GOPers chant 'fire him' at Paul Teller

[The Straight Story]

GOPers chant 'fire him' at Paul Teller


House Republicans 0n Wednesday morning were calling for the firing of the Republican Study Committee top staffer after he was caught sending e-mails to conservative groups urging them to pressure GOP lawmakers to vote against a debt proposal from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Infuriated by the e-mails from Paul Teller, the executive director of the RSC, members started chanting “Fire him, fire him!” while Teller stood silently at a closed-door meetings of House Republicans.

“It was an unbelievable moment,” said one GOP insider. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Teller and other RSC aides sent a Tuesday e-mail to outside conservatives seeking to “kill the Boehner deal.” The RSC emails were sent to a listserv with conservative activists.



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[socialshockwave]

1. Aaah, the GOP.

Coming apart like a cheap suit since November 2010.

[grantcart]

2. Nothing cheers the morning more than the sound of Republicans munching on Republicans.

[Scurrilous]

3. +1

:thumbsup:

[socialshockwave]

5. This is what happens.

When you let your party be run by the Tea Party.

[treestar]

6. Yep!

[gratuitous]

9. No, no, you've got the narrative all wrong

See, the standard media narrative is always "This is good news for Republicans and Democrats are in disarray." Now, I'm not sure how it's going to work itself out in this instance, but it will surely do so, because in the popular media . . .

This is good news for Republicans!
Democrats are in disarray!

[HereSince1628]

4. Not long ago that party's unity looked to be

cast from a single pour.

Now it sure looks like it's made of at least two distinct pieces

[rurallib]

7. sounds like a high school kegger.

[Ship of Fools]

8. ...I was going to say the same...

I'm cautiously gleeful at the demise of the juvenile GOP right now, except that things could go from fucking insane to anarchistic any day, and that's what has me frightened...

[freshwest]

10. And while they play, the treasury burns.