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12/24/12, "Best Thing is go Straight off Fiscal Cliff-Karl Denninger," USA Watchdog
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Analyst Karl Denninger says, “The
best thing we could do as an economy is go straight off the fiscal cliff
and not come back because that would take about half of the deficit off
the table immediately.” The reason why the U.S. deficit is so large, according to Denninger, “Both sides want to spend more than they take in in taxes.” Denninger says the Federal Reserve enables the U.S. to live well beyond its means. Denninger contends,
“The
$85 billion a month the Fed is putting into the system enables deficits
and spending. . . . When you debase the currency in this fashion, there
is no free lunch.” One thing that needs to be fixed is the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
Denninger says, “It is going to hammer tens of millions of middle class families that have never had to pay it before.”
Instead of a tax refund, some middle class families might owe a few
thousand dollars in 2013. The AMT might get a patch, but
Denninger
thinks, “There will be no deal on the Fiscal Cliff by January 1st.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org."
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Original Tea Party activist Denninger said even in 2010 many had surrendered to GOP:
10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," Karl Denninger, market-ticker.org
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Early Tea Party activist who mailed tea bags to politicians says Tea Party has surrendered to the GOP, says GOP 'has stolen anger of a population'
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10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," Karl Denninger, market-ticker.org
(Transcript of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan previous night. Video at link)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of over taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
Then look at what's over at TeaParty.Org: you'll find the usual pablum. Guns, gays, God.
Heh, I like talking about Guns, Gays and God too. Let's talk about all of them within the context of The Constitution, which is what the Tea Party was supposed to be about....
The Tea Party was initiated as a political protest against the unlawful and in fact unconstitutional usurpation of power from the Congress and The People in the form of extortion-led bailouts of enterprises that had engaged in acts that I, and many others, believe were at least civilly actionable and in many cases crossed the line into criminal activity.
This indictment is not limited to the nation's large banks, although it certainly starts there. The corruption of our economic and monetary systems runs the gamut from Fannie and Freddie through their ties to Congress (including literal sexual encounters in some cases), banking interests selling trash securities to everyone from pension funds on down, judges who don't judge but rather protect monied interests on Wall Street,
The Federal Reserve intentionally debasing our currency and monetizing government debt, government spending that is running 40% above revenues and much more.
In short, The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers.
Not one word about throwing judges such as this one:

in the dock - although that, ladies and gentlemen, is a statement of felony judicial corruption. If you as an investor run into trouble with a commodity or futures trade and sue you will not get your day in court - a literal "green light" to rob the people by the big banks with official judicial sanction. And you wonder how Hillary Clinton managed to "win" in her Cattle Futures trades...
Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!
You want me to support The Tea Party as it is currently constituted?
Do all of the above, do it now, and apologize for attempting to perpetuate the financial******of this nation.
Publicize the following as your LEAD:
STOP THE LOOTING AND START PROSECUTING
And finally, one more:
ALL FIVE OF THE LARGEST BANKS ARE RESOLVED AS OUR FIRST ACT IN CONGRESS.
They caused it, they pay for it. Period."...
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10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," Karl Denninger, market-ticker.org
(Transcript of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan previous night. Video at link)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of over taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
Then look at what's over at TeaParty.Org: you'll find the usual pablum. Guns, gays, God.
Heh, I like talking about Guns, Gays and God too. Let's talk about all of them within the context of The Constitution, which is what the Tea Party was supposed to be about....
The Tea Party was initiated as a political protest against the unlawful and in fact unconstitutional usurpation of power from the Congress and The People in the form of extortion-led bailouts of enterprises that had engaged in acts that I, and many others, believe were at least civilly actionable and in many cases crossed the line into criminal activity.
This indictment is not limited to the nation's large banks, although it certainly starts there. The corruption of our economic and monetary systems runs the gamut from Fannie and Freddie through their ties to Congress (including literal sexual encounters in some cases), banking interests selling trash securities to everyone from pension funds on down, judges who don't judge but rather protect monied interests on Wall Street,
The Federal Reserve intentionally debasing our currency and monetizing government debt, government spending that is running 40% above revenues and much more.
In short, The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers.
Not one word about throwing judges such as this one:
in the dock - although that, ladies and gentlemen, is a statement of felony judicial corruption. If you as an investor run into trouble with a commodity or futures trade and sue you will not get your day in court - a literal "green light" to rob the people by the big banks with official judicial sanction. And you wonder how Hillary Clinton managed to "win" in her Cattle Futures trades...
Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!
You want me to support The Tea Party as it is currently constituted?
Do all of the above, do it now, and apologize for attempting to perpetuate the financial******of this nation.
Publicize the following as your LEAD:
STOP THE LOOTING AND START PROSECUTING
And finally, one more:
ALL FIVE OF THE LARGEST BANKS ARE RESOLVED AS OUR FIRST ACT IN CONGRESS.
They caused it, they pay for it. Period."...
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NY Times front page article on demise of Tea Party has decided Florida Flavor-Tillison
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12/26/12, "N.Y. Times Article On Tea Party Demise Has A Decidedly Florida Flavor," Tom Tillison, Florida Political Press
1/2/2010, "On the Backs of Tennessee's Middle Class (or, The Story Behind Tea Party Nation's Dishonest Beginnings)," Kevin Smith
"There’s a lot behind the formation of Tea Party Nation that needs to be understood by well-meaning activists for liberty and establishment political operatives alike. Why am I just now writing about this?
It’s become clear to me that Judson and his for-profit Tea Party Nation Corporation are at the forefront of the GOP’s process of hijacking the tea party movement. What began as cries for true liberty and a public showing of frustration with the big government policies of both Democrats and Republicans has now been co-opted by mainstream Republican demagogues."...
“This is the Cancer”
12/26/12, "The Tea Party Has Not Yet Begun to Fight," Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak
"If the Tea Party has been weakened by the November election, why are the mainstream media expending so much effort attacking it?
The latest attempt is today’s front-page article by the New York Times, which alleges that the Tea Party is turning to “narrower” issues and suggests, none too subtly, that Congress should stop paying attention to it.
As proof, the Times offers the fact that Republican leaders “have embraced raising tax revenues in budget negotiations, repudiating a central tenet of the Tea Party.” It ignores the fact that Republican leaders could not muster the votes in the House to pass those proposals.
illustration NY Times, O. Munday
12/26/12, "N.Y. Times Article On Tea Party Demise Has A Decidedly Florida Flavor," Tom Tillison, Florida Political Press
"From it’s very inception, there has been
an ongoing quest to define the Tea Party. A required first step for
politicians and media in minimizing the greatest threat to the status
quo this country has seen since the 1960’s.
There have also been plenty of
individuals willing to assist in this endeavor. Channeling their inner
P.T. Barnum, they eagerly step forward and proclaim themselves
figureheads of the movement. Even still, the results have been hit and
miss.
So much so that the media decided to
‘create’ it’s own definition of the Tea Party, with the politicians only
too happy to play along since it served the same need. The end result
being a steady drumbeat of misplaced criticism that slowly eroded any
positive image the movement may have had.
For those who are paying attention,
there’s a process that plays itself out again and again in this
country. Media ‘giants’ that serve as the mouthpiece of the Progressive
Left, more often than not originating with the N.Y. Times, put out a
narrative that lo and behold slowly disseminates across the land. Much
like a ripple across a pond.
Marching orders if you will. It’s a
marvel to behold, as you see a story dropped in New York or Washington
today and see the narrative picked up tomorrow in places like Kansas
City and Santa Fe. Even as they routinely outmaneuver the Republican
Party, it’s not all that difficult to grasp what the Far Left is up to.
All of which brings us to a N.Y. Times article released on Christmas Day titled, Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues. An article that has an overwhelming Florida flavor to it.
We hear from Don Gaetz, president of the
Florida Senate. A Republican who apparently believes it’s a productive
move to poke at a movement that, much like a wounded animal, has
suffered a sizable defeat and is lying in wait licking its wounds.
“I think the Tea Party movement is to
the Republicans in 2013 what the McGovernites were to the Democrats in
1971 and 1972,” said Gaetz. “They will cost Republicans seats in
Congress and in state legislatures. But they will also help Republicans
win seats.”
The reference to McGovernites an
apparent suggestion that the Tea Party, beholden to a narrow
conservative agenda, is pushing the GOP to take a hard right turn.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many
Republicans lawmakers view the basic concept of fiscal responsibility
and limited government as a radical, ultra conservative idea. And I
didn’t see very many spouting this theory in 2010 as they picked
themselves up from the ash heap of utter defeat, climbed on the back of
the Tea Party and rode it to electoral success.
