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Subscribe to RSSPer the New York Times, "House Republican leaders said Thursday that they would accede to demands from conservatives and dig deeper into the federal budget for billions of dollars in additional savings this year, exhibiting the power of the Tea Party movement and increasing chances of a major fiscal clash with Democrats."
"The uprising exposed serious divisions among Republicans bent on reducing the size of government, the defining issue of the campaign that swept them back into power in the House this fall. Dozens of freshmen, fueled by tea party fervor, are demanding a rapid response to the groundswell of public anger," the Washington Post says.
The Hill: “Not good enough: Tea Party freshmen sink Republican spending plan.”
The AP writes of the Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) Craigslist scandal: “He was one of Congress' rising stars at lunchtime and was out of office by dinner. Republican Rep. Christopher Lee fell from power this week with a velocity seldom seen in the annals of Washington sex scandals, a blinking red caution sign for those who need one that the speed and reach of the Internet can crash a political career in the time it takes to push a button… What happened in between in the congressional complex remains unclear. But Republicans, still scrambling for their footing less than two months after assuming control of the House of Representatives, where Lee represented New York state, insisted that Lee, who is married and has a young son, did not need to be pushed.”
The headline of the Boston Globe’s editorial: “Internet: A congressman loses his shirt.” The Globe makes this point: “In the past, such recklessness led to plenty of private pain, but today’s technological and media environment ratchets up the agony.”
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End the rule of the " KOCH" brothers ! Before you have a rebellion like Egypt going on !The people of the USA are well aware of these two...and the control they buy in the US... The senate & congress take the bribes and deliver lessening the restrictions so these two have bigger profits ! They were recently exposed in Rancho Mirage Calif last week ... at their secret meeting that everyone knew about !
The only way to handle the Koch brothers is for the people of this country to take over and not vote for any candidate who has been supported with Koch money. This would send a message that even though you have billions, the people decide who will run the country for us. It is time that the people of this counry come together and vote against big money to retain their freedom and independence.
I think its great the Tea Party is getting its way in the House. After all, Republicans would never have regained control if they hadn't rebranded themselves after Bush. It's only fair the Tea Party has control of the Republican Party.
It's also important for voters to see what Tea Party rhetoric looks like in action. Yesterday, our Tea Party governor presented plans for a new budget. He proposes Tax Cuts, naturally, including raising the amount before the Estate Tax is assessed, from the first one million dollars, to five million, all "paid for" by reducing the retirement benefits of state employees. Isn't that fabulous? The Bangor Daily News points out, the tax cuts are actually less than the ones for the middle class the Democrats proposed last year.
Oh, he also wants to deny welfare benefits, including food stamps, to legal non-citizens; those people, mostly from war torn countries who come up to Maine with their young children - a state with one of the oldest populations in the country. So there you have it, the continued transfer of wealth from the striving working class in our state to the Bush family types. No wonder the old money "Republican Party" folks embrace their poorer "Tea Party" cousins. They keep the wealth all in the family.
I don't follow. You want welfare aid to go to ex-pats from another country?
Well, if you consider Iraqi citizens forced to flee persectution in their homeland "ex pats" yeah, I think the least we can do is feed them while they acclimate to Maine's winter.
How about feeding all of the homeless U.S. citizens FIRST.
"How about feeding all of the homeless U.S. citizens FIRST."
Republicans won't even do THAT!
You can bet that where there's smoke, there's fire. The bare-chested photo of Chris Lee was just the smoke and he likely made his quick exit before we discovered the real fire!
Amy and I Must be... you are both right on the button here. The republicants have no real concern for the majority of Americans, and certainly no real love for the United States of America. There only "love" is for their silly little egos and their the pocketbooks of those who bankroll them.
Show me any country throughout history that thrives, even survives when the is a total disdain for the workers of that society.
How anyone but a multimillionaire would vote for a republicant is a mystery to me.
"How anyone but a multimillionaire would vote for a republicant is a mystery to me"
How anyone whose snout is not firmly attached to the public teat would vote for the Party of Big Government and the Nanny State, is a mystery to me.
Speaking of snouts on the public teat, the Republican Party has certainly been very, very good to Alaska, hasn't it? The 27 million dollars Sarah Palin secured for little Wasilla when she was mayor was a savvy move on her part, even if not quite in keeping with Tea Party rhetoric.
Nothing scares a TPer more than a "brown" person with money or education.
P.S. TP motto "keep em in the dark, they're happier that way"
John: Right now we vote republican because of the Democratic policy on filling the country with illegal workers to take our jobs. Yeah, they have the money. They stole it from me. I, want Tim Palenty. He is our champion right now.
"Right now we vote republican because of the Democratic policy on filling the country with illegal workers"
I thought that was George W. Bush's policy when he was governor of Texas? Didn't the big corporations pay him to insure the supply of cheap labor?
C. Moakler & Portland, ME
Please at least be honest about why you are voting Repubz now. After all is said and done, the rest of the world knows that the real reason you are voting Repubz now is because of the person in the White House. It was Ok for their ancesters to build that building, but walk up the front stairs to lead the country -- NO WAY!!!
What a completely inappropriate comment.
"... the potential GOP field looks a whole lot like the Dem field from 2004."
OK, you have mentioned this supposed similiarity enough, it has jumped the shark.
If Obama-loving MSNBC tells us the Republican field is not to their liking, that is good news!
No...Bob it is perfect...Repubs have NOBODY even close to opposing Obama. The more these idiots talk; the higher Obama's approval rating gets.
Trump/Snookie 2012
Hey Bob
How are things in GlenBeckastan???
Let's hope the Tea Party will put their money where their mouth is (literally) and include Congress's budget and staff in the mix. Currently they have only proposed a 2% cut!
They have to figure out a way (like in Maine) to cut budget AND divert most of to themselves.
The only reason I did back the Tea Party is immigration policy of ridding this country of criminal invaders and I haven't seen any effort by Tea INC. to do anything about the influx of these people. Two thousand twelve is aproaching and these Tea Partiers are still hung over on the blowout party we gave them. You folks better take an asprin and get to work on what we sent you there for. The electorite givith and the electorite takeith away, so say the electorite. I know Rand Paul has done nothing except reward his rich friends since taking office. He's going to be a one timer.