I warned moderate republicans that the Tea Party was going to be a HUGE negative for them for years to come.
Americans were looking for MORE compromise from their leaders, not LESS. To create an entire branch dedicated to no compromise was.....well....dumb. It's wrong to classify all Republicans as Tea Partiers, obviously. But they made the decision to cozy up to those people instead of ostracizing them from the get go, and thus they get what they deserve. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:01 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote: > > In some circles "Tea Party" is now a bogey-man word that folks pin to any > Republican. It's their thought that by trying to make the assertion that > Tea Party == Republican (which isn't always true, but that's a different > email thread), they can infer that Republican == Tea Party. Common logical > fallacy. It's like saying Democrat == Liberal and Republican == > Conservative. > > But with regard to the fact that the House GOP is funding the defense of > DOMA, that is based on the fact that the Obama DOJ has said they would not. > Personally I think any budget for the DOJ should be reduced by the amount > that is being spent on private defense of the law, since that's technically > their domain.... however I don't think that's going to happen. > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some > smelting to find it. > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I read that drivel and found nothing about the Tea Party. Is that the > > boogeyman word you use make your pointy? > > > > Wasn't that a bi-partisan bill that Clinton signed into law? > > > > Now it's evil? > > > > . > > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/01/03/tea-party-republicans-favor-spending-taxpayer-money-on-anti-gay-discrimination/ > > > > > > I don't get it, they keep saying we're broke and have to cut back on > > > spending (while reducing taxes to the rich of course), but are quite > > > willing to spend 15 million+ on DOMA. What a waste. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
