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GOP leaders remove 4 from plum House committees

head of joaquin said:
I hope this fairy tale keeps you warm at night. Meantime, the GOP can only become more and more extreme, more and more freakish, with subliterate weirdos like Palin in the lead.

The rightwing noise machine doesn't have an off switch.
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Conservative teenagers have replaced their Farrah Fawcett poster with Sarah Palin posters. You will just have to deal with it and the fact that the Super Sarah action figure will be made by non-unionized workers in China.
 
I see the Tea Party as the extreme wing of the Republican Party, not unlike the extreme left was for the Dems after LBJ. The struggle between winning and standing for 'your principles' didn't go well for the Dems- doesn't seem to be going very well for the Repubs now.

A measure of the strength the Tea Party has was seen in the Congressional races. In both houses the GOP lost seats. This is significant because many key Tea Party players were tepid toward the Presidential race but swore great efforts to turn Congress Red. Senator DeMint was quite vocal about concentrating his efforts on the Senate races and the GOP lost two seats! Have not heard much from the usually not so shy DeMint!

Karl Rove is not known for accepting personal responsibility when things go south but his extremely expensive efforts to turn key races for the GOP was a bad flop.

While some will continue the 'Takers have won' or the 'gifts won' the GOP sounds like it is at least starting to study the loss past talking points.

The public stance on the cliff sounds tough and unrepentent, but I see signs it is a front... time will tell and we don't seem to have a bunch of that left.
 
head of joaquin said:
Subliteracy and xenophobia, with a dollop of debt fetishism, is the GOP conscience. Perfect.
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head of joaquin said:
He's the boss of the GOP. Get used to it. Anybody in the GOP who bucks him will be denounced by Limbaugh and his gang of subliterates and they'll lose the next primary.
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head of joaquin said:
I hope this fairy tale keeps you warm at night. Meantime, the GOP can only become more and more extreme, more and more freakish, with subliterate weirdos like Palin in the lead.

The rightwing noise machine doesn't have an off switch.
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Wow. Looks like an old troll learned himself a new word.
 
Cardinal Fang said:
That's a laugh. Key Limbaugh/Beck demographic...

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it is amusing that someone whose posts constantly advocate collectivist/statist values would accuse conservatives of being parrots. but I agree, there is a better illustration of those who vote for statist/progressive/socialists


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notquiteright said:
I see the Tea Party as the extreme wing of the Republican Party, not unlike the extreme left was for the Dems after LBJ. The struggle between winning and standing for 'your principles' didn't go well for the Dems- doesn't seem to be going very well for the Repubs now.

A measure of the strength the Tea Party has was seen in the Congressional races. In both houses the GOP lost seats. This is significant because many key Tea Party players were tepid toward the Presidential race but swore great efforts to turn Congress Red. Senator DeMint was quite vocal about concentrating his efforts on the Senate races and the GOP lost two seats! Have not heard much from the usually not so shy DeMint!

Karl Rove is not known for accepting personal responsibility when things go south but his extremely expensive efforts to turn key races for the GOP was a bad flop.

While some will continue the 'Takers have won' or the 'gifts won' the GOP sounds like it is at least starting to study the loss past talking points.

The public stance on the cliff sounds tough and unrepentent, but I see signs it is a front... time will tell and we don't seem to have a bunch of that left.
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The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
 
apdst said:
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
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I think that, more than anything else, is what we are seeing right now.

The GOP hopped on the Tea Party bandwagon in the hope that it would bring votes and in 2010 it did just that but then the GOP discovered that some of those who were elected were actually serious about getting some of the changes made. At that point the GOP had a choice to make; they could adopt a true fiscally Conservative agenda and stand against Stateism or they could try to play the middle again and ride the coat tails of their new found "base". They chose the latter and a whole lot of Conservatives bailed. It was really pretty reminiscent of the way that the GOP bailed on Conservatives in the 90's because they were afraid of causing too much bad blood by going after Clinton.

Unfortunately, the GOP are not fighters. The Democrats have no qualms whatsoever about gouging your eyes out or kicking you in the nuts if they think they might get an advantage that way but for some reason the GOP just curls up into a ball when the fight comes their way.
 
