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Congressional Districts, Democrats, House Freedom Caucus, House of Representatives, Neo-Republicans, Paul Ryan, Republicans, rural
This House is Out of Order
It seems that Paul Ryan (R-WI,) has the bid to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives sewn up, but before anyone makes a significant mistake, allow me to offer myself as the alternative choice.
As Speaker, I can guarantee you that the dignity of the United States House of Representatives will be restored. To accomplish this, the following steps will be taken on Day One:
- The 38 members of House Freedom Caucus will be declared to be a neo-Republican party, independent of the Republican Party. Anyone joining their caucus will also be declared to be neo-Republicans.
- The House will be divided into three parties. The Republicans, the Democrats, and the neo-Republicans. Each will have their own leadership.
- Congressional committees will be all be reorganized with the two largest parties determining who will be given a proportional number of members on all committees If a third-party caucus has enough representatives to equal or exceed fifty percent or more of the of the second largest party, the majority leaders of the two largest parties will vote to select one Representative from the third-party to sit on that committee.
- When Congress is in session, the leadership of the two largest parties will meet the first day of the week for breakfast to determine the agenda and issues to be addressed that week.
That’s it. Four steps to put the House of Representatives in motion again.
The House Freedom Caucus: The Rotten Apples in the House
The problem in the House is not bad politicians. There have always been bad politicians and always will be in almost every form of government. The problem is that the Republicans have let the worst 38 Representatives to determine what does and does not get done. The have let the House Freedom Caucus bring down everyone to their level because the Republican leadership knows that if they lose the support of these 38 members, they lose their majority.
What the Republicans don’t understand is that they are on the verge of allowing the House Freedom Party destroy the GOP if they don’t rid themselves of these 38 members (36 according to the Pew Research Center.) Here are the members according to Wikipedia and the Pew Research Center:
- Jim Jordan of Ohio, Chair
- Justin Amash of Michigan
- Brian Babin of Texas (Not on the Pew list)
- Rod Blum of Iowa
- Dave Brat of Virginia
- Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma
- Mo Brooks of Alabama
- Ken Buck of Colorado
- Curt Clawson of Florida
- Ron DeSantis of Florida
- Scott Desjarlais of Tennessee
- Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
- John Fleming of Louisiana
- Trent Franks of Arizona
- Scott Garrett of New Jersey
- Paul Gosar of Arizona
- Morgan Griffith of Virginia
- Andy Harris of Maryland
- Jody Hice of Georgia
- Tim Huelskamp of Kansas
- Raúl Labrador of Idaho
- Barry Loudermilk of Georgia
- Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming
- Mark Meadows of North Carolina
- Alex Mooney of West Virginia
- Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina
- Gary Palmer of Alabama
- Steve Pearce of New Mexico
- Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
- Ted Poe of Texas (Not on the Pew list)
- Bill Posey of Florida
- Keith Rothfus of Pennsylvania
- Matt Salmon of Arizona
- Mark Sanford of South Carolina
- David Schweikert of Arizona
- Marlin Stutzman of Indiana
- Randy Weber of Texas
- Ted Yoho of Florida
Rural Districts Running America
Congressional District map for Freedom Caucus membership of the 114th Congress (Credit: Wikipedia Commons)
These 38 are Representatives of primarily rural Congressional districts that often feel impotent in the political arena. Residents of rural areas find that their simplistic, socially conservative, sometimes racist, ultra-religious, anti-education view of the United States of America is often ignored because it is contrary to the Constitution and laws of our country. Despite this, residents of rural areas often see themselves as superior to urban residents, even though they lack the knowledge to make informed opinions. This makes them easy targets for unethical politicians to win their vote because rural voters typically listen only to what they wish to hear.
NEXT: Paul Ryan’s Legacy of Failure