A tipping point has been reached in America politics! However, neither of the two major parties realizes it. In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a paradigm shift in American politics over the last decade. Allegiance to party is dead!
I am perfectly aware that Washington is still run by the Republicans and Democrats but their power is waning. They simply do not realize their pending extinction. Let’s take each party separately.
The Republicans:
Currently the Republican Party is run by, what many have coined “the establishment Republicans”. Think Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Eric Cantor. These are the same people who drive the nomination of uninspiring presidential candidates such as Bob Dole and John McCain. They spend their days reading polls, listening to their consultants, playing it safe, and protecting their incumbency status rather than doing the right thing.
The modern Republican Party officially ended when Bush uttered the infamous words “compassionate conservative”. For some reason he felt compelled to distance himself from all of the “uncompassionate” conservatives.
Conservatives do not require an adjective before the label. They are conservatives PERIOD; end of story. On top of Bush’s “compassionate” comment throw his out-of-control government spending (education department, prescription drug benefit, military) and the nomination of John McCain and the full-blooded / uncompassionate conservative crowd threw up their hands in disgust. Thus the birth of the Tea Party!
Republican Party was The Tea Party.
The establishment Republicans will not recognize this until the last one is thrown out on his/her ass as they cling to their seats like uncompassionate conservatives cling to their religion and guns.
The Democrats:
The leaders of the Democrat Party are stuck in the 1960’s and they want the entire country to jump in the time machine with them. Look at the band of hooligans that run the Party – Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, Chuck Schumer, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Dick Durbin, Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Gregory Meeks, and unvetted / unappointed czars. They think The Tea Party is a flea despite the fact that 60% plus of the American people relate to the movement. They completely ignore the 2010 election cycle where their ranks were diminished by historical proportions not only in Washington but in governor mansions, state legislature houses and local county commissioner races throughout the country.
- Who represents the future of the Democrat Party? Who is going to usher them into the 21st century?
- Where are the Paul Ryan’s, Chris Christie’s, Sarah Palin’s, Ron and Rand Paul’s, Michele Bachman’s, Bobby Jindal's, Nikki Haley's, and Scott Walker’s of the Democrat Party?
- Where are the Rush Limbaugh’s, Sean Hannity’s, Glenn Beck’s, Mark Levin’s, Laura Ingraham’s, and Jason Lewis’ on The Left?
The answer is THERE ARE NONE because the party “of the people” and “for the little guy” is intolerant of a divergence of opinion.
Case in point: Senator Joe Lieberman. How can someone go from a vice presidential nominee to being forced to switch parties in a matter of a few years? Answer: A narrow-minded party with no room for nonconformists, off-the-reservation thinking.
What does the future hold?
The establishment in both parties has survived only because the American public has been asleep since the Reagan Revolution with a short-term awakening from hibernation in 1994 during the Gingrich Revolution. If the American people do not wake up from their complacency and apathy slumber, the two establishment parties are going to take this country right over a cliff. In my opinion, The Tea Party is our last best hope to rein them in once and for all.
If Obama wins the fight, deficits will balloon, energy prices will “necessarily skyrocket” and taxes will be raised; killing an already stalled economy.
If the establishment Republicans prevail, we will probably see a short-term cut in spending but their repeated willingness to compromise with their fellow drunken sailor counterparts on the Left indicate to me that we will see a maintenance of the status quo.
Both parties have doled out favors to their largest donors using OUR money for decades and neither party sees any need to change their ways. However, the America public may have permanently changed when Obama Happened. Uproar like this has not been seen since President Carter bungled his way through his one-term debacle. Millions of people have woken up over the last 24 months and said, “What the hell happened to my country?” Even those who voted for Obama have buyer’s remorse.
Can the Tea Party save the country? Stay tuned.
