Brit Hume: Tea Party Arose from GOP Establishment Failure to Restrain Govt. Spending - Granite Grok

Brit Hume: Tea Party Arose from GOP Establishment Failure to Restrain Govt. Spending

From Big Journalism, the set up graf:

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume conceded that Republicans that grew the federal government while they were in power the last decade may have ultimately been responsible for the recent standoff over the budget because their actions helped create the Tea Party that now stands fiercely opposed to their goals.

…Hume, along with those like Charles Krauthammer and George Will in the veteran punditocracy, has fiercely criticized Cruz during the fight to defund Obamacare. And he acknowledged that though “in conventional terms, it seems inexplicable,” Cruz “and his adherents do not view things in conventional terms.”

Indeed.  And it is, writ small, what my talk at the Merrimack County Republican Committee was about.  It ISN’T about “conventional terms” – and not “conventional politics”.  It is not about “progress”, it isn’t about “moving forward”, it isn’t about “doing something”, and it isn’t certainly NOT about conducting business as usual.  Thus, they (Democrats, Progressives, and Establishment Republicans) just don’t get it.  They don’t understand that what has been the historical process of how things work is not what is important.

The key grafs – glad to see someone gets it right (emphasis mine, reformatting):

“…They look back over the past half-century, including the supposedly golden era of Ronald Reagan, and see the uninterrupted forward march of the American Left,” Hume said, without acknowledging that Reagan fought the establishment from the time he endorsed Barry Goldwater’s candidacy for president in 1964 and challenged the establishment in 1976 and 1980, ultimately triumphing. That is the fight those like Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are continuing today.

Entitlement spending never stopped growing,” Hume said. “The regulatory state continued to expand. The national debt grew and grew and finally in the Obama years, exploded. They see an

American population becoming unrecognizable from the free and self-reliant people they thought they knew.”

Hume then acknowledged that the “good guys” in Congress Palin said was already leading a third-party movement “see the Republican Party as having utterly failed to stop the drift toward an unfree nation supervised by an overweening and bloated bureaucracy.”

They are not interested in Republican policies that merely slow the growth of this leviathan,” Hume said. “They want to stop it and reverse it. And they want to show their supporters they’ll try anything to bring that about.”

Indeed – that status quo is anathema.  The old wisdom and expectations of our Republican elected officials, when viewed in the longer  timeline than yesterday, has been found wanting and berift keeping to Constitution strictures.  TEA Party folks see this country not  right on the edge but already tilting over into the chasm.  I agree – Progressives may have succeeded in subverting the foundations on which this country was founded – one little inch at a time.  The frog never felt the temperature going up over the decades – and then it went up in a flash.

Establishment Republicans seem to be content with their status quo within the system – not willing to change even as some are aware of the grave danger.  Oh, they may say so, but don’t act corresponding manner (see here).  If you see a car tipping over the side of a bridge, with people inside it, you just don’t act lackadasically – it is an emergency!  You act differently than normal – with more energy, more intensity, and certainly more “pull out all the stops!” vigor you can muster.  You do what ever you can, however you can, every trick you can think of, to save that car – and the kids inside.

Cruz, Lee – the TEA Party caucus – see the urgency and act accordingly while the rest of the Republicans (listening, Kelly??) are basically sitting on their asses acting if things were situation normal.  Full of themselves, it seems, they’ve lost any pretense of an all out worry about where we’re heading.

And they think we’re the crazy ones?

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