Impeach.....Boehner

         In the run-up to this last election, conservative friends were all excited and making occasional comments on the looming Republican victory. These comments were met by a blank stare from me. There were five good Republican Senate candidates and about the same number of good House candidates trying to get into the Congress. A big victory would give Boehner and McConnell an excuse to say how they had something to do with it and to continue their 'scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' relationship with our would-be king. John  Boehner has to go, and if the last week does not convince you of that then nothing will. Barack Obama is waiting for a crisis to consolidate power even more. We will need  strong leadership in our Congress when that happens!   

Impeach.....Boehner

          I do not know what procedures that the House of Representatives have in place to remove a House Speaker. It's probably not impeachment. I only use the word because it does convey a message......you are out! John Boehner and Mitch McConnell both secured their leadership positions for the 114th Congress before conservatives stopped celebrating the November election. There's not enough space between Republican elites and Democrats to slide a copy of the Affordable Care Act between them. Neither man can grasp that this nation is about to implode. Neither realizes that they are but terracotta soldiers alive only as chess pieces in a game of thrones.
         There is something that has to be done before this new congress is seated and that is to put an end to Barack Obama's 'speech from the throne' more commonly known as the State of the Union address. As I have written about many times in these posts, this speech to the full Congress is not required. What is required in the Constitution is that the president gives an annual report. Thomas Jefferson wouldn't give this address in front of the Congress for he did think it too close to England's 'Speech from the Throne.'
         John Boehner and Mitch McConnell give lip service to conservatives, use stalling tactics and offer up an occasional law suit while Barack Obama and his cadre of leftists spy and lie so many times that it no longer shocks anyone.
         Two days after I posted similar thoughts last December John Boehner gave this invitation....."....we welcome an opportunity to hear your ideas, particularly for putting Americans back to work. It's my honor to invite you to speak before a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 in the House Chamber of the U. S. Capitol Building."
         Would it be impossible to remove the reigning Speaker of the House if he once again lays out the red carpet for Barack Obama? No, unlikely yes but so was our independence from England. John Hancock couldn't sign the Declaration of Independence in bold enough letters to let that king know that America meant business and refusing to allow this dog and pony show to continue would send the message to the American people that this is not just politics, this is a new Declaration of Independence!

The Earl Of Boehner......Redux

          In the beginning of the English Civil War the Earl of Manchester was Oliver Cromwell's superior. Cromwell considered him slow, indecisive and lacking enthusiasm in opposing the tyranny and incompetence of the king. Manchester, for his part, was more concerned with Oliver Cromwell recruiting men of 'low birth' for his army....uh, that would be men like me. Cromwell's philosophy was different as shown here in a quote from a letter to others in the Parliamentary forces, "I beseech you be careful what Captains of Horse you choose....a few honest men are better than numbers....If you choose godly honest men to be Captains of Horse, honest men will follow them."
          The 1970 film Cromwell starred Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell and it depicted a confrontation between these two men. The Earl of Manchester was delaying in his charge against the king's Cavaliers. Incensed, Cromwell rode up to him and promised something like this "Manchester, I am going defeat this king's army, even if I have to go through you first!"
         The following is a post from last year:

The Republican Party And Its Discontents

          Why would the elites of the Republican Party use 'a scorched earth policy in the war on its base? Conservatives have been the largest block in the party since the early eighties. It's been a stabilizing force, a breath of fresh air and a taste of sanity in a world run amok, not to mention the primary reason for many Republican victories. Ronald Reagan was a part of it, the leader...yes, but also a part of it. It's by far the most passionate and dedicated block.
          What may have precipitated the turn on the conservatives is that they began to see just what the establishment wing of the Republican Party really is. Angelo Codevilla is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Boston University. His opinion is that the Republican Party operates as nothing more than "junior members of America's single ruling party...the UniParty," and that there is little difference between them and the Democrats. He is absolutely right!
          Politics has blinded these elites as to the level of danger that our nation is in. They talked a good game for so long that they have come to believe the power of their own verbiage and loquacity..... thus conservatives have become expendable. They'll be replaced with deserters from the Democrats, independents and anyone else who the elites can promise something to.....emulating the same essential strategy as those Democrats who they oppose before the cameras but hobnob with in the sanctity of their inner rooms.....and surely conservatives wouldn't really go far away and let Hillary become president!
          Well, they are as wrong as they could possibly be. Their very first mistake is that they believe that they themselves matter. Our problems in America are far beyond legislative fixes and the Republican Party does not have the wherewithal or the dedication to stop the hemorrhaging in our nation and society even if there was a remedy. So with either the Republican elites in charge or Hillary.... America unravels. The threat of Hillary Clinton is moot.
          Their next mistake was to think that conservatives will eventually fall in line. We have been burned badly. Our nation is collapsing before us. Barbarians are at the gate and inside the gate, even inside the beltway.
          In the trailer for the film Noah, Russell Crowe playing Noah defiantly answers the leader of an approaching horde who mocks him for attempting to stop them all by his self with.... "I am not alone." Silly me, I thought he was referring to God at his side but he was talking about the fallen angels....fallen angels... who would help him. (Please see my March 30th review of Noah)
Well, Mr. Boehner...and Mr. McCain...and Mr. Mitchell....and Mr. Graham....and Mr. Rove...and Mr. Bush.....we are not alone either. We are Americans who trust in their God and recognize His hand in all of creation, His omniscience and omnipotence in forming this people, His power in sustaining us though we often strayed far away, and also His warnings to us after years and years and years of our increasingly ignoring Him..... the continuance of which you are advocating..... your third and most egregious mistake. You have become impervious to common sense, to wisdom or to any light in your darkened halls of power.
          America's future does not lie in these elections that the Republican Party is selling more than its birthright for; and the winners of these elections will have no power that God does not permit and no wisdom that God does not give, for His purposes and to His glory! Our duty is to elect God-fearing leaders and pray for God's mercy knowing that His will is perfect, and that it may or may not include the United States of America as a source of stability in the world or even an entity in itself.
         Celebrate your polling figures all that you want. Rally your corporate execs and political professionals. We'll celebrate a risen Savior and a returning King. Yes, we'll follow Luther's advice to 'plant a tree,' to continue to work, even if we knew for certain that Jesus was returning the very next day, but you might want to take notice of Oliver Cromwell's words to the 'establishment' of his day in:
          "I had rather a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else."