Calling In The Baggers
by digby
They're pulling together the coalition:
Conservative groups preparing to fight President Barack Obama over his next Supreme Court nomination are trying to recruit tea party activists to their cause, hoping their enthusiasm will help them beat back any nominee that could be too liberal for their taste.
Bringing in the tea party movement — known for its high-energy rallies and protests calling for small government, lower taxes and less spending — would be a coup for conservatives, who were not able to stop the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor last year.
This time, "you may have a whole new group of activists involved," said Tom Fitton of the conservative group Judicial Watch.
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Curt Levey of the conservative Committee for Justice said he has been in contact with some tea party leaders trying to explain to them how an Obama judicial nomination affects their cause.
"Are we going to have big or small government? Should the Supreme Court have unlimited power?" he said.
And the health care overhaul? "That's going to end up in front of the Supreme Court, and if you care whether that bill survives or not, you better care about the Supreme Court," Levey said.
I'm guessing the teabaggers are very well aware of Supreme Court fights. This persistent propaganda about these people being some new group of activists is a crock. They are just the conservative movement 2010, with all that that implies.
I was struck by the fact that these groups reached out to the tea party folks, however, validating them and showing them the respect of being fellow conservatives and participants in the political process. I don't recall anything like that on the Democratic side during the Roberts and Alito hearings. But then the netroots aren't Real Americans.
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