If we can defeat this new advance of totalitarianism on the Hill in the next couple months, it will be due to them. And I hope that this is the end of Max Baucus’ political career. Not to mention many others’ of course…
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Douche is sh*t-faced.
Is there anything we can learn from the East European tea parties of 1989?
[McConnel] was in an unenviable position, and he could hardly suppose that he could impose any discipline on his caucus.
Of course he could — he could take away committee memberships. The tea parties had nothing to do with the GOP opposition to working with Obama on health care.
The GOP opposition worked against Obama on health care, not with him. Republicans introduced lots of alternative bills that got little press coverage.
The Tea Parties are a necessary communication link when a government is unresponsive to the will of the electorate, and when the MSM does an inadequate job of reporting the excesses of said government. The Tea Parties legislators’s feet to the fire when the GOP can’t and the MSM won’t.
To answer my own question…there are two tips we can pick up from the GDR’s Monday Demonstrations (which, sadly, are not well known to Americans). One we’re already doing: keeping the protests peaceful – it’s the other side that’s fomenting violence (and for some reason all the SEIU victims are named Ken). A little something extra we can do on that end – high-profiled person(s) reminding everybody to keep it peaceful, our version of Kurt Masur.
http://www.answers.com/topic/kurt-masur
(Scroll down to “An Instrument of Peace”)
The second tip we can take is to hold the protests weekly. If it was good enough for east Germany, it’s good enough for us.
The Tea Parties can also spawn candidates, not as a third party but as a recruiting ground for the GOP. The party fatcats can’t control who enters the primaries.
Heh, I’m calling the Republican elites Garfield, and it’s the Dems eating all our lasagna.
“The tea parties had nothing to do with the GOP opposition to working with Obama on health care.”
Wow, Jim is now a Republican insider! Who’d’a thunk?
Of course – the Republicans were falling all over themselves to bring about socialized medicine (tea parties be damned!), but it was the tyranny of one man who stopped them all from voting their conscience! It’s so obvious!