House members eyeing hard conservative line

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

First came the ongoing 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 House Speaker John Boehner because of his decision to give President Obama 2015 funding for Obamacare and "amnesty."

Then there was the flood of telephone calls to members of Congress that developed at the same time, rattling the GOP House 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."

"We've never been lobbied quite like that," House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told the Examiner.

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Now, a distinct move toward conservative ideals and goals is developing in the House with the creation of a new caucus that apparently would focus on a "big vision" for the party. It's led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who said in a Gannett report: "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 explained Jordan is working to form a new caucus of those who want to move the GOP, including its leadership, into bold action on immigration, spending and more.

"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 report said.

Jordan was vague on details, saying there are a lot of decisions that remain to be made.

But Gannett reported that his comments at a recent appearance at Heritage Action were plain.

There, he said, actions such as repealing Obamacare's medical device tax, which has cost American jobs, and promoting trade, all are fine.

"But they are not the first things or only things we should do," he said.

What should happen?

"Repealing Obamacare and unraveling the Common Core education standards," Gannett reported he said.

Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks joined in endorsing Jordan's ideas.

"There's all this talk about the Keystone XL pipeline and repealing the medical device tax. Whoop-DE-do. That's big vision?" he told Gannett.

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.

Already, the campaign has generated some 570,000 letters to members of Congress,

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."

The Examiner reported Boehner was so agitated by the phone calls that he raised the issue to his rank and file in a private meeting. Boehner was defensive, according to witnesses, telling GOP lawmakers he has long espoused the tea-party principles that the callers accused him of abandoning.

Joseph Farah, WND founder and campaign organizer, said the opposition to Boehner is largely because of two issues – Obamacare and amnesty. Republicans in the U.S. House before Christmas, under Boehner's leadership, allowed funding for both programs to continue into 2015.

The campaign 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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In a commentary in the Washington Times, Phillips explained 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.