The tea party was an important factor in the 2010 elections, but its support may be waning, according to a new CBS News poll. Today, just 15 percent of Americans say they are supporters of the tea party movement - the lowest since CBS News began asking about the tea party in February 2010. The tea party reached its highest level of support (31 percent) in November 2010, soon after the midterm elections.
The movement may be losing some of its core constituency -- Republicans. 32 percent of self-identified Republicans now consider themselves supporters of the tea party - down 10 points from February and a decline of 23 points from July 2010, the summer before the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives. The percentage of Republicans who identify as tea party supporters is now among the lowest in CBS News Polls.
I am not even sure we needed a poll to tell us this, especially after Teabagger candidates got shellacked this week.
A Salon article explains that the Tea Party has really NEVER been any different than the rank and file Republicans, and now that the name has lost its Libertarian luster they will retire it, and move on to another outraged "grassroots" movement to energize their base.
Especially now that their name is becoming synonymous with lawbreaking.
The Tea Party was always an astro-turf organization bought and paid for by Koch brother operatives. The only question is will people be caught off guard by the NEXT fake conservative political movement?
There's just no end to the assholes and their penis extenders:
ReplyDeleteTexas Open Carry group does it again, pour into another restaurant carrying weapons
On Thursday night, members of an Open Carry group in Texas pulled another stunt, this time at Sonic, a Dallas-based restaurant where the group besieged the establishment with gun toting activists.
The Texas groups just can’t help themselves. Just this past week, the Open Carry Tarrant County group descended upon a Dallas, Texas Chipotle restaurant armed with high capacity weapons. Because of their own actions, the restaurant took a stand to disallow firearms in their restaurant.
At Sonic in Dallas, Texas:
http://freakoutnation.com/2014/05/23/images-texas-open-carry-group-does-it-again-pour-into-another-restaurant-carrying-weapons/
Pro-Gun Group Backs Down After Chipotle Rally Backfires
DeleteA Texas gun rights group has notified members that they are to "immediately cease" taking shotguns and rifles into private businesses unless invited to do so, backing down from a controversial strategy that has led several large restaurant chains to ask patrons to leave their guns at home.
The organization, Open Carry Texas, is one of many groups nationwide that advocate for the right of gun owners to wear and carry firearms openly in public. Photos from a rally by supporters of the group at a Dallas-area Chipotle restaurant went viral this week, prompting the burrito chain to declare that firearms are unwelcome in its restaurants.
On Friday, The Huffington Post reported that Chili's was also reconsidering its policy after a similar rally at one of its San Antonio restaurants. Video apparently taken by a participant in the rally shows a confrontation with a woman, apparently a patron, who scolds the men for bringing large guns into a restaurant where children are eating.
In the statement, also posted on its Facebook page, Open Carry Texas acknowledged that its tactics, which are intended to encourage broader acceptance of firearms in public, were having the opposite effect. Carrying rifles and shotguns into businesses is the approach that has "gotten the most resistance and suffered the largest setbacks," the group said.
"We must once again adjust in a way that shines a positive light on our efforts, our members, and our respective organizations," the group said in the statement. "We have decided the prudent path, to further our goals, is to immediately cease taking long guns into corporate businesses unless invited."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/open-carry-texas-chipotle_n_5380338.html
Sarah's Tbagger is in hot water!
ReplyDeleteMorning Joe Pretty Sure Chris McDaniel Is Guilty of Illegal Photography
As one of the creepiest political scandals of the 21st century unfolds, Morning Joe took a look at Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel’s recent interview with a local radio show, addressing the arrest of four people involved in the illegal photographing of his opponent’s bedridden wife.
The interview, featuring a stuttering, confused McDaniel, is painful to watch, and led the Joe team to the obvious conclusion: “Oh, god,” said Mika Brzezinski, “it’s hard to watch him clearly trying to figure out how to lie.”
After some other comparisons of McDaniel to the “sweaty defendants at the end of a Perry Mason episode,” they turned their attention to the bigger story. “This is really disgusting,” Gene Robinson agreed. “He obviously was searching for a story to tell, and couldn’t make up his mind how he was going to tell the story…he had an uphill struggle against [Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)]. Maybe a chance to knock him off. I think that’s probably gone now.”
Watch below, via MSNBC:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-pretty-sure-chris-mcdaniel-is-guilty-of-illegal-photography/
Eww he really made my stomach churn while being interviewed. Some things are cut and dry, and he's trying to weasel his way out of it with lies, what a fool.
DeleteOhhhhh, Sarah (wears her Star of David when it's convenient) Palin is gonna be spittin' mad to hear this!
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu Says Obama Got Syria Right
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has some uncharacteristically positive words for one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s most controversial foreign policy initiatives: the deal struck last year to remove chemical weapons from Syria.
I met Netanyahu last Friday afternoon in his bunkerlike office in Jerusalem. During the course of our discussion, I asked him about the famous “red line” crisis -- Obama’s last-minute decision to abort a missile strike and instead negotiate the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile -- that colors so much of foreign-policy commentary today.
