Hmm... What have I been telling you? This email came in today from Grassfire Nation. Read it, and then my response via email to them. -Jz
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From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, Grassfire Nation
Last week, the Patriot/Tea Party movement dropped the ball.
Attorney General Eric Holder finally was forced to appear before Congress on the "Fast and Furious" gun-running debacle that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. But the movement barely raised a peep. Instead, we allowed the liberal and conservative media to spend the day talking about.... Donald Trump.
Liberty News' Eric Odom posted these challenging words:
The conservative movement has completely dropped the ball on Eric Holder.
As a reminder, what the DOJ did in Fast and Furious looks a lot like criminally negligent manslaughter....
Nevermind the fact that Holder is Stonewalling, possibly in contempt of Congress, the DOJ contains officials who apparently accept big cash bribes and keep their jobs, Holder refused to prosecute Black Panther members who stood outside of voting locations holding blunt weapons, and that the DOJ is using valuable time and resources to file lawsuits against states trying to manage their own affairs and problems.
What’s most important right this minute is that an American Border Agent was murdered by a firearm that was allowed to be possessed by a criminal directly by the Department of Justice.
And worse, Holder lied about when he knew about this. Now, his department is trying to keep information away from us all that would likely bring the house of cards down.
Let me remind you all, last year the conservative movement, fueled by a major part of the conservative blogosphere, brought down Congressman Anthony Weiner for tweeting an inappropriate picture of himself and lying about it. Think about that for a minute. It was the talk of the movement for days on end until Weiner finally cried and admitted his wrong doing. He was forced to resign and his power was stripped from him.
Yet Eric Holder’s department is responsible for the death of an American, they lied about it and appear to be covering their trail, and we spent the entire day yesterday talking about Donald Trump’s endorsement.
I encourage you to read Eric's entire post. Then, consider if this issue is worth taking action on today.
Steve Elliott, Grassfire Nation
Last week, the Patriot/Tea Party movement dropped the ball.
Attorney General Eric Holder finally was forced to appear before Congress on the "Fast and Furious" gun-running debacle that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. But the movement barely raised a peep. Instead, we allowed the liberal and conservative media to spend the day talking about.... Donald Trump.
Liberty News' Eric Odom posted these challenging words:
The conservative movement has completely dropped the ball on Eric Holder.
As a reminder, what the DOJ did in Fast and Furious looks a lot like criminally negligent manslaughter....
Nevermind the fact that Holder is Stonewalling, possibly in contempt of Congress, the DOJ contains officials who apparently accept big cash bribes and keep their jobs, Holder refused to prosecute Black Panther members who stood outside of voting locations holding blunt weapons, and that the DOJ is using valuable time and resources to file lawsuits against states trying to manage their own affairs and problems.
What’s most important right this minute is that an American Border Agent was murdered by a firearm that was allowed to be possessed by a criminal directly by the Department of Justice.
And worse, Holder lied about when he knew about this. Now, his department is trying to keep information away from us all that would likely bring the house of cards down.
Let me remind you all, last year the conservative movement, fueled by a major part of the conservative blogosphere, brought down Congressman Anthony Weiner for tweeting an inappropriate picture of himself and lying about it. Think about that for a minute. It was the talk of the movement for days on end until Weiner finally cried and admitted his wrong doing. He was forced to resign and his power was stripped from him.
Yet Eric Holder’s department is responsible for the death of an American, they lied about it and appear to be covering their trail, and we spent the entire day yesterday talking about Donald Trump’s endorsement.
I encourage you to read Eric's entire post. Then, consider if this issue is worth taking action on today.
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NOW, my response to Grassfire Nation:
I apologize, but I saw no other contact link here on the Grassfire page. I am responding to the email that just went out about 'dropping the ball'. Look, I've said this on my show a number of times: The tea party is dead, especially in DC. I could cite a lot of proof (the tea party was NEVER heard from the entire time the Occupy losers were gallivanting around the country), but no example is more disturbing than what happened in Washington last July. From my article a few days ago:
"This attitude is evident in the Tea Party. Members and Tea Party organizations fought against creating a national organization. "Our power is in the fact that we are not nationally organized!" was the rallying cry. Excuse me, but WHAT?!? NOT being organized is a better way to get things done? Since when? What major group or company or corporation has accomplished great things by NOT being organized? Anyone? Ever? Of course not!
The Tea Party stuck with being NOT organized, and now it is by and large dead. Without a national organization (which I conceived as being not unlike the Boy Scouts, which has basic by-laws and rules for operation nationally but is run by the local troop leaders in their own way on their own schedules), the Tea Party has been totally unable to put any pressure on members of Congress.
All this did is allow the Tea Party elected Representatives in the House to cave. The biggest issues for the Tea Party are spending, government growth and taxation. Last summer in July you'll remember, the big debate was over Obama's demand for a debt ceiling hike of over $2 trillion. Allen West, the biggest name, biggest talking Tea Party elected Representative had his chance to stand up and stand against this. It would require guts, because we were told that if the Republicans fight Obama on this issue, he'll use the bully pulpit and the media to crush the Republicans.
Mr. West, again the biggest name Tea Party elected member of the House, caved. Speaker John Boehner bellowed his now famous line, "Get your asses in line," and Mr. West did. He went on national TV on Fox News, said that this was the best deal we could get. His capitulation made it impossible for the new members of the House (all Tea Party elected as well but lesser known) to vote against it, so they supported it in spite of the fact that Rep. Michele Bachmann - then running for President - correctly said that this was a bad deal."
