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A good thing. I've said long and often that the GOP is in need of a reform; that the GOP is NOT my party of choice; that ANY money I give to the GOP goes through other entities firstly; either the NRA or the various Tea Party groups. The GOP would be wandering lost and broken in the wilderness today, deservedly so, if not for the Tea Party. For nominating John McCain, they deserve nothing more from any Conservative. For allowing the far-Left Democratic party to even exist is bad enough; for not fighting every waking moment against this Republic-destroying collective of neo-Communists, moochers and looters without jumping in their faces is enough to warrant my anger against them. So, screw the pragmatic wing of the GOP, early, hard and often.

In today's WSJ...

Boehner Facing Tea-Party Pressure

Ohio conservatives say they are preparing to call 1,000 of Mr. Boehner's donors to complain that he isn't doing enough to block a debt-limit increase. On a new Facebook page, "Tea Partiers Against Boehner,'' they air complaints. The national group Tea Party Patriots, saying that Republicans are "timidly passing mediocre spending reforms,'' has called for a rally at the Capitol.

The calls to make big spending cuts come as Mr. Boehner works under deadline pressure with Democratic lawmakers and the White House on a plan to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year to avoid a potential government shutdown after April 8.

Such negotiations tend to push lawmakers toward compromise. The tea-party activists want Mr. Boehner to stick to his guns on $61 billion in budget cuts that the House approved earlier this year. "You said you were going to cut X amount, and that's what we want to see happen,'' said Chris Littleton, co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council, a coalition of tea-party groups. "Just take a stand. That's pretty cut and dried.'' ...

Many tea-party activists were already infuriated with the GOP when the House—including Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia—voted down a conservative-backed amendment for $20 billion more in cuts than were passed.

"We are extremely disappointed in Eric Cantor, but not surprised," said Mark Lloyd, chairman of the Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation. "When you have the opportunity to cut, you cut."

Shades of the Gingrich House; the 'Contract with America' was a great start, then the House members grew complacent and became 'inside the beltway' and the movement collapsed.

This time, no. We MUST keep the pressure on the GOP. To wrest away any influence the Left has, we have to involve the good people left in this Republic, what few there are who aren't already purchased moochers. Seems everywhere you look, there's more degradation of our national zeitgeist, a plummet to levels that Democrats prefer: statist controls, complacent and compliant zombies who vote Democratic as long as they are given a government nipple to suckle. Is that what this nation is moving to? Yes, it is.

Pragmatists in the GOP aren't working to stop this slide; they want to 'just get along'. Hell, no.

This direction we're moving in has to change, and the GOP's desire to change amounts to not the 180° turn around that's necessary, but a 20° vector still heading in the wrong direction...only slightly off the course the Left prefers, but still wrong. We need a complete turn around.

If it doesn't happen by electoral politics, then it will by force of economics, when the debt chicken crashes home to roost.

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