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Will Elected Tea Party Candidates Stick to Their Convictions in DC?

Will Elected Tea Party Candidates Stick to Their Convictions in DC?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcome to Washington, tea partiers.

Now that they’re freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement’s candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government.

Some tea party activists — part of a loose-knit, libertarian-tinged network advocating small government and less federal spending — already are dismayed to see their new lawmakers plunge into familiar patterns of raising political cash, hiring former lobbyists and stopping short of the often-heard vow to “change the way Washington works.”

Others are more lenient and patient.

“There’s a little bit of expectation that they can do more than they really can do,” said Sal Russo, a California-based co-founder of the Tea Party Express. Democrats still control the Senate and White House, he noted in an interview from Wyoming, where he was visiting potential Senate candidates for 2012.

Russo said the recently enacted tax cut compromise reached with President Barack Obama was imperfect but “as good a deal as we’re going to get.” The tea party must expand its influence with each new election, he added.

Other activists, however, fear their newly elected lawmakers will fall too quickly into old Washington habits of turning to special interest groups and their lobbyists for information, advice and campaign money. Some winced at a Jan. 4 fundraiser at Washington’s W Hotel, where ticket prices ranged from $2,500 for individuals to $50,000 for “donors.” It was sponsored by a political committee founded by freshman Rep. Jeff Denham of California and other Republicans who won election with tea party support.

Denham defended the event, telling reporters his freshman class needs campaign money to stay self-reliant and win future elections.

Some tea party activists also fear their newly elected allies will weaken or break promises to dramatically cut federal spending. Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler told CBS it’s an “absolute joke” for House Republicans to back away from pledges to cut $100 billion this fiscal year.

Newly elected Rep. Kristi Noem, a South Dakota Republican with tea party ties, says critics should simmer down.

“They should stay focused on the results we deliver,” Noem said in an interview shortly after taking office. “They pick little fights, but I think in the future they’re going to be satisfied with the results and solutions that this Republican Congress brings forth.”

House Republicans plan on Wednesday to fulfill a tea party priority: voting to repeal the health care law passed by Democrats last year. The pace and rhetoric of the drive have cooled in recent days because of the shootings in Arizona that severely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who supported the new law.

Nonetheless, GOP leaders are sticking with a title for their resolution that Democrats say is inaccurate and unseemly in light of the six people killed in Tucson: “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.” Republicans acknowledge that the Senate is certain to block a repeal.

Some veteran House members say it’s unrealistic to think that even a freshman class of 87 Republicans, most of whom have tea party backing, can make a significant impact in their first term.

“They are raring to go,” said five-term Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-Pa. But with Democrats controlling the Senate, “we can only do what we can do in the House,” he added.

“We’re going to run a lot of issues up the flagpole and create a lot of national discussion,” he added, acknowledging that may be as far as they get.

Nine-term Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, said tea party newcomers who are eager to slash federal spending will soon learn how difficult it is.

“Back in Ohio, almost everybody says, ‘Oh, you’ve got to cut spending,’” LaTourette said. “But then they say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you meant my spending.‘ And there’s going to be a lot of that.”

Deep spending cuts would anger many interest groups, and Republicans may pay a price, he said.

Republicans picked up nearly three dozen House seats when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, LaTourette noted.

“Half of them were shown the door two years later,” he said. “Not because they did anything wrong. They kept their promises. But when you’ve got to cut a lot of money out of the budget, everybody’s got a pet program, a pet disease, a pet something, and people are going to get fired up.”

Indeed, the House’s new Republican speaker, John Boehner, another Ohioan, is moving cautiously. When NBC asked him to name a federal program he’s willing to cut, Boehner replied, “I don’t think I have one off the top of my head, but there is no part of this government that should be sacred.”

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  • BlackMan
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:54am

    I have no problem with the raising of money. I have no problem with PACS – that is a form of free speach. I think there the key is to identify those people who have the same interests as you do to raise money from. It would make sense if you were a TEA Party Republican who supports a Flat Tax, to draw money from those special interests who share that philosophy as well.

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    • republitarian
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:53am

      I’m with you. I don’t care how they raise money. What matters is how they vote.

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  • Tyr
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:54am

    Are you kidding me? They got what they wanted, they were elected by jumping on a popular movement bandwagon. That political ploy has been going on for 200 years in this country! Oh, sure they will be good little Teaparty loyalists until the temptation of money, power and celebrity sets in completely. You people still don’t get it do you? All we are to these politicians are providers of tax money, votes and consumerism to keep the economy above water.

