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Today I heard several newscasters refer to the “faction” within the Republican party that is controlling goals of the party. Even Obama has referred to the “faction” driving the government shut down. Well folks, I’m here to tell you that the faction within the Republican party is larger than the non-faction group. Democrats would like to think that the driving force for the direction Republicans take comes from a small group of ten Tea Party folks who are making a lot of noise. (Why would Obama sic the IRS on Tea Party applications for tax-free status?)

The Tea Party folks are stronger and larger than either Obama or the Republican party will admit. They are voicing a strong opposition to the current trend of the Obama government headed toward socialism. The Tea Party fight against the Affordable Care Act began while it was still less than a thousand pages long. The Democrats fought hard to take control over one-sixth of the US economy and they used every trick in the book to make it happen,

What tricks? Number one was the sense of urgency to pass the bill without any rational debate. Second was controlling the message through the mainstream media. Third was using a Democrat controlled House and Senate to shutter their ears against constituent response. Fourth was bribing dissenting Democrats to change their minds. Not a single Republican voted for the bill.

The tricks didn’t stop there. The Supreme Court joined the fray by deciding to clarify the law to make a ruling. Remember the bill as written could not define whether we would be required to buy insurance (a clear violation of the Constitution) or be taxed for it. The head of the Supreme Court made a final decision by saying the bill doesn’t make sense unless it is clear on that point; was it a tax or a mandate to buy? Chief Justice Roberts decided the bill only makes sense if buying Health Care is a tax and not a mandate. This was not his decision to make, but he chose to make that ruling. He will have to deal with God on that one. Because of his fixing the law, which is not within his jurisdiction the law was upheld. A democrat Congress and Senate who could not write a clear law back then now demands that a Republican House present them with a “clean bill.”

At the time this all transpired, none of the members of the House of Representatives listened to their constituents, and the Senate lined up with the Imperial President.

I remember listening to Senator McCain telling us that the law can always be defunded. Yet, last week, he sided with the Democrats to defeat defunding instead of standing with his Republican constituents. If there is a faction within the Republican party John Mc Cain represents the faction siding with funding the ACA

Today, the President’s administrative people declared they were not concerned by how long the government shut down lasts because they were winning. I can only say those are fighting words for the Faction.

The difference between Obama, his party, and the Republicans, faction included, is integrity. Obama and Democrats are cage fighters, anything goes including eye gouging.

What the faction has to keep in mind is the democrat goal to make health care a single payer system. What ever we do as a faction short-term will only accelerate the system toward a complete government control of health care, like winning the battle but losing the war.

There is only one way to deal with Progressive Democrats, i.e. the same way you deal with Muslims. The final outcome is ugly, and not something Republicans have the stomach to follow through on, they are too principled and honest. On the other side, Obama now wages a battle to annihilate Republicans and the Republican Party. He has no moral compunction to do otherwise.

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