Posted on 02/19/2014 11:36:33 AM PST by xzins
Yesterday our old friend Craig Shirley, chronicler of Ronald Reagan’s five-decade war of ideas against liberalism and communism, defined the national Republican Party this way in an interview with Brietbart’s Michael Patrick Leahy: "The Washington Republican party is no longer a political party in the way we understand political parties. It more resembles a crime family than a movement of ideas."
Shirley was commenting on the charge that the reason Congress has not gotten to the bottom of the IRS targeting of conservatives and Tea Party movement groups is because the establishment GOP wants the IRS to hobble these groups just as much or more than do the Democrats.
The notion that the Republican Party leadership is slow-walking the investigation of the IRS was first raised publicly by Democratic pollster and Fox News regular Pat Caddell.
"The establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties," Caddell told Fox News on Sunday.
"When you have 71 percent who want an investigation, 64 percent who believe that it is a sign of corruption including nearly a majority of Democrats," Caddell said, "the reason is the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties. Got it?"
According to Breitbart’s Leahy, Caddell said the GOP establishment is happy to have the IRS take the Tea Party down a notch.
"Because the Tea Parties are an outside threat to their power hold and I'm telling you the lobbying consulting class of the Republican party and Republican leadership who have been attacking the Tea Parties, and alienating them, they want the IRS to do this," Caddell said.
Caddell’s comments echo remarks he made at CPAC last year in which he compared the inside the Beltway Republican consulting class to a RICO conspiracy. (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO is the federal statute that prohibits criminal syndicates and conspiracies, such as the Mafia and drug cartels.)
Rush Limbaugh then waded into the fray by addressing the controversy during his Monday radio program remarking: "That is a serious charge. That is a very, very serious charge that the Republican establishment is aligned with Obama and is okay with Obama using the IRS to investigate the Tea Party. But it's believable, because we know the Republican establishment, the political class in Washington, is spreading the word that they are not gonna criticize Hillary, it isn't gonna happen, and we shouldn't, either. It shouldn't happen."
We think Craig Shirley, Rush Limbaugh and Pat Caddell are on to something, but we wouldn’t limit it to the IRS scandal.
You can go right down a long list of issues, starting with the IRS scandal, but including the failure to get to the bottom of the Benghazi attack, the establishment Republican Party “leaders” betrayal of conservative principles on spending and the debt ceiling, and the GOP’s failure to use their full constitutional powers to carry the fight against Obamacare to a successful conclusion, and see the pattern.
And the pattern is this: It doesn’t matter which establishment Party is in power; the progressive inside “leaders” work together to grow government and make themselves and their friends rich in the process.
Craig Shirley is right, such an intellectually bankrupt process does resemble a crime family a whole lot more than it does a movement of ideas.
Both parties are the same. Neither represent the people - except, their small set of friends that they exchange our money between.
Craig Shirley well documented that Reagan was running as a packaged GOP candidate in 1976 against Ford and lost every primary until the North Carolina voting where the Helms organization put an edge on Reagan’s conservatism and brought forth a victory. The Tom Ellis and Carter Wreen NC group dared to attack the incumbent president and unchained Reagan’s appeal.
The IRS Scandal must become a litmus test issue for conservatives. It is apparent that c rimes have been commited. The IRS has been used to act against people because of their political views. We must get to bottom of this. If the facts are exposed, all else wrong with Obama and the liberals is solved—bengahzi, ObamaCare, etc. If an Republican does not support immediate appointment of an special prosecutor, they should be voted out of office, ridiculed and shamed.
Despite the denials and attempts to portray the Tea Party as a fringe group that is irrelevant, it's obvious that the Tea Party is a threat to the GOP establishment and they are more than willing to see the corrupted IRS attack them any way possible to weaken the movement and discourage others from attempting to fight the GOP status quo, which works so well for the establishment elites.
Have we had enough, yet? This should be the kind of 'news' that motivates Republican voters to 'throw the (establishment) bums out' (of congress) in November as they've long since abandoned any pretense of working for the people, much less defending conservative values.
"Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
The logical extension of this is that the only reason to vote is for narrow self interest. Whoever promises you free stuff, vote for them.
GOP - crime family.
Dems - Satanic cult.
As I posted yesterday.....
If this is true,then we have a governing body which totally ignores and rebuffs the will of the people to partition for redress via the political process.
This my FRiends IS Tyranny (yes, with a capital (”T”)
And I think we all know what Thomas Jefferson had to say about this subject.
A Second party is not the answer, the normal political process has been destroyed. A second party organization process will be handled just like the Tea Party.
I think we have now moved beyond the tipping point.
We have been patient not wanting to take first action, however this option has been taken from us.
God Help Us All.....
"The Washington Republican party is no longer a political party in the way we understand political parties. It more resembles a crime family than a movement of ideas."I couldn't agree more and have already said similar things here on FR.Shirley was commenting on the charge that the reason Congress has not gotten to the bottom of the IRS targeting of conservatives and Tea Party movement groups is because the establishment GOP wants the IRS to hobble these groups just as much or more than do the Democrats.
Bill Clinton - Kathleen Wiley Juanita Broderick, countless others, suborning perjury
Bob Toricelli - campaign donation theft and misappropriation
Bob Menendez - soliciting child prostitutes and general corruption
Ted Kennedy - DUI and killer
Barney Frank - homosexual prostitution, author of the banking crisis
Sandy Berger - Classified document thief
Jesse Jackson Jr. — Thief, misappropriation of Congressional funds
Eliot Spitzer - client #9
Mel Reynolds - child pornography
Marion Barry — “...set me up.”
Dan Rostenkowski - money laundering throught the House post office
Charlie Rangel - Tax dodger/fraud
And on and on... Talk about projection!
The IRS scandal should be a litmus test for anybody running for congress. Any congressman who sits on his dead ass over this is dead to me. We’re heading to fascism fast.
Worst case, when a republican is elected, they will be blamed by all the liberals now and they will act like it was never know before and the republicans will be forced to fix it with no one held accountable expect them.
The Fredos have taken over the Commission.
They are the Uniparty.
The GOPe is suicidal. The Tea Party people will work with the GOPe but the Democrats will annihilate the GOPe at any opportunity. So, who does the GOPe want to annihilate? The Tea Party people.
I traveled with a church group to Vietnam a few years ago. Our government appointed guide regularly extolled the virtues of the one party system. No kidding. She was a nice young lady, but she definitely spoke the (one) party line.
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