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EyesOnYou 09/25/2010 04:20 PM Report
Priceless. A Healthcare Industry Lobbyist of PNAC fame is preaching us about Government Spending. Really? Where the heck where you when Bush went to war on orders from PNAC and wasted TRILLIONS?
Tea Party was hijacked by Likudniks who are pissed at Obama for his ME policies. They have joined forces with the RACISTS of Evangelical fame. Go for it. Hand the keys to White House to Likudniks.
doodah 09/21/2010 04:25 PM Report
The Tea Party is letting off stream, so The USA can live on.
NeilMacCallister 09/20/2010 03:07 PM Report
The Tea Party is a Healthcare Plan for America. It's goal is to remove the cancer cells called "lifestyle politicians" from the body of the American economy.
The Tea Party is also an educational program for the world. It shows people how their votes alone can achieve the results they need to survive, ..with no need for hatred nor violence.
Long live democracy! ..Long live this education!
robdverity 09/19/2010 04:51 PM Report
Sarah for prez
Indiana man v.prez
doodah 09/19/2010 01:11 PM Report
Upon further investigation of the "Tea Party", I think it interesting to note, that a distinction must be made between 'The Tea Party' and the 'Tea Party Express'. The latter being the 'professional political' (assuming & funding) leadership (and nothing more than the far-right of the Repugnantcan Party). And the former, being those stumbling into 'the party' (Happy New Year!!!).. That being the case, ... well, I don't want to give away too much. :-) LMAO
winter 09/17/2010 10:01 PM Report
How has the bake sale down at the church been elevated to
national politics? The candidates the teaparty is offering up are just boggling as to how they got to where they could be considered to be elected to run an entire state. And, to watch them think is like watching a Rube Goldberg contraption where every new stage is frought with a new unexpected twist -- in tortured rationality. This attrition Ralph Reed and the religious right have been seeding for decades is finally paying off for them. Goes to show what good old American persistence can do for you. I envision that when the door closes to the cameras in the more private quarters of China's leaders they're just falling on the floor with the release of all the pent up absurdity vertigo they've been fighting to hold in.
doodah 09/17/2010 04:39 PM Report
The Tea Party people are just angry frustrated Americans with all kinds of 'beliefs' (from extreme to modest) (by mainstream normal standards). The PROFESSIONAL politicians and their groupies (the media) (formerly known as, the press), and those 'benefiting' from the current economic and world situations (the financial industry, CEOs of big companies, the country clubbers, etc,), are those who are most concerned with 'defining' and anxious to 'catagorize' those unruly rascally varmits known as the 'Tea party' ("how dare they... don't they know their place?").
Sugarland & REMant KNOW MORE than Halperin & Weber.
And Fenty would make a great leader for the Tea Party. DC's biggest complaint on him was that he didn't coddle the stupid people enough. So if the Democrats don't want him, and his actions speak louder than what 'Republicans stand for'(blah blah blah)' .. I'd vote for him, before I'd vote for Big Dick Armey or Das Newt (the original, Hoot).
ShalomFreedman 09/17/2010 03:27 AM Report
Very interesting analysis. Not one word about any foreign policy matter. This perhaps indicates where American voters priorities really are.
Halperin's point about not a single Republican challenging Palin speaks to the possibility of an Obama- Palin Presidential Race. I am not sure that this is the dream of most Independent voters who disillusioned with Obama are nonetheless not infatuated with Palin.
It is somewhat surprising and in a sense sad that an Administration is not proud of its own 'achievements'.Is it because they are so broadly unpopular?
Weber's point about the Republicans running on 'No' now but having to have a future vision and program seemed to me a correct one.
Who is offering true hope and a brighter vision for the American future now, if as it would seem the American people are not particularly in love with the present President's world- view?
robdverity 09/17/2010 01:36 AM Report
Money is the main course. Tea merely helps it go down. I give the TEA types till the first piece of legislation that either of the primary oligarches (MI, Financial, Big Pharma - and Health Insurers) wish to BUY. Their corrupt little paws will shoot out in ready acceptance. So business as usual continues unabated.
They will make anarchy all the more appealing - justified.
REMant 09/16/2010 01:35 PM Report
I think these fellas have the Tea Party all wrong. Polls show they distrust Republicans as much as the Dems, so I don't see them automatically favoring the GOP, and that seems to have been borne out Tuesday. And I don't see, as the Post hopes, this as being a Godsend to the Dems. Both sides can therefore, I think, be expected to continue to try to paint them as extremists, but the only thing they are extreme about is saving money. Both parties are corrupt and spendthrift in their view (and they are right). They are not like Barry Goldwater, as Bob Schieffer opined Sunday, and this is not 1964, but even so Barry would probably fit the mood of the country better than LBJ, and especially so with the benefit of hindsight. Republicans cannot denounce big government, but not Wall St, and the Dems cannot denounce Wall St, but not the govt, anymore. The issue is not govt vs business, nor socialism vs freedom. The issue is responsibility. The Grand Old Party in particular seems to be living in another time and place. I mean how many ppl really care what Karl Rove or Newt Gingrich think? I don't see Tea Party candidates as any less electable. Perhaps more. And I'm sure where there are no Tea Party candidates, the voters will vote against the worst offenders no matter which party they represent. I was wondering if, here in DC, Fenty could pull a Crist or hook up with the Tea Party.
And I don't think these pundits are right about the Obama admin, either. In general it has tried to steer a fairly conservative course between Dem and and GOP enthusiasms. This is evident in nearly everything they've done from stimulus to war to health care. The problem has been mainly that this is not really possible, and secondly, that the programs weren't sold to the public for the compromises they were, so it has appeared they were playing politics with them. I think tho there are probably a great many praiseworthy initiatives in the departments and agencies that nearly no one knows about and I expect to see more in the next two years. Fortunately or unfortunately, the majority are oblivious to most of this and only bailouts, the Middle East and health care will have any impact in Nov.
Sugarland 09/16/2010 01:05 PM Report
Comment Charlie Rose 17 SEPT 2010
The suggestion by power broker Vin Weber that the Republican Party may be able to co-opt the Tea Party movement by supplying themes of smaller government and lower taxes could prove disastrous to both the Country and the Republicans.
The broad mosaic of people in the Tea Party are in the early stages of getting their arms around what is really troubling them and how to state the problem. One possibility, that it is not with elected office holders, but with a system that gives non-elected people, often hidden from public view, the power to radically alter the lives of all of us. The old “concentrate the wealth of many into the hands of a few” scheme. The idea that banksters and elite CEO’s run the country for their own well being.
If that is the case, then it would behoove us to let the Tea party find it’s own footing, present it’s own solutions to the problem and let the country decide.
On inauguration day, President Obama owned Washington and maybe the World. This faded quickly when his administration was co-opted by the establishment in the form of Summers and Geithner. That lost public support to the extent that the administration has yet to comprehend.