Wiping the Slate – The Rise of the Tea Party

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By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Cross-Posted at Right Wing News

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By the time 2016 rolls around, after Obamacare truly burrows into America’s vital organs, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee will be the ones everyone remembers. Cruz will lead the charge to guide America out of Obama’s hellish Marxist wilderness with a coalition in tow and the Tea Party taking point. It is the fight of our lifetime and Americans are readying themselves.

The young guns of the Conservative movement are lining up and much to the chagrin of the Left who keep claiming that Cruz is poison and is destroying the Republicans, it is quite the opposite. Taking a principled stand and reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s fortitude, Cruz brings us back to the Constitutional tenants the country was based on. He also brings back morality, ethics, courage and the American spirit that has always served us during times of strife and war. Candidates across the nation are lining up to follow in his footsteps and lead the way in the fight against Progressivism:

The competition to be the next Ted Cruz is extremely hot within the Republican Party, where a number of emerging challengers are hoping to capitalize on the newest brand name in conservative politics.

In Kansas, Milton R. Wolf opened his fundraising pitch to supporters last week by asking them whether he could be the next Cruz candidate. In Mississippi, Chris McDaniel announced his campaign to unseat Sen. Thad Cochran last week and welcomed the comparison to Mr. Cruz, calling it “a compliment.”

Then there’s Ben Sasse, a university president running for Nebraska’s U.S. Senate seat, who set state fundraising records by opposing Obamacare. He told the Lincoln Journal Star last week that he would have voted with Mr. Cruz to keep the government shut down last week, saying it was a better option than continuing to spend and run up debt.

America has had enough of the establishment elite on both sides of the aisle. Far from being extreme, the Tea Party is now mainstream… It is what America needs and wants and instead of dumping tea, we are dumping Obamacare and Marxist regulations and policies. Time to gut big government, cut spending and taxes and bring back independence to the shining city on the hill. The Progressives on the Right should be forewarned — the Republicans who have willingly and gleefully crawled into bed with the Marxists for their own gain are about to get their comeuppance. You guys have made the top of the naughty list and the Tea Party is getting ready to kick you to the curb. Damned liars all. Your wealth and perceived power will not prevail this time, because you are evil and you have embraced elitism over Americanism. Witness the rise of Ted Cruz and the Tea Party:

Mr. Cruz came from behind in polls to win the Republican nomination for Senate over a wealthy, establishment-backed candidate, then easily won the general election in 2012.

While attacked by most Democrats, many pundits and even some Republican leaders, Mr. Cruz is in the mainstream for rank-and-file Republican voters, according to Democracy Corps, a Democratic company run by James Carville and Stan Greenberg.

Polling at the height of the shutdown, Democracy Corps found that Mr. Cruz is wildly popular among tea party adherents and, while not necessarily well-known among evangelical Republicans, is popular among those who can identify him.

“Even as pundits label Cruz as ‘fringe,’ it is critical to remember that this is only true when talking about the national electorate,” the pollsters said. “In his own party, there is nothing ‘fringe’ about Ted Cruz. He is right at the center.”

Many of the groups that allied with Mr. Cruz in pushing to defund Obamacare now are backing candidates who seek to join him as reinforcements.

While the Left moans, gnashes their teeth, tears out their hair and screams that the Tea Party is extreme and points out that it will destroy the Republicans, as usual, they are lying. It’s long past time for a coup within the Republican Party. Wipe the slate clean and bask in the rise of the Tea Party. Progressives be afraid, very afraid… we are coming.

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Jurors at Vicky Pryce retrial urged to "wipe the slate clean"

“In this trial the slate, as it were, is wiped clean, and you judge the case afresh based only on the evidence which unfolds before you during the course of the trial.

“The other jury’s disagreement is entirely irrelevant in this case.”

Prosecutor Andrew Edis told them: “It would be foolish for anyone to pretend that you are all entirely ignorant about the circumstances of this case. There is no such pretence.

“What his Lord has directed you and what we also urge you to do is to pay no heed at all to anything that you know about it up until now.

“It starts now, and what matters is what happens from now on.”

He court heard that Huhne’s BMW was clocked speeding at 11.23pm on March 12, 2003 as he returned from Stansted airport to London.

He said Huhne nominated his then-wife to take the points so he could avoid losing his licence and the pair had “cheated the system”.

Mr Edis said Pryce, of Crescent Grove, Clapham, south London, claimed a defence of marital coercion, requiring that her husband was present at the time and applied such pressure that she had no real choice.

He said: “She is not married to a lorry driver with five kids who would go hungry if he lost his job or anything of that kind.

“She was not threatened with violence or indeed threatened at all.”

He went on: “In 2002/3 Ms Pryce was a woman who had spent her life making important choices both in her own case and even for other people too because she was a very influential person who had had a glittering career as an economist in banking.”

She became chief economic adviser to the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) in 2002, earning a six-figure sum – the first woman to be appointed to the post, he said.

“Women such as her have proudly led the struggle for equality with men over decades.

“They have won an equal right to choose what they do and here she is saying that she was unable to choose whether to commit a crime or not because a man, whether her husband or not, was telling her what she had to do.”

Mr Edis said Huhne left Pryce during half-time of a football match in June 2010, confessing to an affair before he was outed by a newspaper, then drafted a press statement and went to the gym.

He said it undoubtedly left her distressed: “But being the person that she is, a strong-minded, strong-willed person, it also caused her great anger and in the end led her to want to get revenge.

“And that is why actually we are all here, that’s why she is here, because she wanted to get revenge.”

He said it was after the Liberal Democrat party conference in September 2010, when press coverage of her attendance “tipped her over the edge”, that Pryce tried to reveal the story.

She contacted freelance journalist Andrew Alderson in November 2010, discussing a story – later found to be untrue – about a constituency aide taking points.

But the story was not published, despite efforts, and Pryce gave the story to Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott, Mr Edis said, whom she had met at the Lib Dem conference in September 2010.

Pryce confessed during a lunch on March 1 and email exchanges afterwards discussed how they could publish the story, with Ms Oakeshott suggesting the economist could inflict “maximum and perhaps fatal damage” on Huhne.

Pryce told the journalist: “I have no doubt as I definitely want to nail him, more than ever actually.”

Mr Edis told the jury: “She took the minor risk that Isabel Oakeshott had warned her about.

“She lit the blue touchpaper and she did that because she wanted to nail Mr Huhne.”

The court heard they also recorded conversations with Huhne in a bid to get “incontrovertible evidence”.

Mr Edis said: “There is no doubt that the end of her marriage was distressing, very upsetting, perhaps even heartbreaking.”

But he said she had “hatched quite a sophisticated plot to destroy his career whilst at the same time in quite a sophisticated way trying to save hers”.

He told the court that the points-swapping came about so busy Pryce would not be put to any inconvenience, and so Huhne could carry on with his career, and nobody would have found out if the economist’s “desire of vengeance had not overcome her better judgment”.

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