"I Was the Tea Party Before There Was a Tea Party"

Got Crow?

With their ears to the ground, crystal balls at the ready and a few Magic 8 Balls for extra measure, long-in-the-tooth Republicans like five-term senator Mitch McConnell are mounting an aggressive effort to undermine the credibility of advocacy groups like the Tea Party by denying them any Senate primary victories, cutting into their fund-raising and diminishing them as a future force in Republican politics.

At the apex of the rise of the Tea Party, the conservative groups stirred up a hornet’s nest for establishment Republican candidates.

“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in a New York Times interview, “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”

McConnell, the GOP Post Turtle, is one of three establishment Republicans who are facing primary challengers backed by Tea Party conservative groups. The Senate Conservatives Fund, The Madison Project, and FreedomWorks are supporting Matt Bevin, McConnell’s rival in Kentucky.

"I won't let you down.  I will lead with integrity…We will debate our ideas openly, we will vote without fear…The best conservative ideas for lifting Americans out of poverty will get a hearing," promised McConnell at this weekend’s CPAC conference.

"It was a speech by a politician," one attendee noted wryly.

Declaring the need “to crush them everywhere,” are the words of a self-serving, small-minded power hungry politician who has already been in Washington far too long.

Running to his real friends at The New York Times to trash the very people he was attempting to court just days before is loathsome and despicable.  I hope Bevin wears him out in the primary.  We don’t need a betrayer of limited government

There’s No Reason To Dress This Monster Up

Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) refuses to apologize for a fundraising email in which he featured a burning cross.  That cross forms a “T”.  He asserts that it represents the Tea Party.

After being called out for his demented message, he sent a statement to Roll Call refusing to apologize for the imagery.  That statement was filled with insensitive and racially charged names.

“Tea Party members have circulated countless altered pictures depicting President Obama and the First Lady as monkeys. Tea Party members also called my fellow Member of Congress, civil rights hero John Lewis, a ‘n***ger,’ and Rep. Barney Frank a ‘faggot.’ One could go on and on, because there is overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation. If the shoe fits, wear it.”

This demented Democrat was ousted from office in 2010 but was renominated in the newly gerrymandered, heavily blue Ninth District two years later and won in the general election.

Apparently the voters in that district pray with Grayson at the altar of Satan.  They and Grayson are a disgrace to humanity.

He is the most incredibly twisted, delusional liar ever to be elected to office. 

UPDATE:  Hey Alan, if you happen across this post and don't like my portrayal of you, just remember you started it.

Irascible “Snarlin’ Arlen” Spector Dead At 82

Specter died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his son Shanin told the Associated Press.

Reviled by the right, mistrusted by the left and ever unpredictable, was nonetheless a major force in the U.S. Senate for three decades, casting what were often crucial votes on everything from judicial nominations to economic policy.

As a member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, it was in 1987 that Specter helped to defeat confirmation of President Ronald Reagan’s Supreme Court nomination, Robert Bork.  Four years later, his aggressive questioning of Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment during Clarence Thomas’ nomination hearing, helped him ascend to the nation’s highest court.

In February 2009, he voted for the Democrats’ economic stimulus package, inflaming GOP sentiment against him.

Specter announced on April 28, 2009 that he was changing party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.  The party switch, which Vice President Biden helped to engineer behind the scenes, temporarily gave Democrats the 60th vote they needed to overcome Republican filibusters against President Obama's health care overhaul.

Later in 2009, Specter got a dose of the growing Tea Party rebellion when he appeared at a town hall meeting in Philadelphia alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The raucous scene that followed, aired on newscasts and posted on YouTube, would shake Democrats, embolden Republicans and force the White House to accelerate its health care strategy. It nearly succeeded in upending Obama's initiative.  It was this same meeting where a young woman blasted the senator telling him, "You have awakened a sleeping giant."

Pennsylvanians helped Joe Sestak to defeat Specter in that state’s Democratic Party primary on May 18, 2010.

The former senator announced on August 28, 2012 that he was battling cancer again proclaiming it was “another battle I intend to win.”

Rest in peace you grumpy, old warhorse.  

Sarah Palin: "They Called Us Un-American"

Amid the rain in Indianola, Iowa thousands gathered to hear the firebrand speak.  Talking heads of every stripe had, for weeks, predicted that Sarah Palin would or wouldn’t announce her entry into the 2012 presidential race.

She took the stage to the sound of chants from the crowd of “Run, Sarah, Run.”  The rain stopped and Palin began her forty-two minute speech that included her bedrock theme of restoring America, American exceptionalism and developing American energy resources.

At one point, perhaps to remind everyone of how she’d been outspent in her own campaigns in Alaska, she said, “Like you, I’m not for sale.”  I think this speaks explicitly to how the corporate-controlled media remain flummoxed by her motives.

No one knows with any certainty what Sarah’s plans are for 2012.  One thing is sure; she plans to speak forcefully to Americans that this administration is not winning the future.  “[It is] losing our country and with it the American dream.”

She reminded Americans—not those who live in New York, Washington or LA—but ordinary Americans who live in the heartland of this country that they were part of a movement.  “You got up off your couch; you came down from the deer stand, you came out of the duck blind; you got off the John Deere; and we took to the streets,” she said.

"We can confront the problem," she said, "[A]nd we can achieve lasting reform...We will be demonized; they'll mock you; they'll make things up; they'll tell you to go to hell...We won't say, 'No, you go to hell,' we won't say that...No, the road isn't easy, but it's nothing compared to the suffering and the sacrifice of those who came before us."

Then, to hammer the point home, she paraphrased The Great Emancipator saying, “We shall nobly save, not meanly lose, this last best hope on Earth.”

The most recent Fox News polls show 74% of voters think Palin should not run.  For the 66% of Tea Party members who think she should not run, the unflappable Sarah said, “Polls?  Nah...They’re for strippers and cross-country skiers.”

Gutsy broad, that Sarah.

Via Memeorandum

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