Letter to the GOP leadership
Dear Senator McConnell and Congressman Boehner,
Last Monday, a small group of non-Tea Party, non-conservatives, released a letter, trying to claim leadership of the Tea Party movement and purporting to tell you what the Tea Party movement wants.
We, the undersigned, are leaders of mainstream Tea Party groups. We are the people that helped get conservatives elected on November 2. While we do not speak for this movement as a whole, we are a large cross section of this movement and we want to tell you what this movement wants.
First, we want Obamacare defunded. There is no compromise on this issue and it is not negotiable. We do not want Obamacare lite. We do not want it “tinkered” with. We want it repealed. We realize the chance of Obamacare being repealed before 2013 are slim, but it can be defunded. That is the next best thing.
Second, we want serious reductions in spending. A spending cut is not simply a reduction in the amount of the increase. It is a reduction in spending. America cannot afford Washington’s spending sprees any more.
The question is where to start. Here is the answer. Let’s start by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse from the budget. Billions of dollars are wasted through programs that are unneeded, unnecessary and exist only to benefit special interests. Let’s go through the budget line by line and eliminate these programs.
We in the Tea Party are ready to help on this one. We know you have staffs. We have thousands of volunteers who are prepared to rip the budget apart and help you. All you have to do is ask us.
The left will whine about every spending cut, coming up with some story about how horrible it will be. Americans are very charitable but cannot stand the thought of their tax dollars being wasted. This is the proverbial low hanging fruit.
Third, we must dismantle the liberal-political complex. Liberal groups such as Acorn and Planned Parenthood receive millions of dollars in federal monies every year. This must stop. Most of the members of this movement would probably describe themselves as pro-life. Regardless, abortion is a multibillion-dollar business. Why is the government paying Planned Parenthood anything, much less almost $1 billion from 2002-2009?
Fourth, if the debt ceiling is to be raised, this is the last time. Uncle Sam’s credit card must be cut up. America cannot afford Obama/Pelosi/Reid’s spending spree. We urge you to raise the debt ceiling only if a spending reduction plan is in place prior to that time. We do not want to see the ceiling raised in exchange for a promise to cut spending later. We Americans now regard those promises as credible as those emails we get telling us we have won the lottery.
Fifth, taxes must be reduced. The Bush tax cuts must be extended for everyone, made permanent and the burden the government places on small businesses must be drastically reduced so that small businesses can grow and start hiring unemployed Americans.
Sixth, there can be no amnesty. America has always welcomed immigrants. Legal immigrants. We want you to oppose the DREAM act and any other effort for amnesty. In 1986, President Reagan agreed to amnesty, in exchange for the promise the border would be secured. We got amnesty then and twenty-five years later, the border is still not secured. This time, we have to insist the border be secured and illegal aliens leave and then reapply like everyone else. We need to change our immigration laws and require that before specialized workers are brought in, there must be conclusive proof that no American is available to do that job. We also need to change our immigration policy so that the top criteria for someone immigrating to America is what they can do for America. The diversity immigration lottery must be eliminated.
Seventh, we want you to fight the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The policy has worked well for the last fifteen years. There is no reason to change. While there are many ways to debate an issue, sometimes you can judge the validity of a proposal by who supports it. Various radical leftist groups such as Code Pink support the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. These groups have one goal. They want to weaken the United States Military. If these groups think this is a good idea, that is a pretty good indication, it is not.
We, the members of the mainstream Tea Party movement have a lot of expectations for you in this Congress. We realize the limitations you face. But we also realize the tools you have at your disposal. America is a conservative country. We expect conservative leadership from our country. The Republican Party had its head handed to it in 2006 and 2008 because it departed from its conservative base. Now is your chance to return to your roots and govern, as we the people want you to.
We are here with you, we are here supporting you and we have our eyes on you. Do not disappoint us.
Sincerely,
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Marcia Wood on -
Here's a perfect example of the money that goes out the backdoor behind our back - unless we get a handle on how grants are handled we will continue throwing our hard earned monies away. I'm sure most of you heard this on FOX or saw it in the news, but it goes back to what I said everytime we counter those using our money inappropriately the more we save our Nation. Why would any of us want to donate money to Islamic community center and mosque in downtown Manhattan? Here's one of the situations where PC needs to be ignored - we need to do the right thing for our Nation.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/fox_bachmann_seiz... This may be of interest to many. 5 million here and 5 million there soon add up to billions of dollars that is being frittered away.
