With House Speaker John Boehner's ouster, the extremists aren't content just to claim victory. They want to topple another Republican who they seem to think is standing in they way of their achieving whatever it is they're trying to make happen this week to destroy America: Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell.
Roger Villere, the chairman of the Louisiana GOP, urged McConnell to resign in a Saturday Facebook post.
In an interview with the Washington Times published on Sunday, Villere said that McConnell is hurting the Republican party.
"Mitch is a good and honorable guy, but the base is leaving our party," Villere said. "I’m out in the field all the time and we have all our elections this year for state offices, and it’s hurting us tremendously with our elections." […]
Republican presidential candidate and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has also called on McConnell to resign.
"Mitch McConnell, it's your turn," he said on Friday at the Values Voter Summit when discussing Boehner's resignation. "It is time to fire these clowns and restore order once and for all."
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isn't just the Louisiana chair, he's vice chairman of the Republican National Committee and is on the RNC's executive committee, the committee that makes big decisions about the party. So that's fun. Meanwhile, House crazies are
getting in on it, too, by trying to instigate with their Senate counterparts. Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) says that he immediately texted this message to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz's faithful sidekick: "the next guy in the crosshairs is probably McConnell." I'm sure Lee was thrilled to get that message, as he tries desperately to juggle both the tea party base and the establishment GOP back home in Utah to save his own hide this election.
Even Rand Paul, McConnell's fellow Kentuckian, isn't talking about overthrowing McConnell, though he's very carefully avoiding the opportunity to say he does now or would in the future support his senior senator in a coup attempt. Cruz is likely the only senator really gung-ho enough to want to take McConnell on and he's hated enough by the rest of the body that even Paul isn't going to want to align with him.
McConnell isn't seriously under threat, but the hardliners might try to push him to get rid of the filibuster. That makes very little sense either, considering a Democratic president will just veto the stuff these guys wants to pass. But the clamoring could be loud enough to make life even more hellacious for McConnell. Considering that it's coming from inside the RNC, don't expect the noise to go away any time soon.