The Movement Strikes Back

National Review Online ^ | September 17, 2013 | Robert Costa

[iontheball]

As the deadline to fund the federal government nears, Republican leaders are struggling mightily to come up with legislation that can pass the House. Over the weekend, leadership staffers fired off anxious e-mails and uneasy veteran House members exchanged calls. Both camps fear that a shutdown is increasingly likely — and they blame the conservative movement’s cottage industry of pressure groups.

But these organizations, ensconced in Northern Virginia office parks and elsewhere, aren’t worried about the establishment’s ire. In fact, they welcome it. Business has boomed since the push to defund Obamacare caught on. Conservative activists are lighting up social media, donations are pouring in, and e-mail lists are growing.

[iontheball]

Looks like the Grand 'ol Tea Party is back in the saddle again and about to wrestle Obamacare and the do nothing Congress to the ground. The pathetic Repubican cowards have committed suicide. If the spigot on Obamacare gets shut off, it could have the residuary effect of scaring the hell out of the worthless elitist D.C. power structure.

[Revelation 911]

it could have the residuary effect of scaring the hell out of the worthless elitist D.C. power structure.

...and merely demonstrates the effectiveness of the 501c4's that the irs has illegally targeted

[rrrod]

ROCCK AND ROLL TIME!
baseball bats at the ready!

[Joe Boucher]

get the hell rid of freaken Boehner, worthless neutered pos crybaby.
Ya know obammy ahs real good dirt on this jellyfish.

[Da Coyote]

I will support the Tea Party.

The GOP can shove it up their collective smelly RINO Obamas.

[Timber Rattler]

The GOP’s loyalists are less pleased. “It’s Republicans attacking Republicans, and I don’t think it’s healthy for the party,” says Brian Walsh, a former official at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “These groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars against Republicans who simply disagree with their strategy.”

Who attacked who first, bub?

Never forget:

Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. "We don't need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples," Lott said in an interview. "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them."

Right ballistic over John Boehner ‘purge’

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin

[don-o]

I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It smalls like, I dunno, Victory!

[don-o]

Shut it down! (And I am supposed to start receiving SS this month.)

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: Oh, crap, we can’t ask Obama to play the IRS card again to shut them up. What do we do? What do we do?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There are times in war when a military command is exhausted. It has lost enthusiasm for the fight, and prefers something like stalemate instead of the risk of fighting. Such a command is doomed.

It will either fall to a determined enemy, or it will be relieved of duty and replaced with those who will pursue the fight.

The value of an exhausted command to the enemy is great, and if they can preserve it through some means, even by offering it concessions to make it appear effective, they will attempt to do so.