Tea Party unhappy with deal: It’s ‘destroying America’s future’

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/6832122-418/tea-party-unhappy-with-deal-its-destroying-americas-future.html

By Alan Gomez August 2, 2011 1:02AM

WASHINGTON — The Tea Party’s influence throughout the months-long negotiations over the debt ceiling led to spending cuts in the trillions. The movement helped push the negotiations to the brink of today’s deadline by insisting that any deal could not include tax increases.

So what was its reaction when the House passed a deal Monday night that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for deficit reductions of more than $2 trillion without tax increases?

“Political suicide,” according to Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips. Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said the deal was “destroying America’s future.”

Sen. Rand Paul, a freshman Republican from Kentucky who co-founded the Senate Tea Party Caucus, argued that the deal never balances the budget and lamented that it did not contain a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican from Georgia who has been embraced by the Tea Party, even proposed lowering the debt ceiling to reign in federal spending.

[jpak]

1. The Baggers lost

They can suck it

yup

[mmonk]

2. They are correct. Just not in the sense they think.

[treestar]

3. Everything is relative

That proves it.

[Fleshdancer]

4. Balanced budget my a$$. They wanted to default.

They're nothing more than a loud group of rich petulant, self-absorbed children.

[LiberalLoner]

5. I'm trying to think of an analogy...

About all I can come up with is this. Imagine that the teabaggers believe all Liberals should be rounded up and exterminated (a few of them certainly do believe that, by the way.) Imagine that we Liberals feel we should be allowed to live in peace.

A compromise is reached. Only 75% of Liberals will be rounded up and exterminated.

The teabaggers are FURIOUS. They believe our nation will die as a result of even any Liberals being left alive.

The Liberals ought to be happy because the teabaggers are furious, right? The teabagger's fury means it's automatically a good deal for the Liberals, right?