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.

[Servant of the Cross]

In the immortal words of John F'ing Kerry .... Bring It On!

To the gopE ... Barbour, Sununu, Dawson ... ICH BIN EIN TEA-PARTIER! 2014 can't come soon enough.

[Caipirabob]

WHIGS be hatin’...

[McGruff]

[jdsteel]

Wait just a cotton pickin’ minute. About a month ago I read article after article claiming that the Tea Party was dead. Now they've shut the government AND the GOP is ready to take them on? When did they become so powerful? Hmmmmmm.......

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Just goes to show whom the AP listens to. Out in red country the Tea Partiers are heroes.

TC

[rrrod]

I just wrote my state GOP a love letter.............

[Servant of the Cross]

... veteran Republicans [the OLD in gop; people who have put party and power over doing the right thing] across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers [Constitution-loving Patriots who see that this BLOATED GOVERNMENT has not only violated our freedoms but it is fiscally unsustainable] of staining [staining?! SRSLY?! Staining?! gopE, your garments are soiled beyond repair] the GOP with their refusal to bend [Yes, Tea Party patriots refuse to BEND OVER like you wimps have for decades. ENOUGH is enough!] in the budget impasse in Washington.

I am with Ted Cruz!

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don't even talk about how to win a fight. There's no discussion. We talk about, "Hey, let's get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we're doing something." But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you'd be in therapy for a month ... but they've been here a long time, and they're beaten down, and they don't believe we can win. They don't believe it can happen, and the answer they say on every issue is, "No, we can't do it. We can't do it."

[Servant of the Cross]

“Rant” ping.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

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

[chae]

Dont forget Roy Blunt!

[ThunderSleeps]

...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...

Ah, when you read "veteran Republicans" - or 'rats for that matter that is DC/MSM-speak for "professional politician." No matter what letter appears after his or her name, these people are not our friends.

The TEA Party isn't staining the GOP, they are washing away a little of the political filth that seems to accumulate so rapidly on all politicians when they go to DC. They forget the people they were elected to represent. They forget our best interests and begin to confuse their own best interests with ours. In the process, they get an enormously inflated sense of self-importance and self-worth.

Here's a shocker politicians: you actually do NOT know what is best for us. We are the people right here, right now, living our lives. We know what is best for us, you were elected to represent us, not rule us.

Here's a bigger shocker politicians: you are no better than any of the rest of us. Actually, based on job performance, you're on the far bottom end of the bell curve. You were hired/elected to do a job - to serve us. Like a gardener or the kids who shovel my drive in the winter, you are just hired help. Actually, I hold those people in much higher regard than you. They know their jobs, they are good at them, and they do them with no fuss. We cannot say the same thing for you. If you were my direct employees, you would've been fired long long ago.

[Obadiah]

I think it’s in AP’s best interest to incite and inflame any possible Party differences. We know who the RINOs are. We know who needs to go, and we know that the RINOs won’t go quietly, but we must be careful not to overstate the issue too. Eliminating the corrupt MSM and ousting the Marxist Democrats is the real goal.

[dalereed]

We need to vote every one of the bastards out!!!

[DJ Frisat]

"Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdown"

Hmmmmmm....

Let's try a few minor word tweaks...

Tea Partiers hail shutdown of Establishment GOP

Howzat sound?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

We must destroy our health care industry and drive away 90% of our best doctors because the RINOs want more committee chairs. Funny thing — they would get those chairs if they just shut their traps. What RINO had led a 1.7 million petition drive this year? What RINO melted down the phone lines? They wanted us to focus like a laser on Obama-care did they? Well now the rats are having to defend their albatross rather than just ‘admit to mistakes’.

THAT’S THE FREAKING DIFFERENCE!

[Oak Grove]

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.

Next year, there will be a tidal wave election that will sweep many of this parasites out of office.

[Walkingfeather]

Can we actually expel people from the party? What if we gather all the lindsey’s mcCains and announce they are not part of the republican party anymore. They can join the democrats or become independents we just do care. We just say get The F Out. And begin to rebuild the party. We spend too much time and energy dealing with these Rinos

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

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

Right. Even loyal libs are tempted to break ranks. Wolf Blitzer even. And the small-bill plan is already splintering their formerly ‘solid’ front.

Even professors have to drop family members from health coverage. Unions are angry. People want to see someone FIGHT THIS before we lose more doctors.

[SMARTY]

Count me IN! As for the GOP...

[txrefugee]

Not one dime in campaign contributions should go to the RNC. Conservatives shouldn’t enable RINOs to keep their seats. This is war.