I think we have to admit that McCain does bare some resemblance to Smeagol.
I think the problem with the Tea Partiers is that they see it as being their way or nothing. I understand their perspective and conviction but I think the issue is that they want to do it ALL at once. No compromise, every vote they make must include everything they think has to be done for the next 20 years of government. I think the problem is if we do it their way the whole economy is going to come crashing down. People compl
The lack of compromise is one thing but my issue with most if them is an apparent lack of sense. Yes we all hate raising taxes but they don't seem to understand simple economics where cutting costs can only do so much without increasing revenue.
We're seeing what was predicted two or three years ago. The Tea Party is poisonous to the Republicans, not the Democrats. It's pretty clear that Boehner is at maximum frustration level, and I think it's beginning to dawn on mainline and moderate Republicans that the Tea Party tail is now wagging the GOP dog. There's a level of hysterical irrationality about the Tea Party that is now coming into full view. They're not interested in governing at all.
I'm sure the White House has a long list of contingencie
One of my high school friends is a strong Tea Party supporter and she was upset that they media portayed them as "silly" and "hypocrits" when they first started holding their rallies and protests. She asked me if I thought she was silly. Based on the signs I saw at the rallies, I responded "Yes". But I supported her right to protest. She didn't understand the "hypocrit" label even when I explained that years earlier the same Tea Party people were labeling war protestors as "unpatriotic" and questioning the war protestors right to protest. She never grasped the irony.
The problem isn't so much that they're "hypocrits" [sic] as that they're gullible, ignorant, illiterate morons begging to be used as tools by the worst elements of the corporate-media complex. (i.e."True Americans")
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We're seeing what was predicted two or three years ago. The Tea Party is poisonous to the Republicans, not the Democrats. It's pretty clear that Boehner is at maximum frustration level, and I think it's beginning to dawn on mainline and moderate Republicans that the Tea Party tail is now wagging the GOP dog. There's a level of hysterical irrationality about the Tea Party that is now coming into full view. They're not interested in governing at all.
I'm sure the White House has a long list of contingencie
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The problem isn't so much that they're "hypocrits" [sic] as that they're gullible, ignorant, illiterate morons begging to be used as tools by the worst elements of the corporate-media complex. (i.e."True Americans")