LOL. Nice.

ELC, that WAS the year of the “Contract With America”, I’d point out. That certainly qualified as a concerted effort.

It was not, however, bolstered by the behavior of an unapologetically arrogant and dismissive administration and legislature.

The results should be… interesting. Either the USA as a concept is seriously on its way out, or this time we really DO throw the bastards out.

I’d say both parties are always a work in progress. Our job is to shape the GOP until it is created in the conservative image through our votes and loud voices. That may take maybe several election cycles. If we don’t succeed its a safe bet that the country will go bankrupt.

“… I don’t think we have ever seen anything like what is going on now at the grass roots level.”
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My fear is that, even if an angry electorate ousts the Dems, the Big Party Machine element of the GOP will go back to business as usual –play the same “rub their noses in it ’cause we’ve got the power now” legislative games as the Dems have been doing; and using the same earmarks/pork/special payback legislation to reward their contributors & supporters.

I want to see a political party that’s driven by concern for the safety of our country and the well-being of its citizens, but sadly I don’t think such a party currently exists.

I certainly DON’T want more politics-as-power-games-between-Dems-and-Repubs, where the victors get four years to play share-the-spoils with their groupies. But– I’m afraid the GOP (Newt Gingrich, I’m talking to YOU here) will offer lip service to Tea Party beliefs just long enough to get elected, then will continue the “strangle production with more legislation and regulation, throw federal money at the resulting economic problems” policies we’re already enduring now.

What do we citizens do if it turns out that BOTH traditional parties are headed up by Big-Government progressives?

http://www.redstate.com/aarongardner/2010/04/12/gov-christie-v-teachers-union-round-2/

Congress keep your hands where we can see them!