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Title: GOP contemplates embracing tea-partiers
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news ... g-tea-partiers-2009-04-16.html
Published: Apr 16, 2009
Author: Reid Wilson
Post Date: 2009-04-16 23:25:43 by Rotara
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GOP contemplates embracing tea-partiers Republicans are contemplating how to involve thousands of anti-tax protesters in rebuilding their fractured party a day after nationwide tax-day tea parties drew widespread attention. "We should embrace them," House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Hill on Thursday. "These are Americans who believe that their government, at all levels, are going in the wrong direction and they're tired of it." "This party has always been based on movements of individuals," McCarthy said. "People are frustrated, and the one thing you see with the tea parties is that they're not being organized by elected officials." Though President Obama maintains sky-high approval ratings, several Republicans suggested the anger they witnessed may be the beginnings of a re-energized base capable of propelling their party back into contention. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the Republican who has clashed more with the administration than just about any other public official, said he foresees a "genuine voter backlash, and there's probably a lot more to come with that." Most party leaders and strategists say it is not a matter of whether to involve the so-called tea-partiers, but how best to harness the new anger for political gain. Some go so far as to suggest the protests are signs that the GOP has finally found the vehicle it needs to get back to the majority. "This is very cathartic for the conservative movement," said veteran party strategist Craig Shirley, who has penned a biography of former President Reagan. "It means the movement is becoming re-Reaganized. It's becoming a populist movement again." "The Republican base was shrinking and depressed after the past two elections. Having activists organized on the ground and online is something the party should want," added Doug Heye, a GOP strategist. "The challenge now is how to positively channel that energy into electoral gains in the off-year and midterm elections." "Barack Obama created a populist movement right in front of our eyes," said Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. "Now that populist movement he created has thrown a question mark up." Said Dawson of the protesters he saw Wednesday: "It is part of the Republican movement. You see some libertarian faces there, and the Republican Party has got to practice the politics of addition, not subtraction." Still, the question of where the movement goes from here remains up in the air, with few evincing any urge to do anything to stand in protesters' way and with all insisting the events were organized independent of any national coordinating effort. "We want to help in any way we can, but this is not us doing it," McCarthy said. "We'll see," Boehner said when asked the direction in which the tea parties are headed. "But clearly they're responding to a lot of what we've had to say in Washington over the past couple of months." Though some in the GOP see protesters as distracting from a uniform message for a party struggling to define itself as something other than naysayers, others suggest the intensity of the tea party protests will rob party leaders in Washington of the option of ignoring them. "The flow of power has shifted. It's moving downward, not upward," Shirley said. "These people are in charge, not [new Republican National Committee Chairman] Michael Steele." Asked whether Republicans should embrace the protesters, Shirley said simply: "I don't think they have any choice." "Will they find a place? I think so, but a lot of it will depend on us and our candidates. We're going to have to sell ourselves to them," said Saul Anuzis, the former Michigan Republican Party chairman who attended a tea party in Lansing. "We may be the default place for them to go, because the alternative, the Democrats, is so bad," Anuzis said. "It's by no means a slam-dunk." Poster Comment: Posted: 04/16/09 02:27 PM [ET]
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#71. To: Rotara, TwentyTwelve, Artisan, James Deffenbach, rowdee, Diana, bush_is_a_moonie (#0)
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"We should embrace them," House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Hill on Thursday. "These are Americans who believe that their government, at all levels, are going in the wrong direction and they're tired of it. Americans are sick and tired of seeing the rich taxed on their capital gains and business profits when there are millions of ordinary, minimum wage earners to carry the tax load for the country. And, why should the rich have to provide health and unemployment insurance for workers who are no longer of any use to their employers? And, why should rich American companies be hindered by immigration laws that force them to pay first world wages to spoiled Americans and to compete with foreign competition that can use slave labor to build their products? Americans are sick of it I tell you! This is a populist, grassroots uprising and if Obama tries to reverse course on Bush's tax cuts for the rich I'm afraid the country will explode!", Boehner said..... _________________________________ Although I have doubts about "Obama's sky-high approval