I read this as another GOP election year plank.
Another thought, group, outlook to demonize, hate and rally the [del]unthinking morons[/del] base against.
I check this thread before talking to my Government classes every morning. We always find something amusing/scary/bewildering to discuss.
There’s money and then there’s MONEY. The Tea Party is a mainly a movement of “local notables” – millionaires but not billionaires. Most of the 1% and big-corporate America have a different agenda.
I read that as saying that it was the MONEY that courted the Tea Party and its precursors, thinking they could be controlled. In that sense, it’s a little like the German nobility courting the Nazis as a useful ally against the Communists, thinking that they would be in the drivers seat perpetually. Note that I’m NOT calling the Tea Party Nazis, just noting that similarity in the situation.
This is Rafael Cruz?
I thought he was just a
Castroista sleeper* agent provocateur*, but apparently he thinks he’s a Latin “King”?
Somebody may want to tell the King of Kings that Señor Cruz is infringing on his trademark?
Dear Texas Tea Party. You lose.
Go cry in the corner and try not to wet yourselves this time you cheating little shitbags.
Dunno BG, looks like some of the Tea Party factions have some pretty heavy hitters on the rolls, when they can make it rain ~ 4 mill a year each…
I thought the Kochs were big funders of Tea Party groups? There’s not many richer than those two (or is it 3?) individually, much less together.
N.B.: To the TP, social issues like abortion are of secondary importance or none; their literature and rally-signs seem never even to mention such things.
The Kochs are causeheads. Most of their class are less ideological and more bottom-line, and not at all against biggummint so long as bigbiznis gets its lucrative government contracts.
You know, I’m surprised this thread hasn’t been mentioned on the Huffpo or Slate or some similar website. I can’t imagine there is a better collection of “Stupid Republican Ideas” on the entire net.
If you could somehow turn this thread into a book, it would be a best seller.
You could put two different covers on it and sell it to both sides. Some Republicans seem to think that these are all great ideas.
Steady on. There’s at least one round of appeals to be heard first.
Weimar Republicans
And yet their rise to power came with a vasthost of the most stringent anti-abortion laws ever brought to the states. They seemed to think that the start of balanced budgets was to introduce as many laws to destroy Planned Parenthood as possible.
Yes, perhaps. But if taken to its logical conclusion it would mean monetizing all Kansas resources immediately.
It is unutterably stupid. If passed by the Kansas legislature, I question if even Ayatollah Brownback would have the stones to sign it.
Next to shutting down the government, this one has potential to be the most stupid idea of the year.
Edit: (Graham to stop every single nomination that the Senate must approve.)
Interesting thought. In the 4.5 years of this thread, has there ever been a playoff?