What ever happened to the Tea Party?

[safeinOhio]

Once in a while I'll see some spokesperson on the teevee and that's about it. No rallies or even bumper stickers.

[Blue Owl]

1. Follow the porta-shitters

n/t

[Skittles]

2. like all repukes, they overplayed their hand

people are thoroughly sick of them

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. There never really was one. Now as far as the frothing at the mouth repukes go. My guess is that

you'll see them all over the place once the election gets closer.

[EFerrari]

6. I read an FBI alert in the last few days about sovereign citizen types.

aka, Palin's base.

WASHINGTON --

WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI has been paying closer attention to 'sovereign citizen' extremists around the country out of concerns that they will react violently when they interact with government officials.

Sovereign citizens are people who reject their U.S. citizenship and don't recognize government authority, like laws and taxes. In 2009, the FBI started paying closer attention to the movement, which previously had been grouped with the militia movements in the bureau's domestic counterterrorism operations. Many people who claim to be followers of this movement are involved in white collar crimes like tax evasion schemes and making fraudulent documents, the FBI said.

"We started to notice a heightened potential for violence," said Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division.

Speaking to reporters at the FBI's national headquarters, McArthur said that while sovereign citizen ideologies are protected by the constitution, there have been instances when extremist members have turned to violence. "The thing about generally sovereign citizen extremists is that because their ideology just intrinsically deals with the rejection, complete rejection, of the constitutional authority of the United States or any other government for that matter ... that when you have an encounter with law enforcement, we have seen that has a potential to go high and right very fast," McArthur said.

http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2012/feb/06/fbi-focused-on-sovereign-citizen-extremists-ar-3182873/?referer=http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AkdJdcg9LLVcrUOy6LhGQ0.bvZx4?p=FBI+Alert+sovereign+citizens&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-465&shorturl=http://bit.ly/zQhfeC

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. You got taste, I grew with Mafalda.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. So did I. My sister was traveling in Costa Rica and got me

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The Bible. It's called "Toda Mafalda". Which is 3 times bigger than "10 Años Con Mafalda".

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Oh will have to look for that.

[mfcorey1]

27. ITA!!!!!!!

[Tx4obama]

4. Tea Party 'Is Dead,' Says Movement Leader

Article here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/06/tea-party-is-dead-how-the-movement-fizzled-in-2012-s-gop-primaries.html

[Mister Ed]

5. The worst thing that possibly could have happened to them.

They gained power, and got a bunch of their bug-eyed candidates into congress. Now the voting public knows what they're really about.

[grasswire]

7. some still exist over at freerepublic

or maybe at lucianne.com, which still exists.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. LOL lucianne.com

been a while since I stopped by that train wreck of a site. i used to troll for laughs there years ago, but got an e-mail from an admin telling me that the publisher (Ms. Goldberg herself) had requested that I be banned.

[grasswire]

17. my teabagger sister is an l-dotter

Has been for years now. I once tried to figure out which l-dotter was her, with no success.

[opihimoimoi]

8. The Baggers who got elected are giving their Brand Name a DRUBBING by doing stuuupid and

nefarious things....like favoring the rich and dissing the 99ers

[SoapBox]

9. Since Citizen's, DicKKK Armey and the KKKoch Brothers no longer need all those paid sheep...

Why would they need the KKKoch Suckers, when they can now just fund the Super PACs.

All that outrage and all those racist rallies...staged...manufactured...and phony.

[jberryhill]

10. Glenn Beck got taken off Fox

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. the establishment yanked their funding, so Mitt could lock up the nomination

I imagine that, once Willard is coronated, they'll magically reappear to express their spontaneous, 'grassroots' frustration with Obama for the general election.

[jsmirman]

15. Astroturf requires expensive manicuring n/t

nm

[madrchsod]

14. they are alive and well on the local level around here in northern il.

[safeinOhio]

19. The people that use to come in the store

and run their mouths about Obama have changed the subject to stuff like sports. I smile and ask how those primary elections are going. Crickets.

[Populist_Prole]

16. I only hear it mentioned now by reporters or pundits. Not by an actual person

Not for a while; like 2 years.

Doesn't matter anyway. With the likes of Newt and Santorum, they don't really need the re-branding of the far-right that the TP provided anymore. They aint gonna be the nominees though, and the far right will get really mad. But the far right is always mad. It's just them. Could be they'll try another angle next time, but they'll still be what they are and be equally irrelevant at that.

[AndyTiedye]

18. They're Busy Wrecking Unions and Passing Voter ID Laws in 27 States

and coming up with new ways of keeping Democrats from voting this year.

[pampango]

20. Like their Know-Nothing predecessors, they flared up, peaked and burned out in a couple of years.

The Know-Nothings peaked in an off-year election (1854) and were a non-factor a couple of years later.

The Know Nothing Platform: (See if this doesn't sound like current teabaggers.)

Severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries.
Restricting political office to native-born Americans of English and/or Scottish lineage and Protestant persuasion.
Mandating a wait of 21 years before an immigrant could gain citizenship.
Restricting public school teacher positions to Protestants.
Mandating daily Bible readings in public schools.
Restricting the sale of liquor. (There's one that current day teabaggers might disagree with)
Restricting the use of languages other than English.

[whistler162]

21. Either they arrived in Boston and well history yook over

or the rabbit was to late to attend.

[2pooped2pop]

23. Funding by Koch was pulled

no funding, no grassroots baggers. Strange ain't it?

[JoePhilly]

24. When their Frankenstein's monster turned on the GOP establishment, they (Fox News) stopped ...

feeding it ... without Fox News promoting the events, and Dick Armey busing the crazies in, the fake "grass-roots" operation comes to a complete stop.

They will still feed it just enough to keep it alive, but not enough to let it get out of control again.

[hack89]

25. They are waiting for Spring. Winter is too hard for political activism. nt

[HopeHoops]

26. I think she's back in Wasilla.

[lunatica]

28. Dare we hope they're embarrassed by the Republican candidates?

It's one thing to spout off your own mouth with Idiocracy slogans and another to hear others doing it.

Besides, Palin and Beck aren't out there telling them what to think and say. They need to have someone write their lines.