There is nothing prettier than the night sky when you can see it without leaf obstruction. The weather is warmer for a while this week so perhaps you can take a good look at the rapidly approaching winter sky. Orion is always beautiful this time of year.
Sequestration continues to be a particular worry for Northern Virginians. We dodged so much unemployment and don’t want it here.
Are you shopping more in stores or online? Just call me Amazon Girl.
Is the tea party dead? Or just resting?
Posted by Chris Cillizza on December 4, 2012 at 12:26
There’s little debate that the last few months have been among the toughest of the tea party’s (relatively) brief existence.
To wit:
* Freedomworks, one of the leading pillars of the tea party movement, appears to be in the midst of a major internal squabble — with former Texas Rep. Dick Armey leaving the organization on what appears to be not-so-good terms.
* Reps. Allen West (R-Fla.) and Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), two of the leading tea party figures in Congress, both lost re-election bids on Nov. 6. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) narrowly escaped defeat against an unheralded challenger. And tea party favorites like Todd Akin (Akin was never a tea party favorite and most tea party aligned groups backed his opponents in the Republican primary) and Richard Mourdock lost what should have been sure-thing Senate races in Missouri and Indiana, respectively.
* House Republicans seem more than willing to buck the wishes of the tea party when it comes to the fiscal cliff. The proposal put forward by House Speaker John Boehner (and signed onto by all of the major GOP leaders in the chamber) would raise $800 billion in revenues and was immediately greeted with a collective grimace from conservatives. (South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday that Boehner’s plan “will destroy American jobs”.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/04/whither-the-tea-party/?hpid=z3
The tea party is dead, good riddance!
@Moon-howler
Once under MOON and again under HOWLER
Where?
@Starryflights
You wish.
Freedomworks is not the Tea Party. Armey is not Freedomworks
West was gerrymandered into a more liberal district and lost.
House Republicans will find themselves to be the Whig party within 10 years if not sooner, if they keep this up.
So….the Tea Party will probably outlast the GOP.
Good re: West. He was rude, crude and socially unattractive. He deserved to lose at much as that democratic fool who lost last time…alan Grayson?
@Moon-howler
The Democrats re-elected that monkey Grayson this time.
Classy.
Yeah, Dick Armey is leaving Freedom Works – a non profit where he makes $500K a year, is going to pay him $8 Million dollars to leave. What is the severance for? Really, $8 Million?? Freedom Works is closely affiliated with the Koch Brothers. I wonder if Karl Rove is on the outs with any of his groups?
cargo – who gerrymandered West’s district?
@Pat.Herve
The GOP gerrymandered him. He upset too many mainstream GOP. He was popular in his original district. But he also attacked the Fl. GOP for not fighting hard enough for principle.
Who said West was popular in his own district? I am just wondering what lived in his district that would have thought that man had any business in politics.
He should have upset the mainstream GOP. It is people like West that made the GOP irrelevant. I am assuming we use GOP for the original party before the vikings took over?
The fake letter published by the Sheriff is making its way around the blogs. He really hates Peacor.
That “letter” was written after the presentation. A little vulture told me. Nice try, Rotten Ham. Nice try.
@THE Rottingham Reporter
The Sheriff will stop at nothing to bring Peacor down. Nothing.
@Watching
Is that necessarily a bad thing, based on extensive personal experience, I think not. As to the “fake letter” being written after the presentation, whether it is fake or not can be debated but the Sheriff does admit that it was written after the meeting.
Cool video of babies (9 month old twins) able to swim an entire 25 meter swim lane:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/twins-can-swim-length-of-swimming-1472206
My son is 3 now and still haven’t been able to teach him to even tread water or doggy paddle… 🙁
@Mom
Personally, if I’m going to watch an individual or group of individuals “bring someone down” publicly then I’d have to know who they are or that they’ve been vetted out by some trained investigators. Like a whistleblower. For all I know, the Sheriff could be a disgruntled employee, rejected applicant or a convicted felon.
