Heck, I like all by itself."
Posted on 10/15/2013 6:44:09 PM PDT by kristinn
Many tea party Reps want big/immediate change in DC. But the Constitution doesn't allow for rapid/big change - unless you win elections.
T Party ideas about smaller gov are good, but their ideas won't be achieved if they don't change tactics.
Nominating candidates who allow Ds to keep Senate seats is bad tactic #1.
Picking fights that can't be won while empowering Ds is bad tactic #2.
Diverting attention away from the failures of Obamacare is bad tactic # 3.
Overreach is bad tactic #4. Big gov wasn't build (sic) in a day. It will not be turned around overnight. This is a long term fight.
Tea Party won the House in 2010. The House controls the purse strings and therefore can dictate what funds can or cannot be appropriated.
T Party ideas about smaller gov are good, but their ideas won't be achieved if they don't change tactics.
Translation: Tea Party needs to try and fit in the culture of D.C. and adopt the narrative and language of the Left or else they'll continue to be demonized more than they already are now.
Nominating candidates who allow Ds to keep Senate seats is bad tactic #1.
I'd rather have a D than a RINO anytime.
Picking fights that can't be won while empowering Ds is bad tactic #2.
Going along to get along doesn't work either Ari.
Diverting attention away from the failures of Obamacare is bad tactic # 3.
What diversion? We wanted to defund it which put the focus on all of Obamacare's failures.
Overreach is bad tactic #4. Big gov wasn't build (sic) in a day. It will not be turned around overnight. This is a long term fight.
If not now, when? Kicking the can down the road or waiting for elections is not an option anymore.
Ari had his day. Look what his boss left us.
Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are the “guts” of the GOP and if the GOP is too stupid to realize that, then goodby GOP and hello “Tea Party USA”.
Ari Fleischer. Anyone connected to a Bush, however tangentially, should be brushed away as one would a pesky fly.
No, the beauty of Cruz and Lee is that they have exposed the Democrats and Republicans for what they are: Unrepentant statists who don't give a damn about the country.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Hey Ari, run for political office and show us how it’s supposed to be done.
Hey Ari!
You’re a SOCK PUPPET!
You have no thoughts, other than those “handed” to you.
What the hell is Fleischer talking about? If not for the Tea Party, the GOP, which is already on life support, would be a defunct political organization gone the way of the Whigs. What is it with Republicans once they get to the Potomac? Are they being doped with bipartisan pixie dust at those Washington cocktail parties which gives them the impulse to surrender and causes their spines to become bent and the consistency of jello? They’re so delusional in that city. The people in Washington D.C. give an all new meaning to the word myopia. The establishment in our nation’s capital have absolutely no clue of what horrendous damage they are doing the entire country.
You are WRONG!
They brought heat and light to the failure that is Obamacare.
We would have nowhere near the leverage that we currently hold in the budget battle.
The GOPe is upset because the newbies stole the show.
So we should continue doing what they’ve been doing for 25 years?
Get bent, Ari.
We'll fight.....in 24 business hours.
..and laughing up their sleeves at the trusting masses....US!
Ari was once quite revered here. Marco, too. Issa.
That's the scary part.... esp. when we bring Cruz and Lee into the mix.
Tea party is leaving these antiques in the dust. I understand why they get “feisty”,.,,,
It does make you wonder, doesn’t it?
Blow it out your mother’s progressive demrat arse you turn coat bastard.
Common sense is inversely proportional to your distance to the D.C. beltway.
If ‘the cause’ is making Obamacare permanent, yes, they are damaging it. The idea that we sit back and let it implode is laughably bad politics.
We can’t event privatize 1% of social security to save the program without political annihilation. Anyone who thinks Obamacare can be eliminate or gutted in a few years does not understand the reality of today’s politics. 2012 was decided on a completely made up charge about birth control. When there are millions getting their subsidies, we won’t be able to make even minor changes.
The fight must be fought now and every day until we can start eliminating, defunding and changing the ill-conceived law. This is just the opening steps in a long battle. Without Cruz and Lee, our side is just accepting it as ‘settled law of the land’, and millions will leave the GOP because it stand for nothing different than the Dems.
The idiot! The tea party is amorphous. It is the classic guerrilla organization. It is you, me, them, us, those, etc. But, it is not an organization, yet.
IT is their greatest fear.
.. I abruptly figured out Bush in 2007......the rest just fell into place.
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