Surrender: So What Next

Washington is now open for business and has an additional trillion dollars to spend by raising the debt limit.  Before throwing a party and getting all excited, realize this is only a temporary situation and there is a possibility the doors will be boarded shut again on January 15, 2014.  Despite the valiant efforts of great men like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul who saw the disaster of Obamacare and saw an opportunity to save ordinary Americans like you and I from its destructive policies, Obamacare remains fully funded. 

The reopening of Washington occurred because the Republican establishment led by John Boehner in the House, and Mitch McConnell in the Senate caved in believing the lie that the apocalyptic end of the world would occur on October 17 when the country would default on its debt payments.  As I have written in previous posts, there was no reason to default because there is sufficient cash flowing into the treasury on a monthly basis to make these payments.  Default would have only occurred if our President had violated his Constitutional duty to make these debt payments in order to politically destroy his opposition.  The good news is that this battle is not over for the Republican establishment may have surrendered but the Tea Party did not.   

There has been talk lately about the possibility of the emergence of a third party.  Even prominent talk show host Sean Hannity spoke of the possibility of a third party being the answer to the nation’s current situation.  (1)  I understand the frustration of seeing Republicans cannibalize each other while the Democrats stood strong and united during this shutdown.  However, a third party that divides the Republican will insure Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress and control of the White House for many decades.  We saw what these people were able to accomplish with only two years of complete control and I shudder to think of what our nation would look like if they had decades of control.  (2) 

For those believing we need a third party and are willing to relinquish control of this country to liberal statists (3)  I want to offer a challenge.  In effect, the Tea Party is already functioning as a viable third party and has been able to elect many great leaders to office.  Men like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and the many conservative members of Congress who were able to gain a Republican majority in the House and relegate Pelosi to just another member of Congress are a result of the work of this effective third party.  If it is a third party you desire, join us in the tea party to help us elect more true conservatives to office. 

What the Tea Party lacks is a fund raising apparatus and national organization.  In 2010, the Tea Party was visible in the numerous rallies across this country and successfully raised funds for conservative candidates.  The Tea Party was also successful in gaining republican control in the House and eliminated the Democrat super majority in the Senate.  (4)  In 2010 the Tea Party was organized, visible, and the results were a great Republican victory. 

Unfortunately, the tea party mysteriously disappeared in 2012.  At least their disappearance was a mystery until it we discovered that tea party organizations were being rendered useless by IRS investigations.  The investigations were regarding the organizations applications for tax-exempt status.  (5)  If an organization had the words Tea Party, their application came under close scrutiny by the IRS.  The IRS did this for 100% of applications for organizations containing the words tea party and only 30% for organizations with the word progressive. 

These investigations used up any funds these organizations had for the 2012 campaign and explains why they went silent after the great victory in 2010.  The key for future Tea Party success is to discover how to end these investigations so they can raise funds to participate in the 2014 and 2016 elections.  Of course, if the Republican Party were as committed to its conservative base as it is in getting along with Democrats, the Tea Party would have ample funding for its activities through the Republican Party apparatus.  Unfortunately, the events of the last two weeks have revealed the depth of the rift between the Republican establishment and its conservative base. 

Therefore, I do not believe Tea Party conservatives will soon be able to take over the Republican Party apparatus as evidenced by how they treated Ted Cruz for only attempting to do what his constituents elected him to do.  In other words, Tea Party conservatives cannot expect any financial support from the party for its campaigns.  However, this does not mean victory is impossible. 

The strength of the Tea Party is in its grass roots nature.  The success of the Tea Party in 2010 was due to volunteers volunteering their time to make phone calls, knock on doors, and show up at rallies.  The Republican and Democrat Parties depend on contributions from their members, unions, and corporate donations.  They then use that money to buy expensive advertising. 

The Tea Party uses personal contact, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and email to get out their message.  The Tea Party also has the support of conservative talk radio so there is no reason we cannot get our message out.  This leads to the question, with all these tools at their disposal, why has the Tea Party been ineffective in getting out its message.

I believe its ineffectiveness is due to the Tea Party being a scattered group of several independent groups lacking centralized organization.  This is similar to the problems the country encountered when it was operating under the Articles of Confederation.  There must be some central organization determining which areas to target.  We can then organize activities in these areas using local Tea Party organizations. 

Using this type of central planning, the Tea Party will be more efficient in targeting races for Congress, the Senate, and key swing states in Presidential races and get out their message.  We can also use this level of organization to begin setting up the state constitutional amendment conventions to amend our Constitution and build safe guards against any future liberal progressive takeovers.  In this way, the Tea Party can effectively take over control of the Republican Party and render the current Republican establishment ineffective in promoting their democrat lite candidates. 

I am not sure how to begin forming such an organization but I know there are many highly educated and talented people in the Tea Party movement.  Now is the time for them to step up and begin the process of taking out the liberal, statist, progressive, RINO leviathan that is transforming our country into the tyranny our founders dreaded.  Use the comment section of this post to give me any ideas you may have or if you live in a state or district with a Tea Party member that is already in office, contact them to see if they have any ideas. 

We have the tools at our disposal to save our country we only lack the organization to effectively use them. 

1. Lee, Tony. HANNITY: COULD BE TIME FOR CONSERVATIVE THIRD PARTY. www.breitbart.com. [Online] Breitbart News, october 15, 2013. [Cited: October 18, 2013.] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/10/15/Hannity-Time-for-Conservative-Third-Party.

2. Howerton, Jason. Rush Limbaugh: We Must Take the GOP Over (+video). joemiller.us. [Online] Restoring Liberty, July 31, 2013. [Cited: October 18, 2013.] http://joemiller.us/2013/07/rush-limbaugh-we-must-take-the-gop-over-video/.

3. Naron, Mr. Now is it Time for a Third Party? www.rightnation.us. [Online] Right Nation, October 9, 2013. [Cited: October 18, 2013.] http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?s=9e438dd554cdf0094d35f6cd9c974d0c&app=blog&module=display&section=blog&blogid=7.

4. Jonsson, Patrik. How the tea party helped GOP find a path to Election Day successes. www.csmonitor.com. [Online] The Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 2010. [Cited: August 2013, 2013.] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Tea-Party-Tally/2010/1102/How-the-tea-party-helped-GOP-find-a-path-to-Election-Day-successes.

5. Jones, Susan. IG: IRS Targeted 100% With 'Tea Party' in Name; 30% With 'Progress' or 'Progressive' . cnsnews.com. [Online] CNS News, June 27, 2013. [Cited: October 18, 2013.] http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ig-irs-targeted-100-tea-party-name-30-progress-or-progressive.