TEA PARTY TO AMERICA: NOW WHAT?!

Sorry, david, but the only person not getting it is you.

I have long suspected that you never went to college but only to law school.*
You don't appear to understand how academic research is done.

*I have my doubt about that, because I do not believe that you were ever a lawyer.
I am not alone in that belief.[U r OBSESSED by it, with endless re-iterations;
will you give me fewer cases from now on, qua your doubts ?]
You do not argue as an attorney does and you lose your temper too quickly.

After reading these last two posts of yours,
and immediately coming down with the headache your posts cause,

I think no one could ever take your accusations that I or anyone else is crazy seriously.

You had to have modeled at least one Warner Brothers' cartoon character.

WASHINGTON — What does a longtime Republican senator with a national reputation for working well with Democrats do in the face of a potentially career-ending Tea Party challenge?

If you're Richard Lugar of Indiana, you tell them to "get real."

If you're Olympia Snowe of Maine, you fight off the "Snowe Removal" effort by making key alliances with Tea Party activists and highlighting your record of fiscal conservatism.

And if you're Orrin Hatch of Utah, you woo them.
Story: Battles continue on House GOP spending bill

Lugar, Snowe and Hatch are all on notice that their approach to governance may no longer be welcome.

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In Indiana, the Tea Party is organizing to unite behind one candidate who could challenge Lugar in a primary. In Maine, the plan is for a spring "Snowe Removal." In Utah, Hatch's efforts have begun to pay off, but the junior senator, Mike Lee, who replaced Sen. Robert Bennett in a Tea Party upset in 2010, has said he won't endorse Hatch for re-election.
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plainoldme wrote:

After reading these last two posts of yours,
and immediately coming down with the headache your posts cause,

U might consider a head transplant.

Plainoldfool is out shopping for plastic parts, a head transplant would be a bonus.

Take five more steps back and you realize how successful the Tea Party has been. No matter how much liberals may poke fun at them, Tea Party partisans can claim victory in fundamentally altering the country's dialogue.

Consider all of the problems taking a back seat to the deficit in Washington and the media. You haven't heard much lately on how Wall Street shenanigans tanked the economy in the first place - and in the process made a small number of people very rich. Yet any discussion of the problems caused by concentrated wealth (a vital mainstream issue in the America of Andrew Jackson and both Roosevelts) is confined to the academic or left-wing sidelines.

You haven't seen a lot of news stories describing the impact of long-term unemployment on people's lives or the difficulty working-class kids are encountering if they want to go to college.

You hear a lot about how much the government spends on the elderly but not much about facts such as this one, courtesy of a report last fall from the Employee Benefit Research Institute: People over 75 "were more likely than other age groups - including children under 18 - to live on incomes equal to or less than 200 percent of poverty."

You have one thing wrong. Tea Partiers are not radicals. They represent the silent majority in this country.

In a mammoth spending bill that ended up being more about principle than achievable cuts, the tea party-charged House Republicans began to define who they are and what kind of government they value.

The GOP plan to fund the government through September is an assault on bedrock Democratic priorities. It imposes substantial spending cuts that would alter the role of government in nearly every area of society - from education and human services to transportation projects, foreign humanitarian aid and medical research. Gone, too, are an array of federal environmental regulations and consumer product safety measures that private industries have long opposed.

Yet in last week's feverish scramble to shrink government, House Republicans also ran the budgetary buzz saw through costly defense and homeland security programs that their party had historically protected. They left no sacred cows.

"We held no program harmless from our spending cuts, and virtually no area of government escaped this process unscathed," Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee said in a statement.

The $1.2 trillion bill, which includes historic cuts totaling more than $61 billion, passed the House on Saturday and now careens toward an uncertain future in the Senate. On Sunday, the Democrats who control the Senate renounced the plan as draconian and warned of a possible government shutdown if a compromise is not reached with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) before existing government funding expires March 4.

In making deep cuts to programs historically supported by their party, House Republicans sought to establish credibility on the one issue they think matters most: cutting the size of government. But they also left themselves open to criticism from their constituents, especially the independent voters who propelled them into the majority last fall, who may be alarmed by the breadth and impact of the cuts.

The Tea Party has a winner with their focus on cutting government.....America is generally on board this train, even Democrats. I am sure some of our more liberal A2K'ers would be appalled if they realized that for the most part Democratic state leaders are working feverishly to cut state government spending rather than looking for new ways to bring in revenue.

America has decided, and the Tea Party finds itself on the right side of this issue when almost no one else in Washington is.