The article seems to be saying that the tea party has lost influence and is nothing but swindlers.
This isn’t how I see things at all.
I see the tea party folks like Cruz as the only grownups in the room.
Usually Zito is a good political analyst, but this time I think she’s seeing things she wants to see, not what is really out there.
Some T-Party activists may have gone back into the GOP proper, but to work from the inside. The GOP is a goner is they don’t have T-Party support. Period
Re some movements fade away or are absorbed by the larger ones. The “Progressives” never faded away nor were they absorbed by the Democrats, witness the number of “progressives” openly listed in the “Progressive Congressional Caucus”, at least 80 (losing a few to retirement this year).
These “progressives” have deliberately planned the marxist takeover of the old Democrat Party, and they started a long time ago (I would say in the 1940’s because of the number of Communist Party USA covert members in Congress (See Appendix IX for the lists of CPUSA fronts that they were in (CIO Political Action Committee volumes, mid-1940’s).
They had to lay low in the 50’s while McCarthy and others tried to clean house of the reds and pinks. However, they resurfaced in the 1960’s, esp. with a first real crop of “progressive/reds” including Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), and then Don Edwards (D-Cal), the Burton brothers (D-Cal), Kastenmaier (D-Pa), Charles Porter (D-Oregon), Bella Abzug (D-KGB, er, NY), and others. Followed by leftists Harkin, Kerry, Rangel, Parren Mitchel in the 70’s, and George Crockett Jr (D-Mich/CPUSA) in the 1980’s, with Chris Dodd (C-Ct) going way far left over Nicaragua (along with Kerry and Harkin).
Almost every Democrat congressman/woman from California and Illinois are “progressives”, which is marxist doublespeak for communists/marxists. Add in those from New York, a few from New Jersey, Oregon, Washington State, and Colorado, and you have the core of the “progressives” in Congress.
They are the enemy, make no bones about it. Glad that they listed themselves for all to see. If you want to read about their real identities, get the two books entitled “The Enemies Within/TEW: Marxists, Socialists and Progressives in Congress”, Trevor Loudon, 2011 & 2013, www.pacificfreedomfoundation.com or on Amazon.com.
What you see will shock you, not because we have so many reds in Congress, but because the mainstream media has covered up for them for the past 50 years. Believe me, I know as I was a reporter covering them for both newspapers and newsletters (conservative ones), and when I offered stories to liberal newspapers, it was “Gone With The Wind” time, the vertical file, paper shredder, etc.
If you saw the coverup job that the Wash. Post did for Rep. George Crockett Jr. (D-Mich), a CPUSA red since the 1940’s, then you would understand it all. Try to Google Crockett and Wash. Post about 1987, or “Michael Waller and George Crockett and Washington Post”.
I helped Mike nail Crockett’s red ass to the wall because he was appointed as Chairman of the House International Relations/Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Latin America just as the Sandinistas were getting beaten by the Freedom Fighters of Nicaragua, the FLMN was getting beaten in El Salvador, and after Grenada had been liberated from the Cubans/Grenadian marxists of Bishop and Coard.
The WaPost made fun of our documentation, conveniently leaving 95% of it out of their coverup story. After all, their top foreign correspondend in Nicaragua during the communist-led revolt, Karen De Young, covered up the communist factions and their avowed marxist programs, for the paper, as did columnist Jack Anderson.
This was deliberate, not an accident, and it was only one of several major coverups by the mainstream media in the US.
Remember, it was “progressives” who ran the major newspapers, including Viet Cong supporter “little” Sulzberger of the NY Times, a red if there ever was one.
The “Progressives” now run the White House, influence a great part of the Senate and some of the House, a lot of the media, and hold key positions of influence in academia.
They’ve spent decades infiltrating and taking over the Democrat Party and its supporting organizations (organized labor, the teachers unions, journalism schools, educational programming, and even some of the major religious denominations).
It is time that the Tea Party get inside the GOP and take it over. Nothing wrong with that. It would keep the fake, money grubbing false conservatives out of the elected political arena, while creating a significant base of influence within the GOP.
It is time that we got down to brass tacks, exposing the false T-Party groups, holding the GOP establishment’s balls to the fire about having a realistic and hard-hitting constitutionally-based platform, and ousting the gutless losers who have helped to bring about the political crisis we now have in America.
Time to purge from within and without. We have a very hard and long battle ahead of us against the Left, and we will need a strong united front in order to contain and then destroy them.
No time for political shisters, con artists or ego-trippers. We need the best and the brightest, NOW!
The only swindler I recall was Karl Tokyo Rove who swindled 300 million
from donors and did not have one thing to show for it.