A top conservative blog, run by CNN contributor Erick Erickson, is calling on Republicans to dump GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner because of a recent purge of Tea Party members from influential committee positions in the House.

In a post titled “Fire Boehner: We Only Need 16 Votes to Depose Boehner,” Ned Ryun writes:

If conservatives want to keep the House and win the Senate, we need to fire John Boehner as speaker of the House. We only need 16 House votes to do it. As most conservatives know, Boehner and the House GOP Steering Committee decided to purge four conservative House members from their committee. Congressmen Justin Amash and Tim Huelskamp were removed from the House Budget Committee, and Congressmen David Schweikert and Walter Jones were cut from the Financial Services Committee. Amash, Huelskamp, and Schweikert were targeted because they were too fiscally conservative—all three have voted against Boehner’s debt ceiling hikes. Amash and Huelskamp were the only two GOP votes against House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget. Amash explained that vote at yesterday’s Bloggers’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, “It’s unacceptable to have unbalanced budgets until 2040.” For anyone outside of DC, this statement seems obvious. Only in Washington is balancing the budget radical. Many conservatives voted for the Ryan budget because they didn’t want to “let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” I understand that, but we shouldn’t criticize those who actually understand the depth of our debt problem and plan to propose real answers. If Speaker Boehner wants to purge independent, bold conservatives—I think it’s time he gets fired as Speaker. Not only for the purge. He has failed to effectively win negotiations with President Obama and appointed moderate committee chairs. To the public, Boehner may appear radical but in reality he proposes milquetoast policies, like the tax-hikes he proposed this week.

We’d written about Amash yesterday, when the Tea Party congressman went to Facebook to complain about Boehner having kicked him off of the House Budget Committee for refusing to toe the GOP line by supporting the previous budget deals that were worked out with the administraition:

GOP House member Justin Amash posted a blistering broadside at the House Republican leadership last night, via Facebook, for being booted off a key House committee because of his insistence on voting against the House leadership in budget battles, and for Grover Norquist.

Remember, the Tea Party congressmen would have preferred that America default on its debt rather than do anything shortly of gutting the federal government. And the Republican pandered to these nutjobs, and their overlords, personified by Dick Armey and Grover Norquist, for far too long. And now the Frankenbaggers are coming home to roost.