Quick revelation: what the CONgressional Republicans feel about the Tea Party

me ^ | 6/9/2010 | senseiern

[Sensei Ern]

This is a personal experience so indulge me. Also, I still have a bit of Guinness hangover, so forgive the vague details. However, what I do write is the truth from the events that took place.

Last night, after doing a performance at the Iota Club in Arlington, VA, I needed to relax, to get rid of the adrenaline built up from performing. So, a buddy who came to see me perform invited me to go to a hookah bar nearby.

For those who do not know what hookah is, it is a communal pipe, cooled by water, that you smoke flavored tobacco, called sheesha, from. No, it's not wacky tobacky. Hookah bars have become more popular as the government has come down hard against public smoking.

We enter Gaupos and are seated near a young, 20ish guy who is smoking alone while pounding on his Apple. Being the people person I am, I ask him why he is sitting alone in a hookah bar. He explained he was working and was hookahing while doing so.

He explained he was the aid of a congressman from Pennsylvania. I'm not surprised, because half of DC is on the staff of some congressman. I assumed he was a democrat, because that has been the safe bet for the past few years.

But, he's not. He's a Republican, and works for a Republican congressman.

Anyway, here is where the details are sketchy.

I ask hiom if he is a Ron Paul Republican, because around DC, most of the 20ish Repubs are Ron Paul followers.

He explains he is not, and goes on to say, "I really hate the Tea Party, because they do not know how things work in DC. They do not realize that you need to compromise to get anything done. They are too new to politics to know how things are done."

I explained that he really does not understand the Tea Party. He comments how they love you one moment and hate you the next. I say, "The Tea Party is not new to politics. I personally am not a member of the Tea Party, but I have several friends who are. They are not new to politics. They have been involved in Republican politics for decades. They are just tired of the compromising that the Republicans in congress have done."

He had that deer in the headlights look.

I continued, "Compromise is how we got where we are now. What the Tea Party wants is for the Republicans to stand their ground and not give an inch."

"But, that is not how things get done in DC," he responds.

"We conservatives would rather congress not get ANYTHING done than to compromise."

More deer in the headlights look.

[Yorlik803]

Compromise is how slaves are created.