The last Tea Party

[mmonk]

Meanwhile, this year’s election largely rejected tea party-backed candidates. Congressional Republicans, sensing the shift, are breaking ranks on Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes vow. They’re giving in to avoid going over the fiscal cliff created by the intransigence of representatives who arrived on the tea party tide. Even the call for tighter controls on guns after the Newtown, Conn., shootings undercuts the tea party’s rigid, don’t-tread-on-me (or my guns) opposition to federal regulation.

The main driving force in the movement has been a hatred of President Obama, a virulent hatred indeed. Now that the president has been resoundingly given another four years, the tea party’s leaders need new objects of scorn.

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But if the party’s over, the hangover remains. No place may have a bigger headache than North Carolina. The tea party’s push helped Republicans win control of the General Assembly, led to a contorted redistricting that locked in that control and left the state’s leadership in the thrall of radical ideas about taxation, public education, women’s and gay rights, environmental regulation and the role of government itself.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/28/2570304/the-tea-party-marches-on-in-nc.html#storylink=cpy

[MADem]

1. "The main driving force in the movement has been a hatred of President Obama..."

Hmmm. They need to "get over it" I'd say!

[Buzz Clik]

3. I think there are a lot of DUers whose hatred of Obama far exceeds that of the Tea Party.

[MADem]

4. I can't figure that shit out, either.

The excessively vitriolic, serial, caustic complainers here certainly are closer to the Lipton-Tetley-PG Tips crew than they are to any iteration of the Democratic Party I have known down the decades.

There comes a point where, I think, some of them have gone so far left on the circle of life that they end up on the far right--and they're so wrapped up in their POV that they just don't realize they have more in common with those Band-Aid wearing Kerry haters and birth-certificate demanding Squirrelheads than they do the party they purport to support.

Oh well--with friends like that, who needs enemies.

[lunatica]

2. NC will be a good way to study rampant de-evolution of a state

They will leave it a husk of it's former self.