By Douglas V. Gibbs
On November 2nd the Tea Party proved how effective the movement has been in American Politics. Tea Party Conservatives, candidates that are willing to fight to return this nation back to the U.S. Constitution, won in that election overwhelmingly. A wave of Tea Party Conservatism swept across America, splashing up against the California state line (California chose to continue its failing liberal tendencies). The establishment was challenged, and the patriots won.
One hopes that the establishment that has had control of the GOP, pushing moderate candidates, and acting like a bunch of professional politicians that only care once a year (election day) about the Constitution and the will of the voters, will not be able to sway these freshmen Congressmen, and that the few (very few) decent Republicans with experience in Congress will stand and fight with the Tea Party newcomers.
Thanks to the Conservative victory in November, John Boehner will become the Speaker of the House. He stood before a crowd to talk about how he felt, telling a story about humble beginnings, and dropping tears that touched the hearts of the sensitive folks in the audience.
I would rather a leader to not drop tears, and instead show strength and integrity.
Boehner, in my opinion, could be potentially disastrous as the GOP's leader. He sounds like a conservative Republican, sometimes, and I hope he's serious about what comes out of the right corner of his mouth. But the fact that he is a globalist reminds me that Boehner being Speaker of the House is a situation that is more of the same in the GOP. He is a professional politician, not a statesman, and the sooner he is either convinced to step down, or the sooner he has an epiphany and actually renounces his global stance, the better.
This is where the importance of the new voices in Congress becomes paramount.
We hear the rally cry that we must hold their feet to the fire, and I agree. But the election in November means nothing if the GOP leadership continues to steer the party in a leftist direction that they for some strange reason believe to be best for the party, and turns out to be not necessarily best for the nation. The Republican Party is full of progressive Republicans (Mary Bono Mack even called herself that in an interview with a local newspaper), and for America to move forward those Republicans that would make a better fit in the party of Marxist Democrats need to be gone.
Americans must continue the fight. Now is not the time to be complacent.
The Tea Party must continue to put pressure on the Republican Party, and the voters must continue to remind the cockroaches in Washington that they are there because we let them be there. 2012 will be a victory for the GOP, I have no doubt about that. But Americans need to make sure that the Republican Party holds to its conservative principles. If the Republican Party continues to be filled with politicians that are party hacks, or believe in global governance schemes, we have lost.
Reading the U.S. Constitution on the House Floor is a start, but one wonders if the members of Congress will understand what they are reading as the Constitution is read, and if they are simply doing the reading just for show.
I am hoping that at least the conservative members of the GOP will understand what they are hearing, and will consider it a call to action, despite their leader, John Boehner, being a party hack.
Maybe we will luck out, and Boehner will drop tears again, but this time in realization that he has been in political error, and that it is time now to serve America, not the Republican Party.
One can hope, at least.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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Did You Like John Boehner's Tear-Filled Speech? - Soda Head
Rep. Bono Mack faces political pressure from many sides - Press Enterprise
Republicans to begin reading Constitution out loud when they control U.S. House - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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