Hey, tea party. With 'friends' like this, you don't even need liberal enemies.

I agree. To include the Koch brothers' money under "and company fake astroturf protest" minimizes the role played by Koch money.

To a lesser or greater degree many of them could be described as subscribing to most of what is listed here.

The author, Heather did. Here is the article she linked too: http://crooksandliars.com/heather/tyt-cenk-uygur-debates-libertarian-wayne-a

Btw, Heather's correct; David's admittion is weaker, and humorously accidental.

I've been saying that for years. The media had a lot of fun promoting this shite.

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I am surprised that Brooks finally admitted the truth of the 'Baggers. "What could ever go wrong with that special blend of tea?" They could continue to win state and local elections...continuing the dominance of corporations.

but they didn't turn out for Romney, possibly because he wasn't Christian enough for them or because he insulted everyone in the USA and owns dancing horses.

I think 2012 showed us that ultimately you have to stand FOR something. It wasn't enough to just tear down Obama and everything else. Going forward, if they really want to change ACA they will have to propose an alternative; they can't just offer nothing.

being greedy jerks who don't want to pay their own way (ie do not want to pool resources for a sane society - just want to keep it all for themselves). Unfortunately their little creation took on a life of it's own. And sometimes you don't want Frankenstein to do that ...

No, they will offer the American dream to everyone and deliver it to 10 people who were wealthy already. I hope this ignorant electorate wakes up some day.

They court extremists before every election and then cast them aside afterwards. Now those extremists won't shut up and go away.

Once upon a time, politicians used to court the swing voters, the people in the middle who might vote one party in one election and the other party in the next election. The extreme wingers largely got ignored and insulted with names like "the Lunatic Fringe."

Now, in modern times, it seems the campaign money lives in those passionate fringe groups, and politicians don't try to hide their willingness to sell their souls to the highest bidder, no matter how ridiculous the policies they have to pretend to support.

What used to be the Republican Party is now the Tea Party. Joe Biden said it the other day; that there are no Republicans.

or the malady spreads. The GOP have waited too long to do anything about this; the Teabag "base" IS the GOP now.

are his precious Republican base.

brooks did NOT say there is no tea party. quite the contrary; he asserts the tea party is a permanent fixture in the republican party.

The whole "Teat Party" thing was just a desperate attempt to re-brand the Rs as NOT BUSH. Happy to see how divisive that obfuscation has become for them.

There IS no one 'tea party'. It's a bunch of book tours and astroturf interests vying for control of a meme. That's all.

-Laelth

tea party billboards. Exact same people, different branding.

Is just a cynical ploy to draw the wingnuts who don't find the Repugs "conservative enough" back into the fold.

Remember when Sarah Palin said that the Tea Party "should join the Republican party"?

I wonder what he could have done recently that called for some turd polishing...

fox is laughable but dangerous. what makes it dangerous is talk radio, fox's big brother.

Considering this is not what Brooks said at all.

I'm not defending Brooks, but it is wrong to attribute this comment to him, when it was someone else who said it.

It's the GOP's. They own it.

was only an extension of the John Birchers, which was founded by papa Koch. Yes, the R party made a huge mistake to embrace them, but Fox and conservative radio worked hard to make them acceptable, and it worked.

that have been populating the American right for generations.

Having a Black Democratic president and tons of Koch money just gave them a huge shot in the arm.

It's the group of idiot Americans who couldn't even NAME a single president until they woke up one morning and to their HORROR they saw the black guy had won.

The guy they figured had no chance because,...he was, like, black and stuff.

So they asked one question, "How did THAT happen?" and started channel flipping to the news and stumbled onto FOX "News" who's big star back then was Glenn Beck who was more than happy to tell them EXACTLY how this Muslim stole the election with the help of ACORN. Then FOX "News" told them all about the Tea Party and where to go for the next meeting and local media covered the gatherings of doughy looking white people wanting their country back.

themselves. It worked in 2010, but my view is that the rest of voters have wised up to the ruse. Brooks seems to be running hard to dis-associate himself from teabags. Looks like Brooks' white-shoe set has grown weary of the fools that they went out to do their bidding, but who are now snarling and biting the legs of their masters.

and ran away with,then tried to portray occupy as freaks,hippies,drug addicts,bums,etc..

Your bad; so sad.

best line..

None....When they find a dim bulb, they run it for Congress

But they think that we're not spending enough money on Defense.

Gods help us.