Bad News with a silver lining

[DeistPaladin]

The one silver lining is now the Teabagger base will roar and be harder to contain. Cruz may even be the new House Speaker in short order.

...and right on cue...

YEEEEE HAWWWW!!!!! WE WON! WE WON! HEY MIN! Your commie buddies are in the minority now! HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!!!!

There you go.

Speaker Cruz, here we come. The crazy will be impossible for "moderates" like Boener and McConnel to contain.

Fasten your seat belts, America. These next two years will be a bumpy ride. But at least it will do for us in 2016 what 2010 did for 2012. The impeachment proceedings of Obama will be a fun circus to watch.

I'm sure you remember making similar posts after 2010, ATheist? I know I do.

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I have seen the Republicans have taken effective control of the two chambers of Congress, but for the benefit of interested UK observers, what's a 'Teabagger'?

After the unmitigated disaster of the W Bush administration and the GOP's consequential defeat in 2008, the GOP needed to rebrand itself to get the Bush stink off of them.

Their solution, embraced by the far right and crazier elements of the GOP, was to put on Tricorner hats, pretend to be founding fathers and call themselves "The Tea Party". They pretended to be a new, spontaneous movement when in fact, they were simply a rebranding of the far right wing of the GOP base.

For those in the UK not familiar, the original Boston Tea Party was when a mob stormed a British trade ship, seized its cargo of tea and dumped it overboard into the harbor, making the largest cup of tea in history but ruining the quality even for American tastes.

Originally, this movement of rebranded Republicans called themselves "The Teabaggers" but this was quite an embarrassing mistake after it was revealed that this term already existed for something else...

Still, I call them the Teabaggers, the original name they'd chosen for themselves, because I refuse to call them The Tea Party. Putting on a tricorner hat does not make you either a patriot or a founding father. It makes you a bad cosplayer.

Hope this helps.

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You're spreading lies and peddling fear now.

How so?

Is not the GOP's policy to slash food stamps, refuse to raise the minimum wage (or repeal it) and repeal Obamacare?

How does this not promote what Ryantology fears?