{"id":32244,"date":"2012-12-05T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32244"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:20:50","slug":"open-letter-to-john-boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32244","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To John Boehner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Speaker Boehner<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Unruly Peasant<br \/>\nRe: Another Stupid Decision<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Boehner,<\/p>\n<p>You really are <a href=\"Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin Amash of Michigan will lose their seats on the House Budget Committee chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan next year. And Reps. Walter Jones of North Carolina and David Schweikert of Arizona are losing their seats on the House Financial Services Committee.  The move is underscoring a divide in the Republican Party between tea party-supported conservatives and the House GOP leadership.  &quot;This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would\u2014on principle\u2014instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America,&quot; said Matt Kibbe, president of the tea party group FreedomWorks.  Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, would only say Tuesday that the party's steering committee chaired by the speaker made the decision &quot;based on a range of factors.&quot;  Groups aligned with the tea party movement were generally big supporters of Huelskamp, Amash and Schweikert. Jones is viewed more as a conservative maverick than a tea party Republican. He has frequently siding against GOP leaders on a range of issues over the years. For example,  he voted against the GOP budget because he opposed the changes proposed for Medicare. Schweikert said it was made clear to him &quot;I should vote for the team more.&quot;  \">hell-bent on pissing away whatever power you and your caucus have<\/a>, aren&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Hint: \u00a0You&#8217;re going to need more support than just Hugh Hewitt and Lori Sturdevant in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Speaker Boehner From: Mitch Berg, Unruly Peasant Re: Another Stupid Decision Speaker Boehner, You really are hell-bent on pissing away whatever power you and your caucus have, aren&#8217;t you? Hint: \u00a0You&#8217;re going to need more support than just Hugh Hewitt and Lori Sturdevant in 2014. That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-32244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33670,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32244\/revisions\/33670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}