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Tea Partiers 'turn dirt' on GOP leadership

by smkovalinsky | October 11, 2009 at 02:14 pm

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Tea Partiers abandon the Tea Cup, and Drink from Saucer? (courtesy of Now Public's A211423! ;))

Its been long obvious that the Tea Party enthusiasts were getting increasingly disillusioned with GOP leadership. Now in Politico this is being openly announced, and the grassroots work long anticipated by them is starting.

No longer content to be an adjunct for the GOP, the Tea Party right is going its own way, and challenging traditional conservatism, which they feel has betrayed them.

“It’s an outgrowth of the frustration people have had with the Republican Party,” said Andrew Moylan, director of governmental affairs for the National Taxpayers Union, another group that has played a large role in organizing the tea party movement. “I think a lot of people have been angry at Republicans for betraying our trust.”
“I think the GOP establishment has ignored their constituents and the feelings of their constituents for years,” added Meckler.

It’s an unusual predicament for the Republican Party, since the conservative-oriented issues that animate Tea Party activists once seemed destined to make the movement a valuable auxiliary to the Republican Party.

While there’s little evidence of tea party activist support for Democratic candidates, the specific notion of electing a GOP majority hasn’t ranked high on their agenda either.

At the recent “Defending the American Dream Summit,” a conservative event held in Arlington, Va., a breakout session featuring tea party organizers saw panelists peppered with questions ranging from how to start up political action committees and 501(c)(3) organizations to whether it was necessary to hire lawyers.

“Nothing is going to change unless we can get politicians elected who can implement fiscally conservative policies,” Teri Adams of the Philadelphia-based Independence Hall Tea Party Association, which will be launching a political arm, told those in attendance.

In a handful of states, tea party activists have zeroed in on House Republican incumbents and have launched primary challenges in protest of their past support for the controversial Wall Street bank bailout.

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a211423

at 14:23 on October 11th, 2009

Now the Republicans can have a split in their party too. : )

The Democrats and the Green Party had to part ways, and this was a source of consternation for me because I favor some of the platform of the Green Party, but history has not been kind to splintering parties.

(smk. Title could be Tea Partiers abandon the tea cup, and drink from the saucer. lol)

Roy C

at 14:24 on October 11th, 2009

The republicans already had their split.

That was what the protests at Dubai Ports, Harriet Myers, Bush's two attempts at legalizing the illegals, were all about.

That is why we who have sympathy for the Tea Party protesters know that this began under Bush against Bush but only got organized as the TARP madness continued and the deficits piled up.

The end of both parties' elites is near.

AGK

at 14:32 on October 11th, 2009

True, all very true.Ominous and promising both.A211....Go see the new subtitle and courtesy ;)

a211423

at 14:38 on October 11th, 2009

hahahah smk : )

curtsies back to you : )

a211423

at 14:38 on October 11th, 2009

Roy

My impression of The Guest Worker program was an appeasment to big business who profit from hiring illegals versus American union workers, and any advantage to illegal immigrants was happenstance and a political ploy.

Roy C

at 20:09 on October 11th, 2009

And it wasn't going to help unemployed Americans, was it?

Authentic Connecticut Republican

at 14:58 on October 11th, 2009

They'll now proceed to simply screw things up much like Perot in 1992.

By the way, how many of them even voted last year?

They seem to like to rally like a bunch of late 1960's hippies; but they seem short on helping anyone win a campaign.

If they don't like the way the GOP's going - take over your town committees one at time from coast to coast and help us field better candidates.

I began my blog because I saw us running a liberal weasel for congress - I fought to keep him off the ticket and showed up at the last minute unannounced with an alternative candidate. With no prep (we hadn't run her by any town committees at all) we still took 46% of the convention.If I would've had another 2 weeks we would have taken it.

He went on to raise -0- dollars and spent the entire campaign railing against the party because he couldn't get any support for his "let's ban all handguns" platform.

I sure could have used some help - where were all these folks?

Hugh Askew

at 19:34 on October 11th, 2009

Okay, fine. Now who are the liberals going to blame?

Rob Taylor for US Senate WI (not verified)

at 02:41 on October 12th, 2009

I believe that underlying all of the political agendas that are being hurled at the American people today The stimulus, the bail-outs, Health Care, Cap and Trade, Cyber security, Illegal Immigration, the betrayal of our national sovereignty, military readiness, and the ongoing evidence that our representatives are trying to grab more power and control than ever before in history has to do with the corruption of our understanding of freedom. This corruption leads to the abandonment of respect for law and individual responsibility, the twin pillars which ought to secure true freedom. Being a people of true freedom, our way of life depends upon certain moral ideas in dealing with issues of public policy. Those ideas have been abandoned for a long time and have been abandoned for the quest of power, not what is right for the country, but right for the parties. We have a somewhat small document that contains the job descriptions for our representatives to run the country. That document is the US Constitution. I am running on the Constitution Party platform for the US Senate seat in Wisconsin in the 2010 race because I believe that principles over party matter more now in our history than ever before. The voters need to take a look at the alternatives and make the decision to get the country back to the basics of this document.