Yes, Tea Party, The Ship Refuses To Turn On A Dime

Posted on | September 21, 2011 | 19 Comments

by Smitty (via Insty)

The Daily Caller has a post on a Tea Party challenge to Speaker Boehner.

Republican leaders face a growing perception among some tea party factions that they are not interested in holding the Obama administration’s feet to the fire on spending. Some say the Republicans talked a good game going into the 2010 midterms but have failed to deliver since winning control of the House of Representatives.

“Everybody knows that the debt ceiling deal was a completely fraudulent deal,” Mark Meckler, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, told The Daily Caller. “We were told that if we passed this deal we wouldn’t be downgraded, but we were still downgraded.”

Sure, everybody knows now, but where has everybody been for the last. . .decades? I credit my awakening to Liberal Facism. Amazon helpfully reminds me that I ordered that in February, 2008. Three and a half years ago. Seems a different lifetime.

I’m still only dimly aware of how screwed up the U.S. economy is. It runs substantially backwards, with the Federal Reserve plucking money from the ether and using it to simulate economic vitality where none exists. The magic spell involves saying ‘Quantitative Easing’, plus some Cthulhu references, and maybe some innocent life forms.

The point here is that the last century of cart-before-horse isn’t going to be undone be the 2010 election. It’s going to be four or five straight Tea Party-driven boots to the head before we can expect anything good out of DC. And that’s if

we succeed in breaking the entitlement shackles,
people don’t lose heart and want back on the dole,
no other egregious external catastrophes of the World War variety spring up.

In other words, if we were talking about any group of people other than Americans, hope would be completely extinguished. American Exceptionalism gives us a shot at a near-run thing.

Keep the feet of the officials in the primary fire, but understand that we can’t lose all of the expertise, or the city slickers will tie up us country Tea Party bumpkins.

Category: Tea Party

Comments

19 Responses to “Yes, Tea Party, The Ship Refuses To Turn On A Dime”

serfer62
September 21st, 2011 @ 6:39 pm

I really disagree Stacy, we certainly can afford to lose experience from entrenched lawmakers. Getting rid of Boehner, Hatch, McCain etc would be a big gain.

Get some newbies so demand protocol be secound to right. Demand govorment reduction without excuse.
McGehee
September 21st, 2011 @ 6:43 pm

Expertise is like change: it’s not all good.
Anonymous
September 21st, 2011 @ 6:44 pm

I saw Cavuto interview the “Tea Party” primary opponent to Boehner, David Lewis. If this guys represents our hopes to renew this country we are in serious trouble. While I’m certainly no fan of John “McClellan” Boehner, Mr. Lewis has jumped several sharks, well before I suspect, he took the notion to challenge Boehner.

That the Tea Party feels letdown if not betrayed, by the Republicans and particularly by some of the new “Tea Party” house members is justified. A case in point would be our “rock star” Renee Elmers (NC-2). According to Heritage Action for America, she has a conservative rating of a mere 67% I’d of given her about 55%. Since I consider anything below 90% an F-, I couldn’t be more disappointed in her. I don’t know if she’ll have a primary opponent, I doubt it. I think the NC Repulican Party would like to concentrate solely on recruiting Challengers against the many Democrats who are vunerable as a result of redistricting. A smart move for the Republicans. Of course that’s not the same as putting more Conservatives in congress, since I strongly suspect that’s how we ended up with Mrs Elmers.
Richard Mcenroe
September 21st, 2011 @ 7:34 pm

As long as Mitch McConnell, McCain, John Cornyn and John Does 1-44 are determined to keep the Senate a quiet place where they can nap in their dotage, we are not going to make any progress.

We have to accept the fact they they are more comfortable with and amenable to Harry Reid and John Kerry than they are their own electorate, and we have to remind them that it’s the country that has to survive, not the GOP. The Republicans have no more ‘right’ or ‘assurance’ to a continued institutional existence that did the Whigs they replaced…
Richard Mcenroe
September 21st, 2011 @ 7:34 pm

As long as Mitch McConnell, McCain, John Cornyn and John Does 1-44 are determined to keep the Senate a quiet place where they can nap in their dotage, we are not going to make any progress.

We have to accept the fact they they are more comfortable with and amenable to Harry Reid and John Kerry than they are their own electorate, and we have to remind them that it’s the country that has to survive, not the GOP. The Republicans have no more ‘right’ or ‘assurance’ to a continued institutional existence that did the Whigs they replaced…
Richard Mcenroe
September 21st, 2011 @ 7:41 pm

I DID like the part where DC talked about Boehner meeting the ***-Stretcher.

