Still think the Tea Party movement helped the Republicans win this election? Electoral Vote (one of my favorite websites) makes a really good point that the Tea Party actually cost them control of the Senate. Democrats held on to the Senate, but by the slimmest of margins. And what the Tea Party did, when they […]
One of the original founders of the tea party movement says that the Tea Party has been “hijacked” by the very people it was protesting. You can tell how far away he is from what is now called the Tea Party, because he still has a sense of humor. Karl Denninger declared that he “ought […]
David Michael Green has a brilliant rant about the Tea Party. Here are (too many) choice quotes, but the whole (fairly short) article is worth a read. It’s ironic, to begin with, that the ones who are bitching loudest today are precisely the people who created the mess we’re in. The astonishing irony here is […]
© Clay Bennett They protest against taxes, and yet taxes are at their lowest rate since WWII (and we are having to lay off teachers because of it). They claim lower taxes will result in greater prosperity, and yet the periods when our prosperity was highest was back when taxes were much higher. Did Bush’s […]
[I’m reposting this from the ever-brilliant Margaret and Helen.] Margaret, the problem with Populism is that the population includes asses like Sarah Palin and her Tea Party. Someone needs to remind them that this is America. The government is elected by the people. Questioning your government is patriotic. Hating your government, one the other hand, […]
© Lisa Benson I’m not actually completely sure what this is trying to say, but it made me laugh!
© Tom Tomorrow So, how many of these things do you think will come true? I’m definitely betting on #4 (next to last). After all, they did it to Clinton and they’ve been doing everything but to Obama. And unfortunately, they will probably try #2, but will likely fail.
Matt Taibbi has yet another brilliant article/rant in Rolling Stone about the Tea Party, where it came from, how it has been appropriated by corporate Republican power brokers, and just where that leaves us. Go read it. Just to get you to read it, here are two paragraphs from the end: Of course, the fact […]
© Tom Tomorrow Wait a minute, I can’t seem to tell the difference between the Parallel Earth’s Tea-and-Crumpets Party and our very own Tea Party. Is Tom Tomorrow being ironic? Oh, and the article he mentions in the first panel is here.
Just some quick notes: First, the only thing comforting about the thought that the Republicans will gain power in the upcoming mid-term elections is that that just means that they will be shooting themselves in the foot again. Just look what they did with 8 years with Bush as president, control of the Supreme Court, […]
© Lloyd Dangle See also this.
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