Hayworth to become Tea Party spokesman

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http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/119599-hayworth-new-tea-party-spokesman

The Tea Party is expected to announce that former Rep. JD Hayworth (R-Ariz.) will become a national spokesperson for the movement, a source close to the matter told The Hill.

Despite Hayworth's unwavering support of tax cuts enacted by President George W. Bush and seeking to permanently end taxes on capital gains and estates, the Tea Party earlier this year did not back his bid to unseat Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Four of the state's largest tea party groups refused to endorse him because of his voting record in Congress.

"The tea party is a non-partisan, grassroots movement that stands for limited government, free markets and fiscal responsibility," said Robert Mayer of the Tucson Tea Party, according to new reports from March. "Both McCain and Hayworth's records during their many years in Washington leave much to be desired on these issues."

[Ken Burch]

1. It'll keep him off welfare, I guess...

n/t.

[Bobbieo]

2. Why does this NOT surprise me?

[Ken Burch]

5. It would've been a better story if he'd lost the job to Linda Chavez, though.

n/t.

[rpannier]

3. He can let all the tea baggers know how they can get free gov't money nt

[madinmaryland]

4. Get a Brain, Hayworth!

[Ken Burch]

7. Shouldn't that be "Get a Brane, Heywurth!"?

n/t.

[spanone]

6. he's the perfect asshole for the job! obnoxious and mean spirited.

[NYC Liberal]

8. teabaggers aren't partisan or grassroots.

The teabagging has been pushed, funded, and organized from the top down by corporations such as Fox and by right-wing Republicans.

If teabaggers were so interested in "limited government" and if they weren't partisan, where were they for the last 8 years when the REPUBLICAN PARTY increased the government bureacracy to unprecedented size? Where were they when trillions of dollars were being wasted by REPUBLICANS on a ill-begotten war? Where were they when the government was rounding up US citizens and hauling them off to secret prison camps halfway around the world and keeping them imprisoned for years without charges?

If you talk to teabaggers, all of the country's problems started on 1/20/2009.