Hey, guess who's mad at the GOP establishment--the Tea Party, LOL! "In their final days controlling the House, Democrats succeeded in passing legislation that Tea Party leaders opposed, including a bill to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks, an arms-control treaty with Russia, a food safety bill and a repeal of the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military," to which one Tea Party leader said this: "The Republicans, frankly, have been a disaster."

soupsoup:

The Tea Party are useful idiots for the GOP. The GOP has no interest in lowering the deficit, despite what they say, their actions now and for the entire history of their party shows otherwise.

This all goes back to the fact that the Tea Party didn’t exist in a substantial form until a Democrat entered the White House.

A Republican president with a Republican controlled congress before Obama ran up a $596 billion dollar deficit.

Where was the Tea Party then?

Shows two dangerous assumptions: 

1.) Most Tea Party Members don’t really favor small government, they favor THEIR government.  It’s a hijacked Libertarian movement.

2.) True libertarians have only slightly more faith in Republicans than Democrats.  The Tea Party movement was explicitly hijacked by the Republicans to blunt its momentum and redirect it, not to incorporate it.

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    democrats would co-opt...republicans co-opted...ultra-right....
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    Shows two dangerous assumptions: 1.) Most...Members don’t really favor small...
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    Because the Tea Party is one thing: a hyper-religious movement based on racism. End of story.
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    Indeed. Selective outrage.
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    Damn. They may not like...“ruling elite,” but...word...
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