Tea Party largely frozen out of GOP transition team

[babylonsister]

Oops! I don't imagine this will go over well.

http://washingtonindependent.com/102964/tea-party-largely-frozen-out-of-gop-transition-team

Tea Party largely frozen out of GOP transition team
By Jesse Zwick 11/8/10 4:50 PM


The plot lines in the battle for control of the soul of the Republican Party just got thicker today with the announcement by transition chair Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) of the members of his transition team. Not only did Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) not make the cut while her competitor for GOP conference chair, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), did, but the team as a whole is looking fairly un-Tea Party-friendly:

According to the AP, two of the four incoming members ( Kinzinger and Scott) are Tea Party favorites, but they were most likely chosen for their previous legislative experience, which many of their fellow representatives-elect lack. Of the 18 current House members on the transition team, only two—Rob Bishop and Pete Sessions—are part of the Tea Party caucus. And Sessions is already more closely associated with the old guard, having served as NRCC chair.

Well-known Tea Partiers such as Michele Bachmann, Steve King, and Joe Wilson have been left out, and the transition team includes Jeb Hensarling, whom Eric Cantor and others are backing against Bachmann. Finally, transition chairman Greg Walden (who called the team “a nice cross-section of our Republican conference”) is himself relatively moderate; he even refused to say he would include a Tea Party member in the leadership when interviewed on MSNBC.

It’s pretty clear at this point that the Republican leadership is trying to keep its rowdier, Tea Party brethren at arms length. Whether new Tea Party members of Congress defer to the established pecking order or openly challenge such an affront remains to be seen.

[Ian David]

1. I wonder if the teabaggers will seek second-amendment remedies. n/t

[malaise]

5. I'll approve only if it's on Pay-for-View

Guess no one needs Iced Tea in the Fall. Ruck all ReTHUGS ans Teapublicans.

[Yavin4]

2. Hey Tea Party Folks, Money for the Cab Is On The Dresser

It was real fun. We'll call you again real soon.

--GOP Establishment

[BrklynLiberal]

6. LOL. Perfect. Just as they did to the RWFundies in 2004..

[Ikonoklast]

22. Crap. They didn't even let them stay for breakfast.

And now they have to wait outside, and it's starting a cold drizzle.


I guess when you are one, you get treated like one.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. This should be fun...

I want a front-row seat to the fight that I hope will shortly commence.

Of course I want the tea partiers to lose...after they succeed in tearing the main Repub. party limb from limb.

[felinetta]

4. I agree. Start making popcorn. This is going to be highly entertaining.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Help yourself!

:popcorn:

:hi:

[woodsprite]

7. I guess in reality, Repubs don't like the taste of Tea either.

They're just willing to fake it to get what they want.

[texastoast]

9. NOO!!

I'm shocked beyond belief.

Are they on latrine duty yet?

[formercia]

10. History repeats itself in a way.....

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

[Winterblues]

11. Very few new (freshmen) Congress critters make transition teams

It has nothing to do with them being Tea Baggers..

[formercia]

12. But....these people are special...Heilegen der Vaterland.

They deserve a special place at the Round Table..... :rofl:

[Matariki]

18. Bachmann isn't a freshman Congresswoman.

She's just crazy.

[Scurrilous]

13. Alas. n/t

[cynatnite]

14. Perfect. n/t

[proud patriot]

15. Wheeeeeeeeee !

:bounce:

[dembotoz]

16. sad to say kind of reminds me of progressives in the obama whitehouse

[opihimoimoi]

17. Used and Abused Baggers are now viewing the undersides of a BUS

Da pua things....we tried to warn them but they were hard head

[Canuckistanian]

19. The Teabaggers wouldn't want to become ELITES, now would they?

I sure every last ONE of them wouldn't take those jobs if you PAID THEM. That would be stealing the people's money.

[Generic Brad]

20. Iced Tea?

:rofl:

[spanone]

21. howard fineman said jim demint is literally hated by republican senators...hated

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[Kber]

23. One small caution before we butter our popcorn

and that is the MSM pushing the theme that the "Republicans aren't really crazy. See there are already sidelining the Tea Party. Nothing to worry about folks."

It's a drive for independents. Just a thought.

[TexasObserver]

24. The Tea Party cost the GOP control of the senate.

That's a fact.

[Love Bug]

25. As with the religious right, once they have served their purpose, the GOP will discard them

Yet they don't learn, do they?