While staunchly critical of Ted Cruz and the teaparty, Brit Hume (perhaps unwittingly) presented one
of the best summary analysis of the teaparty angst that has driven the
conservative rebellion with the following words, spoken on Fox News, on Tuesday of this week.
Hume:
"Veteran political observers on both the left and right
are still trying to figure out what the House Tea Party caucus and its Senate
pied piper Ted Cruz were thinking when they insisted on using the threat of a
government shutdown to defund ObamaCare.
"It was a hopeless strategy that has not only failed in
its stated goal, but helped send the Republican Party to its lowest
favorability ratings ever.
"In conventional terms, it seems inexplicable, but
Senator Cruz and his adherents do not view things in conventional terms. They
look back over the past half-century, including the supposedly golden era of
Ronald Reagan, and see the uninterrupted forward march of the American left.
Entitlement spending never stopped growing. The regulatory state continued to
expand. The national debt grew and grew and finally in the Obama years,
exploded. They see an American population becoming unrecognizable from the free
and self-reliant people they thought they knew. And they see the Republican
Party as having utterly failed to stop the drift toward an unfree nation supervised
by an overweening and bloated bureaucracy. They are not interested in
Republican policies that merely slow the growth of this leviathan. They want to
stop it and reverse it. And they want to show their supporters they'll try
anything to bring that about.
"And if some of those things turn out to be reckless
and doomed, well so be it."
Exactly. I am 68 and
have been watching the progression of the American politic for 50 years. It is my witness that there has been an
identifiable progression towards what we have today, and that is the official beginnings of a
Socialist State on a par with anything we
have seen in Europe. And this is
in spite of all the “conservative” talk to the contrary. Folks like myself, accused of being unwilling to
compromise, have actually wounded our
collective conscience in our compromise;
forgiving those favorite politicians in our past, and voting with the hope that we have elected
a champion of our values. With
Obama, we have a man who immediately,
after winning the 2008 election, began
to openly laugh at the conservative opinion,
announcing over and over again,
that those who remained “committed to the past” were troublesome
relics, folks who needed to move on or
get out of the political process.
His ridicule and feckless leadership have combined to form
the perfect enemy. He has made it clear
on a host of occasions, that he cares
nothing for bipartisanship and the political agenda of his Progressive Party
membership in 2009/2010 proves the point beyond debate. During
that time, he met with GOP
leadership just three times. No
opposition amendments to ObamaCare were allowed to pass through committee. And a dozen of times or more, he has expressed the desire to move
unilaterally, away or around the
(conservative) congress he is forced to deal with on a diplomatic level.
We are tired, sick and tired, of his side ridiculing Christianity, making funny of and denying "American Exceptionalism," growing poverty via social welfare programs, burning the American flag, fighting wars with no view of winning those wars, and building a government that denies individual freedoms and liberties. We are done with that.
What comes next wholly depends on what the Left in both parties do, in the near future.
