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NH-01: Freshman Orientation Gone Wild?

by: Dean Barker

Sun Nov 14, 2010 at 19:45:20 PM EST
Right after the election, Frank Guinta told the Concord Monitor that he'd be joining a newly formed Tea Party Caucus in Congress.

Then Beth LaMontagne Hall reported that Guinta would be heading "to Washington on Nov. 14 for orientation."

Hmm... turns out that's when the Tea Party Patriots orientation for frosh members is. Which brings us to the fiasco (h/t TPM):

Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest coalitions of tea party advocates, released to supporters the personal cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses of freshman Republican Members who the group thinks are in danger of being "co-opted" by D.C. insiders.

In an e-mail to supporters that was also posted Thursday on IronMill.com, Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin accused the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, of trying to lure the freshman lawmakers away from the tea party movement by hosting orientation programs that conflict with those scheduled by the tea party group.

A look at the letter (I'm not linking to it) urges the Tea Partiers to call Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass directly.  The Bass connection is especially ironic, since, after telling the Tea Partiers their agenda was "exactly the same as mine," post-election he doesn't want to have anything to do with the TP caucus.

Our first district Congressman-Elect was lucky on the timing here.  Imagine if the Tea People had been ordered to contact Guinta after learning he opposes cutting a form of government welfare.
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Tea Party Caucus, Michele Bachmann, Chair (0.00 / 0)
I respect that my candidate lost the election and someone else won. I'd like to be able to see the man who will be my new Congressman as a leader of my community. If he sees Rep. Bachmann as a leader in whose footsteps he'd like to follow, he's not making this easy.

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No tea; no decaf.

@DougLindner

The citizens of New Hampshire who bothered to vote (0.00 / 0)
voted for a change.  In a sense, that any old bloke would do to represent them is probably a reflection of the idea that the congress-critters aren't very important in the grand scheme of things.  That's a perception which has been created via the relentless media drum-beat that it's the President who dictates what the Congress does.  Since the President wasn't on the ticket, making it a little harder for him to dictate to the House probably seemed like a good idea to people who want dictatorial powers checked.

Why did the "public option" lose?  Because "public" anything is anathema to the conservative mind.  Either the word has to be appropriated for private enterprise, as in Public Service of New Hampshire, or it has to be erased from common discourse as much as possible.  "Public," as in

public health
public schools
public parks
public transit
public squares
public hearings
etc.

used to be in favor until the composition of the public was expanded to include all persons resident in these United States.  Then, the prospect of the public actually taking the reins of government generated an about-face and the "private sector" was/is extolled.  Now that our public corporations are in the hands of the great unwashed, the private corporations have been tasked with engineering their demise.  Financial engineering is the tool of choice.

Government by the people is to be destroyed, preferably before it is strong enough to get out of the bathtub by itself.

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