Posted on 11/01/2013 4:21:01 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Virtually unknown outside Washington, a coalition of hardline conservative groups is fighting to seize control of the Republican agenda.
Tea party allies like the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and Heritage Action for America showed their might by insisting that the GOP embrace the government shutdown that hurt the nation's economy and the party's reputation.
Now emboldened, these groups are warning that their aggressive agenda-pushing tactics aren't over — and they're threatening retribution against Republicans who stand in their way.
"They refuse to learn," Chris Chocola, a former Indiana congressman who leads the Club for Growth, says of lawmakers who buck the will of right-leaning groups. He predicts that his group will support primary challengers to more than a dozen Republican incumbents seeking re-election next fall.
Mainstream GOP groups — such as Karl Rove's American Crossroads or the party's formal campaign committees — question their more conservative counterparts' role, fed up by their outsized influence in shaping the party's current agenda.
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Not quite accurate,keep trying ap;)
“Retribution” is good, esp. against dumbassed RINOs and DemonRats.
Maybe Joan Baez can write a song entitled “They Night They Drove Old Rove Down” the road to political nowhere.
Ha, I wanted to edit this with my red pen. They don’t GET it.
Noticed the ap left out democrats,guess they still don’t get it.
And what kind of groups are driving the Democrat agenda? Answer: Hard-core Marxist.
Where is the headline: ‘Godless Communist Groups driving Democrat agenda’?
Didn’t even see your post before mine,great minds...;)
GOOD
Damn the torpedoes!...full speed ahead!
Karl Rove can K.M.A.
I love how they keep showing us what they’re afraid of! Dingy Harry said this week that if Ted Cruz was the nominee in 2016, it would be the end of the Republican party. I love it!
“hardline”, “seize control”, “hurt the nation’s economy and the party’s reputation”, “their aggressive agenda-pushing tactics”, “threatening”.
I wouldn’t know where to turn for unbiased reporting if it weren’t for Associated Propaganda.
Have these people no shame? NOBODY is driving the conservative agenda right now, that is the problem. How f-ed up are these media pukes?
“By Steve Peoples and Philip Elliott”
Shooting for stardom!
Big money hates the Tea Party, loves the RINOs and likes the Dems.
That’s the story here. All the story.
Good
Democrats have no enemies to their left.
Note that every lib story on this subject mentions that the shutdown “did great harm to the economy.”
Too dumb to grasp the harm to the economy that will be caused by obumbler care.
It will be extreme and it will not last for two weeks, but for as long as obumbler care remains in effect.
The plan is to get conservatives to become precinct captains in the 200,000 empty positions across the country. Precinct captains are the ones who vote in the leadership at the local level who then get to vote at the state level. There are committees for vetting candidates.
It's definitely something to look into for TEA Partiers and conservatives of all stripea. And for those stuck in blue areas, it might be a fun way to infiltrate the Dems. Imagine the TEA Party democrats wreaking havoc at the local level.
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