GOP leadership already kicking the tea party to the curb

I don't know if this was posted in the midterms thread, but it's worth posting here:

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The real battle in Washington isn't Democrats vs. Republicans. It's K-Street vs. the American People. K-Street has hit it's all-time high in power over the past two years, but they have majority of Republicans on their side, too, and they don't intend to give it up easily.

 

Didn't Boehner say he was going to Mind-Meld with the Tea Party?

Anyway this just shows that Obama and the Congressional Dems might not need to do to much to survive the next election if the Republican party implodes.

 

Stupid move by the GOP. Great news for Democrats!

 

Nice try by OP to use a pretentious blog/news website which itself takes material from another source and then asks the reader to fill in the blanks.

Anyway Boehner put out this piece on WSJ.

Pretty clear to me what the GOP leadership is going to come January. Also DeMint came down on this as it was pointed a few posts above. Still gotta give the libs a few points for effort in trying to stir controversy using tertiary sources and hearsay.

 

On a related note even GW Bush thinks Sarah Palin is unqualified and thinks she would ruin the Republican party.

http://www.nationalledger.com/ledgerdc/article_272635798.shtml

George Bush Thinks Sarah Palin is Unqualified to Run for President in 2012?
By Tim Morgan
Nov 6, 2010

[edit] Having trouble cutting and pasting the article so click on the link for it.

 

This should go in the myth thread.

 

Thr Bush clan is lying low hoping to let the disaster of Dubya's reign calm down and hopes the public will not remeber Jeb's corrupt rule in Florida. Then Jeb or perhaps the good lucking half Hispanic kid at the law firm in Dallas will try to start running again in another few years.

 

When will the Christian Right realize that it was used by corporate masters of the GOP?

Or has that started and they had to switch to the Tea Party ruse?

 

If Boehner follows through with this alone, it will have made this election worth it. The Godzilla bills that are made to rein in costs on Medicare, expand Medicaid, outlaw low cost competition against favored healthcare providers, rewrite the tax code to punish people who don't buy insurance, and destroy Tokyo, are huge elements of corruption. When legislation is more focused, it is less corruptible.

 

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Reason Magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch appeared on Fox Business Channel's Stossel program to talk with host John Stossel, the Wall Street Journal's Kimberly Strassel, and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) about the midterms, Tea Parties, Rand Paul, and Prop. 19. Airdate: November 4, 2010.

 

Really? That's all you got. Nothing on the record - just "a source". Lame.

 

I mean, anyone with ANY sense can recognize that the Tea Party ideology is full of logical holes.

I'd rather be beaten in the streets by a mob of angry Cavaliers fans than be a Republican, but at least that party has some rational ideas.

 

Ron Hart: Audacity of nope brings hope http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=274670

Facing historic losses in the mid-term elections, President Obama took to urban radio to reassure his base and whine his case. He said he does not get enough credit for all he has done. He took a situation that was in trouble and in terrible disrepair two years ago and brought it back from the brink of destruction – referring, of course, to the Republican Party.

On Tuesday Obama set another "historic first." He beat out limousine accidents as the No. 1 cause of death for old Democrats.

The country took a step in the right direction when we voted to take the car keys away from Nancy Pelosi with her out-of-sync, leftist agenda. I just hope the newly elected Republicans do not act like the RINOs who spent and stuck their noses where they should not have, opening the door for these Democratic clowns to parade in.

It would be better if we had elected more libertarians like Rand Paul, but winning control over the House of Representatives and the sway the Tea Party might have over future elections are steps in the right direction.

Maybe we should view these elections like a country song I once heard in which a man twanged about his wife, "She ain't the best, but she is the best I can do." At this time, I am afraid this is the best we can do, but I am also optimistic we can turn our politicians in Washington into more of the minimal government public servants our founders wanted.

We must remind these new representatives to stay on task. Somehow, all politicians start out in Washington as Jimmy Stewart did in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," but then after about a year they turn into something more like Kim Jong Il.

No one can nuance the nebulous like a Democrat. Obama's response to the losses was as arrogant as his policies. They blamed the massive losses on the opposition misunderstanding Obamacare. Not to worry – he and fellow Democrats should be OK since his health care plan covers catastrophic losses.

Obama emerged from the mist with a meaningless message of "hope and change" that was never questioned by a doting media distracted by "chills running down their legs." The media lauded him, saying he was "smart" and "our most deliberative president." Yet he seemed to make decisions using the "rock, paper, scissors" method.

He told us he was going to lower taxes for 95 percent of America. Never mind that 45 percent of Americans already pay no federal taxes. Obama never let simple math get in the way of "the audacity of change!"

His monumental ego led him to believe Muslim radicals would do as he said because he was so cool. UPS delivered the message last week that Obama was wrong on that, too. And, like those two Chicago-bound packages, the one Obama delivered to us was impotent.

He scared and vilified the most precious resource in America: our entrepreneurs. In response to his regulations, anticipated health care costs and higher taxes, they have laid off workers, raised prices and hoarded cash out of fear. Atlas has shrugged.

Obama has been one of the most divisive presidents in history, always willing to pit one group of citizens against another for political gain. On Latino radio the other day he identified "enemies" and implied that his listeners should go after the GOP – in "West Side Story"-style, I presume.

In America today, you have the makers: those who work, produce and pay taxes; and you have the takers: the moochers or "hitchhikers of society," as Ayn Rand so aptly dubbed them. Started by Bush but accelerated by Obama, the growth in the number of federal workers and the expansion of the welfare state has resulted in the takers of society outnumbering the makers. Voltaire warned of this.

Somehow the narrative has become that we, the makers, are greedy if we want to keep the money we earn, and politicians are somehow noble for confiscating more of other people's money to distribute it to their "taker" constituents. Most Americans have enough self-esteem to reject that concept. But to somehow make the takers in society seem nobler than the makers just sends us further down the wrong road: The Road to Serfdom.

Maybe the Dems knew they were going to lose in this election, which is why they wrote into Obamacare the provision that you cannot lose your health insurance coverage if you lose your job.

Ron Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, author and TV/radio commentator. E-mail Ron@RonaldHart.com or at visit RonaldHart.com.

 

There is more as this isn't the first time GW Bush has made disparaging comments about Sarah Palin. Also considering that the architect of Bush' campaigns Karl Rove has come out to publicly criticize Sarah Palin it shouldn't be a surprise that GW Bush might feel the same way.

 

If Boehner can do that I would support them but I doubt he will. Monster bills have been a tool used by both parties and I doubt that the Republicans will unilaterally drop them. If they do more power to them.

 

Complete pipe dream. Seriously, anybody who thinks this has any chance of happening is delusional or on drugs. It is not possible for Congress to operate that way.

 

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