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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
You watch MSNBC don't you?
It was the anti-incumbent feeling that the democrats ran on in 06 and took the house and senate, they ran on change and well we got it didn't we?
With all the cameras rolling, they showed the video and the Tea Party offered $15k to anyone that could prove that he intentionally spat on the congressmen. They never had to pay out on that, so your statement is well for lack of better word, Bull Shit.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/il...ent-proof.html
But the black panthers, we have video on those racist assholes
Also you might be interested in the fact the Tea Party backed a democrat. I only say this is hopes you will try to educate yourself in whats going on in the world and not rely on just one news source
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_538837.html
Primaries aren't whats going to change the government, it's the general elections that are going to show. This is just parties figuring out who is going to run in their party.
So keep digging in that pile of horse shit, there's a pony in there
I'm with you on that, with statements like, we'll know whats in the healthcare bill AFTER we sign it? She needs a new job |
I'm not interested in getting into a debate about racial tensions, black panthers or whether or not the Tea Party is racists.
Here is what will happen:
Most Tea Party members are republicans. They admit it. They will vote republican. The republicans will gain seats in the house and senate. Historically speaking the party that wins the white house then loses an average of 28 seats in the house and 4 seats in the senate in the follow mid-term election. I think they will lose more than that in the house and will probably lose control of the house. I don't think the democrats will lose control of the senate, but I think it will be close and they will end up with just a 2 -4 seat majority.
What will this change? Will the republicans suddenly force the president to stop spending? Maybe. But they themselves have always spent money too so it isn't like they are suddenly the fiscally conservative people they make themselves out to be. Is this time different? Do they really mean it this time? I doubt it. When things are good economically the republicans run on platform of moral change. When things are bad they run on a platform of less government, less taxes and less spending. Of course they never deliver.
I'm not saying the democrats do either. Both parties are liars, cheats, frauds and . . . well. . . politicians. What we are going to get is more of the same. Party A fucked things up so Party B gets elected. Party B hasn't fixed it yet so Party A gets another chance and we play the game over and over and over again.
My original point in this thread is that I feel the republican party is in a downward slide. They are relevant today and they will be for the next few elections, but as the make-up of this country changes and society mutates they are going to have to either make some changes or broaden their appeal if they want to continue to be relevant. Maybe them losing relevance is a good thing. Maybe we will eventually end up with three parties. We will have the democrats, the republicans which represent the very conservative and the tea party (or whatever they end up named) that is more in the middle and is more libertarian.
Maybe I'm wrong. But if I were the head of the republican party and I saw the types of changes that are coming about in this country from a racial make-up and ideology standpoint, I would be worried.