[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING : TAXES AND TAXATION: UNITED STATES: POLITICS: Is the Tea Party Over?
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- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 10:21:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Is the Tea Party Over?
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Is the Tea Party Over?
Clarence Page
August 7, 2011
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/
ct-oped-0807-page-20110807,0,1454378.column
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Has the tea party peaked? Republican lawmakers affiliated with the upstart
anti-tax movement scored big in the nerve-racking debt-ceiling debacle,
but the victory left enough hard feelings to feed the movement's ultimate
defeat.
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To quote an old Chicago White Sox slogan from the 1980s, their achievement
was a case of "winning ugly."
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With the nation's credit rating in the balance, the tea partiers seized
the normally routine matter of raising the nation's debt ceiling and held
it hostage, gangsta-style: Cut government spending our way, they reasoned,
and nobody gets hurt.
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In the end, after weeks of partisan fighting, President Barack Obama
signed without joy or ceremony a budget bill that avoided a credit
default. It cuts $2 trillion in spending over the next decade, yet shaves
barely a sliver off of the expected growth in the national debt during
that period.
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That's largely because the bill doesn't include tax increases, a tea party
no-no. Instead the savings come entirely from cuts in programs and
benefits. And Friday night, ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded
the U.S. government's credit rating, saying the compromise deal doesn't
sufficiently reduce deficits.
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Are there any reasons why this could hurt the "teas" and their allies? I
can think of three: Disappointment, divisiveness and dangerous disregard.
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Disappointment
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Polls indicate growing numbers of the public think the teas have become
part of the problem they came to Washington to cure.
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Divisiveness
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The tea party movement grew out of conservatives' frustration with a
Washington they saw as taxing and spending too much by both parties.
Republican leadership, still shaken from 2006 election losses, welcomed
the new energy that led to a comeback in the 2010 midterm elections. But
fissures in the uneasy alliance between the teas and the party
establishment showed themselves.
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Dangerous disregard
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Even fellow conservatives are beginning to speak out against the
frightening radical ax tea party folks want to swing at government
spending. "Don't call them conservatives," fumed conservative Hal Gordon,
who wrote speeches for the Ronald Reagan White House and for Colin Powell,
in a blog post. "Call them Banana Republicans if you like or
Republicans-Gone-Bananas."
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