It's finally time to lay to rest the proposition that the Tea Party is only about fiscal issues.
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2010 Tea Party Candidates Elected On Jobs - Give Us 916 Anti-Abortion Bills
The Bait And Switch Of The Tea Party
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That was the rallying call for the Tea Party movement candidates in their mid-term push to take over and rule the world. Three topics affected are insurance coverage of abortion, restriction of abortion after a specific point in gestation and ultrasound requirements. As well, legislators offer no answers with respect to initiatives to expand access to women’s reproductive health services.
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that these people don’t care about women in general, and specifically the right of a woman to choose when and if she wants to be a mother, or a mother again. But I digress…
In addition to these 916, there are more than 120 other bills that have been approved by at least one chamber. The trend shows a more hostile approach to abortion rights than ever. More than half of the bills introduced are for the purpose of restricting abortion access. Last year it was barely over one third.
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Tea Party Leader: We'll Take The Debt Ceiling Hike If You Put Gay Troops Back In The Closet
The two sides of the debate over whether the tea party is at heart a socially conservative movement or a fiscally conservative one smashed together Monday morning at a press conference in Washington, where a tea party leader told reporters he'd be willing to accept a bump in the debt ceiling if Republicans promise to put an end to "military effeminzation."
Speakers from the Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell to a man dressed as George Washington to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) -- who sent a written statement that was read aloud -- told a small crowd of reporters that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and his GOP leadership team were ignoring their tea party mandate by supporting an increase in the federal debt limit. They called on Republicans in the House to attach strict spending riders onto any deal they make with an Obama administration desperate to avoid government default.
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Tea Party Leader: We'll Take The Debt Ceiling Hike If You Put Gay Troops Back In The Closet | TPMDC
Attacking women's rights and gay rights, the Tea Party demonstrates conclusively and for all time that it's nothing but a Republican party in a stupid costume. Not even the most hard line Tea Party supporter can deny the simple truth now.
I'll be happy when this chapter in American history is closed. I'd be even more happy if this were omitted from the book altogether.