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Tag: Lead Poisoning

Elitist GOP Factions Shoot Both Feet

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Fri Oct 25, 2013 at 12:39:49 PM EST
Tags: Michigan, Camp, Benishek, Rogers, Upton, GOP, Vichy Republicans, Elitists, Paul Welday, Greg McNeilly, David Trott, Aim Low, Obamacare, No Fight Worth Having, Ron Weiser, Dick DeVos, RTW, Rick Snyder, Cronyism, Tea Party, Consitutional, Conservatives, Wackos, Wacko Birds, Foot, Lead Poisoning (all tags)

Its pretty bad when a KOS contributor decorates the wall of RightMichigan.com with an underlying truth.

In the side twitter bar the question

"What? After paying for #AFP/#RTW #Tentgate 2012 Dick DeVos' Greg McNeilly now anti-#MITeaParty?"

appears.

Having been a part of the RTW/FTW effort, I must say I was quite pleased with the impetus placed on FTW in Dec 2012 by Dick DeVos and Ron Weiser, without which, it might never have happened. But it isn't a free pass for the abuses laid out by operatives of the GOP, and in particular the MiGOP club which doubled down on the national slaparound the tea folk have been getting from media and complicit (Vichy) Republicans.

December 2012 WAS important though. Snyder at the time might have even overcome a bit of the reaction to the Prop 2 debacle by Michigan's labor unions, but a reminder that anything he had done good was outweighed by cronyism, unilateral international transactions, and the promise of tax increases that moved him. Truthfully, if not for Weiser and DeVos RTW might never have come to be. It never was a part of Rick Snyder's agenda, and never really will be heart-fought from ongoing union boss opposition.

Remember that.

Something those two saw that the governor could care less about, was the strength of the Tea party movement within the GOP construct. There was a very real possibility that the governor, sans a significant policy delivery to the base, would face a primary challenge (perhaps by the sitting AG) thus creating a divide in the 'acceptable' GOP hierarchy. The AG, already on record as opposing the Obamacare Exchanges, Medicaid Expansion, and showing significant support among the Tea types worried the power brokers.

And those "wackos" were brought under control, right?

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