Fire the 219

In response to yesterday's passage of the health care reform bill, a new effort supported by Tea Party groups aims to ensure, "through any and all possible legal means," that the representatives who voted for the legislation don't get reelected.

Fire the 219 is a nonprofit started by the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, the Tea Party Nation and several other Tea Party groups.

The Web site explains:

We will begin by launching recall petitions against all 219 immediately. New Jersey and 16 other states currently allow for such recalls. We will begin action immediately to authorize such recall petitions in the 33 other states as well.

We shall support primary challengers against every one of these 219 immediately.

And we shall support general election challengers against every one of these 219, beginning immediately.

In its recent blog post, Fire the 219 provides a list of the top 10 House representatives it seeks to remove from power, all Democrats:

1. Bart Stupak of Michigan.
2. John Boccieri of Ohio.
3. Jim Cooper of Tennessee.
4. Allen Boyd of Florida (spelled incorrectly on the Web site as "Allan").
5. Gerry Connolly of Virginia.
6. Henry Cuellar of Texas.
7. Solomon Ortiz of Texas.
8. Bill Owens of New York.
9. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota.
10. Scott Murphy of New York.

The Web site does not explain why these legislators are targeted.