Craig Shirley well documented that Reagan was running as a packaged GOP candidate in 1976 against Ford and lost every primary until the North Carolina voting where the Helms organization put an edge on Reagan’s conservatism and brought forth a victory. The Tom Ellis and Carter Wreen NC group dared to attack the incumbent president and unchained Reagan’s appeal.
Despite the denials and attempts to portray the Tea Party as a fringe group that is irrelevant, it's obvious that the Tea Party is a threat to the GOP establishment and they are more than willing to see the corrupted IRS attack them any way possible to weaken the movement and discourage others from attempting to fight the GOP status quo, which works so well for the establishment elites.
Have we had enough, yet? This should be the kind of 'news' that motivates Republican voters to 'throw the (establishment) bums out' (of congress) in November as they've long since abandoned any pretense of working for the people, much less defending conservative values.
"Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
The logical extension of this is that the only reason to vote is for narrow self interest. Whoever promises you free stuff, vote for them.
GOP - crime family.
Dems - Satanic cult.
As I posted yesterday.....
If this is true,then we have a governing body which totally ignores and rebuffs the will of the people to partition for redress via the political process.
This my FRiends IS Tyranny (yes, with a capital (”T”)
And I think we all know what Thomas Jefferson had to say about this subject.
A Second party is not the answer, the normal political process has been destroyed. A second party organization process will be handled just like the Tea Party.
I think we have now moved beyond the tipping point.
We have been patient not wanting to take first action, however this option has been taken from us.
God Help Us All.....
"The Washington Republican party is no longer a political party in the way we understand political parties. It more resembles a crime family than a movement of ideas."I couldn't agree more and have already said similar things here on FR.Shirley was commenting on the charge that the reason Congress has not gotten to the bottom of the IRS targeting of conservatives and Tea Party movement groups is because the establishment GOP wants the IRS to hobble these groups just as much or more than do the Democrats.
Bill Clinton - Kathleen Wiley Juanita Broderick, countless others, suborning perjury
Bob Toricelli - campaign donation theft and misappropriation
Bob Menendez - soliciting child prostitutes and general corruption
Ted Kennedy - DUI and killer
Barney Frank - homosexual prostitution, author of the banking crisis
Sandy Berger - Classified document thief
Jesse Jackson Jr. — Thief, misappropriation of Congressional funds
Eliot Spitzer - client #9
Mel Reynolds - child pornography
Marion Barry — “...set me up.”
Dan Rostenkowski - money laundering throught the House post office
Charlie Rangel - Tax dodger/fraud
And on and on... Talk about projection!
The Fredos have taken over the Commission.
The GOPe is suicidal. The Tea Party people will work with the GOPe but the Democrats will annihilate the GOPe at any opportunity. So, who does the GOPe want to annihilate? The Tea Party people.
Wow.
Bases are loaded. He walks up to the plate. There goes the pitch...he swings...he KNOCKS IT OUTTA THE PARK!! HOME RUN!!
Both the DNC and RNC (and the elites that support them) need to be prosecuted under RICO. They are corrupt organizations that are joined at the hip.
I’m not convinced that money motivates most members of Congress.
A considerable number, about 20%, are rich when they get there, with net assets of at least $2 million.
Most of the others are upper middle class professionals when they first arrive.
And most Congress members run for reelection until they die or become too old to function, so, only a small number quit and become millionaire lobbyists or middlemen.
I think most Congress members just like the job.
And why not?
The celebrity, the “respect,” making your own hours, flying first class, the catered social and political events, having your own well paid staff without needing to earn enough money to pay them, having a wonderful private office without needing to pay rent or utilities.
And, the pay is good, the benefits are superb, and the retirement package is superb.
I’ll stick with my characterization of our government as the Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals. Members of both teams are simply and totally concerned only with the security of their positions.
In a 2-party system, there is every bit as much security for the #2 team as there is for the #1 team, and that’s all they’re concerned about.