Lutherf said:
I think that, more than anything else, is what we are seeing right now.

The GOP hopped on the Tea Party bandwagon in the hope that it would bring votes and in 2010 it did just that but then the GOP discovered that some of those who were elected were actually serious about getting some of the changes made. At that point the GOP had a choice to make; they could adopt a true fiscally Conservative agenda and stand against Stateism or they could try to play the middle again and ride the coat tails of their new found "base". They chose the latter and a whole lot of Conservatives bailed. It was really pretty reminiscent of the way that the GOP bailed on Conservatives in the 90's because they were afraid of causing too much bad blood by going after Clinton.

Unfortunately, the GOP are not fighters. The Democrats have no qualms whatsoever about gouging your eyes out or kicking you in the nuts if they think they might get an advantage that way but for some reason the GOP just curls up into a ball when the fight comes their way.
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We need fighters...why is there only a few to stand up?
 
Rapunzel52 said:
Yeah, their only concern is the lining of their own pockets and staying in power.
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I don't know so much about the lining their pockets part. Sure, there is some of that going on but from what I have seen it's more of an ego thing than anything else. Some of these people really get off on the title and on being the "go to" person for stuff. They love (and I mean LOVE) the attention they get. They seem to be swayed more by "helping" people than anything else but the concept of what is and isn't "help" is horribly skewed. They pick and choose who they are going to lend a hand to based on the political leverage it gives them and if "help" means that more people are going to "need" them then they are all for dishing out that assistance. It's all very touchy feely but in the kind of way that makes you wonder if the ultimate goal is to bend you over and butt rape you.

I was heavily involved in a particular campaign this year (at the state level) and must say that I met very few candidates from either party that didn't make me want to use a brillo pad during my next shower.
 
Good news indeed. There are still plenty of reasonable people left within the GOP and they must regain control of the party from the rabid idiots.
 
apdst said:
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
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No, the tea party represents the radical religious right. that is a faction that is not only fading, but people are also getting tired of. From personhood amendments, to restriction of marriage rights, to the removal of protections from discrimination, and even right down to being some of the most ignorant fools like bachman and Alan West the tea party is really nothing more than ignorant loud mouth tyrants who want us all to be forced to pray to jesus every day. This is why the tea party only cames in in religious areas, and why they will never be strong. The GOP seems to be pulling away from them. The tea party most certainly is not for the working class as they overwhelmingly vote to remove protections for workers and to allow the rich to take advantage of everyone. it is not terribly surprising considering they were hijacked by people like Rove to be the loud obnoxious arm of the right wing.

Now part of the GOP is realizing if you accept the american taliban into your ranks you have to deal with every crazy thing they say, and you have to continually go more and more right until you are pretty much asking for papers and running anyone who isn't white and christian out of town. Have you ever seen the tea party gatherings? The last time i saw that many pasty white people crammed into one area was a klan video.

Sorry guys, but the tea party is over. They can keep having their meetings and donating to their PACs, but it is all just a method to strip them of their money and power and place it into the hands of the GOP who will be catering to them less and less. But if i am wrong then let us make a law opening up the books of PACs and seeing where their donation monies end up going, and who owns them. personally i would love to see how the tea party ends up ruling. the comedy would be amazing if we could give them some unowned patch of land to destroy. Without any minorities or dems to blame they would turn on themselves. It is part of the blame culture. there will always be problems, but people in the tea party do not want to own up to them so they blame everyone else. Could you imagine screwed up tea party land without an Obama to hate? They would be shooting each other in the streets and starting up purity groups to war with each other. It would look a lot like the middle east.

this is why no one wants the tea party but the tea party. Even the republicans grow tired of their crap.
 
It is discouraging to see that the braying loons actually believe that if Obama can just steal a few more bucks from somebody, that their free ride is going to continue.

The election is over, why would Obama or anyone else care what you get or don't get? Why list all the names of the Americans that you believe are stealing your rightful entitlement as a border crosser. You are of no further use to anybody on either side. Some of these clowns sound like they come from countries where subliteracy has been elevated to an art form alongside shrieking victimhood. Silly, silly, silly.
 
