Posted on 02/02/2013 11:17:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is it last call for the tea party? Consider these recent developments:
Late Thursday: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a possible presidential candidate in 2016, ridicules fellow Republicans as the "stupid party" and urges Washington Republicans to get over their obsession with cutting budgets.
Friday afternoon: The office of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, another would-be Republican presidential candidate, declares that he will not go along with a plan, hatched by conservative legislators, to rewrite the state's election laws in a way that would stack Virginia's electoral votes against Democrats.
Late Friday: Fox News says it has parted ways with Sarah Palin, the former vice presidential candidate and tea-party darling whose following had shriveled.
Saturday: Reports emerge that House Speaker John Boehner had given a speech in which he referred to "hard heads" in his Republican caucus.
Monday: Sen. John McCain, who during his 2008 presidential run backed an enforcement-only approach to immigration, declares his support for a plan for undocumented immigrants to become legal. Joining him on the stage is Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the party's brightest stars for 2016.
This last offense was too much for Rush Limbaugh, who denounced the "amnesty" plan. "Why are we doing this?" he asked Rubio on-air Tuesday. Rubio was solicitous but firm. "We do have this existing problem that has to be dealt with," he replied.
It is too early to call a requiem for the tea party. The informal movement still dominates the House Republicans...
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I have always thought of him as.."Johnny McInsane"
The Tea Party isn’t over; the Tea Party’s role in the Republican Party is over. Not only are we not going to change the GOP from within, but plenty of people we send up as reformers end up turning on us.
Are they just lying to us from the start? Are they being corrupted by the political establishment? I think it’s a little of both, myself.
It’s time for us “outsiders” to start acting as REAL outsiders by breaking off from the one-party system and forming a real movement of our own. I’m under no delusions that we’d be able to win in major races, but even if we had a lot of people running for local races, it would be a start.
If I was a little older and wiser, I might just consider running myself.
I think Milbank gets a boner writing such drivel.
It’s good to see the liberal establishment types and RINO’s lie awake nights fretting over the Tea Party movement in America. They must be taking a lot of antacids for their heartburn over their worries about Tea Partiers.
The Tea Party gathered steam while it stood for the United States Constitution...smaller government and less spending. I believe that is where they should still stand rather than trying to be all things political.
Democrats, Independents, Libertarians and Republicans showed up at the Rallies.
The DemoncRats made it Political when Pelosi walked through the crowd at the Capitol Building with her over sized Gavel trying to incite the crowd. When that didn't work, they accused the Tea Party Patriots of shouting the N Word at the Congressional Black Caucus members that were part of the stunt.
The Democrats and their Media Sycophants make everything Political. The Tea Party didn't start it. They have been vilified for telling the truth, which seems to be the core of the Liberal Agenda. Alinsky is their Bible, and it works.
The Tea Party is NOT over...
Dana Milbank believes the Tea Party is over because we are currently in economic "good times."
Therefore, Dana Milbank is a complete idiot.
Yeah, those cold-hearted bastards thought that the recovery money should be used for actual relief and the money should be closely monitored for fraud.
How dare they insist on accountability, when people like Christie and Dana Milbank insist we should just trust the government to do things right:
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