If only the GOP establishment could show its fangs and strike out against the liberals like they attack their own…
FACT: The tea party movement and likeminded conservatives gave the Republicans the House in November. (any individuals wanting to dispute this FACT are only fooling themselves into believing otherwise)
So, why berate “the ones who brung you?”
When reading an American Spectator piece about how the leadership consistently blocked efforts by Reps. King and Bachmann to defund the recently discovered Obamacare implementation spending in the CR passed yesterday, why are we hearing loathsome and resentful remarks coming from GOP leadership aides?
From Cantor’s office: "There is no way we can include their [Bachmann and King's] amendment; it would just bog us down and undercut the leadership goal of getting real cutting done through negotiations with Democrats and the White House.” Pressed about the leadership’s ‘promise’ given to Republicans on the Bachmann-King amendment as a stand-alone bill that has no chance of passage with the Senate Democrat majority: "This votes gives us the ability to say we voted to defund the slush fund, where it goes from there doesn't really matter," says an aide to Cantor. "We just want this off the table so we can get to some serious budget negotiations, not political stunts."
From McCarthy’s staff: “…there is nothing to all the hooey about how leadership is supporting funding of Obamacare, because we aren't bending to every whim of King and Queen Michele."
And Levin reported Monday: “I’m told that Boehner meets once a week, at least, with the freshman class. He thinks he has them under control, except for “twelve of the tea party crazies.” Hmmm, that’s what I’m told.”
In addition to the leadership’s staff, we’ve got cheerleaders like newly elected GOP Rep. Michael Grimm of New York calling citizens and representatives ‘extremists’: “The extreme wing of the Republican Party is making a big mistake with their flat-out opposition to a short-term continuing resolution. They’re not looking at the big picture, and the last thing we want to do is become like Nancy Pelosi in the last Congress, where it was 'my way or the highway.'" We’re not looking at the ‘big picture’, Mr. Grimm? Sounds like it’s YOUR WAY or the highway! This guy used his former Marine and former FBI associations to receive backing from the Staten Island Tea Party, and he repays them through insults?! I’m sure he, or his staff, would say one never officially endorsed the other, but the website bio that the local tea party wrote sounds like a very promising young conservative…oh well. Be sure to check out the link to his statement on healthcare, in which he says, “When I am elected to Congress this November, I will fight tooth and nail to repeal this trillion dollar - job killing - anti American legislation.” Umm, you just missed a huge ‘tooth and nail’ opportunity, Mr. Grimm.
Likewise, we’ve got one pundit saying conservatives are ‘zealous’ and ‘overreaching’. Speaking to Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer said, “As to the revolt among the conservatives, that is very interesting on the Republican side. I think the conservatives are rather zealous here and they may be overreaching. You don't want to shut down, and it won't help Republicans. If you are getting, as we are, a cut of $2 billion a week, even in the continuing resolutions, that's real money.” ‘Real money’, Mr. Krauthammer? Two billion is what our government spends in half a day! That fraction every few weeks is not going to hack away at our trillion-plus dollar deficit, nor our hemorrhaging multi-trillion dollar national debt. With statements like this, along with your 2012 picks for ‘serious presidential candidates' (and George Will’s, for that matter), your rapidly losing the respect of many who view you as a ‘serious’ political analyst.
Do ANY of these comments sound like anything that should be uttered out of the mouth of a ‘conservative’?! Hell, they sound like the run-of-the-mill elitist liberal comments, to be quite honest! Since constitutional conservatives are seemingly considered the ‘extremist wing’ of the Republican Party, let’s just call the Establishment ‘wing’ what they are: 'Wingless' (one might add ‘gutless’ and ‘spineless’ to the verbiage as well). You guys keep taking weak action and talking like this about a major portion of the conservative base, and not only will you have primary challengers throughout the next congressional races, but more importantly, you will assuredly split the party, creating a phisher that will swallow any hope of defeating Obama in 2012!
