"Our great nation can no longer afford compromise and bipartisanship""

[Bucky]

from ==> http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/317179-tea-party-groups-tell-alexander-to-quit

[font size="4"]Tea Party groups tell Alexander to quit[/font]
By Blake Neff - 08/15/13

A coalition of conservative Tea Party groups published an open letter Wednesday urging Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to retire instead of seeking a third term next year.

The letter warns Alexander that if he refuses to “retire with dignity,” he will eventually face a significant primary challenge from the right.

“Unfortunately, our great nation can no longer afford compromise and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous,” the letter reads. "America faces serious challenges and needs policymakers who will defend conservative values, not work with those who are actively undermining those values.”

The letter also makes reference to Alexander's Little Plaid Book, a short work of political advice he published in 1998. The letter said he should follow the book's advice to “serve two terms, then get out,” rather than fall into a “mire of hypocrisy.”

Like with the anti-American "majority of the majority" policy of the House Republican caucus, we can watch here a slow drift toward extremism and undemocratic divisiveness. These Tea people have to be beaten at the polls before they have to be beaten in the streets.

I give you a quote, often misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, but actually from Methodist minister Halford Luccock from his sermon Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)

[font size="4" face="verdana" color="#2020c0"]When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled "made in Germany"; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, "Americanism."

The high-sounding phrase "the American way" will be used by interested groups intent on profit, to cover a multitude of sins against the American and Christian tradition, such sins as lawless violence, teargas and shotguns, denial of civil liberties … There is an obligation resting on us all to dedicate our minds to the hard task of thinking in terms of Christian objectives and values, so that we may be saved from moral confusion.

For never, probably, has there been a time when there was a more vigorous effort to surround social and international questions with such a fog of distortion and prejudices and hysterical appeal to fear. We have touched a new low in a Congressional investigation this Summer, used by some participating in it to whip up fear and prejudice against many causes of human welfare, such as concern for peace and the rights of labor to bargain collectively.[/font]