[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: Tea Party's Next Targets
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- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 03:02:40 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS:
Tea Party's Next Targets
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Blocking judges and federal appointees and even killing the gas tax might
be next for the band of ragtag obstructionist rebels known as the Tea
Party.
Aug 7, 2011 10:00 AM EDT
Daniel Stone, Eleanor Clift
The Daily Beast
U.S. Politics
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/07/
tea-party-s-next-targets-blocking-
judicial-appointees-killing-gas-tax.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3beybjq
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As the nation sweated the very real possibility that America would default
on its debt, a band of the freshman congressmen blamed for the standoff
gathered for a long-promised pot of seafood gumbo at the home of Rep.
Steve Southerland (R-FL), just a few blocks from the panicked Capitol.
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These 19 Tea Party freshmen, as theyve become knownderided as terrorists
by Vice President Joe Biden and bizarro by their own Republican Party
icons like John McCainshowed no remorse about bringing the nation to the
brink of financial Armageddon.
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Instead, they calmly traded stories about families and what brought them
to politics, poked fun at their accusers, and reveled in the satisfaction
of knowing they had dramatically brought Washington to its kneeseventually
to accept a deal, bitter to both parties, that slices $2.4 trillion from
federal spending over the next decade without any immediate tax hikes.
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This ragtag band of proud obstructionists is already looking down the
calendar to its next targets: blocking President Obamas judicial and
federal-agency nominations, radically restructuring Medicare and other
entitlement programs, and maybe even killing the gasoline tax.
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There are some more things we want to go afterwe're not done, said Rep.
Jeff Landry (R-LA), who stood in the kitchen and stirred the pot of
seafood gumbo that night. Now his fellow cast of novice politicians hopes
to collectively stir a pot of political fear and anger unseen in a
generation or two in Washington, if ever.
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Jawboned into spending concessions they could never have imagined weeks
ago, the White House and Democrats are no longer underestimating the GOPs
Tea Party wing and plan to mount a relentless campaign this fall to
pillory the group as extremist and hypocritical.
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Its about destroying the public space, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
told Newsweek, testing a line certain to make the fall attacks. They did
win [the debt-ceiling debate]. But they didnt win it with the American
people. They dont believe in government roles and we need to make sure
the public knows it.
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Matt Bennett, of the Democratic group Third Way, expects Democrats to
castigate the Tea Party as reckless.
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You can paint the entire Republican Party with the Tea Party, that these
people are crazy ideologues, not fit to govern. Theyre revolutionaries,
Bennett says.
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Hypocrisy may also enter the equation.
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For instance, while he was a constant presence on TV preaching the Tea
Partys mantra of getting Americas fiscal house in order, Illinois freshman
Rep. Joe Walsh was stung by a story about his own fiscal house when the
Chicago Sun-Times revealed he owes more than $100,000 in back child
support.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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