Conservative Caucus Apologizes After Staffer Sends Out Emails Attacking the Boehner Plan
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 11:44 AM
The Republican Study Committee (RSC), a conservative group of 175 House members, apologized today after a staffer sent out an inappropriate email attacking the Boehner debt plan. The email identified members of Congress the staffer believed were undecided on the debt reduction proposal offered by the speaker.
RSC members today chanted, “Fire him!” at the staffer during their meeting this morning.
The Politico reported:
House Republicans on Wednesday morning were calling for the firing of the Republican Study Committee top staffer after he was caught sending e-mails to conservative groups urging them to pressure GOP lawmakers to vote against a debt proposal from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Infuriated by the e-mails from Paul Teller, the executive director of the RSC, members started chanting “Fire him, fire him!” while Teller stood silently at a closed-door meetings of House Republicans.
“It was an unbelievable moment,” said one GOP insider. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Teller and other RSC aides sent a Tuesday e-mail to outside conservatives seeking to “kill the Boehner deal.” The RSC emails were sent to a listserv with conservative activists.
“We need statements coming up to the Hill every hour of the day in mounting opposition to the plan,” RSC staffer Wesley Goodman wrote to a Google email group called “CutCapBalance.” That group included Teller.
RSC Chairman Jim Jordan (Ohio), who opposes the Boehner plan, apologized for the incident.
Teller did not respond to a request for comment following the GOP Conference meeting.
In a brief interview with POLITICO Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said he’s “an RSC member and I don’t like to see Republicans attacking other Republicans.”
Barack Obama still does not have a plan.
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 50 Comments
bg commented:
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re: Barack Obama still does not have a plan.
BS!!
W
OBAM “IS” THE PLAN.. HELL=O??
bg commented:
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re: Barack Obama still does not have a plan.
BS!!
whatever Barry wants, Barry gets..
OBAMA “IS” THE PLAN.. HELL=O??
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bg commented:
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uh-oh, please delete bg #1, have no
idea how that happened, thank you..
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Black Sabbath commented:
The Republican plan sucks. We’re being sold down the river. Let’s try this again:
NO new spending whatsoever.
NO new regulations.
IMMEDIATE and MASSIVE cuts to every single government program with some to many being eliminated entirely.
NO new taxes.
Barack Obama's Plan commented:
Ur…huh…ha….did you the hear the one about the Tea Party, the Pope, and senior citizens….uh…
*big sigh from the press* <—- Don't they like my plan?
Kate commented:
Obama is thrilled. Instead of working together, Republicans are attacking each other. That’s not a way to win a war.
Finncrisp commented:
Is this guy from a sleeper cell? Is he taking payments from huffpost or something?
Old Fan commented:
Had to turn off the mighty EIB today. Rush was regretful again. More sophistry portraying the most tiresome anti-GOP fashion, utter defeatist nonsense. It just doesn’t match the record or reality. My diddos from 93 continue to decline. It is all a fashionable placation of some truly over the top emotions.
This leak Mr. Hoft reports on above, reminds one of the foolish debacle in Delaware. I have to wonder if we actually want to win to save this fine Country. Or if we still want to enable the disastrous Democrats. What a terrible mistake to do this to your own team.
The fashion is way out of hand. And the sideline cynics making big bucks as the Pundits are part of the problem, as they are often living in a fantasy which is far from conservative.
Just like the way Mr. Hannity foolishly stereotypes all, like his misrepresentation of the last confrontation which averted a Fed. Gov. Shutdown. No, the facts just do not support the fashionable “Republicans were snookered again” sophistry.
After 2004, we watched a number of those big named Celebrity Pundits who blew their cool and enabled the worst kind of reactionary nonsense. They actually helped undermine Our best interests in Washington. They really should try to get in the game, come off the safety of the sidelines, or try to lead instead of placating emotive callers – readers for ratings, attention, acceptance.
Nothing of substance can be accomplished until there are sincere election victories in 2012, giving the Republicans substantial majorities in the House, Senate, and control of the White House. This obsession, ‘stuck’ on the anti-GOP folly, is simply counter productive, has no objectivity, reason, fairness, etc. It is not conservative.
It is sad to see, but it continues to wreak havoc on us all.
