The Tea Party has officially taken over the Republican Party.

[kentuck]

The so-called "Republicans" can cut all the pretensions. They have lost their Party to the Tea Party. They can get in line and follow the nutzoids or they can get out of the way.

Ted Cruz and Ron Paul are the new leaders of the Party - it is not Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. Ted Cruz even had the audacity to stand on the Senate floor and say that he "didn't trust the Republican Party". Furthermore, he said he didn't trust the Democrats either.

In the last couple of days, it appears that the Tea Party has turned the Republican Party into a third Party? They have nothing left with which to buy their support.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. It has been proven that the "tea party" were co-created by the Koch brothers

so the Koch brothers have their own political party.

This is Mussolini's definition of Fascism, a merger of corporate and state power.

The Kochs are now dumping waste in Detroit, which they have seized through their puppet Rick Snyder's "emergency manager" laws. This is the trend unless they are completely and utterly stopped.

[RKP5637]

2. +1,000 n/t

[cliffordu]

16. Kochs gotta go.

By any means necessary.

[defacto7]

18. agreed!

any.

[defacto7]

19. and don't forget whose spawn they are...

The Sons of JBS

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. I'm unaware of who that may be, and it sounds like something I'd like to know so

who is that please...

[Scuba]

21. Likely referring the the John Birch Society.

[hootinholler]

37. That refers to the John Birch Society

Which if not entirely founded by Daddy Koch, he certainly played a significant role in its founding and funding. The model of influence the family practices through today.

I find it odd that the JBS advocates an anti UN view and isolationist foreign policies and espouse the rising of the New World Order while the organization's roots are based in a very wealthy man trying to steer public opinion to meet his desire for power, effectively bringing the world closer to the new order feared by the membership. As with the Tea Baggers (and the libertarian think tank that I can't remember at the moment) that the Koch sons have financed, the irony of the masses supporting their causes against the masses own best interest is mind bending.

The more things change...

[defacto7]

43. Sorry for the vague reference.

Scuba and hootinholler are correct, John Birch Society.

[Newest Reality]

32. ++Good

[Initech]

48. The Koch roaches need to be arrested and tried for treason. NOW!

[Thinkingabout]

3. It is time for boehner to step up to the plate and join with the Democrats and get

Some work done. The TP would not be able to get anything accomplished but watch as real people get the job done. I think the reason they did not try the Democrat party is they had to go with a more radical bunch and that would not be the Democrats. This is a very radical bunch, nothing is too crazy for the TP to think, say or do. We need rational leaders to govern and this isn't the group to do so. Start with their signs and a few quotes and one can tell we do not want to do business with them.

[Andy823]

4. It's the fear factor

"Republicans" are so afraid the cross the tea party simply because the don't want to have to run against some "crazy" tea bagger in the primaries. If they stand up to them, they get a challenger in the primaries. The tea baggers know this, and they are using it to try and push "their" agenda for the country, which is simply insane!

What republicans don't seem to understand is that as you stated, they have been taken over and even if they bow down to the "loons", and do everything they want, the tea party has already decided that the "republicans" just are crazy enough to be "real conservatives"! I think we will see a whole lot of tea party candidates running against republicans come 2014, and also in 2016. If they lose the primary I also believe a lot of them will still run for office as a third party. Cruz and Paul are catering to the crazies because they know what is going to happen, and they want the "crazy" vote when they run for president in 2016.

The way things are shaping up it looks like an even crazier bunch of "clowns" will be trying to take control of congress and the WH. 2014 will show us just how bold the tea party is, and how many republicans they will try and take down. If Boehner and McConnell give in, republicans are in deep trouble. The country is already tired of the BS we have seen for the last 4 + years, and that will help democrats out in a huge way if the tea party is allowed to continue to try and make this country into their own little tea bagger heaven!

[Gore1FL]

6. I said from the beginning they were using a political playbook penned by Mary Shelley. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

45. But halfway through it suddenly turned into something written by Bram Stoker.

[cilla4progress]

15. It appears the gerrymandering chickens

are coming home to roost?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. you almost ran out of adjectives for crazy, huh. When do you think it will get to the

point where a non-TP-repuke will stand up to their constituents and to the congress as a whole and say look "these people are..."

Crazy - mentally strange
Synonyms: ape, barmy, bats in the belfry, batty, berserk, bonkers*, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy*, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, maniacal, mental*, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, out of one's tree, out to lunch, potty, psycho, round the bend, schizo, screw loose, screwball, screwy, silly, touched*, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, unzipped, wacky

[randome]

34. I think we'll see that happen. I hope by 2014 but I'm guessing after that.

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[Atman]

5. Call them Tea Baggers.

It's the name they originally chose for themselves, and it is the most fitting.

[Yukari Yakumo]

7. I'd rather call 'em wannabe-Fascists. {nt}

[mountain grammy]

8. Yes, remember the teabags hanging from their hats?

Tea baggers one and all!

[onethatcares]

46. and the purple bandaids on their chins.

remember that well.

[Corruption Inc]

9. Corruption officially took over years ago

It doesn't matter what some billionaires brand the corruption as.

