by Hugh Holub on Oct. 31, 2010, under politics
For those who love to watch a good dog fight, starting Wednesday we’re going to be treated to one heck of a conflict….that is if a bunch of the Tea Party favorites win US House and Senate seats.
On one hand we have a rebellion brewing among the right wing who are tired of business as usual in Washington from both establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans.
On the other hand we have the establishment Republicans just waiting to co-opt the Tea Partiers.
Expecting to lead their rebellion against federal spending, Tea Partiers will run smack dab into the Washington system that will dilute and derail their agenda. That hsould only exacerbate their anger and keep the political fight going for the next 2 years.
And you thought everything would quiet down after the election….fat chance.
Here are some interesting commentaries about the looming fight between the establishment within the GOP and the Tea Party:
Karl Rove
American Crossroads
Freedomworks
Of course it isn’t just the Republican establishment that has an elitist attitude to the grassroots rebellion going on in the country…
For those who love to watch a good dog fight, starting Wednesday we’re going to be treated to one heck of a conflict….that is if a bunch of the Tea Party favorites win US House and Senate seats.
On one hand we have a rebellion brewing among the right wing who are tired of business as usual in Washington from both establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans.
On the other hand we have the establishment Republicans just waiting to co-opt the Tea Partiers.
Expecting to lead their rebellion against federal spending, Tea Partiers will run smack dab into the Washington system that will dilute and derail their agenda. That hsould only exacerbate their anger and keep the political fight going for the next 2 years.
And you thought everything would quiet down after the election….fat chance.
Here are some interesting commentaries about the looming fight between the establishment within the GOP and the Tea Party:
The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea PartyHere’s an article about Tea Party favorite Jim Demint:
By FRANK RICH
….Karl Rove outed the Republican elites’ contempt for Tea Partiers in the campaign’s final stretch. Much as Barack Obama thought he was safe soliloquizing about angry white Middle Americans clinging to “guns or religion” at a San Francisco fund-raiser in 2008, so Rove now parades his disdain for the same constituency when speaking to the European press. This month he told Der Spiegel that Tea Partiers are “not sophisticated,” and then scoffed, “It’s not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.” ….
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Tea Party Kingmaker Becomes Power Unto HimselfHere is a good article about what is driving Tea Party leaders…
…He would lack the votes to win as Senate leader; even if all the Tea Party candidates win, their caucus will be small. And many of his colleagues blame him for backing less viable Tea Party candidates who may cost the Republicans a Senate majority, making it unlikely they would give him any leadership position. ….
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D.I.Y. Populism, Left and RightHere are some links to Rove, American Crossroads and the Freedomworks Tea Party sites:
And perhaps because it’s so rooted in spontaneity and anger, the modern mini-movement, while inspiring in its capacity to engage Americans in the issues of the day, may also lack the intellectual staying power of the last century’s uprisings. The original progressives gave us women’s suffrage and consumer protections; the civil rights movement desegregated our schools and restaurants; the conservatives introduced still controversial but enduring ideas like school choice and supply-side economics.
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Karl Rove
American Crossroads
Freedomworks
Of course it isn’t just the Republican establishment that has an elitist attitude to the grassroots rebellion going on in the country…
Elitism: The Charge That Obama Can’t Shake
….WASHINGTON — In the Boston-area home of a wealthy hospital executive one Saturday evening this month, President Obama departed from his usual campaign stump speech and offered an explanation as to why Democrats were seemingly doing so poorly this election season. Voters, he said, just aren’t thinking straight…
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