Daily Kos: Birch Society Republicans: America Now Has Three ...

National leaders for this Birch Society Republican party include House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and Senator Marco Rubio. ?

Nationally the Bircher Republicans show up pushing traditional Bircher positions. These range from eliminating use of fluoride in drinking water to opposing the teaching of evolution to cutting off use of non-real estate tax revenues to help educate minority students.

Their public statements and the language of the Bills they pass in the House of Representatives fall far outside the bounds of mainstream Bush or Reagan or Eisenhower Republicanism.

Sixteen Democrats also voted against this recent fiscal deal, but none of them are Birchers. You would be hard pressed to find one elected national-office Democrat who is on board for the main elements of the Bircher agenda. (Alan Grayson in Florida helped fund Peg Dunmire in a typical use of weak right-wing populists. She served as an unwitting False Flag candidate, sounding like a Bircher-Fascisti. She attracted racist voters from a mainstream Republican opponent.)

A typical Bircher Republican reaction to the fiscal vote is provided by Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina:

"We have not cut spending. In fact, the one place we were supposed to cut spending was on the sequester [and associated measures.] But that got delayed. So our question as conservatives is, when are we going to start this battle over spending? We've waited two years now. We're not going to wait much longer."

Background

They have run the country to the edge of default and over this "fiscal cliff." What does it take to make a political "battle" in their eyes?

The goals you see in their slogans are difficult to translate to law, except for fighting taxes:

? ? ? ? Honor the Constitution

? ? ? ? Reduce the size and intrusiveness of the government

? ? ? ? Stop raising taxes

? ? ? ? No more bailouts or crony capitalism

? ? ? ? Repeal Obamacare

? ? ? ? Cease out-of-control spending

? ? ? ? Reduce the national debt

? ? ? ? Bring back American prosperity and jobs

Of course they oppose any and all jobs bills.

They demonstrate no awareness of the management issues that underlie the big long-term budget issues: medical expenses for chronic care and elderly disabled patients; the "mission creep" that has driven military spending since the Korean War; and our failure to keep up America's infrastructure of bridges, anti-drought reservoirs, and the like.

"No awareness" is the key. These people go out of their way to maintain Know Nothing status. As candidates, they refuse to answer questions. They never publish position papers or endorse professional work that establishes government policy alternatives.

They do like prayer. They do not like government action. And that is the prime drive of 151 Members of this 2013 session of the House of Representatives.

Essentially they are hostile to democracy, which with the United States of America developed from the sceptical, reality-testing premises of the Enlightenment. This is the text, written by Gouverneur Morris as head copywriter of the 1787 "committee of style" (supporting the legal work of ?James Madison), that named the country:

Preamble to the Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

These Birch Society Republicans oppose government actions that would raise tax moneys to either "establish Justice" or "promote the general Welfare" beyond setting up police and sufficient schools to turn out some number of students with passable literacy.

Slogans

They are careful to keep their analysis limited to one-liner slogans. Here are the slogans that get top votes in one of their "Tea Party" polls:

? ? ? ? Dear President Obama, Did They Accept Our Apologies?

? ? ? ? It Is When People Forget God That Tyrants Forge Their Chains (Patrick Henry) ???

? ? ? ? George Soros, Puppet Master ???

? ? ? ? God Has Given Us a Christian Nation (John Jay, 1st US Chief Justice) ???

? ? ? ? U.S. Out Of U.N. ???

? ? ? ? We Are Not Tolerant of Treason! ???

? ? ? ? Public Schools: Leftist Re-Education Camps ???

? ? ? ? An Education Without the Bible Is Useless (Noah Webster, Founding Father) ???

? ? ? ? Liberal Congress: Killing Our Economy and Raising Unemployment, Since 2006 ???

? ? ? ? Seal The Borders NOW ???

? ? ? ? If Liberals Could Win an Election, Why Would They Need So Much Voter Fraud? ???

? ? ? ? Sheriff Joe Arpaio - A Real American!

? ? ? ? GOP Leaders, You Are the Problem! We Don't Want Moderates! ???

? ? ? ? BUILD THE FENCE ???

? ? ? ? It Isn't the Quanity (Term Limit), Its the Quality (Character) ???

? ? ? ? Loss of Sovereignty At Core of Obama Agenda ???

? ? ? ? Background Checks and Questionaires for All Politicians, Judges ???

? ? ? ? We Want an In-Depth Investigation of Soros, Obama, and Acorn! ???

? ? ? ? Get 'em Out Now! Every Day They Destroy America More! ???

? ? ? ? Mainstream Media, Hollywood - Guilty of Treason? Yes, They Are! ???

? ? ? ? Don't Expect Wicked Men to Pass Good Laws ???

? ? ? ? Clean Up the National Voter Registration System Up Now! ???

? ? ? ? Thank God for the 2nd Amendment ???

