Official Tea party?

[Wild Cobra]

Tea Party gets official caucus

First two paragraphs:

A House committee has approved the creation of an official Tea Party Caucus, triggering praise from an outspoken Republican but creating a dilemma for some of her colleagues.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a favorite of the Tea Party movement, tweeted on Monday that the House Administration Committee had signed off on her request to form the Tea Party Caucus. Kyle Anderson, a spokesman for the panel headed by Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.), confirmed that it cleared Bachmann’s paperwork.

[Stringer_Bell]

Bachmann. Another deluded, opportunistic loon. This is just what the Tea Party needed...not! Don't blame the MSM when tea stops flowing, blame the ty politicians attaching themselves to it and acting and spokespeople.

[boutons_deux]

Will tea baggers ever vote differently from Repugs?

Will tea baggers ever vote FOR something along with the Dems?

Will tea baggers ever vote against Wall St or Big Business?

[Winehole23]

What took so long?

[Winehole23]

[ChumpDumper]

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a favorite of the Tea Party movement

That's all anyone needs to know about the Tea Party movement.

[beachwood]

That's all anyone needs to know about the Tea Party movement.

Exactly.

[spursncowboys]

Bachmann. Another deluded, opportunistic loon. This is just what the Tea Party needed...not! Don't blame the MSM when tea stops flowing, blame the ty politicians attaching themselves to it and acting and spokespeople.

how is bachmann not a tea party conservative?

[Stringer_Bell]

how is bachmann not a tea party conservative?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/us...ics/22tea.html

“We’re not the mouthpiece,” said Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who is chairwoman of the caucus. “We are not taking the Tea Party and controlling it from Washington, D.C. We are also not here to vouch for the Tea Party or to vouch for any Tea Party organizations or to vouch for any individual people or actions, or billboards or signs or anything of the Tea Party.”

“We are the receptacle,” she added.

Like a garbage receptacle?

She would not elaborate on how the group would move forward — whether, for instance, the Tea Party Caucus would offer legislation of its own or whether its members would work collectively for or against bills put forward by any political party.

I suppose you're right, SnC, she's the PERFECT example of the MSM's Tea Party. A whole lotta noise with no real plan of action. The MSM Tea Party can keep her.

[LnGrrrR]

Bachmann is a loony nut.

[Nbadan]

...so are the teabaggers...perfect fit...

[Winehole23]

When Kentucky US Senate candidate Rand Paul said that if elected he would seek to join forces with Tea Party-minded senators like Jim DeMint (SC), and possibly current senate candidates like Mike Lee of Utah and Sharron Angle of Nevada, former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-MS) told the Washington Post, “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples.” Warning of any such possible bloc of rogue Republican senators, Lott added “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”



You have to give Lott credit for his honesty. The long established process of becoming a respected Republican on Capitol Hill is for politicians to mouth conservative rhetoric in order to get elected, and then to advance their careers by supporting every bit of big government legislation favored by their party. If some honest conservative dared to criticize such behavior, talk radio and the right-wing media would always have that Republican’s back, pointing out that the Democrats were always worse, helping to insure that politician’s re-election. This scenario describes Lott’s entire career and it should be no surprise that he now works as a Capitol Hill lobbyist. Lott’s common brand of Republicanism, always masquerading as “conservatism,” reached new heights during the George W. Bush years and survives today as the rump of the Republican Party—members of which still offer no apologies for their past behavior.


When Tea Partiers now go after Republicans like Senator Bob Bennett, or give Senator Lindsey Graham holy at a town hall, mainstream pundits like to call the movement too “extreme” while scratching their heads and asking, “but aren’t these ‘conservative Republicans ?” Answer: No. They never were, and this is a truth grassroots conservatives finally seem to be waking up to.

Read more: http://www.amconmag.com/tactv/2010/0...-party-caucus/

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Where do Repugs/conservatives/tea baggers find so many totally ed-up wimmen politicians?

mama grizzly, Angle, Brewer, Bachmann, Carly, plus all the hate media es.

[EVAY]

This Tea Party caucus would seem to me to play right into the hands of Democrats by ins utionalizing the split in the Republican Caucus.

Will Tea Partiers no longer caucus with Republicans?

[boutons_deux]

Dems' great hope for Nov is that tea party, which its split self is holding TWO different jerkoff demonstrations on 9/12 in DC, will split/confuse/dissuade the non-Dem voters.

[Winehole23]

Will Tea Partiers no longer caucus with Republicans?

Boehner twitting Tea Partiers for the supposed "anarchists" in the their ranks and slighting them as akin to "special-interest" caucuses, little doubt established some rhetorical distance. Suggesting the split is ins utional is a bit precocious IMO, but the fault line does seem to be visible.

Bandera and 1604, near the Target:

[Wild Cobra]

Will tea baggers ever vote differently from Repugs?

Sure. They won't vote as a RINO does.

Will tea baggers ever vote FOR something along with the Dems?

No. The demonrats are liberal. The tea party is conservative.

Will tea baggers ever vote against Wall St or Big Business?

No, only the demontrats and lib s believe in stealing from the rich.

[George Gervin's Afro]

Sure. They won't vote as a RINO does.

No. The demonrats are liberal. The tea party is conservative.

No, only the demontrats and lib s believe in stealing from the rich.

as opposed to stealing from the poor..

[DarrinS]

Where do Repugs/conservatives/tea baggers find so many totally ed-up wimmen politicians?

mama grizzly, Angle, Brewer, Bachmann, Carly, plus all the hate media es.

[Stringer_Bell]

as opposed to stealing from the poor..

Um, the whole point of being poor is that they have nothing. How can the GOP take anything from people who have nothing to start with? I think the Tea Party wants to take from career politicians and give to people that will get 'er done!

[rjv]

at this point the tea party is an amorphous abstraction that has no real parameters other than to stand in opposition to the left, declare itself "conservative" and distance itself from the GOP indirectly but not in any wholesale manner whatsoever. ultimately it will dissolve into the GOP like 'water dissolves into water'.

[DMX7]

Will tea baggers ever vote against Wall St or Big Business?

No, only the demontrats and lib s believe in stealing from the rich.

Is regulation stealing from the rich?

And LOL "demontrats", pun fail.

[Parker2112]

Nothing but buffoons here...

we all have a huge interest in developing a burning desire to take back our govt before its too late. For those "career politicians," the required state for their survival is infighting and division. Fools cant avoid the chance to heave insults at the supposed opposition, while we are all on the receiving end of massive abuses by those who cheer you on.

Stop looking for differences, and start looking at the common condition in this crumbling country. Then maybe we might salvage a future for the USA.

[boutons_deux]

"take back our govt"

ain't ever gonna happen, the govt belongs to corps and capitalists.

America is ed, and un able.

[Winehole23]

Stop looking for differences, and start looking at the common condition in this crumbling country. Then maybe we might salvage a future for the USA.

There's a thread for that on page one. Why don't you join the buffoons over there?