Republicans mull new punishments for dissident lawmakers

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House Republicans are chewing over a proposal to hold members accountable for not voting along party lines or for signing discharge petitions — two acts of rebellion that GOP leadership has had to grapple with this year.

Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) pitched the idea on Tuesday to the Republican Steering Committee, where it received a warm reception, but the panel decided to hold off on voting on the resolution until after the midterm elections, according to two GOP lawmakers who were present and a Republican source.

The resolution would require the Steering Committee to review whether changes should be made to a lawmaker’s committee assignments if they vote against a rule, which sets the stage for floor debate on legislation and is almost always passed along party lines, or if they support a discharge petition, which is a tool to force floor votes with 218 signatures and circumvent leadership.

And committee chairs could see their gavels on the line if they vote against anything considered a key “leadership issue” under the proposal, according to a GOP source.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/405301-republicans-mull-new-punishments-for-dissident-lawmakers?userid=229233

Party over constituents/country. It's the Republican way.

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1. Communist party of the USA dictates again! Only in the USA!

Quite a few repugs aren't satisfied w/ what they have now, so they must even do more, to seize even more power (illegally I think, for they are stifling the voices of fellow members by curtailing their first amendment rights, should the representatives going rogue speak out against leadership desires.)

What more do they need? To force blue state senators to resign? To deny others of their right to vote as THEY SEE FIT?

Sorry about the last second yell...

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2. The Republican hierarchy has always been authoritarian,

with top-down leadership of their caucuses, and has become increasingly more so as they've become more extremist. Will members ever rebel? Before the party finally implodes, that is?

Authoritarians's innate tendency to unquestioningly obey their leaders undoubtedly explains a great deal about how Republican caucuses around the nation became so degraded. Psychologists say authoritarians allow their accepted leaders to decide matters of conscience for them. We think of these people as leaders, but most are not. They're followers. Those who rise to top leadership tend to be really scary, and also often self destruct and bring others down with them. Lots of psychopathy there. Gingrich. Tom "The Hammer" Delay.