Are you as sick as I am of hearing this term "tea party" being used as if it's been around forever and has the bonifides earned by the other two parties of the two-party system we've observed for generations? I had my doubts on day one and never looked back--to me it has all the ear-marks of some contrivance of a right-wing think-tank to serve some calculated new political purpose. And Toto is finally dragging the curtain aside for all to see.
For a long time it seemed to be a sort of an artificial "whipping boy" all the republicans could hide behind and blame as if they are all good but this mischievous cadre keeps making them do things they don't want to do. If Flip Wilson were still around he'd say "the tea party made me do it". But now that the sequester is in effect, the government is shut down, the debt ceiling is a looming catastrophe again, it is clear after all, that there is this "mob" so ideologically rabid that they are irrational, ready and willing to destroy something they don't understand--something which took much hard work and sacrifice to become what it is--and they seem incapable at all of considering the consequences to real people. (Criminals have a way of thinking and not caring that way).
There is one word the press keeps avoiding--they call them reckless, crazy, racist, even the "coo-coo caucus", but why it is so hard to consider that calculation and intent have been there purposefully from the beginning and thus dare to consider and use the word tyranny, which seems to apply however out of the ordinary? It has confounded me daily. To hell with this self-proclaimed "tea party" nonsense. This is and has been "Team Tyranny" all along. And when one alleges tyranny, he must name the tyrant, name this figure's objective(s), call out his or her modus operandi, and last but not least, explain how to win victory over the tyrant and the tyranny and not just either capitulate through bargaining down-stream with the known faces of this internal enemy or beat them for the moment by out-lasting the minions in one theater of combat. You must defeat the tyrant upstream at the absolute source and end the processes he or she has used to get this much power which will be used again and again until finally successful entirely if not stopped.
Who is this tyrant? It is Grover Norquist, plain and simple--although he has colluders and funders higher up than him. But this particular tyranny is his--nurtured for close to two decades. There will always be rich manipulators willing to back an opportunist whose actions favor them. But Norquist is the source of America's manufactured crises and all the hurt that has come with them right now and directly ahead.
What is his objective? It is as he has stated: "to shrink the federal government to the size it can be drowned in a bath tub". Specifically he appears to want to roll back or completely undo every progressive accomplishment of every Democratic POTUS since and including FDR's "New Deal"--a republican ideologue who has deluded himself that he is the chosen one to deliver on all the familiar rhetoric of conservative "beliefs". It has been his influences that have given us all of the manufactured crises of the first Democratic Presidential Administration since the Clinton Administration and the "sequester" is chipping away right now surely to Norquist's smug delight.
What is his modus operandi? It is to create a "purity pledge"--a pledge to a blind ideological totality that uses taxation as the wedge issue. He has operated for almost two decades advancing this un-American pledge which creates a conflict of interest with the oath of Congressional office. But no one has seen fit yet to challenge this in court as a component of an extortion matrix. If you don't sign, you are either abandoned of support or maligned outright in right-wing partisan media. Your career is threatened andor destroyed and a person of lesser character, scruples or just plain intellect steps in or is drafted.
That is the essence of extortion--and no republican of sanity, intelligence or character would sign it--it leads to perjury with hand on the Bible while swearing the actual oath of Congressional office once it is attained in general election. Mitt Romney however signed it--he would have not have been granted nomination for POTUS without doing so. Think about that long and hard. The republican candidate for POTUS must answer to Norquist by signing loyalty to blind totality with regard to taxation. Therefore, had Romney won, America would be a DINO--Democracy in name only but a tyranny in reality in whole or part.
Congress thus has this criminal group of radical followers of a person who is either criminally insane or just criminally clever because he has been able to steer the US economy and stay out of the limelight. The Dapper Don did him a big favor by showing him "what not to wear".
How must this be fought and ended forever to return American democracy to its prior form?
We must stop being distracted down-stream by this false construct called the "tea party" (and even by the liberal media which legitimizes it by calling it "the tea party" all the time). This must be fought with law--not politics--upstream at its source where "Team Tyranny" conducts its purity tests for low or no-scrupled individuals in want of the perks and prestige of Congressional office who have that character-defect of willingness to remain loyal to anti-government ideology without thought of the people harmed or American tradition trashed for which people have provided us with through sacrifice of blood and treasure.
There is a state of defacto extortion which will continue forever if this "totality" pledge and partisan media collusion isn't prosecuted now or soon while Democrats hold the White House. No new law be need be invented or put before this compromised Congress who will undoubtedly protect itself. It's old fashioned extortion in a new form and must be treated that way. The form doesn't matter--it's the basic crime that hasn't changed.
Norquist was never elected to any office nor did he build an industrial empire of his own to prove his sanity and ability to display sound reason. No ordinary citizen in a representative democracy should be allowed to twist arms and fill Congress with a "Team Tyranny" molded by, for all we know, is a mad-man or arch-criminal.
The tea party never existed. The press took the bait. Join me now in calling them what and who they are: Team Tyranny, and help point the finger upstream to the source to get rid of those totality and purity pledges and the anti-government tyrant who has been getting away with it far too long. Thank you. It's our way out. The pins will fall and gobs will be smacked with the question of how could we have been so fooled?