When he was still in Congress, John Boehner was a master at selling out conservative values to Barack Obama’s agenda, and he routinely did all he could to silence conservatives who dared to oppose him or the Republican Party.
Boehner’s capitulating cowardice in favor of Obama and the Democrats was so blatant that there was an attempt in 2014 to kick his progressive posterior to the curb as House Speaker, an attempt that failed in large part due to retaliatory threats leveled against those who dared to vote against his re-election for the job.
When another attempt to replace Boehner as Speaker started picking up steam in 2015, he not only re-issued his threats, but he picked up the endorsements of Democrats who were concerned that a TEA Party Republican might replace him.
When Boehner eventually resigned as Speaker late in 2015, Republicans settled on Paul Ryan, the man who reminded America of the song “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who — meet the new boss, same as the old boss. However, before Ryan, there was another Boehner clone being considered for the job, Rep.Kevin McCarthy, the current minority leader after the Democrats retook the House in the 2018 midterm.
McCarthy was rejected in 2015 because he was too close to Boehner, and he was involved in Boehner’s personal vendetta against TEA Party and other conservative Republicans, along with being a participant in Boehner’s five-year sellout to Obama’s agenda.
McCarthy still carries this baggage today.
As the new Congress gets underway, McCarthy is channeling his inner Boehner and has begun retaliating against Freedom Caucus members who voted against him in favor of one of their own, Rep. Jim Jordan.
McCarthy and his partners in crime on the Republican Steering Committee began taking out their revenge by removing Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) from the Armed Services Committee, and there will likely be more suffering Hice’s fate.
There were six Freedom Caucus members and affiliates who voted against McCarthy including: Hice, Justin Amash (R-MI), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Scott Perry (R-PA).
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows — notice his name wasn’t listed above — told The Hill.com that “removing any member from a committee solely because they voted according to their constituents’ wishes is viewed very poorly by the general public and is the kind of punishment politics that the American people hate.”
I don’t feel all that sorry over the plight of many on the Freedom Caucus. Having abandoned conservatism for Trumpservatism, people like Meadows have lost all credibility.
McCarthy’s deeds simply prove what we’ve known for many years now, the Republican Party is no longer the home of conservatives, and the sooner we realize that, the better.
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