quisling worked for the ACLU, did you? Pretending to don the garb of the Tea Party movement, he’s the co-founder of a supposedly Tea Party–oriented organization known as “FreedomWorks.” I’m not sure what Armey has in common with the true Tea Party movement, besides the fact that he might drink Earl Grey.
As I write, Dick Armey is circulating a position paper, a manifesto of sorts, billed as the “Contract From America.” We’re told more than 100,000 Americans submitted ideas that, after debate by who knows who within Armey’s organization, were pared down to a list of twenty-two proposed, grassroots-inspired solutions. These solutions include stopping tax hikes, demanding a balanced budget, protecting the Constitution, rejecting cap-and-trade legislation, protecting freedom of the press, passing real healthcare reform, and limiting the size of government, among others.
In fairness, every one of them is a good statement, something the government ought to do. I have no problem with that. But after studying their proposal, something stood out in bold caps to me. There’s not one mention of illegal immigrants, not one mention about the need to defend our borders, there’s not one mention about language—English-only—or ballot reform to make sure dead people and illegal aliens don’t vote. Moreover, there isn’t any mention of ways to deal with our crumbling culture, nothing about prayer, or abortion, or gun rights, or traditional marriage, or the corrupting influence of pornography.
That’s when I started to smell a rat.
I dug deeper.
One lackey, who worked on the project, a man whose name is unimportant, said, “The goal of this document is to create the biggest tent around economic conservatism as possible. This is a bottom-up document. It is from the people, and that is a very powerful idea.”32 Pause there for a moment. The first problem is that they’ve focused only on “economic conservatism.” Of course, the middle class cares deeply about that topic. But what does it matter if the economy is thriving if we’ve lost personal freedoms, our borders remain open to anybody with a dirty bomb in their backpack, and our kids are told they should “learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims” 33 in public school?
No, this “Contract From America” is flawed. It’s just another way the Republican Party hopes to co-opt the Tea Party movement by crafting proposed solutions simply to get themselves reelected without alienating the huge block of people who are pro-abortion, pro-open borders, pro-same-sex marriage, or who are otherwise uncomfortable with our Judeo-Christian heritage. They’re pretending they are the real patriots.
I don’t buy it for one second.
What’s more, virtually all movements that begin strong, that are based on core principles, are co-opted by wolves wearing sheepskin. How? They get seduced by those in the center of power. Right now it’s the Tea Party movement that’s being courted by the same dunces that got us into the mess we’re in. Watch out for those who put “Tea Party” in their name but in fact are nothing more than front groups for other interests.
Beware Republicans bearing grifts.
Tempest in the Teapot
So, there’s a counter-revolution going on.
The people have thrown incumbents out in several places already: Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Nobody expected Scott Brown, a political unknown, to be the first Republican to capture the seat previously held for fifty years by a Democrat, most notably by the now-deceased Chap-paquiddick Survivor. Turns out Scott Brown was Judas with a shave and a haircut. I warned you not to trust the guy. I told you not to Obamalize him. I was the only conservative to stem the euphoria two days after the Brown victory in Massachusetts. After all, Brown is only a politician. Maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of the Brotherhood on Showtime, but I expected he’d compromise—and he did.
As we’ve seen, the
As I write, Dick Armey is circulating a position paper, a manifesto of sorts, billed as the “Contract From America.” We’re told more than 100,000 Americans submitted ideas that, after debate by who knows who within Armey’s organization, were pared down to a list of twenty-two proposed, grassroots-inspired solutions. These solutions include stopping tax hikes, demanding a balanced budget, protecting the Constitution, rejecting cap-and-trade legislation, protecting freedom of the press, passing real healthcare reform, and limiting the size of government, among others.
In fairness, every one of them is a good statement, something the government ought to do. I have no problem with that. But after studying their proposal, something stood out in bold caps to me. There’s not one mention of illegal immigrants, not one mention about the need to defend our borders, there’s not one mention about language—English-only—or ballot reform to make sure dead people and illegal aliens don’t vote. Moreover, there isn’t any mention of ways to deal with our crumbling culture, nothing about prayer, or abortion, or gun rights, or traditional marriage, or the corrupting influence of pornography.
That’s when I started to smell a rat.
I dug deeper.
One lackey, who worked on the project, a man whose name is unimportant, said, “The goal of this document is to create the biggest tent around economic conservatism as possible. This is a bottom-up document. It is from the people, and that is a very powerful idea.”32 Pause there for a moment. The first problem is that they’ve focused only on “economic conservatism.” Of course, the middle class cares deeply about that topic. But what does it matter if the economy is thriving if we’ve lost personal freedoms, our borders remain open to anybody with a dirty bomb in their backpack, and our kids are told they should “learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims” 33 in public school?
No, this “Contract From America” is flawed. It’s just another way the Republican Party hopes to co-opt the Tea Party movement by crafting proposed solutions simply to get themselves reelected without alienating the huge block of people who are pro-abortion, pro-open borders, pro-same-sex marriage, or who are otherwise uncomfortable with our Judeo-Christian heritage. They’re pretending they are the real patriots.
I don’t buy it for one second.
What’s more, virtually all movements that begin strong, that are based on core principles, are co-opted by wolves wearing sheepskin. How? They get seduced by those in the center of power. Right now it’s the Tea Party movement that’s being courted by the same dunces that got us into the mess we’re in. Watch out for those who put “Tea Party” in their name but in fact are nothing more than front groups for other interests.
Beware Republicans bearing grifts.
Tempest in the Teapot
So, there’s a counter-revolution going on.
The people have thrown incumbents out in several places already: Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Nobody expected Scott Brown, a political unknown, to be the first Republican to capture the seat previously held for fifty years by a Democrat, most notably by the now-deceased Chap-paquiddick Survivor. Turns out Scott Brown was Judas with a shave and a haircut. I warned you not to trust the guy. I told you not to Obamalize him. I was the only conservative to stem the euphoria two days after the Brown victory in Massachusetts. After all, Brown is only a politician. Maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of the Brotherhood on Showtime, but I expected he’d compromise—and he did.
As we’ve seen, the
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