“...that incumbent margins are shrinking suggest that, in spite of tea party losses they are still having an enormous impact on their party and thus on the entire political system.”
Yet, this ‘writer’ says the Tea party is doing poorly in elections.
he is having a difficult time making up a scenario.
His theme, his central point, is that Boehner and his group, and Cantor and Thad Cochran et al, are promoting the tea party and ignoring the electorate , who are rejecting the tea party, and the tea party would go away if it weren’t for it’s supporters within congress.
Soe news outlet pays this guy for this? I wouldn’t allow this kind of illogical tripe past my desk in a ninth grade composition class.
Re. your comment: “Soe news outlet pays this guy for this? I wouldn’t allow this kind of illogical tripe past my desk in a ninth grade composition class.”
Standard liberal propaganda crap!
What did you expect from liberals who spent years working for NPR or BBC or both?
newsnet5.com (website for liberal Cleveland TV station affilliated with ABC)
decodedc is a liberal Washinton DC newsblog whose website is http://www.decodedc.com/ and whose executives and reporters and other staff come from NPR and BBC backgrounds.
Dick Meyer (liberal author of the article)
Dick is chief Washington correspondent for DecodeDC. An experienced writer, reporter and author, Meyer was executive producer for the BBC’s news services in America, NPR’s executive editor and editorial director of CBSNews.com. Meyer also wrote a book on American culture and politics, Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium (Crown Publishing/Random House, August 2008).