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It's about time....

Mar 9, 2015 12:57AM PDT
Tea party may be on verge of becoming a 3rd party

WASHINGTON (AP) — The political chaos in the first two months of the new Congress, despite Republican control in both houses, may signal that the tea party is morphing into a quasi-third party, a deeply conservative band of legislators who routinely thwart Republican vows of effective government.

Most recently, a group of tea party Republicans forced House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to turn to Democrats to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, particularly striking at a time when the U.S. is battling Islamic State group attempts to hold huge parts of Syria and Iraq and wreak havoc in North Africa.


Tea Party could be aiding and abetting Dems to get elected in 2016.

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What the article doesn't mention
Mar 9, 2015 1:34AM PDT

is that the Senate controlled chamber could have done what Reid did, time and again, was to stop the Dem filibusters in their tracks and the bill would have passed......leaving BO to decide to veto the bill. The fact that the Senate tried to play by the REAL rules of how the Senate governs rather than by the same Reid tricks that he used is actually a good thing, even if it angered some members.

The left is absolutely obsessed with the Tea Party and needs to get over itself or you will end up with far more being elected and moderates on both sides being dumped along the side of the road....as it stands right now, the Dem party has a whole lot more far left members like Elizabeth Warren (BO on steroids) because the 'blue dog' Dems are all but gone........and potential Tea Party groups (now that a good many of them have finally gotten their tax exempt status and can fund raise now) will be going full force in the very near future. And there are far more Dems in both Houses that are being very open about not agreeing with BO's stance on a number of issues now......that may be because they want to keep the seats they have in the next election or because they finally realize that they are fast becoming a dying breed to the extreme far left radicals who run now and they see the damage that those agendas have done over the last six years already.

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Re: there are far more Dems in both Houses that are being ve
Mar 9, 2015 4:11AM PDT
there are far more Dems in both Houses that are being very open about not agreeing

Tea Party has trouble with the speakers and the leaders?

Here's something they agree on....protecting Boehner.

Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup

Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker.

And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.

A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner's commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama's policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands.

But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they'd rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. Replacing him with a Tea Party Speaker, they say, would only bring the legislative process — already limping along — to a screeching halt.

"I'd probably vote for Boehner [because] who the hell is going to replace him? [Ted] Yoho?" Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said Wednesday, referencing the Florida Tea Party Republican who's fought Boehner on a host of bipartisan compromise bills.

"In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they're going to change the world," Pascrell added.
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good
Mar 9, 2015 1:34AM PDT

the more pulling on the right side, to compensate for decades of leftist radicals pulling us to the left, the better.