Time to get it together. If you are equating Boehner with Pelosi, you simply are not living in reality.
bg commented:
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GOP Bloc Opposes Debt Plan
including Michele Bachmann..
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
The Republican Plan:
1) Raise the debt ceiling to ensure Obama’s survival and the re-election of vulnerable Dems in both the House and Senate.
2) State emphatically that 1 Bazillion in cuts will be made over 20 Gazillion Years (just as emphatically as Anthony Weiner stated “definitively” that he never sent those emails). Bury any CBO scoring of these cuts such that nobody ever finds out that these cuts are entirely meaningless.
3) Create a Committee (but don’t call it a committee) that will DEFINITELY (cross your heart and hope to die) provide RECOMMENDATIONS for cuts to be made which Congress may choose to ignore entirely.
4) Stack the above-described Committee (that’s not called a Committee) with an equal number of Dems and Republicans to ensure absolute deadlock such that NO recommendations EVER make it out of there. (Then, quietly disband the Committee by a simple amendment to some obscure appropriations bill because it was entirely dysfunctional, and never speak of it again).
I’m pretty sure I got it all.
Old Fan commented:
We see the fashion defined by “Black Sabbath”.
The sound conservatism used to grasp the concept of Our Constitutional Government and how it works. Again, when you have control of only the HOUSE, you cannot do all you want.
The only time serious accomplishment can begin, is after the 2012 elections, and if we give Republicans a serious Majority in the Senate and control of the White House.
A short term deal for a MERE 6 MONTHS, which gives us cuts without any tax increases is a victory. Another small fiscal victory, but a big political one. Those who are lost in the fashion, are just not paying attention to the basis.
Fantasy and fiction are not conservatism, and many of the Pundits, (regretfully including the EIB), are acting utterly irresponsible. They reveal they are not serious, nor are they truly factual or conservative.
Boehner and company are actually doing quite well.
bg commented:
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John Boehner Interview, July 12, 2011
[BAIER: Do you believe, you've been in these backdoor meetings, you've
seen what the president has said publicly. Do you believe he's being an
honest broker?
BOEHNER: I think the president is trying, he's trying to get there, but
their insistence on us raising taxes is continuing to prevent us from
getting this done and his willingness to do as much entitlement reform
as possible in order to make sure that these programs are solid and
sustainable for the next 25 years.
BAIER: Do you trust him?
BOEHNER: I do.]
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Sandy commented:
Is this what Texans mean when they call someone like Obama all mouth and no trousers? We got the message BO run your mouth and run for reelection.
As far as the Republican staffer — he should be fired for his act of treason. I’m sure the Dems will hire him and if that doesn’t work out that he can always work for MSNBC.
bg commented:
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#12: JB: July 12, 2011
JB: “I Know the President Is Worried About Next Election But, My
God, Shouldn’t He Be Worried About the Country?” Jult 24, 2011
btw: WHAT IS THE BOEHNER PLAN??
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Sandy commented:
BG — I read an article late last night which stated that despite Obama running around screaming about default — the administration is telling executives and banks that there will be no default. Rush has said right along that when push comes to shove Obama will sign anything.
lizzy84 commented:
Interesting….
from commenter @FR:
‘Rush was given the baseline budget numbers from a House Rep. this morning.
Our baseline budget (current services projections), per Congress, is $9.5 Trillion.
If we only FROZE SPENDING for 2012…it would be scored by the CBO as $9.5 Trillion in “cuts”
Amazing!! If we don’t spend another dime, the CBO will say that is a “cut”
It’s a WORD WAR and we can’t win this b/c the American people don’t know this.’
nofreelunch commented:
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. If we don’t raise the debt limit, all these really bad things are going happen. Bullhockey. There is plenty of revenue to pay the creditors. In fact the markets will react favorably, if we hold firm for real and immediate spending cuts.
bg commented:
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re: Sandy #15
yes, thanks, also been hearing and reading
a lot about that for at least couple of now..
re: #17
how soon we forget..
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself” ~ FDR
eh, guess irony certainly has it’s WTF moments too..
