The Tea Party Stampede: Is Olympia Snowe Next?

If Snowe does not make the change and realize how the socialists she associates herself with in the Senate are not stopped, she WILL be next!! Count on it!!

You heard Rusty!
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Kill the infidels! Off with their heads!

Hells Bells!
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The more the merrier!
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Sarah Palin will take over the world!

Perhaps it is time for someone like Snowe to chose sides. We all know that Democrats are going to push hard over the next month or so to put the Tea Party down.
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Olympia will have to chose which side she is fighting for.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/politics/20dems.html
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“Obama Aides Weigh Bid to Tie the G.O.P. to the Tea Party”

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In their own words:
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“White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are trying to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of limiting the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate. The strategists see openings to exploit after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.
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“We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with White House advisers but requested anonymity to discuss private strategy talks.”

I don’t understand how a legitimate news writer starts using “Obamacare” instead of health care reform or overhaul or some other more accurate description. Could someone explain this?

OT:
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Dana Bash = Danna Bash
Suzanne = Suzahnn
CNN = Change Names Network?

As she told Dana Bash, “I’ve been fighting my whole life.”

She has? Where? For what? For at least ten years we’ve been hearing that this mumbly old fraud is the most powerful Republican/Senator/Woman/Moderate/Something in Washington. She was a loyal vote for Bush-Cheney and has deviated from the McConnell/Cornyn line twice (or one and half times) since Jan ’09. I have been asking on blogs for years, why is this woman in the Senate? She doesn’t seem to stand for anything, doesn’t appear terribly interested in anything, doesn’t seem to be the spotlight junkie 95% of her colleagues are. Why wouldn’t she take that appointment as ambassador to Greece and enjoy some Mediterranean sun for a few years?

What is there to explain. It is and will always be known as Obamacare. Get over it already.

How ’bout “I Don’t Care ‘Long as I Have Health Care”?

Why don’t we write a book entitled “Yes, They DO Think You’re That Stupid!”

I sincerely hope that Rusty gets his purge. I really do.
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The GOP will not be able to win much of anything outside the reddest of red states.

Yes – Pick a side…what will it be…America or America…

Other than her vote against health care reform, do you have any other recent examples of Snowe crossing party lines?

Bring out the Guillotine. Off with her head! How dare she vote her conscience and for what she believes in? She had the audacity to vote her conscience rather than march lockstep behind Meeester Meetch?

Let the voters decide. They usually do.

Oh wait! The voters will do what their told to do by those who are financing the movement. Big Oil, Big Pharm and Big Dick Armey

It is intellectually dishonest, but in a post neutral political world ruled by punditry I can’t say I’m surprised.

She has never struck me as a moderate, it is not what they say it is what they do.

What? Leftist political advocacy groups like Time magazine, the New York Times-Democrat and Castro News Network are all distraught about poor Olympia Snowe? How many identical stories have we seen from Time magazine, the New York Times-Democrat, Castro News Network, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, A-Mess-NBC, the Washington Post-Democrat, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, NPR, HBO, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Ladies’ Home Journal, et al.? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? A million? Snooooooozzzzzzzzzze ….

If she has to, she can win as an independent. She’s a known face, remains popular, and has credentials as a consensus builder

How about “No one wants to take credit for the health care takeover”

If the GOP retakes the House and Senate, she has nothing to worry about.

There is real anger out there in America but most “Tea Partiers” are merely disgruntled Republicans who have been acting the same way they did when Clinton was in office.

The corporate sponsors of the Tea Party, the ones who provide the funds for buses and rallies, will stop financing the TP if the GOP returns to power. The Dittoheads will forget about the deficit and within a month of seeing their party take over Washington will be insisting the economy is all better, thanks to the Republicans.

Republicans tend to closely follow the national party line and do what they’re told by the parties bosses. If the Republicans get control of Congress, mark my words, you’ll see Sarah Palin in Maine campaigning for Snowe, talking up the big tent of the GOP.

