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Below is an email I sent yesterday to Speaker Boehner.

Speaker Boehner:

The continuing resolutions agreed upon in the recent past and another being considered do not address the root cause of a burgeoning and out of control federal spending problem. Article 1 Section 8 provides the mechanism to balance the budget. Over many decades Congress has exceeded the enumerated powers granted to this body in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.

Regulating the environment, communications, education, food, drugs, heath, agriculture, alcohol, tobacco, firearms are not enumerated powers granted to Congress. All federal agencies that are not in compliance with any of the enumerated powers in Article 1 Section 8 must be abolished. Agencies that must be abolished include but are not limited to the EPA, FCC, Department of Education, FDA, DHHS, Department of Agriculture, BATFE. All are Unconstitutional on the federal level as those powers listed above are reserved to the states or to the people per the 10th Amendment.

Abolishing these Unconstitutional agencies will not only return the federal government to the limited government principles the founding fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution but also drastically reduce federal spending thereby balancing the budget.

Any other attempt to reduce federal spending that does not require complying with the Constitution is a farce. You swore to uphold the Constitution. That is your primary function. Do your job or the Tea Party movement will vote you out of office come November 2012.

Your letter was ok, however, I think I would’ve refrained from saying, “the tea party movement will vote you out of office.” The tea party was hugely responsible for winning the House in 2010, however, it failed to deliver the Senate.

The tea party movement shouldn’t be used or made to sound like the union thugs. While the members of the tea party can put up a more conservative candidate against John Boehner, there isn’t a guarantee that he will be defeated - case in point - JD Hayworth vs. John McCain.

THe Tea Party can only do so much, but, not make guarantees as to who is or isn’t elected.