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apdst said:
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
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You mean the other 47% that did not vote for Obama :)
 
I see the Tea Party as representing a small group of rather bi-polar men (most of whom can't stay out in the sun very long in the summer) who rant about smaller less intrusive Gubmint for THEM, but pushing hard for Gubmint to go knee deep into the lives of women.

Rather than stand up for workers they seem to side with big business and rolling back benefits.

There are enough facets to the Tea Party- from pure astro-turf to real lemonaide stand outfits- to attempt to provide cover for whatever you think the Tea Party should stand for but bottomline is the rest of us see it as angry old white guys who do hate anyone not like them.

It does seem to be a continuation of the Religious Right movement, just adding taxes and a strong anti-immigrant stance to broaden the base. It is very discouraging to me, a former moderate Republican, to see so much energy put into restricting women's rights and hailing stay at home mothers over strong business women in the GOP.

But again the loss of seats in the Senate after DeMint declared his heart and soul was in turning the Senate Red, Karl Rove's miserable results and the Republicans losing seats in the far more populous House tells me the Tea Party message is too harsh and too intrusive for regular citizens.

That is a comfort to me... and yes I pay taxes
 
TurtleDude said:
it is amusing that someone whose posts constantly advocate collectivist/statist values would accuse conservatives of being parrots.
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Not surpising at all that someone whose posts represent the very worst of right-wing self-aggrandizing greed and disdain would put up a picture of pigs.

TurtleDude said:
...but I agree, there is a better illustration of those who vote for statist/progressive/socialists
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It's also a copyrighted image belonging to Masterfile Corporation. I assume that Mr. Lawyer was careful to negotiate and pay for the rights to use that image before posting it. Or is he just a common criminal, given that the watermark would have been removed from a properly licensed copy?
 
Cardinal Fang said:
Not surpising at all that someone whose posts represent the very worst of right-wing self-aggrandizing greed and disdain would put up a picture of pigs.


It's also a copyrighted image belonging to Masterfile Corporation. I assume that Mr. Lawyer was careful to negotiate and pay for the rights to use that image before posting it. Or is he just a common criminal, given that the watermark would have been removed from a properly licensed copy?
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Hit too close to home I suspect. collectivism is a diseaese and demanding tax schemes to slake one's own sense of failure is pathetic
 
apdst said:
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
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If that were true, then the GOP would have nominated a tea party member to represent them. Guess what, they didn't.
 
Ray410 said:
The election is over, why would Obama or anyone else care what you get or don't get?
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Because Obama, suprise, is part of the establishment that is the current political machine that is composed of lifelong politicians (such as the Dem and GOP) that care only about their future pocket lining of their party.

This election was not about who was better for the job, but who will control where the pie is given to. Anyone who actually thought things would change for the better with a Romney or Obama presidency are sadly mislead. Until people wake up to the fact that the Dem/Rep duopoly have failed America, nothing will change. Only the recipients of the pie will change.
 
TheNextEra said:
If that were true, then the GOP would have nominated a tea party member to represent them. Guess what, they didn't.
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So the democratic party is represented by Nancy Pelosi? That is the end all be all Democrat?
 
Blue_State said:
So the democratic party is represented by Nancy Pelosi? That is the end all be all Democrat?
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No, Obama is right now. Which is why I haven't been a registered Dem in over two decades because they have picked people to represent the Dems that I don't agree with.
 
TheNextEra said:
No, Obama is right now. Which is why I haven't been a registered Dem in over two decades because they have picked people to represent the Dems that I don't agree with.
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Obama is an easy pick, but I went with Pelosi because she is on the same level with the tea partiers. They haven't elevated out of the house. But BO is a fine pick as well.
 
tererun said:
GOP leaders remove 4 from plum House committees - Yahoo! News

Looks like republicans may have had enough from the tea party. Could the republicans be ready to cave and increase taxes on the wealthy? Might we actually get a true conservative proposal involving less spending all around, and some increased revenue from the rich and spoiled? Have the republicans actually learned a lesson from this past election?
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One lesson they did not learn... all the House committee chairs are all white men. Not one single woman or minority.
 
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