Monday, May 27, 2013

Susan Brooks challenged by Tea Party

Recently, Carmel businessman David Stockdale announced he would seek the Fifth District Congressional seat currently held by freshman Representative Susan Brooks (R-Carmel).   Stockdale's candidacy is being openly promoted on the Indiana Tea Party's Facebook page.

What is remarkable about this is that in reality, it is impossible to find a member of Congress further right than Susan Brooks.  She has voted the GOP party line on 157 of 158 votes, 99.4% of the time.  This is despite her constituents telling her during the election last year that they wanted her to work across party lines to solve problems in Washington.  But the reality is, in her short time in Congress, she has not done what the voters who spoke to her expected.

So WHY is the Tea Party challenging Brooks?  They cannot possibly object to her voting record.  Perhaps it is her relative silence in parroting Tea Party rhetoric.  Or her willingness to actually have a dialogue with those with whom she disagrees.  Brooks recently met with a women's group who advocates more and better gun background checks for example.  But Brooks has an "A" rating from the NRA, which is violently opposed to such checks.  Curious.

A note, I also saw a sign for "Lugar for Congress", meaning Fishers realtor Jack Lugar, who ran in the last cycle as well.  Is this a sign of another wide-open GOP primary in 2014?  Time will tell.

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  1. So WHY is the Tea Party challenging Brooks?

    Let me tell you..

    Limited federal government - Brooks was too weak to bring Obama to the negotiating table.
    Individual freedoms - Brooks had her chance to take a stand and didn't on Obamacare.
    Personal responsibility - It is not my responsibility to pay for anyone's else’s healthcare. She was too weak to take a stand when she needed. My liberty is taken from me. Let me decide my charity, not Obama and a bunch of bureaucrats. The best program would be a Health Savings Accounts started when you are young.
    Free markets - Medicare Medicaid dictates payments.. What is free about that? Nothing. These programs are ruining American.
    Returning political power to the states and the people - IMO.. Healthcare charity issues should be on the city level. Brooks was too weak to stand up to Obama and got out negotiated and out PR'd

    And she is a puppet to John Boehner and always looks drunk or on drugs to me.

    How about that? lol...

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    1. I mean Boehner always looks addicted to me.. No Susan. I will still vote for her if David does not win.

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  2. I like this one better..

    A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

    Thomas Jefferson

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