{"id":9596,"date":"2012-11-25T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T18:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2012-11-25T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T18:31:21","slug":"the-future-of-insanitea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/the-future-of-insanitea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of InsaniTEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In general, I abide faithfully by the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!&#160; However, this is a rare occasion that I actually agree with Teabaggers that their plan for their future coincides with the best interests of the American people overall.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"25Teabuggery\" alt=\"25Teabuggery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/25Teabuggery.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"388\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I say the Tea Partiers should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDQQqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324712504578133473519800756.html&amp;ei=EhWxUOWPAcrviQLE8oDACg&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3i_g3_AQkxMDrKNap_KUR0XmgOQ\" target=\"_blank\">go for it<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The tea-party movement is trying to regroup after taking some licks in this month&#8217;s elections. Several groups already are setting their sights on 2014 congressional races, in which <strong>they plan to promote their preferred candidates and hope to weed out Republicans they consider insufficiently conservative<\/strong>. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket! You know, if we get enough Tea Partiers as the GOP nominees, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomantribune.com\/story\/2012\/11\/23\/114028\/20\" target=\"_blank\">BooMan notes,<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font> Democrats may be able to take back the House and keep the Senate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">You know they make ideal opponents, because they have such a fine grasp of reality &#8230; the reality on Planet Bizarro, that is&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/tea-party-path-victory-go-after-mode\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!&#160; Here\u2019s some video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ex4r9-Eb0jc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What can I say?&#160; If Teabaggers want to bring us more like Asinine Akin, Batshit Bachman, Christine O\u2019Dunce, Drill Baby Dingbat, Moron Mourdock, and Obtuse Angle, who am I to complain?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, I abide faithfully by the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!&#160; However, this is a rare occasion that I actually agree with Teabaggers that their plan for their future coincides with the best interests of the American people overall. I say the Tea Partiers should go for it: The tea-party movement is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/the-future-of-insanitea\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}