Posted on 11/26/2014 9:29:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
"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.
"The politicians, intellectual leaders and activists who consider themselves part of the Tea Party have redirected their energy from advocating fiscal austerity and small government to stopping any changes that would legitimize people who are here illegally, through granting them either citizenship or legal status."
Tea partyers are rallying behind a group of sheriffs who will demonstrate at the Capitol next month while simultaneously preparing to try to knock off "high-profile Republicans they accuse of betraying them."
Peters points out that it was this type of organizing and vigor that helped the tea party defeat former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
The forward lookout’s singular focus on the iceberg dead ahead troubles the captain.
"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.
I think the same thing goes for political parties.
Does anyone really thing the DemocRAT party gives a damn what its "moderates" say?
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)
I think the same thing goes for political parties.
Does anyone really think the DemocRAT party gives a damn what its "moderates" say?
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.
When Newsmax writers are worried about the opinions of NY Slimes writers, things have gone really wrong there.
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
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.
That's a "hodgepodge of extreme positions," a "rambling grab bag of hot-button issues."
Taxed Enough Already.
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...
“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.
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.
I’d say we have a singular focus on the corrupt crooks who run the GOP at the federal level.
They think they’ll be safe in their ultra-expensive gated communities and penthouses with the armed guards and instant police response.
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.
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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.
He probably thinks Ron Paul started the TEA Party.
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