Is the Tea Party pooped? It must keep making its case

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:

Has the wind gone out of the sails of the smaller-government movement? Is the Tea Party movement going through a hangover?
You can find some evidence for these propositions. In Washington, Democrats like former National Chairman Howard Dean look forward gleefully to a government shutdown, and Sen. Charles Schumer thinks he can drive a wedge between Speaker John Boehner and "extremist" Tea Partiers.

And in state capitals some new Republican governors are getting hostile receptions to their plans for cutting spending and curtailing the power of public employee unions.

In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich has only 30 percent approval, according to a Quinnipiac poll. Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett, easily elected last November, has negative ratings as well.

And in the state that has made more headlines than any other this year, Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker is facing some headwinds. He did get the Republican legislature to pass limits on the bargaining powers of state employee unions. And union dues aren't going to be deducted from public employees' next paychecks.

But the Democratic state senators' tactic of leaving the state and the often violent protests at the state capitol have mobilized public employee unions and their supporters.

[righteousmomma]

Well, Barone might have answered his own puzzling question:

The press won't make that case. Republicans and Tea Partiers need to do it themselves.

[Sabre86]

Its not an election year, and Obama isn't trying to ram a bunch of stuff through Congress like they did in 2009 and 2010. It think everyone has some level of political burn out.

 

Wait until later this year, the Tea Party will be back as we get closer to the 2012 election cycle.

[Valin]

Its not an election year, and Obama isn't trying to ram a bunch of stuff through Congress like they did in 2009 and 2010. It think everyone has some level of political burn out.

 

Wait until later this year, the Tea Party will be back as we get closer to the 2012 election cycle.

 

 

Thumbs up!!!!

[clearvision]

Its not an election year, and Obama isn't trying to ram a bunch of stuff through Congress like they did in 2009 and 2010. It think everyone has some level of political burn out.

 

Wait until later this year, the Tea Party will be back as we get closer to the 2012 election cycle.

Yeah that is a problem when your group actually has to hold down jobs.

[pollyannaish]

Its not an election year, and Obama isn't trying to ram a bunch of stuff through Congress like they did in 2009 and 2010. It think everyone has some level of political burn out.

 

Wait until later this year, the Tea Party will be back as we get closer to the 2012 election cycle.

Yeah that is a problem when your group actually has to hold down jobs.

 

Silly us.