Why John Boehner Hates The Tea Party
By Chuck Baldwin on May 23, 2014

What is now called the Tea Party began in 2007 as a loosely-organized yet highly-motivated grassroots support effort for Congressman Ron Paul’s bid for the White House. Since those early days, a lot has happened to the Tea Party.

For one thing, the Tea Party is now much larger and broader than any one person’s political candidacy. And though a Tea Party candidate has not yet obtained the White House (Ron Paul was the lone Tea Party Republican candidate in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections), a host of Tea Party candidates have won several elections in the US House and Senate—as well as many State and local races. And to win these elections, Tea Party candidates have had to repel the attacks against them from the Republican establishment. In fact, the GOP establishment is far and away the Tea Party’s biggest enemy.

Republican leaders such as John Boehner, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Peter King, etc., have made one of their missions in life to defeat Republican Tea Party candidates—even if those candidates are incumbents. This is for good reason: the establishment Republican Party is diametrically opposed to the goals and principles of the Tea Party.

Based on the positions of most Tea Party candidates (which is all we have to go on as the Tea Party is not a real political party but only a grassroots activist effort being conducted mainly within the Republican Party), the goals and objectives of the Tea Party can be summarized generally as follows:

They support a non-interventionist foreign policy.

They support the Constitution and recognize the current attacks against the Constitution, especially against the Second, Fourth, and Tenth Amendments.

They oppose the NSA spying on the American citizenry (including the use of drones for such purposes).

They oppose the Patriot Act and the militarization of the Department of Homeland Security as well as local and State law enforcement agencies.

They oppose the Import-Export Bank.

They oppose the Federal Reserve Bank.

They oppose CISPA. [Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013]

They oppose the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA.

They support ending the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).

They support limited government spending—especially at the federal level.

One can easily see that many, if not most, of these goals and objectives are diametrically opposite the goals and objectives of the establishment Republican machine.

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