Tea Party Activists Angry at G.O.P. Leaders

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

Source: The New York Times

As Tea Party politicians prepare to take their seats when the 112th Congress convenes this week, they are already taking issue with Republicans for failing to hold the line against the flurry of legislation enacted in the waning weeks of Democratic control of the House of Representatives and for not giving some candidates backed by Tea Party groups powerful leadership positions.

Just a month ago, Tea Party leaders were celebrating their movement’s victories in the midterm elections. But as Congress wrapped up an unusually productive lame-duck session last month, those same Tea Party leaders were lamenting that Washington behaved as if it barely noticed that American voters had repudiated the political establishment.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/us/politics/02teapart...

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this is great... the delusional learned nothing from their experience... I mean the tea party, that is... what happened was called an election, we have them all the time in this country

it was not a repudiation of the political establishment, it was a continuance... how they miss this is beyond me. or logic.

[niceypoo]

1. They miss everything because they live in an information bubble

They live within their own hermetically sealed world.

[Ohio Joe]

2. Teabaggers are dumb as rocks...

That is how they missed it.

[curiousdemo]

17. You know it would be a matter of time.....

These jokers are a bunch of misfits that's angry this black man is our President. To show you how stupid they're are, the American People made that decision November 4, 2008. Also, He has outsmarted the Republican Party to look like fools. If Sarah Palin they're standard barer, God help them.

[Blandocyte]

3. The republicans fooled the 'baggers like they fooled

the evangelicals. From the "Contract With America" to the "Pledge," ain't much changed. They're a bunch of lying scumbags pandering to the dumbasses to get voted in.

And the dumbasses never seem to catch on to the scam.

[Name removed]

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[zehnkatzen]

4. Thus it always is to a society of Tools. k/r

I allow myself a certain smugness because of what we all know: the Republican party ginned up a astroturf-y popular revolt, and so many of us tried to tell them they were being used, and as soon as their rogue elephants got into power they'd just do what the big money told them to anyway.

There's so much that's ugly about the Tea Party Republicans. The ugliest thing is that they were co-opted from the start, and that the man-and-woman Tea Partier on-the-street just didn't want to hear it.

[AlinPA]

5. Teabaggers=GOP. There is no distinction. The NYT article is bulls---, trying

to make them out as independent.

[Populist_Prole]

8. Always thought so from the get-go

First heard about it from ( yet another ) RW email my father forwarded me...urging us all to mail an actual teabag to our representitives in protest...of..... As soon as I got to reading their stated positions ( numerous and unfocused as they were ) it was very apparent that the whole grass-roots populist angry peasants with pitchforks bit didn't hold up to cross examination. Just a bunch of angry old overweight slobs shilling for the plutocracy.

[rpannier]

23. They're republickkans I agree but it's a split

Read responses from republikkans about the Alaska Senate race.
The tea bagging republikkans are hysterical that Alaskans re-elected Murkowski.
The not-so-crazy republikkans didn't vote for Miller because he was a train wreck waiting to happen.

But the tea baggers are furious

[Gman]

6. They will eventually become disillusioned and quit

but I'm afraid not before 2012.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. LOL......

They got used , and guess what nutbaggers, Obama will win a second term. Thanks.

[eringer]

9. Lets See What's Next for the TeaBaggers

Maybe the GOPea will issue them all clothespins for their noses so that they can continue to vote Republicans into office to give more tax breaks to the rich.
WHAT A BUNCH OF MORONS!

[onehandle]

10. GO. FULL. THIRD. PARTY.

They're using you. They don't believe in the Tea Party ideals.

Go third party. Run a candidate in every Congressional and Gubernatorial race in 2012. And run a Presidential candidate. Please.

[tavalon]

13. LOL

Absolutely, idiots!

[hatrack]

11. Stupid reaps its own reward, and then squeals w. pain at the predictable results . . .

Guess what, boneheads - you got pwned. You got used & discarded like political Charmin, just like the GOP always does.

Surprise!!!

Not.

[tavalon]

12. How does Duh news keep landing in Latest Breaking?

It wasn't a question of whether but when.

[RandySF]

14. The tea baggers are delusional about their influence

They are not responsible for the Republicans taking the House to begin with. The GOP owes them nothing.

[Alcibiades]

15. Where was the tea party the biggest?

Check the lists of attendees at events:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tea_Party_protests...

So, what is the biggest predictor of whether a state had large events, or a lot of small events? Was it the big republican states? No. The big democratic states? No. It was the battleground states. It is and was an effort to astroturf a "grassroots" movement in the battleground states. The closeness of the presidential numbers in the last three presidential elections is a better predictor of total tea party attendance than anything--whether they had a vulnerable incumbent, an open seat, a senate race, or anything else.

The whole aim was not simply to retake the House, but to build a movement that would work for the GOP that would have the credibility with the GOP base that the party itself squandered through 8 years of Bush. And every time a teabagger in Congress votes for pork, or an earmark, or to "increase the size of government," we need to let those tea party folks know about it, because the MSM will not cover it.

They are dupes, but maybe some of them will be smart enough to realize they are being used.

[SoapBox]

16. Aren't these crazy T.HaterBaggers angry about everything?

If the sun comes up in the morning...aren't they angry?

If the sun goes down in the evening...aren't they angry?

...and so it goes.

[Anakin Skywalker]

18. Teabaggers were thrown a bone by the RepubliCON elites!

And they fell for it. Dumb motherfucking teabaggers!

Modern RepubliCONS and CONservatives are just fronts for corporations. When will the tools realize that?

[tomm2thumbs]

19. the establishment GOP is going to say 'you can either join us, or join the other side'

and they'll have to play the game that they said they would never play, and like it.

so much for changing Washington - they just got hoodwinked by their own ignorance

[mwb970]

20. What silly fools these baggers be.

They embarrass themselves in public and don't even know it. Simple-minded magical thinkers. Is this what America has become?

[LawnKorn]

21. I love it when right-wingers fight among themselves

[struggle4progress]

22. eeek! an arms control treaty! i'll be hiding under my bed!

[rpannier]

25. Sounds like the tea baggers will be looking for their 2nd Amendment options

[tanyev]

24. Go get 'em, baggers! Time to throw angry temper tantrums at GOP town hall meetings!

[shawn703]

27. The sad thing is

In a different election year you could take the same article, change every instance of the word Republican to Democrat and vice versa, and replace teabaggers with progressives and it would be the other side laughing at our failure to understand the realities of Washington.

Sorry, folks - if you want real change it's not going to come through the ballot box.

[Thor_MN]

28. Will the Tea Baggers siphon off the crazies, and then be ditched by the Rethugs?

Seems to me that the average Republicant has, over the last decade, turned into a far right wing, hypocritical, moron unable to distinguish between truth and corporate media lies. If the Republican party isn't going to degrade into an extremist hate group, they need to rid themselves of their most whacked out members...