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Tea Party Dead-Enders [Will Dave Brat make him eat his words?]
NYT ^ | June 5, 2014 | Timothy Egan

Posted on 06/10/2014 8:28:50 PM PDT by QT3.14

The Tea Party is five years old this election season, which means it’s done teething and spitting up on itself, but still prone to temper tantrums, irrational outbursts and threats to take its toys and storm off if it doesn’t get its way.

As a movement, it is down to a couple of former talk-radio hosts running for office in two states of the old Confederacy, Texas and Mississippi. And in the latter, the Senate candidate, Chris McDaniel, has given a keynote to a group that considers Abraham Lincoln a war criminal. It’s not hard to make the case that the Tea Party has been distilled down to it logical essence.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Mississippi; US: Texas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cantor; congress; davebrat; ericcantor; teaparty; virginia
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To: QT3.14

The writer is gripped by fear but masks it with contempt.


21 posted on 06/10/2014 8:49:05 PM PDT by matt1234 (Everything I write is a lie.)
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To: QT3.14

They can keep saying what they like but we are the wrench in the the machine. It doesn’t take a lot of wrenches to stop a machine. We don’t have to win every race to stop them or ultimately overtake them. The left taught us as much. Look what a bunch of radical pot smoking raping hippies managed to do? Now that they have risen to power they of course like most want to try to stay there forever. They talk change and diversity but that is not what they want. They want us to change to agree with their very narrow spectrum of diversity which always leads to greater and larger swaths of freedom ceded and government grown.

They depend on our acquiescence to transform our nation. They can not defeat us in open battle so they try to silence us and demonize us but there is something changing. Their screams of “racism” are ringing increasingly empty to those without jobs and who see them more concerned about interests of foreign migrants than unemployed citizens. There day is coming and their reign will end.


22 posted on 06/10/2014 8:59:22 PM PDT by Maelstorm (700,000 died in the Civil war to kill self governance not to free slaves)
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To: DManA
I think it’s significant he doesn’t call us “tea baggers”.

He probably would feel something of a hypocrite if he did.
23 posted on 06/10/2014 9:06:25 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: QT3.14

Timothy Eagan

Former NY Times Reporter: Tea Party Are 1850s 'Know Nothings' and 'America's Worst Idea'

24 posted on 06/10/2014 9:12:02 PM PDT by kcvl
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Timothy Egan, Former NYT Reporter, Takes on ‘Wacko’ GOP Congress, ‘Tea Party Extremists’

“the Republican House of Representatives is beyond broken, stuffed with politicians who lack the ability to divide up juice boxes in a kindergarten.”

Classy Egan in NYT: ‘If Intelligence Were Contagious, [the GOP] Would Be Giving Out Vaccines For It’


25 posted on 06/10/2014 9:14:44 PM PDT by kcvl
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NYT’s Timothy Egan Admires GOP’s Moderate Jon Huntsman, Unlike ‘Wackos’ in ‘Sea of Craziness’

NYT’s Timothy Egan to ‘Grumpy...Cranky...Bitter’ Tea Party Movement: Just Die Already

NYT’s Egan: ‘Crackpot’ Republicans Behind ‘Lunatic Magnet’ Arizona’s ‘Crackpot’ Immigration Law

NYT’s Timothy Egan: Middle Class Too Easily ‘Distracted’ To Know Own Best Interests

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says Joe is ‘A No Good Citizen’


26 posted on 06/10/2014 9:18:12 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: QT3.14

I wonder how his dose of crow tastes?

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA


27 posted on 06/10/2014 9:29:12 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: QT3.14

Gee, look who is having said temper tantrum. What a d**che.


28 posted on 06/10/2014 10:04:57 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Maelstorm

You got it right Pilgrim.


29 posted on 06/10/2014 10:33:36 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: QT3.14; Lil Flower; Din Maker; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; ...

Mississippi ping


30 posted on 06/11/2014 3:04:30 AM PDT by WKB
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31 posted on 06/11/2014 4:53:30 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Trod Upon
Yep. Those on the Left are poster children for the meaning of 'Projection.'
32 posted on 06/11/2014 8:50:51 AM PDT by QT3.14
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