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Title: Why senators are avoiding the Tea Party Caucus
Source: csmonitor.com
URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Electi ... -avoiding-the-Tea-Party-Caucus
Published: Jan 30, 2011
Author: Patrik Jonsson,
Post Date: 2011-01-30 20:59:51 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 3237
Comments: 7

Some tea party favorites stayed away from the Thursday's meeting of the new Senate Tea Party Caucus, as newly elected Republicans try to define themselves in Washington.

Atlanta The reluctance of tea party favorites like Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida and Sen. Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin to join a new Senate Tea Party Caucus points to the difficulty some incoming Republicans face in adjusting to the political realities of the Beltway while retaining the tea party bona fides they earned on the campaign trail.

Last year's House Tea Party Caucus had 50 members – this year's rolls haven't been released yet – but only four senators appeared before a throng of tea party supporters for the first meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Jan. 27.

Why are so few tea-party-backed senators willing to align themselves with the caucus, only months after the tea party was credited with fueling a Republican takeover of the House and boosting the party's Senate numbers?

RELATED: Four hot-button issues Republicans will target next

The snub from Senators Rubio, Johnson, and others suggest that the newly elected politicians are carefully gauging the post-Tucson political winds, keenly aware that mainstream America may be tired of the kind of anti-Obama rhetoric that peppered the campaign trail and became emblematic of the small-government, anti-tax tea party movement.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Johnson hinted that his goal is broader conservative solidarity. "The reason I ran for the US Senate was to not only stop the Obama agenda but reverse it. I believe our best chance of doing that is to work towards a unified Republican Conference, so that's where I will put my energy," said Johnson, who told the Times he had "great respect for the tea party movement."

Such careful distancing may be necessary. "Tea party supported candidates run the risk of, if they stay on the message that put them in office, alienating themselves from the political process," says Joshua Dyck, a political scientist at the State University of New York, at Buffalo.

In the wake of the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., where six people were killed and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gravely injured, some tea party Republicans have reconsidered their alliances and appearances. The president's poll numbers rose after his Tucson speech, where he squelched laments from the left about right-wing rhetoric playing a role in the shooter's motive, while appealing to the country to "pause ... and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."

After that speech, "tea party Republicans are now going to have a hard time finding a place in this debate, because their entire argumentative style is based on saying everything [Obama] believes is wrong and is fundamentally harming the fabric of the Republic," says Professor Dyck. "When they say those things, it doesn't sound like they're willing to engage in this sort of softer, post-partisan debate."

In addition, Tuesday's rough-around-the-edges tea party response to the State of the Union address by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota raised concern among some Republicans that the tea party wing of the party could undermine a concerted conservative challenge to President Obama. In fact, at least one tea party-backed House Republican has privately said they now have reservations about joining the Bachmann-led House Tea Party Caucus.

"Invitations [to the caucus] would be viewed more favorably if it were led by someone else," one aide to a Republican lawmaker told the Times.

Tea party activists around the country are carefully watching the political calculations of Republicans calibrating their approach to issues such as cutting spending, repealing the health-care law, and finding a viable presidential candidate to challenge Obama in the next election.

"There is some concern," says Shelly Pettus, a tea party activist in Florence, Ala., "about what [senators] were thinking by not joining that caucus, but I don't know that I would say that means they're pulling back from what they were sent there to do."

Ultimately, she says, politicians' labels are less important than their actions. She said she was heartened, for example, by the House vote to repeal the Obama health-care reform law, an issue torn straight out of the tea party playbook.

"I don't care if somebody calls themselves a tea party person as long as they act like a tea party person," she says.

The four senators who have publicly joined the Senate Tea Party Caucus – Sens. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina, Mike Lee (R) of Utah, and Jerry Moran (R) of Kansas – offered up a new $500 billion spending-cut plan and vowed to offer a counterweight to politics as usual. They said Thursday they plan to hold quarterly meetings to discuss issues among themselves and with constituents.

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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)

This has NOTHING to do with what the acting president has said or any other move by him,and everything to do with the RINO's closing ranks to protect their own rice bowls. They are telling the newbies that if they don't all in line behind the party regulars they won't get any good committee assignments and nobody will back them on any bills they write or propose.

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2011-01-31   9:57:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: sneakypete (#1)

This has ... everything to do with the RINO's closing ranks to protect their own rice bowls.

BINGO.

The Tea Party people came in as anti-RINO, REAL conservatives.

The last thing they'd want to do, is join in with the RINOs, or allow themselves to be co-opted by them. Organizing into a caucus, means that they suddenly have a spokes-hole for themselves, and they become simply another political faction to be easily manipulated.

The socialist MSM doesn't like the unpredictabile nature of the Tea Partiers.

The RINOs don't like the Tea Party people not wanting to be just another group of whores who'll sell their mothers for a bribe.

Overall, the problem is that the TP representatives aren't playing the game as it has been going for the last 20+ years. They came in on a platform that can be defined in one word: integrity.

The parasites in D.C. don't know to respond to an entire FACTION of people with integrity.

"There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's answer to Ben Bernanke --

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-01-31   14:39:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Capitalist Eric, sneakypete (#2)

The Tea Partiers are old wussies.

Want to see real people power look at Tunisia and Egypt. Tunisians toppled their govt without firing one shot.

Tea Party is to laugh at with their signs threatening action. Put up or shut up, wussies.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-01-31   16:42:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Godwinson (#3)

Tea Party is to laugh at with their signs threatening action. Put up or shut up, wussies.

And risk losing their government benefits? Are you mad?

Skip Intro  posted on  2011-01-31   17:29:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Skip Intro, Godwinson (#4)

Godwinson: Tea Party is to laugh at with their signs threatening action. Put up or shut up, wussies.

So the socialist weasel is still talking shit, eh?

As to the "put up or shut up," I have no doubt, market forces will do all the heavy work, of bringing down the nanny-state.

And then ALL of you socialist parasites will have to do something completely foreign to your nature: get a REAL job.

Heh.

"There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." -- go65, LF's answer to Ben Bernanke --

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-01-31   17:39:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Godwinson (#3)

Yeah,yeah,yeah. "America sucks,and every other place in the world is better." We get it.

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2011-01-31   19:02:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: sneakypete (#6)

Yeah,yeah,yeah. "America sucks,and every other place in the world is better." We get it.

I was making fun of the Tea partiers not America.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-02-01   9:59:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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