Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

[Peacetrain]

:popcorn: Karma my friends.. Karma
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/28157

While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-Big Government tea party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party.

Whether it’s the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organizational role or the state-level activists who are channeling grass-roots anger into action back home, tea party forces are confronting the Republican establishment by backing insurgent conservatives and generating their own candidates — even if it means taking on GOP incumbents.

“We will be a headache for anyone who believes the Constitution of the United States … isn’t to be protected,” said Dick Armey, chairman of the anti-tax and limited government advocacy group FreedomWorks, which helped plan and promote the tea parties, town hall protests and the September ‘Taxpayer March’ in Washington. “If you can’t take it seriously, we will look for places of other employment for you.”

[Kdillard]

1. Hilarious and richly deserved.

[Arkana]

2. This is good news for Democrats--their otherwise strong opponents

will get ousted by frothing teabaggers.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. hmmmm remind me again...how do you spell schadenfreude?

[Peacetrain]

5. Bingo!

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

15. I have to confess to a bit of a smile myself....

:thumbsup: :hi:

[tanyev]

21. Super cali fragilistic schadenfreudelicious!

Did you know you get a posting error if you have a long subject without any spaces? Just now found that out.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Machiavelli, How Many Kinds Of Soldiery There Are, And Concerning Mercenaries

Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. They are ready enough to be your soldiers whilst you do not make war, but if war comes they take themselves off or run from the foe; which I should have little trouble to prove, for the ruin of Italy has been caused by nothing else than by resting all her hopes for many years on mercenaries, and although they formerly made some display and appeared valiant amongst themselves, yet when the foreigners came they showed what they were.

http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince12.htm

[JNelson6563]

25. Yes, it seems they've lost their Machiavellian touch.

Now they too have many groups wanting their pet project only to be focused on, fuck all the others. Just like the left. How fabulous we're dealing now with a more level playing field.

Julie

[Lerkfish]

6. yup. I could see this coming. Why couldn't the republicants?

[Peacetrain]

8. My son predicted that the Republican Party would split in two

or three factions that would be so fractured it would not be an effective party fro at least 15 years till they sorted the factions out. He may have hit the nail on the head. He said, the religious right, the libertarians, and the just plain angry at the world would bring it apart.

Looks like Turd Blossoms coalition is about to blow the republicans up.

What Bush and company did to the United States, they also did to the republican party

[boppers]

7. Lie with dogs...

Wake up with a collar around your neck and somebody yelling gibberish at you?

Something like that.

[Peacetrain]

9. Yep a flea bitten philosophy for sure!!

[rasputin1952]

10. Dick Armey...That's all needed to see to know this is going to be...

a complete failure...:rofl:

[Peacetrain]

12. A thing of joy isn't it

:rofl:

[zbdent]

11. "We's gots to tell these ledurs that wes' ain't no

lunatik fringers ... we are the Amerkans what ain't not allowed a voice! Show us the gift certificate!"

[Peacetrain]

13. Orlyisms.....

no doubt

[BrklynLiberal]

16. It would appear this woman was off the deep end even before she became a birther.

"Before her national news exposure, Taitz had previously been personally involved in 22 lawsuits in Orange County civil court.<9> Most of the cases involved "accusations of dental and medical malpractice" and breach of contract suits"

-Wikipedia

Guess she feels since SHE could never be President, Obama should not be either...

[Kind of Blue]

14. Finally. I guess Lindsay Graham's statement that Beck is not

part of the Republican Party has finally sunk in.

[uponit7771]

17. The GOP's approval rating is now close to Bush's, they're not doin too good and that's fine with me

[Kind of Blue]

18. Music to my ears too, uponit7771. Time to break out the

popcorn and I'll have some wine with it to match their whines. :fistbump:

[ampad]

19. I do not think they will haunt us in 2010

I'm not worried about them getting at dems when 2010 rolls around. The media seems to forget that they are a small fraction of the population. Just because they make up a good majority of the repig party does not mean they make up a good majority of the voting population. I think this is great news for dems. Let them eat their own. We all knew it was coming once we saw how much of a hold the religious right had on the repig party.

[Skittles]

20. lol they care so much about the Constitution

except when bush was wiping his ass with it for the past eight fucking years

[GoCubsGo]

22. They eat their own...

And, they're going to have one hell of a case of indigestion when this is all over. Knock yourselves out, assholes!

[Peacetrain]

23. It is a thing of joy to watch...

:hi:... could not happen to a more deserving crew of nimrods

[Mr. Sparkle]

24. Isn't this in a nutshell, Dick Army a republican lobbyist saying any congressman who dose not do ..

our bidding, we are going to try and get you unelected? Army could not give a fuck about the Constitution, he is doing the work of the corporations.

Get job by Politico! :-(

[Blue_Tires]

26. the tea parties biting the hand that feeds them? lol

[RepublicanElephant]

27. sharks...

"Once, off the hump of Brazil I saw the ocean so darkened with blood it was black and the sun fainting away over the lip of the sky. We'd put in at Fortaleza, and a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing. It was me had the first strike. A shark it was. Then there was another, and another shark again, 'till all about, the sea was made of sharks and more sharks still, and no water at all. My shark had torn himself from the hook, and the scent, or maybe the stain it was, and him bleeding his life away drove the rest of them mad. Then the beasts took to eating each other. In their frenzy, they ate at themselves. You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea. I never saw anything worse... until this little picnic tonight. And you know, there wasn't one of them sharks in the whole crazy pack that survived."
Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles), "The Lady from Shanghai", predicting today's gop.