Ya got trouble right there in River City, with a capital T that Rhymes with P and stands for Tea Party.
Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of Freedom Works, the muscle behind the Tea Party, pledged last week that his organization would unseat all 28 Republicans who voted to extend the debt ceiling [paying the bills we already owe]. That includes both House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker of the House John Boehner. Kibbe made no bones about it saying that the Speaker “failed in his duty to represent the people and as a result it is time for him to go.” To get a taste of just how far gone Freedom Works is these days, last year they threw it’s founder Right-wing Texas Lunatic Dick Armey to the wolves for being too liberal. Wowzer!
Not to be out done, the so called “moderate” Republican side has former Republican congressman Steve LaTourette creating a new PAC that he said would “Beat the snot out of Tea Party Congressional candidates.” Adding to the moderate voices of the GOP, the top blood thirsty war monger in the House, Peter King called for Tea Party darling Rand Paul to be ousted from the Republican Party.
In response to the GOP moderates, the new and improved Heritage Foundation – now under the control of former Tea Party Senator Jim DeMint – weighed in with their platform of “bold new ideas!” I feel required to list just a few of these “bold new ideas” from last week’s Heritage platform meeting:
Replacement of Obamacare with nothing.
Replacement of Medicare and Medicaid with vouchers.
Replacement of public education with vouchers.
Replacement of food stamps, school lunches, preschool and Pell grants with nothing.
All recipients of any government welfare be drug tested and put to work.
Reduce the minimum wage to $5 an hour.
Allow oil, gas, coal and mining to do whatever they want wherever they want.
And that’s just a few of the Heritage Foundation’s “bold new ideas” without going into their War on Abortion, War on birth control, War on Women, War on gays and War on Hispanics.
Adding to all that nasty crap, Tea Party darlings Ted Cruz and Rand Paul now lead the pack into the Republican 2016 presidential primaries. Oops. I was just informed that since Fox New’s Mike Huckabee made his “women’s libido” sucking on “Uncle Sugar” speech he now tops the Republican ticket for President in 2016.
Thought this is perhaps the biggest internal war the GOP has ever had to deal with, we will not really know how it will play out until the first Wednesday come this November.