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Schumer: IRS Must Crush Tea Party for Good of Nation; Former Navy Seal Responds
Submitted by Susannah Cole,The Pete Santilli Show & The Guerilla Media Network
Senator Chuck Schumer the Democrat from new York declared war on the Tea Party this past Thursday and proclaims it must be crushed for the good of the nation and actually suggest the IRS needs to crackdown even harder on Tea Party Funding.
It was revealed in 2013 after a public apology from Lois Lerner, the IRS’ former director of Tax Exempt Organizations, that the agency had been targeting and harassing conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. During the height of the agency’s targeting in 2012, a handful of Democratic senators signed off on a letter calling on the IRS to be more aggressive when investigating potentially politically active conservative groups. Schumer was one of those Democratic lawmakers.
Although the tea party’s influence is “undeniable,” it is not inevitable — and it must be crushed for the good of the nation, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) argued in a long political speech to the Center for american Progress.
”They’ve won elections, stymied Democratic priorities and taken a sledgehammer to programs that are important to tens of millions of Americans,” he complained.
Among other recommendations, Schumer suggested an IRS crackdown on funding for tea party groups.
“We have to look at electoral reform,” he said. ”Our very electoral structure has been rigged to favor tea party candidates in Republican primaries, even when the district or the state may not be that red.” Schumer said “the tea party machine” has a particularly strong influence on Republican primaries, partly because the far right turns out to vote; and partly because of gerrymandering — “where Republicans have learned to capture state legislatures and then use innovative technology to draw districts where a Democrat could never be elected. ”Hence, the Republican House member only has to look over his right shoulder and moves much further to the right than the average voter in his or her district would want.” The same thing can happen in Democratic primaries, Schumer admitted — “but at the moment, it is far more exaggerated on the Republican side.”
Schumer said one way to “lessen the grip of the tea party on the electoral process” is to have a primary where voters of every party can vote, leading the top two vote-getters, regardless of their party affiliation, into a run-off.
”This would prevent a hard-right candidate from gaining office with only 22 percent of the vote. It would force the most extreme candidates in Republican districts to move closer to the middle to pick up more moderate Republicans and independents in order to be one of the top two vote-getters and enter the run off,” he added.
Former Navy Seal Benjamin Smith Responds:
These guys seem to call us what they have been in the past, you got prohibitionist, that was progressive, you know, the government knows better than us and if they take alcohol away, we’ll be better. You got Father Coughlin, who was supporting of fascist ideas, he was the guy who started social justice. you’ve also have Huey Long, which was king fish. who was also, his big thing was wealth redistribution. and those were hate-mongers. and you’ve got the kkk who was Democrats and left-leaning people, Margaret Sanger, you know they start calling us all these atrocious things, but you even see our rallies, no dirt, no profanity, nobody’s drugged, nobody’s committing crimes.
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