politics of reality

After shafting over his fellow Republicans, Speaker Kent Williams can hardly be surprised by this recent development:

The Tennessee Republican Party stripped House Speaker Kent Williams of his GOP affiliation on Monday as punishment for the Jan. 13 vote in which Williams joined all 49 House Democrats to elect himself as speaker.

Certainly no argument from me… If a guy is purportedly a member of Club A, but entirely breaks from Club A’s plans (plans that he supposedly supported… right up until the moment when he did not) and has the full and complete backing of Club B, it becomes kind of difficult to still claim that you are a member of Club A. Claiming otherwise is either disingenuous, outright lying, or indicative of an inability to recognize reality. In any case, Club A is well within its rights to let the world know that they consider the guy in question no longer a member – after all, there is little point in having organizations if you cannot have control over who is and is not a member.
I just wonder if there is this kind of recourse available on the national level, to deal with the Republicans-In-Name-Only occupying seats in Congress (like, for example, the three who voted for the specious “stimulous bill”). Pointless, perhaps, but funny as hell.
(Just for clarification, I have no real love for the current incarnation of the Republican Party – just less love for the Democratic Party. Few current Republicans are actually conservative, but if they thinned their ranks by forcing some people to acknowledge the reality of a situation, it might actually improve their image…)