Some tea partiers are urging their leaders to compromise on debt deal

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Source: The Washington Post

The partisan standoff over raising the federal debt ceiling could do more than destroy the nation’s credit rating and economic health. It could make or break the long-term prospects for the political movement that birthed the fight: the tea party.

No moment has more dramatically illustrated the influence the tea party wields in Washington than the looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling and avoid sending the country into default. Demanding deep cuts in federal spending, no new taxes and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, tea party-backed lawmakers have forced Republicans and Democrats alike to consider proposals that were unthinkable just a few months ago.

But as a deal was being crafted in Washington on Sunday, it was unclear whether the public, or even members of the far-flung tea party movement itself, would hold the fledgling movement responsible for the crisis that sent the country to the brink of default. The tea party’s moment of victory could quickly turn to defeat if more and more Americans blame it for pushing its agenda too far.

Even some tea party activists agree. They say the politicians who are rejecting compromise in the name of tea party principles are misreading the views of the movement itself. They worry that, if the public blames the tea party for a default, the tea party’s influence — and electoral fortunes — will suffer. And those activists worry that such an outcome could end the momentum in Washington to improve the nation’s fiscal health over the long-term.

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1. Poor deluded fools.

This is all your fault. Think next time before voting for terrorists.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Good. Let 'em sweat.

Walk it back if you can, assholes. Damage is done.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. What did they think they were getting into by electing all of these clowns?

and why weren't they worried about this earlier? We've known about this looming problem for months now and they've been adamant about refusing to raise the debt ceiling since they were elected. I guess they'll have to live with the consequences of their failure to act to reign in the extremists. Are there really actually any Tea Party activists whom are not insane?
:nopity:

[loyalsister]

4. Despite Democratic compromise

I won't be fully convinced that what the tea party and republicans have done "worked" until after 2012 elections.

[Plucketeer]

5. I volunteer

to operate the flush handle. I'd be happy to facilitate the baggers towards steeping in their deserved septic tea pot.

[DesertFlower]

6. i'll be there with you.

[Waiting For Everyman]

7. K&R

[jwirr]

8. Ah, they are learning how to play the game!

:sarcasm:

[guruoo]

9. And now it appears they have the game right where

it wants them.

[hootinholler]

10. Thanks to the Kochs and Dick Armey!

Those are the fuckers that whacked the hornet's nest.

-Hoot

[aquart]

12. Deluded tools.

They didn't even do it for direct cash transfers to a Swiss account.

[cstanleytech]

11. On the other hand this might explain partly why the gop leadership has been

so "willing" to go along with the tea party members so far in order to let them dig their own graves as it were for the next election so they can be replaced with a republican who will follow orders and not raise a stink as much.

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[Lasher]

14. Fuck all the teabaggers, there is nothing they can do to redeem themselves.

In Greek mythology the gods had a favorite way of punishing mortals, by giving them exactly what it was that they thought they wanted. These fascists are just starting to realize their Social Security and Medicare benefits will be included in the destruction they have insisted on. Maybe they'll feel better about it if they parade around some more in their colonial costumes some more.

[certainot]

15. the teabaggers are talk radio dittoheads, nothing more, and they'll compromise when limbaugh lets th

them- never.

they take their orders from the radio. that godly voice they hear is on the radio. katey couric should have asked palin who she listens to , not who she reads

that's why they have so much power- they have the biggest megaphone in the country and the Left has no clue where they really came from.

[jkilvik]

16. Nothing left to compromise on...

I'm surprised the Tea Party can still find something, short of criminalizing union membership, that Obama & Reid haven't already compromised on.

[McCamy Taylor]

17. Too little, too late. In 2012 they are officially the party that wants grandma to pay 60% of her

medical bills out of her own pocket.

[peace frog]

18. So, suddenly the lemmings realize they're jumping off a cliff

and NOW they want to re-think the whole deal? EPIC FAIL.

Lesson: Never overestimate the intelligence of the RW.