Tea Party= Legislative Terrorists

[Utility Man]

 

[head of joaquin]

The quantum weirdness that is the tea party.

 

[TacticalEvilDan]

The Tea Party has decided to shut down the government to force the Democrats to agree to kill ObamaCare or put if off for a year.

They refuse to allow the rest of the government to be funded until their demands are met.

They won't let Boehner bring a clean budget resolution to the House for a vote.

...even while the Senate has voted several times on the House' budget and said "NO".


The Tea Party is clearly legislative terrorists, holding our nation's funding hostage because they hate ObamaCare more than they love America.

They need to either let Boehner bring a clean bill for a vote, or sit down and shut up.

The biggest problem with American politics today is that they are perforated with sentiments like this on both sides. The more of it there is in the air, the of a chance there is of anyone compromising or crossing the isle or working together to achieve a common goal. It poisons the discourse, it polarizes needlessly, it injects hysteria where rational thought is needed.

Those Representatives who hail from the Tea Party movement aren't terrorists. They are not using violence or the threat of violence to get their way. They are using their legislative influence, as is their right as members of the House in good standing.

There are, what, 70 or so Tea Party movement Representatives, and a very narrow Republican majority -- all it should take is the Democrats working with a few Republicans who are more interested in making the government work than scoring political points. The Tea Partiers aren't terrorists, but the rest of the Republicans are cowards.