The Tea Party Is Being Betrayed Already

Not that this wasn't going to be incredibly obvious from day 1 -

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is maneuvering behind the scenes to defeat a conservative plan aimed at restricting earmarks, setting up a high-stakes showdown that pits the GOP leader and his “Old Bull” allies against Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and a new breed of conservative senators.

In a series of one-on-one conversations with incoming and sitting senators, McConnell is encouraging his colleagues to keep an open mind and not to automatically side with DeMint, whose plan calls on Senate Republicans to unilaterally give up earmarks in the 112th Congress, according to several people familiar with the talks.

While McConnell is not demanding that rank-and-file Republican senators vote against the earmark ban, he’s laying out his concerns that eliminating earmarks would effectively cede Congress’ spending authority to the White House while not making a real dent in the $1 trillion-plus budget deficit. And McConnell is signaling his concern about the awkward politics of the situation: even if the DeMint moratorium passes, Republican senators could push for earmarks, given that the plan is nonbinding and non-enforceable.

The Real Effect
I forgot, as long as there is an R next to your name, you too may participate in the idiocy of "Tax and Spend". And I am certain that there is "a good reason" to support such a plan as there always is such as - getting Republicans re-elected in the most important election evah, not governing too far to the right, consensus building, saving ducks in Madagascar and the like...

Republicans, let me repeat -

Despite all of this, the cure is not to be found in the immediate past. Rather we must capture a page from the obstinate among us. Those of us that refuse to "do something" about these problems and emphatically allow the free market to work.

1. Cut taxes - Across the board
1. No VAT or Fair taxes, you have enough money.
2. End the property, income and various taxes which eat away at our prosperity
2. Prosecute the fraud in the banking system
1. Simply put, jail the corrupt bankers.
3. Cut the size of government by 1/3 at least.
1. Start with your checks. We've already given you ours. 
4. No new wars.

If you refuse to do this, you will be removed in the next election until We the People, find a Representative who will represent us, not the other way around. Hmmm...imagine that.