Not that Gaetz wasn’t prompted by some
of the more, how shall we say, ‘animated’ elements of the Tea Party. Of
which, the movement never seems to be in short supply of… and are
easily found, much like moths fluttering about an outdoor light at
night.
Here the N.Y. Times doesn’t disappoint.
In reality, the personalities profiled in the article are every bit a
representation of the tea party, yet at the same time no more a
representation than you or I. It’s the long established practice of the
media shopping for individuals that support the theme at hand, nothing
more.
And that theme, certain to be carried to
the hinterlands of America, is that the Tea Party is now diminished or
weakened, that it accepts this fate and will now scurry off to the
fringes, picking up the banner of “narrower issues” – see more
limited in scope. In a sense, it is now being written off as being
incapable of affecting the more complicated issues of our time.
While that desire may eventually
prove to be true, certainly the actions of a fair number who’ve pushed
themselves to the forefront of the movement give reason to think as
much, in reality, that determination has yet to be made.
The average everyday folks who’ve always been the strength behind
the Tea Party will ultimately decide. As of now, the movement is at a
very precarious place and the future is uncertain. Much like a wounded
animal, it may very well succumb to it’s injuries and die, yet,
until it does, we should all be reminded that
there’s nothing more
dangerous than a wounded animal." via Sharon Calvert, Co-Founder, Tampa Tea Party
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Even NY Times says the Tea Party "nearly captured control of the Republican Party:"
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
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Many opportunists use the "Tea Party" name to make money and direct recruits back to the GOP establishment and groups like CPAC that destroyed this country:
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2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
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The hideous "Tea Party Nation:"
"There’s a lot behind the formation of Tea Party Nation that needs to be understood by well-meaning activists for liberty and establishment political operatives alike. Why am I just now writing about this?
It’s become clear to me that Judson and his for-profit Tea Party Nation Corporation are at the forefront of the GOP’s process of hijacking the tea party movement. What began as cries for true liberty and a public showing of frustration with the big government policies of both Democrats and Republicans has now been co-opted by mainstream Republican demagogues."...
“This is the Cancer”
"Some parts of the tea party movement have been taken over by the
national Republican establishment. Some are being courted. Still, a vast
number of tea party groups in America are truly operating on the
grass-roots level. The true tea partiers in America still believe in and
strive to achieve limited government, individual liberty, and free
markets. The last thing we desire is to replace big government Democrats
with big government Republicans who are equally as intent on trampling
our liberties and invading our rights for merely different reasons than
the Democrats."...
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12/26/12, "The Tea Party Has Not Yet Begun to Fight," Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak
"If the Tea Party has been weakened by the November election, why are the mainstream media expending so much effort attacking it?
The latest attempt is today’s front-page article by the New York Times, which alleges that the Tea Party is turning to “narrower” issues and suggests, none too subtly, that Congress should stop paying attention to it.
As proof, the Times offers the fact that Republican leaders “have embraced raising tax revenues in budget negotiations, repudiating a central tenet of the Tea Party.” It ignores the fact that Republican leaders could not muster the votes in the House to pass those proposals.
To the great frustration of the mainstream media and the GOP
establishment alike, the Tea Party continues to hold the line against
tax hikes and new bailouts. It also won a significant victory with the
recent passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan.
These are not “narrower” issues: they are the most fundamental issues concerning the nation’s fiscal health and economic future. It is the Times and the liberal gentry that it serves who cling to narrow, often contrived issues such as the co-called “war on women” to maintain their political clout.
The ailing, indebted Times hates the Tea Party
precisely because it is serious about economic realities the left would prefer to deny."...
These are not “narrower” issues: they are the most fundamental issues concerning the nation’s fiscal health and economic future. It is the Times and the liberal gentry that it serves who cling to narrow, often contrived issues such as the co-called “war on women” to maintain their political clout.
The ailing, indebted Times hates the Tea Party
precisely because it is serious about economic realities the left would prefer to deny."...
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NY Times' Tom Friedman at his wits' end suggests establishment GOP start a third party. Friedman may want Karl Rove in the new party since he was key in electing Obama twice:
12/22/12, "Send in the Clowns," NY Times, Tom Friedman, op ed
"Republican politicians today have a choice: either change your base by educating and leading G.O.P. voters back to the center-right from the far right, or start a new party that is more inclusive, focused on smaller but smarter government and market-based, fact-based solutions to our biggest problems."...
