Maybe you are sick of “settling” for candidates and representatives and senators who are less than 100% in line with your views, but I have to tell you that I would rather have 100 Senators who agree with me 70% of the time than have 100 Senators who agree with me 0% of the time. I’m also a sick and tired of losing. The Tea Party think they were somehow invincible, that they could demand and get whatever they wanted and expect to get it with no compromise on the table whatsoever. What has that gotten us? Nothing but grief, that’s what. I can understand her unhappiness with the way things have gone, but the real problem with Tea Party politicians wasnt an unwillingness to compromise so much as a heavy dependency on tossing red meat to the base without considering the voters and public beyond that. Democrats tend to talk mainstream and act extreme. Republicans talk extreme and act mainstream. While the math on having 100 Senators who agree with us 70 percent of the time sounds good, what matters is what percentage does this filter down to in actual legislation. Having an opposition or even a ruling party that agrees with us 70 percent of the time, but compromises its way to legislating 70 percent of the way that the other side wants is a token opposition. Add on the impact of a left-wing bureaucracy that does much of the actual governing and that 70 percent doesnt mean much. The philosophy behind the Tea Party is that a rubber stamp opposition is as almost bad as having no opposition. Looking around at where we are, its hard to argue that the GOP as it is really more than a rubber stamp opposition even when its in power. Im not calling for letting it all burn, but the current course isnt working either.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:50:37 +0000
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