ratings" (according to Ed Steele Obama's true ratings are lower than Bush's at this point in his first term) I do believe that the GOP is trying to manufacture and channel a tidal wave of anger to cover their "Protect BushCo's 'favor the rich' agenda at all costs" and they honestly believe that Americans are that fucking stupid and won't see the soft, carefully manicured hand writing the secret directives from The Golden Castle On the Hill. And, the puppeteers know very well that Obama is under orders to follow the same playbook as BushCo and he will completely ignore the voices of dissent and the whole world if necessary to follow the directives from the shadow govt. If the past teaches anything it's that this is a necessary exercise to keep us occupied in our playpens and to create the illusion of political involvement and relevance while preparing for the next swing back to the other "truth" where "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia!". Although no one responded when I mentioned this previously, it so seriously pissed me off that I'll write it again: Back when Sen. Dick Lugar was toying with the idea of running for Emperor his exploratory platform was "abolish the IRS and the income tax". After he withdrew he returned to the senate and never breathed another word about this issue that was "so crucial to America's survival." And, when Bush was kissing every baby, every ass and every baby's ass he could while running for re-election Denny "Let me show you how to hold that bat you cute little feller-Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" Hastert said that if re-elected Bush and the GOP were going to abolish the IRS and the income tax! He was talking to a reporter in what appeared to be the outer lobby of the House and he would have never said such a thing if he wasn't instructed to plant another "all things for all people" seed to guarantee Bush's re-election. Of course I know that this issue is just campaign bait and they have no intention of abolishing the tool they use to silence their enemies the way corporations use SLAPP suits. This is evidenced by the fact that they never detail any IRS abuses of Americans or explain that income taxes are used to fund the federal reserve swindle not to build bridges, roads, the military, education, etc.,. If they were serious about de-funding the federal reserve some insider would actually introduce a bill ("Hoo wants to bell the cat?" "Mee? Kiss MY ASS, Hastert!") and they would have no trouble selling it to the people once the truth is allowed to fall upon the ears of the long suffering masses. But, none may criticize the royal families of banking and finance lest his or her plane falls from the sky or he/she ends up swinging from a rope under a bridge in the old Italian P2 tradition. There can be no doubt that millions of Americans fall for these GOP theater productions just as in 2000 when they "spontaneously" rioted to force the "abrupt cancellation of a hand recount" in FLA. One GOP loyalist-state level functionary at Liberty Forum even admitted that he was "called up and activated" and that he got on a plane for that very purpose! It was the first time in America's history that "angry, dispossessed American rioters" flew to the event first class or drove in gas guzzling Humvees secure in the knowledge that the FLA Highway Patrol wouldn't ticket them for speeding once they explained their "mission to the uniformed branch of the Friends Of Bush"! ("Hey, you guys performed a great service for America when you scared those darkies away from the polls. Don't worry, we'll take it from here! And, tell Katherine Harris that it would be an honor to bite the squirrel or a great American heroine!") "Yeah, Honey, take the kids out of school for a few days because after I'm done rioting we can take them to Sea World and Disney! Of course we can afford it! We'll take The Auto Train and I'll list it as a business deduction! For the next eight years we're gonna reap the profits! REAP REAP REAP!" Miami's rent-a-riot
Or commit suicide by stabbing themselves 27 times in the chest while their arms are behind their backs in handcuffs. Or maybe the way that the cop who knew too much about the Oklahoma City bombing (Terry Yeakey)--they claimed he was a suicide too but if you read what happened to him before he died you know that's a bald-faced like. The bullet's entrance wound was in the right temple, above the eye. It went through the policeman's head and exited in the area of the left cheek, near the bottom of the ear lobe line. The trajectory was from a 40-45 degree angle above his head. There were no powder burns. No weapon was ever reported as found at the scene, but independent investigators speculated that had Yeakey shot himself with standard police issue - a Glock 9mm or a .357 Magnum - his head would have been far more destroyed than it apparently was. One of the last people Officer Yeakey talked to was a friend who knew he was on a mission of private investigation. Terry had told him that he was on his way to El Reno to check out something but first he had to shake the FBI agents who were following him. He was traveling in his private automobile, and witnesses said later that the inside looked like someone had "butchered a hog" on the front seat. While political assassinations within American borders have become more prevalent in recent years, the ploy to place the blame on someone else - even the victim himself - is nothing new. Neither is the gullibility of the American public...."
