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Originally Posted by clb10
When you cross the Tea Party...you better start filling out job applications!
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Sounds like more smoke and mirrors than anything else.
"Tea Party members are inhuman demons who have taken human form. Their political goals include:
1.) The destruction of this nation
2.) The destruction of every other nation
3.) A slow tortured death of every human on the planet.
4.) Killing every life form on the planet
5.) Pushing the earth into the sun and ending the planet entirely"
I certainly don't agree with them on everything, but the Tea Party just accomplished something that's actually pretty big against the odds. With a sitting Democrat President, Democrat controlled Senate and old school Republicans fighting them, they still managed to turn raising the debt ceiling from routine standard operating procedure to a major battleground. When you can't win the large victory, you take the small victories as they come. And they managed to hold the line on not raising taxes.
And enough TP'ers in the House voted against that it the measure couldn't pass without the Democrats and old school Republicans joining forces. Without 1/2 of the Dems in the House voting "yes" where would we be?
For the past several months, the liberal media outcry has been, "The Tea Party wants to destroy America!! They're insane terrorists who will stop at nothing to forward their agenda! We're all gonna die!!!" So now we change gears from, "The nation will collapse and it's all the Tea Party's fault!" to "Ha! You betrayed your ideals and now your movement is going to evaporate!"
It's a lot of wishful thinking and not much else. America's media sources ignored the Libertarian Party for decades and pretended they didn't exist, and that's why you have the Tea Party. The ideas of a balanced budget, smaller government and lower taxes sound pretty good to just about anyone.
I think the "traitors to the cause" will redeem themselves.