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  • wodiej
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:53am

    Good grief, what’s with all the criticism when they have barely warmed their seats in Congress. Give them a friggin chance.

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    • TIREBITER
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:51am

      I agree with you, give them a chance.
      If they blow it, then throw them out.

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  • grandma7
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:47am

    Pray for them to stay strong and pray for more strength and unity in 2012. 2012 = more common sense senators!!

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  • Patrick Rose
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:46am

    They had better do what they said they would or back to your hot dog on a stick job. Nice hats !

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  • flagbearer
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:45am

    Let’s not resonate negativity. Stay positive. If the House does what it is supposed to do and gets the word out to the general public, and the Senate rejects all their reforms and bills, then it is the Senate that becomes the BODY OF NO. It will be those senators that must answer at election time. The Tea Party needs to keep the pressure on and make the GOP and DEMS know that we’re not going anywhere as Harry Reid has suggested and wants. We just have to keep voicing the right’s arguments against progressivism and educate the public. (Thank you FOX!)

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:40am

    Stand strong Tea Party. Smile in the face of their abuse. Do what you promised, what you were elected to do. Take the offensive. We are right. Do not betray us. We can prevail. Thank you.

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:38am

    I’ve already seen too many examples showing how they need to be reminded every day why they were voted into office. I am so disappointed that the signs appeared so soon after being elected which that we need to keep the heat on them. It‘s not like I thought they could be trusted in the first place but I hoped for more than what I’ve witnessed thus far.

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  • awizard
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:38am

    Geez guys, they just got there! this is gonna be a long “game” … It took years to put us in this hole, it’s gonna take a couple election cycles to get us out.

    Stay awake and alert. We all need to support the effort, give them a little time … before we trash them …

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:38pm

      Put your Congressmen’s telephone numnbers in your phone!!! Call them every now and then and THANK them for their conservatism!!

      Lord have mercy! We put them into office to represent us–let‘s don’t make them the object of our wrath for the Progressives and Obama’s agenda! ENCOURAGE THEM in their TEA Party mission.

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  • cnerd
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:35am

    We have to give them a chance, watch what they do, and for now, be patient.If they do not live up to their words, they will be voted out. We need to concentrate our efforts on getting more of our candidates elected to show that we are serious in our cause, and to make it easier for the ones we have in office not to be swayed. In numbers there is strength.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:06pm

      CNERD,
      Yes, I absolutely agree.
      There’s a lot of us on here saying , YEAH, they better, yadda, yadda. That’s big talk. But we need to follow the talk with action!
      They do need our support.
      At the same time we need to watch how they vote on legislation.
      All here can put their money where their proverbial mouth is by signing up to get these votes at http://www.congress.org.
      It’s delivered right to your inbox every week. If you do not like the way the vote went….,call the Capitol Switchboard, (202)224-3121 and ask to speak to the rep. you want.
      Also…,in case some of you do not know, the “WHITE HOUSE” hotline is (202)456-1111. It’s staffed by volunteers. They write down your comment and send it on to the President.

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  • sWampy
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:33am

    No, we keep electing crooked lawyers, we need a constitutional amendment that lawyers aren’t able to hold any public office, since obviously people are to stupid to not elect them. Then in a few years we just need to outlaw excepting pay for legal advice, and get this evil sector of the population gone.

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    • Tyr
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:58am

      Hear, Hear! You hit the nail on the head there. A friend of mine pointed out there are more lawyers in the U.S. than there are telephone poles to string them up on.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:09am

      agreed…trial lawyers are one of the main reasons we live in a “sue crazy” country!

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    • cap0ne
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:28am

      Agreed!! One problem, The lawyers have all the money :(

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  • Lion420
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:31am

    A lot of big big things are coming our way…I think the TEA party people and everyone else will get swept away…….

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    • awizard
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:02am

      Well Lion, everyone else might get “Swept away” but the Tea party is the people.

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  • sarg356
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:31am

    Pray for these people, I believe that most of them have a strong conviction and passion to do what they said they would do. We the People have put them there and they need our continuing support.

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  • drhunt
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:30am

    The need is great, the consequences of inaction dire and the process will be painful…but it must be done. Slashing the budgets of entitlement programs will be key to the continued move away from Big Government and the Welfare State to which we have become.

