Discussion: Freedom Caucus Blasts House GOP Leaders For Kansas Rep's Primary Loss

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Get used to losing, November is coming.

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Eat it, CruelScamp.

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More evidence that they are turning on each other. And more to follow I’m sure. I definitely did not order enough popcorn for this crazy election

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Hatred destroys itself. It’s just that stoking it was just so profitable for people who love money even more than their rubes love hate.

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I’m sure that the voters couldn’t connect Huelskamp and the other Teahadists with Brownback’s disastrous policies in Kansas. Yeah, right. In conservative circles, their policies never fail the people, only the people fail the polices. Conservatives are wrong that it’s all politics. For them, it’s all religious faith – ya gotta believe!

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You probably need a Dash button.

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Don’t you love it when the wolf caught in a trap reaches out and tries to gnaw the leg off the other wolf.

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I think for lunch today I’ll have a big heaping helping of Schadenfreude

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National shortage by labor day. Stock up now.

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is my in-laws’ representative. If Boehner didn’t make the Ohio Republican Party redraw the districts to gift him a district, this idiot would not be in the House.

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OK Jordon…I know you and your fellow ā€˜Freedom Caucus’ members campaign on ā€˜It’s not FAIR’ and ā€˜I wouldn’t be such a DICK but everyone else MAKES me be like that’ and variations on the theme but Timmy LOST. Period. THAT’S politics…not the pretend crap you throw at it. You make your case. You follow thru (or not) and you provide for your DISTRICT. Period. If you don’t, you lose.

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Freedom Caucus: How dare you for not supporting our lunatic! How dare you allow him to get beaten by a more rational candidate. This is an outrage!

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I have family in Western Kansas. They are ranchers and people who support ranchers. Let me tell you that the only reason they send somebody to Washington is to make sure the AG bill contains things favorable to them and that it passes. Getting kicked off the AG committee was bad enough, but voting against the AG bill on grounds of ideological purity meant his days in Congress were numbered. Huelskamp has nobody to blame but himself.

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After a strong rebuke from then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in 2012, Huelskamp was ousted from the House Agriculture Committee, a move that left voters back in his farm-heavy district without representation as the panel negotiated a major farm bill. Later, Huelskamp voted against the farm bill citing conservative purity, another move that came back to haunt him in his primary.

Over the last few months, Huelskamp had tried to be reinstated on the Agriculture Committee by appealing to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). He asked Ryan to publicly promise he’d be put back on the committee next year. Ryan declined. Instead, his office said the decision would be made by a steering committee at the end of the year.

Crying with Laughter

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File this one under ā€œwhat goes around comes aroundā€ assh*le

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Enjoy your butthurt, Rep. Jordan. There are more smiles around Kansas than we’ve seen in some time.

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hahahaha. You got that right. Thanks for the Dash Popcorn Button.

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Here in Germany it’s nearly dinner time. I will have a second glass of Schadefreude 2016 before we eat.

It’s a very sweet vintage… :smile:

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It’s almost as if being able to work with others and compromise are essential skills in politics.

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