I agree with this 100%. As does Ross Douthat:

It is extremely unlikely that the political landscape in the winter and spring of 2012 will resemble the political landscape in the autumn of 2010… [T]he reality of having a more empowered Republican Party in Washington and a weaker President Obama in the White House will almost certainly work profound changes on the country’s mood — and yes, in the mood of the Republican base as well. (It’s hard to be quite so fired up and furious about socialism when Washington is mired in gridlock, and it’s hard to be quite so outraged at RINO perfidy when you’ve kicked a lot of the RINOs out of office.)

You have absolutely no clue as to what you are talking about. The corporate businesses have paid for the buses?
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Think again, dingbat.

I agree with your assessment that Snowe’s reputation as a “moderate” is largely illusion. You lost me when you suggested she’s not a spotlight junkie. Anyone who watched her disgraceful display in the run up to the health care legislation could not think she isn’t an attention whore.

All of this craziness has somehow given me more respect for Joe Lieberman – and oh, how I used to hate Joe Lieberman…

The corporate businesses have paid for the buses?
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And right-wing sugar daddies like the Koch brothers as well. It’s called an astroturf campaign, where corporations like Exxon-Mobile and billionaire donors like the Sarah Scaife Foundation pay for the planning and facilitation of ‘grassroots’ events.
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And yeah, blah-blah Soros blah-blah. Doesn’t change the fact that your Teabagger ‘movement’ is a corporate-owned and operated sham intended to make middle- and lower-class suckers like you vote against their own best interests.
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Maybe in a couple years you’ll catch on to that, like some on the Religious Right have.

It’s easy to have more respect for Joe Lieberman. What’s hard is to have less respect.

Well….relatively speaking….

“It is and will always be known as Obamacare. Get over it already.”
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So says the right-wing lunatic/liar/racist/authoritarian-following @sshat. Nice appeal to your base there, Crowley.
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Spot on, gum0nshoe.

Michael,
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Another Dumb article.
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You, the rest of the TIME loons and the NYT are always writing really partisan articles like this.
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What exactly is the difference between what is happening to Blue Dog Democrats by their party and what’s happening to moderates in the Republican Party?
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Liberals are supporting more Liberal Candidates against Blue Dogs. The Tea Party is supporting more conservative candidates over moderates.
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The game is the same. The only difference is the political points you’re trying to make for the Democrats.
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You, the rest of the TIME loons and the NYT are all a bunch of Hypocrites.

Liberals are supporting more Liberal Candidates against Blue Dogs. The Tea Party is supporting more conservative candidates over moderates.
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No, the Tea Party is full-against-the-stops right wing.
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Would that the Dem Party apparatus was actually supporting real liberal or progressive (i.e. left wing) candidates. But they’re not.
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No, what the Blue Dogs are is the full-against-the-stops right wing part of the Dem party. The “official” support is going to centrist or what is called 3rd Way (so-called corporatist) Democrats, SLIGHTLY to the left of the Blue Dogs but not by much.
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Nice attempt at framing, though. I’ll give you bonus points for the try, even if it is wrong.

I like Olympia Snowe. And let’s be honest. If the Tea Party gets her pushed out on the next election one of three things will happen. She will run as an independent and win. She will not run at all and the democratic nominee will win. Or she will run as a Democrat. Either way the Tea Party wins the battle but gets destroyed in the war.

What’s really going on here is class warfare within the Republican Party, and this is the reason why Snowe et al. aren’t welcome. The “base” of the Republican party are overwhelmingly middle class and working class. For years they have been kept at bay with “pro life” and “pro gun” gobbledygook, but now they are serious and they are pushing elites within their own party aside.

Good for them. Reagan and the Bushes preyed on their faith and gullibility for a generation, yet their policies only enriched the wealthiest and enlarged the national debt. The tea party movement is merely the chickens coming home to roost in the Right-wing Henhouse.

I just read at Talking Points Memo that another planned national Tea Party convension has been cancelled.

Republicans can smell victory and they are losing interest in the Tea Party. It has served its purpose for them.

