Right now is a deceptively important point in time. The Democrats know this, and so do the status quo Republicans.
Tea Party frustration with establishment Republicans is at levels not seen since 2009. The Obama administration is burying (Barrying?) us with the paper equivalent of human-wave attacks. We have a primary election to start worrying about, which will have us at each other’s heels for a while.
It has been long enough since the smashing Tea Party victory that the thrill has faded a bit, and certainly been doused with cold water by GOP cronyism like Hal “14-term Prince of Pork” Rogers being appointed Chairman of Appropriations, for crying out loud. It is also such a long way to the next election that polls are meaningless, allegiances are soft, and a general attitude of wait-and-see is taking hold. Where people need allies, they find acquaintances.
We are just beginning to dig into the 2,405-page national suicide note in-lieu-of-budget passed by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid politburo, and finding things like the IPAB (face it, it’s Death Panel HQ) staring back at us with evil grins and yellow eyes. The most egregious portions of ObamaCare are not set to rear their heads until 2013 and 2014, after the next election, and the administration has begun laying smoke to cover its retreat to next November. They know their satanic baby is vulnerable before its shell hardens, and they will give up everything to hold on to the Presidency, and anything better than a 1/3 in the Senate to avoid a veto override.
Republicans and other affiliated figures have some family fighting to do, right out in the front yard, for all the neighbors to see. We may expect to have the butt-sharking MSM amplify all the negative comments and disagreements while spinning agreement as collusion and cooperation as Machiavellian gambits. Attacks on conservative candidates and families, adults and children alike, will be made in the most base of terms, and un-remarked upon by the MSM. Meanwhile, every fringe d-bag who doesn’t like Obama will be televised as the very pitch-perfect conservative. Look no further than Jared Loughner (who shot Gabby Giffords and a dozen more) for proof of this. And we will play into it, as our primary process has us slagging each other.
Sounds grim.
We stand poised to kill this awful bill ObamaCare and roll back a lot of the Marxist shenanigans which surround it, whether directly or through other means, and whether completely or piecemeal. We have more power than we are willing to use, which is disappointing, but it beats having no power to rally to. And appearances can be deceiving.
The Tea Party is not a centralized organization, and must resist calls to become one. “Oh, rabble in the House of Commons is one thing,” scoff the Lords, “but if you want the Presidency, you’ll need a real party apparatus!” Nonsense. The reason this works for us is that we are fighting an insurgency against the Marxist-dominated government, media, education industry, un-elected authors of regulations, and labor collectives. If we centralize, they take us down, and by God, we’ll stay down. Later is not the time to fight, now is, as if we don’t fight now, there won’t be a chance later.
I’d like to finish this post by pointing out that things are not as bad as they might seem. But that would be dishonest.
Now get to work. The time is now.
