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To Be Fair: The Topsy Turvy Looking Glass World of the Tea Party
The piecemeal approach to funding the government, and drawing it out until.the debt ceiling talks start is a tactical part of a strategy to defund other parts of government, as well as Obamacare. What is wrong with this strategy and approach?
The Tea Party caucus is leading the whole of the Republican party, if not the whole of the conservative movement, through a minfield of their own creation. The Tea Party caucus has the GOP led House putting up for funding only the parts of government no one actually wants to defund, or wouldn't dare attempt to defund. A more honest and less disingenuous approach than what we are seeing unfolding would be to put individual parts of the government up for defunding. This way those opposed to things could be held accountable -- accountable to the voters for their views and actions, instead of the obfuscated shenanigans we are witnessing.
Why not pass the continuing resolution (cr) passed by the US Senate? The Tea Party caucus wants to defund Obama care, so why not pass the cr separately and take up Obamacare on it't own merits?
Why not put up for defunding every part of government the TP doesn't want?
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Dante
To be fair, in the 'real' world it looks like for all of it's bluster and bloviating, the Tea Party is afraid to be responsible by being honest enough to be held accountable for things, but that's not the case behind a looking glass. Behind the looking glass up is down, left is right, and disingenuousness is honesty
The piecemeal approach to funding the government, and drawing it out until.the debt ceiling talks start is a tactical part of a strategy to defund other parts of government, as well as Obamacare. What is wrong with this strategy and approach?
The Tea Party caucus is leading the whole of the Republican party, if not the whole of the conservative movement, through a minfield of their own creation. The Tea Party caucus has the GOP led House putting up for funding only the parts of government no one actually wants to defund, or wouldn't dare attempt to defund. A more honest and less disingenuous approach than what we are seeing unfolding would be to put individual parts of the government up for defunding. This way those opposed to things could be held accountable -- accountable to the voters for their views and actions, instead of the obfuscated shenanigans we are witnessing.
Why not pass the continuing resolution (cr) passed by the US Senate? The Tea Party caucus wants to defund Obama care, so why not pass the cr separately and take up Obamacare on it't own merits?
Why not put up for defunding every part of government the TP doesn't want?
dD
Dante
To be fair, in the 'real' world it looks like for all of it's bluster and bloviating, the Tea Party is afraid to be responsible by being honest enough to be held accountable for things, but that's not the case behind a looking glass. Behind the looking glass up is down, left is right, and disingenuousness is honesty
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