Molten steel channeled.....
Posted on 11/25/2014 11:57:50 PM PST by iowamark
In all its fury and unanimity, the response from the right to President Obama’s decision to change immigration policy without the consent of Congress was the manifestation of a major transformation within the Tea Party.
What started five years ago as a groundswell of conservatives committed to curtailing the reach of the federal government, cutting the deficit and countering the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party has become a movement largely against immigration overhaul. The politicians, intellectual leaders and activists who consider themselves part of the Tea Party have redirected their energy from advocating fiscal austerity and small government to stopping any changes that would legitimize people who are here illegally, through granting them either citizenship or legal status.
“Amnesty for Millions, Tyranny for All,” declared the Tea Party Tribune website, summing up the indignation among conservatives over Mr. Obama’s executive action to shield up to five million people from deportation...
Conservatives say emotions over immigration run so high that the issue could be even more politically potent than the Affordable Care Act. Like many of the economic concerns that animated Tea Party supporters, immigration issues play to people’s anxieties about their financial well-being and the future. Many conservatives who have long mistrusted Mr. Obama because they think his policies will fundamentally alter America believe that his new immigration order will do just that, with millions of potential new foreign-born citizens even though the president’s action does not call for a path to citizenship.
The conundrum for the Republican Party is how to channel that energy...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The NY Times is evidently under the mistaken impression -- perhaps because of the shortcomings of fearless Leader -- that conservatives cannot work and play golf at the same time.
“What started five years ago as a groundswell of conservatives committed to curtailing the reach of the federal government, cutting the deficit and countering the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party has become a movement largely against immigration overhaul.”
Taxed Enough Already.
“The Tea Party” has become a catchall phrase for the liberal elites. Those who want to deflect from the issues of executive power grabs and unconstitutional actions.
Molten steel channeled.....
Violation of the constitution has a lot to do with the energy of the Tea Party. Socialized medicine was seen as an overreach of government power and so was the bank and GM bailouts. Now we have Obama shaping immigration law via executive orders.
This is just a setup to allow them to turn around later and say, “See, we told you they’re a bunch of racists!”
Anyone who takes the time to watch the speech of Senator Charles Schumer at the National Press Club or listens to the audio will understand that he to gets it. That understanding is dangerous and because Senator Charles Schumer is one of the smartest Marxists in Washington.
What do they both get? They can't that the 2016 election will be over the middle-class and it will be conducted as a populist appeal to the middle-class. Both couch their appeal to this demographic even though they come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. I fear that Schumer will win because the establishment of the Republican Party is indifferent to everything about the base except their votes and will conduct a sham policy on immigration, repeal of Obamacare, government funding and all the rest cutting secret deals with Democrats, voting to close filibusters and then voting against the final bill, lying to the base, and enlisting the media to do much of their dirty work.
I believe this is where the battle will be fought and how it will be fought. Unless we conservatives are aware of of the battlefield and the tactics we surely will be blindsided.
In that speech, Schumer whined about lock-stepping braindead party-line vote for Obamacare.......a move which landed them in political No-man's land.
Chuckie plumb forgot to mention that his hideous atrocity ---- "immigration reform" --- contributed mightily to lock-stepping Dems' demise.
Schumer is the poster boy for "why Democrats should never EVER be given even a smidgen of power."
Once in office they see themselves as saviors instead of servants of the people.
Imbeciles infected w/ the Dem disease go off half-cocked---thinking they've been "anointed"---not elected.
There's a cure for infected Dems-----banishment to the nether-reaches of hell.
Schumer's point is that the middle-class has been hurt by forces such as globalization and the digital revolution which have improved productivity but cut jobs and wages leaving the middle-class poorer and poorer. Naturally, Schumer argues that only government offers the solution to this problem and he goes before the National Press Club to subtly enlist them in a campaign directed to the 2016 election to convince the electorate that his party, the party of government, has the answers.
Schumer already had their support before he went there, but now he provides the media and the Democrat party the intellectual rationalization for what they were both going to do anyway.
Schumer explicitly addressed Ronald Reagan's maxim that government was not the solution to the problem, government was the problem, knowing full well that the media was preconditioned to support big government solutions. He wants the media to portray Republicans as the party of no, of negativism when they point out the obvious failures of government, such as we saw in the rollout of Obamacare. Schumer never objects to the miscarriages of big government only to the political fallout.
Schumer wants to capture the middle-class by turning language and reality on their heads and he wants the media to tell the story for him.
The reality is that Schumer wants to extend new dependency to more people in the middle-class thus binding them to his party but he wants to do this in the name of government providing solutions to market caused discrepancies. The problem is capitalism, the solution is government. The reality is dependency politics disguised as populism.
Schumer represents a dying state in the northeast that is losing jobs and productive people to states with less government intrusion/extortion; he and other Democrats know that unless they nationalize their socialist policies, Red (capital R) states will continue dying on the vine. Their government programs don’t work if the government can’t tap companies and individuals for the revenue.
I hike in a state park in NY where a beach has been closed since Hurricane Irene due to lack of funds; not Sandy, but Irene a year earlier.
FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA------the American people could not have agreed more.
Republican takeover map as of midnight 11/5---Map courtesy of http://www.nationaljournal.com
<><> Alaska went Republican; so goes LA Dec 6.
<><> Amnesty-worshippers were soundly defeated.
<><> Of 140 Southern state legislative districts, 110 went Republican.
<><> 29 lockstepping O/Care Grubercrats--OUT.
“Actually Schumer complained only about the timing of the passage of Obamacare...”
Correct analysis. His statements are very similar to many dems immediately after Nov 2014 election - “we were not effective in getting our message out.” What they say in public is not what they say in private.
This guy Schumbag is a greasy, slick NYC political party hack who lives in a media enabling, protective bubble.
A few follow up questions to Senator Schumbag: Why did he not read all 2000 pages before he voted for it? Does he really think if he did read it before voting, he would have understood it how it was going to work and therefore could justify voting for it? Why should anyone in NY trust him as being a minimally competent Senator when he marched in lock-step with his party on Obamacare instead of turning their backs on the problems of the middle class? Nice attempt by Schumbag to try to change the subject from the continuing “failures of Obamacare” to the “timing of Obamacare.”
Now time for another cup of coffee. Happy Thanksgiving!
...a movement largely against immigration overhaul....
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No, idiot, Tea Partiers and conservatives, in general, are not against “overhaul”; we just want the current laws enforced and the border protected.
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