I like the Ms. Peacor. I don’t know her on a personal level but that shouldn’t matter.
As a citizen of the county, every time I have talked with her she has been courteous and cooperative. She didn’t blow off my concerns. She takes my phone calls. Of course, I treat her respectfully also I have heard and seen that not happening, right in those meetings.
I have been impressed with her command of county knowledge and her quickness. I don’t have time for people’s personal squabbles with someone else. Most people get all bunched if they don’t get their own way.
I think she’s getting a raw deal. In my world I’ve heard good things about her and that’s she is a little intimidating – but that is chalked up to sheer brillance. Hate to go gender on you but brillance and “her” still don’t go together well. In the metro area she is looked up to and is a solid resource for executive officers.
Why I think this is personal. I watched the tape last night and didn’t get from it what others did. She does interrupt.
She was also interrupted. Go listen again. Men still have no problem talking right over women. I know only a couple who don’t.
What I saw and heard certainly didn’t match the retells of the meeting. I tend to believe my own eyes and ears and people I know who were there before I believe people who seem to have an axe to grind.
The older I get, the less attractive bandwagons are. Verify, verify…
Boehner now concedes tha taxes on the rich will go up. I saw some charts that showed the tax rate for the top 2% have declined steadily since the 40’s and 50’s? This should make for good Sunday morning TV!
@Starryflights
Resting…
Yeah, I’m off today and bored… can you tell?
Quick question… Ill give anyone $1 if ANYONE can name the person who said the following:
“What we’ve said was give us $1.2 trillion in additional revenues, which could be accomplished without hiking tax rates, but could simply be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions, and engaging in a tax reform process that could have lowered rates generally while broadening the base.”
So… $1.2 trillion in new taxes can be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions and tax reform that could lower rates while broadening the base.
JayDogs quiz of the day… who said that?
The House voted 398 to 1 to remove the word “lunatic” from U.S. laws. The one vote to keep “lunatic” in the law? Rep. (R-TX) Louie Gohmert. I guess he saw it as a potential slippery-slope: if you can remove lunatics from the laws you might remove lunatics from making laws.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/271141-house-votes-to-strike-lunatic-from-us-law
“Well, I guess I shouldn’t call politicians names, so I apologize for calling the wobbly ones ‘wusses,’ ” the former Alaska governor told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Monday night. “Because that distracts from the point that has to be made, and the point is that we are a bankrupt country.” – Gov. Sarah Palin
Even she gets it.
Thought of you, Moon.
Except I don’t have a rule about calling politicians names. [looking around for Cuccinelli….]
@Morris Davis
Those who voted for that must have never visited Prince William County.
@Morris Davis
“I guess he saw it as a potential slippery-slope: if you can remove lunatics from the laws you might remove lunatics from making laws. ”
Here, here! Quote of the day! Morris wins the internets!
Sooooo…. this is taboo? just wondering, don’t wanna go over a line (so to speak…) should I re-phrase it?
I am not going to post that video.
@Moon-howler
I agree Moon, this is racist. Where are all the idiot white people askiong for their free stuff?
@blue
I didn’t say I thought it was racist. I see not point in posting it. It is what it is. Many people want political favors (and have gotten them, I might add)
Frankly, I don’t particularly feel like hearing a bunch of ignorant statements all day long. Plrnty of white people have gotten political favors.
Tea party favorite Senator DeMint of South Carolina is quitting the Senate to head some rightwingnut think tank. This is good. This is more evidence on the demise of the tea party.
He’s going to the Heritage Foundation. In 1988 or so, the Heritage Foundation issued a proposal which include a mandate for all American households to obtain health insurance. The Democrats rejected it.
tell more, Lyssa.
The onus was on the individual to obtain care not on the employer. The recent legal argument has centered on the legality of requirement. And back then the Heritage Foundation recommended catastrophic care not well care be mandated.
I put something out here before the election on this topic. During the early debates, Romney tossed this back on Gingrich saying he go the idea from Gingrich when he was involved with Hilarycare….