Posted on 10/18/2013 6:24:35 AM PDT by don-o
The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty is trying to help the Republicans on the front page of Friday’s paper. It's not labeled "Analysis," but "Politics Debrief." The alliance between the “agreeable” GOP and the media is getting more transparent.
“What will it take to save the Republicans from the self-destructive impulses of the tea party movement? That the government shutdown was a political disaster for the party that engineered it is widely acknowledged, except by the most ardent tea partyers.” Soaking a handkerchief full of crocodile tears, Tumulty insists “very bellicose” junior conservatives will have to be quashed:
And that near-unanimity presents an opportunity for the establishment to strike back — and maybe regain some control from the insurgent wing.
“You roll them,” advised former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). “I do think we need stronger leadership, and there’s got to be some pushback on these guys who think they came here with all the solutions.”
Only then, he said, can the party begin to push an agenda and “get things done,” rather than obstruct.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.newsbusters.org ...
I don’t think the GOP needs advice from the Washington Post.
My hope is that all this prop-agit from the usual suspects (which now includes the Surrender Caucus of the GOP) serves to serve to fire up and motivate us to get up and get to actual work.
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If the Post is telling Republicans how to win, that’s pretty funny. The Post would like to see the party made illegal, it just can’t come out and say that publicly.
Getting advice in a sword duel from the opponent that is trying to cut off your head. Yeah. Republicans are that stupid.
ROTFL!!!!
I say to hell with that - it's our damn party and it is not in our best interests to let ourselves be thrown out of it. Let McCain and his “Surrender Caucus” form a third party, or better yet let them be honest for once and just declare themselves to be Democrats.
At the end of the day it's all a matter of votes. We'll see next year how badly defeated the Tea Party was this week.
Did they suggest a name change to:
THE HOT CHOLOLATE CAUCUS
might help?
Tea has a pungency to it, whereas, Chocolate we all know connotes WARMTH, LOVE, SWEETNESS AND SUCCESS... just a asking.
A Democrat paper advising the Republicans on how to save themselves? That’s rich!
For a group that squishes from both sides try to denigrate and minimize, the Tea Party sure gets a lot of attention.
Democrats, media and RINOs are really afraid of the Tea Party and other conservatives.
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They sure expend a lot effort to belittle a movement they consider to be a bunch of wakos. The truth is that the Tea Party unnerves them. The way they rail against it tells you that they deeply fear the Tea Party.
Last weekend’s demonstration at the WWII memorial and the White House alarmed the liberals and their mouthpieces such as the Washington Post. They saw an assembly of thousands of vocal and angry people and their determination.
Liberals and their pals in the GOP don’t like to be challenged. They like the compliant and feckless GOP the way it is.
The Post would like to see the Tea Party sent to the gas chambers.
Pray America is Waking Up
They are right. In order for the Republican Party as it exists today (a liberal party) to survive, it must not allow Conservatism to infiltrate the current party leadership.
Washington post “Concern Trolling”
The bottom line is that if the Tea Party did not have the support of a large number of citizens, and didn’t represent a large number of citizens, we wouldn’t be having this debate. They have credibility because they represent a significant constituency.
What the GOP establishment is saying is that they don’t want to listen to a significant number of those who elected them to office. That’s clearly not representative government. The Democrats have done a good job at assembling coalitions of smaller factions of supporters. Republicans have adopted an all or none mentality that seeks to exclude the views of specific factions of their support. This is what keeps them from going over the top.
In five years when our dollar is worthless...and we have lost our reserve currency..and we are fighting hyper inflation....they cry will be “ remember the Tea Party”..as only then will people realize the tea party was right
That Trent Lott? LOL!
If the GOP wants to survive it better get onboard the Tea Party Express or get left behind.
If I wanted to have a Democrat to represent me I would vote for one, not a double crossing RINO.
How exactly do we do this? What did we do in 2010 and how do we do it again? If we have any hope of a 2010 repeat in 2014, we better get working right now. Who will lead us? How do we get organized?
What is a GOP? A want to be or a has been, it is all the same to me.
The USA has two democrat parties. They just go by different names.
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