“Party of white people”: How Tea Party took over the GOP, armed w/all the wrong lessons from history

Salon ^ | May 23, 2015 | Professor David Sehat

[Kid Shelleen]

the Tea Party–led Republicans demanded—a massive cut to spending that would increase over time, a balanced-budget amendment that would permanently limit spending in the future,

Those Tea Party SOBs!!! How dare they demand fiscal responsibility? That was only important when Obama was criticizing Bush. /S

Obama says adding $4 trillion to debt is unpatriotic

[AppyPappy]

One of my FB friends put it perfectly without meaning to do so

“If Baltimore or St Louis or DC or Detroit burns, the Tea Party doesn’t care because they don’t live there but they control the money needed to keep those cities from burning”

My response: “So? Let ‘em burn”

[2ndDivisionVet]

He thinks the Tea Party is made up of wealthy oligarchs?

[AppyPappy]

Nope. Flyover people or rural bumpkins.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Then how do we control the money needed to keep them from burning?

[AppyPappy]

Republicans control the House and Senate and the Tea Party “Controls the Republicans” in their eyes.

[driftless2]

Virtually all libs are insanely and hysterically anti-Tea Party because they see it as a strong threat to the march of socialism of which they are ardent supporters. Period.