GOP (RINO) Leadership Not Pleased With Tea Party Caucus

“We want to have a bigger earphone to listen to the people,” said Michele Bachmann (R-MN) after two dozen Republicans kicked off the caucus in a closed-door meeting. “We may possibly meet next week. Our goal is to continue an ongoing dialogue in real time.”

Bachmann stresses that her Tea Party Caucus is not a puppet for the grass-roots conservative movement, nor does it pull the strings for tea party members nationwide. Rather, the brand-new House caucus aims to give people a voice, said Bachmann after the caucus’ initial meeting Wednesday.

Representative Bachmann on her own introduced paperwork with the Democratic leadership to establish the organization late last week and won approval on Monday.

“We are not the mouthpiece of the tea party,” The Washington Post quoted Bachmann as saying at a news conference after the first caucus meeting. “We are not taking the tea party and controlling it from Washington, D.C. I am not the head of the tea party, nor are any of these members of Congress. “The people are the head of the tea party.”

Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price, and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions along with over 20 other Congressman signed on with the Tea Party caucus.

Tea party leaders view the caucus favorably but dismiss media contentions that caucus membership will determine who gets tea party backing. “I think the voters will look a lot deeper in all of these races than whether people say they belong to this caucus or not,” Mark Meckler, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots said.

Voters should look at how congressional candidates stand on the issues and how they have voted rather than to whether they belong to or would join the Tea Party Caucus, Meckler says.

Meckler scoffs at media suggestions that caucus members would control the movement. The movement includes “millions and millions of independent Americans who make their decisions for themselves,” he says. “They are not following the lead of Michele Bachmann or any other politician. They are out there educating themselves and getting involved based on principles and performance, and not based on what politician might say.”

The caucus, which Bachmann envisions as being bipartisan, creates a conduit for Congress to communicate with ordinary Americans at a time when the legislative body is more “arrogant” than ever, Meckler says.

According to NBC News the GOP leadership was less than pleased with Bachmann’s decision to start the Tea Party Caucus. The RINO’s have already voiced their opposition to American taxpayers uniting and wanting a leaner, more American taxpayer friendly Congress.

Election 2010 does matter. We salute Michele Bachmann for her stand of being for the people and her support of the Tea Party. Congratulations to all the members of Congress who joined.

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