Fire Boehner: We Only Need 16 Votes to Depose Boehner

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  December 5th at 03:00 PM  | 

From the diaries…

If conservatives want to keep the House and win the Senate, we need to fire John Boehner as speaker of the House. We only need 16 House votes to do it.

As most conservatives know, Boehner and the House GOP Steering Committee decided to purge four conservative House members from their committee. Congressmen Justin Amash and Tim Huelskamp were removed from the House Budget Committee, and Congressmen David Schweikert and Walter Jones were cut from the Financial Services Committee.

Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert were targeted because they were too fiscally conservative—all three have voted against Boehner’s debt ceiling hikes. Amash and Huelskamp were the only two GOP votes against House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget.

Amash explained that vote at yesterday’s Bloggers’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, “It’s unacceptable to have unbalanced budgets until 2040.”

For anyone outside of DC, this statement seems obvious. Only in Washington is balancing the budget radical.

Many conservatives voted for the Ryan budget because they didn’t want to “let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” I understand that, but we shouldn’t criticize those who actually understand the depth of our debt problem and plan to propose real answers.

If Speaker Boehner wants to purge independent, bold conservatives—I think it’s time he gets fired as Speaker. Not only for the purge. He has failed to effectively win negotiations with President Obama and appointed moderate committee chairs. To the public, Boehner may appear radical but in reality he proposes milquetoast policies, like the tax-hikes he proposed this week.

While the caucus has already voted in support of John Boehner as speaker of the 113th Congress, the final floor vote doesn’t happen until early January.

Everyone thinks it’s a fairytale, but the Conservative Movement is capable of firing Boehner with just 16 votes.

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Now Bleed Them Dry

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  June 7th at 02:14 PM  | 

Note: This was co-written with my brother, Drew Ryun, president of American Majority Action. This week, America saw what real hope and change actually looks like.  The Wisconsin recall fight wasn’t about Republicans and Democrats.  It wasn’t about Obama.  It was about the power of the majority of taxpayers who stood up against being fleeced by the very public employee union bosses who have put | Read More »

Politico Doesn’t Quite Get it Right with the Tea Party and the GOP

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  April 30th at 10:24 AM  | 

The media’s wishful thinking about the demise of the Tea Party continues to drive coverage during the run-up to the election despite plenty of contrary facts.   Last week, Politico’s James Hohmann declared boldly that, “the Republican Party establishment has withstood the tea-party revolution.”   Hohmann’s analysis rests on the fact that he didn’t see many of the “Gadsden flag-waving insurgents” at the RNC’s recent spring meeting | Read More »

This is What Real Change Looks Like

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  April 5th at 02:04 PM  | 

At American Majority, we get the chance to witness events that definitively affirm our ongoing efforts to empower the conservative grassroots. We believe that national, generational change begins in your states and communities. This past Tuesday, we were fortunate to witness such change in Wisconsin, and I want to take a moment to share with you the fruits of our labor and the labor of | Read More »

The Relentless Pursuit of Americanism

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  March 13th at 06:45 AM  | 

From the diaries. It should be no secret to anyone who reads my columns in The American Spectator or my posts here that not only do I strongly believe that America is in crisis but that the values espoused by the conservative movement are being trampled to dust, which is such a gentle term for the reality of what is actually taking place.   Why this | Read More »

The Demise of the Tea Party is Greatly Exaggerated

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  February 14th at 11:45 AM  | 

Promoted from the diaries Certain people keep opining that the Tea Party is all but dead, but those who wish for the demise of the Tea Party are missing the emerging new political infrastructure where Tea Party groups have set aside rallies for political action. Consider Wisconsin to determine where the Tea Party is going in 2012 and beyond. From New York to California, newspapers are | Read More »

Newt’s a Political Swinger

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 02:18 PM  | 

The first rule of medicine is the first rule of politics and it’s simple – “Do No Harm.”  As this bad reality TV show of a GOP primary season continues and Gingrich gains some momentum, evangelicals and other conservative groups desperately searching for the anti-Romney should think about the bigger picture.  Similarly, Tea Party groups should look to their backyards for more exciting candidates and | Read More »

The Danger of Projecting Hope

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  December 15th at 04:00 PM  | 

From the Diaries… Newt Gingrich is still leading Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in Iowa, and nationally among Tea Party voters.  But like so many polls, the numbers aren’t what they seem.  In fact, while it might look at first glance that the conservative grassroots are flocking to Gingrich, there are still too many Tea Partiers on the sidelines for comfort.  In order to beat | Read More »

American Majority’s Training Bomb, September 17th

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  July 21st at 11:29 AM  | 

On September 17th, 2011, we will celebrate the 224th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution. It is one of the greatest political documents in history, and has provided us with a roadmap to become the most prosperous and free nation the world has ever seen. But in 2011, the principles of limited government and individual freedom are in question, and we are at a crossroads: do we go down | Read More »

The Pickens Plan and Crony Capitalism

By: Ned Ryun (Diary)  |  June 8th at 09:30 AM  | 

I still find it strange when those who claim they believe in free enterprise, limited government, reducing government intervention in the marketplace and fiscal responsibility, suddenly take an “Everywhere but in my house” approach. I am referring to the more than 80 House Republicans, many of whom claim to be conservatives, who are co-sponsoring H.R. 1380, otherwise known as the Pickens Plan after Texas energy | Read More »