    “To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.’-Thomas jefferson

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  • stmike
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:30am

    Ugh this will never end. We can only hope for the best. But I’m not holding my breath. See libs, this is why you don’t want the fed having too much power especially power it was never intended to have from the founders on. The states had the most power and influence in your day to day lives and if your state became oppressive or a failure you could pick up and leave for another state. But not with this Federal Leviathan! Nope, nowhere to escape to! But that’s what libs want right? No escaping the liberal communist despots!

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  • chuck
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:30am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty3_UJSGt3c

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  • Paleo Archer
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:28am

    They better…or it’s back home…

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  • MR_ANDERSON
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:28am

    Get used to seeing Kristi Noem. She’s probably one of the better looking new Republicans in office if not all of Congress. I only see her answering the same basic questions, please tell me she’s not just a pretty face.

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  • SoulEater
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:26am

    They’ll come into the Grand Old Party fold by 2012, indistinguishable from the rest.

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  • byehlik
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:25am

    If they do not do as they were elected to do, we will replace them, period. Change Washington DC or get the he!! out.

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  • 79USMC83
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:24am

    One thing that will change the so-called climate and how things are done would be TERM LIMITS !!!!!

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:33am

      exactly…I think thats probably the worst problem in DC…career politicians…get some fresh blood in there once in awhile…

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:38am

      Term limits is a good start. The founders believed that the duty of the citizen was to serve for a term or two and then return to your lives as they did. They did not want a “royal” class of professional politicians as we have now. Two terms and out is a good way to go….and if you were any good during those two terms you should be allowed to run again after being out of office for a term.
      The second change that we MUST have is a balanced budget amendment (with the budget balanced WITHOUT USING THE SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS! Simple as that….

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    • 8jrts
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:03pm

      Term limits..ABSOLUTELY! Because they are the ones to vote on it, it probably won’t ever happen. I’m sure some of the newbies will stick to their promises, but some won’t. The corruption is deep in DC, and once the apple has been tasted, seems most find it hard to resist. I am hoping for the best from them….otherwise there is always the next election.

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    • maryslittlelamb
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 4:11pm

      @ All Supporters of Term Limits

      We already have term limits. It‘s called pay attention to what your rep’s are doing and then vote them out if you don’t like them!!!!!

      The failure has been with we the people – we fell asleep at the wheel. So now we’re awake and things will get better.

      But leave the Constitution alone! At least until we get some real patriots in charge.

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  • Buck Bagaw
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:23am

    I hope they like being one termers.

     
    • Showtime
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Buck, if they don’t follow conservatism, this last chance for a free America will fail. That’s what the Tea Partiers understand.

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  • godlovinmom
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:22am

    I think it boils down to honor and integrity…if it doesn‘t smell right don’t do it…We The People have to stay involved or it will not get fixed…As for my part…I‘m educating myself and lettin those around me know what I’ve learned…I’m proud to be an American…:0)

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:15am

      I think we have to be very specific as to what the right thing is. Alot of blue dogs think all the entitlement programs that they vote for are the right thing, all the environmental laws are the right thing and the laws that shackle business are the right thing. We know where that thinking has led us. They need to do the responsible thing for the country and EVERYONE in it not just the beggars among us.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:31am

      What we need in the Senate and House is real Americans, with character and integrity indeed. One’s who will tell the special interest lobbyists what to go do somewhere else.

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  • GrannyATL
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:22am

    There are other reforms besides cutting spending, such as:

    - No earmarks.
    - A commitment to READ each Bill they vote on, with the Bill being publich for days before the vote.
    - Each Bill must show where it is allowable under the Constitution.

    We need to hold our newly-elected feet to the fire, but also put huge amounts of pressure on those that have been sitting pretty for several terms. This isn’t just about the Tea Party. It’s about REFORM.

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    • Blazing
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:32am

      I would like to add an item to your list – on the revenue side – open up more gas and oil leases. It makes no sense to have other nations drilling just off our shore but to have those areas closed for our use. I would like to see a portion of those leases dedicated to paying back the funds the government took out of Social Security.

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    • apollo18
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:35am

      You’re right. Thank you. But they need our encouragement when they do something we like, too.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:39am

      @ Blazing… Good point.

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    • thunder4570
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:02am

      I would like to throw my 2 cents in… How about cutting regulations that are crippling the free market,Then you can cut out the Jackbooted thugs that enforce them! How about cutting the redundacy in the gov. You have city,county,state,and federal all doing the same things and all of them have thier hands in your pockets.

