Tea-Party Groups Give Boehner High Marks

[Anti Federalist]

Tea-Party Groups Give Boehner High Marks

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/09/tea-party_groups_give_boehner_high_marks_253458.html

Leaders of the small-government, tea-party movement are generally giving House Speaker John Boehner high marks for his leadership in the spending showdown, even though the agreement eventually reached Friday night fell short of the cuts the tea party once demanded.

The relationship between the Republican leadership and these activists is one of the most important determinants of how this Congress will manage the fiscal fights to come.


They must be thirsty, those tea partiers...

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTioxXTrg8ejVZH93mdvsTomDTciePY4 oNlCRqC79Ab_byWaOYILQ&t=1

[low preference guy]

What victory? Bitter Tea Party rounds on Boehner as he and Obama claim budget triumph (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375323/What-victory-Bitter-Tea-Party-rounds-Boehner-claims-budget-triumph-compromise-Obama.html)

[kah13176]

Yeah - the Tea Party is not a libertarian movement as it once was. Now it's just a fancy label that rank-and-file Republicans use as a springboard to attract votes.

[low preference guy]

Tea Party: John Boehner let us down (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110409/NEWS0108/110409005/Tea-Party-Boehner-let-us-down?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE)

[madengr]

Huh huh, hey Beavis, did he say Boehner?

[Anti Federalist]

What victory? Bitter Tea Party rounds on Boehner as he and Obama claim budget triumph (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375323/What-victory-Bitter-Tea-Party-rounds-Boehner-claims-budget-triumph-compromise-Obama.html)


Tea Party: John Boehner let us down (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110409/NEWS0108/110409005/Tea-Party-Boehner-let-us-down?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE)

Obviously, what the MSM has here, is Fail-yur to Communi-kate.

[Sola_Fide]

I don't agree with the article. All the Tea Party people I talk to here in KY want the budget to balance.

[AuH20]

the Tea Party is generally pissed about being conned. 95% of the comments on 912 are hostile as well. This real clear article is just the PR machine that's trying to calm the tea party down.

[torchbearer]

Time magazine person of the year:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bpQPPbayS-w/TOwGFIM57EI/AAAAAAAAANs/xhTz2BSL40A/s1600/hitlerTimePersonoftheYear.jpg

[torchbearer]

oh, and if this is as good as its going to get, pass me the kool-aid.

[nate895]

Until the cave-in over the past few days, I was in general supportive of the fact the GOP did not appear to be giving in. I would not have voted for either plan if I were in Congress, but I was hoping that the GOP would have a backbone and we'd end up with a shutdown. That would have made me have some respect for the GOP.

[georgiaboy]

Until the cave-in over the past few days, I was in general supportive of the fact the GOP did not appear to be giving in. I would not have voted for either plan if I were in Congress, but I was hoping that the GOP would have a backbone and we'd end up with a shutdown. That would have made me have some respect for the GOP.

I think most Republican constituencies would agree with you. So why would the GOP cave? /rhetorical

[fj45lvr]

emphasis on H-I-G-H

[Occam's Banana]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/images/misc/quote_icon.png FROM: What victory? Bitter Tea Party rounds on Boehner as he and Obama claim budget triumph (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375323/What-victory-Bitter-Tea-Party-rounds-Boehner-claims-budget-triumph-compromise-Obama.html)

[Bachmann] told the New York Daily News that they 'wanted to make sure their tax dollars stopped flowing to the nation's largest abortion provider, and wanted us to defund ObamaCare.'
Speaking for myself ...

I'd like my tax dollars to stop flowing to the nation's largest provider of such abortions as:

- the Depts. of Homeland Security, Education, Energy, Commerce, HUD, HHS, etc.
- the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
- the Wars on Terror, Drugs, Obesity, etc.
- the IRS, FDA, EPA, etc.
- the Federal Reserve
- the PATRIOT Act
- Social Security
- Obamacare
- Medicare
- TARP
- et cetera ad infinitum et nauseum

[therepublic]

The Tea Party is still much alive and well despite what you hear in the news. Some of the leadership in the larger groups have been infiltrated by GOP moles who tell the people Paul Ryan's budget is great, and "Bohener made the biggest cut in history". But many members are not buying it, and are posting comments showing CATO's research, and videos from Rand Paul.

[awake]

It is an old communist tactic: infiltrate the "counter revolutionaries" and make it appear that they are for what they are against; to confuse and divide. This co-opting happened very early on in the Tea Party, minus a few notable people who are immune to the influence.

The Communist tactic of pressure from above and below is a tried and true method and is very much in play. The tactic actually can be evidenced as described by Nancy Pelosi as "astroturf", or fake grass root uprisings; the appearance of popular uprising funded and directed by the top government / department people to help along their "progressive" policy goals.

The EPA and its progressive environmentalism is another great example; The "greens" (power elite funded and organized) whip up the appearance of popular support in the masses of NGO's and associations; the department uses the theater to justify its policy prescription of new regulations or legislation.

Still another example is the AMA and the Obamaunist heath care take over. The majority of doctors were probably against it, but the top spokesmen for the official representing body (AMA) were made to appear all for it (it only takes a few in key places).

Union leaders talk for their members regarding government policy...and on and on.

This tactic is the primary method of people seeking absolute power. The councils and national representing bodies are easily manipulated this way.

[angelatc]

Ours doesn't. But of course, we're lucky enough to have Ron Paul supporters who attend the meetings instead of sitting home and bitching on the internet about other people infiltrating meetings they can't even be bothered to attend.