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by KevinLost in the various sillyness up on Capital Hill this week was another example of Republican stupidity. Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) sat on the coveted Judiciary Committee in previous Congresses. However, for the 110th Congress, he was stripped of his seat by the Republican leadership. His crimes:
Arizona GOP Rep. Jeff Flake has been stripped of his coveted seat on the House Judiciary Committee, primarily because of his stand, against party lines, on immigration reform.
“They know a comprehensive immigration package is coming with my name on it,” Flake said Wednesday.
Flake also has been a thorn in the side of GOP leaders through his crusade against congressional pork.
So another words, instead of putting Jeff Flake in the leadership, the GOP leadership decides to punish Jeff Flake for actually wanting a solution, instead of demagogury, on immigration and for supporting earmark reform. Way to go guys. Keep this up and 2008 will turn out just like 2006.
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UPDATE: Another example of the GOP leadership crushing internal dissent:
House Armed Services ranking member Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has disciplined one of his party’s most vocal anti-war members by denying him a minority leadership position on the powerful defense committee.
Hunter, a loyal supporter of President Bush and an outspoken hawk on the Iraq war, recently told Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., that he would be passed over for the Readiness Subcommittee ranking member slot because of his stance on the war, Jones said in an interview Thursday.
Jones, in his seventh term, rose quickly in seniority on the 61-member panel after two more-senior GOP members suffered election defeats and former Readiness Subcommittee Chairman Joel Hefley, R-Colo., retired.
Now the eighth-ranking Republican on the committee, Jones was in line to be ranking member on one of the seven Armed Services subcommittees. Instead, Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., will serve as ranking member on the Readiness panel. Davis, in her fourth term, ranks 11th in seniority among 28 Republicans.
This is not good policy, especially when the GOP needs to expand the tent and given that Represenative Jones’s stand on the war is more popular with the American people than Bush and the party’s.
H/T The Carpetbagger Report via Daily Kos.
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Pingback by Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The House Republican Crack-Up — January 14, 2007 @ 5:43 amA leopard cannot change its stripes. Southern strategy is alive and well. The only problem is Tom Tancredo thinks that he is one of the southern whites by speaking at the League of the South…may be he is one of them…traitors all. In the end, these traitors would vote for someone who sounds less foreign..Duncan Hungter.
Comment by G. Chell — January 19, 2007 @ 5:44 am