? ? ? ? Remove the RINOs from the Republican Party! ???

? ? ? ? Bring Family Values Back From Liberal Perversions ???

? ? ? ? Spend Our Taxes on National Security, Not Liberal Stupidity! ???

? ? ? ? Wipe Voter Roles Clean! Re-Register "Legal" Voters Only! ???

? ? ? ? Impeach Obama! ???

? ? ? ? O.B.A.M.A. = One Big A** Mistake, America

Apart from references to Soros and Obama, this could be the 1950s Birch Society. "Quanity" is a misspelling. Might have been done by the "moran" guy. And the alleged quote from John Jay is bogus.

Plus that Noah Webster opposed religious education, developed his famous dictionary, and was a supporter but not a participant in the founding of the country. He served Alexander Hamilton by editing the Federalist Party's newspaper from 1793 and then continued successfully in the newspaper and printing business in New York.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s one of the big John Birch Society themes of the day argued that the Supreme Court had a majority of "secret Communists." These guys today do not get to repeat that claim.

Elections

Anyway, that is what you've got for the Third Party. The presidency is likely out of reach for them. As with Senate seats in the larger-population states, excepting Texas and Florida, there is too much publicity generated with the presidency for Birch Society Republicans to win a general election. ?

Presidential primaries are at the balance point. You could see a Bircher win a primary.

Low-population states' Senate seats are another matter. Rural House seats and Bible Belt seats are also winnable for these candidates. State and local elections are raw meat for their candidates. They feast on low turnout elections. ?

Examples

The Deb Fischer campaign in Nebraska is typical of successful efforts. She offered no discrete policy proposals, repeated the same dozen slogans throughout, and ended up taking 57.8% of the popular vote (455,593 ballots) over Bob Kerrey.

Nebraskans think she is a centerist.

Similarly, Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District is represented by John Kline. They have no idea how he votes on issues. His campaigns echo Bircher slogans, but omit the anti-immigrant rants to achieve a 54.1% victory (193,586 ballots.) There is no local coverage for his actions in Congress.

People there in MN-02 think John Kline is a centerist.

In fact he gets a 97.8% rating on the right. That is about as far right as you can find, as most of these congressmen vote for "left" bills that support their local businesses and regional initiatives. For the fiscal deal, Kline voted with Boehner. Publicly he spoke against compromise with Obama.

It's all a shell game. Birch Society Republicans get campaign contributions from far right billionaires. For those functions they present as Americanize "Fascisti" with fundamental opposition to democratic ideals. They target other contributors bound up with Fundamentalist religiosity and all-out tax avoidance.

They are threats to win seats. They hold at least 151 House seats now and likely have a dozen more Members who backed the fiscal compromise for reason of expediency.

Political Status

This is a strong political party. They may or may not see themselves as a distinct party. They run as a pack, not as a disciplined political party.

It is not like your father's Republican Party. It is in too-large a part the "nut cases" that Barry Goldwater worked to remove from his conservative movement during the 1970s and 1980s.

It is fundamentally destructive.

Obama has succeeded in splitting his opposition by sharpening the self-identification of these Birchers. Whether this split widens or goes back to status as a hidden fault line remains to be seen.

Obama has worked an effective strategy. He starts out issuing public statements that appear to "cave" on policy issues, which are then followed by detailed policy proposals from his Cabinet that undo the "caves" and infuriate Business Republican leadership. Birch Society Republicans, more than not, have had no idea what was going on. They do not participate in negotiations. As they came to distrust their Business Republican partners, they went on to break off and form their own political clast.

Obama has to know that the Birchers have no strategy.

Birchers have the one mainstream tactic of voting against taxes. nothing if not predictable. Even that tactic is in trouble, come March of 2013. Consider the language of Obama's position on the debt ceiling:

President Obama in his weekly address, Honolulu, Hawaii.

January 4, 2013.

And as I said earlier this week, one thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they?ve already racked up. ?If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. ?The last time Congress threatened this course of action, our entire economy suffered for it. ?Our families and our businesses cannot afford that dangerous game again.

The main backers of the Business Republicans also need to see expensive alterations to the "sequester" deal to satisfy their donors -- not ?possible without offsetting tax increases, which Obama presents as closing loop holes.

Business Republicans have no use for squabbles related to the federal debt limit.

"Divide and conquer" goes back to Julius Caesar and to Phillip II of Macedonia before him. You betcha, Barack Obama is aware of the concept.

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Thank you for the RECOMMEND upgrade.

The comments, here, are very good. A half-dozen or so take up the effects of this divide amongst the Republicans and carry it further than this diary by miles. The comments deserve a read through, plus hopefully leading to development as several standalone diaries.

As Joe Biden might say: this is a big deal. ?

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/04/1176367/-America-Now-Has-a-Three-Major-Political-Parties

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