12/22/12, "Send in the Clowns," NY Times, Tom Friedman, op ed
"Republican politicians today have a choice: either change your base by educating and leading G.O.P. voters back to the center-right from the far right, or start a new party that is more inclusive, focused on smaller but smarter government and market-based, fact-based solutions to our biggest problems."...
illustration NY Times, O. Munday
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Fake Tea Party group sponsored cruise with slime Grover Norquist, TheTea Party.net PAC raised over $1 million, only gave $52,000 to candidates in 2012. Gives money to corrupt CPAC
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4/13/11, "Mystery Group Gets D.C. Help," TheTeaParty.net Offers Few Clues About Goals," The Hill, Janie Lorber
"A little-known, Arizona-based tea party organization has hired a prominent Republican operative to help advance its mission in Washington, D.C. But after more than a year in operation and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, it’s still not clear what the group’s mission actually is.
Todd Cefaratti, founder of TheTeaParty.net, announced last week that the group had hired a big Washington gun: governmental affairs specialist Donna Wiesner Keene, a veteran of the Bush and Reagan administrations and the wife of the incoming president of the National Rifle Association, [and longtime CPAC pres.] David Keene.
Donna Keene said she will act as an intermediary between the field and Washington, helping activists connect effectively with lawmakers to influence policy and advising potential first-time candidates. She has lobbied for conservative groups such as Americans for Fair Taxation in the past, but she is not registered as a lobbyist for the TheTeaParty.net.
“There are a lot of questions about Washington,” she said in an interview with Roll Call. “How do we stay active? What issues need attention? That takes someone like me who understands Washington.”
But it’s not clear what TheTeaParty.net is active in. Despite its extensive website and an impressive ability to pull in money,
TheTeaParty.net appears to do little more than promote its own name.
Unlike several large tea party organizations, whose leaders frequently discuss specific goals and agenda items with journalists, TheTeaParty.net acts quietly as an online meeting place and resource for hundreds of other tea party groups. Cefaratti, the man behind the group, rarely, if ever, speaks to the press and did not return numerous phone calls to his home or office. The group’s spokeswoman said he was too busy for an interview.
“We are not a normal tea party group that has meetings and things like that,” spokeswoman Vicki Dooling said. “We are a gatherer of other tea partyers.”
Cefaratti, who splits his time between his marketing consulting business and a second company that specializes in connecting loan officers with seniors interested in reverse mortgages, set up TheTeaParty.net last year as the tea party movement started to galvanize voters and dollars around “outsider” Republican candidates.
At the same time, he established a political action committee, called Stop This Insanity, which raised nearly $500,000 in the months leading up to the 2010 midterm elections. From March to October 2010, the committee spent just less than half that. Nearly all of its expenditures went to advertising services, airfare, lodging and promotional paraphernalia such as buttons and T-shirts, according to federal records.
The group has left very little trail since it was founded last spring, organizing few, if any, events. Federal records show no donations to candidates in the last election cycle....
TheTeaParty.net was also one of several organizations that sponsored the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, (CPAC) the high-profile confab held every year in Washington. That is where Cefaratti met Keene, whose husband is the former president of the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the conference....
It appears that the organization also makes money off its mailing list. Emails obtained by Roll Call reveal that the group has rented its 200,000-person mailing list to companies such as Gold Rarities Gallery, an online gold and silver warehouse.
An advertising representative at Newsmax said he helps TheTeaParty.net find clients and confirmed that the list is available for $7,000 ($35 for every thousand names). Dooling said no personal information is released to third parties during the process.
Questions about the legitimacy of TheTeaParty.net — also known as JoinTheTeaParty.us — are rife throughout the blogosphere and among the leaders of other tea party groups.
Some top conservatives have never even heard of the group, and other tea party leaders have only a vague understanding of what the group is and what it does."...
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Everyone knows Establishment groups ACU and CPAC scorn and laugh at the real Tea Party. Norquist is a CPAC board member:
4/14/11,"ACU’s Cardenas Questions Tea Party’s Grasp Of Principles," RedState.com, Tom in Florida
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2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
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2/11/12, "The American Conservative Union: neutralizing the conservative movement," Jim Lampe, RedState.com
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Yet this alleged TP group even sponsors a CPAC cruise with Norquist among featured passengers:
7/27/11, "ACU and TheTeaParty.net Announce Two New Speakers for CPAC Alaskan Cruise"
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OpenSecrets.org FEC records show this self-proclaimed TP group took in over $1 million and gave almost none of it to federal Tea Party candidates in 2012:
"TheTeaParty.net Leadership Fund"
2012 Total Receipts: $1,021,463
Total spent: $795,347
Contributions to federal candidates: $52,000
Electioneering, communication expenses, by targeted candidate: $182,673
Signed by Treasurer Ron Dove 5/2/12 (Ron Dove is also Treasurer of TheTeaParty.net)
"Official PAC name: THE TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND
Location: WASHINGTON, DC 20003
Industry: Republican/Conservative
Treasurer: BACKER, DAN MR. ESQ.
