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Rush Limbaugh: GOP Establishment Declares War On Tea Party
RealClearPolitics ^ | 10/13/2011 | Rush Limbaugh

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billkristol; charlieblack; gopantiteaparty; johnfeehery; scottreed; teaparty; vinweber
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I searched for this but found nothing posted. Also, I looked for the original article in the New York Times but did not find it. However, Rush is generally spot on and would not use and cite a source had he not read it himself.

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...

1 posted on 10/14/2011 4:45:48 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: Outlaw Woman

While we’re at it, we should start some sort of action for term limits. That would eliminate the entrenched politicians.


2 posted on 10/14/2011 4:48:45 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Outlaw Woman

3 posted on 10/14/2011 4:48:50 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Outlaw Woman

The GOP establishment is arrogant and it is going to self destruct.


4 posted on 10/14/2011 4:51:54 PM PDT by AdaGray
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To: Outlaw Woman
The blue blood country clubber Washingtonians at the RNC and GOP leadership are as big a problem as the marxists.

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.

5 posted on 10/14/2011 4:53:09 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Outlaw Woman
I searched for this but found nothing posted. Also, I looked for the original article in the New York Times but did not find it. However, Rush is generally spot on and would not use and cite a source had he not read it himself.

The article Rush spoke of is to be published in this coming Sunday's edition of the magazine section of the New York Times.

6 posted on 10/14/2011 4:58:26 PM PDT by JohnG45
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BTW does everyone realize that Washington DC and a record number of private clubs of ANY city in the USA?


7 posted on 10/14/2011 4:58:51 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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That’s just excellent jimbo...

!!


8 posted on 10/14/2011 5:00:41 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ( HANK 2012)
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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)


9 posted on 10/14/2011 5:02:45 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ( HANK 2012)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Here is the original FR threat on the NYT article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2792270/posts


10 posted on 10/14/2011 5:15:53 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Rome2000

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.


11 posted on 10/14/2011 5:17:32 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ( HANK 2012)
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To: basil

We need a term limit on bureaucrats.


12 posted on 10/14/2011 5:36:57 PM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: Outlaw Woman

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.


13 posted on 10/14/2011 5:46:47 PM PDT by februus
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14 posted on 10/14/2011 5:47:13 PM PDT by onyx (You're here on FR so, support it! Compiling New Sarah Palin Ping List! Tell me if you want on it!)
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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.


15 posted on 10/14/2011 5:53:07 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ( HANK 2012)
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To: JohnG45
Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.? - NY Times, Oct. 12, 2011.
16 posted on 10/14/2011 5:53:44 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Outlaw Woman

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.


17 posted on 10/14/2011 5:59:29 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Days .... Weeks ..... Months .....)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Oh please

Get a life


18 posted on 10/14/2011 6:09:29 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ( HANK 2012)
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To: Outlaw Woman

archiving


19 posted on 10/14/2011 6:13:01 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Country Folks can survive....can you?? Are you ready?)
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‘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.


20 posted on 10/14/2011 6:19:02 PM PDT by dubyagee ("I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.")
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