Calls to overthrow the leadership in the Senate and House are growing every day as more and more conservatives feel frustrated that the party has failed to fulfill many of the major points of their agenda, despite winning over the majority of Congress.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), who has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), took to Twitter on Saturday to blast the duo.
“Time for new congressional leadership,” Amash tweeted, saying Donald Trump’s campaign should serve as a wake-up call to establishment Republicans who “refuse to listen to regular Americans.”
The Washington Examiner reported that other high-profile conservatives have also targeted McConnell and Boehner including former Senator Jim DeMint.
“Things that were mainstay 10 years ago [like] balancing the budget, limited government, getting rid of cronyism, [are] now called radical or far right,” DeMint said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. “We, along with millions of Americans, are frustrated that this Republican Party has not stood up to President Obama for his whole time in office.”
Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat also slammed the leadership.
“The key question is: Who is in charge right now? Who is in charge right now of the United States budget?” said Brat to the Examiner. “I’m a member of Congress, on the Budget Committee … and I don’t know even know who is in charge of the budget process right now.”
Despite House Republicans success in passing a balanced budget, they have failed to move forward on other spending matters like defunding Planned Parenthood or blocking the Iran deal.
With President Obama promising to veto any major right-wing bills, McConnell has called the conservative agenda an “exercise in futility.”
Brat scoffed at those remarks.
“Any great figure in history starts with insurmountable odds in the short run. What would the pundits say to Martin Luther King? ‘Gee Martin, I don’t think you’re really going to get … what you want,” Brat continued. “I don’t think they’re going to pass equality this year. Just give up; the votes aren’t there, Martin.'”
“It’s not a show vote; it’s doing what you think is right,” the Virginia congressman added.
