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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 10:40 PM
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shizzzam!!!
Tea Party infighting heats up

(CNN) -- Political bickering within the conservative Tea Party movement intensified Monday as a representative of one group, the Tea Party Express, ridiculed a decision by another, the National Tea Party Federation, to expel the Express from its ranks.

The Express has been under fire since one of its organizers, conservative talk radio host Mark Williams, wrote an incendiary blog post last week in response to an NAACP resolution calling on Tea Party leaders to crack down on racist elements in the movement. The post was a fictional letter from what Williams called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.

On Sunday, Federation spokesman David Webb announced that "in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation" because of the blog post.

"He doesn't represent us properly," Webb told CNN Monday. He's an "embarrassment."

Joe Wierzbicki, a spokesman for the Express, characterized the Federation on Monday as an "absurd" organization with no right to decide who can or cannot participate in a national grass-roots movement.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/19/tea.party.imbroglio/index.html?hpt=C1
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 10:51 PM
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1. Is it the Tea Party's Liberation Front or the Liberation Front of the Tea Party?
One gets confused.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 10:53 PM
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2. whatever the order of the words, one can snack either way.
:popcorn:
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 10:53 PM
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3. piranha feeding frenzies can be fun to watch
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Hassin Bin Sober Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 10:54 PM
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4. Fuck off. We're the People's Front of Judea. Bloody splitters!
Edited on Mon Jul-19-10 11:03 PM by Hassin Bin Sober
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-10 11:27 PM
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5. Since when
has it been possible to embarrass the Teabaggers?
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-10 05:33 AM
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6. Isn't Webb the token spokesman they had to come up with.?
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