Boehner's Blunder

Posted by Red Kingman on

After purging four conservative House members from key Committees, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) threatened Republican members of Congress on Wednesday by telling them Republican leaders are “watching” their votes to determine future committee assignments.

Tony Lee writes on brietbart.com that Boehner's remarks are a sign that the moderate House Republican leadership will be less tolerant of conservative dissent.

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), who was removed from the Budget Committee, said Boehner warned those in his conference that "there may be more folks that will be targeted" and the Republican leadership is "watching all of your votes."

 “It was a message to the Republican Conference in general, especially the comment today that there may be more punishment coming if you don’t vote the right way,” Huelskamp told The Hill.

Breitbart News investigative reporter Matthew Boyle broke the story that House Republican leadership used a secret list of votes in a closed-door meeting to decide to remove Huelskamp and Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Walter Jones (R-NC), and David Schweikert (R-AZ) from their Committees.  

Boehner better be focused on staying the course on the fiscal cliff talks.  So far he is acting more like a moderate than a true conservative. We conservatives have our eye on YOU Mr. Speaker!

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