Why The Tea Party Lives On

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[Lancecastor]

I heard them live a few times, they're okay.

 

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[SgtSpiderMan]

Why the Tea Party Lives On

Full of complex spending schemes and special-interest giveaways, the fiscal-cliff deal shows that government just can’t stop getting bigger.

By Michael Hirsh
Updated: January 2, 2013 | 6:17 p.m.
January 2, 2013 | 4:55 p.m


From the article:


"Crazies. Cliff divers. Nihilists. Nutjobs. Those are just a few of the descriptions being applied to the 151 House Republicans who broke with Speaker John Boehner—they included his own supposed wing men, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Whip Kevin McCarthy—to vote against the fiscal cliff deal Tuesday night.

In truth, what the fine print of the bill demonstrates is that the Republicans who refused to vote for the fiscal compromise had every right to be disgusted by it—that is, if you expect legislators to hold true at all to the beliefs that inspired them to run for office in the first place. The last-minute deal exposed Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as creatures of the old system, and it ripped the scab off whatever healing had occurred between the Republican traditionalists and the tea partiers since then. Make no mistake: The divide within the GOP will continue, demonstrating that the tea-party rebellion lives on in the new House.
(RELATED: How the Tea Party Raised Taxes)

Tuesday’s “no” votes represented a wide variety of views. But many GOP House members were appalled at the failure to cut spending or change traditional ways of doing business, especially what The Washington Post noted was “dozens of rider provisions that had nothing to do with the cliff” (including one that kicked over $12 billion over ten years to the renewable-energy industry; another that will benefit the owners of auto-racing tracks in the amount of $78 million; and a $1 million break for coal-mining operations on Indian lands). The House members opposed to this old way—as naïve as they often sound—make up the core of a legitimate resistance movement in American politics, one that is trying to stop the relentless tendency of U.S. government to grow ever larger and more complex, and one that remains frustrated at the continuing inability of its representatives, both Republican and Democrat, to rein that tendency in.
Under the provisions of this pork-laden, special-interest-infected bill—the “24,000 words of small type,” as the Post put it—the tax system will change, somewhat. Spending habits will not. Other than making permanent most of the Bush tax cuts, the bill only puts off a reckoning on cuts in government and the $15 trillion in debt that the tea partiers have been chasing after since they roared into power in 2010—indeed since far longer than that.

Fault them if you will as primitivist monomaniacs. Question whether they are sincere enough to surrender their own Social Security and Medicare as well as everyone else's. But many tea party-affiliated members are true believers who have a long memory of Republican betrayal as well as enmity toward the Democrats. They know that despite the “Reagan revolution” three decades ago government has only grown bigger; that the various eruptions of conservative rebellion since the Reagan era, including the Gingrich-led takeover of the House in 1994, each amounted to little more than one step forward, two steps back. (Remember David Stockman and The "Triumph of Politics"?) They know that George W. Bush blew the budget out entirely, loading up the deficit with two wars, tax cuts and Medicare spending without paying for them. (Obama barely added to this deficit himself; his mistake was in failing to understand the tidal wave of populist conservative anger headed his way, especially when he pushed for health care reform hard upon his multitrillion-dollar bailout and stimulus in 2009.)

More here:

http://nationaljournal.com/congress-legacy/why-the-tea-party-lives-on-20130102

The Tea Party loves a big government.

 

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[julybaby04]

The Tea Party loves a big government.

...nope

 

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[Lancecastor]

 

[koalabear]

Spidy loves a big lie.

Sgt.Gomer just loves any one that responds to his retarded posts.

 

[mercury14]

Stupid comparison to a household budget.

The Federal Budget is nothing like a household budget because the government can print money. And a household budget doesn't have debt largely because other families are taking out treasury notes from it.

But low-information people like things to be dumbed down as much as possible whenever reality requires a degree of thinking to analyze.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It would appear that there is a somewhat significant number of Americans who are taxed and allowed no representation in the Halls of Congress, that is abundantly clear in the light of this grand gesture towards those with half a sense of economic propriety...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Tea Party loves a big government.

What is your supporting evidence or is bromide the sophism of the day?

 

[mercury14]

It would appear that there is a somewhat significant number of Americans who are taxed and allowed no representation in the Halls of Congress, that is abundantly clear in the light of this grand gesture towards those with half a sense of economic propriety...

Who??

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No one is talking to you moron...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And here I just thought folks liked tea.


Chai tea is a recent discovery of mine.


I switched over to the 1775 Navy jack when they appropriated the Gadsden flag, the selfish fucks.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And here I just thought folks liked tea.


Chai tea is a recent discovery of mine.


I switched over to the 1775 Navy jack when they appropriated the Gadsden flag, the selfish fucks.

I prefer Ti Kwan Yin. It does not get bitter and yields several infusions, so while it may cost slightly more initially, over time, it is the most economical.



I let my freak flag fly...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I prefer Ti Kwan Yin. It does not get bitter and yields several infusions, so while it may cost slightly more initially, over time, it is the most economical.



I let my freak flag fly...

I'll have to give that a go.


I may forget and have to ask again.


Stimulus resumes today.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Just remember the name, Kwan Yin, the Goddess of mercy.


It is also native to Taiwan.


Free China.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yeah . . . Formosa . . . .


Formosa my life, that is a forgotten name.


Mercy as a woman . . . what does the horned toad say about that?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah . . . Formosa . . . .


Formosa my life, that is a forgotten name.


Mercy as a woman . . . what does the horned toad say about that?

Yes, Taipei, Formosa...

The PLA Colonel about had a cow when I used the 'F' word.

Pay your respects to the Gods and Buddhas. Do not rely on them.
Miyamoto Musashi

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I find that the Gods may be relied on, as long as you don't expect for them to do the Heavy Lifting.


There is no Tooth Fairie, but there can be Inner Peace in the midst of turmoil.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I believe the Gods deserted us long ago.

Now, I see the thriving has run out.

We did fire the first shot at them.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

We ran out on them and usurped their positions . . . and it's worked out so well.


Then the dogmatic made the rules, and that's worked out so much better.


We hear worldly clamors and let it drown out what they are trying to tell us.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The Gods are on Olympus...

...but they're too Sissy-footean to see reality. But the stone rolls on like a Comanchero truck.

Where is the Clash of these Titans when Liam and Rafe have turned human and forsaken us...

We're not Immortal, but we're hobbiting along...






*insert wink wink knowing hipster pop culture snarking laugh here*