Obama to 'Recess Appoint' Cordray in Defiance of Congress (Congress is NOT in recess!)

There are many of us who have been on the "new blood" bandwagon. The question is, are there enough of us? Where is the Tea party activity which was so evident 2 years ago.

I figured that was one movement that would only get stronger and stronger, yet now one rarely hears about them. I have seen no further gatherings of any size. It's as though they fired their guns in the 2010 elections and then went home again expecting everything to be solved.

2 years ago, you couldn't read FR without seeing some mention of some assembly, town hall or activity. It seems to be dead quiet these days. It's as though the passing of Obamacare took the wind out of our sails.

I figured that was one movement that would only get stronger and stronger, yet now one rarely hears about them. I have seen no further gatherings of any size.

I wondered about that, too, but here is what I think.

The Tea Party rallied around taking back the House, 1) because they wanted to get Nancy Pelosi out of power, and 2) because it is logistically easier at the grass roots to do it House district by House district than state by state. Taking the Senate was a hope, but the action was in the House.

There was the rally in DC in March, 2010, which was in the lead-up to the federal election in November. Prior to that, there were the town hall meetings during the August 2009 recess that made all the news (Specter, McCaskill, Woolsey, etc.).

The focus has been on the GOP primary race this year, so the House races are flying under the radar this cycle. That has to change. That's why people are now starting to frame the GOP primary away from who is electable or who can beat Obama, to who has the longest coattails down-ticket. I'm not hearing much about that down ticket yet, and that's where the Tea Party has to go. I don't even know what the GOP House challenges are this cycle, or Senate for that matter. Those races will be starting up soon.

We need to take more seats in the House in order to make the "new blood caucus" large enough to take power, or at least demand the ouster of the current leadership and open all the positions to fresh faces.

In the Senate, we need to take back the majority (which some people are talking like it's an inevitability given the number of seats the Democrats have to defend). We then need the "new blood" in the Senate to replace McConnell and the Old Guard, and with it, the Old Ways.

The way for the Tea Party to do it is still the town halls. I know that August is awfully close to October to wait for the Tea Party to coalesce again, but there hasn't been much press on the down-ticket House and Senate races yet to motivate people.

Maybe that's the MSM's secret plan, to ignore the Congressional races for as long as possible so as to help the Democrat incumbants?

Hmmmmm....

-PJ

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