The Tea Party is winning. For whatever losses are incurred, we are winning overall.
They just want us to go along to go along.... We’re not having it.
Fock worthless lefties who are nobody.
And, gee, I was really interested in their proposal. But damned if I'll give then $.99 for it...
(Rex) Huppke began his career as a chemical engineer, but soon decided that making money wasn’t for him. Journalism seemed a reasonable path to poverty …If that was meant to be comedic or satirical, neither effect occurred. Same goes for any populist appeal.
funny how they never write these pieces aimed at liberal groups.
real funny.
but a new poll homes in on one
It won’t let me read that article, but I almost don’t need to. Why would a liberal publication even CARE if the stupid tea party were gumming up the works? If the tea party is so useless and hopeless, forget about it and move on, libs. And if it screws up the republicans, shouldn’t you be overjoyed??
Or could it be that the pesky Constitution and the voters who give a poop about it are gumming up THE UNIPARTY RULE FOR THE STATISTS??! Hm?
Obviously he has read the founders opinion of how the Federal Government is supposed to work.
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Well pal that is how it is supposed to work. Unless the two houses of congress can agree on what to do they are supposed to do nothing.
The only thing gumming up the works is Obama who is going outside the plan and making up laws as he goes along.
If congress really wanted to get something done as the founders saw it they would be impeaching and removing Obama for his obvious High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Got to blame someone for the lack of approval by the masses of their teleprompter spewing hero and the fact that people in his own party are now running from him and condemning his handling of events.
Chitcago Tribute ... ‘All the lefty cant that’s unfit to print’
If the political party in power respects and works with the minority, it is to the benefit of the people in the minority to work within the system to maximize their own power. This is why smart politicians are always trying to coopt their opposition, even when they have all the power.
However, if the political party in power shuts the minority out and runs rough-shod over any opposition, it is foolish to remain in te system and accept the abuse. At that point, it makes sense to step away from the table and start throwing (metaphorical) bombs.
Obama is not a smart politician.
Obama created the TEA Party. He passed his stimulus and Obamacare without a single Republican vote and with absolutely no consideration for the concerns of the minority party. Given that situation, the TEA Party was the completely rational and predictable response.
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The past few years have shown us that our political system is operating like a well-oiled machine, assuming that machine’s primary purpose is to function horribly while producing nothing of value.
Stubbornness and disagreement have been raised to art forms, and the American people have made it clear they rate Congress only slightly more favorably than “scorpions in pants.” The president isn’t viewed much better, with an approval rating hovering around a dismal 40 percent.
There’s ample blame to go around — leftward, rightward, centerward (which isn’t a word, but should be) — but a new poll homes in on one of the biggest problems plaguing politics: the shrinking yet increasingly loud faux-populist tea party.
The tea party has spent most of President Barack Obama’s time in office pushing Republicans to the right with such force that the GOP is spinning drill-like into the ground, poised to become the country’s first subterranean political party. Noisy and threatening as tea party adherents may be, their politics remain far outside both the Democratic and Republican mainstreams, yet their presence continues to gum up the works.
The new McClatchy-Marist poll found that 25 percent of registered voters nationally identify themselves as Republicans. And only 40 percent of those Republicans say they support the tea party. That gives you a sense of scale.
The poll asked, “Is your impression of President Obama a major factor, a minor factor, or not a factor at all in deciding your vote for Congress this November?” Overall, 52 percent of Americans say Obama isn’t a factor at all. A majority of Republicans who don’t support the tea party — 51 percent — say the president isn’t a factor. But Republicans who do support the tea party swing the other way, with 61 percent saying Obama is either a major or minor factor in how they’ll vote this fall.
Looking at the possibility of impeachment — a move most in the GOP recognize as fraught with political peril — Republicans who support the tea party are the only group in favor, with 52 percent saying Congress should impeach. Overall, only 26 percent of Americans share that opinion.
It’s the same general breakdown regarding the lawsuit congressional Republicans plan to file against Obama. Pro-tea party Republicans support the lawsuit by 69 percent while only 43 percent of Republicans who don’t support the tea party want to see the lawsuit go forward.
The masses — or to put it in tea party-esque, constitutional fetishist lingo, “we the people” — would like some sign that our government is still capable of doing the things that governments do. Like govern.
Instead, lawmakers left Washington for an end-of-summer break with a plan for a lawsuit most people don’t want and no plan for immigration reform, which most people — including many Republican-aligned business organizations — do want.
The reason for much of this is the outsize influence of the tea party, which hates Obama, loathes Obamacare, thinks government should shrink largely out of existence and views immigration reform as a threat to our sovereignty.
Many tea party Republicans even hate their own party. At a speaking event Monday, Mississippi Tea Party Chairman Roy Nicholson reportedly prayed that God would “be violent against” the GOP establishment.
And so it goes.
To me, the solution is rather simple. The majority of us — Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever — would like to see a functioning government run by people smart enough to know that “compromise” isn’t a four-letter word. The tea party activists, on the other hand, would like to have things their way — period.
So, given their concern for protecting the border and their desire for limited government, I say we give all card-carrying tea party members Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and the bottom one-sixth of California south of Los Angeles. (I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t want all those Hollywood liberals anyway.)
They can build as big a fence as they want along the border with Mexico, figure out their own health care system, hang guns on their Christmas trees and have a government so limited that its only rule is that you can’t speak unless you’re holding the conch shell. Have fun, guys.
The rest of us will remain in the “upper 445/6” and see if we can’t actually get something done. The first order of business, I think, should be building a gigantic wall along our new border with Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and that little bit of California.
Because the last thing we need is any of those dang tea partyers trying to sneak in and threaten our American way of life.