Just last week
we brought you the story of one of our favorite Congressmen, Justin Amash
(R-MI), who is going to be fighting for his job in a primary this year. His
primary opponent is a hand-picked GOP establishment guy, who was chosen by
seven very deep pockets in Western Michigan. His campaign has tried to smear
Rep. Amash as not “a traditional conservative,” whatever that
means. They fail to mention that Justin Amash has ranked as the most
fiscally conservative and pro-economic growth member of the House of
Representatives since he was first elected in 2010 with the conservative
organization Club for Growth. He also has an 87% voting record with the
conservative Heritage
Action, by far the highest scoring representative from the state of
Michigan.
The long and
short of it is that Justin Amash is a conservative through and through – the
problem the establishment has with him is that he votes like a conservative,
even when the
“Establishment” doesn’t want him to.
He's
refused to toe the party line on civil liberties issues. He's not afraid
to blast
warrantless wiretapping (something
many Democrats won't do) or vote present
on Planned Parenthood funding, despite being pro-life.
U.S.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) even derided Amash as a "wacko
bird" for backing a filibuster over using drones in the
war on terror.
The
biggest problem is Amash twice voted
against slash-and-burn budgets dreamt up by former vice
presidential nominee Paul Ryan, declaring that they didn't cut enough.
That
helped cost Amash his slot on the powerful House Budget Committee, with one ally
of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) snarking that the
defiant congressman suffered from "the asshole factor."
All of this
fire that the RINO’s have focused onto Tea Party conservatives has Rush
hopping mad, and he finally let the establishment have it.
Limbaugh
took on the Republican donor class, which, he argues, "doesn't understand what we're
up against."
"Now,
the Republican establishment... is targeting Tea Party officeholders, and
they're going to primary them. And you know who's doing this is donors,
Republican Party donors... [A] set of GOP donors set its sight on someone they
perceive as having caused the government shutdown, Michigan Congressman Justin
Amash," Limbaugh noted.
"The
donors are upset at the shutdown," Limbaugh said. "They don't like it. The
Republican establishment did not like the government shutdown, so that the
donors say that they're going after Amash in Michigan because he supported the
shutdown, and why did he support the shutdown? To try to repeal Obamacare...
"In
the world I live in," Limbaugh said, "Justin Amash and these guys get
a standing ovation. In the world I live in, we need everybody in the House
being like this. We need some brawlers. We need some people who are not afraid
to do battle with the Democrats to save the country."
"You
know, that's what it comes down to," he explained. "In addition to
everything else going on, the Republican donor class, the consultant class, the
Republican establishment, they don't think there's any emergency."
I love
everything that Rush said there, though I take exception to one thing. He seems
to think that the GOP establishment is against the Tea Party candidates because
they think the Tea Party is causing the GOP to lose. I don’t think that’s it. I
think the reason the GOP is so anti-Tea Party is because the Tea Party stands
for principles, and the establishment just wants power. They know that it will
be easier to get power if they moderate and support some liberal policies, but
the Tea Party won’t allow it, so the GOP establishment is trying to destroy
them.
I am thankful
that El Rushbo has taken a stand on this, but I wish that more Republican and
conservative leaders would do the same.
Source: Eagle
Rising, 11/25/13, By Onan Coca / 133 Comments
http://eaglerising.com/3138/rush-limbaugh-defends-tea-party-gop/#GPAbqtVjpK46vvGR.99
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