[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.......

[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."

[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!

[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

[txrefugee]

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

[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?”

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.