FEC Committee ID: C00520825
(Look up actual documents filed at the FEC) "
"THE TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND
209 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SE
SUITE 2109
WASHINGTON, DC 20003"
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From TheTeaParty.net regular website:
"About us"
"TheTeaParty.net is a division of Stop This Insanity Inc. and is a national non-profit 501(c)(4) organization created in 2009 for the education and advancement of the constitutional conservative values of the Tea Party movement.
6. "TheTeaParty.net is a major sponsor of the CPAC convention every year in Washington D.C. This sponsorship enables us to connect the Tea Party movement with our conservative legislators in Washington."...
Continuing from their website:
8. "We have a full-time Washington D.C. representative with the connections and relationships there."...
[This representative is Donna Wiesner Keene, wife of lobbyist and former CPAC president David Keene (now Pres. of NRA).]
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9. TTP.net's website says it gives to "ACU and CPAC"
ACU and CPAC are dedicated to eliminating the TP and conservatives.
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Again from TTP.net website:
16. "TheTeaParty.net employs two "Freedom Lobbyists" who work with the Tea Party Caucus in Congress to pass legislation in line with the core values of the Tea Party movement."...
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On 1/4/13 TheTeaParty.net trumpets hiring 3 new lobbyists as the "first ever" but the group has previously had two paid "Freedom Lobbyists" working with congress on supposed TP issues, per item #16 above from their website. Following is the 1/4/13 press release:
1/4/13, "TEA PARTY ESTABLISHES CONGRESSIONAL ADVOCACY TEAM"
Washington D.C. - "The nation’s largest Tea Party group announced today the creation of its new advocacy arm — the first of its kind. With over 600,000 members and over 1.3 million supporters on Facebook, TheTeaParty.Net has been a leading opponent of any legislation that increases taxes or raises the debt, including this week’s deal on the fiscal cliff....
"TheTeaParty.net is a national non-profit 501(c)(4) organization created in 2009 for the education and advancement of the constitutional conservative values of the Tea Party movement."
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Norquist is a CPAC board member
:
2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
"Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, himself considered a conservative icon, blasted this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference for drowning out tea partiers and those concerned with social issues, lamenting, “That’s not the CPAC that I’ve always thought of or known.”
Saying he was concerned that “I might just drum myself out of a movement,” Limbaugh blamed the “ruling class” at CPAC for missing the message of the 2010 election, namely that there is “an
unmistakable conservative ascendancy happening in this country,”
evidenced most prominently in the tea-party movement.
“But at CPAC, you didn’t get the impression here that there was a conservative ascendancy going on.
You had a lot of people saying, ‘We gotta do something about that faction,’” Limbaugh said on his program today. “The tea party was under assault in its own way at CPAC. And you in the tea party understand full well
the ruling class is not happy with you.
And it was clearly obvious.”...
"Does the left ever hold a convention and say, ‘You know what, we gotta get rid of the Huffington Post people,’ or ‘We gotta deemphasize the Daily Kos?’ Does the left ever do anything it does to appeal to its enemies?”"...
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The NY Times says the Tea Party "nearly captured control of the Republican Party:"
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
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More on GOP co-opting TP, early tea party activist who mailed tea bags to congress and pres. says tea party movement has been hijacked by GOP. GOP 'has stolen anger of a population' fed up with GOP theft of their tax money, funneling it to Wall St. and electing cronies:
10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," market-ticker.org
(Video of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan previous night)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of over taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
"Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street
and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money! ...
The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers."...
==============================
8/14/11, Todd Cefaratti says TheTeaParty.net used to be a PAC but isn't anymore. Apparently changed their minds by 2012.
.
4/13/11, "Mystery Group Gets D.C. Help," TheTeaParty.net Offers Few Clues About Goals," The Hill, Janie Lorber
"A little-known, Arizona-based tea party organization has hired a prominent Republican operative to help advance its mission in Washington, D.C. But after more than a year in operation and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, it’s still not clear what the group’s mission actually is.
