Dick Armey: GOP should woo Tea Partiers

[Matt Collins]

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/78903-armey-tells-house-gops-win-back-the-tea-partiers-to-win-


The former House GOP leader told the lawmakers gathered on the third day of the issues retreat that if they worked hard, it would be possible to win back the “small-government, grass-roots conservatives.”


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[JK/SEA]

Hey Dick, whats your opinion of a non-interventionist foreign policy?

thought so.

[Flash]

Hey Dick, whats your opinion of a non-interventionist foreign policy?

thought so.

I don't know if hes a non-interventionist but he did get mad at the Republican elite tricking him on Iraq:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Author_Cheney_has_been_first_deputy_0916.html

[erowe1]

Hey Dick, whats your opinion of a non-interventionist foreign policy?

thought so.

Here's his plug for Hostettler's book, Nothing for the Nation:

There are too many of us that know we were wrong on that fateful day we failed to protect the Constitution of the United States and ceded to the president what our founding fathers clearly saw to be a congressional responsibility never to be trusted to a president: the right and the responsibility to make war. Unfortunately we labor under doubt and regret from not fully understanding why we were so wrong. Had we listened more carefully to John Hostettler at the time, we would live with fewer regrets today. Nobody who took a position that day is more vindicated by current understanding and by the liberty-devoted tenets of our republic than John Hostettler.

Let's take the easy case first. In his book, Nothing for the Nation, Hostettler examines all the current arguments of the day for waging war on Iraq . And as we all now so painfully understand, he demonstrates them to be without foundation. We were not faced with an immediate threat to the nation as we were told. We are led to the only and most plausible conclusion. We waged war because the president wanted to do so for his own reasons. It is as simple as that and there is no way to get around it. And that is what our founding fathers feared the most.

Now for the bigger case: Hostettler makes it clear it is against the basic constitutional tenets of our republic to allow such power to rest with one man or one office. Even if waging war against Iraq had been the right and necessary thing to do, it should not have been done in the wrong way. Congress made an unconstitutional delegation of authority to the president and it was the most tragic such delegation ever made.

Had we listened to Hostettler at the time, we would not have done it. If we listen to him now, we might save ourselves the pain, regret, and shame from doing it again.

For years I have known I was wrong. Now I know why I was wrong. I'm sorry so many had to pay such a dear price for me to learn what I should have known before I took that office.
http://www.nothingforthenation.com/recommendation_dickarmey.htm

[IPSecure]

In his last legislative effort, Armey was named chairman of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and was the primary sponsor of the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security.

At the start of 2003, Armey joined the Washington office of the law firm DLA Piper (formerly DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary) as a senior policy advisor. Armey was also the firm's co-chairman of its Homeland Security Task Force.
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey)
How many law firms have their own Homeland Security Taskforce?

Is Homeland InSecurity involved in the co-opt of the 'Tea Parties'?

[awake]

Tea Party is owned already... Why do you think Dr. Paul has got so much air time? if I had a running go at the answer it would be because the team behind the man who will ride the tea party into office will sound alot like Ron Paul until he gets to the White House.

The Olympics in lying, stealing and deceiving can produce no other outcome.

[anaconda]

Tea Party is owned already... Why do you think Dr. Paul has got so much air time? if I had a running go at the answer it would be because the team behind the man who will ride the tea party into office will sound alot like Ron Paul until he gets to the White House.

The Olympics in lying, stealing and deceiving can produce no other outcome.


This is why Dr. Paul might consider speaking out loudly against the phony Tea Party and warn the People to not be misled once again by the false left-right paradigm.