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bg commented:
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oh btw, what was the last supposed “big cut”
Boehner negotiated for US that wasn’t?? /s/
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Gregor commented:
Old Fan … you’re not as smart as you think you are. You remind me of the GOP elite (otherwise known as liberals pretending to be conservatives). You might sound smart, with all your fancy U.C. Berkely type rambling, but you make absolutely no sense. You suggest that we just keep our mouths shut while having the GOP shove a four-foot wide cattle prod up our @$$es. I find it hard to believe you legitimately think Boehner’s plan accomplishes ANYTHING other than continuing business as usual.
No thanks. Primary every one of these RINO socialist frauds.
Eddie Willers commented:
Let the circular firing squad begin!
bg commented:
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talk is reps are folding..
deja vu
deja vu
deja vu
Obama gets his way..
ergo, time to moveon, so re-group everyone,
auditions for the next bills star billing at 11..
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Wait! I forgot one.
5) Promise to keep the balance budget amendment alive (which is only a vote by the House to ask the 57 States to pretty-please try to vote up/down on a balance budget amendment) and NEVER mention that it may take a decade or more for a 2/3 majority of States to ratify such an amendment (Be sure to pretend that it ATUALLY IS a constitutional amendment to balance the budget so that the ignorant unwashed masses think you’ve already done something wonderful).
kansas commented:
Do away with the debt limit. Full speed ahead.
Captain Barky
Garrison commented:
We need to focus on the Raygen plan.
Garrison commented:
sorry,shoot, Reagen
bg commented:
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Mahdi Al-Dajjal #10 & #24
yes, i’m pretty sure you got it all too..
well, all but what they have planned for those stubborn evil capitalists
future, what a load of poppycock huh, i mean, nothing like that has ever
happened before, and never can happen again, it’s just impossible.. :*(
/history repeats itself sarc but true]
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dunce commented:
Many congressmen do not read even the short bills before voting on them and rely on policy wonk staffers to tell how to vote so it is not to surprising that a staffer took action without clearing it with his employers as they pay him to think for them. This is true even more so on the other side of the aisle. It is the staffers that do most of the interaction in writing bills with lobbyists , again on both sides of the aisle. Staffers are people with more education than principles, not to much unlike many politicians.
Taxpayer commented:
Last gasp of the RINOs?
pjean commented:
I support Tea Party principles, but I cannot get behind a Tea Party purist.
Larkin commented:
Libs keep mentioning the 17 or 18 (?) debt limit increases of the past few admins. What I never hear is the amount of those increases. I could be wrong, but I believe that we’re talking a few billion here and a few billion there. Plus, this time around the country is closer to b-r-o-k-e than in years past.
Now, doesn’t Boehner’s latest plan give obama at least a TRILLION dollar increase this time around? Uh, that’s many, many HUNDREDS of billions.
Okay, so there may be no new taxes…But the “cuts” aren’t real either.
So the way I see it, obama wins two out of three
Republicans are going for a “w” at any cost, but with a biased media, this will NEVER be construed as a win for anyone but the dems…and any win for the dems is a big loss for the U.S. of A.
LibertyAtStake commented:
Hey, here’s an idea for conservatives: let’s stop shooting inside the tent, have a spirited debate without calling each other nasty names (save that for the DemoHacks), then unite behind one plan. If it weren’t for the Gang of Six, the plan could have been ‘Cut, Cap, and Balance’. Boehner’s plan is the best we got now. The numbers don’t particularly matter this time around. The prize is defeating Obama in 2012. Keep your eyes on the prize.
d(^_^)b
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randyinrocklin commented:
I commend Jim Jordan for his stand against the Establishment Repubic. We will see to it that all Establishment Repubic are primaried and be sent packing including Cantor and Boehner and McConnell (2014). We need to stand firm and fight against these cowards.
Molon Labe commented:
The Old Fan demonstrates the effects of senility. First you lose your mind, then your spine.
Tell me the difference between Boehner and Pelosi.
catwoman368 commented:
#37 Molon Labe excuse the language , the difference She has a p-ssy, he is a p-ssy. Both are elitist and we ordinary people just need to shut up and send most of our money to DC so they can spend it. I should’t say this but sometimes I think perhaps that plane on 9-11 should have hit the capital building and done away with some of the sorriest people walking this land. They don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves.