They Won't Listen

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/7/26/135456/627

They Won't Listen

by BooMan
Fri Jul 26th, 2013 at 01:54:56 PM EST


Apparently, there is no talking to these people:

National Republican officials say they’ve done everything imaginable the past few years to convince the House rank-and-file that fiscal battles are eroding the party’s popularity and hurting its prospects in general elections. Trying again, they say, won’t do any good.

They don't listen to their consultants; they don't follow their leaders. The RNC came up with a game plan. No one cared.

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Fiscal Armageddon could remake Hill in 2014 elections

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/debt-ceiling-continuing-resolution-fiscal-armageddon-congress-94785.html

[TheLion]

1. I underestimated the Tea Party

When they first mutated, I looked at their demonstrations and their positions and especially at the local participants and thought, "A bunch of instable carnival geeks like that can't upset the American political process", as they clearly intended and still intend to do.

What I underestimated was the power that unlimited astroturf funding could do to keep a geek show alive and in the forefront of public perception, or that the Teabaggers would turn their efforts from reforming American politics (if that was ever their intent) or even from opposing Obama and the Democrats, to crushing the GOP.

Even in that I underestimated them, thinking they could never ruin the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt and Goldwater and even of Reagan, but by crackie they've managed to do so.

Like isolationists or free-silverists or yellow-perilists or Hearst rabblerousers, we're just going to have to let the system purge itself of their nonsense.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The Tea Party was always Dick Armey's puppet show.

As such, they always had access to lots of money. No matter what the geeks might have thought they were doing, they were always advancing the interests of the 1%. Gun fever, radical racism, etc. were just distractors that kept the droolers engorged with rage and in the fold.

[meow2u3]

3. The Tea Party is a dangerous Trojan horse

who, to a person, campaigned on the promise of creating jobs, but once elected, went back on their word and obsessively launched a campaign to bring the country to its knees, making a laughingstock out of the nation.