“The Tea Party movement is dead. It’s gone,” says Chris Littleton, the cofounder of the Ohio Liberty Council, a statewide coalition of Tea Party groups in Ohio. “I think largely the Tea Party is irrelevant in the primaries. They aren’t passionate about any of the candidates, and if they are passionate, they’re for Ron Paul.”
At the state and local levels, Tea Parties remain highly engaged in ballot initiatives and Senate races and congressional contests. The Ohio movement won a victory in a “health-care freedom” bill in the 2011 elections. Other Tea Parties around the country say they’re focused on statewide efforts against public employee unions or health-care mandates.
But without a consensus around one candidate and no leader at the top of a unified Tea Party to call on the troops to get behind one candidate, the person the GOP is likely to nominate may be the one least able to make the Tea Party happy: Mitt Romney.
I guess now that Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry have turned out to unmitigated disasters, the Teabaggers are feeling a little let down and facing the fact that they may have to get behind the most boring thing to come down the pike since the color beige was invented.
And do you know what? He is going to lose against Obama too.
By large margins Americans are putting President Obama significantly ahead of Romney in their ability to handle the problems facing this country.
I never liked the color beige anyhow.
The big financial backers have decided that it was time to end the tea party that is why is it "gone" - no more paid for fake rallies and busing in paid for protesters to fake big crowds - sure there are always going to be the fringe but it was only a "tea party" because of financial backing putting up the front. But when the lunatics got to out of control the financers pulled the plug. Without rich ring leaders the folks in the tea party will just drift off to their various hate groups and militia groups.
ReplyDeleteOT - Did you catch Letterman last nigth - he asked in his monlogue "who would vote for a guy who would strap his dog to the hood of his car?" awesome! Hopefully Letterman will keep it up all the way until the election!
The new Constitution has been written. It starts off....
ReplyDelete"We the CORPORATIONS of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Yes, Citizens United killed the Tea Party too.
There are all kinds of obvious references by Sarah Palin that Obama is "not like us," meaning, rednecks, but I found it odd one time when she made a point to say that he was half-black, half-white.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point? He and the public choose to recognize him as Black. Nothing wrong with that.
Is mixed blood all the more to be mistrustful? Todd isn't all White, even though he looks it. And he's only 'native' when it is politically convenient for Sarah to hold some sort of badge of diversity under her non-existent belt.
Tip for Real American's out there, as long as you follow your hateful, racist and misogynistic rhetoric with the label of a "Patriot," you are held harmless.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye you bullshit populist movement. You had no credibility. That you weren't vocal during Bush's borrow, spend and death empire proves it.
Well, the article seems to indicate the Tea Party is only "dead" at the national level, but remains highly engaged in local and state issues. Which are the levels that have the most direct impact on our daily lives. They've certainly made an impact in my own County...got their candidates elected for County Commission, their candidate elected for State Rep, and managed to get a public space project that numerous organizations had been working on for years totally scrapped.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to the day when Fox News is irrelevant and dead.
ReplyDeleteWe have some one in our town driving around with this kind of crap plastered on their 'pick-em up truck'
ReplyDeleteI see it at Walmart all the time as I DRIVE BY that entertainment center.
Another red neck resident always has 4x8 plywood signs on his truck around campaign time and finally got his ass busted for illegally placed/over size signs, ya think!
OBAMA 2012
to the moon newt to the moon!
Make sure to watch the last 10 seconds and then spread it everywhere!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPz2RJBt3e8&feature=player_embedded
That's not beige. It's "salmon". All Alaskans know salmon!
ReplyDeleteThis is from The Blaze - Beck's blog!!
ReplyDelete"What’s the first thing that came to mind when you heard that Rick Santorum‘s special needs child was in the hospital with pneumonia late last month? I bet all of Mitt Romney‘s money it wasn’t Sarah Palin unless you are Sarah Palin.
In an op-ed for “Newsweek,” a magazine she loves to hate, Palin ever so delicately tied her experience raising her son Trig, who has Down syndrome, to Santorum.
Of the roughly 900-word article, 123 of them relate to Santorum and his daughter Bella who was born with Trisomy 18, a disability similar to Down syndrome.
