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Tuesday Open Thread [5.20.14]

Michael Tomasky says the Tea Party is not quite dead yet:

Tonight, the tea party is going to lose some elections. Its Senate candidates in Kentucky and Georgia are going to lose—and lose really, really badly in at least in Kentucky. The theme of the night on cable (and for the balance of the week really) will be the death of the tea party. Everybody’s waiting with a safety net, as Elvis Costello (nearly) sang, but I say don’t bury them ’cuz they’re not dead yet.
While it’s true that the majority of tea-party candidates are losing, something else has been going on more under the radar, smartly picked up on recently by Jamie Fuller of The Washington Post. A lot of Republican candidates are trying to finesse the establishment-tea party Maginot Line and be both things to all people. She writes, I believe accurately, that the clear goal of many candidates is “staying comfortable with the tea party while networking with the establishment on the side.” This certainly describes North Carolina’s Thom Tillis. He beat an explicitly tea party backed challenger, but Tillis is still deeply reactionary (eliminate the minimum wage entirely, he once suggested!), he backed the Cruz-led government shutdown, and he is distinguishable ideologically from tea party candidates only in that he’s not quite as wacko as the tea party guy was.

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Radical Right’s “Traitors Spring” Fails Miserably.

So, if all had gone to their deluded plain, 10 to 30 million people who rush the White House and the Capitol Building and force the President, Vice President and the congressional leadership from office. How exactly is not said, but one can assume that they would not have gone willingly, since all were legitimately elected to their terms of office less than two years ago. So we are left to assume that they will be violently forced from office. But as the picture shows, only a few hundred, if that, showed up. Coup organizers said that the 10 to 30 million expected were scared off by the rain on Thursday and Friday. Which seems reasonable. Because if you are going to violently topple your government, it better be a sunny day.

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