Boehner has declared war on Tea Party

Posted by stargeezer 11 years, 7 months ago to Government
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Yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner declared all-out war on the Tea Party.
In an angry rant he railed against “outside groups” like Tea Party Patriots saying “they’re using our members and they’re using the American people for their own goals.”

The last time we checked, we are the American people. The Tea Party is made up of patriotic Americans – like you – from all across this country and the last hope for reining in this out-of-control government and protecting our Constitution. We are the last hope that our nation has as the country slips into a self absorbed fit of adolescent like, hormone fed tantrum leading to self destruction.

The one voice calling for any moderation and calling for a return to the values and to the laws that this nation was founded on.

Things like standing on the exact reading of the Bill of Rights, forcing judges to render judgments based on existing law, not legislating from the bench. They were never given the power to write law, only to enforce the laws as they are. The executive branch is empowered to insure the nation is properly managed, to be the Commander in Chief, and to manage and implement the passed legislation from congress - not to be a king.

Congress hold the pure strings is a old saying and a true one. The houses job includes making and passing a budget. The senate is suppose to act on the budget, not ignore them - Harry Reid! The senate is suppose to pass on the presidents appointments to judges benches "after careful examination" - not rubber stamp each after determining that they were "liberal" enough.

Most importantly Mr. Boehner, YOU were sent there to represent us. If that job is too hard for you or you just want to do your own thing, perhaps "we the people" need to visit with you.


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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are only a few groups of people to blame for Detroit - and guess what? They are all Dems, every one of them. Those guys did it to themselves.

    IF you had ever read Atlas Shrugged, you would understand what happened there. Detroit is a not so shinning example of where BO wants to take the rest of the country. Unbridled liberalism, working people all taxed as much as they can stand and still eat - that money "redistributed" to "the needy" (with them getting their take first) with workers promised more in pensions than they "earned" working. Where the biggest and fastest growing industry was government. And the second fastest was the union the really ran the town the "United Auto Workers" - the union that destroyed the industry that built that once great city.

    Oh yeah, Liberalism and Dems are great for america. You can keep both.
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  • Posted by airfredd22 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The problem with the Republicans is that they never seem to operate from a position of strength. first of all, they have the worst public relations management and apparently have no knowledge of their own history. they can't manage to get the African- American vote because the Republicans are either too lazy or too ignorant to teach the history of their own party in order to set the record straight nor do they expose the Democrats for the bigots they have been throughout their history. Let's start reminding them of which party voted in favor of the Civil rights Bill and who was unanimously elected the KKK Exalted Cyclops of his chapter. True, in his later years he denounced his allegiance to the KKK, but should the public know of his history when every misdeed of republicans is brought up at every opportunity. The latest example would be Mitt Romney's placing of his dog in a kennel on top of his car in his younger days. Ask yourself, which of these two examples should carry more weight?

    Speaker Boehners outburst against the Tea party and any other group he might have been referring to is an outrage and should be cause on its own to recall him as speaker of the House. Not to mention his ineffective job performance along the way.

    Fred Speckmann
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry about that. Yes that guy has no problem using his money to setup a liberal government here, but somehow the libs always are sooo worried over what the Koch Bros are giving and to whom.

    Strictly two dimensional thinkers. What flows their way is all fair, but money going to the other side is evil and hate money. Unfairly taking advantage of them.

    Get over it. This next election is so very lost for the left and the person to thank for it is sitting in the White House.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And who do Bill Gates, Ted Turner, and don't forget the bumbling fool Bloomberg give their money to and for what purposes - taking our guns, corrupting the educational process, censoring AND editing what news you receive and don't forget, they are all sweating over the possibility of getting THEIR hands on 1/6 of the economy in the form of healthcare.

    Or is your real problem a bad case of Class warfare??? Perhaps READING Atlas Shrugged instead of using it for TP would help you.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And go back to sweeping the floor of his father's bar. Although that might stress him to tears.......
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You know Mimi, that's one of the things we have avoided in a effort to not compete with good people that choose not to align themselves with us.

    Then there is the incredible expense of being a force in politics. The Tea Party started in a kitchen as some friends gathered for a dinner, then moved to the living room the next week with more friends, then on to a nearby church the next week. It never was intended to field candidates as so many third party groups try to. One of the reasons they usually fail is that they can't raise the money needed in order to be effective. It's not always because they are screwballs.

    Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it, but The Tea Party is an idea, a concept. That if the powers that be don't wake up and see what we regular folks KNOW, that America is in trouble, that we are tired of being dismissed because "big brother knows better" that we do how to run our lives. That we are tired of laws and regulations being passed onto us by condescending "rulers" guiding and protecting us.

    There will be another "Tea Party"
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  • Posted by Retired24-navy 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He's dirty underware and if we work together in 2014, we can change most of it. The Dems are upset with their socalled workers too, so RE-ELECT NO-ONE in both partys...
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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When Chief Justice broke the tie for BOCare, I gave up. Too much law is now pointing to more and more Soft Fascism.
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Follow the MONEY...

    "Billionaire David Koch Finances the Tea Party"
    From: http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/an...

    "For example, in a recent investigative report in the New Yorker magazine, Jane Mayer details the links between billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch and the tea party movement. She writes:

    "By giving money to 'educate,' fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said,..."
    From: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2...

    " Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch,"
    From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinio...

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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I turned off Fox News years ago when I saw the company was more concerned about ad profits than honest reporting.
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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Right is nonfunctional at this point. Expect the Left to clean up in the mid terms and next presidential if America survives that long.
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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Did you not notice how voting became ineffective over the decades as Soft Fascism built up?
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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Americans can no longer think for themselves on account of Public School Brain Washing. The leaders just have scare the crap out the populace then pass whatever legislation they want, e.g. TARP.
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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Tea Party label was slapped on by TPTB to id the biz owners who were justified in their outrage so this "group" could be controlled and manipulated. TPTB did a good job of control as I expect Dem route over the 4 years if America survives a possible currency run.
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