More than
half-a-million letters already are set to be delivered to the 247 GOP members
of the U.S. House as soon as they convene in the new year, urging them to
replace John Boehner as speaker.
The 510,000 letters that already have been put
into the pipeline for delivery — barely a week after the campaign began — would
make up a stack nearly 167 feet tall.
On Twitter, the hashtags
#BoehnerMustGo and #DumpBoehner were surging, and other commentators, while not
adopting the specific “JOIN
THE DON’T BE YELLOW, DUMP BOEHNER NOW CAMPAIGN,” strategy, agree with the goal.
At
the American Thinker blog,
editorialist Layne Hansen wrote: “It is time to stop thinking of John Boehner
and the rest of the Republican congressional leadership as being cowardly and
recognize them for what they are: part of The Ruling Class that believes it has
the right to tell the rest of us how to live. “The current GOP leadership has
got to go; this has ceased to be an arguable point. We cannot count on these
people to do what is right. Conservatives did not give them majorities in both
chambers for them to keep playing the same game,” he wrote.
And
at RedState.com, editor Erick Erickson
also delivered a “no-other-options” message.
“House conservatives must summon the courage to oppose Boehner’s
nomination on the floor in January. It is a moral imperative. You cannot
consistently complain about leadership’s many failures – and the treachery
involved with a speaker fresh off a successful wave election conspiring with
President Obama to fund amnesty and enjoy a celebratory phone call in the
aftermath – and then vote for him to continue in this role. To paraphrase
Albert Einstein, that is the definition of insanity, and it is enabled by a
vote for Rep. John Boehner,” he wrote.
Comments by WND readers also show a high level
of frustration with Washington and some confidence that eventually there will
be a resolution. “Notademocrat” said: “Time to clean house down there, purge
the Republican party of all RINOS and send them packing with the Whigs of old.
They are part of the past, not part of the future. We need a lean, mean, constitutional
Republican machine to take back America from the most evil, duplicitous,
reprehensible regime in U.S. history. Repeal Obamacare, abolish IRS and replace
it with a simple quarterly fla[t] tax of 14 percent for all income over $2,500
per quarter, no deductions and no need for annual return. Gone … DOE, DOA, EPA,
HHS, CDC to start.”
Some had little confidence that change actually
would happen, with James DeHart commenting: “It is all about power, and do not
expect Boehner to fade into oblivion. They will have to tear the gavel from his
hand.”
Another said: “No amount of letters, protesting
and peaceful uprisings will do anything to get rid of all the political
elitists in Capitol Hill. They only care about themselves.”
But another said it only takes about 30
Republican representatives to turn conservative, and all of a sudden Boehner
could be looking at defeat.
Paul Brown said, “We have to get rid of Boehner
because he has given in to Osama (sic) to (sic) many times and has given away
the farm, so to speak.”
Added James Williams: “Boehner is part of the
Obama’s team. Everyone knows it.”
Another had bigger plans: “And dump
McConnell, too. We need to clean house now, or the show’s over for good.”
Critics of Boehner’s actions are responding to
the “Don’t Be Yellow: Dump Boehner Campaign” from WND founder Joseph Farah for
voters to let the majority members know their thoughts on the issues of amnesty
and Obamacare, which both were funded into 2015 in a massive $1.1 trillion
spending bill agreed to by Boehner.
Farah said he expects, based on early reaction,
to generate millions of letters in time for delivery when the new
Congress opens its session early next month.
“It’s not the Christmas present John Boehner was
hoping to receive,” said Farah. “It’s clear from the viral nature of this
campaign that millions of Americans, mostly Republicans, by the way, would like
to put coal in Boehner’s stocking this year. And they’d like him to accept the
gift as just another member of the House of Representatives rather than as its
leader.”
The innovative campaign that allows anyone to
send a form letter on yellow paper to every Republican member of the House was
organized quickly in response to growing anger and frustration from GOP voters.
They felt betrayed by Boehner and his leadership team over what Farah
characterizes as “his capitulation to Obamacare and the unconstitutional
amnesty executive action, which were both fully funded by House Republicans who
were voted into office to do just the opposite.”
“While the news cycle has forgotten about
Boehner’s betrayal of Republican voters in November, the grass-roots electorate
has not,” said Farah. Americans, he said, “are angry enough at the
Republican establishment to put their money where their mouth is – investing in
this unusual lobbying effort to wake up House members as to the state of their
leadership crisis.
“Will Republican House members respond in
January? At the very least, they won’t be able to ignore the deluge of mail
that awaits them,” he said.
“You can
order your letters sent today, and they will be ready for delivery when the new
Congress reconvenes in January. It would be great to see thousands or, better
yet, tens of thousands flooding in that first week. That will make an
impression that cannot be ignored by Republican members of the House,” he said.
“I’m excited. Now it’s up to you. I’ve already
ordered my letters. I’ve even secured the domain names DumpBoehnerCampaign.com
and DumpBoehnerNow.com for social media dissemination. Tell your friends,” he
wrote.
The letter explains to members of the U.S. House
that two issues have “prompted Americans to turn in droves to the Republican
Party in November 2014 – Barack Obama’s blatantly unconstitutional executive
action to provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, and the deliberately
deceptive restructuring of America’s health-care system through Obamacare,
which threatens to unravel the greatest health delivery system in the world.”
Pointing out that Republicans before the
election “solemnly vowed to STOP this lame-duck president,” the letter states:
“Now you have the power, right and duty to stop him.
“But it won’t happen with John Boehner leading
you. You know this to be true. The trillion-dollar budget deal is just the
latest proof that Boehner is not capable of leading the House to victory during
this critical period.”
Farah noted that the launch of the program
rivals the historic “Pink Slip Campaign” in 2010 that generated some 9.5
million letters to Congress.
“Americans are angry about Boehner’s betrayal of
the voters who gave him a bigger majority in the House and Republicans control
of the Senate. This could prove to be Boehner’s undoing,” he said.
The campaign allows people to send letters, with
their own names and addresses via FedEx, all for the one price of $29.95, to
each of the House GOP members.
Farah said, “From previous campaigns we know
this approach prompts members to talk about the boxes of letters that are
coming into their offices each day. And that’s exactly what we want to do with
the DUMP BOEHNER CAMPAIGN – a grass-roots lobbying effort that can channel your
outrage into effective and meaningful action.”
He said what can be guaranteed is that members
“will see, hear and feel your participation in it.”
“We saw the same thing in 2010,” recalled Farah.
“People were angry then. They may be angrier now. It is as if elections have no
consequences when Republicans vote.”
A sampling of just how
upset people are has
been posted online, with abundant promises
of “I’m in,” and “Do it.”
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/dump-boehner-supporter-time-to-clean-house/
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