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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,450 posts)
36. We can only hope
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 11:34 AM
Jan 2012

for the sake of our country that it is. The whole Republican Tea Party *experiment* has felt like one huge national hangover and more and more people are waking up to it. It's looking more and more like the Tea Party won't be selecting the Presidential nominee this year (though they may have some influence on the VP candidate). Republicans like John Boehner even seem to be coming to that recognition as well given his reported plan to cut the Tea Party out of the upcoming payroll tax negotiations. It remains to be seen, however, whether or not he follows through with that or ends up caving to them again however. Hopefully, by 2013 the Republican Tea Party will be remembered as small "fit" that briefly "reanimated" the post-2008 rotting corpse of the GOP or, as Chris Rock put it, the final childhood temper tantrum before falling asleep.

We'll see.............

Reid: ‘The tea party is dying out’ [View all] Playinghardball Jan 2012 OP
agreed... their influence is waning. DCBob Jan 2012 #1
#OWS forced the MSM to stop covering the TP DJ13 Jan 2012 #2
I think you nailed it. n/t radhika Jan 2012 #3
Yes indeedy! graywarrior Jan 2012 #6
Good God. randome Jan 2012 #16
there is no god, and she sure ain't any good. But OWS is NOT the universe, although Toilet Paper ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2012 #49
Never thought of that zeemike Jan 2012 #21
exactly. their bias was already present RainDog Jan 2012 #32
I think the Teabagger party is dying out from its own actions and words lunatica Jan 2012 #38
the artificial carcass is dead and defunct, but there are pockets of them ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2012 #50
Wow--interesting. Jackpine Radical Jan 2012 #40
lol barbtries Jan 2012 #42
They're really not needed anymore as such, since the GOP tone is so hard-right now Populist_Prole Jan 2012 #4
I believe both you and DJ13 are correct. cstanleytech Jan 2012 #5
That's all we ever do is hope Doctor_J Jan 2012 #8
Thats because in the end its all we can do. cstanleytech Jan 2012 #10
well, no Doctor_J Jan 2012 #51
They've been hard right for years RainDog Jan 2012 #33
Only in name - they're now called the Republican Party Doctor_J Jan 2012 #7
Their purpose was to gain impunity from the disastrous Bush years. Lasher Jan 2012 #25
Exactly. Been saying this myself all along. Norrin Radd Jan 2012 #30
+1 Doctor_J Jan 2012 #34
What? Influential billionaires have stopped using the weak-minded to get their way? onehandle Jan 2012 #9
Here, Harry, you'll need one of these to make sure it stays dead. Deep13 Jan 2012 #11
Mostly by natural attrition. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #12
They have been useful idiots. Faygo Kid Jan 2012 #13
Like Hitler's Brown Shirts, the Tea Party's usefulness is over. nm rhett o rick Jan 2012 #14
Their demise couldn't happen too soon dballance Jan 2012 #15
RIP n/t ...and no resurrection!!! hue Jan 2012 #17
TeaBags are not dying out.... lib2DaBone Jan 2012 #18
“I would hope they understand that everything doesn’t have to be a fight,” Thaddeus Kosciuszko Jan 2012 #19
The tea party's ideals are not dying out, but the tea party itself is jmowreader Jan 2012 #20
Bingo Alcibiades Jan 2012 #22
Harry Reid is so incurably Naive BadGimp Jan 2012 #23
I hope he is right, but......... backtomn Jan 2012 #27
I don't like David Gregory Gman Jan 2012 #24
Sunday shows... kenfrequed Jan 2012 #43
In order for something to die out, it had to exist in the first place... Javaman Jan 2012 #26
somebody got testy with me when I said essentially the same thing. CTyankee Jan 2012 #37
And Good Riddance Mosaic Jan 2012 #28
With Citizens United...the KKKoch Brothers and Dickhead Armey, no longer need the "puppets"... SoapBox Jan 2012 #29
As long as there are the following, they will be there: DFW Jan 2012 #31
Just like the dodo birds. tanyev Jan 2012 #35
We can only hope Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2012 #36
wrong- the teabaggers are just dittoheads lured out of the limbaugh/talk radio closet with free bus certainot Jan 2012 #39
I agree with you Bohunk68 Jan 2012 #41
vote vote vote! GOP 1% trying everything they can, and with citizens united they can use the money certainot Jan 2012 #47
Dems need to LET TeaParty die out and NOT poke at the embers with public statements like this blm Jan 2012 #44
Good riddence; the tea fleas are a blight and a bother. Guy Montag Jan 2012 #45
Psst. Harry, there never was a Tea Party, except in the minds of the Koch's, Rove's and Armey's. Scuba Jan 2012 #46
Um, no. They just being echoed by every other Republican now. Orsino Jan 2012 #48
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