Netanyahu issued what was for him a full-throated endorsement of an Obama initiative, calling it “the one ray of light in a very dark region.”
“It’s not complete yet," he went on. "We are concerned that they may not have declared all of their capacity. But what has been removed has been removed. We’re talking about 90 percent. We appreciate the effort that has been made and the results that have been achieved."
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-22/netanyahu-says-obama-got-syria-right
However loopy, bigoted, incompetent, or detached from the realities of economic life the Republican Party may be, it is always just one recession away from regaining political power. It is therefore of the highest importance that sane, non-sociopathic people regain some influence within the party for when that day arrives. A cadre of Republican-affiliated intellectuals has taken up this cause.
ReplyDeleteThe challenge facing the conservative reformers is the yawning gap between their ambition — crafting a Republican platform designed to address real-world problems rather than redeem ideological fantasies — and the stark political reality of the Republican coalition. They are attempting to soothe a suspicious beast. The difficulty of the task merely serves to underscore its urgency.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/whats-my-problem-with-conservative-reformers.html
Well, sure, you wouldn’t want your kids’ eyes to be scalded by photos of a human being who’s been affiliated with 41 different charitable organizations, who regularly uses her talk show as a platform to recognize and reward deserving individuals and families, whose now apparently contentious Oscar gig helped raise $3 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Humane Society and who also brings the awesome moves to any dance party. I’m sure his holiness Pope Francis would be outraged.
ReplyDeleteBut as if the mea culpa over the sending out of the invitations wasn’t absurd enough, Principal Matteo decided to go all in, telling parents that “I need every single invitation returned and I will personally destroy them.” You’ve really got to admire the dedication of someone with such a clear-cut mission to not just apologize for putting a gay person on a mailer but to “destroy” said invitations as if they were a trove of smallpox-infested blankets. And I would certainly never speculate that, knowing what I know about the denizens of the Internet, that’s a request that might well lead to some increased mail volume this week for Ms. Matteo.
...A photograph of a gay person – a gay person, by the way, just doing her job as a television host – isn’t going to corrupt your eighth graders. And if you’re concerned about their role models, consider what they’re seeing when they see educators more concerned about division than acceptance, more interested in “personally destroying” than in creating.
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/22/catholic_school_vows_to_destroy_dance_invitations_featuring_ellen/
sorry, posted on the wrong thread, and don't know how to delete it now. sorry.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz and Sarah Palin created the demise of the Teabaggers. Yea! Both are such assholes and evil doers!
ReplyDeleteBye Sarah.
ReplyDeleteThe woman is pissed off. She knows herdays are numbered. No more living off other people's money and getting "FREE STUFF."
I like David Horsey's editorial/political cartoons, but sometimes he recycles his material: http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/5202
ReplyDeleteActually I'm surprised it's at 15%. But look at the bright side, it also means Palin's base is also shrinking along with her donations. Over the past 3-4 years SarahPAC donations have shrunk to about a third of what they were before. Also, her cult followers at Conservatives4Palin (Sea o' Pee) has also shrunk to where its always the always the same people writing the comments back and forth to each other. The ones there leaving the comments to each other probably only represents about 40-50 people. Compared to about 2-3 years ago it too has shrunk considerably. We have all been saying her 15 minutes of fame should have been over by now, but by looking at the size of her fan base you can easily see it's coming to a close.
ReplyDelete$carah, Barstool, Taod, et.al. will have to get a real job soon, since the teapot is drying up.
ReplyDeleteGOP’s trifecta of doom: How candidates, issues and culture are building a 2016 calamity
ReplyDeleteTo fully sense its crumbling apparatus, look not just at folks like Rubio and Cruz -- but also Rush and Sterling
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/23/gops_trifecta_of_doom_how_candidates_issues_and_culture_are_building_a_2016_calamity/
GOP’s “happy loser” syndrome: Why the right may not want the White House
Politico has tackled the GOP’s “extremist problem” and they’ve decided that the party is in real trouble – or, as they call it, ”losing by winning.” They point out the obvious fact that the Republicans can win elections in off-years by stoking their base but will have difficulty cobbling together a national majority to win the presidency two years later.
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/23/gops_happy_loser_syndrome_why_the_right_may_not_want_the_white_house/
"The only question is will people be caught off guard by the NEXT fake conservative political movement?"
ReplyDelete10 The same idiots that fell for it this time.
20 and the time before that
30 go to 20
How many "scandals" can the GOP come up with as the support for the Tea Party tilts and succumbs to gravity on bullshit mountain? With Obamacare, alone, gaining momentum, the GOP and it's fifty some "hearings" to "defund, repeal, replace" can't fly anymore.
ReplyDeleteI realize that political cartoons rely on exaggerated features as part of their effectiveness, but Sarah hasn't had that much body mass in the right places since she gave birth to Track. They could have slapped a dust bunny on a stick figure and everyone would recognize it's Sarah, President of Facebook and Tea Party Fluffer. It's cost the GOP a fortune and they've lost face coddling these idiots. I doubt Nancy Pelosi would give them any power to begin with, which shows the lack of leadership shown on Orange Weepy Man.