Todd Cefaratti, founder of TheTeaParty.net, announced last week that the group had hired a big Washington gun: governmental affairs specialist Donna Wiesner Keene, a veteran of the Bush and Reagan administrations and the wife of the incoming president of the National Rifle Association, [and longtime CPAC pres.] David Keene.
Donna Keene said she will act as an intermediary between the field and Washington, helping activists connect effectively with lawmakers to influence policy and advising potential first-time candidates. She has lobbied for conservative groups such as Americans for Fair Taxation in the past, but she is not registered as a lobbyist for the TheTeaParty.net.
“There are a lot of questions about Washington,” she said in an interview with Roll Call. “How do we stay active? What issues need attention? That takes someone like me who understands Washington.”
But it’s not clear what TheTeaParty.net is active in. Despite its extensive website and an impressive ability to pull in money,
TheTeaParty.net appears to do little more than promote its own name.
Unlike several large tea party organizations, whose leaders frequently discuss specific goals and agenda items with journalists, TheTeaParty.net acts quietly as an online meeting place and resource for hundreds of other tea party groups. Cefaratti, the man behind the group, rarely, if ever, speaks to the press and did not return numerous phone calls to his home or office. The group’s spokeswoman said he was too busy for an interview.
“We are not a normal tea party group that has meetings and things like that,” spokeswoman Vicki Dooling said. “We are a gatherer of other tea partyers.”
Cefaratti, who splits his time between his marketing consulting business and a second company that specializes in connecting loan officers with seniors interested in reverse mortgages, set up TheTeaParty.net last year as the tea party movement started to galvanize voters and dollars around “outsider” Republican candidates.
At the same time, he established a political action committee, called Stop This Insanity, which raised nearly $500,000 in the months leading up to the 2010 midterm elections. From March to October 2010, the committee spent just less than half that. Nearly all of its expenditures went to advertising services, airfare, lodging and promotional paraphernalia such as buttons and T-shirts, according to federal records.
The group has left very little trail since it was founded last spring, organizing few, if any, events. Federal records show no donations to candidates in the last election cycle....
TheTeaParty.net was also one of several organizations that sponsored the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, (CPAC) the high-profile confab held every year in Washington. That is where Cefaratti met Keene, whose husband is the former president of the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the conference....
It appears that the organization also makes money off its mailing list. Emails obtained by Roll Call reveal that the group has rented its 200,000-person mailing list to companies such as Gold Rarities Gallery, an online gold and silver warehouse.
An advertising representative at Newsmax said he helps TheTeaParty.net find clients and confirmed that the list is available for $7,000 ($35 for every thousand names). Dooling said no personal information is released to third parties during the process.
Questions about the legitimacy of TheTeaParty.net — also known as JoinTheTeaParty.us — are rife throughout the blogosphere and among the leaders of other tea party groups.
Some top conservatives have never even heard of the group, and other tea party leaders have only a vague understanding of what the group is and what it does."...
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Everyone knows Establishment groups ACU and CPAC scorn and laugh at the real Tea Party. Norquist is a CPAC board member:
4/14/11,"ACU’s Cardenas Questions Tea Party’s Grasp Of Principles," RedState.com, Tom in Florida
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2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
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2/11/12, "The American Conservative Union: neutralizing the conservative movement," Jim Lampe, RedState.com
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Yet this alleged TP group even sponsors a CPAC cruise with Norquist among featured passengers:
7/27/11, "ACU and TheTeaParty.net Announce Two New Speakers for CPAC Alaskan Cruise"
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OpenSecrets.org FEC records show this self-proclaimed TP group took in over $1 million and gave almost none of it to federal Tea Party candidates in 2012:
"TheTeaParty.net Leadership Fund"
2012 Total Receipts: $1,021,463
Total spent: $795,347
Contributions to federal candidates: $52,000
Electioneering, communication expenses, by targeted candidate: $182,673
Signed by Treasurer Ron Dove 5/2/12 (Ron Dove is also Treasurer of TheTeaParty.net)
"Official PAC name: THE TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND
Location: WASHINGTON, DC 20003
Industry: Republican/Conservative
Treasurer: BACKER, DAN MR. ESQ.
