Posted on 12/24/2014 7:04:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The tea party has, to date, been a uniquely Republican movement, with would-be progressive analogs fizzling and fading. “Occupy Wall Street” seemed more interested in drum circles than political engagement. And do you remember the Coffee Party? I didn’t think so.
The lack of a tea party left is in part because having the White House helps paper over a lot of intraparty divisions. And it’s also in part a function of the parties’ differing structures, with the GOP’s recent purity pushes abetted by a media-entertainment complex that incentivizes ideological fidelity over electability as well as the conservative movement’s historical certitude that it is both embattled and about to be betrayed by its allies, even when it has been ascendant.
But this month's Democratic Party split over the spending bill that will keep most of the government open through September (the exception being the Department of Homeland Security which is funded for merely a couple of months so the GOP can use it to fight President Barack Obama’s immigration policy) raised once again the unhappy possibility of a progressive tea party, with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren cast in the role of a mirror image of Texas senatorial trouble-maker Ted Cruz. That’s a bit too facile. Sure they’ve each defied their party’s leadership in base-rousing ways and they’re both being talked up as a dragon-slayer presidential candidates against the expected bids of retread establishment figures (she against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush who recently donned his pith helmet and started exploring the land of presidential politics). But despite the similarities, don’t buy the idea that they’re diametrically opposed peas in a pod – or that Democrats should desire them to be...
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Uh, basically a Democrat “Tea Party” would be the Communist Party, and that already exists.
There is ample room for Cruz to the right of the GOP. Warren is just another face among the many on the far left of the Democrat Party.
There is quite a bit of diversity of opinion in the GOP. The Democrats are in a politically correct lock step.
The picture that accompanies the article is a nice representation of the Democrat brain trust.
yep....about right....
Jealous of the Tea Party, Bob? :)
Concur
Yep, the TEA Party exists because the GOP-e is not conservative. The Democrat Party is socialist, so the left doesn’t need one.
Uh, no it isn't...
I love the way these leftist loons talking about the GOP purity enforcers,talk radio and Fox news lovers,but you never hear about the Democrat Gestapo,you know if you are not a Marxist loon you have NO chance in the Democrat Party,perfect example the left is now wetting their pants about the you did not build that idiot and fake Indian Warren,another clown who has not run anything.
How far the Democrat party has come from their Camelot hero John Kennedy who proclaimed once that Life is not fair,and ask not what your country can do for you,but what you can do for your country.
Now all you hear is this is not fair,as the democrats have some obsession about making the world FAIR,boy are they full of themselves,just ask Hillary,hundreds of thousands of dollars for listening to her bilge,what a bunch of idiots a lot of the American people have become.
Like obama is Lincoln, Reagen, Gandi or the messiah
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