By Mr. Curmudgeon
You have to give Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) points for trying. When she formed the House Tea Party Caucus, she thought she and her measly 28 House Republicans distanced themselves from the incumbency that taints every member of Congress…no matter their party affiliation. It doesn’t seem to be working.
Campaigning for Missouri’s Republican Roy Blunt, Bachmann’s cheerleading met with Tea Party resistance. “'Roy Blunt voted for TARP and Cash for Clunkers. For Michele Bachmann to come to Missouri and give the impression that all the Missouri Tea Parties support Roy Blunt is an abomination of everything we have been standing up for,” said Franklin County Tea Party leader Jedidiah Smith.
Branson, Missouri, Tea Party leader Eric Farris bluntly stated the principles that separate his members from Beltway Republicans, “We encourage all voters to examine the voting records, positions, and values of all candidates, to determine whether they promote the core values of the Tea Party Movement: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally-limited government, and free markets.” Old Eric is setting the bar much too high for many of Washington’s Republican accommodators.
The Jefferson County Tea Party hit the Beltway boys below the belt…deservedly so, “Big spending Republicans that voted to increase the size and scope of Government during the Bush years are part of the problem, not the solution...If posing as a fiscal conservative were a crime, Roy Blunt would be on the top 10 wanted list.”
The Washington Post reports that a main strategy for desperate incumbent Democrats this election season is to “link the Republican Party to some of the most extreme elements of the ‘Tea Party’ movement…”
Stumblebum Beltway Republican’s should be so lucky.
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