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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP is the Tea Party , The Tea Party is the GOP.
It's Official--The Tea Party is now the Republican Party...always been the same to me
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The GOP is the Tea Party , The Tea Party is the GOP. (Original Post)
SummerSnow
May 2014
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Sorry, they are one and the same. Look at the actions of John Boehner during the shutdown and threat
AlinPA
May 2014
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)1. I hear that people are sick of the Republicans
But yet they are expected to win in November. Doesn't make sense. I wonder if people secretly like this crappy Republican obstruction.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)5. I find it puzzling as well, their policies are hurting so many people
can't understand why they would vote against their own interest. Boggles the mind. I think they hate Obama so so much they rather suffer under Rethug rule.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)2. Nice bumper sticker, but just not true.
The Tea Partiers, bless their pointy little heads, are a faction within the GOP, and a real headache for establishment Republicans. I encourage all the Republican factions to form a circular fire squad and eliminate the traitors within.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)7. Sorry, they are one and the same. Look at the actions of John Boehner during the shutdown and threat
of default. He led that teabagger fiasco.
malaise
(268,930 posts)3. +1,000
Everything else is a game for the gullible
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)4. The worms are the spice, the spice is the worms!
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)6. They are all the same. John Boehner is the prime example. During the shutdown and threatened
default of the US debt, he acted and talked no different than any other teabagger.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)8. Yep, Bagger see Bagger do