[DeSwiss]

10. +1000

[applegrove]

11. Couldn‘t happen to a nicer bunch:

[blkmusclmachine]

12. The Tea party allows the "DEMS" to veer harder Right.

And so far, the "DEMS" have been all too happy to oblige.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. That's kind of why we need to hope that the TP doesn't take over the

repuke party, isn't it ? Because if they do, and if they maintain majority in the House, nothing for the common good will ever happen for years. If we lean more right though we might be able to pick up the non-TP repukes. Yikes what a mess

[fredamae]

38. I Completely Agree

Clinton's Third Way/New Dem Coalition/21st Century Dems etc Prove that...they're More republican Now than the republicans were in the '60's...
The Clinton Era brought us: NAFTA/CAFTA/DOMA/FCC Deregulation/Repealing Glass Steagall, just to mention a few...

[gulliver]

42. Um...forces maybe, but not even that.

We don't need a left version of the Tea Party. The Tea Party is going to destroy the Republicans in the long run. They already gave us Dems a ton of House and Senate seats we would not have had. Arguably, the Tea Party gave us the presidency too.

No, I don't agree with the view that Dems willingly move rightward. They simply can't be as Progressive/Liberal as they want to be. The people are pulling left more, and the Republicans are pulling right more. The separate is growing. Long live the Tea Party. We want the idiots and the crackpots on their side doing as much talking as possible.

[libdude]

13. Not an unsusual

occurrance in history, fascistic extremists groups never just take over a position of power in any situation without first attaching themselves to a legitimate group and then effect a coup of sort. Now as the thread states, the tea party has for all intents and purposes taken over the Republican party. Those Republicans that would be moderate have effectively been silenced and will either go along with whatever agenda the tea party proposes or disappear in the background.
The tea party knows that they can not take over due to the strength of the Democratic party but they have accomplished one thing to stifle the government business and obstruct the workings of the people's business.
Mark the Congressional tea party leadership, Cruz, Johnson, Lee, Paul, etc. perfect pictures of the demogogues that have led insurgent fascist movements throughout history. The pattern is all the same, create a percieved threat to the nation e.g. United Nations, Communists, Liberals, Muslims, etc. Present themselves as saviors, defenders of freedom, having the solutions to a non-existent threat. Decieve impressionable and marginalized people to support their cause.
Think this is not accurate, read the histories of thr rise of extreme fascist governments.

[Mnemosyne]

17. Wash, rinse, repeat. Welcome libdude!

[Berlum]

23. + 1

[randome]

35. I think we'll see some Republicans join with Democrats as this goes along.

I think Obama sees this, too.

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[onethatcares]

47. I'm just piling on

[Rain Mcloud]

14. Tea Partier's are a peoples movement,no wait that sounds socialist-icky-ish 'n stuff

oh well,whatever,here is a PSA from the former GEICO voice,Lance Baxter AKA DC Douglas.
[link:

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[salin]

31. that is a hilarious tsa

[Berlum]

22. The Cruzer and The Cross (R - Catholic, converted to Southern Baptist).

Senor Raphael "Ted" Cruz (R) was born in Canada. Not that the Bagger Brigade will give a feather or a fig.

[graham4anything]

26. 100% straight democratic voting in 2014 for ALL on everyone's ballots will render teaparty obsolete

very easy to get Darrell Isaa out of the chairmanship and all the others in the house and hold the senate

Just straight democratic.

It cannot be any plainer or easier.

18 to switch the house is all that is needed.

[YeahSureRight]

28. BS far too many Corporate Dems who are not worth support or a vote they are Republicans

who just happen to have a (D) after their name on the ballot.

Using your logic and strategy you would want people to vote for Democratic candidates like David Duke.

Your way is a losing way and is what got the country in the mess that it is in today.

Supporting corporate democrats is no different then voting for and supporting republicans.

[malaise]

27. +1,000

In a sane world they'd be expelled from the party but a sane ReTHUG is an oxymoron

[SummerSnow]

29. Bow to your masters GOP..

The Tea Party is now your leaders.

[Eddie Haskell]

30. Actually

They've combined the worst elements of both parties. We need to change the GOP to the BOB ...
Bigoted Old Bastards party.

[AlinPA]

33. GOP=Teabaggers. They are one and the same.

[JustAnotherGen]

36. This is why I refer to them

As the IndieTeaPublicans.

Independents who are really just disgruntled Right Wingers that didn't get their pony.
TEA Party
Republicons

[Coyotl]

39. Don't you mean The TEARRANY Party?

Tyranny is their pattern of behavior

[kentuck]

40. What should scare these Republicans even more...

..is that the right-wing radio has picked up on the Tea Baggers arguments. Soon they will be on a small island yelling at themselves...

[ProSense]

41. Boehner

"The Tea Party has officially taken over the Republican Party. The so-called 'Republicans' can cut all the pretensions. They have lost their Party to the Tea Party. They can get in line and follow the nutzoids or they can get out of the way."

...basically admitted that. It isn't a "third party." It's the Republican Party.

Republican House: Boehner basically admits that the "inmates have taken over the asylum"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022822084

[Initech]

44. Actually the stupid party and Fox News have taken over the republican party.