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The
22 Who Held the Line
Posted by Erick Erickson
Saturday, July 30th
Here
are the 22 heros who defied their
House leaders and opposed the Boehner plan.
Note
that the South Carolina
delegation comes out on tops. Its two senators, Jim DeMint and Lindsey
Graham,
also opposed it. It’s something that South Carolina has more testicular
fortitude than Texas.
Amash
(MI)
Bachmann
(MN)
Broun
(GA)
Chaffetz
(UT)
Cravaack
(MN)
DesJarlais
(TN)
Duncan
(SC)
Gowdy
(SC)
Graves
(GA)
Huelskamp
(KS)
Johnson
(IL)
Jordan
(OH)
King
(IA)
Latham
(IA)
Mack
(FL)
McClintock
(CA)
Mulvaney
(SC)
Paul
(TX)
Scott
(SC)
Southerland
(FL)
Walsh
(IL)
Wilson
(SC)
Being
behind the scenes on this, I
have to say we also need better generals on the outside. Toward the
end, the
coalition that was “Cut, Cap, and Balance” began crumbling, with
several of the
big organizations including Let Freedom Ring and Club for Growth
buckled to
pressure.
Instead
of being organizations that
held the line on sound policy, they provided cover for congressmen to
cop out
to a bad deal that will come back to haunt the House GOP.
Seeing
conservatives on the outside
become veritable General McClellans was disappointing in and of itself.
Read
it at Redstate
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