Whatever happened to the Tea Party?

[Ohiogal]

Wasn't one of their tenets that the Federal Government spends way too much and therefore we are drowning in debt?Are there even any Congress critters who claim to be Tea Party members any more?

[Thunderbeast]

1. Their two guiding principles:

1. NO TAXES EVER

2. NO NEGRO PRESIDENTS

Any questions?

[Wellstone ruled]

10. So agree,

they are today's GOP, nuf said.

[guillaumeb]

12. Recommended.

[misanthrope]

16. You forgot a couple

3. No colored Presidents

4. No black Presidents

5. No African-American Presidents

6. Put the "white" back in "White House"

[ck4829]

2. The liberal and/or black man is no longer in the White House.

[LovingA2andMI]

5. This Right Here....

And They Went Like "Proof" and Disappeared as a result.

[CrispyQ]

3. The TP doesn't care about debt & the deficit, as long as they can be openly bigoted.

And the GOP doesn't care, as long as they control the government & can spend it the way they want. The GOP controlled Congress is the Constitutional crisis in this country.

[Glamrock]

4. They're still there.

But, you have to understand, their ideals don't apply when they're in power. They don't have a natural aversion to hypocrisy like the rest of us....

[Initech]

6. The Tea Party morphed into the Trump Party.

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And the difference is that the Tea Party hid their racism. With the Trump Party, their racism is unfiltered and in full on display!

[oasis]

17. ***This***

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[briv1016]

7. They put on their formal wear.

[NCDem777]

8. They don't have a problem with deficit spending

They just have a problem with tax money being used to benefit Americans.

[subterranean]

14. You mean "other" Americans. The undeserving ones.

When tax money is used to benefit themselves, they're fine with it because they think they deserve it.

[doc03]

9. There was Rand paul railing about spending yet he voted to loot

$1.8 trillion from the treasury and give it to the 1%.

[pwb]

13. Yea they are against everything but military spending and tax cuts.

The other programs they just pretend to care about and take pleasure in cutting.

[pwb]

11. That was only for democrats.

[gratuitous]

15. It served its purpose, now it's discarded

Sort of like a teenage boy's gym sock.

[Blue_Tires]

18. It never existed?

It was just a fake-ass grassroots one-time "re-branding" that allowed the GOP to turn the crazy up to 11 without having to attach the party name to the insanity...

[struggle4progress]

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