I hope you guys at The Blogmocracy don’t mind my borrowing of the banner from your site with the Churchill quote. I just feel that it’s apropos considering today’s subject matter, which is the jawdroppingly funny announcement by one Senator Charles Schumer(D), Mars. Apparently, he’s got himself a spiffy new plan to woo over the extreme right wing crazies, formerly known as Tea Party voters, into the fold of the Democrats, also known at the people who inflicted us with Obamacare, Dodd Frank, Stimulus, Quantitative Easing, Barack Obama, decimation of our military, war on religion, Lilly Ledbetter, Common Core, increased regulation in every aspect of our lives, EPA overreach, and about six dozen things space and time won’t permit me to include here. They want to inflict a $15 minimum wage, increased abrogation of our Second Amendment Rights, increased abrogation of our First Amendment Rights, the complete cessation of our Fourth Amendment Rights, the end of Federalism, and the complete transformation of our once free and unfettered free market economy to a system that mirrors the failed Marxist policies that destroyed the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, and anyone else foolish enough to follow them.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here, and behold the proclamation of Charles Schumer(D), Mars. That’s right, he seems to feel that he knows more about what the Tea Party is all about than any member of the Tea Party. Question, has Chuck Schumer ever even attended any get together, meeting, rally, town hall, march, speech, or any event where the attendees identified themselves as Tea Partiers? My guess would be no, but he’s appointed himself as our leader anyhow.
From The Hill article linked to above:
Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the Senate Democrats’ political guru, has a plan to poison the Tea Party by driving a wedge between its rich funders and its blue-collar rank and file.
Schumer, one of the Democrats’ most influential strategists, will argue in a major speech on Thursday that super-wealthy Tea Party donors have hijacked the grassroots movement that grew out of the economic anxiety of the 2008 financial collapse to suit their pro-big-business agenda.
He’ll lay out a blueprint for how Democrats could exploit what, he argues, is a weakness in the opposition in the address at the Center for American Progress, a pro-Democratic think tank founded by John Podesta, who just joined President Obama’s inner circle at the White House.
“There is a glaring weakness, one very weak link in the Tea Party’s armor, which is an inherent contradiction within the Tea Party that, I believe can be exposed to greatly weaken their hold on the policy debate,” Schumer will say, according to excerpts of his remarks.“The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite, plutocrats like the Koch Brothers want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants,” he will say.
I guess there is something to note of actual import here, and that is that the stories of the Tea Party’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. I have heard since the 2010 midterms, almost four years ago now, that the Tea Party was about to be declared dead. How marginal could the Tea Party be if no less than Charles Schumer(D), Mars is trying to launch a major strategic initiative to co-opt the movement? Not only is he the Senior Senator from his state, but he is the go to guy in terms of the Democrat’s strategery in all things relating to Senatorial Elections. This is his plan to maintain control of the Senate. That can not be noted strongly enough. The Democrat plan to keep the Senate during the upcoming 2014 Midterm Elections is to convince the Tea Party rank and file that their values are more closely represented by the Democrat Party. I hope you all feel sufficiently important and still alive now.
It’s about now that you may ask, what does Charles Schumer’s voting record actually look like anyhow? What are his policy positions, and do they in fact reflect those things that I, myself believe in? Well, click here to find out. If you consider yourself to be a Tea Party Member, or even someone who thinks, “yeah, these guys have a good point,” my guess is that Charles Schumer(D), Mars is about 180 degrees from your views on anything. Don’t take my word for it though, click the link and decide for yourself.
If this is what they’re down to in terms of plans to win Congressional Elections, they are in some real trouble. This news alone fills me with inspiration. Please enjoy some music by Henry Mancini. I haven’t had sufficient reason to play it recently, but this gives me hope.