Posted on 05/18/2012 4:24:16 AM PDT by HonestConservative
This week the Club for Growth released a study of votes cast in 2011 by the 87 Republicans elected to the House in November 2010. The Club found that “In many cases, the rhetoric of the so-called “Tea Party” freshmen simply didn’t match their records.” Particularly disconcerting is the fact that so many GOP newcomers cast votes against spending cuts.
The study comes on the heels of three telling votes taken last week in the House that should have been slam-dunks for members who possess the slightest regard for limited government and free markets. Alas, only 26 of the 87 members of the “Tea Party class” voted to defund both the Economic Development Administration and the president’s new Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia program (see my previous discussion of these votes here) and against reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank (see my colleague Sallie James’s excoriation of that vote here).
The following table shows how each of the 87 freshman voted.
(Excerpt) Read more at cato-at-liberty.org ...
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/freshman-republicans-switch-from-tea-to-kool-aid/
Call the people you worked so hard to get to DC and tell them what you think.
Disgusting.
ping
I think the TeaParty is going to have to form a 3rd Party.
We’re getting close to that, aren’t we.
The best thing the Republican Party can do is get Boehner to step down, and maybe go to a 12 step program.
His leadership is a tragic joke
The fact the GOPe is about to nominate essentially what we ALL would consider a DEMOCRAT by far less standards is going to put many conservatives over the edge.
I'm getting sick of this Shinola!
“I’m getting sick of this Shinola!”
So am I.
yep.
“As soon as they get here, we need to coopt them.” (Trent Lott, 2010)
GMTA -
It took me a few seconds longer to look up the exact quote - the WAPO page was slow-loading... ;)
Why the hell is Charlie Bass RINO Extraordinaire from NH listed as Tea Party?
He is one of Mittens Main Street Republicans...Losers with an R designation.
OUT!... OUT! I say. In his case, it would be the second time for this greenie tree hugging snot.
I agree, although I also am willing to give our team a little leeway in the 6 months before a critical election. Some times it is better to keep your powder dry than fire with all barrels. Nothing worthwhile is going to go through this Senate until next year. It is not worth giving the media a whole lot of ammo to help paint our side as unwilling to compromise at this stage, because we’ll get nothing out of the effort.
Well, it has happened.
Pubbies folding.
That doesn’t even make news.
They are sort of the ole scorpion and the frog fable: it is their nature; that’s what they do.
I think the TeaParty is going to have to form a 3rd Party.
Words of wisdom worth repeating!!!
Haggling involves a bottom line. There must always be a low to which you are not willing to descend.
We need a party, be it Republican or otherwise, that recognizes the bottom when they see it, and refuse to go.
Its easy to go on the offensive but the fact remains that we still have the pathetic leadership holding the reins on the “freshmen”. Freshmen operate under the threat of removal.
We’d be far more effective if we destroy the leadership structure and put all the congressmen on an equal footing with no more of this “freshman” crap.
Not news, evidence.
You got me.
But none the less it is remarkable to see how these folks vote.
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