As linked at bottom, today House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) (second in command to that wonderfully "Nice Lady," Nancy Pelosi) purported to provide a little friendly advice to his adversaries on the right, warning that the Tea Party Movement could be doing harm to the republican party (of course it wasn't intended as advice at all, but rather was just the latest left-wing blast against the tea partiers). Said Hoyer: "I think the Tea Party folks are pushing the republican party to an even narrower base, which I ultimately think will not be something that the Independents believe is a good thing for the country . . . I think the republican party now has the narrowest base that I have ever seen for the republican party."Of course, Hoyer at least comes within a mile or two of an ounce of truth in those statements. There is little doubt that the tea party movement is a conservative-dominated movement, which has resulted in many Independents (such as myself) having no desire to get involved with them despite a fair amount of substantive common ground on a number of issues (at least within the economic realm). But are the tea partiers so off-putting in their conservatism that Independents are just being repulsed by them or by their close connection to the republican party? In a word, No. That's what dems like Hoyer want to ultimately accomplish with statements like those today, but it's simply not occurring. Poll after poll for at least 9-10 months now have demonstrated that Independents who voted for Obama & The Dems in 2008 have been running from that side faster than the University of Missouri from the Big 12 Conference. And frankly, I don't see that changing too much between now and November. If anything, that trend will only accentuate.
Final thoughts: The unmitigated nerve of one of these top-dog dems to accuse any other party of being too extremist and as having a tiny-tent base is like a Mississippi $hithouse accusing an Alabama $hithouse of forgetting to use its deodorant. Hoyer: You are a part of federal dem machine in DC, controlled by far leftist progressives, that has driven the federal government farther to either extreme (by far) than I have ever witnessed in my almost four decades on this planet. You insult the intelligence of the American people with your statements today. And as I first said on Sunday Bloody Sunday, and have oft-repeated since -- we Independents will see your ilk come November.
http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/11/hoyer-says-tea-party-is-narrowing-the-republican-base/
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