The Tea Party Republicans are Revolting

They are pretty damn revolting, that's for sure. Oh...you were using it as a verb, not an adjective! Oops, either way, they are sickening!

This would be funny if it weren't putting our economy in so much risk.

Last night Speaker Boehner failed to get his bill past a House captive to the Tea Party even though they stayed until 11PM.

Of course they are opposing anything Obama, but the Tea Party Republicans are now turning against their own Republican leader. Their revolt against anything sane is even hurting their own party politically.

The Tea Party will forever be known as the crazy idiots who almost destroyed the American economy. I only hope I am right about the "almost" part.

The Tea Party nonsense will put Obama back in office in 2012.

Another interesting feature of the Roman Republic was that during war times a large percents of the Rome Senators and others in the leadership of the Republic assume military roles and there was wars and conflicts where a very large percent of the total senate membership die on the battlefield along with the Rome consuls who are similar to our position as president.

Somehow I wonder if Bush and the senators and congressmen would had been so eager to send troops around the world if they was the ones who would need to lead them and to place their lives on the line also.

Somebody's a little touchy.

The Tea Party will forever be known as the crazy idiots who almost destroyed the American economy. I only hope I am right about the "almost" part.

No need for sharp objects Finn.

Which is obviously why you resorted to a Nurf retort.

I think the crazy Tea Party Republicans hurting the country narrative is a pretty good one.

Well you would, wouldn't you because irrespective of whether or not it's true, the politically motivated narrative is all that matters.

And with the no compromise thing and the assault on Medicare, they seem to be jumping into this role. We will see how well it plays over the next 15 months.

Fortunately most Americans don't define compromise as agreeing to everything your opponent demands. We will see how the political narratives play out and I'm betting that as much as you would like this to be the case, the sneering haughty president without a plan of his own is not going to win any points. You and Obama think his ploy will work because you believe, in general, that the American people are a bunch of rubes who can be manipulated by political narratives spun by the Administrations ally, The Main Stream Media. It didn't work in 2010 and it won't work in 2012.

If Obama has been scoring all of these political points during this debt debate, why has his approval rating been simultaneously dropping?

I think you are putting too much stake on the 2010 midterms. It seems to me the issue was jobs, not deficit. This is one of the reasons the Republicans are grossly overplaying their hand.

Here again...you would, wouldn't you?

Let's say you're right though and the 2010 issue was jobs and not the government spending taxpayer money like a drunken sailor. Where are the new jobs that are going to make the folks who didn't vote Democrat in 2010 switch in 2012?

If jobs were the driving force behind the 2010 results than irrespective of what happens with the debt debate, if the job situation doesn't improve by 11/12, Obama and his party are toast.

If Obama is able to obtain some political advantage out of this mess (and I'm hardly convinced he can) it will be as fleeting as the political advantage he received from sending the Seals over to pop Osama.

I am also curious how you think the people who elected Obama in 2008 were different then the people who voted in 2o10.

Well, for one thing they voted Republican and not Democrat, but more importantly they had been disabused of their enchantment with the whole Hope & Change crock.

The fairy dust aint going to work in 2012 anymore than it did in 2010.

For all the hyperbolic praise of Obama's eloquence and political genius, he is a pale shadow of William Jefferson Clinton.

You could hate Clinton's policies, but it was tough not to like him. Likeable Rogue was coined just for him. The same could be said about Ronald Reagan. In my younger and ignorant early years I despised Reagan politically, and yet after every speech he gave, I couldn't help but admit that he was a likeable SOB.

Whether likeability is or isn't an important characteristic of a great president, Obama has lost his.

Actually I'm not sure he ever had likeability but if he didn't, his charisma and (foolish) promise more than made up for it.

Anyone who rises to power on the wave of the public looking for a savior is going to disappoint. Obviously he wasn't the Messiah, and as the woman in that famous Youtube clip has now realized, everything hasn't gotten fixed since he's been president. She still has to pay her mortgage and worry about whether or not she is making enough to support her kids. What's more the seas are still rising and if Man actually is killing Gaia, Obama has not only not saved her, he hasn't interceded in the assualt.

There's no doubt that he can count on the lemmings who will vote Democrat no matter what, but he won the White House thanks to Independents and he has lost them now. If he didn't think this was the case he wouldn't be pissing off all y'all liberals by courting the Center.

I could hit that one blindfolded

Just when we thought that the atmosphere in Congress could not become more toxic and contumaciously viperous last November Americans fell for the idiocy of these tea baggers, and now they seek to hold us all hostages to their stupidity. You see!? For years scientists have warned of the dangers of in-breeding. This is the end result. Take it in, America!

I could hit that one blindfolded

Just when we thought that the atmosphere in Congress could not become more toxic and contumaciously viperous last November Americans fell for the idiocy of these tea baggers, and now they seek to hold us all hostages to their stupidity. You see!? For years scientists have warned of the dangers of in-breeding. This is the end result. Take it in, America!

I never before realized what I free radical you might be Fido.

The American Constitution is a failure?!

I have an unsubstantiated sense that you get pummeled by both the Left and the Right. This could be a sign of the accuity of your perspective, but I can't dimiss this nagging sense that you constantly try to play to the Lefties.

All Iconoclasts are not iconoclastic.

Your arguments don't make much sense Finn.

The idea that politics shouldn't be political is laughable. Politics is all about political narrative and the side that constructs the best narrative always wins. This was true about Obama's victory with Hope and Change and it was true about the Tea Party outsider revolution of common people. It's all politics.

We can argue about the meanings of 2008 and 2010, but one thing is very clear. The American people are fickle. Convincing Obama victory with big majorities in both houses of Congress one election, and then Tea Party revolt with big changes in Congress the next. If the Republicans could put together three or four victories it would mean something. Right now it appears the American people are just floundering about wildly for the new thing each time.

You point out that Obama's approval ratings are dropping. So is the Tea Party's approval rating. The approval rating of "Republicans in Congress" is lower than any other group of elected officials. But it doesn't matter-- none of this predicts electoral success.

This is politics. You seem to confuse it with religion.

R: To my American friends: you HAVE to pay the bill. I know that raising taxes isn't popular, but for the past few decades, your elected seatwarmers have been spending like drunks. I keep hearing about certain teabaggers signing pledges to "never raise taxes", but as some genius once said: "you can't suck and blow at the same time." Cut costs, raise revenues and just get it done already!

L: Americans dont want to pay for what they want.
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R: That's the crazy thing, L. We pay a LOT more in taxes up here, but you basically get what you pay for, including free health care, etc. You simply can't have a bazillion dollar military and a ton of other expensive things in conjunction with one of the world's lowest tax rates. Either you give up what you hold dear or you find a way to fund it! The problem right now is that everyone is paying a ton of interest on LAST week's indulgence, and yet it appears that nobody even wants to raise any money for this week's? It makes no sense. A 5-10 year major corporate tax "correction" and a modest increase in taxes (across the board) plus some tough spending decisions would completely correct the situation...but you have to start somewhere. Pledging to not raise taxes is just stoopid.
11 hours ago · Like

M: You miss the point, R..."teabaggers" can suck and blow at the same time! This will get resolved and those buttholes will all be one termers!
10 hours ago · Like

R: I hope you're right, M. I think the Tea Party started off with a pretty valid position, but it's somehow morphed into this idiotic monster that's one part Maury Povich, one part Rush Limbaugh and one part Oral Roberts, and the sad part is that you have representatives who are beholden to them. Who ever thought that there would be a revolution against the 'revolutionaries'?