Principled David Schweikert booted off Financial Services Committee
We hear a lot about the impending “fiscal cliff” these days. But the hard truth that neither party is prepared to meaningfully take it on is ever more apparent. First, Obama & Co. arrange for the annual Christmas festivities in Hawaii — estimated this year to cost at least $4 million dollars. And the all-too-eager-to-acquiesce, perpetually weeping Republican, John Boehner is engaged in a wholesale iceberg float of conservatives out of key leadership and committee posts in the upcoming 113th Congress. His shrieking declarations of all items being on the table obviously mean little.
Arizonans should be up in arms. Many labored in the vineyard of the Schweikert campaign because we are all too aware of the outstanding credentials he brings to the task at hand. He has been a leading proponent in the U.S. House for curbing the massive debt, reigning in out-of-control spending, reforming the tax code, and reducing the size of government. His background as an effective numbers-cruncher has been evident since his days as Maricopa County Treasurer. At the fiscal helm of one of the nation’s largest counties, he was responsible for protecting billions of taxpayer dollars and earned over $300 million in investment income while never showing a deficit — despite a tough economic environment.
The fact is we will never cut spending without conservatives such as Congressman David Schweikert remaining on the House Financial Services Committee. Conservatives have also been ousted from Appropriations, Ways & Means, and Energy & Commerce.
Jonathan Strong writing for Roll Call said the purging of rebellious Republicans sparked a quick backlash on the right. Heritage Action for America CEO Michael Needham called Schweikert’s ouster “unthinkable.”
“Congressmen Schweikert, Huelskamp, and Amash are now free of the last remnants of establishment leverage against them,” Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said. “The dirty little secret in Congress is that while refusing to kowtow to the wishes of party leaders can sometimes cost you some perks in Washington, the taxpayers back home are grateful.”
Read the complete article here. Then pick up your phone and call Speaker John Boehner. No doubt he’d like to hear from you. His contact information is available here.
Conservatives Reps. send letter to Boehner asking for explanation:
Here is the December 7, 2012 letter Republican Congressmen David Schweikert, Tim Huelskamp, and Justin Amash sent to GOP Speaker John Boehner asking for a vwritten explanation as to why they were kicked off their respective committees. They also requested the scorecard used to judge their votes:
http://schweikert.house.gov/press-releases/conservatives-send-letter-to-leadership/
Boehner is no leader – hasn’t been for quite sometime now. Now he is coming out in the open showing all that he is just another elitest establishment Republican who is buds with the O. Golf anyone?
You’ve got that right, Kathy! Boehner is a disgrace. Join me in calling his office. He needs to hear from conservative Americans.
Already did and emailed as well
Here is Boehner teeing up with his buddy Barry O. I’m finally realizing why they are called Republicrats. They ALL Stink!
My disgust at this deceit perpetrated by John Boehner is beyond description. It’s clear we can’t trust Republican leadership. We know we can’t trust McCain and Kyl. We should buck up for more of the same once The Flake takes the senate seat in January. Our state legislature is no better with reliable RINOs like Adam Driggs, Bob Worsley, Nancy Barto, Steve Pierce, Heather Carter, Andy Tobin…the list goes on….
I’d rather take it in the slats from Democrats any day of the week, than be betrayed by those who call themselves Republicans.
I’ve always been opposed to term limits, figuring we have them at our fingertips as we mark our ballots. No more. We need to clear these bums out. Arizonans should be more aware than most how shallow election promises are. Our border is still a sieve.
Interesting post. But I have to say the quote from the Club for Growth president means less than nothing to me. It was Club for Growth, acting on behalf of Jeff Flake that continually ran those vicious and disgusting ads against Wil Cardon — a very decent man. I refused to vote for Flake, in large measure, because of the ads. In truth, I would have had trouble voting for him in any event. He’s a liar and a McCain clone. But Club for Growth gave me the final push to withhold my vote.
KImball,
McLiar and McFlake and Romney, they all ran vicious disgusting campaigns against their rivals. McLair and Romney were too stupid to go up against BHO, and Mcflake is nothing but a suck-up to McFool. We only have three Conservatives left in the State Schweikert, Franks and Salmon. The new duo of corrupt Az. Politicians are working agaisnt them, ask Franks why he did not run for Senate.
Border is loose and we are being invaded by takers. In Tucson, I saw a tent across from a school called something Tolteca, with big signs “Free Phones” and :”Free Minutes” with a long line of people.
Don’t know what it was, but who’s paying? Not Boehner.
Miraculously, Boehner ran UNOPPOSED in the recent elections! Gee, you think he could have cut a deal with Democrats? ‘Ya think?
Boehner only has two years until he has to run again. We need to see to it that he is either primaried out or that a Conservative candidate is fielded against him!
