Subscribe to Receive the Daily Report

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a ’30 Front War’

Author:     DAVID CORN
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     Thu Jul. 25, 2013 9:53 AM PDT
 Link: Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a ’30 Front War’
Stephan:   I have held this story for a couple of days waiting to see the rebuttal. Nothing meaningful has been forthcoming. To my mind there are two main takeaways from this story. One is that another aging group of Theocratic whites are trying to preserve the power they and their friends control. The other is that the wife of a sitting United States Associate Justice is one of the ringleaders of this little Rightwing gang. I do not see how a sitting Justice can at one and the same time render impartial judgment for the country as a whole while having a lobbyist spouse who is actively trying to subvert an inclusive democracy. It is astonishing to me that this goes on almost without comment by the corporate media, the Congress, or the White House.

Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington-including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner-has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for ‘a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation,’ according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.

Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell-including aides to congressional Republicans-cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and ‘clueless’ GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks. (For more on Groundswell’s ‘two front war’ against Rove-a major clash on the right-click here [5].)

One of the influential conservatives guiding the group is Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, a columnist […]

Read the Full Article