Sensitive Tea Partiers Need to Stop Taking Criticism So Personally - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

Sensitive Tea Partiers Need to Stop Taking Criticism So Personally - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic:

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Characteristic of Fanatics

“The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to reason or his moral sense. He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude and righteousness of his holy cause.” (p. 85). 

~Eric Hoffer 

Sedition: Petition calls for arrest of shutdown-causing republicans

Wow.  Here's a quick definition of sedition from Google dictionary (I'll look up a better one later, promise).

Sedition:  Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

The petition specifically calls for the Tea Party to be arrested and charged with sedition.

Tea Party Republicans could be charged with sedition under US law for holding America hostage.

Sedition: Petition calls for arrest of shutdown-causing republicans:

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TEA PARTIERS REACT WITH FURY TO WORLD THEY CAN'T CONTROL - Yahoo News

TEA PARTIERS REACT WITH FURY TO WORLD THEY CAN'T CONTROL - Yahoo News:
Commentary by Cynthia Tucker  (2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary - visiting professor at the University of Georgia.)

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Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift - Yahoo News

Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift - Yahoo News:

A little background on the rifts in the GOP - from the Associated Press in May, 2013:

"A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers broke into full view, with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of overplaying their hands and tempting Democrats to change Senate rules that protect the minority party.

Tactics for dealing with the government's budget and debt became the latest quarrel in a series of skirmishes between McCain —sometimes joined by other traditionalist Republicans —and tea party champions such as Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida."

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PolitiFact Virginia | McDonnell says U.S. Senate hasn't passed a budget in 4-1/2 years

PolitiFact Virginia | McDonnell says U.S. Senate hasn't passed a budget in 4-1/2 years:

Politifact Ruling:  False
In fact they did - this year!  But guess who refused to let it go to committee (where the real negotiations happen in Congress)....yep.  The Tea Party.  From the article:

". . . The Senate, on March 23 this year, passed a $3.7 trillion budget on a 50-49 vote that maintained entitlements -- such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare -- and discretionary domestic programs. It differed from a $3.5 trillion House budget, passed three days earlier, that significantly cut entitlement programs and deficits over the coming decade. 

Efforts to send the competing budgets to a conference committee have been unsuccessful, however. A group of Tea Party senators has blocked motions -- which need unanimous consent -- to advance the Senate’s spending plan. They have insisted on assurances that the budget negotiations would not lead to higher taxes and voiced concern that a conference committee could create momentum for procedures that thwart filibusters against increasing the nation's debt limit."

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Michele Bachmann: Obama ‘used to being George III’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Michele Bachmann: Obama ‘used to being George III’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs:

Bachmann = leader of the Tea Party Caucus.  Interesting return to violence flavored Revolution rhetoric of the early movement.  (Note to self:  See also Palin in Nashville, NCA Interview, and paper draft.)


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