GOP will have a hard time assimilating Tea-Partiers into the GOP establishment??

[JohnWxy]

There is a lot of discussion in the M$M about how the GOP will have a difficult time assimilating the rebellious Tea-Partiers just elected to Congress. What utter and ridiculous nonsense.

The Tea-Partiers cling to the same superstitions at the core of the Republican Party. They want 'smaller' government (which dove-tails nicely with a major purpose of the GOP, helping corporations circumvent and undermine efforts at regulating businesses to preclude their engaging in morally reprehensible as well as socially and economically costly practices). That's how the GOP gave us the Credit Collapse, fighting (and preventing) 50 State Attorneys-General from using consumer protection laws to rein in Predatory Lenders. Slipping in the Commodities Futures MOdernization Act as a rider to the Omnibus Spending bill in the last days of the Clilnton administraton. The CFMA is what made trading in Credit Default Swaps legal and UNREGULATED. The CDSs by ostensibly removing risk of loss due to default, made high rate (read sub-Prime mortgages) Bundled Mortgages (Collaterized Debt Obligations) so attractive to institutional investors and lit a fire under the sub-Prime loan market.


Tea-Partiers difficult to assimilate into the GOP? ...Nonsense. They will be warmly accepted and smoothly assimilated into the GOP like a hot horse turd dropping into a warm mound of equine excrement reeking the road.

[emulatorloo]

1. get your point, but I'm not so sure. I've been seeing Teabaggers threatening Boehner already on TV

and in letters to the editor. The GOP establishment aren't ideologues they just pretend to be. These teabaggers are honest to goodness rigid doctrinaire ideologues, they are going to the tough to manage.

[JohnWxy]

2. Yes, they are more hard-core than many GOPers.

Like all true-believers they are obdurate with their simple views. And of course absolutely sure they are right.

I just liked my metaphor so much, though.

[AlinPA]

3. Teabaggers and republicans fit together perfectly. There is no way a teabagger will be

ignored, they are responsible for the republicans taking over a lot of the U.S. governments (state and local) for their party. They are already absorbed; they are an integral part of their power and they have always been republicans.

[discopants]

4. Power will hook them. Lobbyist money will reel them in.

... and 2012 will be like shooting fish in a barrel.

:)

[recadna]

5. Tea-baggers are used by repubs like bathroom tissues

Did Ken Buck call t-baggers "losers" or somethings like that.

[JohnWxy]

6. Rand Paul reverses course on ear-marks ... even before he takes his seat!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=568796&mesg_id=568796


Next: tax cuts for the wealthy...cuzz it'll create JOBS..and NO NEED to worry about Deficit...LOL


Restoring Honor....uh-huh.

[baldguy]

7. Only up until their own Night Of The Long Knives.

2012 or 2016 - after they win back the WH.