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IS THE TEA PARTY’S DREAM AN ILLUSION? (Patrick J. Buchanan)
Human Events ^ | February 14, 2013 | Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on 02/14/2014 12:30:50 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 02/14/2014 12:30:50 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Yes. But that doesn’t mean stop fighting.


2 posted on 02/14/2014 12:34:06 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: neverdem

I’m surprised by Buchanan’s treatise to Surrender Monkeys.


3 posted on 02/14/2014 12:37:38 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: neverdem

Primary these turds until they get the message.


4 posted on 02/14/2014 12:39:19 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: neverdem

We have an election coming up and the proof is in the election. The Tea Party has to deliver again.


5 posted on 02/14/2014 12:43:13 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Mike Darancette; All

As Americans, WE are used to patiently, and silently waiting for solutions to problems to come from the top down.

This lazy attitude has been the basis for most Corporate and Political Management structures in America for most of OUR History.

WE now have the ultimate in lazy, top-down, political structure: a rouge dictator whom WE allow to be above OUR Constitutional Law.

WE will continue to have the current Obama Dictatorship as long as the Chief Impeachment Official, ( CIO ), the Speaker of the House, is allowed by US to permit Obama to continue as a OUR Dictator.

In all of Obama’s public statements, he has told the truth to US only twice:
1.) “We are only five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America.”

and

2.) “I have a pen and a telephone, and I will use them to issue Executive Orders whenever Congress fails to act.”

Obama has thus defined himself to be OUR Dictator, and formally gave US fair warning of his intentions to do so.

For reasons that border on High Treason to the United States of America, Boehner as Speaker of the House, has failed his Constitutional Duty to begin Impeachment Proceedings on B. Hussein Obama.

The Members of the US House of Representatives have refused to force Boehner to resign; then to elect a Speaker with the required Sense of Honor to do his/her Constitutional Duty to begin Formal Impeachment Proceedings on B. Hussein Obama.

If WE, the taxpayers, do not force the Members of the US House of Representatives to replace Boehner as Speaker with a new Speaker that will issue the necessary Articles of Impeachment on B. Hussein Obama, then WE, the lazy, silent majority taxpayers, deserve to continue to have OUR Liberties crushed by Dictator Obama.

The future of OUR Republic is, as always, in OUR hands.

DONT TREAD ON ME


6 posted on 02/14/2014 12:44:52 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: neverdem

If Pat feels this way, then his entire career was worthless. He always bucked the probable.


7 posted on 02/14/2014 12:45:07 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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To: neverdem
On March 4, the New Deal paradigm will turn 81 years old. It’s all that four generations of Americans know. They have been conditioned to believe that it is the government’s job to look out for the people and protect them from the markets, the world and the harsh exigencies of life. Harry Truman summed it up when he said that Americans needed Big Government to protect them from Big Communism abroad and Big Capitalism at home.

The few elderly Americans who remember the world before the New Deal won’t tell you about not being divided into Common Men and Economic Royalists. They won’t tell you how good it felt to start from nothing and become successful by dint of one’s own hard work. They will tell you about bread lines, soup lines, Hoovervilles, and being sent out on the road by parents who could no longer afford to feed them. They’ll tell you about “railroad bulls” who beat them senseless and police who prevented them from crossing a state line because the people on the other side of that line couldn’t take care of their own. They’ll tell you about the disappearance of money. In 1988, an elderly black lady, who remembered it all, defined the situation very simply: “Back then, you could buy a whole barrel of flour for twenty-five cents. But where were you going to find that quarter?!” There are few good memories from the survivors of the days before the New Deal.

Rush Limbaugh may deride them as “low information voters”, but these people are merely average Americans. They dislike politics and avoid it because they consider it a dirty business, which it is . They pay their taxes, go to work, raise their children and expect something in return from the government for those taxes. They elect Democrats to preserve and expand their entitlements, and when the Democrats bite off more than they can chew, they elect Republicans to fix the mess.

When they send people to Congress, they don’t care about ideology. They want the people they elect to be problem solvers, and if that means reaching across the aisle and compromising their principles, so be it. They don’t necessarily want smaller government, they want more effective government. Most importantly, they don’t want anything to get in the way of their government checks, particularly when the economy is in a state of depression.

In late 1995, Bill Clinton positioned Newt Gingrich to stand between the American people and their government checks in a highly publicized government shutdown. The result was the end of Gingrich’s revolution after barely one year, followed by Clinton’s cracking the whip over the “Militia” Republicans elected in 1994, turning them into good, reliable purveyors of pork.

The average American voter elected Tea Party candidates to Congress in 2010 to fix the problem, not shut down the government or default on the nation’s debt, which was the alternative when Obama positioned the Tea Party to stand between the people and their government checks. The potential default incident in the summer of 2011 and the government shutdown of late 2013 turned the people against the Tea Party, and the Tea Party’s polling numbers have never recovered. The charge against the Tea Party is that they want to “burn down the house”, when the people merely want the house patched.

