He may or may not have raised a single dollar yet, but I’m glad to see our newly-elected Maryland Republican Party Chairman standing up for the TEA Party. Alex Mooney sent along these remarks addressing a statement by Steny Hoyer:
Clearly Steny Hoyer did not get the message in November when concerned Americans, led by the Tea Party Movement, swept historic numbers of Republicans into office. The Tea Party Movement represents the mindset of a majority of Americans who believe in reducing government spending and cutting taxes. It is utterly irresponsible and disgraceful for Congressman Hoyer to brand an entire movement of concerned citizens as ‘poisonous’ to our future.
The real poison pill to our future is the Obama, Hoyer, and Pelosi, tax-and-spend agenda. From overreaching on health care legislation to failed bailouts, Washington liberals continue to impede on our personal freedoms, while saddling future generations with more debt. If Democrat leader Hoyer had spent more time standing up to the poisonous agenda of the liberal special interest groups who have hijacked his Democrat Party, perhaps they wouldn’t have been swept out of power last month.
Shades of Jim Pelura. Now I’ll grant that Audrey Scott may have also said something along this line but I doubt she would have couched her remarks as a defense of the TEA Party movement; instead she would have defended the Republican Party as a whole. Remember, for her it was “party over everything.”
Luckily we are in a new era and I’m glad to see Alex hit the ground running with a defense of a group he realizes has become the backbone of conservative Republican support – even if Hoyer didn’t mouth the words “TEA Party” directly we know to whom he was referring. It’s just too bad Steny isn’t one of those lame duck Congressmen getting ready to leave the Capitol (only to land among the sea of lobbyists and hangers-on inside the Beltway) but perhaps we can take care of that issue come 2012.
That’s where strong leadership and good candidates come in, and securing the latter will be Mooney’s true test. But I applaud this first move by the new Chair and I’m glad he shared it with the rest of us.
Seems like he’ll make waves, at least…
Was that press release sent out to everyone? I seem to remember getting a press release from Audrey Scott when she was critical of O”malley. Perhaps Ryan Mahoney and Kim Jorns should add Alex’s name to our distribution list.