Dump Boehner Campaign

'Dump Boehner' supporter: 'Time to clean house' 'We need a lean, mean, constitutional Republican machine to take back America' 

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/