Oh, wait, they left that out this time.
CalMark
September 21st, 2011 @ 8:30 pm

The problem is we were promised instant change.

No, Boehner & Co. used us. They hitched their wagon to us, lied to us, then discarded us like a used Kleenex.

As for Boehner’s primary opponent, he sounds like a wack-job put up by our Leftist enemies. Speaking as a pro-lifer, nobody so obsessed with “fetuses” should be allowed out in public.
Adjoran
September 21st, 2011 @ 9:47 pm

As with many of the leaders of the TPP group, this guy is nuts. I saw a woman spokesperson for them on a business channel during the debt ceiling debate, a total idiot who had no clue what she was talking about. It’s no sin to be ignorant, but if you are going to represent your group on an issue on national TV, shouldn’t you at least have a nodding acquaintance with the issue?

Jim DeMint said basically this guy is full of it (he was much nicer about it, but that was the gist of it).

Those dumb enough to buy Meckler’s crap should leave the GOP and form their own little party where they can be as stupid as they wish, not qualify for any state ballots, and never be heard from again. Selah.
DaveO
September 22nd, 2011 @ 12:00 am

Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell’s strengths are found in their parliamentarian skills. None of which means jacksh*t to America when the MSM, Dems, and the trolletariat are blaming them.

America has moved beyond the desire for compromise – that’s just a rhetorical trick. Americans want blood flowing in the Capitol Building, and they want the Alan Wests and Rand Pauls drawing that blood.
Richard Mcenroe
September 22nd, 2011 @ 12:15 am

None of which means jacksh*t when their parliamentarian skills are used to maintain the convenience of the Congress at the expense of its function on behalf of the American people. It doesn’t matter if they cleverly manage to get three riders dropped from a continuing resolution that adds trillions to our debt, and as long as we have people who think that way in office, this country can’t fix its problems.
Richard Mcenroe
September 22nd, 2011 @ 12:18 am

If the ship won’t turn on a dime, we need a better ship, not some obsolete coal-burning monitor whose outdated broadsides hopelessly miss a younger, nimbler opponent but a fast and flexible cruiser that can precisely target specific problems with timely, accurate fixes. If the GOP insists on lumbering along, SCUTTLE IT. Man the Kingston valves!

This country still produces leadership like that in every other walk of our national life; we MUST bring it to bear on Washington.
Anonymous
September 22nd, 2011 @ 12:29 am

“I credit my awakening to Liberal Facism [sic]. Amazon helpfully reminds me that I ordered that in February, 2008. Three and a half years ago. Seems a different lifetime.”

So in other words, you’re a guy who didn’t have much political depth or education for most of your life and you fell for the first bit of pseudoscholarship that came across your desk. You then began spouting what you learned from that book with the tone of the Guy Who’s Figured It All Out. Congratulations. You’re fulfilling a stereotype. I guess we should just be thankful the book that changed your life wasn’t The Turner Diaries or My Little Pony. Heaven knows where those paths would have led.
JeffS
September 22nd, 2011 @ 2:50 am

You’re just upset that Smitty didn’t buy this book.

Don’t worry, you’ll get over it.
ThePaganTemple
September 22nd, 2011 @ 12:52 pm

I think you’re right about that. Most TP folks tend to be pro-life, but not to this inordinate an extent. Certainly not enough to challenge the House Speaker over that one issue at a time like this. It could also be that the guy is sincere, but a whack-a-doodle who’s being used by the Left.
Rob Crawford
September 22nd, 2011 @ 2:59 pm

“The problem is we were promised instant change.”

We were?
Rob Crawford
September 22nd, 2011 @ 3:00 pm

“Pseudoscholarship”?

Which Kos diary taught you that word?
smitty
September 22nd, 2011 @ 4:12 pm

As PJ O’Rourke put it, 2010 was a restraining order.
smitty
September 22nd, 2011 @ 4:14 pm

Somefeller, your feedback is welcome, but you don’t offer any alternatives.
You are indeed ‘fulfilling a stereotype’. Danke fuer nichts.
Tennwriter
September 22nd, 2011 @ 10:24 pm

Smitty,
You’re trying too hard to be reasonable. It is past time to let the inner berserk out. Let the GOP know that we are significantly crazier than they are, or they will run right over the top of your reasonable offers.