House GOP wants senators to step up and fight

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House Speaker John Boehner already is being sent a clear message to step up to the plate on conservative causes, and now House GOP members are calling on key party leaders in the U.S. Senate to take action as well.

Boehner is the subject of the Don't be Yellow, Dump Boehner Now! campaign, which enables citizens to let all 246 GOP members of the House majority know of their opposition to allowing him to remain House speaker.

The opposition is centered on Boehner's compromise with Obama on the president's executive actions granting amnesty to illegal aliens and Obamacare after the GOP's resounding election victories.

The campaign already has generated more than 570,000 messages to GOP House members.

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Now The Washington Examiner reports members of the House want conservatives in the Senate to be on the battle lines, too.

Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., told the Examiner: "It's time for us all to do everything we possibly can do to force the president to do things in a constitutional way. It's not just the job of the House. One person over there can bottle up the whole place. I'm anxiously awaiting to see how they do it."

One suggestion, the Examiner said, is for someone to stage a filibuster, as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., did in 2013.

"We are looking for that kind of leadership," Salmon told the news outlet, regarding a pending bill that would defund Obama's amnesty programs.

House members identified Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, as leaders from whom they expect results.

It was during the 2014 midterms that voters declared their opposition to Obamacare and amnesty, which  prompted the launch of the ongoing Don't be Yellow, Dump Boehner Now! campaign.

A sample of tens of thousands of yellow letters being dispatched to GOP members of the U.S. House

In addition to stacks of boxes each containing thousands of letters, voters already have targeted Congress with phone calls about Boehner's leadership.

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."

Boxes with thousands of letters from the "Dump Boehner" campaign have been delivered to the 246 GOP members in the House already. Boehner won re-election to the post when the House convened early this month, but opposition remains.

There also have been a few outspoken blasts at Boehner from his own party, a rarity for a House speaker.

Politico reported Rep. Richard Nugent, R-Fla., who was one of the dozens of House members who voted against Boehner's campaign for the speaker's post, said: "I don’t believe that John Boehner is the best man for the job. This may surprise some people (including the speaker) but it has far more to do with his leadership abilities than it does with his conservatism.

"What I mean by that is that if you can't lead and you can't deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant. I've gone into far more detail about this criticism with him privately than I will here, but suffice it to say that there have been far too many occasions over the last four years where the House has been ineffective, and America just can't wait any longer. America needs vision, a sense of purpose and an ability to follow through. We aren’t getting those things."

Joseph Farah, WND founder and campaign organizer, said the opposition to Boehner is based on the Obamacare and amnesty issues.

It has 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."

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Phillips went to the commentary pages of the Washington Times to say why he thinks Boehner should be replaced.

Thousands of letters are in each box

"A month after its incredible victory, the GOP squandered its mandate, surrendering to the Democrats," he wrote. "The GOP-led House of Representatives did not proclaim its mandate and hold off on major decisions until the Republican majority in the Senate was sworn in. No, they went to the GOP position of preemptive surrender and gave President Obama and the Democrats almost everything they wanted.

"Despite the pleas and demands from the base, the GOP did nothing to stop Mr. Obama’s executive amnesty. They even rewarded left-wing billionaires who had spent millions to keep the Democrats in power by extending so-called 'Green Energy' subsidies," he wrote. "The architect of the Republican surrender was House Speaker John Boehner."

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Letters tell House GOP members they need to leadership

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."

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.