SO WHO WILL REPLACE BOEHNER?
Exclusive: Joseph Farah answers readers' question about House speaker replacement
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Since I launched the “Don’t Be Yellow: Dump Boehner Campaign!” almost two weeks ago, I’ve been asked one question over and over from participants: “Who is going to replace House Speaker John Boehner?”
The answer to that question is very simple: I don’t know.
I won’t say, “I don’t care.” But I don’t want this hugely successful campaign to get bogged down over who should replace him. The important thing is that he be replaced tout de suite. He needs to be punished politically as a message to his fellow Republican House members who empowered him. I doubt very much if his successor will follow Boehner’s lead in betraying Republican voters last month.
It’s not important that the House speaker be perfect. He or she just needs to be faithful to the people who placed them all in office and in power. Otherwise, our two-party system is a joke. Right now, it’s worse than a joke. It’s a lie.
We’re all familiar enough with politicians who tell us one thing when they are campaigning and do another when they got to Washington.
- “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
- “I don’t have the constitutional authority to sign an amnesty order.”
Remember those whoppers from Barack Obama?
The electorate obviously does. That’s why they voted Republicans into control of the Senate and sent more Republicans to the House for the new session of Congress.
But it will do America no good if Boehner is in control.
He has demonstrated clearly that he is an Obama collaborator, an appeaser, a co-dependent.
Maybe he’s being blackmailed. Maybe he’s actually representing his true convictions. Maybe he’s just afraid to take on Obama.
Whatever the case, he needs to go – not only because he’s the wrong leader for Republicans in the House but as punishment for the grave betrayal he committed with his support of Obamacare and amnesty.
If this campaign is successful at igniting a successful rebellion by House Republicans, the nation and the Republican Party will be better off as a result.
I believe the impact of millions of letters pouring into the offices of House Republicans as a result of this campaign can make that happen.
If it doesn’t work, nothing will. But at least we will know that Republicans were warned about the fate that will surely befall them in the event they ignore what they have seen with their own eyes.
These letters represent their base of voters. They’re not coming from Democrats who want to see Nancy Pelosi as speaker. They’re coming from voters who demand real Republican leadership in stopping Obama’s juggernaut.
Republicans and independents were excited about the results of the vote last month. But their balloon was quickly deflated by Boehner’s surrender. He folded his hand with a full house. I’d love to get in a poker game with this guy.
I know many – and especially Republicans – are angry at Obama for making good on his promise to “fundamentally transform America. The midterm election demonstrated it. But it takes something to beat something. Right now, the Republican House is offering no opposition whatsoever. That is because John Boehner is presiding over them.
There are many members I would like to see take over the speakership – Louis Gohmert, Marsha Blackburn, Tom McClintock, Trent Franks, Dana Rohrabacher, Steve King and others who have steadfastly remained faithful to their party’s values. But it’s not for me to choose. It’s for the Republican House caucus.
At this point, we ought to be thinking ABB – anybody but Boehner.
Even another establishment Republican is not likely to spit in the face of Republican voters the way Boehner did.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/so-who-will-replace-boehner/#r8XfC2XkCIOCUbJA.99
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