The Tea Party Is Falling Fast in Its Battle with the GOP Establishment

[RobDownSouth]

How's the job search going, Chief?

Why can't Liberals (, Blue Dogs and Republican moderates) stomach the Tea Party?
Because it requires a strong Constitution!
A_J, the Stupid

Your "bro" Grampa Syphillish was opinin' the other day about his hatred for the Constitution and the need to return to the Articles of Confederation.

Does this mean he's a librul now?

 

[Bry1313]

The Regulatory Accountability Act (H.R. 3010) and Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act (H.R. 527) minimize costly red tape and excessive federal restrictions that hurt small businesses.

NPR says the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. 2930), bipartisan “crowdfunding” jobs bill passed by the House in November, “removes barriers to doing business” for job creators.



Silly things like minimizing red tape or helping small business create jobs.

You know ... Joke stuff.

That's the headline, what does the bill actually do?

The patriot act had a much different headline than its practical application.

 

[jeninflorida]

if you are against the Tea Party, then what that means is that you are pro welfare. you don't give a shit about the obama debt. you don't want people to improve his or her life, you want citizens of America to become slaves.

lets face it, obama is about lies and slavery. why are you a slave?

 

[bronzeage]

if you are against the Tea Party, then what that means is that you are pro welfare. you don't give a shit about the obama debt. you don't want people to improve his or her life, you want citizens of America to become slaves.

lets face it, obama is about lies and slavery. why are you a slave?

What is the Tea Party position on subsidized flood insurance for people like you, who expect me to support your unsafe lifestyle?

 

[BotanyBoy]

It's frightening that anybody is stupid enough to believe the Senate is doing their job.

It's frightening that anybody is stupid enough to believe an extra conservative up there will change that.

Your "bro" Grampa Syphillish was opinin' the other day about his hatred for the Constitution and the need to return to the Articles of Confederation.

Does this mean he's a librul now?

Because he lurbs freedumb so much I'm assuming? LOL what a fucking dunce.

That's the headline, what does the bill actually do?

The patriot act had a much different headline than its practical application.

Only when Obama signed it...it was amazing with Bush did it and when another (R) extends it (They will because they love freedumb so much).

why are you a slave?

Define slave.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Next week you'll have a huge c&p ranting abut how the Tea Party is controlling the Republican Party and making it too radical for the pragmatic centrists to support...




But at least LeTrouve will be reading it with nodding heath and frothing lips.

This shit is fucking priceless...

We need to bookmark this for the next time the serious charge of Republicans are being controlled by the Tea Part arises.

 

[Bry1313]

This shit is fucking priceless...

We need to bookmark this for the next time the serious charge of Republicans are being controlled by the Tea Part arises.

Did you just quote yourself?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Did you just quote yourself?

I've noticed he has begun doing that more and more.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Did you just quote yourself?

I like to think of it as handing the idiots more rope...


Also to remind myself of the key search word to pull this back up. And I will. My bet is within a week or two as the next Republican who stands up to Obama is accused of cow-towing to the force majeure that is the Tea Party (who calls all the shots don'tcha know!).

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Your "bro" Grampa Syphillish was opinin' the other day about his hatred for the Constitution and the need to return to the Articles of Confederation.

Does this mean he's a librul now?

CONSTIPATION! fool! NOT constitution.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The crux of the problem for Democrats and Republicans is the Tea Party. Its big enough to fuck GOP Rinos outta office, and the Democrats don't want any Rino refugees joining them.

Tough, our electoral system will not support three parties.

 

[unregistered]

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Tough, our electoral system will not support three parties.

The rinos/libs will congeal, and the TP and conservative blax/Cubans will congeal. Two parties.

 

[Sean]

I like to think of it as handing the idiots more rope...


Also to remind myself of the key search word to pull this back up. And I will. My bet is within a week or two as the next Republican who stands up to Obama is accused of cow-towing to the force majeure that is the Tea Party (who calls all the shots don'tcha know!).

Cow towing? Is that where you tie cattle to the back of a truck and drive down the road?

 

[KingOrfeo]

The rinos/libs will congeal, and the TP and conservative blax/Cubans will congeal. Two parties.

If that happens, the latter will never win anything outside a few solid-red counties. Think about it: Tea Party sympathizers are at most 22% of the population, AAs 12% and conservative AAs considerably less than half that, Cuban-Americans not numerous enough to mention. You can't make a winning coalition out of that.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Of course, it might not even matter which side wins.

Friday, May 16, 2014 12:27 PM EDT

Conservatives huddle to “recommit” to their own imagined victimization

GOP candidates all agree on the same right-wing policies, so why are "anti-establishment" types still complaining?

Jim Newell

A bunch of real conservatives gathered at the heart of Real America, the Ritz-Carlton in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, on Thursday, to champion real conservative issues that the RINO establishment has supposedly abandoned in its pursuit of midterm glory. What, pray tell, are these issues that these real conservative luminaries, including Ted Cruz, Ed Meese, Mike Lee, Grover Norquist, and others, tried to reassert to dominance atop the party platform? Robert Costa at the Washington Post reports:

The group, alarmed by a resurgence of the GOP establishment in recent primaries and what activists view as a softened message, drafted demands to be shared with senior lawmakers calling on the party to “recommit” to bedrock principles.