It’s all downhill from there. For more perspective, the names “Rick” and “Santorum” appear three times total and are all found in the first paragraph. The word “my,” in reference to Palin herself, appears 15 times throughout the rest. I didn’t bother searching for “I” and “I’ve.”"
The c4p gang are not amused.
Forgot the link.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/02/06/somehow-santorums-family-troubles-relate-to-sarah-palin/
Can we assume they served their purpose and are now being hung out to dry.....like the girfriend who was good in bed for awhile but is no longer needed......cause the wife caught wind of it......
ReplyDeleteSarah on ReGreta:
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She can barely keep her eyes open, she looks so stoned.
The TP movement was always dead; it was a movement of death. It was a Koch-astro-turfed movement with few real participants, in which She Who Will Not Be Named lead the zombies on parade with their racist gun-totin' chants & signs. People died. And then there's dear Gabby, now in recovery.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama Makes The Case For Second Term
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Rt8d4aAJs&feature=player_embedded
Thanks for the link to Palin's appearance last night. I can't listen to her talk for more than a few minutes. She never can put a subject with a predicate. It's too painful to listen to the disorder of her mind, and think that anyone pays for it or watches it voluntarily. Seriously, tapes of Palin should be shown in prisons as punishment.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama Will Be Vindicated
ReplyDeleteAs Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker: “Obama didn’t remake Washington. But his first two years stand as one of the most successful legislative periods in modern history. Among other achievements, he has saved the economy from depression, passed universal health care, and reformed Wall Street.”
So when are President Obama’s critics, people like Paul Krugman and Mitt Romney, going to offer President Obama an apology? Both have often loudly predicted that he made the economy worse and was putting America on the wrong economic path. Both are being proved wrong by the economic comeback we are in. I mention them not to pick on Krugman, who I respect or even on Romney (who I regard as a vapid twit bought and paid for by corporate interests) but to make a point: President Obama is going to have the last laugh on his critics, no matter what ideological spectrum they hail from.
President Obama is succeeding in spite of the fact that he’s been up against a Republican Party willing to destroy the economy in order to destroy him.
As the New Yorker notes:
“Two well-known Washington political analysts, Thomas Mann, of the bipartisan Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, agree. In a forthcoming book about Washington dysfunction, ‘It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,’ they write, ‘One of our two major parties, the Republicans, has become an insurgent outlier—ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime, scornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.’"
We all know the Right's critique of the President has failed. Rush Limbaugh did not get his wish! But what of the Left? The tone of the criticism of the President on lefty blogs has been persistently negative and none too prescient. According to his critics on the Left President Obama "sold out to Wall Street." He didn't "bring the change he promised," he "is just like the Republicans," etc., etc.
And I'm not even counting the shrillest voices on the Left and Right who have accused President Obama of either/or undermining national security -- by being a "secret terror-codling Muslim" -- or using drones to "murder civilians," because "he is just like the Republicans and part of the corporatist elite."
I happen to be a white 59-year-old former Republican. I happen to be a former religious right leader who came to my senses in the mid 1980s ...
http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2012/02/president-obama-will-be-vindicated.html
Bagger Rethug Joe 'Deadbeat Dad' Walsh (IL) has an excellent Dem challenger for his seat.
ReplyDeleteMartin Bashir interviewed Lt. Col Tammy Duckworth yesterday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#46285149
OT: Gryph you have to see the latest Greta video: Screech has a new shag mullet and the dogsled crap is gone but there is a new vase with new dried crap in it. Piper must have been dispatched to the clearance aisle at Michaels again.
ReplyDeletehttp://sarahpalinblog.typepad.com/sarah_palin/2012/02/palin-on-the-record-2612.html
Sarah was stoned and nodding off on Greta last night! She's getting really bold and brazen with her drug use. She thinks no one will call her out on it, just like her fake pregnancy! Disgusting! I guess Fox doesn't drug test their employees? Is Fox not a drug-free workplace?
ReplyDeleteAnon@4:35 AM - Yes, it's much more worse than being "full-blooded", miscegenation being an "abomination".