FEC Committee ID: C00520825
(Look up actual documents filed at the FEC) "
"THE TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND
209 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SE
SUITE 2109
WASHINGTON, DC 20003"
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From TheTeaParty.net regular website:
"About us"
"TheTeaParty.net is a division of Stop This Insanity Inc. and is a national non-profit 501(c)(4) organization created in 2009 for the education and advancement of the constitutional conservative values of the Tea Party movement.
"What TheTeaParty.net Donations Are Used For"...
6. "TheTeaParty.net is a major sponsor of the CPAC convention every year in Washington D.C. This sponsorship enables us to connect the Tea Party movement with our conservative legislators in Washington."...
Continuing from their website:
8. "We have a full-time Washington D.C. representative with the connections and relationships there."...
[This representative is Donna Wiesner Keene, wife of lobbyist and former CPAC president David Keene (now Pres. of NRA).]
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9. TTP.net's website says it gives to "ACU and CPAC"
ACU and CPAC are dedicated to eliminating the TP and conservatives.
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Again from TTP.net website:
16. "TheTeaParty.net employs two "Freedom Lobbyists" who work with the Tea Party Caucus in Congress to pass legislation in line with the core values of the Tea Party movement."...
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On 1/4/13 TheTeaParty.net trumpets hiring 3 new lobbyists as the "first ever" but the group has previously had two paid "Freedom Lobbyists" working with congress on supposed TP issues, per item #16 above from their website. Following is the 1/4/13 press release:
1/4/13, "TEA PARTY ESTABLISHES CONGRESSIONAL ADVOCACY TEAM"
"Grassroots group forms first ever Tea Party advocacy
group, including former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, conservative
activists Niger Innis and Bob Adams, to push for smaller government on
Capitol Hill"
Washington D.C. - "The nation’s largest Tea Party group announced today the creation of its new advocacy arm — the first of its kind. With over 600,000 members and over 1.3 million supporters on Facebook, TheTeaParty.Net has been a leading opponent of any legislation that increases taxes or raises the debt, including this week’s deal on the fiscal cliff....
"TheTeaParty.net is a national non-profit 501(c)(4) organization created in 2009 for the education and advancement of the constitutional conservative values of the Tea Party movement."
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Norquist is a CPAC board member
:
2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
"Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, himself considered a conservative icon, blasted this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference for drowning out tea partiers and those concerned with social issues, lamenting, “That’s not the CPAC that I’ve always thought of or known.”
Saying he was concerned that “I might just drum myself out of a movement,” Limbaugh blamed the “ruling class” at CPAC for missing the message of the 2010 election, namely that there is “an
unmistakable conservative ascendancy happening in this country,”
evidenced most prominently in the tea-party movement.
“But at CPAC, you didn’t get the impression here that there was a conservative ascendancy going on.
You had a lot of people saying, ‘We gotta do something about that faction,’” Limbaugh said on his program today. “The tea party was under assault in its own way at CPAC. And you in the tea party understand full well
the ruling class is not happy with you.
And it was clearly obvious.”...
"Does the left ever hold a convention and say, ‘You know what, we gotta get rid of the Huffington Post people,’ or ‘We gotta deemphasize the Daily Kos?’ Does the left ever do anything it does to appeal to its enemies?”"...
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The NY Times says the Tea Party "nearly captured control of the Republican Party:"
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
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More on GOP co-opting TP, early tea party activist who mailed tea bags to congress and pres. says tea party movement has been hijacked by GOP. GOP 'has stolen anger of a population' fed up with GOP theft of their tax money, funneling it to Wall St. and electing cronies:
10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," market-ticker.org
(Video of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan previous night)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of over taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
"Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street
and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money! ...
The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers."...
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8/14/11, Todd Cefaratti says TheTeaParty.net used to be a PAC but isn't anymore. Apparently changed their minds by 2012.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
McConnell rides to the rescue on 'cliff', says 'action is on Senate side.' So the House and people who won elections there don't count. Why did we waste time voting?
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12/27/12, "Senate Republicans open to new cliff deal," MarketWatch, by Robert Schroeder and Greg Robb
12/27/12, "Senate Republicans open to new cliff deal," MarketWatch, by Robert Schroeder and Greg Robb
"McConnell said he and House Speaker John Boehner spoke with President
Barack Obama on Wednesday night as the president prepared to return to
Washington from his Christmas vacation in Hawaii.
“I told the president I would be happy to look at whatever he proposes,”
McConnell said, in a brief statement on the Senate floor.
“The action
is on the Senate side, and we will see if we can move forward on a
bipartisan basis.
