TEA PARTY TO AMERICA: NOW WHAT?!

@H2O MAN,

Maybe, maybe not, but I believe you definitely are. There ya go, common ground. God Bless America.

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@H2O MAN,

too many multisyllabic words for ya?

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@ABE5177,

well, she can spell, that's one thing in her favor.

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Watching the internal workings of the Republican Party are about to get interesting. Michele Bachmann has announced that she wants the #4 leadership position in the House. The talking heads I was listening to this morning said it will never happen, that the Party will be run by 4 white men and that she'll use it as a stick to beat them with for the next two years. Interesting times ahead...

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The incoming leadership of the new House Republican majority hardly had a chance to relish its dismantling of the Democrats before the Tea Party came calling in the form of Representative Michele Bachmann.

Ms. Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican and Tea Party heroine often seen exhorting conservative activists at rallies and on cable television, announced that she intended to seek the No. 4 position among House Republicans.

She said she could provide the viewpoint of a constitutional conservative, one she evidently sees lacking in Representatives John A. Boehner of Ohio, Eric Cantor of Virginia and Kevin McCarthy of California — the three likely leaders. more

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@JPB,

The heart and soul of the Republican Party
have their home in the philosophy of the Founders of the Republic
and in Senator Barry Goldwater.

It is a question of returning the Party to its philosophical roots.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

The conseratives would have to move 1 mile to the left to revive the philosophy of Barry Goldwater. Today he would be a slightly left moderate.

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@OmSigDAVID,

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Supporting "gun control" is like supporting drunken driving: its dangerous and reduces your chances to survive.

As it normally is, the facts do not support your silly notion, Om.

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@rabel22,

rabel22 wrote:

The conseratives would have to move 1 mile to the left to revive the philosophy of Barry Goldwater.
Today he would be a slightly left moderate.

It appears that u have no knowledge of the Goldwater philosophy; I DO.

Read The Conscience of A Conservative.

I don 't mean to be impolite,
but your statement has no factual merit; it is false,
tho I WISH that there really WAS such intense love of personal freedom
and strict Constitutionalism in today's politicians, as u allege.

David

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I would be sorely disappointed if such a 'compromise' takes place. - edgarblythe

WASHINGTON – A possible compromise on extending Bush-era tax cuts for rich and poor alike — at least for a while — is in the works after the Republican triumph in midterm elections.

A day after President Barack Obama signaled flexibility on taxes following the "shellacking" voters delivered to Democrats, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama is willing to consider a compromise for a one- or two-year extension of the full roster of tax cuts, even for families earning more than $250,000 a year.

"He'd be open to having that discussion," Gibbs said.

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@farmerman,

Now we sit back and wait till NOV 12th, 2012 and hope and pray America regains it's senses by then and remembers who actually got them into this mess in the first place, the republicans. I for one would be disgusted if you voted them in again, but who knows, you re'elected Bush & Co, so anything's possible.

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@dyslexia,

Man I want some of what your smoking, Yihaaah.

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@OmSigDAVID,

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The heart and soul of the Republican Party
have their home in the philosophy of the Founders of the Republic
and in Senator Barry Goldwater.

It is a question of returning the Party to its philosophical roots.

I note that you completely passed over ole Ronny. I wonder why that would be.

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@plainoldme,

plainoldme wrote:

NPR compared Obama's speech with ronald raygun's mid-term speech when he faced a Democrat sweep into Congress. They were nearly identical.

Well if NPR did the comparison, then it must be accurate.

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@Cycloptichorn,

I look forward to you shutting the **** up.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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I look forward to you shutting the **** up.

I'm surprised that you were able to stammer this out, Finn, considering the grip that Cy has on your knackers.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I look forward to you shutting the **** up.

Well said.

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These three are actually more believable and plausible than the airheads in the tea-party. For sure.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I look forward to you shutting the **** up.

Well, I'm sure you would like that; but the problem is, while the Republicans made large gains last Tuesday, they did so mostly in the House of Reps, which is definitely the weakest of the House-Senate-Prez triumvirate.

So, even though you guys are now in the majority in the House - heavily, even - you still don't really get to set the agenda, because practically nothing that you agree with ideologically will pass. It will either die in the Senate or get vetoed by the Prez, and you don't have enough votes to overcome his veto.

You have to win bigger than the Republicans won last week to get the other side to go away, Finn. The Republicans did it when they had both houses and the presidency under Bush; the Dems got their turn, and passed some great legislation while they were there; but, now that we're divided, your group still is largely powerless, their only recourse to be to try to defund things and halt the government somehow. They have no ability to push policy in this environment.

I think that as this becomes more and more clear over the next few months, it will cause significant problems for the new House Majority, and those will be compounded by the inevitable slide into the reality of compromise that various Tea Party candidates will experience.

Not only that, but the idea that your 2012 prez candidate will be able to run on a platform of 'no compromise' is a joke. The Republican House and whoever that nominee is will be at cross purposes for at least an entire year. Ought to be interesting to watch.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

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Well, I'm sure you would like that; but the problem is, while the Republicans made large gains last Tuesday, they did so mostly in the House of Reps, which is definitely the weakest of the House-Senate-Prez triumvirate.

I'll say it again...

If you view the whitehouse as the tip of a pyramid with the US senate and then the house below it, and then governorships and state legislatures at the bottom, then as you get lower in the pyramid, and particularly as you get out into state districts, the system becomes more responsive to ordinary people and particularly the gaming and vote manufacturing which democrats excel at become less effective and more difficult to get away with. Dems appear to have lost right around 700 seats at those levels, which amounts to near total annihilation, and this is in a re-districting year.

This WILL be felt. The next greatest change of statehouse seats took place back in the 1930s and amounted to something like 500 seats. This is not business as usual, this is the greatest repudiation of policies which the American people have ever mustered in a single day.

The foundation of the demoKKKrat party has been broken.

http://b.squaremeal.co.uk/include/images/content/27/RobertoD1@eivmain.jpg

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"Break the foundation, and the building will crumble."

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@gungasnake,

I'm almost cheered to hear you say that, as you have a nearly unbroken history of being a spectacularly wrong idiot, uninformed on nearly every topic and definitely lacking in political acumen.

Cycloptichorn

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