We Need to Beat The Piss Out of TeaBag Freshmen Reps in 2012

I know we are all overall pissed off about this whole debt/deficit deal. I still feel better that President Obama was in the White House versus John McCain though.

The bottom line is the people who put the proverbial gun to the temple of the government, the Teabaggers, need to be most high priority to remove from office. Based on polling, general mood of the US, etc. these people are vulnerable. Frankly most are freshmen and haven't really built any rapport with their constituents anyway.

If we spend time bickering over the President it takes us away from focusing on these Teabag assholes. That is where we need to send our frustration. I'll be focusing mine on that ultimate shit head Allen West.

who can honestly say with a straight face that Social Security and Medicare would even be an issue if the House had a Democrat Majority. The only reason Obama is making anyone angry is because the Tea Baggers for the second time have used despicable means to hold up legislation that would benefit the US. Well it is only the second time that I know of.

I know Alan West is one but I'm terrible with names.

If we had a list, (hint) then we can donate to the Dems who are fighting to get back in control of those seats.

like teabaggers without being in the caucus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus#Members.2C_112th_Congress

We had to go through an election cycle in many of these districts with these tea party bums who replaced worthless blue dogs that weren't much better than these folks were.

Now we have a chance not only to get rid of the tea party bums, but to replace the earlier crappiness when we had blue dogs in their seats. And it will be harder for the DLCers to claim that we need to support a "blue dog incumbent" and therefore we can put more force behind those running in the primaries that work for the people.

I think the focus of these questionaires shouldn't be the traditional "left / right" issues that split "conservatives" and "liberals", but those issues that there are universal populist support for (that even some tea partiers might support), but that corporatists like the DLCers hate us taking issue with them on.

If we can focus on those issues, even if we get some "moderate" candidates in more conservative districts, we will get more populist moderates, which are a rare commodity these days when the DLCers work hard to keep those types like Paul Hackett out of elected positions.

Though perhaps we still need to build strength in other areas later for issues like gay rights and women's choice, which I still feel are damned important, we need to get a nucleus of support to start building for changing the ground rules that have been warped so much that keep us from doing much of anything. We need to focus on issues like:

a) public campaign financing
b) instant runoff voting
c) constitutional amendment against corporate personhood and subsequently our election laws that have been f'd up by this "right".
d) reforming the media (breaking them up) and enforcing the Sherman anti-trust act in general.
e) fixing social security by the right ways of doing things like lifting the cap and leaving it the hell alone otherwise.
f) tax reform to restore the pre-Reagan tax rates, and fix problems with corporate tax breaks, etc. too.
g) getting us out of the wars.
h) renegotiating or getting out of NAFTA and free trade agreements
i) restore tariffs to bring back manufacturing jobs.
j) enforcing rules on guest worker programs like H-1B and H-2 so that they aren't used to exploit cheap foreign labor.
k) get rid of farm subsidies to large agribusiness to prevent "food dumping" which in effect puts foreign farmers out of work and creates problems with illegal immigration here by doing so.

I'm sure there are more that would fit here, but I'm trying to focus on the issues where if sold properly, it could get a majority of Americans' support (dems, independents, and perhaps even some reasonable Republicans) who are all affected adversely by the status quo in these areas, even if the currently "powerful" minority that are beholden to corporations and their wealthy controllers might hate to deal with them. If we can whittle this down and make it a very clear document that we can get candidates to sign on to, we can get those we want to support on record to be wanting to work for us, and not corporate contributors behind the scenes.

NOW is the time to do this, when we take back the blue dog spots that we lost in 2010 with BETTER congress people so that when we subsequently get a majority, we don't have to still deal with a monstrous bunch that stands in the way of real reform that we'll need in 2012.

In order for this to work,we will desperately need to gotv. many of these representatives are in poor districts,with a large lower middle-class constituency.
get ready to volunteer with your local Democratic Party.

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and when he had that unfortunate "fall" and President Palin was then in charge...is that what would have been better?

Old man McCain would have dropped dead a year into his term with all the bullshit of the last few years.

do no such thing. They'll pay a bit of lip service to their base around election time, but as soon as they're sworn in it's back to triangulation and capitulation, and they tell their base to shut up and support them because they suck a bit less then the GOP alternative.

If you want to fight the tea baggers, the Dem base must be empowered, in my opinion.

All Republicans deserve the same disdain. There is not now nor has there been for some time (in spite of a speech I heard several years ago) "one America". The divide is now complete. Compromise with the so called tea party is compromise with a radical agenda that is both delusional and dangerous. We need to get rid of them all. It is fine wth me to start with the tea party but thy are all bad news.

to prevent it, they won't.

lots of media. I don't see the DNC creating anything remotely as powerful, especially since the 50 State Strategy was abandoned. I really hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm not.

We now have Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chair of the DNC. No weakling there!

DFA Calls on Rep. Wasserman Schultz to Support Democrats in Florida
Released On: March 24, 2008


BURLINGTON, VT -- Democracy for America, our nation’s largest progressive political action organization, is calling on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to be removed as the Chair of the Red to Blue program. Rep. Wasserman Schultz is refusing to campaign on behalf of Democrats running against incumbent Republicans in south Florida. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue program works to defeat incumbent Republicans throughout the country and is an essential component in the effort to expand the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/press/667-debbie-wasserman-schultz-forgets-who-her-friends-are

articles from 3 1/2 years ago?

need. She's part of the 'bi-partisan' crowd when we need someone who will go all out for defeat of the GOP. Again, I hope I'm wrong.

in 2012 to punish Obama again.

"you put your finger on it" smiley! Stomping our collective foot and sitting home pouting is what helped to get these morAns in office in the first place.

The beast has had a small snack, and has only had its appetite stimulated.

Media LOVES the teabag people because they are an upstart "movement".. Of course the media rarely mentions that those expensive buses are hardly the "grassrootsy" trappings of the ragtag band of teabag people. These people are whores, willing to sell out their country for some box lunches, & posterboard and markers.

They will sell out because they loathe the fact that a black man is president, and because they lack the brainpower to realize that they are just pawns being moved around the chessboard in fancy buses.

They will be royally jazzed by this victory, and I can see their numbers doubling..

is total focus on getting the economy back up and running. If we do that, the voters will do the right thing.

That will show 'em, right?

And that should be where our anger and energy is focused.