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Permalink Reply by David J Edwards on -
To read the signers' names, go here -
http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blogs/the-letter-to-the-gop
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Permalink Reply by Larry Parks on -
Got to keep on these establishment forces diligently as they will not go away easily. The war is far from over so let's make sure to stay diligent in:
1. holding them accountable (strictly)
2. spreading the good news of the Tea Party to everyone we know, and encouraging them to do likewise to everyone they know, etc.
This momentum is growing and the rotten establishment (global elites, Bilderbergers, etc) are wetting their pants over it!
Cheers
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Permalink Reply by James Henderson, Esq. on
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Judson:
Good letter. But it is only a startup position. As I see it the spirit and goal of the Tea Party is to restore Constitutional government as practiced by our founders. We have to be courageous and firm to accomplish this. We must gradually replace all of the Repubs who have sold their souls to this financial elite. Realizing our goals cannot be achieved all at once, I will resubmit my 16 point agenda for our new Congress and future conservative Congresses.
1. Repeal McCain/Feingold and restore the right of the people to give unlimited financial support to their candidates. Thanks to McCain/Feingold the 501 C3 corps of the left and the labor unions now control the flow of money to candidates.
2. Repeal Obamacare. Replace it with legislation that severely limits the goal of government to interfere with the free market in health care. This would involve ending the big gov/pharmaceutical monopoly of medicine by the same financial elite who now control Congress and the Parties. Pharmaceutical medicine, which treats only the symptoms of chronic degenerative disease with poisonous drugs, while keeping the patient essentially sick for life, is the cause of 2/3 of the out-of-control healthcare costs. Nutritional medicine as advocated by Drs. Andrew Weil and John McDoughal et al, will cure chronic degenerative disease and reduce health care costs. Out of control pharmaceutical medicine is like welfare: The first taxes we the people to pay for the results of lawless lifestyles and the second taxes we the people to pay for a class who wish not to work but live off our treasury.
3. Eliminate the graduated income tax. It is a Marxist policy which is the life blood of big, socialist government. This is the shortest distance to cutting spending (they cannot spend what they do not have) and reducing the size of government.
4. Repeal all legislation which interferes with the free enterprise system. Oppressive regulations prevents the start-up and growth of business and stifles individual creativity.
5. Audit, then abolish the FED. It is a group of private financial elites who have usurped our government by taking control of our money supply. They gain enormous wealth by raping we the tax payers then run laughing all the way to their off-shore banks. It is unconstitutional and a scandal. The provision that states that only Congress has the right to coin and regulate money was never repealed.
6. Systematically impeach all judges, state and federal, who legislate from the bench. It is an ideological usurpation of the power of the legislature. It has been the method by which socialism has been foisted upon America.
7. Abolish the department of education and hand the responsibility of educating the children of we the people back to the states and the local communities.
8. Some how, by the grace of God, clean out the nest of socialistic vipers now running almost all of our centers of higher learning, college and universities alike. While we the people slept they brainwashed our children.
9. Restore our sovereignty by securing our borders. The border states have the right under the Constitution to defend themselves by military force if hey are invaded. Our border states should not wait for the Feds to take action. It will never happen unless we the people control booth houses and the presidency. The states have a moral imperative to act immediately and decisively to control the illegal invasion, especially of the drug runners.
10. Convert social security to private accounts as Singapore. It is not the government's money to raid.
11. Abolish Medicare as we know it - it is only another socialistic way of redistributing the wealth. On the way to accomplishing this, set up private health accounts as does Singapore.
12. Much of the Supreme Court ruling since 1913 have to be systematically reversed. These cases have been decided outside of the Constitution and the Declaration. Particularly the First Amendment cases that use the establishment clause to destroy our free exercise of our religion.
13. At some point we have to deal with the main-stream media. They are the captives of the same financial elite who gave us the Feds and Income tax and who now rule over us. While they have the right to espouse their poisonous ideology, they do not have the right, as our founding fathers understood it, to deliberately lie (or, where the movies are concerned, to gush obscenity and immorality).
