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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
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Peter Huck: Tea Party Tactics Set Agenda for Election
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Peter Huck: Tea Party Tactics Set Agenda for Election
Monday August 8, 2011 2:38 AM NZT
NZHerald
Opinion
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/
article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10743327
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3n68x76
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After November's midterm elections, which propelled the Tea Party into
Congress, they became kingmakers, sowing alarm among Republicans.
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Before the debt vote, hardliners pledged to annihilate backsliders at the
next round of primary elections, a threat that evoked Soviet party
commissars shooting soldiers who baulked during battle, and helped explain
how a Republican caucus minority - "on fire with ideological fanaticism,
political ruthlessness and economic heedlessness" according to the New
Yorker - could wield such power, the Tea Party wagging the Republican dog.
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"They can exist as long as activists control the Republican party
nominating process," says Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the
University of Virginia. "Under our system many districts are controlled by
one party. All you need to do is elect your candidate in the nominating
primary and you've got the seat."
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The threat to Grand Old Party incumbents was underlined on Facebook by Tea
Party sweetheart Sarah Palin: "Everybody I talk to still believes in
contested primaries." Michelle Bachmann, House of Representatives Tea
Party caucus leader and GOP presidential contender, was also not for
turning.
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"I won't raise taxes. I will reduce spending. I won't vote to raise the
debt ceiling. And I have the titanium spine to see it through," she
promised the National Press Club.
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She will need that titanium. While the Tea Party proved its power in the
debt battle, it may be a pyrrhic victory. The big question for Tea Party
supporters is whether the debt struggle has been their apogee.
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Their scorched-earth obduracy towards Washington elites may thrill
followers, but it has arguably hurt America's business reputation abroad
and alienated moderate voters. When 22 Tea Party activists rejected House
Speaker John Boehner's "Grand Bargain" with Obama - which quashed tax
increases (no doubt pleasing Charles Koch, Tea Party backer and co-head of
Koch Industries, the largest US private company) - insisting he include a
constitutional amendment to balance the budget, they made him captive to
their demands and weakened the Speaker's authority in his party.
Ironically, the final deal proved worse for the Tea Party than Boehner's
plan, with US$2.4 trillion cut, as against a proposed US$4 trillion.
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Some Tea Party followers feel the deal has not gone far enough and demand
more cuts. "They want a very large portion of it brought down
immediately," says Sabato.
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"It's just not possible. They refuse to acknowledge that."
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Despite inflamed rhetoric opposing a debt increase, many grassroots
supporters did. A CBS poll in July found 66 per cent of Tea Party
supporters favoured compromise. And 53 per cent agreed any deal should
include cuts and tax hikes. Most said the economy and jobs, not the debt,
were their main concern. Others were worried cuts might harm the US
military.
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Essentially, the Tea Party is a protest movement, not a political party.
Antecedents include the Abolitionists before the Civil War, the far left
in the 1960s and 1970s, and Ross Perot, who championed debt control,
achieved by Bill Clinton but torpedoed by President George W. Bush's tax
cuts for the rich that helped swell a US$137 billion surplus in 2001 into
an US$1.2 trillion deficit by 2009.
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Meanwhile, the Tea Party - which Bell calculates has 15 to 20 lawmakers in
the Senate and 60 to 70 in the House - is a divisive loose cannon amid the
party elites they rail against, at odds with the daily challenge of
finding common ground across the aisle to advance the national interest.
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"The Tea Party refuses to accept the nature of American government, which
is compromise," says Sabato. "They just refuse to accept it. They want all
or nothing."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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