Tea Party Is the New Reality

[Valin]

The American Spectator:

Politicians who fail to recognize it are certain to become relics of the past

Jim DeMint

July-Aug 2012

 

THE 2012 REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES are showing early signs of another banner year for the Tea Party. The candidacies of Republican insurgents such as Richard Mourdock, Josh Mandel, Deb Fischer, Ted Cruz, and Mark Neumann follow the spirit of Senators Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Pat Toomey, and Rand Paul—who each defeated establishment forces in their 2010 senatorial races. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who enacted ambitious reforms of public-sector unions in his state, trounced his recall opponent by a seven-point margin.

 

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The pundit class often laments the lack of bipartisanship in Washington and wistfully recalls the good old days when Republicans and Democrats would work together to bring home the bacon and plunge our nation deeper into debt. Times have changed. Jay Cost made an astute observation in his essay “The Politics of Loss” in National Affairs. He said that the stunning economic growth in the postwar era “liberated policy makers from having to make any hard choices. The people could have guns, butter, and low taxes—all thanks to a private economy that seemed to grow regardless of what government did.”

 

Today, however, the private economy is pinned under the jackboot of big government. There’s no more room for compromise. When Republicans and Democrats worked together in the past, the result was almost always a bigger, more expensive government. As a result, government now controls our health care, our energy, our education, our transportation, our mortgages, our banks, and countless other things. The debt is now bigger than our gross domestic product.

 

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[logicnreason]

Well....let's see.

 

Mr. De Mint has been in congress since 2005.

 

Thank heaven that he is the only congress person from either side of the isle in either house that has had absolutely nothing to do with the vertically climbing debt or the many other troubles besetting this once great county!!

 

Yeah....right.

[Valin]

@logicnreason

 

 

And?

[Valin]

And a blast from the past

[Draggingtree]

(Need some more like De mint)

 

 

High profile Tea Party leaders stumping for Cruz

 

 

 

By: Sarah Grady

 

Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz is getting some high profile support in his bid for US Senate. The Cruz campaign announced today that national Tea Party leaders including Senator Jim DeMint, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will attend a 'Get out the Vote' rally in The Woodlands, Friday.

Some state leaders are also lending their names to the Cruz cause. Julie Turner of the Texas Patriots Tea Party, Ken Emanuelson of the Dallas Tea Party and Waco Tea Party leader Toby Walker are also slated to attend.