“Some Tea Partiers say they can pinpoint the precise moment when they made it clear to the Republican Party they had no intention of being its lapdog”
Like the man said:
“Lead, follow or get out of the way!”
Frankly I've read more than one story that some of Reuter's reporters are literally in bed with Democrat members of Congress.
Nothing worse than a sheep stampede!! 2010 is going to be interesting, to say the least. Throw ALL of them out.
Let's continue to ignore the MSM on this issue, and work hard to reform the Republican Party from WITHIN, while still doing our Tea Party thing. The more we are visible, speaking our message of smaller, less intrusive government and lower taxes, the more pressure the Republicans will feel. The Democrats will continue to put us down in derogatory terms, but we can just continue to ignore them.
Such tension is ALWAYS there, when the GOP is gaining power, VS the Democrats.
I have been politically active for 30 years. This is easy to understand:
Political Parties, at the County level, are often dominated by the Municipal Bond and Road Construction types, the Court House folks.
Issues, of ANY kind, tend to gum up the works for them.
I would urge the Tea Party folks to run for local precinct offices, fight the “old guard” Party hacks, in the primary, and WIN -—
But I would also encourage you, after the Primary, to reach out to the SAME “old guard” and convince them that we can be honest and competent on local issues, as well!
“Steele, RNC chairman since January 2009, had invited them to the plush Capitol Hill Club, built as a clubhouse for the party’s top brass next door to RNC headquarters.”
The invisible man speaks...screw him.
The GOP is getting too Old. Hopefully the Tea Party will mean death to the GOP, to be replaced by a party that cares about the Constitution.
The RNC is a corrupt entity that has no interest in the reforms necessary to get America back on the correct path. Micheal Steele (who I supported after Blackwell conceded) has turned the RNC into a personal slush fund for himself and the rest of the Country Club Republicans.
Until there is real change from the top all the way down to the people that answer the phones the RNC should be considered as much an enemy of the state as Barack Obama...
(And to think that I was a proud RNC contributor only 2 short years ago.)
good, Lindsay Graham in particular needs to feel a little tea party tension
Every element of the entire Liberal LameSreamMedia is reading what each other say, picking up on their own internal mantras regarding the TeaParty and parroting each other, over and over again with two themes intended to sow division IN THE PEOPLE (Conservatives) WHO OPPOSE THEM -
division between the TeaParty and the GOP
division among Conservatives in the TeaParty.
Who writes 99.99% of these articles? Liberals.
So warning to ALL CONSERVATIVES and ALL TeaParty people.
Use the printouts of those Liberal articles trying to sow division between you to line your birdcage, your dog house or your trash can, because that’s all they are good for.
The guy who holds Republicans responsible for every vile, lawless, unconstitutional move the Democrats make?
This guy believes he's influencing the opinions of what he considers a bunch of hicks by attempting to drive a wedge between the GOP and Tea Party adherents...using The Nation and Reuters as primary sources.
This guy's as transparent as a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag.
I also think the 'middle' is more conservative than politicians think it is.
The way for the Tea Party movement to both retain its independence, and to hold the feet of the GOP leadership to the fire, is to clearly become “A national movement at the State level”.
The basic problem is that neither political party, nor the national government itself, can fix our broken national government. It must be done in an orderly process by the individual States.
It is a constitutional process, and a legal process, and a conservative process, whose function is *not* revolution, but restoration of a functional national government.
It is a constitutional convention.
Called by 2/3rds (34) of the individual States, the bar is set high enough so that it can only happen in times of great need, such as America facing an economic collapse, with unimaginable debt, and a national government incapable of correcting itself, or doing what is necessary to restore solvency and order.
And the bar is even higher for any changes to be made. 3/4ths (38) of the individual States must agree to any changes, for them to be made law.
This is not a “people’s movement”, though the people would surely support it. This is to restore the balance between the national government, the individual States, and the people. So it is the duty and the obligation of the individual States to act, when they must do so.
So that while the Tea Party is protesting the actions of the national government, in truth its message should be directed at the State legislatures. They must be made aware that they may soon be called on to resolve that a constitutional convention must be held.
34 of the State legislatures of the individual States must agree to this. And they must be given strong incentive to do so.
The Tea Party must explain to them how even before a convention is agreed to, the individual States must confer among themselves. They must reach agreement ahead of time, as to how to restore the national government to order.
It cannot be done with a single constitutional amendment. And there is a large and growing list of possible changes that must be debated, so that our national government will return to order and balance.
(Please copy, save and distribute this list)
Among possible changes that should be debated is:
1) Repeal of the 16th (Income Tax) and 17th (Direct Election of US Senators).
2) New Amendments. While not all are feasible, these need to be considered as baselines for discussion:
Flat Income Tax;
Balanced budget;
Presidential Line Item Veto;
Corporate Civil Rights Distinct From The Civil Rights Of Living Persons; Oligopoly Antitrust;
Presidential War Powers and Posse Comitatus; Limitations on Presidential Authority To Declare Martial Law
Presidential Authority Only Through Cabinet Officers, Appointment and Impeachment of Cabinet Officers; A Writ of Mandamus Amendment; Term Limits for Recess Appointments;
Congressional Approval of Bureaucratic Regulatory Authority;
Creation of a State Appointed Constitutional Review Court, 50 Judges To Sit As a Permanent Nullification Court; Reorganization of Federal Judiciary
Amendment for the Reduction of the Size and Authority of the Federal Government and Enabling Acts;
Restoration of State Lands from Federal Takings; Limitations of Eminent Domain;
Congressional and Judicial Term Limits;
Limitations of Federal Intelligence and Police Authority;
Renunciation of the National Debt; Abolition of the FED;
Prohibition of Federal Largess to Individuals; Restrictions on Earmarks;
Abolition of Government Employee Unions.
I have one democrat senator and one republican. If I had known I would have sent them both a teabag through the RNC site. I don’t think the RNC realizes this anger is not just directed at the dems. They are all at fault.
What a totally tin ear this poser has. He stupidly chooses a venue that symbolizes what is wrong with the Republican party.
I simply don't see how putting Republicans back in offices will solve the problem. The traditional politicians will corrupt the new faces, and it will be the same cycle which began in 1994. What to do, what to do...
To deny there is tension between Tea Party Activists and BOTH parties is just not realistic.
All the Tea Party is saying is, “We are no longer hostages. You broke the two party system. Politics as you used to practice it is no longer possible.”
On the left, they were already ahead of us. The Unions, Hollywood, and the Kos Kids crammed Obama down moderates throats. They had had it with DINO’s.
Now here we are. There are two conservatives political factions right now, and at LEAST four liberal ones. In my opinion, its about time. Unions and greenies, for example, really never had much in common with one another. Pro-Aborts and Union Catholics never did either.
Whatever this is, it is good. Very good. I think they ought to set RNC headquarters and that stupid club on fire and then spend some time washing out their headgear.
The country is in VERY big trouble right now.