Some of those principles laid out in the new document — strict opposition to illegal immigration, same-sex marriage and abortion — represent the hot-button positions that many Republican congressional candidates are trying to avoid as the party attempts to broaden its appeal.

Maybe we missed something (??), but… it didn’t seem like the GOP was really wavering from “strict opposition to illegal immigration, same-sex marriage, and abortion.” Instead this seems like a group of people who define themselves by their opposition to “the establishment.” Now that the “Tea Party” and the “establishment” have merged policy-wise into something we might lazily call the Teastablishment (sorry), the Tea Party types who raise money off of attacking the establishment need to, well, have a day-long summit to Recommit to Principles or whatever to keep the illusion of conflict running. Victimization sells.

Who are the enemies who would “soften” the bedrock conservative principles of telling women what to do with their bodies, building a literal fence with Mexico, and making the lives of gay people miserable? The nefarious Chamber of Commerce, of course: “Meanwhile, mainstream GOP business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have lifted establishment candidates to victory in a Senate primary in North Carolina and a special House election in Florida. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is expected to easily defeat a tea party challenger in his primary Tuesday.”

Ahh, but see, the Chamber of Commerce isn’t exactly getting what it wants here. As we wrote earlier this week, despite its insistence that House Republicans pass comprehensive immigration reform, the Chamber’s endorsees still have been adopting hard-line stances against any and all forms of “amnesty.” These include North Carolina GOP Senate nominee Thom Tillis, who led a right-wing revolution in North Carolina that included the passage of a state constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage. Mitch McConnell also voted against immigration reform and opposes same-sex marriage and is pro-life. Indeed, he is going to defeat his Tea Party challenger on Tuesday, but not because he’s doing the dubious bidding of the Chamber. Mostly it’s because his Tea Party challenger is a terrible idiot candidate. If anything, it’s the Chamber getting played here more than the anti-establishmentarians are losing, because the business lobby is spending its vast funds to support candidates tack right to win their primaries.

What other brave stands found their way into this radical grassroots pamphlet that was compiled by senators and lobbyists at a Ritz Carlton in the Washington suburbs?

In the 10-page pamphlet finalized Thursday, they called on party leaders to champion lower taxes, a well-funded military, and the idea that “married moms and dads are best at raising kids.” The document warns Republicans against signing on to an immigration overhaul unless the U.S. border is “fully secure,” and it argues that support for school prayer, a balanced-budget amendment and antiabortion legislation should remain priorities.

We don’t see a single item that any Republican candidate running a statewide race anywhere in the country would oppose or downplay as a priority.

The senate primary in Nebraska earlier this week was a perfect example of how the “Tea Party vs. establishment” narrative no longer passes muster. As EJ Dionne described it, “The fights this spring are not between ‘the grass roots’ and ‘the establishment’ but between two establishment factions spending vast sums to gain the upper hand.”

This is nothing but a turf war, now, between various organizations based in Washington, trying to separate people from their money by playing up the existence of some grand ideological rift in policy within the party.

 

[bronzeage]

The crux of the problem for Democrats and Republicans is the Tea Party. Its big enough to fuck GOP Rinos outta office, and the Democrats don't want any Rino refugees joining them.

Sure they do. It happens all the time.

All these tea party/anti-immigrant/anti-labor/anti-healthcare/truther/birther wackjobs are really Democratic moles, sent to push the GOP further to the right and send the GOP middle into the welcoming arms of the Democratic.

It was all dreamed up by Ted Kennedy. When he realized he was going to be the first Kennedy of his generation to die of natural causes, he determined to something heroic, and at his age, making certain their wouldn't be another Republican President in this century was the best he could do.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Sure they do. It happens all the time.

All these tea party/anti-immigrant/anti-labor/anti-healthcare/truther/birther wackjobs are really Democratic moles, sent to push the GOP further to the right and send the GOP middle into the welcoming arms of the Democratic.

Shhhhhh!!!! You'll ruin everything!

 

[jeninflorida]

think we all agree, except for the die hard obama ass suckers, that obama is taking America in the wrong direction

 

[jeninflorida]

Sure they do. It happens all the time.

All these tea party/anti-immigrant/anti-labor/anti-healthcare/truther/birther wackjobs are really Democratic moles, sent to push the GOP further to the right and send the GOP middle into the welcoming arms of the Democratic.

It was all dreamed up by Ted Kennedy. When he realized he was going to be the first Kennedy of his generation to die of natural causes, he determined to something heroic, and at his age, making certain their wouldn't be another Republican President in this century was the best he could do.

that kennedy was too obsessed with boose and another sex addict. Kennedy's were a shit family that was also involved with criminals. just like obama

 

[bronzeage]

that kennedy was too obsessed with boose and another sex addict. Kennedy's were a shit family that was also involved with criminals. just like obama

That Kennedy engineered the destruction of the Republican Party and you were one of his unwitting dupes.

Congratulations, Jenn. You bent over for Ted Kennedy and you liked it.

You still can't come back.

 

[jeninflorida]

I think we should rename the obama - the king master as so many of you are willing slaves

 

[bronzeage]

I think we should rename the obama - the king master as so many of you are willing slaves

Still can't come back.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Bring forth the prairie chickens....

http://tbrickert.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/king-obama1.png

 

[garbage can]

think we all agree, except for the die hard obama ass suckers, that obama is taking America in the wrong direction

That's how I see it, and some of the polls I see reflect the same opinion.