This morning’s CNN poll
revealed that 54% of Americans say “it’s bad for the country that the GOP controls the House of
Representatives, "Sixty-three percent of all Americans think that Boehner
should be replaced as Speaker of the House, a view shared by roughly half of
all Republicans." The Tea Party ignores those
numbers as liberal media propaganda because the real Americans reside in Texas
and the rest of the southern states. Ted
Cruz got a hero’s welcome at an event in San Antonio yesterday, and he can
expect the same when he visits Iowa Friday.
Yesterday, an agitated Marco Rubio used little revisionist
history to explain to Chris Wallace why he voted to keep the government closed
and default on our debts. He used the
standard GOP line of today, “the
president and Harry Reid shut down the government.” I’ve actually heard republican legislators say
how bad it was to vote for default while the records show that they voted for
default. We’re supposed to learn the
lessons and move on to regular order but if one party has not learned their lesson;
history is bound to be repeated.
Today’s two major themes of “Morning Joe” was the failure of the HealthCare.com roll out and the
internal rifts between the two factions of the Republican Party.
The House of Representatives is convening an investigation
into the failures of the healthcare website, as if they had a genuine concern
of its success. Fair enough, it should
be investigated and Kathleen Sebelius should testify, although she says she is
too busy right now. Chris Wallace
pointed out three times that she is not too busy to attend a Boston gala. The number one question will be “how many have signed up?” As soon as that
anticipated low number is revealed, fox news and other media outlets will
feature that as a “breaking news” segment.
Tea Party America is separate from the rest of United
States, and they are proud of it. Ted
Cruz portrays himself as speaking for America, although he’s not well-liked by non
-tea party folks. Today’s tea parties are really just libertarians who infiltrated
the established GOP and have now decided that they want to rule it. The old guard used to have all the money from
the RNC and rich donors, and they would use it to support the next in
line. That changed after the Citizens United
ruling which allowed unlimited secret contributions. The Tea Party now has a money source of their
own (Koch Bros), and they are the grassroots folks who lick the stamps, do the
mailing calling, and the other little things the country club Republicans won’t. Fox News and talk radio allows them to spread
their message, and that’s why you won’t find mainstream Republicans bad mouthing
Rush Limbaugh and others of his ilk. This is nothing new because libertarians
tried to take over the GOP in 1964; Goldwater lost badly, and they were put out
to pasture. The mainstream GOP will eventually win over the Tea Party, but they
might lose congressional seats and the 2016 presidential election in doing what
needs to be done. The Tea Party are right wing purist who really believe in
tiny government (although they are recipients of government funding) hardly any
taxes and very little regulations. They have a hard time winning state wide
elections because they have to cater to people who believe in conspiracy theories
and have a hate for our current president.
The right is doing all it can to change the talk of the
shutdown because they want the subject to the Obamacare rollout, the debt and
Benghazi.
6 comments:
Doesn't matter how many times a person tries to cover up a stink. When it stinks, it stinks.
The Tea Party stinks and would be the cause of a downfall of America if they got their way completely. A Country this size cannot run on less government than Americans have come to expect to make their daily lives easier...even the tea party.
Exactly,that's the point...For 30 years we've heard that "government is the problem ;not the solution" and President Obama is doing his best to dispel that myth....Government is not always the solution but it's certainly part of the equation.
I still don't know why someone wants to run for an office that they hate unless they want to sabotage it from the inside. You know like privatizing everything for their cronies.
They haven't even realized that with less government, there is less need for Congressmen. How about 1 of each party, from each state? Think that is enough to handle the size of government they are aiming for? They are basically trying to put themselves out of a job but are too stupid to realize it.
The Republican congressional committee will use the hearings to score political points; fair enough. The president said, “It’s the website, not the law that is flawed” and that’s should be what the Democrats should stick to. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offered a good idea. The WH should assign a spokesman to give weekly updates with a lot of detail. This does a couple of things. It puts pressure on those working on the website, and it gives the media something to report other than the all negativity the congressional hearing will produce. Kathleen Sebelius will attend the congressional hearings.
The real problem is the senate where each state has two senators regardless of the size of the state. That should be balanced in the House but right now it's gerrymandered.
Is it just me, or is Brenda Cash, republican, Shiner a little deluded as to the truth?
Oh,she's there...:-)
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