Another Boehner boy to send home

At the risk of once again breaking the "Coulter Rule" – the notion that every Republican in Congress must be left in office undisturbed or risk the end of the republic – I need to bring up another John Boehner deputy who deserves to be knocked from his roost this year.

As a former resident of the beautiful but hopelessly left-wing Oregon, I am happy to see a worthy primary challenger to the No. 6 Republican in the House of Representatives, Rep. Greg Walden, who represents the 2nd Congressional District, the one in which I used to live.

A trusted member of Boehner's inner circle, Walden is chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the group that decides how to distribute millions in GOP money to Republican candidates. Walden has been an obedient footman for John Boehner, whom I call Obama's "enabler in chief."

As Obama dismantles this once-free nation by continually trampling the Constitution, undermining the economy, dismantling the best health-care system on earth, using the IRS to target political enemies, spend future generations into debt oblivion, and much more, Boehner and his henchmen do nothing but facilitate the ever-expanding tyranny.

What do I mean by that? You might even say, "Farah, Greg Walden is a good guy – he's pro-life." Yes, people like Walden aren't evil. They're just useless. The problem with such comfort-loving, risk-averse, establishment Republicans – people who say good things but don't walk their talk because their main, deep-down concern is with their own careers – is that if we keep electing them, we lose our nation to the maniacal progressive left. Period. End of story.

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This is why there are primary elections. I wrote recently of the primary challenge to Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House, by economist Dave Brat. Just like Cantor, Walden is entrenched but not invincible.

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Out to play David to Walden's Goliath is Dennis Linthicum, a county commissioner in Klamath County, Ore. – a candidate who actually demonstrates an understanding of our nation's founding and an urgent desire to govern according to the Constitution.

A software engineer and entrepreneur who stepped into politics just three years ago when a student in his Sunday School class on biblical economics urged him to run for county commissioner, Linthicum has been in private industry for 30 years. Walden has been steeped in party politics for nearly the same period.

After moving to Oregon in the '90s, Linthicum developed a ranch in the high desert of southern Oregon. His lifestyle and worldview are so far removed from the elitist milieu of Washington, D.C., he and his wife live off the grid!

Dennis Linthicum, right, with family

Linthicum's issues page on his website begins with the "unalienable rights" section of the Declaration of Independence – a dangerous document to today's Beltway tyrants.

"Our nation was built on a premise that individual liberty was the goal," says Linthicum. "The individual should be free to follow the dictates of his conscience, while the government was bound by a limited and specifically enumerated set of powers. I believe that we have strayed from these ideals, and we no longer allow families and individuals to make their own choices and create their own happiness – instead, we meddle in other's affairs and prevent innovation and creativity through regulation and taxation. This is unfair and un-American."

He recently told a TV interviewer: "The federal government has gorged itself on power and regulatory authority. The individual person on the street, the businessman, the farmer, the rancher, is losing liberty on a daily basis. … If we don't bind the legislators with the chains of the Constitution, as Jefferson said, we've got a tough game ahead of us."

Linthicum also pledges to protect the Second Amendment by opposing further unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership and the Fourth Amendment by opposing the ever-growing government surveillance.

Walden, meanwhile, has sustained a long career on Capitol Hill by currying favor with special interests and earning low ratings – in the 50 to 60 range – from limited-government groups in Washington that track lawmakers' voting habits. Walden only began voting with more fiscal responsibility after Linthicum announced his challenge last fall – though he still supported the business-as-usual Ryan/Murray budget deal Congress passed in December.

Linthicum, who faces off with Walden in a May 20 primary, also understands the many dire resource issues in the West and the problem states have when clueless federal officials dictate how local residents can utilize land, water and wildlife. In that way, he reminds me of my old friend Richard Pombo, a former California congressman and rancher who also fought valiantly for property and resource rights.

By supporting courageous, risk-taking primary challenges to establishment Republicans, liberty-minded Americans and tea-party folks can help America emerge from the death-grip of Barack Obama and his faux opposition, led by enabler in chief John Boehner and his comfortable cronies.

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