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Senate Tea Party Caucus Holds First Meeting

Catz Part Deux

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Senate Tea Party Caucus Holds First Meeting - NYTimes.com

...on Thursday it became official: Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the Tea Party patron, and the freshmen senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah held the first official gathering of the Senate Tea Party Caucus.

And the three Republicans quickly picked up a new recruit: Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin.

But other newly elected Republican senators have refused to join, including some who had Tea Party support in the fall campaign...
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Today, the back benches. Tomorrow, the presidency.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
If he wasn't allowed in, they'd only have 3 members?
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If they are going to poison their own caucus with big spending republicans just so they can have more power in the upper chamber...you know...basically what the GOP did back in the day...then **** it. Might as well just go home and BECOME the republican party.
 
Are we allowed to address the Tea Party as a single entity now? Because for all the accountability Tea Party supporters seem to be bitching about, I've yet to see anybody in the Tea Party actually take responsibility for what the supporters do.
 
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Hatuey said:
Are we allowed to address the Tea Party as a single entity now? Because for all the accountability Tea Party supporters seem to be bitching about, I've yet to see anybody in the Tea Party actually take responsibility for what the supporters do.
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Are these three individuals their hierarchy? The Tea Party needs a Michael Steele.
 
Hatuey said:
I see what you did there. Clever. Very clever.
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We all know that Rush Limbaugh is the unofficial Republican spokesidiot. But, the presence of Michael Steele allows for plausible deniability of that fact.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
why is Demint in the senate tea party caucus? I know it's open to everyone but, he shat all over the tea party...at least during the earlier years.
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I don't think the Tea Party hass been around long enough to have, "earlier years".
 
tlmorg02 said:
Are you a tea party supporter, or general republican?
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I'm a common sense Conservative. I support any politico that displays an acceptable amount of common sense.
 
apdst said:
I'm a common sense Conservative. I support any politico that displays an acceptable amount of common sense.
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Just wondering, many Conservatives of the general GOP do not like the tea party. I know Carl Rove and Gingrich seem to loath them.
 
tlmorg02 said:
Just wondering, many Conservatives of the general GOP do not like the tea party. I know Carl Rove and Gingrich seem to loath them.
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I would support a Democrat that exhibited appropriate common sense, but so far those are few and far between. I can't even think of one, actually.
 
apdst said:
I would support a Democrat that exhibited appropriate common sense, but so far those are few and far between. I can't even think of one, actually.
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I have not witnessed common sense in our political system from anyone, Democrat or Republican. Regan cut taxes and increased spending as has everyone since in some fashion.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
why is Demint in the senate tea party caucus? I know it's open to everyone but, he shat all over the tea party...at least during the earlier years.
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Are you sure that you are not confusing Senator DeMint with someone else? Off the top of my head I can't think of a senator that better personifies what it means to be a pure conservative by today's standard.

What I'm more surprised by is what senators did not join. Where were Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, just to name a few. It seems like all these senators were wise enough to ride the wave of Tea Party support to get elected, and now that they are in office they have ditched them.
 
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