Four Reasons the Tea Partiers Were Big Losers in the Debt Ceiling Deal
source: http://www.alternet.org/news/151898/four_reasons_the_tea_partiers_were_big_losers_in_the_deb...
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Once the dust settles on last week's debt ceiling debacle it will be painfully obvious even for those tea party believers that all of us 'peons' are being slowly, and sytematically marched to our financial demise.
The professional political operatives behind the Tea Party movement were huge winners, but what about the rank-and-file Tea Partiers themselves?
The conventional wisdom holds that the Tea Partiers were among the “winners” of the debt ceiling fight. We know this because the Washington Post, that font of Beltway conventional wisdom, told us as much:
There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got 218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
http://www.alternet.org/news/151898/four_reasons_the_tea_partiers_were_big_loser...
The professional political operatives behind the Tea Party movement were huge winners, but what about the rank-and-file Tea Partiers themselves?
The conventional wisdom holds that the Tea Partiers were among the “winners” of the debt ceiling fight. We know this because the Washington Post, that font of Beltway conventional wisdom, told us as much:
There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got 218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
http://www.alternet.org/news/151898/four_reasons_the_tea_partiers_were_big_loser...
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