teabaggers

How the Tea Party sees Fast Track (source)by Gaius PubliusIn covering the TPP battle between President Obama and the CEO class on the one side, and most of the rest of the country on the other, I've noted that the Tea Party right is as opposed as the "professional" left. (My own TPP coverage is collected here.)Now comes more evidence of that.

At the height of teabagger-mania, a right-wing outfit in the L.A. area, the Patriots League, sent out an endorsement questionnaire to every single Republican running for Congress. We got our hands on some of the responses-- and they are pretty shocking. You want to know why 47 Republican senators could flirt so openly with sedition regarding Iran?

Wednesday "at high noon," the Tea Party's motley true believers, Michele Bachmann, who resigned from Congress as part of a deal to avoid fraud charges, Steve King and Ted Cruz, called for a massive demonstration in Washington against King Obama's amnesty argle bargle. Bachmann on the TV channel of systemic racism, Fox News: "I'm calling on your viewers to come to DC on Wednesday, December 3, at high noon on the west steps of the Capitol.

Mike Enzi or Jeff Sessions? Oh wait, that's actually the much funnier Jeff Sessions look-alike, the late comedian and actor Henry Gibson.by KenOh sure, you could always tell them apart using seat-of-the-pants empricial techniques.

If you want to watch the video, you'll find it here.by KenSo Eric Cantor is already taking the step of stepping down as House majority leader.I want to l

Authentic Miss McConnellTom Beaumont penned a widely distributed story for the A.P. today about the increasing challenges facing those who are trying to reform the Republican Party from within.

If you want to find out which Senate Republicans have the most reactionary and extreme right voting records, you can access that information at ProgressivePunch.

[Click to enlarge.]by KenNow that the nomination of Chris Christie as the 2016 Republican candidate for president is all but official, even as the sure-to-be-virulent "hell no" of the party's farthest-right wing is acknowledged, a spell of craziness.

Okay, fair's fair. This came as an e-mail from "My Democrats," and I've chopped off a button labeled "CHIP IN," out of sheer cussedness at all these e-mails whose purpose turns out to be to shake money out of us.

Why isn't this man crying?"Republicans say, 'Remember one thing. We are standing up for an important principle. And as soon as we figure out what it is, you will be the first to know.' "-- Bill Maher"John Boehner holds the nation hostage because the Tea Party holds him hostage.