Hey Billy Long, Dick Morris Says You Are Wrong About Being More Conservative than the Tea Party

After the vote on John Boehner's compromise, the little (big and fat) insecure Congressman from the state of Missouri who once used the FBI in hopes of silencing his critics sat in front of his extra large mirror. There he practiced his next sound bite over and over. At times he would put his cowboy hat on to see if it made him appear more in touch with voters, and then he would take it off exposing he doesn't own a comb. He kept saying it over and over until he eventually believed it enough to share it in interviews and at the Joplin Tea Party.

What drove Long to this rehearsal? Well he believed he was the only Republican in the House to show leadership against Boehner's crummy deal with the Democrats. In another shameless plug of self promotion, Long forgot the members of the Tea Party Caucus, a group he didsn't join because he said he didn't have the time for them despite claiming to be "Tea Party before Tea Party was cool," who had voted against Boehner's budget compromise. In Long's world, the only Congressman you needed to be concerned about who voted against it was Billy Long himself as if the votes tallied 434 to Billy's lone vote.

So Congressman Long came out from in front of his mirror where he spends countless hours rehearsing his sound bites the Washington media get a chuckle from. He went to the Joplin Tea Party rally a couple weeks ago and claimed:



Because Long voted against Boehner's compromise, he was now "more conservative than the Tea Party Caucus."

The sound bite didn't end there. Congressman Long went back to extra-wide mirror and began perfecting it for his National Journal interview.

I’m probably more tea party than the tea party. In southwest Missouri, we were tea party before tea party was cool. I don’t join caucuses unless I really feel like I have time to devote to them.

Yes, listening to Billy Long throw the members of the Tea Party Caucus under the bus because he voted against John Boehner embellishes Long's vote as the only vote that had the Tea Party moniker tied to it. Oh, but Dick Morris helps us show once again that Billy Long went to Washington for his own self promotion. Morris celebrates Michele Bachmann's courage as she, the leader of the Tea Party Caucus, voted against Boehner's crummy compromise.

Michelle Bachmann: "What a refreshing candidate- intelligent, savvy... a tax lawyer... the only one who had the guts to vote against that phony deal that Boehner put down with Reed and Obama... a charismatic candidate."

Listening to Congressman Long, he appeared to have left that out. Why wouldn't you give Congresswoman Bachmann credit Mr. Long? It seems quite shameful to me, especially when you consider the real Billy Long record--voted for the PATRIOT ACT (so did Bachmann), co-sponsored bills to increase the size of government and the powers of the Department of Homeland Security, voted to continue funding of NASCAR teams, trampled on the First Amendment by giving the FBI your enemies list in hopes of silencing your critics... Do I need to continue Mr. "Tea Party" Long?

The truth is Congressman Long is not Tea Party. He has never been Tea Party, and he only claimed to be Tea Party because they are a considerable voting block these days. Remember, when he gets to Washington, he has time for the Capitol Hill social club but no time to caucus with Bachmann and the Tea Party.