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The official end of the Tea Party
Posted on 7/23/19 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 7/23/19 at 4:58 pm
Remember that movement? Ah, the good ole days.
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LINK
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The story begins a decade ago, when a budget deficit that had declined to a modest $161 billion by 2007 was hit with the Great Recession.
Horrified by Washington spenders, CNBC’s Rick Santelli stood on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009, and called for a “tea party” to end the bailouts, stimulus payments, and red ink. Grassroots tea-party groups formed — further enraged by the later enactment of an expensive new Obamacare entitlement — and helped Republicans capture the House in 2010 with a stunning 63-seat pickup and also pick up seven Senate seats.
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President Trump and congressional leaders are nearing a deal that would raise the discretionary-spending caps by $320 billion over two years and offset less than one-quarter of those costs (and even those offsets would take a decade to materialize). The budget deal would essentially repeal the final two years of the 2011 Budget Control Act and raise the baseline for future discretionary spending by nearly $2 trillion over the decade.
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By 2017, a Pew poll showed that just 15 percent of Republicans supported paring back the escalating costs of Medicare or Social Security to bring down the deficit
Posted on 7/23/19 at 4:59 pm to TejasHorn
One of the most successful movements in political history.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 4:59 pm to TejasHorn
Cutting spending is hopeless
Neither side has the guts for it. People who are hoping for some Republican to swoop in and gut spending may as well hope Thor comes down to the floor of the House to kick arse
Neither side has the guts for it. People who are hoping for some Republican to swoop in and gut spending may as well hope Thor comes down to the floor of the House to kick arse
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:00 pm to USA Dan
Successful in getting elected
The end goal? Not so much
The end goal? Not so much
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:01 pm to TejasHorn
We're in this spiral until we inflate ourselves out. It's the only realistic solution at this point. Neither side is going to cut spending, so we're just going to have to inflate ourselves out.
Time to buy some Swiss Francs for SHTF day when we make our 35 trillion debt into about $3.50.
Time to buy some Swiss Francs for SHTF day when we make our 35 trillion debt into about $3.50.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:02 pm to NIH
Well we did finally get a tax cut.
Same people are around and still voting for conservative candidates. We just aren't called the TEA (taxed enough already) party anymore.
We mostly jumped on the MAGA train and are speeding along nicely.
Same people are around and still voting for conservative candidates. We just aren't called the TEA (taxed enough already) party anymore.
We mostly jumped on the MAGA train and are speeding along nicely.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:03 pm to NIH
No one cares about deficits except a small offshoot of the former GOP.
Bailing out A$AP, sticking it to lib congresswomen and hag actresses on twitter, and never ending campaign rallies are much more exciting... and all we have the attention span for anyhow.
Bailing out A$AP, sticking it to lib congresswomen and hag actresses on twitter, and never ending campaign rallies are much more exciting... and all we have the attention span for anyhow.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:04 pm to USA Dan
The Tea Party was formed re spending. The Republicans didn’t so shite to curb that
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:06 pm to TejasHorn
Never speak of those domestic terrorists again.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:06 pm to NIH
The Government's answer to the Tea Party was to never actually pass another budget.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:08 pm to TejasHorn
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Bailing out A$AP, sticking it to lib congresswomen and hag actresses on twitter, and never ending campaign rallies are much more exciting... and all we have the attention span for anyhow.
Oh how cute.
An "own the cons" gotcha, knowing your party would spend us to oblivion if they could.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:08 pm to TejasHorn
When you can’t even cut special olympics funding without a riot forming, things are hopeless
Too many pigs at the trough
Too many pigs at the trough
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:10 pm to USA Dan
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One of the most successful movements in political history.
Then it let itself get conflated with all kinds of ancillary issues like abortion and Barry’s birth certificate.
Stay focused and pound the core message.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:13 pm to Ag Zwin
Taxed Enough Already, got a tax cut? Hmm....
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:13 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Romney was literally Hitler for trying to cut PBS
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:23 pm to TejasHorn
Didn't Obama sic the IRS on the Tea Party?
I mean, that's undisputed, is it not?
Trump should do that to OFA, MoveOn, #JusticeDemocrats, etc.
I mean, fair is fair, right?
I mean, that's undisputed, is it not?
Trump should do that to OFA, MoveOn, #JusticeDemocrats, etc.
I mean, fair is fair, right?
Posted on 7/23/19 at 5:24 pm to TejasHorn
Yeah...remember all the violence they created, vandalism, attacks on others that didn’t believe the same way they did...
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:05 pm to TejasHorn
The Tea Party turned out to be a total joke on fiscal policy.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:07 pm to TejasHorn
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Bailing out A$AP, sticking it to lib congresswomen and hag actresses on twitter, and never ending campaign rallies are much more exciting... and all we have the attention span for anyhow.
frick you
Trump has NOTHING to work with regarding spending.
He tries to do something about food stamps and he is "taking food from the ouths of the poor".
He can't sneeze without some jackass judge stopping him.
Posted on 7/23/19 at 6:08 pm to TejasHorn
I don't care about spending cuts anymore because they will never happen. After Trump is gone, the USA accelerates at warp speed to the Left.
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