In a new report in the Washington Times, a popular radio talk-show host reveals that voters feel betrayed by the GOP establishment.
Why?
Amnesty. One of the reasons that also launched a "Dump Boehner Now" letter writing campaign that allows voters to reach every single Republican House member with hard copy letters with FedEx delivery guaranteed.
So far, 575,000 have been delivered in two months, telling GOP House members to find another House Speaker.
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The issue with the GOP is that voters spoke loudly and clearly during the 2014 mid-terms, when they gave the GOP a bigger majority in the House and control of the Senate, on amnesty and Obamacare.
Essentially, they didn't like or want either.
But within weeks of the sweeping victory, House Speaker John Boehner and others agreed to continue funding Obamacare and amnesty into 2015.
The Times explained, "Conservatives saw it as raising a white flag when Republican congressional leaders pledged not to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security in the fight over President Obama’s deportation amnesty, stoking fears that for the next two years House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will consistently surrender. For the Republican base, Mr. Obama’s unilateral move to grant legal status and work permits for up to 5 million illegal immigrants was an unlawful power grab that created a constitutional crisis."
Radio Host Steve Deace told the paper, "The anger I see from my audience at the Republican Party cannot become any more palpable. We have a president who looks for new and unique ways to shred the Constitution on an almost daily basis, and we have a Republican Party leadership that refuses to do anything about it.”
He continued, "People are this angry about it. They feel as if they are already not represented and essentially they have been betrayed by most of the people they just worked to elect in November. That's why people are angry at this, because they realize the people that are in charge of our party don’t believe in almost anything in our party platform. They don't. They are just treacherous."
Boehner fought off a rebellion at the beginning of January when he was faced with a couple dozen members of his own party who wouldn't support him in his re-election bid to be House Speaker. He won anyway, but sources report he was alarmed by the extent of the dissatisfaction with his work.
The letter campaign was launched specifically over Obamacare and amnesty.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of letters, the Washington Examiner reported: "There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers. The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner ... in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker."
And there's a move by a couple of dozen House members, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to create a new caucus that would urge bold, conservative actions on immigration, Obamacare and other issues.
Jordan told Gannett: "If you set small goals, you're not likely to accomplish big things. Our party had better understand what is at stake. We had better get it."
The report said the idea "is to leverage the Republican sweep in November's elections into conservative victories in Congress – and to serve as a check on the GOP leadership if they move too far toward the middle" to "compromise with the White House and congressional Democrats."
The effort already earned the support of the founder of Tea Party Nation, one of the organizations that helped rouse the American electorate in 2010 and give the GOP control of the U.S. House.
"Absolutely, I want people storming the halls of Congress," Judson Phillips told WND. "Melting the phone lines and anything else."
"So, I love [WND CEO Joseph Farah's] letter writing idea."
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.