TeaBagger Mark MEADOWS How they roll: Gerrymander; TeaBaggers; (add Voter Suppression). Shutdown

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Re-post from LiberalElite's locked LBN thread.


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http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/house-tea-party/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3

[font size=5]Architect of the brink: Meet the man behind the government shutdown[/font]

By Leigh Ann Caldwell, CNN

Washington (CNN) -- One of the most prominent developers of the plan that could shut the government down is a little-known congressman who has been in office only eight months. ....

Mark Meadows, who represents the western part of North Carolina and has wielded his influence behind the bright lights of the television cameras and the hot microphones.

In August, while lawmakers spent time in their districts, Meadows wrote a letter to his Republican leaders suggesting they tie the dismantling of Obamacare to the bill that funds the government for the next year. ....

Meadows successfully convinced 79 of his colleagues to sign on to his letter. And he went further, leading a group of 40 lawmakers to demand that the continuing resolution, or the short-term government funding bill at issue, zeroes out funding for President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement so far. ....

Meadows represents a conservative constituency. He was elected in 2012 and succeeded Democrat Heath Shuler, who decided not to run for reelection after the latest round of redistricting made the district swing heavily Republican. ....

In fact, his catapult from local businessman to elected official was launched with the help of local tea party groups. He underwent a vigorous interview process with the North Carolina-aligned tea party groups that included an intense vetting and interviewing process. ....

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1. Cont'd

With all their talk about how much they love the Constitution, the ‘Baggers just don’t accept the outcome of elections or Congressional products they don’t like. They pervert democratic (small “d”) mechanisms (like the Recall in California) into terrorist weapons against democracy, scouring The Federalist Papers to pervert James MADISON’s parliamentary gimmicks against “grievances”. They’re a minority that won’t accept losing. Their weapons of their minority are: Gerrymandinger (“redistricting”); ideological vetting via TeaBaggerism; and voter suppression. And they’re off to overthrowing the results of elections and legislation. Their religious Fundamentalist streak gives them their willingness to want Armageddon for the sake of triggering the “Kingdom”.

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2. He'd be building on sand if Boehner weren't still following the Hastert Rule

Requiring support by a majority of the Republican caucus before bringing a bill for a general vote gives an extremist minority a de facto veto power over everything, especially if they have other means of getting enough members to toe their line.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2404362

They depend on Party Line voting worthy of the Soviet Politburo. Force them to break up the phalanx and undercut their loons.

[TomHillforCongress]

3. Tom Hill for Congress

According to an estimate from Standard & Poor’s, the shutdown in 2013 took $24 billion out of the U.S. economy. That shutdown cost the National Park Service $76 million per day in lost revenue, including $16 mm in Mark Meadow's own district: District 11.

District 11 is my district, and I'm running AGAINST against the man CNN calls "the architect of the brink". Next January, there's only one man I want to see out of a job, and that's Mark Meadows.

Please visit my campaign web site: www.TomHillforCongress.com