Time for a Tea Party of the Left

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It takes an extremely conservative partisan to wish the Republican own worst nightmare on the Dems. Yes the Tea Party has undercut the Establishment GOP, but no thanks the Democrats will be unified behind Obama.
The Tea Party has been a total disaster for the GOP evident in that now we have two GOP leading Establishment candidates who are diametrically opposed to even listening to any Tea Party ideas. Note how they treat Ron Paul like a leper. People are just not buying into the lies and nonsense going around the Republican circus, and the Democrats aren't about to take up with these clowns.
The Occupy Movement and the Tea Party have more in common than not, and both are absolutely opposed to the Corporate neo-fuedalism garbage the GOP nominees are spewing, as well as most Americans who can only be amused at the ridiculous antics of the GOP primary.
All we have to see is another debt ceiling fight with the GOP trying to shut down the government again, and we will see the Tea Party go down for the count to a permanent knock-out.

jake of OR 8:03PM January 27, 2012

"It's not that progressives couldn't have power; it's that they refuse to wield any."
That's it in a nutshell, I think. We progressives are too often willing to settle for what we've convinced ourselves is all we can get, instead of voting for what we want. Meanwhile, the conservatives haven't made that mistake, and politics in America have drifted to the right.
That's not a coincidence.

Cujo359 of WA 3:44PM January 26, 2012

This is a horribly-written article. Could you please provide Newsweek contributors with a style manual, and perhaps a refresher on English grammer? This is unreadable, and far below your standards.

Don of WA 12:52AM January 26, 2012

I've been on www.taylormarsh.com since 2008! This article is a snippet of why!
GO TAYLOR!

Dafederalist of NV 12:00AM January 26, 2012

Thanks ANGELA!

Taylor Marsh of DC 10:48PM January 25, 2012

I truly don't understand the point of demonizing people determined to stand up for fairness at a time that there clearly isn't any.
It's understandable to find disagreements with them, but these are people truly fed up with what's going on in our country.
They're not driven by politics, so it's interesting that partisans find it necessary to attack them on grounds that mean nothing to them..

Taylor Marsh of DC 10:47PM January 25, 2012

Taylor Marsh is spot-on. I hope we hear from her more often.

Angela Cousins of NY 10:43PM January 25, 2012

Tim of DC ,
OWS isn't smart enough to get out of the rain just as Air America was full of hot air .
The Tea Party , sorry we have a jobs , jobs that pay taxes to enable the OWS morons ...

Hunter of WI 9:05PM January 25, 2012