A Very Special Dear John Letter From Andy Aplikowski To John Boehner – CC: Eric Cantor
Dear John [Minority Leader Boehner]
I saw a link to an Politico story on our local NPR outlet’s political blog about how you were worried about how my Congresswoman was hurting the image of the party.
Posted at 3:27 PM on September 17, 2009 by Tim Pugmire (0 Comments)
Politico is reporting that House Republican leaders are worried that Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is damaging the party’s reputation.
Bachmann is referenced deep in a report about House Minority Leader John Boehner dealing with the Joe Wilson flap:
Long before the tea parties or Wilson’s outburst, Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had struggled to moderate the rhetorical excesses of House conservatives hammering away on Obama’s birth certificate, decrying the creation of “death panels” and ferreting out signs of creeping socialism.
Sources say they have been especially wary of the possible damage inflicted on the party’s reputation by bomb-throwing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who last fall called for an investigation into whether members of Congress are “pro-America or anti-America.”
Now the instinctive liberal bias to find the grain of anti-Bachmann gossip and plaster it from the St. Croix to the Red River Valley of our local MPR outlet aside, what are you two thinking? Is there really something in the water there in DC that turns Republican men into spineless whimps?
You think people like Bachmann are hurting the image of the party?
You think people like Bachmann are hurting the image of the party?
A word of advice, issue an apology and retraction right now, or else. Or else you will see people like me bust their butt so hard that she raises millions, wins by a landslide, and takes your job and sends you to the back bench.
Don’t you dare forget that some of us remember that you aren’t a new comer, that you have been in Washington for years too. That you came gingerly to the Tea Party revolution that started after the bloodletting of 2006. You were not too sure that clinging to conservative principles was the way to go, that moderation may have been the key.
Somehow you were able to maintain your leadership positions, but with stupid and moronic attacks on one of the best members of your caucus seems to be suicide.
I understand that the people who lead you around by the noses with the high price fundraisers and donations don’t like to see waves. They just want to go along to get along. But guess what, those people don’t see the (several) hundred thousand or more that showed up at Tea Parties this weekend as the wind at their backs as a conservative movement, they see them as an obstacle to maintaining their power.
unfortunately it appears my fears are true and you are no better then the people who destroyed the party from the top.
We the people are fed up with politicians who think they know better then us. We the people are tired of seeing one politician say another is unfit, simply because they speak with passion and conviction.
I got news for you two schleps. Bachmann is doing what needs to be done. Joe Wilson was right, Obama was lying. It was some of you who sat idly by and did nothing for years when other Presidents and politicians lied.
So maybe, rather then continue to play between the 40 yard lines with the liberals, you two could get the hell out of the way and let some real conservatives take up the reigns and get House caucus back in order so it can regain the majority and get the people’s House back to protecting the people from their government. I’m talking about you two suits start acting and sounding like Wilson and Bachmann.
There’s an old saying, [redacted] or get off the pot. That’s what the picture of the elephant above is all about. Either lead the party or get the heck out of the way of the people who are on the right path to regaining the trust with the base and leading the fight against (AGAINST) Obama, Pelosi, and the radical left.
If you think Wilson and Bachmann are the problem for the image of the party, you might be as batspit crazy as Pelosi.
Do us a favor and stop lashing out at the Republicans in Congress who are actually as pissed off and tired of sitting around as the rest of us out here in America.
Until I see a retraction and apology, you won’t see one dime from me and you’re going to risk sending me donation letters. I may have found a lead paper supplier and I am not afraid to use it on one of your Boehner for Speaker letters.
Sincerely,
Andy Aplikowski
Someone from the real America who thinks some members of Congress are unAmerican, the President is trying to destroy the country I love, and that the problem with the Republican party is not people like Bachmann but rather the people that have been leading it for the last decade or two.
Well done, sir!
Or else you will see people like me bust their butt so hard that she raises millions, wins by a landslide
Oh yeah, they’d better apologize. Conservatives wouldn’t want Bachmann to win another election now, would you?
Andy- Republican Leader Boehner and Republican Whip Cantor have posted a reply to your letter at GOPLeader.gov. Their reply can be seen here: http://gopleader.gov/blog/?p=621
Apologies as that link is no longer active, here’s the full text of the letter mentioned above:
Dear Andy,
We wanted to respond to your letter to us last week and to assure you that regardless of what inside-the-beltway media writes or what unnamed “sources” it quotes, we are proud to serve with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
She has been a consistent and strong voice for the American taxpayer in Washington from the day she took office. And, despite the taunts and insults that the media elites and liberals hurl at her, she never wavers in her commitment to fiscal responsibility.
Republicans in Congress – buoyed by the American people who have risen up against the Democrat tide in Washington – are fighting against bad policies. Their health care prescription is bad policy. Their cap and trade national energy tax is bad policy. Their tax-and-spend agenda is bad policy. We’re strong in our opposition and vibrant in the alternatives we offer.
Republicans have real solutions. And, that includes Congresswoman Bachmann, who has introduced positive solutions for health care reform, budget reform, energy independence, and more. We’re the Party of real hope and change.
When the other side can’t come up with arguments to defend their policies, they turn to personal attacks against their detractors. Congresswoman Bachmann stands shoulder to shoulder with her constituents and that really seems to irk some on the left. We fully expect that despite the best attempts of the media and the liberals, Michelle will continue to be a strong voice for freedom, smaller government, and better solutions.
Sincerely,
John Boehner
Republican Leader
Eric Cantor
Republican Whip