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The "Tea Party" elected more candidates than the establishment in the last two elections and my own TP-elected candidate Gosar is doing an excellent job.  Interesting you never have anything negative to say about all the GOPe candidates.
If that were true, they would have more than 48 members in the TP House Caucus. Since they don't, it isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus

The truth is fewer than 1 in 4 members of the House GOP contingent, are Tea Party. That is 48 out of a total of 233 are TP caucus members, or less that 21% of House Republicans.

That means quite a large contingent of conservative Republicans have decided to opt out, including my own very conservative rep.

The approval of the Tea Party has dropped about 10 percent.
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If that were true, they would have more than 48 members in the TP House Caucus. Since they don't, it isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus

The truth is fewer than 1 in 4 members of the House GOP contingent, are Tea Party. That is 48 out of a total of 233 are TP caucus members, or less that 21% of House Republicans.

That means quite a large contingent of conservative Republicans have decided to opt out, including my own very conservative rep.

The approval of the Tea Party has dropped about 10 percent.


good spin since most were reelected and the new members are mostly tea party.
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good spin since most were reelected and the new members are mostly tea party.
If the TP movement is to be a positive factor in the Nov. 14 elections, they better get a move on.

Using the Tea Party Patriots website, and looking at Orange County CA and the whole of Arizona, there is simply very little activity.

https://www.teapartypatriots.org/groups?scope=LOCAL&s=ARIZONA&sort=newest

The most recent activity for Scottsdale is 90 days ago, which is typical.

Another point: The speed with which "conservatives" swoon over political figures, and then trash them is worthy of a lot of careful reconsideration. A founder of the movement was Dick Army, who penned the 1994 Contract With America, and also contributed to the movements' own Contract From America has been roundly dumped on. Paul Ryan likewise has been roundly dumped and dumped on.

Here's the 2010 "Contract From America"

The Contract lists 10 agenda items that it encourages congressional candidates to follow:[4][5]

1.Identify constitutionality of every new law: Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does (82.03%).

2.Reject emissions trading: Stop the "cap and trade" administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. (72.20%).

3.Demand a balanced federal budget: Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax modification. (69.69%)

4.Simplify the tax system: Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words – the length of the original Constitution. (64.9%)

5.Audit federal government agencies for constitutionality: Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in an audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities. (63.37%)

6.Limit annual growth in federal spending: Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%).

7.Repeal the health care legislation passed on March 23, 2010: Defund, repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (56.39%).

8.Pass an 'All-of-the-Above' Energy Policy: Authorize the exploration of additional energy reserves to reduce American dependence on foreign energy sources and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation. (55.5%).

9.Reduce Earmarks: Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%).

10.Reduce Taxes: Permanently repeal all recent tax increases, and extend permanently the George W. Bush temporary reductions in income tax, capital gains tax and estate taxes, currently scheduled to end in 2011. (53.38%).


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Nirvana! And then I woke up.

2010. Three years ago. How much of that agenda have we realized?