Do you realize that Chuck Schumer <\/a>and a bunch of Democrats are running around campaigning now against the Tea Party. The Tea Party poses the greatest threat to this country. The Tea Party is a bunch of racist, sexist bigots. This is the message and the Republican elite, while not joining word for word that message, are still joining with the Democrats in the notion that the Tea Party is a problem and needs to be beaten back. <\/p>\nNow, this piece in the New York Times illustrates the obstacles Tea Party lawmakers are up against. All these Republican freshmen in the House, for example, this article makes it plain how difficult their job is. There\u2019s even a section in this story on compromise, the bad kind of compromise, the kind of compromise that Republicans have been known for, get along with the Democrats, please the media, show that we\u2019re not the unreasonable Tea Party types. That\u2019s what\u2019s shaking down here. The Tea Party is under assault from the Democrats and the Republican elite, and now the battle has been brought full fore in the pages of the New York Times Magazine. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s some quotes from various people in this story. Bill Kristol on the Tea Party: “It\u2019s an infantile form of conservatism.” Scott Reed, veteran strategist and lobbyist: “I think it\u2019s waning now,” talking to the reporter of the story about the Tea Party\u2019s influence. “Party leaders have managed to bleed some of the anti-establishment intensity out of the movement, Reed said, by slyly embracing Tea Party sympathizers in Congress, rather than treating them as ‘those people.\u2019 Did he mean to say that the party was slowly co-opting the Tea Partiers? ‘Trying to,\u2019 Reed said. ‘And that\u00c2\u2019s the secret to politics: trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing that you\u00c2\u2019re trying to control them.'” This is a Republican consultant talking about how to neutralize the Tea Party. <\/p>\n
John Feehery, a lobbyist who was once a senior House aide I think to Denny Hastert, is also quoted. “The thing I get a kick out of is these Tea Party people calling me a RINO. No, guys, I\u2019ve been a Republican all along. You go off on your own little world and then come back and say it\u2019s your party. Well, this ain\u2019t your party.” Vin Weber, regarding the Tea Party lawmakers. Vin Weber is a former member of Congress from Minnesota, now a big time lobbyist and Republican consultant. Vin Weber: “One thing I do notice about \u2019em is when I ask them, ‘So how are you enjoying it?'” talking about the Tea Party members of Congress, “almost none of them say, ‘Oh, jeez, I\u2019m really loving this.\u2019 They all say some version of, ‘This is not what I\u2019d want to be doing, but I\u2019ve got to do it for the country.'” So, “Weber seemed genuinely surprised that this aversion to Washington didn\u2019t melt away once they arrived in town.”<\/p>\n
Gosh, what have we always speculated here? Or what have we always known? One of the biggest problems is conservatives run around the country, campaign, and get elected on conservatism; then go to Washington, get corrupted and co-opted by the culture there. Here\u2019s Vin Weber admitting it! Vin Weber is admitting it and shocked and stunned that the Tea Party guys haven\u2019t fallen for it yet. He says he\u2019s surprised. Yeah, they\u2019re not really loving this. They\u2019re here not doing what they want to do; they\u2019re trying to save the country. “Weber seemed genuinely surprised that this aversion to Washington didn\u2019t melt away once they got to town.” He says, ‘I can just tell you when I came to Congress we were rabble-rousers, but, boy, if you\u2019d asked any of us six months into it how we were enjoying it, we woulda said, “This is the greatest opportunity of a lifetime.”<\/p>\n
“‘It just struck me, and it\u2019s part and parcel of this anti-government mind-set,'” meaning: “We in the Republican Party. ‘We\u2019re not anti-government,\u2019 these Tea Party anti-government people, why, they\u2019re so damn serious, they can\u2019t enjoy this! They don\u2019t understand the kind of power they\u2019ve got. They don\u2019t realize the fun they could be having. When we got here, we had a ball! We just fell right into it and we wanted to become big parts of the machine!” I\u2019m adding my own words here but that\u2019s how I\u2019m interpreting what Weber means. “‘Yeah, it just struck me,\u2019 Weber said. ‘It\u2019s part and parcel of this anti-government mind-set.'” This is a reporter writing: “I wondered if maybe the Tea Partiers\u2019 contempt for Washington was just a kind of outsiders\u2019 schtick.<\/p>\n
“Weber replied glumly, ‘I\u2019d feel better about it if I thought it was,\u2019 but Weber said, ‘I think these people are genuinely anti-Washington,'” and that makes him nervous. Can\u2019t have that! If they\u2019re anti-Washington, we don\u2019t want \u2019em here. “Charlie Black, longtime Republican strategerist and lobbyist confidently predicted when he talked to [the New York Times reporter] about the more radical members of the freshman class, they\u2019ll become the establishment. You wait.” I thought George Will said there was no Republican establishment anymore! I thought the Republican establishment itself was trying to say there\u2019s no establishment in recent weeks. I thought they were all saying it has just a fiction of everybody\u2019s imagination. Here\u2019s Charlie Black: Yeah, they\u2019ll become the establishment.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s talking about the Tea Party freshmen: They\u2019ll become the establishment in time; not worried about it. Bill Kristol again: “I\u2019ve been slightly, not worried, but I\u2019ve just regarded it as one of the things I can do as a genuine Tea Party sympathizer to counsel Tea Party types to be sensible, not go overboard and not go in the wrong direction. From my point of view, I wouldn\u2019t want \u2019em to win all of their fights.” He wants \u2019em to lose some. Bill Kristol wants the Tea Party to lose some. The New York Times is worried that the wrong people might get control of the Republican Party. That\u2019s what this story is about. The reason why this story is running is because of abject fear of the Tea Party. The Washington elite love a Republican elite that agrees to be second fiddle.<\/p>\n
The media and the Washington elite love a Republican elite who agree to be the minority. The Washington elite, the New York Times, and the media love a Republican elite that understands its place is number two in the pecking order. So the New York Times is now worried the “wrong” people might get control of the GOP — and you know how concerned the New York Times is about the well-being of the Republican Party. They need the party to maintain its mind-set of second fiddle, second place, always on defense, always not really in the clique and striving to get in it. That\u2019s what they want the Republican Party to be, and the Tea Party threatens that.<\/p>\n
Scott Reed: “Yep, trying to, that\u2019s the secret of politics: Trying to control a segment of people without those people recognizing you\u2019re trying to control \u2019em.” Luckily none of these hicks in the Tea Party would ever read the New York Times so they won\u2019t figure out what\u2019s being done on \u2019em. Stop and think of this. Here are these Republican elites announcing all of this, being quoted by name in the New York Times Sunday Magazine as though the Tea Party members of Congress are never gonna find out about this! It\u2019s a — I don\u2019t know — open declaring of war? What we\u2019ve always known is going on, what they\u2019ve always denied is going on, now it\u2019s happening and the New York Times proudly writes a cover story in this weekend\u2019s magazine of 7,028 words, 73 paragraphs. From the New York Times article: “George Will recently said there is no such thing as the Republican establishment, which is a little like Michael Douglas say there\u2019s no such thing as Hollywood.” That\u2019s from the article. That\u2019s not me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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