Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdown

Associated Press ^ | 10/11/2013 | Thomas Beaumont

[Servant of the Cross]

From county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington.

The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall's elections.

[iontheball]

Let's see, Obummer has an all time low favorability rating of 37% and the repubicans say they are losing the argument. Have you ever seen anything more pathetic than this? We really need to destroy the libs along the lib-lite repubicans. We need to kick this entire bunch of narethewells out on the street.

[Servant of the Cross]

ESTABLISHMENT republicans [used to BENDING OVER happily-yes, you McQueeg-fool's errand my a**] look at this train wreck of BIG GOVERNMENT violation of the CONSTITUTION and ... BLAME the Tea Party[?!] instead of the real perpetrators of this perversity [0bama,Reid,Pelosi]. No better illustration of their ineptitude and the need for them to be replaced.

Here's a real examination of who is to blame and why this unconstitutional piece of legislated garbage needs to be opposed with every weapon in your arsenal ... including this manufactured phony government 'shutdown'.

In the 2008 campaign and the years thereafter, Barack Obama said something over and over: Under the health law of his and Democrats’ dreams, premiums for average families would fall by $2,500. He said this until he was blue in the face — that health insurance would be more affordable, and he put a specific number on it.

He also said, over and over — and over and over — that, if you liked your plan, you would not have to give it up. Nothing would change for you. No, we were just going to help some folks who were down on their luck and did not have access to health insurance. But rest assured: If you liked your plan, nothing would change for you. Now, both of those things turn out to be untrue: Health premiums are not going down, by $2,500 or any other number; they’re going up. And it’s not true that you won’t be forced off your plan: Some are.

If you were President Obama, don’t you think you’d feel the need to address these things?

... if you were a reporter in the White House press corps, you’d ask the president about them. You’d say, “Mr. President, you said over and over that health-insurance premiums would fall by $2,500. More like the opposite seems to be true. How do you account for that?” And, “Mr. President, you promised over and over that no one would have to leave his plan, if he didn’t want to. Yet this proves not to be the case. What do you say to that?”

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“Can we actually expel people from the party?”

Impy knows better than me.

[I’ll offer my uninformed opinion however on next post.]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

[Impy knows better, but ...]

They drummed out that KKK man, Senator Byrd, from the DNC. No wait, the DNC adored the KKK man past the year 2000. But the ‘G’ OP drummed out another KKK guy. It can be done, but actually, we need to primary Cornyn. According to Beck, he’s the money machine of the GOP establishment.

The best way to do it is to get control of the party chair. That’s ususually the spoils of the GOP president.

[andy58-in-nh]

Reading the article, you will notice that all of the critiques come from former and not current Republican officials.

Today, every single one of them is either a Washington lobbyist or a political consultant.

[workerbee]

ESTABLISHMENT republicans [used to BENDING OVER happily-yes, you McQueeg-fool's errand my a**] look at this train wreck of BIG GOVERNMENT violation of the CONSTITUTION and ... BLAME the Tea Party[?!] instead of the real perpetrators of this perversity [0bama,Reid,Pelosi].

Yes. And then they have the audacity to lecture us on how we need to be "united" as a party. Hey GOP-E, how about "uniting" with your conservative base for once in your sorry-ass lives????

[lonestar]

No money to RNC or NRSC...that works to re-elect incumbents.

[Servant of the Cross]

Reading the article, you will notice that all of the critiques come from former and not current Republican officials.

I am a Republican Committee Chairman for a county in Virginia ... This article is absolute nonsense ... Active Republicans are conservative and support the same issues as the Tea Party ... In 2014, Republicans and Tea Party folks will work together to remove the RINO’s.

There are an estimated 60 million citizens who are TEA Party sympathizers, and the number is growing fast.

Great posts ping. 'We The People' of the Tea Party are winning this fight!!! A fact which neither the AP nor the gopE wish to acknowledge. 2014!

[andy58-in-nh]

Follow-up information on the people named in this AP article who criticized the Tea Party and its strategy:

Haley Barbour: Washington lobbyist, BGR Group.
John Sununu: Washington lobbyist and power broker; W.R. Grace.
Katon Dawson: political consultant to Sen. Lindsey Graham
Matt Cox, political consultant, Cox Consulting Group.

[lonestar]

Cornyn is the past president of the NRSC whose primary job is to re-elect GOP incumbents...including Specter shortly before he changed parties.

Cornyn needs to go. He is an embarrassment to Texas and a liar.

Cornyn is up for re-election and knows he is in trouble. Rumor is that Gohmert is considering running against him.

[LibLieSlayer]

“The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall’s elections.”

How? Are they going to refuse to vote for us? Idiots!

[Max_850]

I'm so pissed at Cornyn. I sent a donation to Dwayne Stovall a couple days ago, and packed the donation envelope from Cornyn with freshly printed Obama Bucks and sent it back.

I too am hoping Gohmert takes him on, I think he would have the best chance.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Predictably and on cue, two of them got together when Michael Medved gave McCain airtime on his show.

[Timber Rattler]

The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall's elections.

Yeah, it's always a winning strategy to "strike back" at your core voters, who'll then just stay home or vote third party.

Idiots.

[Lakeshark]

Article headline should be: SOME hobbit hating GOPers attempt to assail tea party on shut down.

More likely this is the meme the AP wants to push, that we are divided. Yes, we have some idiots who can't see beyone their noses and like being doormats in DC, but truth be known there is a remarkable unity from most right of center people about this shut down. We are winning (for a change).

[Lakeshark]

It’s more likely agitprop from the AP, not even the GOPE is quite so stupid as to declare open war against their base.

[Servant of the Cross]

You are correct. See post 28 which summarizes several very good and pertinent points from other posters.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Yep, but the hobby of the week is glomming onto some liberal news source headline so people can prove they hate the GOPe more than the next guy. It’s like the “yeah, and it’s deep too” contest.....

[MasterGunner01]

The Associated Press is not a credible source — except to “journalists”. The AP lies all the time. If they did, accidentally, commit an act of real journalism, they’d bury it under 100 lies.

[Impy]

“Thrown out of the party” in general, um no I don’t see any way to do that to anyone.

A legislator could be thrown out of his chamber’s GOP conference/caucus.

But it never happens. In countries with the parliamentary system it happens all the time, 1 minor scandal and a guy is kicked out and forced to sit as an Independent.

In NY you had Dede Scuzzobma, the liberal RINO who ran for Congress drop out and endorse the democrat and the NY Assembly Republicans still didn’t kick her out, they didn’t even take away the minor leadership position that she held! She rewarded them by quiting it herself and then endorsing the democrat who ran for her seat when she retired!