Boy the left wing loonies simply do not get it! The tea party is grass roots America, at its best and they are sick and tired of the left wing direction this country has taken. We are quite pragmatic in our demands for fiscal responsibility and being governed by the will of the people…something the Obama administration scorns and ignores. The tea party scares the begeebus out of democrats and well it should, for it spells the beginning of the end and total rejection of Obama’s quest to achieve a socialist government.

afguy,
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“No, the Tea Party is full-against-the-stops right wing.”
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You are such a partisan nut. The Tea Party is moderate compared to you. You’re as Extreme Left Wing as they come. I bet you would love it in Venezuela with Hugo and friends. You would fit in so well.

“The corporate businesses have paid for the buses?”
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Right-wing-authoritarian-following means never knowing who paid for the buses.
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http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

Olympia dear, come over to the Darkside. We love you long time. Promise. We have cookies.

Obamacare: The echo chamber works. When you have reporters on this site who use as their main sources Politico and Halperin, you are going to get the Village spin.
Do they ever ask the source of their “talking points”?

Michael, Perhaps you might like to take on the chore of doing some original reporting. Why not take a close look at the history of the tea party, the “astroturf” that has been funded by Army, Koch, et al, and the assistance it has from Fox and hate radio.
Add to that the spurious backgrounds of their candidates. Take a look at what solutions are being offered. You might also want to look at the intersection of the TP and the Rep theocrats.
Readers might enjoy a story with some real research.

Thank you, my thought when I read that. Joe used it the other day and I just heard it on NPR. They mentioned it in contrast to the possible Hillarycare.
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Everytime health care is mentioned in Massachusetts is it called Romneycare?

soythernbell,
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‘Republicans can smell victory and they are losing interest in the Tea Party. It has served its purpose for them.”
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In your dreams. The Republican Party has no control over the Tea Party.
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Your comment makes me laugh. For your information, the Tea Party continues to grow and will be a major factor for the 2012 election.
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The lies you hear about the Tea Party being funded by some Corporate types is also a joke. No one person or group of people have control of the Tea Party. It is truly a grass roots phenomenon.
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I just joined our local chapter last week and attended my first meeting. They have taken buses to rallies and the individuals each paid their own ways. The local chapter’s finance report showed $725.00 in the treasury. I don’t think that came from Corporate sponsors. Dues are $35 per year.

Apr,
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You’re reading too many conspiracy books or you’re totally nuts.
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You are one of the most misinformed individuals on the planet.
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The Tea Party is real.
It’s not controlled by any person or group.
It’s a grass roots phenomenon.
It’s not funded by some corporate types.
It’s not controlled by the Republican Party.
It’s not extreme.
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It is Mainstream Americans that are acting as independent groups who are concerned with the direction of our country.
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The Tea Party is Democracy at its best.

How can you call aper misinformed when she has Jon stewert and huffpo as her spiritual guide?

Robotextee, you give artificial intelligence a bad name.
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I think the RW scientists (would that be Dr Bleck and Dr El Rushbo?) who invented you, need to go back to the drawing board and start all over again.

3xfire3, why do you remind me of Baghdad Bob?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf

I don’t think mainers will buy into the tea party smear tactics. They are fiercely independent in their thinking whether conservative, liberal, or in between. Remember it was margaret chase smith, a maine senator in the 50′s and 60′s, who gave a classic speech, “declaration of conscience” in which she referred to mccarthy’s political tactics as riding “the Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.” A phrase that well describes the beck, limbaugh crowd.

…sorry, 3x, but Ivy proved you wrong on TP corporate funding and lamely disparaging apr doesn’t change anything about Koch contributions –
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/09/16/in-which-the-tea-party-outdoes-progressives/comment-page-1/#comment-201086

3x, don’t tell them about all the corporate funding we get as TEA party members.

Oh well, they’re delusional anyway.

The liberals here should keep smearing people that vote, keep calling them names. That’s shows how smart YOU are.

Sayeth LBJ: “everyone is replaceable.”

Got that, OWEbama?

