Republican establishment wants to co-opt the party. When a beast is cornered, it always strikes back. We know this. There’s no way the GOP elephant is going to roll over and die. But what’s the reaction in other quarters in Washington? How are the Demoncats responding? Are they pleased to see Mr. and Mrs. America showing up at their carefully orchestrated town hall meetings asking tough questions? Are they happy that a sea of regular citizens, most of whom want to toss them out, are engaging in the political process? Hardly. If they’re not pleased by these developments, are the Democrats looking for ways to either leverage or co-opt the Tea Party movement?
The answer would be a resounding “No.”
The Demoncat leadership wants to destroy it.
Right now, they’re planning a vicious counterattack. They’ve recruited the cheeseburger eater, Bill Clinton, to strategize the assault. What’s Clinton’s first move? He installed a fresh set of batteries in his giant smear machine, that’s number one. He rallied his political operatives in a scheme targeting maybe a dozen leaders within the Tea Party movement. With James “Pit Bull” Carville doing the heavy lifting, the old Clinton army is looking for ways to drag them through the mud. To discredit them. To assail their character. It’s a page right out of the old Clinton playbook. Remember the FBI files in Clinton’s possession?
Different day, same drill.
Team Clinton plans to do to the Tea Party leadership the same thing that was done to me by the George Soros funded group that took sound bites out of context and sent them to the socialist government in England. Those very same “compassionate” liberals who, I might add, are losing their own country to the invasion from Pakistan and elsewhere, had the audacity to blacklist and ban me from visiting Britain. I am the only member of the U.S. media to receive such treatment.
But that’s another story.
The Democrats see the handwriting on the wall. They know they face political annihilation in 2010 and beyond. Their precious majority status in both houses of Congress has been threatened by a movement that many of them originally viewed with a scornful eye. If their fears are realized and they lose control of Congress, guess what else is in jeopardy?
Redistricting.
That’s the golden door prize of the decade.
I won’t bore you with the technical details of how redistricting works. Suffice it to say that the redistricting process in 2011 will have a direct bearing on the political makeup of the country. Redistricting ultimately determines the number of congressional seats each party can have. Big Democrat losses at the ballot box in 2010 could set back the so-called progressive movement for a decade.
From my perspective, that’s a good thing.
While the libs derided and dismissed the Tea Party movement at first, they’re now desperately digging around for dirt to besmirch its leadership with an eye on bringing down several of the larger tea parties. Will their heavy-handed thuggery work? Hard to say. The movement is sure to recognize any attempt by the Clinton-Obama machine to take down one of its own. And unlike traditional politics, the Tea Party movement isn’t quick to throw its kind under the bus.
As of this writing, Clinton has come up empty-handed.
Before leaving this matter regarding the concerted effort to co-opt or destroy the Tea Party, I must touch briefly on the media. As you well know, an entire book could be written about media bias and the fifth column, those enemies of freedom embedded inside newsrooms and television studios. I will say, however, that to their credit the media have done a “B-minus” job reporting the story thus far. This is really quite good news considering how they usually trash anything resembling conservatism.
That said, I couldn’t help but notice how Pinchy Sulzberger and the Old York Times jumped at the first chance to subvert this populist movement. This