Tea Party Radical Rangers: Activate!

So here we are, the red-headed stepkids in the GOP.  The elected elite love our message (well, not the foreign policy part, which they intentionally downplayed) during the campaign season, but now that the election is over?

From Businessweek:

Five GOP leadership aides, speaking anonymously because a decision isn't final, say incoming House Speaker John Boehner has discussed ways to prevent Paul from becoming chairman or to keep him on a tight leash if he does.

(Be sure to click the link. Judd Gregg (RINO - NH)  is apparently a banking stooge.)

Contact John Boehner:
(513)-779-5400 or (202)225-4000

Contact Eric Cantor:
(202) 225-2815 or (804) 747-4073

I can't begin to tell you how ticked I am about this.  If the GOP followed their own rules, Ron Paul would be sliding into the seat that Barney Frank is leaving. (To get really technical, he should be sliding back into that seat, since it should have been his during the Bush years, too.)  But like most of you, I was happy they were finally giving him a subcommittee. No point in complaining about that other thing, especially if Rep Paul wasn't making it an issue.

It isn't like they're debating about putting him on the Armed Services committee, or giving him a soapbox in front of our foreign policy issues.  If either of those things had even been suggested, the heads on the not-so-conservative wing of the party (they call themselves Republicans) would have exploded all over the internet.  I get that. But when it was announced that Paul was getting a sub-committee chairmanship that would give him some leverage over the Fed,  those big-government types didn't jeer.

In fact, places like Redstate, Free Republic, Market Ticker, Hannity's Forums - all places where we were called neofascist liberal nazi paranoid treehugging dope smoking anti-semite treasonous truthers only two short years ago - there were comments of firm support for that appointment. Foreign policy posturing aside, everybody seemed to grudgingly agree that Rep. Ron Paul might be the only chance we have to get the Fed back under control.

And Boehner wants to quash it?  This is why we don't donate to the RNC. And also why we have telephones.

 

 

Comments

[Laura Ebke]

I saw this on a Facebook status report from the RLC a few hours ago. I can't begin to tell you how mad it made me. I think you've got this all exactly right. But, this whole thing is a good test--if the Republican Leadership of Boehner and company deny Ron Paul that chairmanship, it proves that they really didn't get it.

The latecomers to the Paul bandwagon in my part of the country (the people who became Tea Partiers after Obama was elected), might not agree with Ron Paul on foreign policy, but they sure agree with him on Auditing the Fed and a general distrust of that institution--at least the ones I've talked to about that. The NEC4L took a huge Audit the Fed banner to a couple of Tea Parties sponsored by other groups, and it was very well received.

If Boehner and his minions are stupid enough to turn their backs on the Tea Party folks--who are very much responsible for their ascension to power--then they get what they deserve in the future, and that women's restroom may not even be completed before they get ousted from power.

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Gregg is ABSOLUTELY a banking stooge.

[Charlotte Juett]

Whatever made any one think that Boehner was a true conservative. If Paul does not get the Chairmanship of that committee, we will know who to vote out the next time around.

[Laura Ebke]

Of course the problem is finding someone in his district of Ohio to vote him out. Either that or have enough people elected from around the country to stage a challenge to hi as Speaker.

It's possible, though, that this is just anonymous sources who are trying to see how stirred up they can get us. I haven't seen anything official from the C4L that would suggest that Dr. Paul is concerned about this. Now if something comes out from C4L or from Ron Paul's mailing list, then it would be time to get excited, I think.