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It goes on from there, but you get the point. That day, the tea party elected members of Congress were done being tea party affiliated. CNS News reported the following from the Mark Levin Show:
"Mark Levin says House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) set out to “poison” newly-elected Tea Party-elected congressmen – and succeeded in robbing two-thirds of them of their conservative values.
Yesterday, while discussing a CNSNews.com report of Boehner’s saying he won’t rule out support of a balanced budget amendment that allows unlimited federal spending – and that doesn’t require a super-majority vote to hike taxes to pay for that spending - Levin said:
“As soon as a number of these Tea Party-elected conservatives went to Capitol Hill, Boehner made it his task to take as many as he could under his wing, and to poison them. To poison them with the inside-the-beltway, establishment, old bull, RINO mentality.”
http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/levin-boehner-has-poisoned-two-thirds-tea-party-elected-congressmen
Now then, how to fix it? The Tea Party refused over and over again to be organized, into a national activist group that could really get focused. As I said in my column, "Members and Tea Party organizations fought against creating a national organization. "Our power is in the fact that we are not nationally organized!" was the rallying cry. Excuse me, but WHAT?!? NOT being organized is a better way to get things done? Since when? What major group or company or corporation has accomplished great things by NOT being organized? Anyone? Ever? Of course not!
The Tea Party stuck with being NOT organized, and now it is by and large dead. Without a national organization (which I conceived as being not unlike the Boy Scouts, which has basic by-laws and rules for operation nationally but is run by the local troop leaders in their own way on their own schedules), the Tea Party has been totally unable to put any pressure on members of Congress."
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I am not trying to point any finger of blame at anyone here. What I am doing is explaining why (a) this isn't the first time the ball's been dropped and (b) it's time to get organized. You want to have an effect on more than the 2010 elections? It's time to organize. Nationally. Make the voice one loud and powerful one, instead of a bunch of little voice all over the country who are having little if any effect in Washington DC.
Jimmy Z
The Jimmy Z Show
http://thejimmyzshow.com
"This attitude is evident in the Tea Party. Members and Tea Party organizations fought against creating a national organization. "Our power is in the fact that we are not nationally organized!" was the rallying cry. Excuse me, but WHAT?!? NOT being organized is a better way to get things done? Since when? What major group or company or corporation has accomplished great things by NOT being organized? Anyone? Ever? Of course not!
The Tea Party stuck with being NOT organized, and now it is by and large dead. Without a national organization (which I conceived as being not unlike the Boy Scouts, which has basic by-laws and rules for operation nationally but is run by the local troop leaders in their own way on their own schedules), the Tea Party has been totally unable to put any pressure on members of Congress.
All this did is allow the Tea Party elected Representatives in the House to cave. The biggest issues for the Tea Party are spending, government growth and taxation. Last summer in July you'll remember, the big debate was over Obama's demand for a debt ceiling hike of over $2 trillion. Allen West, the biggest name, biggest talking Tea Party elected Representative had his chance to stand up and stand against this. It would require guts, because we were told that if the Republicans fight Obama on this issue, he'll use the bully pulpit and the media to crush the Republicans.
Mr. West, again the biggest name Tea Party elected member of the House, caved. Speaker John Boehner bellowed his now famous line, "Get your asses in line," and Mr. West did. He went on national TV on Fox News, said that this was the best deal we could get. His capitulation made it impossible for the new members of the House (all Tea Party elected as well but lesser known) to vote against it, so they supported it in spite of the fact that Rep. Michele Bachmann - then running for President - correctly said that this was a bad deal."
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It goes on from there, but you get the point. That day, the tea party elected members of Congress were done being tea party affiliated. CNS News reported the following from the Mark Levin Show:
"Mark Levin says House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) set out to “poison” newly-elected Tea Party-elected congressmen – and succeeded in robbing two-thirds of them of their conservative values.
Yesterday, while discussing a CNSNews.com report of Boehner’s saying he won’t rule out support of a balanced budget amendment that allows unlimited federal spending – and that doesn’t require a super-majority vote to hike taxes to pay for that spending - Levin said:
“As soon as a number of these Tea Party-elected conservatives went to Capitol Hill, Boehner made it his task to take as many as he could under his wing, and to poison them. To poison them with the inside-the-beltway, establishment, old bull, RINO mentality.”
http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/levin-boehner-has-poisoned-two-thirds-tea-party-elected-congressmen
Now then, how to fix it? The Tea Party refused over and over again to be organized, into a national activist group that could really get focused. As I said in my column, "Members and Tea Party organizations fought against creating a national organization. "Our power is in the fact that we are not nationally organized!" was the rallying cry. Excuse me, but WHAT?!? NOT being organized is a better way to get things done? Since when? What major group or company or corporation has accomplished great things by NOT being organized? Anyone? Ever? Of course not!
The Tea Party stuck with being NOT organized, and now it is by and large dead. Without a national organization (which I conceived as being not unlike the Boy Scouts, which has basic by-laws and rules for operation nationally but is run by the local troop leaders in their own way on their own schedules), the Tea Party has been totally unable to put any pressure on members of Congress."
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I am not trying to point any finger of blame at anyone here. What I am doing is explaining why (a) this isn't the first time the ball's been dropped and (b) it's time to get organized. You want to have an effect on more than the 2010 elections? It's time to organize. Nationally. Make the voice one loud and powerful one, instead of a bunch of little voice all over the country who are having little if any effect in Washington DC.
Jimmy Z
The Jimmy Z Show
http://thejimmyzshow.com
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