The House Majority Whip drafted the secret criteria John Boehner used to purge conservatives from committee positions

  After September 11th George Bush famously stated  to other nations that they are either with us or they are against us and that is precisely how I feel about the Republican elitist, establishment, political ruling class today. They are either with us or they are against us.

  We learned that House Speaker John Boehner used a secret criteria list to purge the most fiscally conservative Republicans from their committee positions last week and then threatened to punish more conservatives if they did not blindly toe the establishment party line, and now it is being reported that it was House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy who actually drafted the criteria list and presented it to the GOP Steering Committee.

 
This news didn’t come as a shock to the group seeking to replace John Boehner as Speaker:

The country is tired of backroom deals and secret lists–it’s cronyism, plain and simple,” Ron Meyer from American Majority Action told Breitbart News. “If the GOP Steering Committee is going to oust members based on some litmus test pitted against conservatives, they need to make the list public.

  Yet the hypocritical GOP leadership which railed against Barack Obama’s secrecy still feels justified in keeping the criteria used to oust fiscally conservative Republicans secret and John over at Sentry Journal explains why this is the case: 

Conservatism is for all people because it universally advances liberty and freedom by downsizing the entity that threatens both; government.  John Boehner and his establishment ilk don’t see it that way.  In fact they don’t have a problem with big government as long as they can manage it.  And Republicans who don’t follow the party line, well they are isolated and their voices are silenced.  This mindset has been destroying the Republican Party for some time now and their actions last week are only accelerating its demise.

  John Boehner and the ruling class Republicans don’t really have a problem with big government at all, they just want to have control over big government, that is what it comes down to, and the Republican leadership felt threatened by the fiscally conservative Republicans so they silenced them in the hopes that they would once again return to power over an ever-expanding federal government.

  It is becoming more and more obvious to me that the ruling class, establishment Republicans have only one thing on their mind and that is holding on to their dwindling power, they are only concerned about themselves which means they are against us. We must act accordingly…..