Leaders in both the Republican and Democrat parties hate the Tea Party

By Rolf Yungclas —— Bio and Archives December 16, 2013

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Today we have the establishment Republicans and the Democrat ideologues joining forces to try and quash an ever-strengthening grassroots movement that arose to oppose a government that no longer serves the needs of the people.

We are seeing how the leaders of both parties in Washington, D.C. have abandoned government of the people, by the people, and for the people, thinking we the people should blindly trust them to make decisions for us. The Tea Party movement, which is essentially a grassroots organizations opposed to monolithic government, has now become the main political enemy of both parties’ leadership! This is a movement that arose as a result of three years of big government programs being passed into law, beginning with the big business bailout by the G.W. Bush administration. As a result, many people, the "silent majority,” to borrow a name from the 1970s, could no longer remain silent and began to show up in force and express their dissatisfaction at town hall meetings being held by Congressmen when they were home from Washington. The outrage was also as a result of bills being passed that no one knew what was really in them - bills that were one to two thousand pages long written in language that could only begin to be decided by a team of Constitutional lawyers. They were also upset by Congress's inability to control regulatory agencies who were becoming a law unto themselves with their ever-more oppressive hold on the American people as well as fed up with is out-of-control spending. The national debt is growing by trillions of dollars every year, no matter whether we have Democrat or Republican majorities in both houses Congress, or with it split between the two.

The Republican leaders in the house and Senate, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, respectively, have now decided that enough is enough, and that it is time to openly attack those who would try to stop their efforts to collaborate with the big government agenda. By taking sides in such a way, they are saying that the voice of the people no longer matters. Legislators must get in line with what their leaders are saying and no longer question them. Compromise has to be made, so settle down and shut up. Leaders of the Republicans and Democrats have come together on a compromise budget, so we need to accept it because at least we have a budget. Whatever happened to giving the constituency a chance to read and give their input to the legislation before their elected officials decide whether or not to vote for it? Compromise now means no participation by the citizenry? When Boehner and McConnell and the Democrats go after those in the House and Senate who don't simply rubber stamp their decisions, they are going after the millions of voters who feel disenfranchised, no longer having someone representing them in Washington. It’s time to replace Boehner and McConnell and all the others in Washington who have come to think that the people of this country are here to serve a centralized government in Washington, D.C. rather than the other way around.