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:03am

      Get real America – it will take the whole country realizing that Obama and his Soros funded Socialists are behind all of our problems.
      More importantly the Republicans should be willing to shut down our government if Obama does NOT concede major spending cuts.
      It’s better to begin the withdrawal from the public teat NOW, then later. A little suffering, without armed CHAOS will make people wake up before it’s too late.

      Our Police will be strained to the MAXIMUM AND IT WILL BE AVERAGE JOE CITIZENS’ JOB TO ASSIST WHEREVER POSSIBLE !!!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:27pm

      GrannyAtl –

      I think the establishment politicians need to go into REHAB!!! They could start with MEMORIZING the Constitution and READING the Federalist Papers.

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    • lylee
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:06pm

      The only way to get true government reform is to end “revenue-sharing”. Good luck with that.

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    • lel2007
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:34pm

      The earmark issue is difficult. Congress is responsible for determining how money is spent; if they don’t do it the president will. An earmark is the setting aside of funds for a particular purpose. The thing that must happen is that congress fund truly necessary and meaningful projects, not bridges to now-where or a library named after a politician. If it’s Nationally funded, it should demonstrate some contribution to the Nation as a whole. Like most every thing else, it‘s government abuse and corruption that’s distorted the purpose of Congressional earmarks.

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  • ADMIRAL747
    Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:21am

    They better stick to them!!

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:38am

      Agreed. They better not forget they are ALL on probation.

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    • puck30
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:58am

      To those who stick to their convictions we say, thank you very much and don’t worry my friend we will have your back. And to those who stray we will say, the broom sweeps both ways my friend.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:58am

      If they prove themselves progressive, the’ll be removed as well. Stick to your guns folk. Oops, I hope that comment didn’t incite anyone to violence or especially to put on a red G-string.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:00am

      I think the American people will make sure they stick to their promises. Unlike what they say in the mainstream media, the Tea Party is not going away anytime soon. If promises are broken I think they will become even stronger.

      http://www.donsmithshow.com – Great site for Tea Party news

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:12am

      Especially the elected TEA Party representatives. I believe they will.
      They took an oath and were sworn in hand upon the Bible to uphold the Constitution.

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:16am

      2012 is coming. We should see another “Tea-nami” wiping out more of the ilk we all are so disgusted with.

      If we don’t get satisfaction after that, it’s time for the states to fight back and “dissolve” the federal government and start anew. It only takes 37!

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:28am

      They need to constantly be reminded, 2012 is soon to be here.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:39am

      Another AP story worrying about things that haven’t been proven or happened yet .. where is the “news” from the AP? It is only the beginning of the FIRST MONTH .. 2 years and they give Obama a pass….. people it is the AP!

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:07pm

      NO… they are ******* like the rest…

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    • bobodu
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Like I have said from the start..“Once they get to ”The Show” they will turn tail and start going for the money like these people always have.”
      All of your energy and ranting will have been for naught…..(snicker snicker).

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    • broker0101
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Sadly, they will not. These inexperienced, naive politicians will succumb to the Washington political machine and it’s money and power just like all before them have. Unfortunately, people with a mentality that get them to follow/worship a Glenn Beck are people who are easily seduced by words that they want to hear, rather than making their own reasoned decisions. Be prepared for HUGE disappointment. The howls of “Throw ‘em Out in 2012″ will begin soon, when the same process will repeat itself. Remember the definition of insanity, Beck-Bots. If you ever begin to think for yourselves, then MAYBE we can get some real, capable, courageous Constitutional Conservatives installed in Washington to tear the mutated machine down to its intended size.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Perhaps someone should put up a sign in the chamber ‘NO PETS ALLOWED !!’
      These PETS seem to be the beginning of the political corruption that has poisoned Washington.

      The courageous NEW Members of Congress will not be able to drain the swamp unless they stay focused. The longer they wait, the harder it will be to avoid the quicksand of corruption.

      I can only hope that they will focus their collective efforts to firmly establish State’s Rights.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:23pm

      @ADMIRAL747–

      I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!!!

      At this point in time, Americans are not voting in who can get the most money for a district; Americans are voting in people who will dedicate themselves to limiting goverment, cutting/stopping spending, and conducting the nation’s business according to the United States Constitution. In this way, they might be able to save the country from Obama’s agenda…which is leading us straight down the road to nothing like we have enjoyed because of our Founding Fathers.

      Hopefully, by 2012, we can cut this cancer out of Washington, D.C. and thereby survive.

