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Tea Party's Singular Focus on Amnesty Troubles GOP
NewsMax ^ | November 26, 2014 | Melissa Clyne

Posted on 11/26/2014 9:29:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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I'll bet it does, since it means those big checks from the Chamber of Commerce and George Soros might not make it into their coffers.
1 posted on 11/26/2014 9:29:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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The forward lookout’s singular focus on the iceberg dead ahead troubles the captain.


2 posted on 11/26/2014 9:32:45 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, granting de facto amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, has so outraged the tea party faction of the Republican Party that the ultra conservatives are focusing their attention and resources on this single issue, potentially causing a fissure within the party, according to The New York Times.

"Ultra-conservative" -> media to English dictionary -> normal people. You know, 70% of Americans, although they'll tell you conservatives are 10% or something.

Besides, conservatives have to become single-issue about whatever issue the GOPe is getting ready to screw the country on, because it takes so much intense opposition to get them to do the right thing. If the issue is taxes, or guns, or debt, or whatever, you have to act with the degree of intensity that would suggest that's the only issue you care about.

3 posted on 11/26/2014 9:35:09 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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We've all heard the saying, "Where the people fear the government there is tyranny; where the government fears the people there is liberty."

I think the same thing goes for political parties.

Does anyone really thing the DemocRAT party gives a damn what its "moderates" say?

4 posted on 11/26/2014 9:40:43 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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The problem the GOP has with the TEA party is that the GOP gets its information about the TEA party from THE MEDIA, instead of listening to the TEA PARTY (who voted them into office)


5 posted on 11/26/2014 9:40:49 PM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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We've all heard the saying, "Where the people fear the government there is tyranny; where the government fears the people there is liberty."

I think the same thing goes for political parties.

Does anyone really think the DemocRAT party gives a damn what its "moderates" say?

6 posted on 11/26/2014 9:41:18 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I think that your average Tea Partier is just as unhappy about the out-of-control debt, Obamacare, the politicization of every agency of government, the uncontrolled data capture and spying on US citizens, and the foreign policy that stabs our friends in the back while kowtowing to our enemies.

It’s just that the illegal amnesty executive order, if not overturned, will change our country by destroying our constituional form of government and importing into the country hordes of non-Americans to replace the citizenry and dilute our values.


7 posted on 11/26/2014 9:42:43 PM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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When Newsmax writers are worried about the opinions of NY Slimes writers, things have gone really wrong there.


8 posted on 11/26/2014 9:43:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
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The GOPE wanted amnesty and were glad it was done without then getting any blame on their hands. Now if the tea party would ever shut up they could get on doing the business of the chamber of Crony Capitalism


9 posted on 11/26/2014 9:43:22 PM PST by Sybeck1
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Good.

Everything i’ve worked toward for 15 years is now the main focus.

There is nothing more important then preventing America from becoming Mexico Norte.

10 years ago people outside the Southwest laughed about that.

No more. They’ve seen what we have. Now they understand. And they’re intensely opposed.

Good. We can win, and save the nation.


10 posted on 11/26/2014 9:44:13 PM PST by Regulator
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I think that your average Tea Partier is just as unhappy about the out-of-control debt, Obamacare, the politicization of every agency of government, the uncontrolled data capture and spying on US citizens, and the foreign policy that stabs our friends in the back while kowtowing to our enemies.

That's a "hodgepodge of extreme positions," a "rambling grab bag of hot-button issues."

11 posted on 11/26/2014 9:49:49 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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Melissa, it is properly spelled the TEA Party, not Tea Party.

Taxed Enough Already.

12 posted on 11/26/2014 9:52:46 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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There is not a “singular focus” on amnesty, it’s just that is the latest and among the top 5 most egregious Constitutional upchucks 0bama has inflicted.

As usual, little attention is paid to statements of substance and anything “Tea Party” has to climb out from under the kilograms of meme diarrhea the left always flings.

Meanwhile, the TP is busy burning down towns and holding disruptive protests all over the place. Oh wait...


13 posted on 11/26/2014 9:56:35 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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“ultra conservatives”

Just once I would like to see someone like, oh gee, I dunno—maybe about nine thousand public-figure liberals described in articles like this one as ultra liberals, arch liberals or staunch liberals.
They have to smear what looks to now be the majority of the country with a pejorative adjective after seeing us evict a lot more dead wood than just Eric Cantor and also give the GOP both houses of Congress.
I wouldn’t turn a hose on a MSM journalist if he were on fire.


14 posted on 11/26/2014 9:59:24 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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There is not one issue, debt, spending, security/defense, education, jobs, taxes, the future of our existence, not one that the invasion does not impact.

But the elite refuses to see that.


15 posted on 11/26/2014 10:01:34 PM PST by MurrietaMadman
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I’d say we have a singular focus on the corrupt crooks who run the GOP at the federal level.


16 posted on 11/26/2014 10:02:48 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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They think they’ll be safe in their ultra-expensive gated communities and penthouses with the armed guards and instant police response.


17 posted on 11/26/2014 10:03:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Manufactured consensus... advanced psyops... It has been amazing to watch the news-readers advance this notion of there being "no push back" from Americans with regard to this president's unconstitutional unilateralism, last week. They were pushing this line before 24 hours had passed since Zero's announcement, just as so many were departing for the holidays, or hearing about Ferguson, the extension of our tour in Afghanistan, the release of the Benghazi intelligence butt-covering, sudden finding of 30,000 IRS Emails, failure of non-talks with Iran (and de facto acceptance of the status quo, even as Israel openly defines the Mullah's atomic bomb as the existential threat it so clearly is), the "promulgation" of thousands of EPA and other agency regulations...have I missed anything else over the past week?

In case anyone asks... and they haven't... I know I haven't forgotten the extra-constitutional "executive action" in the face of this warning or dismissal or whispering campaign, or whatever this is... even in the face of a flood of events and document dumps.

Article V

18 posted on 11/26/2014 10:04:31 PM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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“”What started five years ago as a groundswell of conservatives committed to curtailing the reach of the federal government, cutting the deficit and countering the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party has become a movement largely against immigration overhaul,” writes the Times’ Jeremy Peters.”

Mr. Peters knows nothing about the Tea Party.


19 posted on 11/26/2014 10:05:26 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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He probably thinks Ron Paul started the TEA Party.


20 posted on 11/26/2014 10:07:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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