“We’ll see what the president has to propose — members on both sides of
the aisle will review it — and then we’ll decide how to proceed,”
McConnell said."...via Free Republic
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NY Times puts Tea Party on front page, dog whistles to congress not to heed 'once-surging' Tea Party. Why does Times allocate precious space and reportorial talent to the Tea Party if it's of no consequence?
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12/26/12, "The Tea Party Has Not Yet Begun to Fight," Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak
"If the Tea Party has been weakened by the November election, why are the mainstream media expending so much effort attacking it?
The latest attempt is today’s front-page article by the New York Times, which alleges that the Tea Party is turning to “narrower” issues and suggests, none too subtly, that Congress should stop paying attention to it.
As proof, the Times offers the fact that Republican leaders “have embraced raising tax revenues in budget negotiations, repudiating a central tenet of the Tea Party.” It ignores the fact that Republican leaders could not muster the votes in the House to pass those proposals.
To the great frustration of the mainstream media and the GOP establishment alike, the Tea Party continues to hold the line against tax hikes and new bailouts. It also won a significant victory with the recent passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan.
These are not “narrower” issues: they are the most fundamental issues concerning the nation’s fiscal health and economic future. It is the Times and the liberal gentry that it serves who cling to narrow, often contrived issues such as the co-called “war on women” to maintain their political clout.
The ailing, indebted Times hates the Tea Party
precisely because it is serious about economic realities the left would prefer to deny."...
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Ed. note: The NY Times says the Tea Party "nearly captured control of the Republican Party:"
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
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The NY Times hopes Fox News star Karl Rove can save them from the Tea Party, describes him as "long the party’s tactical mastermind:" (4th parag. fr. end)
9/16/10, NY Times Editorial, "The Tea Party's Snarl."
"For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal."...
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NY Times' Tom Friedman at his wits' end suggests establishment GOP start a third party. Friedman may want Karl Rove in the new party since he was key in electing Obama twice:
12/22/12, "Send in the Clowns," NY Times, Tom Friedman, op ed
"Republican politicians today have a choice: either change your base by educating and leading G.O.P. voters back to the center-right from the far right, or start a new party that is more inclusive, focused on smaller but smarter government and market-based, fact-based solutions to our biggest problems."...
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illustration NY Times, O. Munday
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10/22/10, "Karl Rove's Flameout" The Daily Beast, Matt Latimer
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12/26/12, "The Tea Party Has Not Yet Begun to Fight," Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak
"If the Tea Party has been weakened by the November election, why are the mainstream media expending so much effort attacking it?
The latest attempt is today’s front-page article by the New York Times, which alleges that the Tea Party is turning to “narrower” issues and suggests, none too subtly, that Congress should stop paying attention to it.
As proof, the Times offers the fact that Republican leaders “have embraced raising tax revenues in budget negotiations, repudiating a central tenet of the Tea Party.” It ignores the fact that Republican leaders could not muster the votes in the House to pass those proposals.
To the great frustration of the mainstream media and the GOP establishment alike, the Tea Party continues to hold the line against tax hikes and new bailouts. It also won a significant victory with the recent passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan.
These are not “narrower” issues: they are the most fundamental issues concerning the nation’s fiscal health and economic future. It is the Times and the liberal gentry that it serves who cling to narrow, often contrived issues such as the co-called “war on women” to maintain their political clout.
The ailing, indebted Times hates the Tea Party
precisely because it is serious about economic realities the left would prefer to deny."...
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Ed. note: The NY Times says the Tea Party "nearly captured control of the Republican Party:"
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
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The NY Times hopes Fox News star Karl Rove can save them from the Tea Party, describes him as "long the party’s tactical mastermind:" (4th parag. fr. end)
9/16/10, NY Times Editorial, "The Tea Party's Snarl."
"For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal."...
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NY Times' Tom Friedman at his wits' end suggests establishment GOP start a third party. Friedman may want Karl Rove in the new party since he was key in electing Obama twice:
12/22/12, "Send in the Clowns," NY Times, Tom Friedman, op ed
"Republican politicians today have a choice: either change your base by educating and leading G.O.P. voters back to the center-right from the far right, or start a new party that is more inclusive, focused on smaller but smarter government and market-based, fact-based solutions to our biggest problems."...
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illustration NY Times, O. Munday
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10/22/10, "Karl Rove's Flameout" The Daily Beast, Matt Latimer
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