nobody's_hero
12-13-2012, 08:26 AM
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(link broken because the guy who runs this blog is an asshole himself, I'd rather not give him the traffic, to be honest)
Here's Lynn Wesmoreland's (GA-3) comments during an interview with CQ Roll Call:
“I couldn’t help but kind of speak up for the steering committee and the leadership,” he told CQ Roll Call in a phone interview after the meeting.
“What I tried to explain to them was, it didn’t have anything to do with your voting record, a scorecard, your work across the street or anything else. It had to do with your ability to work within the system and to try to work. And to be, I guess, constructive in things. And I said, ‘I guess you could say it was an asshole factor,’” Westmoreland said. “Now I wasn’t calling any member in particular an asshole, I was just trying to describe an environment where some people that you’re trying to work with, they just don’t want to work within the system.”
Westmoreland later expressed regret for using that language, saying, “Maybe I should have used ‘obstinate factor’.”
My conclusion: Westmoreland is full of ****.
This is what we're up against in Georgia.
Here's an article from RollCall:
Full article at link: http://www.rollcall.com/news/obstinate_factor_continues_to_roil_gop-219926-1.html?pos=hln
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, a staunch conservative who sits on the Republican Steering Committee that made the decision to remove the lawmakers, said he became increasingly angry while listening to the discussion and ended up providing the most detailed defense yet for the decisions.
He thinks he became angry? LOL. He ain't seen nothing yet.
Westmoreland later expressed regret for using that language, saying, “Maybe I should have used ‘obstinate factor.’”
The steering committee reviewed a spreadsheet listing how members voted on key bills. But Westmoreland said that information was not a deciding, or even important, part of the consideration.
“Look, if we kicked people off of committees based on the information that was given, I wouldn’t be on an ‘A’ committee. There are several people in the steering committee that wouldn’t be on ‘A’ committees,” Westmoreland said.
He also praised Rep. Walter B. Jones of North Carolina specifically. “I love Walter Jones; he’s one of the nicest, most sincere, honest people up here,” Westmoreland said.
Jones, the lone moderate among the four lawmakers removed from their committee assignments, came under fire from leadership for criticizing the GOP from the left.
Well, I like Walter Jones too. He is a nice guy. So apparently 'being nice' and dissenting was criteria for removal too. Wait! See a pattern? Ah yes, you're not allowed to go against leadership.
Huelskamp, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan and Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona have been accused of being difficult to work with.
And they may very well be some of the few left standing after 2014 elections, if the grassroots has anything to say about it.
(link broken because the guy who runs this blog is an asshole himself, I'd rather not give him the traffic, to be honest)
Here's Lynn Wesmoreland's (GA-3) comments during an interview with CQ Roll Call:
“I couldn’t help but kind of speak up for the steering committee and the leadership,” he told CQ Roll Call in a phone interview after the meeting.
“What I tried to explain to them was, it didn’t have anything to do with your voting record, a scorecard, your work across the street or anything else. It had to do with your ability to work within the system and to try to work. And to be, I guess, constructive in things. And I said, ‘I guess you could say it was an asshole factor,’” Westmoreland said. “Now I wasn’t calling any member in particular an asshole, I was just trying to describe an environment where some people that you’re trying to work with, they just don’t want to work within the system.”
Westmoreland later expressed regret for using that language, saying, “Maybe I should have used ‘obstinate factor’.”
My conclusion: Westmoreland is full of ****.
This is what we're up against in Georgia.
Here's an article from RollCall:
Full article at link: http://www.rollcall.com/news/obstinate_factor_continues_to_roil_gop-219926-1.html?pos=hln
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, a staunch conservative who sits on the Republican Steering Committee that made the decision to remove the lawmakers, said he became increasingly angry while listening to the discussion and ended up providing the most detailed defense yet for the decisions.
He thinks he became angry? LOL. He ain't seen nothing yet.
Westmoreland later expressed regret for using that language, saying, “Maybe I should have used ‘obstinate factor.’”
The steering committee reviewed a spreadsheet listing how members voted on key bills. But Westmoreland said that information was not a deciding, or even important, part of the consideration.
“Look, if we kicked people off of committees based on the information that was given, I wouldn’t be on an ‘A’ committee. There are several people in the steering committee that wouldn’t be on ‘A’ committees,” Westmoreland said.
He also praised Rep. Walter B. Jones of North Carolina specifically. “I love Walter Jones; he’s one of the nicest, most sincere, honest people up here,” Westmoreland said.
Jones, the lone moderate among the four lawmakers removed from their committee assignments, came under fire from leadership for criticizing the GOP from the left.
Well, I like Walter Jones too. He is a nice guy. So apparently 'being nice' and dissenting was criteria for removal too. Wait! See a pattern? Ah yes, you're not allowed to go against leadership.
Huelskamp, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan and Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona have been accused of being difficult to work with.
And they may very well be some of the few left standing after 2014 elections, if the grassroots has anything to say about it.