This project was undertaken with walt stone and with meredith who will present it. Meredith has been involved since she was a sophomore at william and mary. She graduated in may. She is with the education Advisory Board after a stint as an intern where she was the resident expert on the tea party for the pew center for people in the press. Meredith is going to take this and go with it and make it sound far more intelligent than i could. Thanks. To give you an idea of what is coming, we will look at divisions within the local party and then we will compare rank andfile republicans to Tea Party Activists using that Freedom Works sample. Once again looking at issues and political style. Finally, we look at the response of the tea party to the 2012 elections, including perceptions of why romney lost, change over time and willingness to time and willingness to compromise, and evaluation of the Republican Party and its leaders. We begin by examining the actual conflict between Tea Party Repu
Crappy Health Care Plans because the gop made the loss of said crappy Health Care Plans a National Emergency doesnt exactly fit the description of longterm strategy. But these days all bets are off. The Washington Post reports this morning that the white house is increasing its reliance on insurers by accepting their technical help in efforts to repair the problem. The problem online insurance marketplace and prioritizing consumers ability to buy plans directly from the carriers. The administrations broader cooperation with insurers is a tacit acknowledgement that the federal Insurance Exchange might not be working smoothly by the target date of november 30th. Might not be working smoothly by the target date of november 30th would seem to be as terrifying a phrase for democrats as the phrase sarah palin has returned is for republicans. Speaking in iowa on saturday, Sarah Barracuda fired a warning shot to anyone seeking to challenge the tea partys power and the Republican Party. Some of
Used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that had nothing to do with the budget and had nothing to do with the debt. There you have it. Lets go straight to new York Democratic congressman Charles Rangel and he sits on the house, ways and means committee. Representative, always good to see you here. As you well know, youve been around those halls a long time here and one might ask why are folks on your side of the aisle now causing whats happening right now basically crazy town. Because it just doesnt make any sense. I we are not going close on the government. I wish i was a fly on the wall when these republicans get together, but what they have done because of their madness in opposition to National Health is to put this as a poison pill as to whether or not the president of the United States can tell the International Community who bought our debt that were going to pay them. The other thing is that in a couple of weeks the government, if it doesnt ge
Ive our military aid wont likely be our allies. But does the white house mean it when they say that syrian president day are numbered . Saying that for two years now. Here is White House Press secretary jay carney trying to lower expectations. He will never control sia again, never ruled syria again. This is our Firm Position that the people he will not. And now because we say so, but because the Syrian People will t stand for it. Lou identifng where exactly president obamas hansen syria is now what might be called of you fools errand. Use of chemical weapons is that red line. The president has not acted, but he has also warned it is easy to slip slide into a deeper involvement in syria. The natios highestranking general, chairma of the joint chiefs of staff, general Martin Dempsey also elains in a letter to congress by intervening inyria would be a terrible idea. Dempsey wrote, should the regimes institutions collapse and the absence of a viable opposition, we could inadvertently empo
Receive our military aid wont likely be our allies. But does the white house mean it when they say that syrian president days are numbered . Saying that for two years now. Here is White House Press secretary jay carney trying to lower expectations. He will never control syria again, never ruled syria again. This is our Firm Position that the people he will not. And now because we say so, but because the Syrian People will not stand for it. Lou identifying where exactly president obamas hansen syria is now what might be called of you fools errand. Use of chemical weapons is that red line. The president has not acted, but he has also warned it is easy to slip slide into a deeper involvement in syria. The nations highestranking general, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general Martin Dempsey explains in a letter to congress by intervening in syria would be a terrible idea. Dempsey wrote, should the regimes institutions collapse and the absence of a viable opposition, we could inadve