Eric Cantor / Tea Party

[conservativedav]

Tuesday night their was a change in American politics. Majority leader Eric Cantor being defeated could make a statement. This statement being the Republican party is changing is this good or bad for the Republican party?

 

[Indeependent]

Let's see what happens when a Tea Partier is visited by a lobbyist.

 

[Dr Grump]

Every time a tea party candidate wins something, Dems all over America have a orgasm. Their job to be re/elected just got a whole lot easier....

 

[Lakhota]

Colbert On The Tea Party: 'IT'S ALIVE!!!'

Colbert Celebrates The Tea Party's 'Frankenstein'-Like Return From The Dead

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Tuesday night their was a change in American politics. Majority leader Eric Cantor being defeated could make a statement. This statement being the Republican party is changing is this good or bad for the Republican party?

What it is, is good for the Dems.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Tuesday night their was a change in American politics. Majority leader Eric Cantor being defeated could make a statement. This statement being the Republican party is changing is this good or bad for the Republican party?

Actually not, it’s still pretty much business as usual.

TPM republicans can still hurt Old Guard republicans from time to time, that hasn’t changed, and the defeat of Cantor is hardly representative of the Nation as a whole, or the GOP overall, given the low voter turnout and democrats voting in the primary.

Cantor’s defeat was an entertaining political anomaly, little more.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Tuesday night their was a change in American politics. Majority leader Eric Cantor being defeated could make a statement. This statement being the Republican party is changing is this good or bad for the Republican party?

I must fix this:

"Tuesday night there was a change in American politics. Majority-leader Eric Cantor was defeated. This means the Republican party is changing. Is this a good or a bad thing for the future of the Republican party?"

I feel better now.

 

[Lakhota]

I enjoy political cartoons. Goodnight...

 

[Avatar4321]

I enjoy political cartoons. Goodnight...

Problem is your cartoons are dishonest. The Republicans didn't create the Tea party. The people did.

 

[Siete]

I enjoy political cartoons. Goodnight...

Problem is your cartoons are dishonest. The Republicans didn't create the Tea party. The people did.

and Bush was the stimulating factor ... no bash on 43 either
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Today Obama is the central villain in tea-party rhetoric, and Bush is hardly ever mentioned. Yet the rebellion against Big Government that the tea party has come to embody really began more than a decade ago with a growing sense of betrayal among conservatives over Bush's runaway-spending habits. Conservatives were angered by his refusal to veto any spending bills, especially in his first term, not to mention what happened during the nearly six years of GOP control of the Senate and House from 2000 to '06, when federal spending grew to a record $2.7 trillion, more than doubling the increase during Bill Clinton's two terms. The final outrage that lit the brushfires of tea-party fervor was Bush's sponsorship of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program in the fall of 2008, just before he left office, in order to bail out Wall Street.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/who-...w-bush-he-gave-rise-to-the-tea-party-20131003

 

[Interpol]

I enjoy political cartoons. Goodnight...

Problem is your cartoons are dishonest. The Republicans didn't create the Tea party. The people did.

The people did NOT create the Tea Party. The Tea Party has been funded by the likes of the Koch brothers and other special wealthy interests. They've funded massive organizing drives, websites, social media campaigns, direct mail, commercial ads, bus rides to protests.

The only reason the Tea Party has mostly receded in the last year or so is that those big money guys got worried at the Frankenstein they created, which was actually toying with default on America's obligations. When the big money guys got spooked by the Tea Party, they took a step back, and in doing so, we've seen less Tea Party around.

Simple as that. The Tea Party is definitely not a grassroots movement. They're the Birchers and a couple other factions that have been around a long time, and who got culled together and funded.