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WashPost Front-page Lecture: GOP Must Save Itself from 'Self-Destructive Impulses of the Tea Party'
Newsbusters ^ | October 18, 2013 | Tim Graham

Posted on 10/18/2013 6:24:35 AM PDT by don-o

The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty is trying to help the Republicans on the front page of Friday’s paper. It's not labeled "Analysis," but "Politics Debrief." The alliance between the “agreeable” GOP and the media is getting more transparent.

“What will it take to save the Republicans from the self-destructive impulses of the tea party movement? That the government shutdown was a political disaster for the party that engineered it is widely acknowledged, except by the most ardent tea partyers.” Soaking a handkerchief full of crocodile tears, Tumulty insists “very bellicose” junior conservatives will have to be quashed:

And that near-unanimity presents an opportunity for the establishment to strike back — and maybe regain some control from the insurgent wing.

“You roll them,” advised former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). “I do think we need stronger leadership, and there’s got to be some pushback on these guys who think they came here with all the solutions.”

Only then, he said, can the party begin to push an agenda and “get things done,” rather than obstruct.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: karentumulty; mississippi; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; teaparty; tedcruz; texas; trentlott; washingtonpost
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Trent Lott?

Really?

1 posted on 10/18/2013 6:24:35 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

Of course the WaPo thinks a socialistic intrusive bloated inefficient controlling debt-ridden government is better.


2 posted on 10/18/2013 6:26:37 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: don-o
“You roll them,” advised former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). “I do think we need stronger leadership, and there’s got to be some pushback on these guys who think they came here with all the solutions.”

And how exactly does "rolling" and "pushback" translate into election votes for your decrepit and corrupt old party, Trent?

3 posted on 10/18/2013 6:27:30 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: don-o

Democrats, media and RINOs are really afraid of the Tea Party and other conservatives. FR needs to go on a full court press to strengthen the conservative side and completely take over the GOP.


4 posted on 10/18/2013 6:30:31 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: don-o

Republicans are the Sally Fields of politics. Desperate for approval from their fellow elitists.


5 posted on 10/18/2013 6:30:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: don-o

Translation: moderate repulicans cover for us! We don’t want to see more of them destroyed or removed from office. Because then socialism’s advance will rest squarely on the democrats.


6 posted on 10/18/2013 6:33:28 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: From The Deer Stand

Yes, it is time to scold those Tea Partiers. The WashPost is merely following the example of Great Leader as he blames and lectures. Let us count ourselves blessed to sit beneath so great a set of minds as to show us the error of our ways. Great Leader be praised.


7 posted on 10/18/2013 6:33:54 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: don-o

We all know how much the Washington Post cares about Republicans... nice to see them express so much ‘concern’ for our well being... /s


8 posted on 10/18/2013 6:34:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
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To: don-o

The Tea Party is gaining credibility now.

Liberals are starting to worry.


9 posted on 10/18/2013 6:34:54 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: don-o

The T-Party people want to save the party and government from the self destructive increases in debt and the destructive Obamacare but RINO’s and Democrats fight tooth and nail to stop them, then they call it a victory when they do.


10 posted on 10/18/2013 6:35:00 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: don-o
For me, the current GOP absent the Tea Party has no meaningful position in opposition to the democRAT agenda that it pursues with any vigor. It simply plays the game much like the Washington Generals play the Harlem Globetrotters. The media wants an amenable GOP to survive so there is a “game” to report on.
11 posted on 10/18/2013 6:36:32 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: don-o
GOP Must Save Itself from 'Self-Destructive
Impulses of the Tea Party'
*SNICKERING*...so typical of the piglet; sucking on the dying sow...
I imagine that was exactly said; by British Loyalists during the American Revolution, too.

12 posted on 10/18/2013 6:39:32 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: From The Deer Stand

That would like Reagan taking advice from the pulitboro.


13 posted on 10/18/2013 6:40:47 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: don-o
Bad advice. Purging the Tea Party from the GOP will even more certainly cause the GOP’s demise.
14 posted on 10/18/2013 6:41:11 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: don-o
Wow! Could it be any more clear how corrupt and inbred these Washington insiders are?

If you go to Washington REALLY determined to make things for “We The People” better, you better sit down and shut up! The Democrats and Republicans “got it”.

I don't want the Republican Party back. I don't want the “Grand Ole Party” label. The hell with it! We need new times, a new party!

15 posted on 10/18/2013 6:43:11 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: don-o
This is just the Wash establishment telling us to sit down and shut up.

Um, no, we're not going to do that.

16 posted on 10/18/2013 6:43:13 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: From The Deer Stand

Of course the WaPo thinks a socialistic intrusive bloated inefficient controlling debt-ridden government is better.


What is wrong with that?

The rinos, GOP-e and the dims have done such a great job.

Why hinder them?

Has anyone made a list of the shills writing for Soros, the white house, the dim party......, etc?

It has been suggested that they have shills in almost all of the major newspapers, either on the staff or writing letters to the editors.

Bottom line: Even if they are not known by name, the practice is so prevalent that the news papers have become irrelevant as a news source.


17 posted on 10/18/2013 6:43:17 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: don-o

Golly-gosh.
Jhee-wizz.
The WaPo REALLY, TRULY,REEEEEALLY wants the GOP to succeed here.
Really.


18 posted on 10/18/2013 6:43:58 AM PDT by Flintlock ("The redcoats are coming" -- TO SEIZE OUR GUNS!!--Paul Revere)
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To: don-o
That the government shutdown was a political disaster for the party that engineered it is widely acknowledged...

Was it really? Widely acknowledged sounds like the consensus we here so much about when they're talking about global warming. Whther or not it was a political disaster won't be known till after the fourteen midterms.

“You roll them,” advised former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). “I do think we need stronger leadership, and there’s got to be some pushback on these guys who think they came here with all the solutions.”

TRENT LOTT????? OMFG!!!!! another great GOP leader! Tiny Tom Daschle rang rings around him!

19 posted on 10/18/2013 6:44:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: The_Victor
Bad advice. Purging the Tea Party from the GOP
will even more certainly cause the GOP’s demise.
hence, the "advice". (from the very Dark Side :)...

20 posted on 10/18/2013 6:45:49 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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