We aren’t. And I am.
It’s the GOP leadership that needs to get the message out better. We extremists are doing all we can do — up to and including fighting those “opinion leaders” on “our side” who join Harry Reid and Howard Dean and Steny Hoyer and Chuck Schumer in casting us as fringe players interested in nothing more than launching rhetorical stink bombs.
Here’s the thing: either the GOP moves back from its leftward, big government tack, or the Tea Party will split off from the Republican party. And it will take with it independents and a number of sensible Democrats who understand that today’s Democrat party is actually the New Left who despise them as bourgeois useful idiots, albeit bourgeois useful idiots whose votes they rely on for sustenance.
Win or lose, at least we’ll be fighting for something more than an election victory.
Lying through your damn teeth about the right pays dividends. Big dividends.
Moron nation.
The choice between civil war or economic slavery is getting more pressing every day, JHo.
Tea Party Express is getting ready to run an ad in the Wisconsin race.
Worth bringing up again:
http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/246709/entitlement-bubble-bust-going-be-nightmare
The tea party sentiments are deeper than people realize. People get this is unsustainable.
If the Dems do engineer a government shutdown, there needs to be a Tea Party presence on the Mall (and at the Washington Monument) blaming Harry Reid and Barack Obama for it. The words of Chucklehead Schumer and Howlin’ Howard Dean should be turned into a TV spot in every blue state and in every Democrat-represented district in red states. When they try to package it as the Republicans’ fault, rock them back on their heels just like we did against ObamaCare.
Furthermore, the fact there’s a plan to do this should be made unmistakable to Boehner and McConnell so they’ll know the magnitude of the opportunity they’ll waste if they cave — and which faction in their respective caucuses will be strengthened as a result of their failure.
If? I think a good argument can be made that a government shutdown is being engineered through deficit spending. Not this short term clownshow but long term and for keeps. Everyone knows that these deficits are unsustainable. It seems to me that the rapid lurch into deficit spending has to be intentional and is meant to force a crisis. Of course, the only solution will be a government takeover of the economy, for the children.
Good link, Sherman. Now, double that sum. That’s right; including state’s shortfalls and debts we’re a quarter quadrillion dollars upside down.
Fiscal Cloward-Piven was brought about by the printing presses.
I think the TEA Party is becoming pretty demoralized.
Yes, many states and the house in congress turned red, but the senate and WH remain the dominate coalition in the country, and with a distressing politicization of the judiciary need only maintain the trajectory of the economy, while having plenty of time on their hands to strip the country of liberty on a hundred other fronts.
The inadequate $100 billion cut pledged by the newly elected Republicans became $60 billion, and then $2 billion a month.
Entitlements, the one thing that must be addressed to meet the goals of TEA partyers, has been shown to be a sacred cow for Washington, with any chance of meaningful reform impossible.
Unemployment, dropping real estate value, and real inflation in food and energy show no sign of easing, and there is nothing on the table to address it. On the contrary, businesses are under kinetic attack.
The TEA party KNOW we need a stanch conservative to take over the WH in 2012, but there is no Reagan anywhere to be seen. The choices range from depressing to ridicules.
Where the TEA Party made huge gains in the elections, Wisconsin, the will of the people having won the election are having even that power denied, as public unions and an activist judiciary prove more powerful than the governorship and legislature.
The truly grassroots people that focused their energy in the TEA Party, most of which set aside social concerns to unite behind economic concerns, see no advance on the debt, while their social beliefs are being overrun in extra-constitutional agitation.
There is a sense that, just as Sarah Palin was unjustly yet successfully demonized and eternally labeled a dumb snowbilly, clinging to her gun and bible, the TEA Party has been forever labeled a racist organization comprised of the most inhuman, evil, extremist part of the Republican party, eyed with suspicion by even “pragmatic”, establishment Republicans.
It’s all very disconcerting.
There are plenty of conservatives who we could nominate for the presidency. But we’ve bought into the left’s narrative.
We don’t need a Reagan, at least, not what it now means to find “a Reagan.” It bears pointing out that Reagan wasn’t “a Reagan” before he won and governed. He was a Palin. A Bachmann. A DeMint.
That is, a conservative, willing to unapologetically preach classical liberal values and advocate for smaller government. He wasn’t afraid to take on the left. And he wasn’t afraid to take on the establishment Republicans who hated him.
Embrace your “extremism”. Embrace your American OUTLAW!
Good point about Regan not being Regan before he was Regan, Jeff. The thing I like about Palin is that she is consistant in her conservatism, and not that she doesn’t make mistakes, but having made one she seems to learn from them.
Schumer and Dean’s words about the Tea party shows who they are really afraid of. Not the GOP…they are discounting them. They are afraid of the Tea party, and are prepared to go full Alinsky to destroy it: “Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.”
Reagan even. Me and spelling don’t get along.
“It bears pointing out that Reagan wasn’t “a Reagan” before he won and governed. He was a Palin. A Bachmann. A DeMint.”
Well, Reagan was Reagan prior to his becoming President in the sense Palin or DeMint are who they are now. Reagan ran for president in 1976.
Unfortunately, we most likely will not get a Palin, a Bachmann, or a DeMint to vote for. We will get a Huckabee, a Romney, or a Gingrich. God help us.
LB: early to say that we won’t get a Palin, Bachman, or DeMint. I don’t think those other clowns are getting much love at this early juncture. In fact, most of the buzz I’ve heard of lately is about Trump…which, I seriously don’t understand what that’s all about.
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