Tea party cool to GOP pledge

[kpete]

Source: Politico

By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 9/25/10 7:07 AM EDT

House Republicans' agenda, “A Pledge to America,” may be rife with tea party rhetoric, but judging from the reaction of some key tea party members, it has not struck a particularly enthusiastic chord within the movement.

Since the pledge’s release this week, reactions have ranged from mild satisfaction that the GOP appears attuned to tea party concerns to doubt that congressional Republicans will follow through on the policies outlined in the pledge to grumbling that it’s stealing the thunder of a more aggressive tea party-produced document called the "Contract from America."

Among some tea partiers, there was disappointment that the Republicans' recently released agenda doesn’t go far enough. There also were expressions of outright disgust at what some saw as a transparent ploy to quell tea partiers’ anger with the Republican establishment just long enough to get their votes Nov. 2.

“It’s a mealy-mouthed sop to the tea party movement that is rife with platitudes and little on substance,” e-mailed Andrew Ian Dodge, the Maine state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots national coalition of local groups. “I have yet to see one person who is wholly impressed with it.”



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[Botany]

1. Fuck Politico ...... the tea party is a 100% republican invention

Tea Party Founders Sal Russo & Dick Armey are long time republican activists.

end of story

[Roland99]

4. Bingo! Without the monied GOP conductors, there would be NO Terrorist Party

[Botany]

7. W Bush made the name republican toxic so "they" just branded themselves

.... as teabaggers errrrr tea party patriots.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Yes, it's just the repugs throwing a bone to the right-wing ...

... but wait ... why can't the Democratic party leaders throw a bone or two to us on the left?

:hi:

[Botany]

8. I don't want a bone but a spine

Make them filibuster for tax cuts for the rich
make them filibuster against health care

[kenfrequed]

10. Absolutely.

And the fox-spin will be that this means the repuke pledge is somehow 'moderate.' It is rather likely they will pull in a few teahaddists to decry how moderate it is and how it doesn't do enough.

[breadandwine]

2. That is OUTRAGEOUS! How dare the Tea Party dis our great Republican pledge!

MAKE them support the Republicans!

What would Fox news saaaaaaaaaaaaaay?

[Historic NY]

3. REPUBLICAN Tea Party............

[Chipper Chat]

6. Teapublican Party

It's official (psssst: but don't ask don't tell Dick Armey)

[Botany]

9. Meet Sal Russo Tea Party Express Founder

Sal Russo is the founder and a principal in the Republican Party-affiliated public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers (RM+R),
a senior advisor to the King Media Group, RM+R's mirror firm, and chief strategist for Move America Forward. <1> He is also a
partner in Russo Watts & Rollins.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sal_Russo


44 years of working for republicans but his teabagger group is a diverse independent organic grass roots movement?

[SoapBox]

11. Ewhhh...putting "Tea Party" and "cool" in the same phrase?

I cannot even imagine putting together any phrase that includes "cool"
with the T.HaterBaggerParty.

And Politico?

:-P