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2016 Postmortem

alcibiades_mystery

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1. Tea Party still too stupid to understand that what gets people elected

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 09:09 AM

Feb 2013

is the capacity to bring jobs to their district. They really don't get that the United States is a mixed economy, with government spending accounting for a large percentage of jobs, either directly or indirectly. They'd rather see the Newport News shipbuilding operations shut down than deal with that basic reality. These are the most dangerous sorts of people, because they are fanatics: they hold to their beliefs regardless of obvious empirical evidence to the contrary.

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Republican Congressman Faces Tea Party Wrath for Flying Air Force One [View all] Eugene Feb 2013 OP

Tea Party still too stupid to understand that what gets people elected alcibiades_mystery Feb 2013 #1

The Teabagger Party is speaking for the Republican Party? LiberalFighter Feb 2013 #2

Good question. Andy823 Feb 2013 #4

If Obama wants to destroy Republicans all he has to do is give them a compliment lunatica Feb 2013 #3

Anyone even remotely rational will not be tolerated in that party. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #5

I think teabaggers would shoot themselves in the head just to keep me from having the bullet TeamPooka Feb 2013 #6