I am sure that the Tea Partiers are heartbroken to learn that the GOP’s first order of business was to cut a deal with the president to add $900 billion to the debt and then to select a hypocritical earmarking lover of federal health care to be their chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
After an internal struggle within the House Republican caucus, the GOP Steering Committee voted to select Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) as the new Chairman for the Appropriations Committee yesterday. Rogers campaigned for the position promising to carry out the wider Republican agenda of defunding popular progressive policies, particularly with a pledge to “stop” money from being spent on health reform. Despite a pledge to be a fiscally responsible chairman, Rogers has one of the worst records in Congress when it comes to reducing the deficit: he voted for both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, trillions of dollars worth of Bush tax cuts, and is affectionately known as the “Pork King” for requesting nearly half a billion dollars worth of earmarks. However, earmarking and these votes are fairly common within the Republican caucus.
As Rogers postures as the greatest opponent of Obama’s health reform plan — calling it a “monstrosity” and “socialistic” — he has taken a very different tone in private. Using a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, ThinkProgress has obtained a letter from Rogers to the Health Resources and Services Administration, a bureau of Health and Human Services, seeking money from health reform.
But if any of those tea partying morons actually thought that the GOP gave a crap about rubes like them, they are getting exactly what they deserve.
Using a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, ThinkProgress has obtained a letter from Rogers to the Health Resources and Services Administration, a bureau of Health and Human Services, seeking money from health reform.
Why doesn’t Obama talk about this? Let the teabaggers eat their own.
If a president says something and no one listens, does he make a sound?
I don’t mean one day. I mean day after day, repeatedly.
but the Teabaggers were never serious in the first place; after all, how come they STFU as Dubya ran this country into the ground, putting us into hock to China?
that whole ‘ fiscal responsibility’ schtick was just that – a farce
BooMan answers that on in one simple word that describes not only your garden variety Tea Partier but your above-average local Tea Party organizer: “rube”. It wasn’t long after the so-called “spontaneous” anger at congressional town halls during the summer of 2009 was traced to advice circulated by GOP-tied lobbyists. The Tea Partiers got played as if they were a Yamaha concert grand being faced down by Billy Joel.
their creation was partly be design, partly by neglect.
The Design? The Koch Brothers spent millions “creating” a groundswell of support, with advertising, transport, and lots of behind the scenes funding. Dick’s Armey was not an organized movement, although Armey and his large staff did spend a lot for time organizing it and funding it initially.
The Neglect? I believe that Barack Obama bears fool responsibility for this. In June, July, last, the White house left congresscritters and senatwhores out to dry, when dealing with Health Care. The WH refused to raise a finger to outline the minimal coverage and approach that it would demand. That left our reps hanging in the wind during Town Hall meetings and allowed the Big Pharma and Big Insurance liars to monopolize the conversation, scare the living daylights out of people, and come up with lies like Death Panels, and worse, which the WH NEVER BOTHERED TO REFUTE. Or refudiate, in sarahspeak.
His neglect in leadership led us to a far worse health care bill. His neglect in leadership in finance reform led to weak tea version of what should have been a jolt of expresso. His neglect in leadership on tax cuts and the wealthy, has led us to this fiasco, where the Tea Baggers face an increase in the deficit, because of their fellow GOPS, of no less than $600,000,000,000.
I suspect that they might be a mite pissed.