner DOES throw them out of the party. The thing is – these 12 Republicans WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY BACKLASH from their constituents and will likely be elevated to HERO STATUS in their districts. This is because their districts are RUBY RED my friends.
And once the “Ruby Reds” see how conservatives are treated in the GOP – they’ll be less likely to support the GOP and, instead – they’ll spit on it (as it should be repeatedly spat upon).
We need a “genesis” event here to get this split going … excommunicate these 12 and I’ll guarantee you others will voluntarily joing them rather than stand beside the eunuchs of the GOP establishment!
HondaV65 on January 15, 2013 at 1:55 PM
More RINO tough talk directed at conservatives, but still no real complaints about obozo and the progressives. The Colin Powell/Meggie McRib wing really needs to make their switch official and purge themselves into the arms of the democrats that they agree with on EVERY ISSUE.
Flange on January 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM
Feehery believes a congressman’s first duty is to party leadership. He is angered and feels threatened by congressman possessed of the quaint notion that their first duty is to their country and their constituents.
Republicans who think like Feehery are the problem, not vice versa. They are the ones we must purge from the party.
novaculus on January 15, 2013 at 5:44 PM