The establishment GOPers are lashing out at the Tea Party over the Obama shutdown. And they’re promising to strike back against the conservative base in 2014.
The AP reported:
From county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington.
The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall’s elections.
“It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process,” former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu argues, faulting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and tea party Republicans in the House as much as President Barack Obama for taking an uncompromising stance.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is just as pointed, saying this about the tea party-fueled refusal to support spending measures that include money for Obama’s health care law: “It never had a chance.”
The anger emanating from Republicans like Sununu and Barbour comes just three years after the GOP embraced the insurgent political group and rode its wave of new energy to return to power in the House.
Good luck, GOP elitists. Your whiny softcore conservatism may work out East but it won’t carry the Red States.
Let me take the Tea Party's side on this: why don't Sununu et al put their energy into winning elections and fighting Democrats instead of fellow Republicans?
I remember Sununu guaranteeing Romney would win NH on election night.
At least when Obama needs to send a surrogate out to defend him he sends Bill Clinton.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
I will never vote for a McClown or a Graham or a Boehner.
Never.
You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. ~Rufus T. Firefly
Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #7The establishment GOP can go straight to hell.
I will never vote for a McClown or a Graham or a Boehner.
Never.
Do you live in those states that they represent? If not, you won't have to worry about it. And be grateful that you don't have to vote for all three.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
Barbour is a piece of human filth that couldn;t get reelected in his own state if he wanted to because he took kickbacks and pardoned a ton of murderers and rapists right before he left office. His is a genuine piece of shit....
Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #7The establishment GOP can go straight to hell.
I will never vote for a McClown or a Graham or a Boehner.
Never.
ZitatDo you live in those states that they represent? If not, you won't have to worry about it. And be grateful that you don't have to vote for all three.
No, I should have said McClown TYPES or Graham TYPES or Boehner TYPES. I wasn't clear.
And no, I live in a state that's so blue it would elect Castro.
You\'re a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you\'re out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we\'ll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. ~Rufus T. Firefly