14. Term limits for both houses and no pensions. They must go back into the job market like the rest of us and earn their pensions.
15. Abolish the special healthcare for politicians. Every law they pass must affect them as well as we the people.
16. Finally, we must realize that none of the above can be accomplished or maintained if any is accomplished, without the moral restoration of our country. We must re-embrace the creationist worldview of our founding fathers as expressed in the Declaration. To enjoy the rights our Creator gave us we must worship the Creator and let him control our lives. While worship is an individual duty owed to our Creator, holding the Creationist worldview will spill over into public policy by our godly lives. It is plain that America abandoned the values of the founders when it embraced the evolutionary-Darwinist worldview. Every single one of the political and economic and cultural errors that now seek to engulf us in a tidal wave of serfdom and obscenity stems from abandoning the Creationist worldview and embracing the evolutionary/Darwinist worldview. GlennBeck has done a good job bringing this out.
James Henderson, Esq. Www.indicted.us
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Dunham on
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We need to teach our young people that we are a Christian Nation not a Musllem nation. Our founders believed in the judio christian values. Some seem to think that if we say we are a Christian Nation we leave out the Jewish people. People that think that really don't understand Christianity. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, was a Jew. I don't know anywhere in history where Muslems assited in the founding and preserving our great country.
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Permalink Reply by Dan on -
i got a update yesterday, from the tea party,
and they did send out a letter explaining the mix up.
but never the less it was a week later, but were all in this together,
and they know it.we must keep strong, in all of our groups, for 2012
my openion
Dan
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Permalink Reply by bigmac on
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Jim, And would you prefer to be a democrat now? You gotta admit there just as many idiots in the democratic party as there are in the Republican party. Which is less stupid? I don't know the answer to that one either. :-)
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Mahon on
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I don't think stupidity is necessarily the issue, but rather arrogance and the pursuit of power. They reside in the hearts of all men and when watered with opportunity tend to bloom like the wildest weeds. The US Constitution was intended to limit those powers and arrogance, but has been turned around to redefine ever growing federal powers.
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Permalink Reply by David J Edwards on
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yes,,, well done.... tell them... remind them... keep the clarity going.
Scribblings on parchment cannot make Men Free or keep them Free. Only courage, eternal vigilance, and wisdom separate Free Men from serfs and slaves. Free Men must WANT to be Free and learn how to get and keep Freedom.
... tell them Christopher Mahon,,, telll them over and over until they GET it...and hold onto it....beat the drum ... teach them...tell them...over and over...
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Permalink Reply by rel find on
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Beware that the RINO's don't make a deal for the DREAM Act in exchange for a deal on the tax cuts during the liberals-Democrats-RINO's, trickster, so-called lame duck sessions !!!
The Democrats only need to peel off 1 Republican Senator to get the 60 YES votes they need to get "cloture-ending-debate" to pass the devastating massive-hidden-far-reaching-amnesties-huge-SSS-societal-cultural-COSTS !!!
Snowe-R-ME, Collins-R-ME, Brown-R-MA, Graham-R-SC, McCain-R-AZ
Call them and your US Senators and Congressmen, tell them to vote NO on "cloture-ending-debate" on the DREAM Act bill !!!
If the Democrats get the 60 votes needed for "cloture-ending-debate", then the debate stops and the bill is then moved on, next to be voted on for passing, where only a simple 51 vote majority is needed to pass the bill !!!
Call them and your US Senators and Congressmen, tell them to vote NO on "cloture-ending-debate" on the DREAM Act bill !!!
The mass-foreign-national-illegal-alien-amnesty DREAM Act !!!
Can we stop it between now and January 3, 2011 ?!?!?
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Permalink Reply by mike barber on
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I agree with all of the above, but we also need drill baby drill and to find a way to stop new rules and regulations that stifle the economy.
Mike Barber
Bennington
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Permalink Reply by Ray Gibney on
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We don't want spending cuts, we want programs done away with. Start with Americore, Clintons home town peace core rip off, Then follow
up with the Peace Core itself.
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