Ah, yes. It was just
a matter of time before the GOP would recoil from its begotten. The GOP sold its soul to the Koch Brothers long
ago. They were patient in building their
Frankenstein’s monster. It took over 30
years, but it’s here and now it’s turning on them.
The GOP was once a somewhat noble party, or as noble as
Republicans could ever get. The party of
Goldwater is gone. It didn’t just
disappear though; it was extinguished by the Reaganites.
The eleventh commandment as it is called, “thou shalt not
speak ill of any fellow Republican” was originally coined by California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson. The commandment was used to solidify the
Republican Party after the 1964 defeat of Barry Goldwater in the presidential
election. Goldwater was labeled an
extremist for his conservative positions and declared unfit to hold office by
fellow Republicans.
Reagan picked up the “commandment” during his first five
primaries of the 1976 Republican primary race against incumbent Gerald Ford and
lost all of them. He abandoned this
approach in the North Carolina Primary and defeated Ford 52-46. Reagan’s attacks weakened Ford and cost him
the general election.
The Republican party before and after George W. Bush, began
threatening its members to vote in lock step or the party would not financially
support their candidacies. They purged
the party of any member who did not toe the party line. This was particularly evident in the Medicare
Part D legislation under George W. Bush.
Representative Billy Tauzin R-LA was the architect of the
Medicare Part D prescription drug legislation.
The law was a nightmare for seniors and pharmacists but brought huge
profits to the drug manufacturers who paid Tauzin handsomely in return. In order to pass the bill, the party
leadership, including Rep. John Boehner R-OH walked the floor, delivering
threats and twisting arms. Boehner
passed out checks from the tobacco industry to purchase their votes.
One former Representative, Nick Smith R-MI was retiring and
was against the bill. His son, who was
running for his seat, was offered a $100,000 contribution and national support
if Smith would vote for the bill. If he
didn’t they would run a candidate against his son and cut off all money and GOP
support.
Well, the rest is history.
So when the “Tea Party” was conjured up like Frankenstein in a GOP
friendly laboratory funded by the Koch Brothers and their many conservative
think tanks, all was happy in GOP land.
As these crazy’s, many who appeared to be on Social Security
and probably Social Security Disability due to low I.Q.’s and schizophrenia,
were bused across the U.S. to show up in Democratic town hall meetings on
Obamacare, it was great fun for the GOP to watch.
These people were filmed dressed in Colonial Tea Party
attire with teabags stapled to their hats, like one big Halloween party
screaming for smaller government or better yet no government. What they didn’t know was, with no government
they wouldn’t receive their Social Security checks, Disability checks and the
Post Office wouldn’t deliver their badly needed Psychotropic drugs.
Well, it’s always fun until someone loses an eye. Pretty soon these nut jobs were getting out
of hand and their puppet masters, the Koch Brothers started running candidates
against any Republican with a modicum of sanity. While their candidates were adored by the Tea
Party and won contests on the state level, on the national level they were seen
as what they were, nuts.
The Tea Party had a level of success in the U.S. House of
Representatives. The House holds
elections every two years, after all how much harm could they do in two years.
The House Tea Party was pretty well held in check until the
Tea Party was able to get a couple U.S.
Senators elected, Ted Cruz R-TX (naturally) and Mike Lee R-UT. Good old Ted told the Tea Party in the House
to ignore Boehner and demand the government be shut down if the demands to
repeal Obamacare were not met.
They were told they could blame it on Democrats for not
caving to their demands and there was plenty of money and if the government
defaulted on their debt, it wasn’t a big deal.
Now that the polls show national revulsion over shutting
down an entire government for no reason, the Republicans are boxed in and
losing ground fast, very fast.
For instance, we are seeing headlines like:
Texas Judge Carlo Key Flees the GOP: ‘These Are Not My Values’
Carlo
Key, a judge in Bexar County, Texas, has left the Republican Party, and
he blames the Tea Party. “Rational Republican beliefs
have given way to ideological character assassination,” says Key in a video
announcing his switch to the Democratic Party, ahead of his reelection
campaign. “Make no mistake, I have not left the Republican Party. It left me.”
Fox News is heading for the fainting couches over an Alan
Grayson campaign ad seen here:
Ha ha, they have demanded an apology from Representative
Grayson, who said “fat chance, if the hood fits wear it”.
Maybe Fox should be listening to Texas
Judge Carlo Key mentioned above. His
reason for leaving the GOP was this:
Key’s
big concern, like so many Americans who have voiced their disapproval of the
GOP, is with values. His local party supported a San Antonio
More headlines:
In Utah
Lee’s
approval ratings in Utah
Tea party tactics cause business groups to rethink GOP support
"If
I was your political broker, my advice would be that you sell your Republican
shares and buy the Democrats," Bill Graves, chief executive officer of the
American Trucking Associations, said at the group's annual convention in
Orlando, Fla.
Yes, it was just a matter of time. But Democrats shouldn’t be too excited
because their rank and file are not much better. Democrats would be well advised to take to
heart what is happening in the Republican Party and have a real shakeup in their
own party. Hapless Harry Reid and Lousy
Nancy Pelosi have to go; they are holding the party back. We need new leadership, fast.
Elizabeth Warren needs to be the new Democratic Senate
Leader and Alan Grayson needs to be the leader in the House. It is time for real Democrats to take over
and hold the Obama Administration responsible for the train wreck that is
Obamacare. It needs to be completely
revamped from an insurance company executive retirement plan to a real
healthcare plan for the American people.
We need a new Attorney General, Eric Holder has to go. There are too many in the Obama
Administration that are way too cozy with the criminals on Wall Street.
Our 100 year commitment to the Federal Reserve expires in
December. It is time to take a long, hard look at the Private
Banking Companies that comprise the Federal Reserve.
What better time to break our ties with the Privately Owned
Federal Reserve Bank, than when they have bought up all those worthless
mortgage backed securities they have been sticking the American treasury with.
Happy Halloween GOP, your monsters have arrived.
By Patricia Baeten
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