Tea Party secedes from Republican Party

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES ^ | October 11, 2013 | Elias Isquith

[mdittmar]

For nearly 150 years, there was something in America called the Republican Party. It was far from perfect. It made mistakes. But it was predictable; when it was in power, you knew, for the most part, what you were getting.

Cut to now and things look mighty different. The Republican Party today is, as political scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein put it, “an insurgent outlier in American politics . . . ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” But, to borrow the title of Mann and Ornstein’s recent book, it’s even worse than it looks. There’s the Tea Party and then there’s a rump of spineless moderates. The GOP, quite simply, has been split in two.

This division has been evident for some time, but the recent squabbling over the government shutdown has put the internal discord in sharp relief. We’ve become accustomed to Speaker John Boehner’s flailing attempts to corral his Tea Party faction; and we’ve seen the sad spectacle of this ostensible leader of his party taking his orders almost exclusively from the most harebrained and hard-line members. What’s genuinely new, and far more consequential, is a recent New York Times report finding that even big business — including Wall Street! — is itself unable to force Tea Party members to fall in line.

[justa-hairyape]

“an insurgent outlier in American politics . . . ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

Sounds like Obama to me.

[chicagolady]

God Bless America! I left Chicago long enough to go take care of my father in Texas and was able to vote for Cruz!

WooHoo!!

[chicagolady]

Bull $hit......Good Luck!!

[PATRIOT1876]

*This is just like when unbelievers tell ME about Christianity.*

I like the meme where Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka says:

“Please go on and on and tell me about the Bible that you've never read”

;—)

[clintonh8r]

So now adhering to the Constitution is “ideologically extreme.”

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Finally, a fair and balanced analysis of the current GOP! /sarc

[sergeantdave]

It’s called revolution, you 50 IQ Chicago ape.

[Socon-Econ]

My view is that the Tea Party’s real problem is not establishment Republicans; it’s lack of leadership, money and ground troops. If we can give generously and avoid the circular firing squad, these problems will dissipate.

[PATRIOT1876]

*Imagine that. A party that doesn’t take its orders from an ossified leadership and can’t be corralled by Wall Street fat cats. Why, they must be getting their orders from, insert quaking RINO pic here, their constituents!*

The Left has a savage, tribal mentality. The need a leader. They need talking points.

When I tell a Leftist that I didn't get any talking points from anyone they stare in disbelief with a flycatcher mouth and glazed eyes. It's something that they can't comprehend.

The laughable accusations that Rush Limbaugh gives Republican politicians and even citizens “marching orders” is hilarious. They really do not know how to think for themselves. They even sometimes use that very phrase in an argument whilst poll parroting some nonsense that they heard a Socialist/Democrat politician (or worse Bill Maher) say in a grand mal of utter irony.

We Conservatives, for the most part, get information from people and decide to agree or not agree.

[vpintheak]

HA! They say the Tea Party won’t comprimise! What about their master, Obama? That SOB had straight up kicked out the idea of any comprimise 2 times within this last week.

[Lorianne]

This is only of surprise or in the least remarkable to a media who invented their own narrative about the tea party movement and then believed their own made up story.

[caww]

This article came from Salon. Why post it here? Chicago simply reprinted it. It does nothing but tear down the Tea Party.

[txrefugee]

The gaydar meter just went off. The pervert wing of the Democrat party just hates people who know they are perverts.

[tumblindice]

He looks like a phag.

[sergeantdave]

“Maybe we should leave the R Party and start a new 2nd Party.”

Surely that was said in jest. Wake me up when conservatives can organize enough to send three or four people to a schoolboard meeting and protest the commie teachers in the classrooms.

A new 2nd party..,Hahahahahaha.

[jimfree]

The left is savage and tribal - I like that.

[alphadog]

This is a stupid idea.

[Jim Noble]

“What’s genuinely new, and far more consequential, is a recent New York Times report finding that even big business — including Wall Street! — is itself unable to force Tea Party members to fall in line.”

We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything that they say we are we are
And we are very proud of ourselves...

[rbmillerjr]

So, you believe ALL is lost?

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

What’s genuinely new, and far more consequential, is a recent New York Times report finding that even big business — including Wall Street! — is itself unable to force Tea Party members to fall in line.

Which proves that the progressives (DNC propaganda arm) at the Chicago Sun Times have no clue about the Tea Party. We are pro-business but not slaves to corporations. We want our country back the way the founders set it up.