The Speaker of the House is caught between a rock and a hard place inside a case made of diamond atop a minefield, and despite acquiescing to a campaign to defund Obamacare, grassroots political forces are calling for his job. Again.
The Revive America PAC, which bills itself as a super PAC that exclusively reserves its support for “strong conservative candidates who have the ‘guts’ and integrity to stand up to the Washington, D.C. establishment,” has begun airing a TV and radio advertisement to pink-slip Speaker John Boehner. Buzzfeed reported seeing the ad on television Thursday night — the night before the House approved a temporary spending bill that withheld funds for the President’s floundering health care law, an initiative spurred by the grassroots Right.
“We need urgent action today by thousands of Americans to fire John Boehner,” the TV ad says. “After Nancy Pelosi rammed through Obamacare, America hired John Boehner to fight Obama. But after three years of secret backroom deals with Obama, Boehner has betrayed our trust. He helped Obama implement Obamacare, and now he refuses to defund it.”
For context in regard to the latter claim, the ad was posted to Revive America’s YouTube page September 3, before the plan to continue government funding and defund Obamacare adopted in the House today was even introduced.
In addition to the Friday House vote to withhold Obamacare funding, the House has voted more than 40 times to fully or partially repeal Obamacare. Eight of the law’s provisions have either been outright repealed or had funds rescinded, including the frivolous 1099 reporting requirement for small businesses, and the CLASS Act, an inevitably doomed, financially impossible insurance program for long-term health care.
The ad went on to criticize Boehner for blocking the creation of a special investigative committee on Benghazi.
“It’s just enough to make you sick,” the narrator says.
Watch the ad below:
(h/t Buzzfeed)
