House Tea Partiers to the World: Burn, Baby, Burn.

[kpete]

The House Freedom Caucus, the tea party GOPers, put out this statement:



Note that last sentence: "The next Speaker needs to yield back power to the membership for the sake of both the institution and the country." In other words, we don't want a speaker who is going to try to govern in a time of divided government; we don't want a speaker who will endeavor to forge a compromise on behalf of the GOP conference and make the system work; and, as a government shutdown looms and a possible debt ceiling crisis approaches, we want a speaker who will step to the side and let the chaos reign. This is the congressional equivalent of "burn, baby, burn

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/house-tea-party-statement-mccarthy-withdrawal

[sufrommich]

1. If they don't smack the Tea Party down right now,they're

doomed as a national party.

[corkhead]

2. sane republicans, if there actually any out there, should give up on teabagger votes

and try to find someone moderate enough to garner the necessary votes from the other side of the aisle.

Nah, that would make too much sense, and they would get primaried out of existence by the knuckledraggers in their districts.

Come to think of it, sane republicans are already nearly extinct because that has already happened.

[NCjack]

3. Yes, it is beyond a reasonable time for non-Tea Party House Republicans

to form a coalition with the House Democrats.