Posted on 10/14/2011 4:45:44 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
Now, this piece in the New York Times illustrates the obstacles Tea Party lawmakers are up against. All these Republican freshmen in the House, for example, this article makes it plain how difficult their job is. There's even a section in this story on compromise, the bad kind of compromise, the kind of compromise that Republicans have been known for, get along with the Democrats, please the media, show that we're not the unreasonable Tea Party types. That's what's shaking down here. The Tea Party is under assault from the Democrats and the Republican elite, and now the battle has been brought full fore in the pages of the New York Times Magazine.
There's some quotes from various people in this story. Bill Kristol on the Tea Party: "It's an infantile form of conservatism." Scott Reed, veteran strategist and lobbyist: "I think it's waning now," talking to the reporter of the story about the Tea Party's influence. "Party leaders have managed to bleed some of the anti-establishment intensity out of the movement, Reed said, by slyly embracing Tea Party sympathizers in Congress, rather than treating them as 'those people.' Did he mean to say that the party was slowly co-opting the Tea Partiers? 'Trying to,' Reed said. 'And that’s the secret to politics: trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing that you’re trying to control them.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
This is how we are thought of by 'the elites'. These limp wristed bast*ards should be yanked out of their cushy seats and forced to make a living with their soft, mushy, uncalloused hands.
We is a bunch of rubes don't ya know...
While we’re at it, we should start some sort of action for term limits. That would eliminate the entrenched politicians.
The GOP establishment is arrogant and it is going to self destruct.
What needs to happen is the Capital gets moved out of DC every year to a State Capital.
No reason for these bloodsuckers to set up camp in DC indefinitely soaking up freebies and perks and taking a cut of everybody's paycheck.
DC is the problem, it's Disneyland for the busy bodies that 99% of politicians are, they get there and will do whatever it takes, including going with the flow and compromise with communists, in order to stay there.
The article Rush spoke of is to be published in this coming Sunday's edition of the magazine section of the New York Times.
BTW does everyone realize that Washington DC and a record number of private clubs of ANY city in the USA?
That’s just excellent jimbo...
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Ahh...well that would explain why it couldn’t be found. Thanks. I’ll look for it this weekend. (bast*ards)
Here is the original FR threat on the NYT article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2792270/posts
All of my adult life I have voted for those I thought would hold the line. Being a ‘Reagan’ republican, I just assumed (I was very young) with his landslide victories that ‘we the people’ were basically on the same page. Come to find out those that I’ve voted for were complicit in usurping Constitutional law.
Voting all these years has done nothing but put elitists in office; those out to make their fortune with insider connections and to hell with the rest of us; their constituents. To hell with us, to hell with the constitution.
That..has led to this. I see no remedy. Well I do but might be jailed for stating it.
We need a term limit on bureaucrats.
What is everyone doing in their home State to get the RINO’s out? Fine for Rush to pick up the NYT (you know that factual publication of record) and do five minutes on air with whatever slim content is found in one of its demoralizing hit pieces - it is entirely another matter in how you work to elect the right candidates and spur yourselves to effort. I personally worked my a$$ off in Wisconsin to get the best candidates elected and the worst defunded and it was worth the hassle and up hill battle. Here’s the truth: work hard, don’t bitch, nut up or shut up. We’re never finished until the Republic is Free.
Don’t give me your self righteous, “oh I’m doing more than everyone else” bullshit. You don’t have a clue what everyone else is doing. Just because we don’t point it out at every opportunity doesn’t mean that no one is doing anything.
Is this the same Rush Limbaugh who brought Specter on his show the day of the neck & neck PA. primary in 2004? The “I don’t do interviews” Rush Limbaugh who brought Bushy hack Karen Hughes on to plug her book? The one who stopped all Bush criticism after he got out of rehab? The one who refers to the Republican Party as “we”.
Maybe the Rush of 1988-2002 is back. That would be a good thing. But, I won’t be listening.
Oh please
Get a life
archiving
‘And that’s the secret to politics: trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing that you’re trying to control them.’”
Manipulation at its finest. I hate to be manipulated and absolutely refuse to be manipulated by establishment politicians or pundits. I will not vote for Romney. I will not crawl across the glass. I will sit at home and watch them crash and burn.
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