Mike Flynn
Breitbart.com
Big Government
12 Dec 2012
Last week, House GOP Leadership flexed its muscle and stripped 4 conservative members of their committee assignments. After my colleague Matthew Boyle reported that leadership seemed to use a secret vote “score” to make their decision, anxiety grew that leadership purged these members in a bid to keep conservatives in line. Some members have confirmed to Breitbart News that those concerns are justified and leadership is trying to send a signal to conservatives ahead of any possible fiscal cliff deal. We have also learned that the leadership purge seems to be extending to subcommittees, as well…
The article continues at Big Government.
On Facebook, Congressman Justin Amash wrote:
From the article, on what GOP leadership wants from me:
“It’s not that ‘these are unpleasant people and bad colleagues and we don’t want them around’; it’s that they aren’t just content to vote against bad stuff and then be quiet about it.”
Bingo. Unlike many in Congress, I don’t attack my colleagues personally. I just explain every vote on Facebook. These simple explanations upset many in the political class who want to avoid public scrutiny.
The GOP Committee Purge: Not About Policy, But the “Asshole Factor”? – Hit & Run : Reason.com
The GOP leadership in the House is selling a counterstory to the “brave anti-spending Republicans smacked down by craven leadership” story connected to the loss of committee assignments by four Republicans known for bucking leadership in a more small-government, small-spending direction. (They are Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) from the House Budget Committee, Reps. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) from Financial Services Committee.) …
Read the entire article at Reason.com
