I haven’t heard anything about them primarying against any Pub incumbents this year, nor turning out to campaign for them either. Of course, it’s very early for the latter anyway. But has the TP given any sign of showing any presence yet for this cycle? Any hint of what kind?
This article might be some place to start:
While loud and raucous rallies are still a part of the tea party toolbox, the movement, which came to life over dissatisfaction with big government and anger over government bailouts and President Barack Obama’s health care reform, is evolving.
They’re active. They’re doing a lot in Indiana, where they’re campaigning for Mourdock. They’re also trying to get rid of Hatch in Utah.
There are seriously people for whom Orrin Hatch is not conservative enough?! (With Richard Lugar, I can understand, the gun-rights people must hate him and so must the warhawks.)
Tea Party people hate Orrin Hatch. He voted for TARP, and he’s got a long tradition of bipartisanship and working with Democrats on stuff.
Apparently, the Tea Party focusing is on the Senate this year.
For Tea Party, Focus Turns to Senate and Shake-Up
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: May 12, 2012
WASHINGTON — The primary victory of a Tea Party-blessed candidate in Indiana illustrates how closely Republican hopes for a majority in the Senate are tied to candidates who pledge to infuse the chamber with the deep-seated conservatism that has been the hallmark of the House since the Republicans gained control in 2010.
Richard E. Mourdock, who last week defeated Senator Richard G. Lugar, a six-term incumbent, promises to bring an uncompromising ideology to Capitol Hill if he prevails in November. And he is not the only Senate candidate who contends that Senate Republicans are badly in need of new blood.
In Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas, Republican Senate candidates are vying for the mantle of Tea Party outsider. A number of them say that they would seek to press an agenda that is generally to the right of the minority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and that they would demand a deeper policy role for the Senate’s growing circle of staunch conservatives.
Some say they have not decided whether they would support Mr. McConnell, who could find himself contending with the type of fractious rank and file that has vexed the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio.
The Tea Party: Because MORMONS just aren’t conservative enough.
Now Boehner isn’t conservative enough.
House Speaker John Boehner set the conservative blogosphere afire yesterday, when Politico’s Jake Sherman reported that the House GOP leadership would seek to reimplement popular parts of health care reform should the Supreme Court strike the entire law down next month. The pushback—and immediate retraction from Boehner—illustrates once again that the far right has the GOP leadership on a very short leash.
According to the story, Boehner briefed his colleagues on a contingency plan to reinstate both the requirement that keeps young Americans on their health insurance plans until age 26, and the laws that forbid insurers from discriminating based on pre-existing conditions. He believes that it’s “too politically risky” to rip those provisions from the law.
Boehner is quite right, but this sounds like fingernails on sheet metal to the Tea Party, which has spent the last two years fulminating about the socialistic, dictatorial, no-good, very-bad Obamacare. And the reaction from the hard right was swift.
“If this is true I have had it. I’m calling out John Boehner right now,” said powerful radio talker Mark Levin last night. “Look how fast they fold like a cheap tent.”
Despite this, yet! (Some people are never satisfied . . .)
Wait, so, if they want to put the thing about pre-existing conditions back in, but with the mandate gutted, what stops the system from collapsing? Are they just trying to blackmail the insurance companies or something?
Chronos:
Wait, so, if they want to put the thing about pre-existing conditions back in, but with the mandate gutted, what stops the system from collapsing? Are they just trying to blackmail the insurance companies or something?
Don’t worry; the all-knowing invisible hand of the market will take care of it perfectly, if that dadgum government will just get out of the way.
Ah, here’s what the Tea Party is up to this year: Voter suppression! (True the Vote is an outgrowth of a Texas TP organization, the King Street Patriots. )
Ca3799
May 20, 2012, 1:12am
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My Tea Party Facebook friends are leaving cryptic messages such as “Pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain. Everything is going as planned.”
And, no, I don’t know what they mean.
Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
The crow flies at midnight.
A wet duck never flies at night.
In women’s tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.
My cat’s breath smells like cat fo-- no, that’s overused.
When come back, bring p-- nah, that’s no good either.
Hmmm.
C’mon over here, baby and lick the side of my neck the way I like.
The caged whale knows nothing of the mighty deeps.
There are no good white basketball players.
