Letter to the Editor - Does the Tea Party Need to Compromise?

Letter to the Editor - Denver Post - YourHub Arvada

I have a few questions for Jack Van Ens’ after reading his latest Your Voice column “Compromise isn’t caving in” where he criticizes the Tea Party and tells them to be more willing to compromise.

    Can Jack provide us with the column he wrote criticizing the Democrats for ram-rodding the Obamacare Health Plan through Congress?   I don’t recall Jack calling for compromise and telling us about the need for Democrats to work with the Republicans to “pursue what makes for peace and mutual understanding” (Romans 14:19).  Can Jack provide us with the column he wrote condemning Speaker of the House Pelosi for using bully tactics to lock Republicans out of committee meetings while rushing this bill through the abridged legislative process?  

    Jack accuses the Tea Party of using “gutter-talk” when rallying the troops by showing a movie clip.  Will Jack be writing a column soon condemning those Democrats who call the Tea Party members “terrorists?”

    Jack calls members of the Tea Party hoodlums who kill, maim, and bully to get their way.  Will Jack be writing a column condemning ACORN, SEIU, and other union thugs who invade bank president’s homes and assault Tea Party members holding peaceful rallies?

    Jack tells us that President Obama’s debt speech on July 25 reminded citizens how important compromise is for Congress to function.  Can Jack tell us how it is compromise when Senator Harry Reid shelves a bill passed by the House calling for “cut, cap, and balance” and refuses to even bring this bill to the floor for debate in the Senate?   
   
    Jack tells us that the Tea Party and conservatives spin their wheels moored on soft shoulders.  Can Jack explain to us how the Tea Party is spinning its wheels with its simple calls for fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets?

    Jack tells us that the Tea Party threatens to raze our “Republic’s house.”  Can Jack explain how calls to cut, cap, and balance a budget threatens our Republic?   Is Jack not concerned that our Republic is in peril from overspending beyond our means?   Doesn’t that threaten our Republic?   Can Jack tells us what the founding fathers would have to say about our accumulation of our massive debt?

    Jack tells us that “consensus works to loosen a log-jammed Congress” and demands that the Tea Party must compromise on its principles to allow the debt ceiling to be raised so the federal government can spend its way beyond the $14 trillion debt.  Will Jack’s next column call for the Senate and President Obama to compromise on their principles of tax and spend?   Can Jack tell us how the Senate and President Obama should compromise to get us on that “high middle road” he seeks?   Or does Jack’s call for compromise only apply to the Tea Party and conservatives?