Is the tea party running out of steam?

[Peacetrain]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0412/Is-the-tea-party-running-out-of-steam


Very interesting read.. we can only hope

[yeoman6987]

1. I hope

I really worry about 2015 and 2016 if we have even more of those crazies in Congress. The problem is that every Republican is being called a Tea Party but that is not true. We need to seriously weed out the true Tea Party folks and then go for the moderate Republicans. Our priority should be to vote of course but especially vote in those Tea Party districts.

[BillZBubb]

2. There are no moderate Republicans left.

Unless you define moderate as not totally insane.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. All the "moderate," sane Republicans left the GOP for the Democratic Party.

[Timez Squarez]

5. Someone had it right the other day - the Tea Party has merged..

into the Republican Party

The appropriate wording is Tea Party Republicans.

Use it often.

And will visit your fine state tomorrow for a few days...

[AlinPA]

12. Moderate republicans? The teabaggers totally control the GOP now. The government shutdown

and threat to allow the US to default on its debt showed that. They were led by two teabaggers: Cruz and Boehner.

[xfundy]

3. They ran out of brains a long time ago.

Two old friends from HS/College are Pee Tardiers. We no longer speak as a direct result.

[Timez Squarez]

4. The tea party ran out of steam two years ago.

And they're just huffing and puffing and wheezing through nothing.

And the voters are angry and furious about the Teabaggers and ready to throw them out this November.

Yes, I'm going to predict right now and right here that The Tea Party is finished and the Democratic House will be finally achieved after missing it for 4 years.

Senate remains status quo despite the changing of guard, in other words, Turtle is no more.

[SevenSixtyTwo]

6. Extremists

on the far right or left do their parties more harm than good. The Tea Party is just another lunatic fringe that's about run it's course.

[blkmusclmachine]

9. "Extremists" on the Left

[AlinPA]

13. IMO, the teabaggers are the heart and soul of the GOP now. They are not a "fringe" part of the GOP,

they are the base.

[workinclasszero]

14. Thats true

I work with a bunch of republican tea baggers. To a person they are brain washed by hate radio and think the president is the anti Christ or close enough for them.

Every single one of them votes against their own self interests and those of their own children every damn time they get a chance!
The levels of ignorance, intolerance and just plain stupidity is amazing in these people!

They want to believe in their own hateful world view so much they willing sacrifice their own children on the randian alter of greed and avarice.


Every one of them are white, most are older and most claim to be christian. The hate they express for liberals, progressives and democrats in general is frighting at times.

They are truly the American Taliban.

[AlinPA]

15. I know a lot of people in a few small towns around where I live. The "republicans" are all teabagger

type. I don't know any "moderate republicans" and I associate with all levels of the economic spectrum. It seens all the older republicans have gone teabagger crazy, probably from watching Fox 'news'.

[stuckinodi]

7. They had a huge win today

[blkmusclmachine]

10. What did I miss? More "bi-partisanship"?!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. I (sort of) hope so

I don't really want the Republican Party to "recover" electorally from their apparent death spiral but it would be nice to have a few more Republicans in office whom aren't so totally committed to obstructionism-at-any-cost and actually believe in functioning government no matter who is in the WH.