Here is the list  of Tea Party Senate Republicans who threatened the AAA Bond rating with Senator DeMint being the king of the tea party terrorists because they have held our economy hostage.  They are on record for wanting to shut down the government like anarchists, and now they want nothing to do with bipartisanship.  Ronald Reagan was a good President because he worked across the aisle.  What makes tea party politicians better than Reagan?  Why don’t they acknowledge that Reagan increased taxes, too?

Pat Toomey (R-PA) 202.224.4254

Marco Rubio (R-FL) 202.224.3041

Rand Paul (R-KY) 202.224.4343

Mike Lee (R-UT) 202.224.5444

Ron Johnson (R-WI) 202.224.5323

Our markets started to take a dive here in the U.S. then the rest of the world because the teahadists are unreasonable and have become a party of “no”.  One Tea Party Republican, Eric Cantor, was caught shorting the market putting himself in a position to benefit when the markets failed.  Go figure.

Who in their right mind would want to put their money against US Markets yet call themselves a true patriot?

Be sure to call these tea party Republicans and tell them you are tired of their political games.  These individuals believe the entire US population voted “only them” in not realizing that the American people have voted in several hundred politicians from diverse backgrounds across the political spectrum around the nation. It’s unfortunate the Republican Party has been hijacked by freshmen and crying babies.

Joe Nocera writes:

Tea Party’s War on America

These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took.

Like ideologues everywhere, they scorned compromise. When John Boehner, the House speaker, tried to cut a deal with President Obama that included some modest revenue increases, they humiliated him. After this latest agreement was finally struck on Sunday night — amounting to a near-complete capitulation by Obama — Tea Party members went on Fox News to complain that it only called for $2.4 trillion in cuts, instead of $4 trillion. It was head-spinning.

Read more here.

Who Gets Hurt in a Government Shutdown?

If the government shuts down, the Tea Party fingerprints will be on this debacle. Everyone knows that the Tea Party movement is a small faction of the Republican Party, and everyone knows they are advocating a complete government shut down. Rep. John Boehner says he does not want a government shut down, however, if there is a shut down then everyone knows the tea party movement will claim the credit. It is crucial for Boehner not to succumb to these unreasonable ideas.

Several once thought the Tea Party movement was for “small government”, however, they are really “anti-government” and they don’t care what the consequences are. If Democrats and Republicans don’t do the mature thing and get a budget compromise passed, then our military members will not get paid. However, Congressmen and women will still get paid and they all each make about 175,000 per year plus benefits.  Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann is on the record for advocating a government shutdown.  She has stated she is willing to give the entire military a flimsy two weeks of her pay when she should be offering to give her entire future pay since she has been the one advocating for a shut down.

I have an idea….all Congressmen and women should lump their money together and pay our soldiers and their dependents.  If the budget doesn’t get passed, I’d like to see Bachmann pass a hat around to every single lawmaker at the Hill instead of attending Tea Party rallies with her bull horn.

I am watching military dependent wives on television who are worried about not getting a paycheck. Are military members panicking right now? You’d better believe it! Folks, the LAST thing a soldier should worry about is whether or not their family will have money to buy groceries. They need to be focused on war, not whether or not our Congressmen can work together at the Hill. They shouldn’t have to worry whether or not their families are going to be taken care of. Many of them live paycheck to paycheck and the fact that our Congress cannot work together while we are involved with three wars is absurd. I cannot imagine how Congress would act if an act of terrorism were to occur as they continue to be hard nosed against each other. Americans are sick and tired of partisan politics. They vote in members of Congress to be mature, statesman-like and to get the damned job done.

You don’t think the wives are worried? Think again and watch the video below with regard to the wife who gets weepy over the issue.

Somos Republicans

What’s the difference between Rep. Raul Grijalva’s boycott and the Tea Party wanting government shutdown?

Have you asked yourself that question?

The government shutdown is much worse. The shutdown eliminates important Pentagon staff, it stops our military soldiers from getting paid where their families rely upon the paychecks they earn, it crushes tourism at all National Parks, museums and attractions. 800,000 people will not be working, and the list goes on and on.

Everyone was quick to jump on the band wagon and scream at Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva’s boycott when the Tea Party folks were attacking the Latino community, but when it comes to working on a budget compromise we are hearing that the Tea Party movement is advocating for a complete government shut down which is irrational and asinine.

The Tea Party folks through their support for a shut down are in essence boycotting tourism at all government parks, museums and attractions which translates into an economic loss totaling millions of dollars.

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Why was Emily Ruiz not allowed to come back to the United States?  Do you see how broken our immigration system is? Emily is an American born citizen, folks. We have to fix the broken system before more families are forced apart.

Just as the Department of Homeland Security under President Bill Clinton botched it up with Elian Gonzales of Florida, now we have the Department of Homeland security under President Obama botching it up with Emily Ruiz.  How many more immigration stories do we have to hear in order for the FEDERAL GOVERMENT TO FIX THIS ISSUE?!

Not long ago, the entire Hispanic community was with the Cuban community in spirit when the battle of Elian Gonzalez drove Cuban Americans back to the Republican Party in Florida.  Within one decade we have watched some in the GOP transform on the issue of children, families, immigration and deportation.   In 1996, Bill Clinton and Al Gore won Florida, however, during the 2000 Presidential Election, the Cuban American National Foundation said they would actively work against Gore because of his badly chosen handling of Elian’s deportation that eventually cost him the elections.

In light of the upcoming 2012 Presidential Elections, Democrats ought to ask themselves how much they want to play and risk the Latino vote.  This is the time for them to step it up because State legislators (GOP) are crying out for Obama to fix the broken system.  Question is….will Democratic leaders be smart enough to put a solution that will garner Republican support on the table?

If you don’t know who Emily Ruiz is, you are about to find out from Ruben.

Why was 4-year-old American girl deported?

By Ruben Navarrette Jr., CNN Contributor

San Diego (CNN) — Under our system, two things are crystal clear: Law enforcement agencies are required to treat children with more care than adults, and U.S. citizens have certain rights that are not to be abridged — including the right to due process.

Just don’t try telling any of that to the parents of Emily Ruiz. They know better. Those principles didn’t apply in the case of the 4-year-old from Brentwood, New York, who — after traveling to Guatemala to visit relatives with her grandfather — was denied entry into the United States on March 11 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and instead sent back to Guatemala.

That is no way to treat a U.S. citizen.

Read more:  http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/23/navarrette.child.deported/index.html

 

From Pilar Marrero:

US may have violated own rules in “deporting” US citizen girl.

In sending back to Guatemala a US citizen girl whose parents are still in the United States, authorities with the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) may have violated a settlement that was entered into during the nineties to determine the treatment of minors in their custody, said a constitutional lawyer who conducted the lawsuit in the late eighties.  According to attorney Peter Schey, a lawyer for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Los Angeles, CBP and all agencies that deal with migration issues must do more than just a good faith effort to reunite a citizen child with his family, under the Flores settlement that was put in place in 1997.