Posted on 11/15/2010 8:45:56 AM PST by julieee
Tea Party Activists Tell Republicans to Avoid Abortion
Washington, DC -- The fiscally conservative tea party activists were crucial to electing pro-life candidates in the 2010 mid-term elections, but now they are calling on Republicans in Congress to avoid social issues like abortion.
http://LifeNews.com/nat-6849
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Please do. There are eight million things that need to be attended to that we can actually legislate and fix. These jagoffs are DETERMINED to kill their children, people. You can’t save those kids. They’re equally determined to come after your kids, and your wallet. Now that is something you can do something about.
I was wondering why the slaughter of our most helpless humans was totally missing from their agenda. Disgusting.
Is there a more influential TEA Party activist than Jim Robinson of Free Republic? Is he saying this? No!
How about Sarah Palin? She is pretty influential in TEA circles and she isn’t saying this.
The TEA Party folks are generally about as pro-Life as one can get.
You only have one third of the government. Keep your powder dry on the social issues, until you hold the whole government again.
I can go along with this as long as it’s part of a plan to consolidate power and go slowly, no attempts at dramatic sweeps to change things. That puts people on edge. Use the liberal “salami” approach. Do things in a way that doesn’t draw too much attention (from the “media” especially). Pass laws that seem innocuous, but when put into action have some real teeth to get things done. Just don’t make it a media circus. We’ll lose (the “media” is on you-know-who’s side...).
Totally bogus article. It claims that some activists are representative of the TEA party? That is a bogus claim. The majority of the TEA party want a return to Constitutional government on all issues including a reversal of the illegal Supreme Court decision to allow the murder of innocent life. The majority of the TEA party also do not support un-Consitutional perversion rights as well.
Big whoop. The “Tea Party Activists” are two groups that usurped the “tea party” name. It means nothing.
Look here
“n a letter released today, according to Politico, the Tea Party activists, joined by representatives of a gay Republican group, say they want Republicans in Congress to lay off social issues.”
If “The Tea Party” cut the Pro-life activists in our area, they would have 100 people instead of thousands that show up for the rallies.
Other than removing all federal funding for abortion, which is the fiscally conservative decision, there is nothing the House can accomplish in this area. They should avoid symbolic actions that will motivate the pro-death wing of the Dem party and focus on the (non-abortion) areas where they can actually make a difference over the next two years. We can’t even stop a pro-death Supreme Court nominee, unless the GOP will filibuster the Senate, which is at least more likely than last year. In 2013, assuming that a pro-life American takes the White House, action on pro-life issues will be an entirely different question. At that point, when they can institute real change instead of getting voted down, it will be time to act to defend the unborn.
The bottom line: The Tea Party is right.
The pro-life backlash against the publicly funded abortion Obamacare was a major reason for the Dem’s loss. Alienating pro-lifers would be lunacy.
Could both sides possibly COMPROMISE and agree to just these two points.
1 - NO TAX PAYER MONEY to fund abortions.
2- NO abortions after the 6th month of pregnancy.
Could both sides possibly COMPROMISE and agree to just these two points.
1 - NO TAX PAYER MONEY to fund abortions.
2- NO abortions after the 6th month of pregnancy.
It’s a start. I have no problem with obtaining objectives incrementally.
I saw this earlier and noted that the call is from the QueerFactions and NE TeaPartisans and my take is that this letter is meant to divide the TPM.
What they are suggesting is NOT the case here in northern Idaho and I suspect that other TeaPartisans will ring in on my take. This week here we are having a meeting and this WILL come up.
The TPM is big enough that we can be doing some of the ground work on these social issues locally because that is where we can get some action and results sooner than in DC so these so called TPM “activists” will have some will have some “repairing” to do to their backsides before the days out !!
To take very nearly the opposite position from my previous post (#10) on this thread, the Supremes said in Roe v. Wade that abortion is a federal issue. While that case was wrongly decided, in violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments, their ruling is the law of the land until it is overturned. Our federal government needs to (eventually) fix that grievous error. We can't do it with only the House, so the next two years are not the time to address the issue, but abortion is for the moment above the state and local level (even though the abortion questions belong, as you said, at the state and local level).
Anybody can call themselves a “Tea Party Activist”. Just like anyone can form a “militia”.
And just like the modern militia movement has had its problems with idiots acting stupid and calling themselves militia members, it looks like there are going to be idiots trying to smear and redirecting the Tea Party movement.
These idiots are not representative of what the Tea Party movement stands for, and need to be confronted and shouted down.
Life News usually gets it right, but I think they’re mistaken here.
There is a FACTION in the Tea Party that wants to put the “social issues” aside. And I believe there is a connection with GOPride. The aborters and the gay activists tend to work together and support each other.
The Tea Party as a whole, however, is just millions of ordinary people who haven’t been infected by the liberal bug. I am sure that the great majority of them are decent, hard-working, ordinary folks. And such people are NOT gay activists or pro-abortion.
No doubt there are some libertarians floating around. But as we have seen from the election figures, those folks seldom can get more than 2 or 3 percent of the vote.
By striking at big government, big government spending, expensive mandates, big government beauraucracies and agencies, you are in effect, striking at these social issues.
No more money for ATF to harass gun owners, no money for abortion or planned parenthood, etc.
We shouldn’t drop these issues, or put them on a back burner, but can most certainly eliminate them through Stealth attacks via stopping bloated goveernment spending.
This is nothing more than PROPAGANDA! Move along.
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