Tea baggers get a slap in the face ("lame duck" Congress)

[underpants]

Tea Party Activists Angry at G.O.P. Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/us/politics/02teaparty.html?hpw


Just a month ago, Tea Party leaders were celebrating their movement’s victories in the midterm elections. But as Congress wrapped up an unusually productive lame-duck session last month, those same Tea Party leaders were lamenting that Washington behaved as if it barely noticed that American voters had repudiated the political establishment.

In their final days controlling the House, Democrats succeeded in passing legislation that Tea Party leaders opposed, including a bill to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks, an arms-control treaty with Russia, a food safety bill and a repeal of the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military.

YOU OPPOSED THAT?

“We sent them a message that we expect them to go home and come back newly constituted and do something different,” Mr. Meckler said. “For them to legislate when they’ve collectively lost their mandate just shows the arrogance of the ruling elite. I can’t imagine being repudiated in the way they were and then coming back and saying ‘Now that we’ve been repudiated, let’s go pass some legislation.’ ”

“I’m surprised by how blatant it was,” he added.

Tea Party leaders scoffed at the Republicans’ greatest victory from the lame-duck session — the extension of the Bush tax cuts as part of a compromise with the White House. Instead, Tea Party leaders complained that Republicans had abandoned a push for a full repeal of the estate tax.

Despite its victories in November — more than 40 candidates supported by the Tea Party were elected to the House and Senate — the Tea Party lost battles for important leadership positions. Tea Party Patriots, for instance, had backed Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia to be chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, also a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, criticized Republicans for choosing Representative Harold Rogers of Kentucky instead, saying he was likely “to continue the big-spending, pork-barrel ways that lost Republicans the majority four years ago.”

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Shoulda have voted, Liberterian, teabaggers

You get what you voted for, asswipe!

If you don't like America, fucking move to Somalia and form your own state there.

Hawkeye-X

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Poor 'baggers, even their parents (GOP) don't like them

Ye reap what ye sow.

[lonestarnot]

11. They want them out of their fucking basements!

[zbdent]

3. Didn't the 'baggers get the memo?

as soon as the elections were over, their checks would clear, and they would be able to go back to the AM radio whining ... but no "bad-mouthing" of their candidates ... their "funders" told them their work was done, and go home and support the next batch of Republicans ... they'll come up with a new name for the "angry whites" for 2012 ...

[Hydra]

9. +1000

I wonder when the payments the them are going to stop- as a paid movement, the traction was only enough to take a few people's eye off the ball.

[zbdent]

10. Like Bush43's "prebate" in 2001 ...

everybody who cheered the Repugs were saying "Hey, I got $300!" ... but they never mentioned that the $300 was actually an advance from their tax return ...

[napi21]

4. I'm actually looking forward to what happens in the House

beginning in January. There may be 40 teabaggers in the Pubs party, but I have a suspicion they won't have the amount of control they think they will. I think Boner is going to be doing a lot of hand wringing in the coatroom th next 2 years!

[GoCubsGo]

5. Dear republicans...

Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.

Idiots. Serves them right. I will enjoy all the infighting, too, even though this country can't afford all the gridlock it will cause.

[CC]

6. They voted GOP

they got GOP, did they really think the GOP was going to do what they ran on this time? :rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

7. oh dear god -- they wanted Jack Kingston to run the house appropriations committee?

The man is a total frigging LOON.

But even if he had gotten the nod - he would have turned into the biggest porker around -- Georgia lives for all the pork from washington.

[pacalo]

8. Looking at the list of what they're against, that's about as anti-American as one could get.

The election wasn't a repudiation of the Democrats! Only those Democrats who voted with the Republicans were run out of office, plus the Republican majority Supreme Court's Citizen United decision gave that victory to the corporate-worshipping Republicans. And the teabaggers were created by corporations & Fixed News, so their anger means that these bills aren't stomping on the people.