We need to contact and support Ohio Conservatives in making a concerted effor to OUST Boehner. He can’t be Speaker if he isn’t in Congress!
Interesting that this bonehead ran unopposed. Your plan is a good one, but it has to originate in Ohio, and at the highest GOP levels. I doubt it will happen. They are probably so thrilled over having the Speaker from their state. We have the same problem here. Sens. McCain, Kyl and now Flake have the power of incumbency…along with six year terms in the senate.
Hey, Night Owl!
I wasn’t thinking GOP. I’ve started contacting some Conservative groups in Ohio which are independent of the GOP to see what they have to say.
As regards what is possible, I know from personal experience that there is NOTHING which is impossible. Please consider not being so quick to doubt. It creates self-imposed limits where there are really no limits at all. If we break through what we have thought to be our limits, we find ourselves in Limitlessness, which is our true nature.
AMMO FOR THE PHONE CALL & FAX BRIGADE
1. This week, Senate Republicans and some still patriotic dimocrats BLOCKED ratification of the UN Treaty that would wrest control of American families from American parents and American laws & courts and turn it over to the UN.
JUAN MCTRAITOR, holding hands with his new lame-duck RINO friend Scott Brown, voted to RATIFY the treaty. Let me repeat for clarification, McTraitor voted to RATIFY this UN treaty and make it the law of the land for US.
2. Senate leader Harry Reid is pushing a revision of the filibuster rules that would effectively silence Republicans in the Senate and render them helpless under the guns of the liberals. JUAN MCTRAITOR SUPPORTS that effort and is encouraging other Republican Senators to support it. Let me repeat for clarification, McTraitor is supporting the liberal attempts to silence Republicans in the Senate.
While you’re making your calls and faxes, you may want to include McTraitor’s AZ and DC offices on your list. Tell him we do NOT intend to bend a knee to the UN nor to Harry Reid and his cohorts. Tell him to stand up for US for a change.
God bless America.
Let me be perfectly clear. John Boehner doesn’t want to hear from us. I was on hold for 14 minutes before I finally hung up. There were interspersed messages about “heavier than usual incoming calls,” but even when I ended up pressing #4 to leave a message (one I knew wouldn’t be heard by anyone other than a intern or volunteer) I was STILL unable to get on THAT line. I have no doubt that the fax machine has a large trash can under the paper tray. These people are not public servants. We are THEIR servants in that we provide them with cushy offices and fat paychecks, Once they are comfortable, and between election cycles, they want nothing to do with us.
Currently the state of Arizona has two decent members of congress out of 9 congressional seats and two in the senate. Trent Franks and David Schweikert are the only who are conservative on most issues. Schweikert’s cozying with Flake bothers me. Franks stood tall and supported Wil Cardon against Flake in the primary. Since they have served together for a number of years, that took guts. Franks also supported Duncan Hunter in the GOP presidential primary over John McCain, evidencing another display of fortitude.
For Boehner to remove the well qualified Schweikert because he stands on principles is unconscionable, but speaks volumes about our supposedly Republican leadership. This betrayal is what I would expect from Nancy Pelosi, not any Republican.
Don’t feel bad, Frankly Speaking. Boehner has blocked me from being able to comment at the Speaker’s website using the web form. So your preception of his not wanting to hear from us is accurate.
We, the voters who put any politician in office, create the monsters we are complaining about. Pay attention the next time you are at an event where any of them either enter the room or stand at a podium. Before a word has exited their lips, they are met with standing ovations. Think of the foolishness on our parts and the inflated egos and headiness on theirs. Remember, these are people who put their pants on one leg at a time just like we do. They are well compensated for their jobs. They have large staffs, plush offices and, often, drivers. They party well, eat well and live very nicely on our generosity. We all need to be courteous, but stand O’s for these guys just for walking into a room? If we don’t like monsters, lets not create them. I have refused to do this for several years. A woman scolded me for not standing and joining the wild cheering for Rick Santorum when he came to the valley during the presidential primary. I responded that I’d like to hear what he had to say before I began lavishing praise. She gave me a dirty look and although she was seated beside me, she purposely turned her shoulder to me during the luncheon. I, in turn, wrote her off as a fool. No harm, no foul.
Attila The Honey:
History repeats itself. What you describe is the same sort of hysterical adoration which was lavished upon Adolf Hitler.
LEO IN TSN:
I’m going to post some excerpts from artlices with links, fleshing out the details of what you have pointed out.
Sen. McCain calls abortion argument against disability treaty ‘bad politics’
By Ramsey Cox – 12/03/12 07:08 PM ET
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called GOP arguments that the United Nations treaty on disability rights affects U.S. abortion laws “bad politics” and “wrong.”
