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How the Tea Party Won the Deal (The media is setting conservatives up folks, DANGER)
Daily Beast via Yahoo News ^ | August 1st | Peter Beinart

Posted on 08/01/2011 7:49:23 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

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On the major points, this article is nothing but lies. There *IS* a left wing movement, the tea party *HAS NOT* won. The fact that there's a deal at all is proof.
1 posted on 08/01/2011 7:49:30 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Where’s the barf alert?


2 posted on 08/01/2011 7:52:44 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

The Washington, DC Party and their propagandists in the state media, and their hacks in the new media, even on FreeRepublic, are all spinning, ie lying, at warp speed today. I hope they don’t throw the earth off its axis!


3 posted on 08/01/2011 7:52:53 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The only thing still propping up the GOP is the dwindling illusion that it's at all conservative.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

hahahaha don’t you get it? The economy was recovering before the Tea Party gutted the budget and threw us into a double-dip recession. Wait for it... ;-)


4 posted on 08/01/2011 7:53:22 AM PDT by rhombus
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“but the Tea Party is now running Washington.”

Ri-iii-ght. The TEA Party would agree to fantasy spending cuts amounting to a week’s Federal spending “sometime over the next ten years”.

So now Obama and his people can force a Cloward-Piven total col;lapse and blame someone else (other than Bush).


5 posted on 08/01/2011 7:53:22 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The democrats are planning on running against the Tea Party Boogeyman in 2012.

It is IMPOSSIBLE for the left to run on a positive uplifting message. They need to run against someone.

6 posted on 08/01/2011 7:53:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

The fact that liberal Beinart wrote this article is also proof.

There was a similar WaPo piece that also declared the TP the winner.

If the MSM says the Tea Party won, than it probably didn’t.


7 posted on 08/01/2011 7:53:47 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

yep. Just like after the 2011 CR. The media wants to make the people think we won so we become responsible for future downgrades and downturns. Boehner and all need to go on the offensive today and speak to the American people that they moved the ball 2 yard, but have 98 to go. That the economy is weighed down by a massive debt and our credit rating remains in danger because we could only get minimal cooperation from the Democrats who control 2/3 of the process.

No celebrating. This is a minor victory in a skirmish that is the beginning of a long process to rein in an out of control government.


8 posted on 08/01/2011 7:54:44 AM PDT by ilgipper (political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (Thomas Sowell))
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"Bush tax cuts have contributed to the deficit (and how little they’ve spurred economic growth),"

The author lies and lies and lies.

Obama can only dream about 7.7% GDP!


9 posted on 08/01/2011 7:55:08 AM PDT by avacado
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Crock of green BS, and those silly a** talking points out of the rinos office is not helping.
10 posted on 08/01/2011 7:56:00 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

You know this stuff has gone way over the edge. The media had influence over the power of the TEA party how ? Please detail.


11 posted on 08/01/2011 7:56:05 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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I doubt it will pass anyway.


12 posted on 08/01/2011 7:56:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Well I am not going to worry that some extreme radical like Beinart, writing on a whacked out site, says that the left has no movement in US politics today. That is delusional and out of touch. This guy is out of his mind as usual.


13 posted on 08/01/2011 7:57:16 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: EternalVigilance
The Washington, DC Party and their propagandists in the state media, and their hacks in the new media, even on FreeRepublic, are all spinning, ie lying, at warp speed today. I hope they don’t throw the earth off its axis!

I see the third party pimps around here are in hysterics today.

14 posted on 08/01/2011 7:57:44 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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The democrats are planning on running against the Tea Party Boogeyman in 2012.

Bingo! Give this FReeper a cee-gar!

15 posted on 08/01/2011 7:57:53 AM PDT by CAluvdubya
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Given how much the Bush tax cuts have contributed to the deficit (and how little they’ve spurred economic growth)...

Is this guy totally stupid? You don't get economic growth under conditions of uncertainty. Make permanent tax and spending cuts, including tax cuts for businesses, and watch what happens. It amazes me that someone with a journalism major is all of a sudden an economics expert.

16 posted on 08/01/2011 7:58:44 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are dumber than soup.)
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To: org.whodat

I see the third party pimps around here are in hysterics today. What’s the matter, see the issue in your latest fund raising letter going up in smoke?


17 posted on 08/01/2011 7:58:56 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

the dems and their “bipartisan” fool mccain

were both bad-mouthing the tea party.


18 posted on 08/01/2011 7:59:49 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: cripplecreek

“I doubt it will pass anyway.”

I hope you’re right. I would like nothing more than to ruin husseins big 50th bash while conservatives show they really care more about saving this country than belonging to a bunch of elitists congresscritter club who care more about their potential to make millions.


19 posted on 08/01/2011 7:59:55 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

I noted articles op-eds in both Washington Post and NY Times, written by the
Center for American Progress (a noted leftie think-tank) complaining about the US debt, generally sounding like Conservatives - and calling for a 3RD PARTY IN 2012.

Splitting the Republican/Conservative vote by with a 3rd party candidate is Obama’s ONLY CHANCE - and the Progressives know it. Expect the MSM to chime in any time on this theme also


20 posted on 08/01/2011 8:00:11 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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