(Breitbart) – It’s
time for conservatives to take out House Speaker Rep. John Boehner
(R-OH) and all of his comrades in primaries, nationally syndicated radio
host, New York Times bestselling author, and conservative
movement thought leader Mark Levin argues in an exclusive comment to Breitbart
News.
Levin’s comments come after Boehner’s retaliation against
conservatives hit a new low this weekend, with a report from
Politico about how House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)—playing along with Boehner’s scheme to
attack Republicans for voting their conscience—removed Rep. Mark Meadows
(R-NC) as the chairman of a subcommittee on his full committee. Levin even
compared Boehner to 20th century Communist Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and
how he cleansed his government of all dissent.
“Speaker Boehner’s and Congressman Chaffetz’s removal of
Meadows is the latest in a series of ideologically-driven attacks on
conservatives. Boehner seems to think he’s Stalin cleaning out all opposition
in the Kremlin,” Levin said. “No Republican Speaker in recent times has behaved
with less integrity in his wielding of power.”
Levin said that Boehner, House Majority Leader Rep.
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)—and
more—each need to be removed by Republicans across the country in primaries in
2016. He says this is because the leadership has failed to learn the proper
lessons from the astronomical defeat of now former House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor in 2014 in a primary against now Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), the first
time in U.S. history a sitting House Majority Leader was defeated in a primary.
The position of majority leader was created in the late 1800s, so that means
this never happened for more than a century—and Levin is calling out GOP
leadership for failing to learn from the unprecedented event.
“Obviously, the lessons of Eric Cantor’s humiliating loss
have not resonated with Boehner, McCarthy, and Scalise,” Levin said. “The
only solution is for Conservatives to husband their resources and target these
three in the coming Republican primaries. Conservatives need to find
serious candidates and raise funds nationwide to defeat them. Let them fight
for their political careers as our response to their disgusting and pathetic
behavior.”
For primaries, Boehner already has an opponent declared—J.D.
Winteregg. Winteregg ran against Boehner last cycle and didn’t win, but he is
getting even more aggressive this time around.
With regard to Scalise, living inside his district is
conservative 2014 U.S. Senate candidate retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness—who
got 202,000 votes statewide when he ran for Senate, but that wasn’t enough to
beat then Rep. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to get into a runoff with
then Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Cassidy defeated Landrieu with Maness’s help in
the runoff. Maness is currently vying for Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to
appoint him into his Senate seat when, as it is presumed he will, Vitter wins
the governor’s mansion in an election later this year. If Vitter doesn’t put
Maness in the seat—at this time Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) is also
vying for the seat—then Maness may run against Scalise in a primary.
As for McCarthy, it’s unclear who in a liberal California
district might step up to run against him. But his district is considered
heavily Republican even in California and is rated R+16 by the Cook
Partisan Voting Index, which means there’s probably a good chance conservatives
could find a viable alternative to him there.
Even those inside the beltway in Washington, like their
favorite publication Politico, recognize how abnormal it is for Boehner and his
comrades to engage in these kinds of extreme tactics against his own members,
while helping Democrats.
Politico’s Jake Sherman and Lauren French called this attack
against Meadows—the latest in what they call a “House Republican crackdown” by
Boehner and his allies—a “new level of severity.”
“Losing a subcommittee chairmanship midway through a
congressional session is among the most serious punishments thus far in
Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)’s (R-Ohio) majority,” French and Sherman
wrote. “Boehner and his leadership team have grown frustrated with Republicans
who vote against the procedural ‘rule’ motion. Those votes — which allow the
Republican leadership to bring a bill up for debate and a vote — typically fall
along party lines. But a group of conservatives has voted against the measures,
mostly in protest of Boehner’s leadership.”
Meadows is getting targeted like this because he was one of
34 courageous conservatives who voted against a rule that leadership used to
try to bring Obamatrade to the floor of the House last week. After their effort
nearly succeeded, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her Democrats joined
in on the final bill to kill Obamatrade—only to have it brought back to life by
Boehner’s team later—when the House voted on the bill.
“Republican leadership sees the move as unacceptable —akin
to ceding power to Democrats,” Sherman and French wrote about efforts to
organize votes against rules. They went on:
On
June 11, 34 Republicans voted against the rule that allowed for consideration
of President Barack Obama’s request for fast-track authority to negotiate the
largest trade deal in history. Conservatives said Boehner and GOP leaders were
working too closely with Democrats, and ignoring Republicans. Boehner said he
has worked closely with conservatives. In a closed meeting this week, the
speaker told rank-and-file Republicans that he was angry that conservatives
were voting against the motions. The GOP leadership has told lawmakers that
there will be ramifications for voting against such resolutions.
Leadership previously attacked several other House members,
removing Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Rep.
Steve Pearce (R-NM) from their positions on the Whip Team. Word on
the street is, too, that Boehner and his allies aren’t done yet: sources
familiar with the House Republican leadership whip effort tell Breitbart News
that in the run-up to the Obamatrade vote, leadership was offering wavering
members subcommittee chairmanships–specifically ones currently occupied
by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and House Freedom Caucus
chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). If leadership continues their tirade
against members who vote their conscience, it’s likely this situation will only
get uglier.
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