ReplyDeleteAs far as Todd's ethnic origins - I'm not sure what his ethnic make up is percentage wise, but he is white enough that he doesn't really "look" Yupik. Because we know the Palins could give a shit about ethnic minorities, including the Native American populations (cookies for the starving, anyone?), I can only guess that he grew up in the atmosphere where money transforms the mentality into one of disassociation from that minority status - ie, when you look in the mirror in the morning - you see and identify as a white person!
The only time it matters to you then is when there's a special government funded program designated for minorities, or it makes you look "cool"(get votes, grifted $$$)- then you can't get in line fast enough. IMO - the Palins and all their extended KKKlan have all been feeding at the trough of tax payer funded programs, for years!
I'd also be willing to bet Chuck and Sally Heath, as well as the Palins, enjoyed plenty of all kinds public benefits back in the day, at one time or another! Just like being a Union member, just like being members of a domestic terrorist group for years! When it is auspicious to suddenly be in opposition to it - voila! That's who the Palins are!
I'd also bet if Fish and Game went into the Heaths and Palins homes and matched up all the pelts and bones of all the dead animals (other than poor dead pets)- they won't match with the # of legal permits they were issued to take game! I don't believe that bullshit that all the bones and antlers in that mountain of death Chuck has in his back yard is from just "collecting" them because he likes biology! More like illegal taking of game or a weird kinky sexual fetish. They were for having friends, wives, gfs obtain tags so the men could take more game than legally allowed - before they were against it (Wooten/Molly).
If the Tea Party is dead at the national level, it is only because the Koch brothers decided to shift their substantial millions in manipulation money away from this astro-turfed movement, and directly into the Romney campaign. Their political investment plan from the get-to was for the Tea Party campaign to be the right wing's appetizer (providing a feeding frenzy for their lower ranks), and the fall republican campaign to be its main course (providing satiation for the 1%). Let's all hope their menu plan backfires, big time. If not, we'll all be left with a bad taste in our mouths.
ReplyDeleteI have found watching the Tea Party and the candidates amusing. The more they seem themselves reflected in the candidates, the less they like what they see. So far they don't seem to be catching on to the problem.
ReplyDeleteOK, am I bad to be finding so much satisfaction in the DISsatisfaction that is being cried in this article (by this guy who I can't stand, but he seems to have a lot of people's ears on the Right...even contributes on CNN). They are fit to be tied with their choices for a candidate and they are not being quiet about it. They are still waiting for their winner to show up...fat chance. Anyway, be warned, it is rightwinger territory, but the article kinda made my day. This is the guy who is supposed to 'rally the troops' and drum up enthusiasm. If this is 'rallying'...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/02/06/the-sweet-meteor-of-death-2012/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQqQzYUJeVg&feature=player_embedded
I can tell you that tea party candidates, unfortunately, are VERY alive in LOCAL governments in PA - in particular in local school boards where they have vowed to cut every program in local schools that are not tested by the state NCLB testing. Music- OUT! Art - OUT! Technology - OUT! Languages - OUT! History - OUT! Geography - OUT! (Why tea partiers would cut Languages, History, and Geography??? Hmm, can't figure)
ReplyDeleteThey are leaving football, wrestling, and boys basketball intact, though. (Sorry, girls, tea partiers don't think your sports are more important than Geography or Band)
RIP Tea Party
ReplyDeleteYour services are no longer needed, you are the missing link.... bubbeye!
OT. President Obama is turning to Super Pacs now, to "level the playing field". So if you're a democrat and a 1 percenter, please give and give often.
Will the last one with principles to leave the room, please shut the lights?
If conservative influence has waned, there's little question as to the cause: the movement has been hijacked by a gaggle of low IQ dullards whose only claim to conservatism is their high octane flag-waving, their phony religious moralizing, their abandonment of reason, their skepticism of well-established science and their positively magical belief in the power of tax cuts to solve all our problems.
ReplyDelete...and as to their 'sweep' of the 2010 elections,all that those people had going for them were their pitchforks and arrogance -- no constructive ideas, no realistic proposals, no imaginative new plans to reinvigorate the economy. And now many of those tea partiers who were swept into office on a wave of anti-incumbent fever are facing ejection themselves, some possibly in recall elections.