House Republicans Being Purged for Rejecting Obama-Boehner Love Fest

[Political parties] are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion… Let me warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally… [It is] is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism… the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty… A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
President George WashingtonFarewell Address, 1796

Both the Democratic and Republican Parties in Congress are in utter turmoil over the treasonous Obama-Boehner deal to ram through fast-track authority, just a week after House Democrats defeated the initiative. The Hill reported Thursday that there is a full-scale revolt against Boehner, who has carried out vindictive purges of House GOP leaders who failed to vote in favor of the Obama-Boehner free-trade and genocide pact.

Among the Republican legislators punished for voting against the Obama-Boehner deal were Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who was briefly stripped of a sub-committee chairmanship on the House Oversight Committee; Rep. Ken Buck (R-Col.), who was targeted to be dumped as president of the House Republican freshmen; and Reps. Cynthia Loomis (R-Wyo.), Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), and Steve Pearce (R-NM), who were all removed from the whip team right after the House defeat of the Trade Assistance Authorization (TAA) a week ago.

There was an instant revolt against these punitive actions, which particularly targeted the Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative legislators. Ultimately, after a flurry of protests and a dozen news articles on the Republican revolt, Boehner reversed many of the purge decisions. One unnamed Freedom Caucus leader was quoted by The Hill:

“If [boehner] plays a really heavy hand, there are those who’ve asked, ‘What is this, Stalingrad?’ You don’t do what the Politburo tells you to do, you’re out on your ears? That’s not America.”

New York magazine reported this week that Florida House Republican Richard Nugent was targeted by Boehner after he voted against Boehner’s re-election as Speaker earlier this year. Nugent had his corporate financial backing stripped, he was blocked from introducing any legislation, his overseas travel was cut off, and he was removed from the powerful House Rules Committee.

Congressional Democrats are just as furious as Republicans over the Obama-Boehner rotten deal, with many House Democrats openly assailing Obama for having “defected to the Republican Party.”

Friday, John Boehner was President Obama’s guest on Air Force One, back and forth from the Charleston, South Carolina, memorial service for the nine people killed in the church shooting. Although there were other Members of Congress from both parties on board, it was Boehner’s first trip on Air Force One under Obama.

Lyndon LaRouche weighed in on the raging battle in both parties in Congress, calling the Obama-Boehner deal and the retribution that followed a disgusting violation of the Constitution. “They should both be dumped,” LaRouche declared.