McCain urged his colleagues to pass the U.N. treaty, which would give people with disabilities equal rights in countries that ratify the convention.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) have expressed concern over the treaty, saying they didn’t want international treaties writing U.S. law on issues such as abortion and home-schooling.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/270747-mccain-calls-abortion-argument-against-the-disability-treaty-bad-politics
This treaty crushes U.S. sovereignty
Exclusive: Rick Santorum exposes shocking details of U.N. power play
by Rick Santorum
But digging a bit deeper, the treaty has much darker and more troubling implications.
The most offensive provision is found in Section 7 of the treaty dealing specifically with children with disabilities. That section reads:
“In all actions concerning children with disabilities, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.”
“The best interest of the child” standard is lifted out of a controversial provision contained in the 1989 treaty called the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. That treaty was never ratified in large part because of this provision.
“The best interest of the child” standard may sound like it protects children, but what it does is put the government, acting under U.N. authority, in the position to determine for all children with disabilities what is best for them.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/this-treaty-crushes-u-s-sovereignty/
Senate Republicans block U.N. disabilities treaty
The treaty, which passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before an attempt to ratify it through a voice vote fell flat in August, had a broad base of support, with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) standing next to each other Monday to implore senators to join their cause.
But many Republicans, who accounted for the 38 opposing votes, have been vocal in their opposition to the treaty, which they say infringes on U.S. sovereignty.
“I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organizations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society,” Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on the Senate floor.
“I and many of my constituents who home-school or send their children to religious schools have justifiable doubt that a foreign body based in Geneva, Switzerland, should be deciding what is best for a child at home in Utah,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said, also speaking from the floor.
And former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, has taken up opposition to the treaty as a new post-election cause, calling it an “egregious move to deny parents of children with disabilities the right to do what they think is in their child’s best interest.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-senate-republicans-un-disabilities-treaty-20121204,0,1250722.story
If you think that the concerns of Santorum and others regarding the U. N. treaty and parental rights is unfounded, consider this:
“Calif. Senator Says Bill’s Point is to ‘Attack Parental Rights’ ”
“by Karla Dial”
“As a controversial bill making it illegal for counselors to help minors struggling with same-sex attractions or behaviors makes its way through the California Legislature, the state senator who authored it recently explained his motivation to a newspaper.”
“The attack on parental rights is exactly the whole point of the bill because we don’t want to let parents harm their children,” Sen. Ted Lieu, D-San Francisco, told The Orange County Register.”
http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/08/03/california-senator-says-bills-point-is-to-attack-parents/
Here we can connect the dots between the efforts of the left within the U. S. to remove parental rights and the efforts to accomplish exactly the same end through a U. N. treaty!
If there are those who doubt that, at minimum, John McCain is a Communist “dupe”, look at the concerns of Santorum and others regarding the usurpation of parental rights in the U. N. treaty which McCain supports and then consider these words by Karl Marx in the “Manifesto of the Communist Party”:
“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”
“The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry…” – Karl Marx, “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, Chapter II.
Instead of calling THE COWARD boehner’s ofc & bein’ ignored, may I humbly suggest a phone call to the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS?
Great idea, Doc! Thanks!! First thing tomorrow morning!!!.
There’s sentiment among Conservatives for booting Priebus too, Doc!
Here’s a blurb from “The Blaze”:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fiscally-conservative-congressman-purged-by-speaker-boehner-issues-scathing-response-on-facebook-and-twitter/
The COWARDESS of this man, & others like him, i.e.mcstain NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME!!!
Many of you have probably received this email from Congressman David Schweikert. I’m passing it along to those who might not be on his mailing list. This is why I’m proud to live in his district:
Dear Friends,
As you many of you may know, I was informed earlier this week that I was being removed from the House Financial Services Committee as a result of me sticking to my conservative principles.
I want to let you know that I do not consider this a setback and I plan to work even harder to save our Republic. I will continue to be unwavering in my commitment to talk about the issues that I feel are important to the future of this country.
I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support during the last week. I have received literally thousands of calls, emails, and letters from supporters encouraging me to continue the fight for conservative ideals and to not turn my back on my principles. My office has even received calls of support and encouragement from states as far away as Oregon and New Jersey.
Many of the country’s largest conservative groups, including Club for Growth, Freedomworks, and Heritage Action, have also stepped up to support me and the other conservatives who were also removed from their respective committees. Finally, the hard work of dozens of conservative bloggers, radio hosts, and columnists, who have helped tell the story of what is happening to conservatives in Congress, has meant a lot to me personally and my fellow conservatives in the U.S. House.
Thank you for giving me the chance to serve you in Congress and for your steadfast support over the last week. I promise you that I will continue to represent the values that you elected me to uphold. I would not be where I am today without all of you.
Thank you,
David
State Committeeman-How does one who’s NOT in the Good Congressman’s District get on the aforementioned list?