Republican leaders such as John Boehner, John McCain,
Lindsey Graham, Peter King, etc. have made it one of their missions in
life to defeat Republican Tea Party candidates–even if those candidates
are incumbents. This is for good reason: the establishment Republican
Party is diametrically opposed to the goals and principles of the Tea
Party.
Based on the positions of most Tea Party candidates
(which is all we have to go on as the Tea Party is not a real political
party but only a grassroots activist effort being conducted mainly
within the Republican Party), the goals and objectives of the Tea Party
can be summarized generally as follows:
*They support a
non-interventionist foreign policy.
*They support the Constitution and recognize the current attacks
against the Constitution, especially against the Second, Fourth, and
Tenth Amendments.
*They oppose the NSA spying on the American citizenry (including the
use of drones for such purposes).
*They oppose the Patriot Act and the militarization of the Department
of Homeland Security as well as local and State law enforcement
agencies.
*They oppose the Import-Export Bank.
*They oppose the Federal Reserve Bank.
*They oppose CISPA.
*They oppose the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA.
*They support ending the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military
Force (AUMF).
*They support limited government spending–especially at the federal
level.
One can easily see that many, if not most, of these
goals and objectives are diametrically opposite the goals and
objectives of the establishment Republican machine. And more than
anything else, the Republican leadership in Washington, D.C. wants GOP
congressmen and senators to be “team players.” Of course, by “team
players,” they mean good little Republican robots that will not buck
party leadership.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/boehner.blows
Yeah. Same with me.
ReplyDeleteI read that list, too.
Actually, I STOPPED as soon as I read the name RON PAUL in the same context as TEA PARTY.
What an A§§.
Somebody is mixing up the Gadsen Snake with an Ostrich.
Well said Buch
ReplyDelete"What is now called the Tea Party began in 2007 as a loosely-organized yet highly-motivated grassroots support effort for Congressman Ron Paul’s bid for the White House."
ReplyDeleteHuh?
Revisionist much?
If you read Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn, the naive reader can be mis-lead by the writer's assertions, simply based the upon the assertions being asserted. These assertions reasonably can be viewed as "begging the question," but for the untrained reader, can impose a viewpoint that is unchallenged. And that's what we call public education in the 21st Century. Teach to the Common Core tests.
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