You made an understandable mistake by inlcuding “legitimate”. Calling it “Obamacare” clearly indicates the author is not.

sacred:
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Would you stop with the cookies already? The last time I ate some at the last Dark Side gathering, I didn’t wake up for 11 days.
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You should at least offer her a planet or two, or at least a major satellite like Iapetus:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06166
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As for me, it’s proof that God has a Dog…

Maybe some crafty reporter can find out what Christy McDonnell did for a job over the last 5 years. Who was her employer? Is she a professional campaigner who does not have a campaign treasurer but uses campaign funds for daily living expenses, whether actually running for office or not? Did she sell her house to her former boyfriend and then pay rent out of campaign funds?
Do her debts, dubious truthfulness, and lack of honest labor make her a viable candidate to enter the Senate to control spending?

Where does the tea party get its money?…

http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/the-money/

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?printable=true

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123859296

I guess because you’re Insane.

Funny all your sources are strongly Biased Liberal sources. Nothing from a source that isn’t supporting the Democrats.

3x, just read the articles first before condemning them. After all, I read links to Politico and Halperin even though I find their reporting lax.
I have even read articles critical of Obama, often in the NY Times, Huff Po, WaPo, etc.
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I used to read and share dialogue with the writers on NRO because I thought they were respectable Conservatives and appreciated reading their point of view. Our back and forths were always interesting. However, with the illness and death of Buckley, the NRO writers have become so extreme and have forced reasonable Conservatives to leave. However, if you linked to them, I would read the article trying to keep an open mind.

3xfire3:
Interesting you say how the sources of the entry of O’Donnel were from “liberal” sources, but you failed to be able to say where her income actually came from.
The tea bag party is composed of independents who have no leader? Don’t make me laugh. This news article is about a Republican who failed to toe the teabag line and follow the orders of the invisible leaders of the “movement”.
Its painfully clear that the witch from Delaware misused her campaign funds, and she feels that Beck’s America back to God doesn’t apply to him or any of his coven.

“Would that the Dem Party apparatus was actually supporting real liberal or progressive (i.e. left wing) candidates. But they’re not.”

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They are not? Stupid is as stupid says. Who are all of the 83 members of the House Progressive Caucus? You know the ones who are supporting and have put Nancy Pelosi in power as Speaker of the House?
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Let me educate you:

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) was established in 1991 by six members of the United States House of Representatives: Representatives Ron Dellums (D-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Thomas Andrews (D-ME), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Then-Representative Bernie Sanders was the convener and first chairman.
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The founding members were concerned about the economic hardship imposed by the deepening recession, and the growing inequality brought about by the timidity of the Democratic Party response at the time.
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Additional House representatives joined soon, including Major Owens (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), David Bonior (D-MI), Bob Filner (D-CA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Patsy Mink (D-HI), George Miller (D-CA), Pete Stark (D-CA), John Olver (D-MA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus
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Give me a break. 3xfire3 is spot on in his assessment, and he is calling out the liberal media for the bias. Plain and simple.
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Go find some other libtards who you know will swallow your bullcrap, it doesn’t work in the swamp anymore. Maybe you can get your point across at someplace like DailyKos, they seem to believe most of the crap you do.

Hey southernbell49:

Hey southerbelle49:
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Seems you have a friend out in the internet land named Steve Buck.
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Dear Steve chastised me for calling you a DINGBAT
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Here is the copy of his email he sent me. I think it is funny as can be. I had to delete the expletives however with **.
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“Running around the web calling people you disagree with dingbats not only appears immature but not surprisingly it also sounds like a close minded right wing fruitcake.

DROP DEAD AND **** OFF and leave the rest of us alone. We are happy with more social programs, we are happy with more regulation of the people that screwed up this country over the last 30 years since your savior, the worst president in our lifetime, Ronald Reagan was here. What a moron your are not to learn from the past only to spew your personally derived nonsense to the masses. Get a life.

Regards,

Steve

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Here is Steve’s email address in case anyone wants to write and tell him “Thank You”. LOL!!
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steve@stevebuck.us
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Poor Stevie. I guess it takes a dingbat to know a dingbat.

Typical Liberal. Dish out the heat but cry like a baby when it gets too hot. Which side coined the term “Bush’s War”…Ouch. Live with it…OBAMACARE!