The key to this is the New Deal paradigm. As long as it survives, the current state of affairs will not change. An intransigent ideologue of a president will stand firm and double down when challenged, forcing Congress to bend to his will to keep the game going.

The key to the New Deal paradigm is the fact that US dollar is the world’s reserve currency. Until that ends, this nation can abuse that currency at will and force its malfeasance on the rest of the world. As Nixon’s Treasury Secretary, John Connally, said in 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window to foreign payments, “They’re our deficits, but they’re your problem.” This is what permits Americans to live beyond their means and enjoy that exhilarating sense of instant gratification, a vice whose tentacles extend far beyond the world of money into the world of simple everyday morality.

As long as the New Deal paradigm reigns, the Democrats and Republicans will fight over who controls the federal faucet and how that faucet distributes largesse to their favored constituencies. It is not in the interest of either party to shut down the federal faucet. Because of this, it is only when the faucet dries up – because the US dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency – that there will be nothing more to fight over. When that day comes and the rest of the world converts to some kind of gold-backed international currency standard, it’s game over and lights out for the American fiat dollar and the New Deal.

On that fateful day, there will only be two paradigms left for America’s future: the Tea Party movement, based on the American Revolution; or the Occupy Wall Street movement, based on the French Revolution.

The Democratic and Republican parties, the great enablers and profiteers of the New Deal, will be consigned to the ash heap of history.

8 posted on 02/14/2014 12:45:45 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: neverdem

Live Free or Die.


9 posted on 02/14/2014 1:03:14 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: ilgipper
If Pat feels this way, then his entire career was worthless. He always bucked the probable.

It's not what he feels. As a simple analysis, it's not that hard. Do you want the debt downgraded?

10 posted on 02/14/2014 1:10:58 PM PST by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: Publius

Excellent analysis!


11 posted on 02/14/2014 1:16:52 PM PST by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: neverdem
Given his excesses and violation of the Constitution, “O” still in the WH is a standing insult to ALL Conservatives.

Boehner is to blame for not putting impeachment hearings in process.

No matter who else is at fault-and there are many... it is all on Boehner.

12 posted on 02/14/2014 1:18:18 PM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Publius

Spot on.


13 posted on 02/14/2014 1:18:52 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

oh man, wow, we had the same thing with Obamacare.

First they said we were stopping government and blamed us, but in the end Obamacare became the albatros of liberals and liberals only.

What is it these idiots do not understand about gambit?

Strategy is long breathed, you have to face the wrath in the short term for the winning at the end.

Oh my.


14 posted on 02/14/2014 1:19:18 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Publius

Reagan perfectly understood indeed the importance of the independent minded voter, how to reach out to them, liberal or not, imstead of reaching out to the democratic party.

The. bush Rinos thought they were smarter and more civilized when compromising with a party instead of competing to reach voters.

More civilized my arse. This is total corruption and bowing to the Democrats as middle men to the people, like a man incapable to talk to his children without having to go through his wife.

Rinos are abused spouses of Democrats always coming back like puppy dogs for more.

obviously they are jealous of men, men like Reagan.


15 posted on 02/14/2014 1:23:41 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Publius

My mama is 93 and will be 94 in June.
In 1932, at the age of 12, she was an orphan working in the cotton mills in Macon, Georgia.
Oh, the stories that she has told...


16 posted on 02/14/2014 1:25:35 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: neverdem

A fair enough description of the past we all must agree with.

Until conservatives face the media’s profiting from deficit spending we’re never going to see a change.
The media won’t allow their profits to be cut.

Yeah, that’s crazy talk- the media doesn’t care how much money they make from government-paid-for consumer spending. The media is altruistic- just ask them...


17 posted on 02/14/2014 1:26:17 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: SoConPubbie; SkyPilot; Jet Jaguar
Yet, since Y2K, the cost of military personnel has doubled, while the number of those on active duty has fallen by 10 percent.

It has been 14 years since Y2K, Pat. First, inflation by the CPI has been 40%. Second, military pay was behind what it should be, so they gave raises throughout to help military pay catch up with civilian counterparts.

Third, where's the data on how much R&D, procurement, operations, etc., have gone up. One normally provides the comparison when writing an honest article.

Fourth, either have the pay competitive or run a military without career members.

18 posted on 02/14/2014 1:29:41 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: SMARTY
Boehner is to blame for not putting impeachment hearings in process.

For Obama, no way. Clinton made that impossible when the rats failed to remove him in the Senate. Holder was doable before November 2012 for Fast and Furius. It should have been a campaign issue. Boehner failed big time!

19 posted on 02/14/2014 1:29:54 PM PST by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: Publius

I highly doubt the Tea Party Movement will prevail when, not if, this moment in time comes to pass.


20 posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:58 PM PST by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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