In an attempt to compromise with the Democrats on the fiscal cliff issue, Republican leaders removed four Tea Party supporters off the Budget and Financial Services Committee. The excuse given? They were "clearly not team players." The four Republicans fired off the committee were Justin Amash of Michigan, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, Walter Jones of North Carolina and David Schweikert of Arizona. Ron Paul spent more than 20 years in Congress and is largely responsible for starting and growing the movement against government indulgence that is bankrupting the country. Dr. Paul warned the GOP leadership that by removing these men they are incurring the wrath of the Tea Party movement. "They're going to punish freshmen legislators?" Paul asked. "If you're looking for dissension, then you're going to get it."
These four Tea Party Republicans will win with the people, say Paul. "These congressmen will never cave. They're going to get the support of the people ... They will become heroes." They had already gained popularity with the Tea Party people by working against the Budget Control Act, which was not really about controlling the budget at all.
No conservative who cares about the financial problems of the country could ever support the Republican leadership. They have made it clear that anybody with serious belief in reducing the financial strain on the American people caused by government spending can not be allowed in the debate. Paul called the removal of these men "amazing," saying, "You get punched for actually having sincere beliefs." Shame on the Republican leadership for knocking down the few Republicans who are actually listening to the people of this country who want to do something serious to control the federal budget.
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Unbeatable combination: I just love optimism, don't you.
Seems like I heard similar predictions several times before by the same individual, let me see if I remember correctly.
Prediction 1) John McCain will beat Barack Obama in 2008
" 2) Sarah Palin will run for next President in 2012
" 3) Sarah Palin will beat Barack Obama in 2012
" 4) Mitt Romney will beat Obama in 2012
Ahhhhhhhh, What the hell, 0 for 4 is a perfect score thus far, why break the run of loosing predictions now. Go for number five,
5) Libertarians aligned with Teapublicans will beat the Democrat candidate for president in 2016
It's totally unbelievable that a man who can only be credited with a total of one Bill of Legislation in his entire political career (that being the naming of a rural Texas Post Office) could ever be elected to the position of outhouse custodian, much less to the Congress of the United States. But, elected and reelected he was, time and time again for 36 years. It makes one wonder if the people of his home district ever know anything about the person they are electing to represent them in Congress.
His numerous consecutive reelections along with the onset of senility, have apparently combined to make him feel as though he is relevent in politics. When in actuality, Ron Paul is nothing more than a third rate propagandist of states rights ideology. An ideology and mental reasoning, similar in reasoning, to that of what the politicians of southern states harbored and which eventually led to the American Civil War.
Ron Paul, now predicting that the Teapublicans somehow hold the upper hand in the Republican Party, is nothing more than conjector by a disillusioned senior citizen. Delusionary reasoning, spoken by an old man who harbors vengeful animosity towards the party for never having won the Republican Party's nomination for the presidency.
IMO, the Teapublicans are a ideological combination, of the fringe Libertarian and extremist rightwing of the Republican Party. Together, they represent less than one million voters. Their extremist ideology of governmental denunciations and associated political antics, are without a doubt, a sharp pain in the backside of the RNC and the Republican leaders in both Houses of Congress. However, all things which are a heavy burden, in time will be discarded by the wayside. Knowing that to be an inevitable consequence of the Teapublicans and their extremist attitudes, coupled with 11 of the approximately 80 Teapublicans having loss their House Seats in the 2012 general election, it would appear that the Teapublicans are on their way out, not becoming stronger and certainly not wielding more political power.
The whole premise is just self serving wishful thinking on the part of an embittered old man.