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>>The Tea Party was quickly co-opted by the repub establishment.
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>There's some growing evidence that it wasn't "just" elements in the D party that used the IRS to target the Tea Party. Some of the mainstream Rs might have been involved.
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>There could be a million reasons why Darrell Issa handled the Lois Lerner situation so badly....but I can speculate on at least one more.

It's almost scary to see "resurgent" dem challengers unseating long-term dem incumbents in primaries.
The woman in MA is a shoo-in to win the general election in November as is, probably, the woman in the Bronx.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the money to corrupt them.

As I said to John, there are a lot of unhappy people here and their numbers are increasing.
Here in NJ, public transit has almost shut down.
There is an increasing shortage of low/middle income rental housing.
Student debt is skyrocketing.
John likes to cite the increase in employment and that's certainly a good thing, but how do we square that with this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42248999

We have a new category of people here -
the working homeless.


The Tea Party responded by attacking Hillary's server.
The dems respond by investigating payments to Stormy Daniels.