Debt ceiling talks: Whose fault?

NoDrama said:

The Tea party is too small and junior to make a big enough difference, the only thing they can do is give more options to the Democrats.

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Dan Kone said:

The tea party turned into a sham almost as quickly as it started. A natural assembly of people with real concerns but no voice is an easy target for politicians, corporate interests, and the ultra wealthy. It took about a month for it to turn from a group of people pissed off at Washington for it's poor money management into a tool of the far social conservative right wing of the republican party. Most of the people who got elected as tea party endorsed candidates in 2010 have spent the majority of their time in office going after abortion. They could give a shit less about spending, the deficit, jobs, etc. They wanted power and saw a group of people they could manipulate into giving it to them and went for it.

The original tea party has been drown out by nut jobs.

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Dan Kone said:

The tea party turned into a sham almost as quickly as it started. A natural assembly of people with real concerns but no voice is an easy target for politicians, corporate interests, and the ultra wealthy. It took about a month for it to turn from a group of people pissed off at Washington for it's poor money management into a tool of the far social conservative right wing of the republican party. Most of the people who got elected as tea party endorsed candidates in 2010 have spent the majority of their time in office going after abortion. They could give a shit less about spending, the deficit, jobs, etc. They wanted power and saw a group of people they could manipulate into giving it to them and went for it.

The original tea party has been drown out by nut jobs.

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