I remember Officer Yeakey's death very well. He was African American and a family man and he was apparently well thought of in the cop community. But, when the FEDs (and the SPLC covering for their agent-provocateur in Elohim City Andreas Strassmeier) decided that The militia (GASP!) was taking the rap for that terrible crime any evidence that proved "ill fitting" had to be destroyed. And, this murder of an African American police officer is the best evidence of the phony crocodile tears that Morris Dees and his all white band of executive SPLC staff cry for the downtrodden minorities in The US. Like all commie fronts they only use blacks to keep the doors open for their commie foreign agents and themselves. (Dees reportedly has sexual appetites that run to the extreme and unlawful.)
Yeah, I agree. Morris Dees is lower than whale dung in the bottom of the Mariannas Trench and one of those people who wouldn't be missed for months (maybe ever) by anyone other than those who help him con the naive and gullible. WHO KILLED [Officer] TERRY YEAKEY? Link to a good article about Terry Yeakey for anyone who might be interested.
Reading it makes me burn inside all over again. It makes me think thoughts I shouldn't be thinking. Savage, cruel, un-Christian things. If some gray alien ever leaves his UFO double parked and I get the chance, I'm swiping it. And, after a few trial and error tests if I succeed in learning how to fire the weapons on board then some murdering sumbitches ain't gonna believe what happens next. "You guys ain't gonna believe how pinpoint accurate this energy beam weapon is! And, by the way, have you ever wondered what it would be like to have to squat to pee?" Well, I"M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN YOUR NAMES IN THE SNOW FOR THE LAST TIME!!!
~#-)
When I picture the sheer horror and think of the cruelty of those bastards who killed Terry Yeakey I wouldn't second guess Our Creator if Idi Amin was sent as the avenging angel. His brand of terror was positively sublime and quite possibly appropriate to the circumstances of punishing soulless govt hit men, CIA spooks, DIA and DOJ "interrogators" and the politicians that unleash and insulate these animals. And, let's not forget The Clintons' and Spike Reno's complicity in that evil business. And, if ever a case warranted a change of venue in the interest of justice McVeigh's trial did only to be ignored when inconvenient for the govt and their fellow demon conspirators. And, the case was even assigned to Judge Richard P. Matsch who was properly cured and rid of his judicial independence when his daughter "fell" into an active volcano several years before. as FDR said "In politics, nothing happens by chance" or words to that effect. How did we ever allow these beasts to rule over us and to completely insulate themselves from the administration of justice?
We won't like the answers I'm sure.
To suggest that "Americans were asleep at the wheel" is a great stretch of kindness that we may not deserve.
I know
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#84. To: HOUNDDAWG (#71)
But, none may criticize the royal families of banking and finance lest his or her plane falls from the sky or he/she ends up swinging from a rope under a bridge in the old Italian P2 tradition.
"...The official report said "Suicide," and anyone who believes an ANFO bomb destroyed Murrah and the other surrounding buildings will believe this. According to the report, Terry slashed himself eleven times on both forearms before cutting his own throat twice near the jugular vein. Then, apparently seeking even a more private place to die, he crawled another mile of rough terrain away from his car and climbed a fence, before shooting himself in the head with a small caliber revolver. What appeared to be rope burns on his neck, handcuff bruises to his wrists, and muddy grass imbedded in his slash wounds strongly indicated that he had some help in traversing this final distance.
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#101. To: HOUNDDAWG (#100)
I resemble that remark.
#105. To: Rotara, James Deffenbach (#101)
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#106. To: HOUNDDAWG (#105)
How did we ever allow these beasts to rule over us and to completely insulate themselves from the administration of justice?
#107. To: Rotara (#106)
We won't like the answers I'm sure.
#108. To: HOUNDDAWG (#107)
I know
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