Comfortably Progressive Ruling Class

Back in 2009, at a Tea Party rally in beautiful downtown Orlando featuring Rep. Steve King, R:IA, and radio talk show host Mike Gallagher, standing in the background off my right shoulder I noticed a familiar face; John Boehner, R:OH.

Boehner was not advertised as a featured speaker, and it appeared by his demeanor he was sort of scoping out the situation.  Indeed, as you may suspect, Boehner was identified and was asked to speak ao the crowd delivering what one would consider a decent speech noting all the customary rhetoric concerning the encroachment of freedom being engaged upon by our newly elected President.

But, it did not appear Boehner was comfortable.

In fact, Speaker Boehner has never been comfortable with the Tea Party faction of the GOP.  Items and issues have continued to mount since that evening in Orlando, and on this day we can most certainly conclude that Boehner is a progressive republican who is more comfortable with the big government ruling class than those who champion free markets and the Constitution. 

Two recent issues are worth noting.  First, Speaker Boehner has failed to step up with leadership in the investigation surrounding the most troubling events in Benghazi, at a minimum standing in the background reminiscent of the aforementioned Orlando evening.

Emerging today is an alarming series of emails between the chiefs of staffs of Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whom we find a disgusting individual, working together to have the President to carve them out of the requirement of Obamacare behind the public eye while employing public rhetoric to the contrary.

The Democrats, and perhaps the progressive republicans, may welcome this type of chicanery within their ranks, but those of us in Tea Party, and I would hope most Americans, find it offensive.

But do Republicans and Democrats actually exist anymore? Some say no, and they are likely correct.

Glenn Beck recently interviewed Mark Leibovich of The New York Times, author of the new book "This Town" discussing this theory in some detail.  Please take a listen:



It sure seems a three party system is where we are at; the far left communists, the interior progressive ruling class and the Tea Party Constitutionalists.  Those in the middle are the careerists Leibovich refers to; folks like the Clintons, John McCain and John Boehner.

For the citizenry living in the middle, who seemingly find moderates for either party acceptable, one has to wonder if they are aware of the expansive governmental control surrounding them due to this miscalculation.  The unprecedented intrusion of the NSA, IRS and EPA and Obamacare waivers for big business and the ruling class are recent examples.

Some of the voters simply throw their hands into the air, disengaged, not only by the distractions of the day outlined in the works of Aldous Huxley but by the thought that those in contest are essentially the same, therefore placing little relevance regarding their vote.

This line of thinking was eloquently chronicled in an outstanding piece by Angelo Codevila, titled America's Ruling Class - And the Perils of Revolution in The America Spectator in 2010.  "The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party -- and its vision is revolutionary."  This is a must read.

One thing is for sure.  The current blueprint is unsustainable, and if we don't take the necessary steps to end the madness and employ the vision from the first Reagan inaugural speech by reawakening this industrial giant, forcing government back within its means in every arena and by lightening our punitive tax burden, we are destined for darkness.

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity, allowing entrepreneurship and individualism to flourish unleashing freedom and liberty across the fruited plain.  Political action, from any party, to the contrary restricting these founding principles should be vehemently rejected, while still possible.