He needs to step down from the leadership.

Mr. Boehner,

You are a very conservative member of Congress and I agree with many of your votes. But the time has come for a fresh start. Whether you were directly responsible for all of this or not (and I don’t attribute many of the failures to you), it is time for a clean slate. We need someone to be an energizing, motivating face of the party in Congress, and that is not your calling.

We need new leadership, and we need it ASAP. Perhaps “purge” is not the right word, but “renewal” is. Shaddeg, Ryan, Pence, Cantor, McCotter, and Blackburn, please pick up your phones.

Sorry, but I don’t see supporting you again at this time. There was some logic to giving you another shot after the great purge of 2006. That’s gone now. It’s time to take a seat and see what some of the real reformers in the party can come up with. However, I do appreciate that you weren’t part of the earmarking trough-feeders. Best wishes.

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You know the rest.

You had your chance. Time for new leadership. I would say do the right thing and walk away, but I can see now you aren’t going to do that.

What a pity.

We have received your request to be reelected as House Minority Leader. Upon reviewing your record, we regret to inform you that your services will no longer be needed in this role. We need an actual leader. We want you to know that we value your continued service and hope that we can work together in the future.

Thanks,
The Base.

leading the House GOP during a Bailout debate. He is one of the best in congress on earmarks. I think he deserves a chance to lead now without the shadow of Bush is gone.

When you get your head handed to you in two straight election cycles it is time to clean house.

In the last two cycles the GOP lost double digit house races for the first time ever in our history. That is the truth of this matter.

In the Senate and the House we need new leadership. I also would love to see Newt Gingrich places as the Chairman of the Republican Party.

Need a new slate card – but for our leadership. I think we need to be galvanized (yes the bile we feel in our mouth can help) to clean our house leadership out. Please one of the editors put that up and front-page it so we know a) who to be backing and b) where/who to call.

Please move on and get your priorities right.

resign.

McCain lost very largely because of two pieces of legislation: the comprehensive immigration reform act, and the comprehensive bailout of financial institutions.

The key word here is “comprehensive”. The approach — of trying to satisfy all sides with a single bill while failing to deal with the underlying problems — is the signature of the Bush administration and, unfortunately, McCain in his approach to governing.

Both bills initiated by the Bush administration, supported by elites of both parties in Congress, and the elite of academia and media. Both were promoted by McCain and touted as examples of his ledership skills.

I, along with many in the base, opposed both these measures. For mccain, the consequences were disastrous in the campaign he was forced to wage. It made it difficult to separate himself from the Bush Administration (this, rather than his support for the war, which only resonated with the extreme left, cost him). It took the issue of immigration, which mobilized the base, and on which Obama was extremely vulnerable, off the table. It exposed the Republican position on financial policy, which should be the support of free market capitalism, as internally incoherent.

It is hard to paint your opponent as a socialist when you have just led the biggest government nationalization of financial institutions in history.

Congressional leadership needs to understand this, there is no sign that Boehner does. He needs to go.

I ran some numbers (which admittedly are not solid with the races still not all determined) and note that the Republican Study Committee will comprise more than half of the Republican caucus. There is NO REASON why the next Minority Leader and the Minority Whip should not be members of the RSC.

Mayhem had several recommendations that are certainly good choices. My vote is Pence for Leader and Cantor for Whip.

I have contacted my Representative (Rep. Burton–a RSC member), Rep. Pence and have emailed the RSC (RSC@mail.house.gov).

Please contact the RSC or your own member of Congress to encourage one of these choices.

Lets start fresh with someone else. Pence whom I hoped for before it was given to Boehner, would be a nice change. We need leadership, now. Not someone who sits back and lets the other party bully them around then reacts. Let’s get someone who leads with out ideals and lets the other party know that they are not just going to roll over. If Pence isn’t the guy to fill this roll then someone else. Boehner can’t fill it that well.
Oh and why not see if Rick Santorum would be available to lead the RNC. That would be a great step forward in getting the party back for the conservatives.

(202) 479-7000 and let him know that this is unacceptable and that there will be no donations as long as Boehner is running the House…..it’s one thing they all understand.

‘conservative’ missing from this whole letter. I saw ‘reform’ an awful lot, but not conservative.

Hey John! Newsflash – you can’t distinguish yourself from your opponent(s) when you use the same code words as them.

Ya know sports fans, why should we be surprised when our ‘leaders’ fail to unabashedly fight for the conservative agenda of freedom when they’re too embarassed or caught up in the latest Beltway jargon to even utter the word.

I suggest you step down, Boehner. You are not liked anymore.

Can you imagine what would happen to Boehner if he was an NFL coach who led his team to successive drubbings like this? Do you think Coach Boehner should have his contract renewed?

I say no. Time for a new coach.

I strongly support Eric Cantor. I believe he is going to be a leader of the new Republican Party.

Even though it’s Washington State, I suggest that an honorable man would move there and take advantage of a probable 100% success rate in that not only do I doubt John’s competence as a House Leader, I doubt he could actually succeed in such a noble cause on his own.

Lest we forget who immediately stood up against the bailout bungle, Why I Oppose(d) the Bailout — Rep. Mike Pence.

I also put forth Doctor Paul Broun for Minority Whip. Speaking of maverick conservatives willing to buck Washington, D.C. GOP elites. He is it.

Paul Broun campaign website

Project Vote Smart’s take on Dr. Broun

Not one red cent will go to the RNCC/RNSC if Boehner retains the minority leadership position. I will not be a part of the continuing debacle that is the republican congressional leadership.

I hope I’ve been clear.

I am seriously appalled at the animosity towards Boehner on here. Unlike Blunt, Boehner is one of the good guys. Yes we lost two big election cycles, but that is failure of leadership at the NRCC. We need someone in there who knows what they are doing unlike Tom Reynolds or that disaster from this Cycle. But that failure is not entirely on Boehner. I think House republicans have done a GREAT job under Boehner, especially in the minority, to keep the liberal agenda from being swallowed without a fit. On Energy, the Surge, etc Boehner rallied the troops and got it done. The Bailout too, although that is a divisin within the party itself.

Flake, Cantor, Ryan, and McHenry are all Firebrands and while I think they are great at what the do, I dont see them holding together an R coalition to stop Obama, or call people to the carpet for his bad policies.

Pence is a leader in the making. No doubt, but I dont see the point of replacing a the minority leader just for the sake of it. Their time will come, but lets not rest this on Boehner.

Remember the whole debacle of gas prices? Remember who was leading that? Why not Tom Price. If Paul Broun had a few more years under his belt, I’d say him – but he would make a fine Whip; but Cantor will be taking that one.

But still, I think Price would make a fine Leader.

The current house leadership is responsible for the 06 and 08 congressional debacle and must step down.
We need to recruit and support real conservatives to match up against these liberal democrats for 2010.The goal must be to retake control of the House.