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The Tea Party has died of hypocrisy | TheHill
"Political movements often run out of gas, but rarely do they stomp on the brakes and shift in rapid reverse. This month marks the ninth anniversary of the virtual Tea Party takeover of Congress. In 2010, more than 40 Tea Party Republicans were elected to the House promising to, among other things, lower national debt, reduce the power of the federal government, and support an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Now the Tea Party is essentially over, the movement degraded by its own hypocrisy.
Last month, the Treasury Department announced that the federal budget deficit swelled to nearly $1 trillion this year. In fact, the deficit has grown nearly 50 percent in under President Trump. But the same Tea Party that frothed about deficits under President Obama now drools slavishly at the excesses of President Trump. Suddenly, deficits no longer seem to matter. Red ink is not an organizing political principle when it is Republican red.
Or consider the Tea Party opposition to the heavy hand of the federal government, at least when that hand belonged to President Obama. His executive orders were despotic and dictatorial. "State rights!" thundered Tea Party governors, attorney generals, and state legislators. But when the Trump administration moved to revoke automobile emissions rules by the state of California, the Tea Party fell into a state of deafening silence."
Yeah soon as Trump was elected the Tea Party died. It had nothing to do with taxes... Nothing to do with a balance budget... Only thing it had to do with was a Democrat as president. In the immortal words from Cheney... Budgets don't matter
"Political movements often run out of gas, but rarely do they stomp on the brakes and shift in rapid reverse. This month marks the ninth anniversary of the virtual Tea Party takeover of Congress. In 2010, more than 40 Tea Party Republicans were elected to the House promising to, among other things, lower national debt, reduce the power of the federal government, and support an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Now the Tea Party is essentially over, the movement degraded by its own hypocrisy.
Last month, the Treasury Department announced that the federal budget deficit swelled to nearly $1 trillion this year. In fact, the deficit has grown nearly 50 percent in under President Trump. But the same Tea Party that frothed about deficits under President Obama now drools slavishly at the excesses of President Trump. Suddenly, deficits no longer seem to matter. Red ink is not an organizing political principle when it is Republican red.
Or consider the Tea Party opposition to the heavy hand of the federal government, at least when that hand belonged to President Obama. His executive orders were despotic and dictatorial. "State rights!" thundered Tea Party governors, attorney generals, and state legislators. But when the Trump administration moved to revoke automobile emissions rules by the state of California, the Tea Party fell into a state of deafening silence."
Yeah soon as Trump was elected the Tea Party died. It had nothing to do with taxes... Nothing to do with a balance budget... Only thing it had to do with was a Democrat as president. In the immortal words from Cheney... Budgets don't matter