[tomder55]

Yesterday both the President and VP made reference to the Tea Party takeover of the Republican Party in their attacks. The President is contemplating a national ad campaign to spread his smears.There are also certain establishment Republicans who will echo this... evidently preferring kool-aid to tea .

The President's line is subtle . He does not want to alienate the populist support that the Tea Party has generated.He calls it part of a "noble tradition of being healthily skeptical about government...[and] saying that government should pay its way."At the same time he calls them misguided for aiming at him. In a jump the shark moment ,he pointed the finger of fiscal irresponsibilty at the Republicans, while making the bizarre and absurd claim that he's the one that believes in a limited, fiscally conservative government.
Obama: Tea Party "Misidentifying" Deficit Culprits - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

The Veep went further ,and identified the Republicans as interchangeable with the Tea Party.
Biden: 'The Republican Tea Party is the alternative' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

And of course ,on cue ,the Democrat establishment and the dinosaur media have been given their marching orders and are dutifully compliant. Fast Eddie Rendell Governor of Pa.(soon to be ex Governor) regurgitated the administration talking point.

“The refrain that I would take,” he said, “is if you vote for a Republican you are probably taking a step toward ensuring that the Republican Party is going to get control of the reins of the House, and the party itself is going to be influenced by the Tea Partiers.”

Donna Brazile chimed in for the Washington Compost:
The good news is that the Tea Party Republicans are taking over the Republican Party. The bad news is that the Tea Party Republicans are taking over the Republican Party. The party of Eisenhower and Reagan is moribund, usurped by the party of Tea Partyers shouting loudly for something, or perhaps nothing at all.
washingtonpost.com

You really have to laugh at the left's sudden appreciation of President Reagan ,and their description of him as a moderate. I don't recall such love while he was President .

“our strategy is to help voters understand that what these folks are talking about is so far out of the American mainstream that they represent a clear and present danger to the political health of the country.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/we...f=weekinreview

What they represent in fact is a clear and present danger to the status quo political parties and their disregard to the health for the nation.

But will this strategery succeed ? I think not. I think instead that the President has blundered as he has often done in his term by not knowing when to shut his pie hole. By lashing out at the Tea Party he has given them a new legitimacy. He is also tossing his own under the bus as many of the trojan horses(moderates recruited by the Dems to run for Congress) of the 2006 -2008 Democrat takeover of Congress are in the fight of their lives against the populist rage for their reckless fiscal spending ,and the disastrous direction the President and Pelosi /Reid are leading the country .

A hand picked group at a Town Hall meeting turned ugly on the President . One women complained that she was weary of defending him ,and asked him if she must resign to the fact that her family is feeding again on franks and beans. (what ? No kobe steak and arugula... or lobster dinners ?)

TOTUS couldn't bail him out of that question . There were no strawmen in the room... only the straw house that he has erected . The tsunami coming is going to blow it down.

[Catsmine]

So it's no longer Bush's fault. With Rove on the outs with the Tea Party Patriots, it can't be. So it must now become the Tea Party's fault.

Once again, "They ... acted stupidly." (add your own subject for 'they')

[tomder55]

Yeah the Tea Party is now tied to the whipping post. The Bushies ;although not completely absolved yet(in a recent poll more a greater percentage of voters want the Bushies back than his final approval rating when he left office)... have been flayed enough. The Obots have to take ownership .
The finger pointing at the unhinged Tea Party rubes has gone international . You may not know it yet ;but they are responsible for global warming... ooops I mean 'global climate disruption".
White House changes 'global warming' to 'global climate disruption' | Mail Online
We are heading back to a return of the Dark Ages because of the Tea Party.

Hanging over everything is the growing recognition that the United States isn't going to play. Not this year, perhaps not in any year. If Congress couldn't pass a climate bill so feeble that it consisted of little but loopholes while Barack Obama was president and the Democrats had a majority in both houses, where does hope lie for action in other circumstances? Last Tuesday the Guardian reported that of 48 Republican contenders for the Senate elections in November only one accepted that man-made climate change is taking place. Who was he? Mike Castle of Delaware. The following day he was defeated by the Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell, producing a full house of science deniers. The enlightenment? Fun while it lasted.

Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it's dead | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

[excon]

Hello tom:

Seems to me, the other day you were lamenting the end of the Republican party. Now, you're trumpeting it. What happened?

excon

[tomder55]

It's sort of like the Vietnam era saying... we gotta destroy them to save them
Lamenting ? Nahhh . Just warning that it could happen.If they ultimately become defunct it will be their own fault .

What I think will happen is that this Tea Party insurgency will be absorbed by the Republicans. Then they will do their true calling... taking out the Democrats.
What is surprising is that the Dems don't have their own version of a tea party. Clearly they are not delivering the goods.

A good example is the mayoral race in DC . For some strange reason the reforms to the school system that mayor Adrian Fenty and his school chancellor Michelle Rhee instituted became a campaign issue. Challenger and proponent of the failed status quo system Vincent Gray won the primary which means that Rhee will most likely be dismissed ,and the children of DC forever consigned into a lousy school system .
The established parties no longer serve the electorate . So I won't shed a tear at either's demise by an energized populace.

[excon]

What is suprising is that the Dems don't have their own version of a tea party.

Hello again, tom:

The Dems THOUGHT Obama was the equivalent to a tea party. Turns out, he ain't. So, the seeds for "change" are STILL firmly planted...

When President Palin invades Iran and re-institutes TORTURE (cause it's STILL legal), you'll see one. Think 1968 - only BIGGER!

excon

[tomder55]

Yeah I'm thinking of the 64-72 revolution. One of the big problems (beside's their flawed ideology that the government can be the nanny) is that they are now the people The Who warned us about.
"meet the new boss ,same as the old boss".
I wonder if the folks of DC think they are better off ?Or will someone write a book 'What's wrong with DC ?" for continuing to vote for the flawed status quo?

[tomder55]

By the way . The name of the Guardian editorialist ;George Monbiot ,
Seemed familiar .So I did some searches and found the link... Moonbat:

Etymology
According to an article by self-described New York Times "language maven" William Safire, the term was first used by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in 1947.[1] Heinlein used the term in a 1947 short story, "Space Jockey," as the name of the third stage of a rocket bound for the moon. Descriptions of bat-like people on the moon were part of the 1835 Great Moon Hoax. One explanation for the current political use is that the term was derived from the name of liberal English author and activist George Monbiot.

Moonbat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[speechlesstx]

Aren't the Dems on their 2nd or 3rd incarnation of a Tea Party of their own?

Donna Brazile said something else the other day: "Prepare yourselves. They plan to create a majority by exploiting our fears of immigrants, and Civil Rights advocates, and people of different faiths (not just Muslims)."

Nothing like exploiting someone's fears to accuse someone else of fear-mongering.