GOP establishment vs. Tea Party - Round One

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" ... Boehner's decision to take plum committee assignments away from four conservative Republican lawmakers after they bucked party leaders on key votes isn't going over well with advocacy groups that viewed them as role models.

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."

http://news.yahoo.com/gop-leaders-re...--finance.html

This comes on the heels of Dick Armey resigning from FreedomWorks, "one of the leading national groups to take credit for training, organizing and funding the tea party."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...9c5_story.html

Meanwhile, Norquist is saying that the Tea Party will strengthen considerably if the Fiscal Cliff negotiations go poorly. It seems to me that the GOP and the Tea Party don't know whether to shit or go blind.