Why Tea Parties Are Skeptical about Establishment Republicans

Fisker Automotive, a “green” electric car company that absorbed $529 million in taxpayer subsidies, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. Like Solyndra and other pork-laden companies before it, Fisker has made tax dollars vanish and laid off the majority of its employees.

In a revealing posting on TeaPartyTribune, “Obama, Electric Cars, Crony Capitalists and Establishment Republicans,” the blogger who goes by the name of Mr. Curmudgeon explores the story behind the story, which is the GOP establishment’s co-dependency in such ventures. 

Here’s an excerpt that wraps up the piece. For the full article, go to the end and click.

For far too long, the Tea Party has focused much of its ire on the person of Barack Hussein Obama. Whether it’s the debt ceiling, high taxes, expanding federal power or sweetheart deals showered on crony capitalists, establishment Republicans have been Obama’s ever loyal and constant companions. These same Republicans were furious when Mike Castle lost to Christine O’Donnell in 2010, denying them a possible majority in the Senate.

Castle’s good friend and Fox News political analyst Karl Rove had kittens the night of O’Donnell’s victory. “I’ve met her,” said Rove to Fox host Sean Hannity, “I wasn’t frankly impressed by her abilities as a candidate. One thing that O’Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn’t in the primary is her own checkered background.”

By all means, let’s examine the issue of checkered backgrounds. Republicans had majorities in both houses of Congress from 1994 through 2006. Did they use that majority to stop the explosive growth of government? No. Was the strength of their majority employed to stop the Government-

Sponsored Enterprises Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from infecting the global financial system with tainted mortgage-backed securities? No. Did they at any time attempt to reign in the Federal Reserve’s dangerous credit expansion that fueled America’s unsustainable housing bubble? No. The reason? Republicans like Mike Castle.

Castle happily wrote letters to Obama’s spendthrift Department of Energy to bring Delaware some green-energy bacon. He didn’t care that the underlying purpose of the enterprise was to reward Obama’s fundraisers at the taxpayer’s expense.

As the battle lines begin to form heading into the 2014 midterm elections, I want you to think of establishment Republicans as used electric car salesmen. They’ll smile, take you for a test drive, tell you to kick the tires and then ask you to sign on the dotted line. Don’t. It’s long past time we threw out the establishment bums. All of them.

Their continued success is Obama’s continued success. If you want to defeat President Obama’s agenda, you need to pull the plug on the political careers of the GOP’s worthless establishment lemons.

The thought of an establishment Republican shellacking at the hands of the Tea Party is, well, electrifying. 

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Posted by Robert Knight on TeaPartyUnity.org  April 12, 2013