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    • rubintheartist
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:34pm

      YES THEY WILL and it scares the crap out of the progressive anarchists. In cities like chicago, when a neighborhood gentrifies the vermin living there will try louder and louder to stop the inevitable change. They always lose! Have a laugh at the idiot left and see them lose power in this new animated comedy web movie. http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu

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    • WhiteGryphon
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:02pm

      they may need some help from our states and more important from WE THE PEOPLE. here is how and hope for the future something off topic yet something I think everyone should know about ….

      http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/nullification/real-id/

      Led by Maine in early 2007, 25 states over the past 2 years have passed resolutions and binding laws denouncing and refusing the implement the Bush-era law which many expressed concerned about privacy, funding and more. While the law is still on the books in D.C., its implementation has been “delayed” numerous times in response to this massive state resistance, and in practice, is virtually null and void.

      http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/federal-health-care-nullification-act/
      An Act to render null and void certain unconstitutional laws enacted by the Congress of the United States, taking control over the health insurance industry and mandating that individuals purchase health insurance under threat of penalty.

      http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/nullification/health-care-nullification-act/
      Texas, Maine, Montana, Oregon, and Wyoming are ,from this website, the only ones that have introduce this bill.
      i do believe there will be a lot more i would suggest everyone might need to contact their state governments to get them to pass similar legislation.

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    • JCoolman
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:04pm

      They are politicians. They will do the stupid DC stuff. The difference is we will be watching and keeping score. If we dont hold them accountable and make them pay for their actions in 2012 (good and bad), then it will be our fault. We know who and what politicians are. Dont let them off the hook…EVER!

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    • oldguy48
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Probably not.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:44pm

      Perhaps someone should put up a sign in the chamber ‘NO PETS ALLOWED !!’
      These PETS seem to be the beginning of the political corruption that has poisoned Washington.

      The courageous NEW Members of Congress will not be able to drain the swamp unless they stay focused. The longer they wait, the harder it will be to avoid the quicksand of corruption.

      I can only hope that they will focus their collective efforts to firmly establish State’s Rights in accordance with the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:19pm

      When the going gets really tough and all hell breaks loose on them from the left and the media, we shall see. What’s in the well comes up in the bucket. Talks cheap and BS walks. You stand FIRM on your convictions in Washington you are going to catch hell. That’s OK. People will notice you if you are doing the right thing. Time to MAN UP boys and girls.

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    • Pucci
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:20pm

      If they stick thier convictions the money will come.

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    • red1975
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 3:15pm

      Why don’t they just cut 10% accross the board? Then everyone can be affended. Seems like a simple solution to me.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 3:26pm

      No – they won’t stick – not when the lobbyist come around with all the freebie, promises of campaign cash, and just cash itself. And they will have the pushing and pulling of the party leaders to vote their way. It is hard to stay in Washington DC and stick to your guns! http://wp.me/pYLB7-wu

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 3:40pm

      So broker0101 who are these constitutional conservatives that you speak of? Can you name some of them for us?

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 3:53pm

      The problem, as I see it, is that the Elected do as told or are quickly replaced by BIG MONEY and SPECIAL INTERESTS. Power corrupts. Once these guys get a taste, they will do anything to get more or at least keep what they have. This is why TERM LIMITS are necessary.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:38pm

      Reince Preibus minus the vowels= RNC PR BS –hot tweet –:)

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    • izzyt84
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 7:33pm

      Agreed. If they don’t stick to their promise, they’ll be shown the door in 2 years.

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    • GBMBulletsSKNRD
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 8:49pm

      puck30

      I am with you….. They best watch there p‘s and q’s. The people will not be mislead again. If they think we are not watching they best think again.

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    • *************************
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Lock‘n’load … target Progressives (communist) bills … fire at will …
      REPEAL AND RECOVER!!

      “Badges? We don‘t need no stinkin’ badges.” -Mexican Bandit, Blazing Saddles

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    • MCGIRV
      Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:28pm

      Amen broheim!

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on January 17, 2011 at 5:13am

      I can assure them that the Tea Party will stick to their schtick.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on January 17, 2011 at 7:50am

      These newly-elected Republicans had better stick to their Tea Party promises, and these incumbent Republicans had better adjust to their new reality because they’re all on probation in the eyes of most Americans. No more back to “business as usual,” these politicians have no choice but to start listening to and honoring the majority will and best interests of the American people… We demand nothing less.

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    • 48
      Posted on January 17, 2011 at 8:51am

      They were elected into office for a reason, it’s up to them to remember what that reason was or be released to the job market again.

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