You Know Who Dick Armey Thinks Is To Blame For The Tea Party? Pat Toomey, Naturally.
Wow. This is such a typical deflection of responsibility from a stalwart of the Party of Personal Responsibility. "Don't blame me for creating the tea party...it was that mean ol' George W. Bush that made me do it!"
Former Rep. Dick Armey (R.,Tex.), whose Freedom Works organization has helped the Tea Party grow, said Tuesday in Philadelphia that the movement was conceived the moment President George W. Bush endorsed Sen. Arlen Specter (then-R, now D) over Pat Toomey in the 2004 Republican primary.
Conservatives have long been angered by that endorsement, viewing it as a triumph of political maneuvering over principle. Specter went on to defeat Toomey by 17,000 votes out of more than 1 million cast. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R.,Pa.), who also endorsed Specter in 2004, has apologized again and again for the move in early primary states as he explores a run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Of course, Toomey's decision last year to challenge Specter again drove him to the Democrats.
Toomey is now the Republican nominee for Senate, facing Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak Nov. 2. So far Toomey hasn't been taking credit for sparking the Tea Party as he campaigns, though he shares many of the movement's views on government spending, regulation and the need to reduce taxes.
Toomey was also the head of Club for Growth, which is supporting Republican candidates that pass their purity test for wanting to privatize Social Security and no taxes. In fact, they're so extreme that even Mike Huckabee calls them the Club for Greed.
But think about this: Pat Toomey has brought us Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Allen West, Carl Palladino, Joe Miller, Ken Buck, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Can you think of a better reason to vote for Joe Sestak?
I thought the Cock brothers funded this whole contrived charade with the buses and all that.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Funny comic which should be the header on tonight's Open Thread. Or at least a consideration for it.
who ARE you guys? [comic]
http://i.imgur.com/k6Aoz.jpg
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Here's the true founding of the recent incarnation of the Tea Party, prove me wrong if you have a earlier date..
From December 17th, 2006
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
What a loathsome creature Armey is.
And now, my second home of Pennsylvania seems poised to elect the bigest fascist a**hole the world has seen since 1930's Germany - Pat Toomey. Yes, the same a**hole who HATES the American worker, created the Club for Fascism - that Pat Toomey.
Because everyone knows, if your getting screwed over by the corporate fascist sellouts in our government, the guy you want in there to fix things and give the average American a fair deal is Pat Toomey.
This country is soooooo screwed!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Not if all Democrats reading this vote and ignore the corporate media brainwashing polls that are meant to discourage voting. Always take what you hear on corporate media with a huge grain of salt, they have their own corporate/fascist agenda and are clever and relentless in achieving it. Americans must reject it with the power of democracy until the fascist rethugs are permanent minority.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
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