Of course there is not a civil war brewing in the Republican Party. Someone just made it up. But a leading conservative has recently called the non-civil non-war an impending bloodbath.
After the havoc the Republican Party and its newly formed teabagger faction have wreaked on this country from Ronald Reagan to George H.W. Bush and culminating with the horror of George W. Bush and his neocon policies, a bloodbath sounds just fine by me. Indeed, one is long overdue.
According to yesterday's Houston Chronicle, the teabaggers in Texas are fed up and want to throw all of the bums out. In Texas, the bums happen to be Republicans.
Even Rick Perry is a target of this group because he apparently is not conservative enough.
While it's too early to determine if the Tea Party movement will prove to be a durable political force, its candidates could prove a costly and unwanted distraction for establishment Republicans who would rather be aiming their fire at Democrats. Case in point: the GOP race for governor, where Tea Party ally Debra Medina of Wharton has announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination against incumbent Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whom she dismisses derisively as "get-along-style politicians."
Perry and Hutchison are not alone in the tea partiers quest to get rid of the bums.
A conservative who is ranked among conservatives as very conservative is not conservative enough, according to tea partiers.
"It's a misdirected frustration," said Hudson, "because Conaway is one of the most conservative members of Congress."
Hudson has a point. Conaway boasts a 96 percent lifetime voting rating from the American Conservative Union, the gold standard for right-thinking politicos. But to Clowdus, he's just another fox in Washington's henhouse.
In an suburban area outside of Houston, The Woodlands, the incumbent Republican there is also being challenged by the right b/c the incumbent voted for Bush era spending and Wall St. bailouts.
"I felt like the people in our district were not being represented very conservatively when it comes to fiscal issues," says Russell, who was the first Texas candidate to sign talk show host Glenn Beck's "9-12 declaration" demanding limited government and religious values.
I have to admit that the tea partiers do have a point. There are a lot of bums in Washington who more than deserve the boot. But it would be a disaster for Texas to replace the bums with bums who would be a far more dangerous threat to the state's economic well-being, not to mention our personal financial survival.
Teabaggers remind me, in no small way, of folks like Phil and Wendy Gramm. As we know Phil Gramm is responsible for repealing the Glass-Seagall Act in 1999, late on Christmas Eve after most lawmakers had left Washington. Repealing this regulatory legislation that had been written to protect our nation from financial upheaval and ruin, did ultimately end up causing our nation's recent financial upheaval and ruin. Phil Gramm owns it and the sub-prime debacle. Despite the havoc Gramm wreaked, he is personally doing just peachy fine. His wife, Wendy, is no better. Just before Enron imploded, Gramm had sold her shares of Enron stock. She made out like a bandit. Most of Enron's employees were not so lucky. Many if not most faced financial devastation.
Republicans like Phil and Wendy are really good at taking care of themselves while letting everyone else to go straight to hell in a hand basket. They never had to pay a price for the chaos and misery they visited upon Texans and the rest of the American people.
Teabaggers would be no better because this is what conservatives do. Look out for yourself first and foremost. Screw everyone else.
So-called moderate Republicans are no different, really, from the teabaggers. As far as I am concerned, there are no moderate Texas Republican lawmakers. All are conservative and many have strong libertarian leanings.
Republicans held the House and Senate when President Clinton was in power. Shame on Clinton for signing Gramm's evil bill in 1999. Shame on Republicans for repealing an act that drove our financial security to hell. Once again, Gramm shoved it through late on Christmas Eve of 1999 when most lawmakers were absent. Only an evil coward would commit such an un-American act. Gramm knew damned well he could have never repealed the Glass-Seagall Act in the light of day with all members present.
Republicans held the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate for eight long and very dark years under George W. Bush.
We are well aware of George W. Bush and his rubber stamping Republican Party's record of failure on all fronts. We are living the hellish consequences of twelve years of iron-clad Republican rule today, 24/7. There are few well-paying jobs available. One in six Americans are jobless or under-employed, thanks to Republican ideological policies, its commitment to corporate interests, the military/industrial complex, its appalling incompetence and mind numbing greed and corruption. Does anyone remember Jack Abramoff and company? Jack may be in jail, but his lobbyist buddies still lurk around in Washington seeking out easy targets to do their bidding. Since all Republicans oppose all of President Obama's agenda for the nation's economic recovery and reinvestment, we can assume the lobbyists have found their rubber stamping go to pimps. Lobbyists would love nothing more than to go back to the W. era, in a heart beat.
Will Republicans ever in a day step up to right their wrongs, work on behalf of their constituents. Not in your dreams, folks. All are frantically opposing and blocking President Barack Obama's efforts to strengthen our economy, rebuild America and pass health care reform that will both save lives and drive down the cost of care.
Over the past several years the GOP has proved time and time again that it is incapable of taking responsibility for its appalling and abysmal failures. It is far too easy for them, and their enablers in hate talk radio and Fox right wing propaganda news, to blame its shortcomings on someone else. It is convenient to fabricate a scape goat.
Hmmmm... Maybe this is why Rush, Glenn, Fox Fixed Propaganda, and the Republicans frequently invoke Hitler and Nazis.
In my view far too many Republicans are irresponsible cowards who love war and yet few of our war hawking lawmakers enlist in the military. Republicans say they want terrorists brought to justice and yet most are yelping and shrieking in naked fear about holding the evil doers accountable in a U.S. Court of law down the street from where the horrible carnage occurred. Gosh, what a bunch of sissies, as my late father would say.
And the Teabaggers. Please dear God. Talk about a group of misinformed jokers who are being led around by the nose by a self-serving demagogue called Glenn Beck. The more he can whip teabaggers into a frenzy, the higher Beck's ratings climb. Beck gets richer in the process. And so does FOX. Meanwhile, the teabaggers who seem to have a lot of time on their hands to march to Washington don't seem to have a lot of work to do. Have most lost their jobs?
Thanks to Karl Rove the teabagger types also bought into the W. toxic poison in 2000. When Karl Rove unleashed this genie out of a bottle he really did Democrats a favor. Thank you Karl. You helped fuel the change we were waiting for.
And now suddenly the teabagger types are in an uproar over W. spending and Wall St. bailouts b/c they realize they have been had. The pony they hitched their wagons to in 2000 and 2004 drove them straight over a cliff.
Indeed, without both the Republican so-called "moderates" and the teabaggers self-proclaimed conservatives, George W. Bush, the worst President in recent U.S. history would never have been elected in the first place.
Like easily led sheep, the tea party folks are really easy to fool, too. Most unwittingly cheered their own deportation back to their own white European roots.
Ignorance and hate are really bad for one's mental health and overall well-being
Let me be brutally blunt. Most of us know why Texas and southern Republicans and teabagging uber conservatives are in an uproar today. Both factions are unwilling to state the obvious.
I will gladly do it for them.
Reality check no. 1:
All Texas Republicans, including the tea party faction, are complete wrecks because an African American won the 2008 Election by a rather drop dead huge majority. There was no need for a recount or a call for the Supreme Court to intervene. President Obama won hands down.
Get over it Republicans. We live in the 21st Century now. Demographics in Texas, in case you didn't know it, are changing as I type.
Reality check no. 2: There are few jobs in America right now because of lovely, self-serving folks like Phil Gramm and the his soul mates in the Republican Party and their conservative policies that allow corporate interests to trump those of the people of Texas and in the U.S.
Lazy Texas Republicans in Washington also need to know that the days of the Bush era, do-nothing, Tuesday-Thursday country club Congress are history and we the people demand and expect your time 24/7 until health care reform is passed.
