Where are the Tea Party congressmen? They need to start putting serious pressure on the GOP leadership - reform or get the hell out.
Where are the Tea Party congressmen? They need to start putting serious pressure on the GOP leadership - reform or get the hell out.
That is true but they are too junior to go up against the senior guys. I know that is ridiculous but I swear that government is run like the military where “rank has it’s privileges”. They are probably told everyday where they are on the ladder and stay in your “pay grade”. I guarantee that is how it works. Otherwise you would have more freshmen speaking out. They know that they are not allowed to yet. One guy who sorta spoke out was Representative West who in his first term caused a bunch of drama (per GOP) and now he is being threatened with losing his seat.....I don’t doubt that the senior Republicans were part of this.
I'll tell you where mine is, after the Tea Party put him in by a huge margin: His wife, from what I've heard, runs the office and it's a known fact that he's on his second or third staff. They get hired then can't take it and hit the bricks. His first Chief of Staff even quit after the first couple of months.
You call or write him and you get back a boilerplate letter stating all he's done (which is nothing) and how hard he's working to help our District (which again is nothing). Enclosed with the letters are, of course, 'donate-to-my-campaign' cards. Now, on the radio day after day are ads saying how he went to Washington and is now a "NATIONAL L-E-A-D-E-R IN THE FIGHT TO TAKE BACK AMERICA". He's as much a NATIONAL LEADER as I am John Wayne.