The TEA Party is no more a third party, a third choice or a third distinction than I am. It is a pipe dream of some very frustrated libertarians and deep conservatives but it is still a pipe dream. Truthfully, you have a better chance of manipulating the GOP than of becoming a third party. It is a done deal, stick with it, embrace it and move on.

That any of you work to elect Romney (and you will), proves my point for me.

Feeling’s mutual, Greg. All you folks do is throw a wrench in the works.
And for the record, I consider both Virginia Senators epic failures.

dave on the other hand came closer. Though point #1 at JHL is just his wish, and point #4 is just a jab, Points #2 & 3 are valid, at least for argument. Sometime I’d be up for a debate on the legitimacy of DHS, which btw is a Bush-era creation that is VERY frowned upon by most of us.

If you’d actually spent 5 minutes on our website, you’d know we’re not very big fans of the Republican Party either, at least not for the sake of political parties. It just fits your narrative better to say things like that, and that’s fine, whatever… the people you’d like know better, and the rest don’t care. When was the last time you publicly announced a ten-term Democrat Congressman was an epic failure? Or when was the first time?

The fact is, after all the accusations of racism, bigotry, and hypocrisy of the past three years, the candidates we favored most (in the recent primaries) were a white female retired Air Force officer , and a black pastor from Chesapeake. No they didn’t win, but thanks to the efforts of some Tea Party folks, at least there were candidates we could vote for without gagging.

1. Romney will never
be President
2. The law creating Homeland Security and the powers granted to thast agency to establish regulations gives them the authority to take this step.
3. When the opposition can do nothing but obstruct for the sake of obstructing, smart people look for legal ways to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. The Obama administration found one.
4. What eally burns the Republicans is that they have been outsmarted–yet again.

Gregg Honeycutt— Five minutes on the local tae party website tells me all I need to know about them.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/transcript2.html

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s1-exercising-prosecutorial-discretion-individuals-who-came-to-us-as-children.pdf

Congressional rules are an entirely separate issue dave. The issue, (at least for me) here is not immigration reform, it’s the law. The guy charged with ultimately enforcing the law says he won’t. In a ‘memo’.

And you know nothing about the Tea Party. =)

Here is some interesting commentary on what the memo says versus what it does: http://cis.org/feere/obamas-administrative-dream-act-myths

I ranted and raved like a mad woman, even cited the true Conservatives who believed that Bush/Cheney were pushing boundaries that this nation would have turned apoplectic if Hillary Clinton (presumed next president at the time) used them, back in the day, and all to no avail, the Cons were not having it. So now, no, I do not see the urgency anymore. It is politics and they will take it as far as they can. It is a given.

http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/2010/11/editorial-dont-cause-a-scene-in-security/

http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/2009/07/saturdays-letters-to-the-editor-7/

The problem is we cannot have a legitimate debate on immigration policy.
We had one months ago in 2010. The House of Representatives passed a bill. It had the support of 55 senators. But Republicans in the Senate blocked it due to their filibuster power and the rewuirement for a super majority to break the filibuster. This has been the case for all significant legislation during the Obama years except for the btief time
between July 2009 and January 2010.And since that time, the Republicans, dancing to the tea party tune, have done nothing but obstruct, obfuscate,
and denagogue the issue.