Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will deliver the Tea Party response to the State of the Union address, so says the Tea Party Express. He’ll follow Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FLA) Republican response.
“Tea Party Express, the nation’s largest tea party political action committee, will host the Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address directly following the Republican response by Senator Marco Rubio. Senator Rand Paul will deliver the Tea Party response at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.”
I know, you thought the Tea Party was dead, but they can’t pass up an opportunity for another Michele Bachmann-style SOTU response screw up. After her, they graced us with the erudite Herman Cain. This year, Rand Paul will be infusing the nation with his adolescent-esque wisdom gleaned from the pages of Atlas Shrugged, because nothing says fiscal responsibility like basing your entire world view on a work of fiction. His response will be live streamed by the Tea Party express.
Rand, whose stumbles over his opposition to the Civil Rights Act led to him making history by cancelling an appearance on Meet the Press, is the corporate shill who accused Obama of sounding anti-American for asking that BP be held responsible for the oil spill, “What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.’ I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.”
Even though we are to pretend that the Tea Party is not synonymous with the Republican Party, the Tea Party express notes that Senator Marco Rubio is also a Tea Party guy. While Rubio has no official ties to them, he has been called the “crown prince of the Tea Party movement”. Yes, America is to be treated to a double helping of tea after the State of the Union address!
“Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer said, ‘We are excited to have Senator Paul deliver the 3rd Tea Party State of the Union response next week. Americans are fed up with Washington politics that fail to address America’s fiscal woes. Tea Party Express has called for reducing the size, cost, and intrusiveness of the federal government, and we have stood strongly for pro-growth policies to get the economy growing and job creation increased.’”
With the Tea Party’s approval ratings in the toilet and Frank Luntz desperately trying to get Republicans to sound more like Obama, this can’t be good news for the GOP. Republicans were hoping to use the SOTU response as yet another opportunity for “rebranding”, especially with the Hispanic community. Rubio is even planning on delivering his response in both English and Spanish. But now, Rand I-don’t-support-civil-rights-legislation Paul is going to be reminding Americans of the extremism of the GOP.
That’s a big cup of crazy tea on a night when the GOP can ill afford even it.
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chefbob50
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
Reducing the size, cost, and intrusiveness of the federal government. Yet their “party” wants to limit voting rights overturn Roe v.Wade, personhood legislation. The only thing the Tea-Party wants to limit government is for the benefit of the wealthy…
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Otto
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Ah, teabaggers… As demented as they ever were!
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inez
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:30 pm
Right on. They are also ALL WET from the hot water they place themselves in!
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 6:16 pm
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” –M. L. King “
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Mark Phillips
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Why are they still giving official air-time to this group of loopy-tunes?
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Sally
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 7:11 pm
They have no one left who is NOT loony tunes. Name one sane Republican anywhere in this country.
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Reynardine
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 7:38 pm
Chuck Hagel. That’s why the other Republicans are out to get him.
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Synn
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 4:32 pm
Jon Huntsman is an example of a sane Republican… which is why he did worse than anyone in the primaries: the loonies wanted nothing to do with him. I hope he sees the light, as he’d make a powerful Democrat. He’s already worked for the President, so why not take the step!
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RT
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 1:03 am
Except Huntsman is kind of a wuss. He had a chance in one of the debates to repeat an insult to Romney’s face–and wimped. No guts, no glory, no primary wins.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Has anyone yet been able to identify the species of dead animal/road kill which he wears on his head?
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 7:30 pm
I dont know ,but I swear this is randbo
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/7986/harpocolorvinette300.jpg
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PSzymeczek
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
This would be near-perfect, except for the fact that Harpo Marx never spoke. Rand opens his mouth and crap falls out on an almost constant basis.
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Reynardine
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Made out of brown merino sheep’s butt, without lanolin.
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PSzymeczek
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 12:10 pm
It bears a distinct resemblance to a deceased opossum.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 7:26 pm
“Americans are fed up with Washington politics that fail to address America’s fiscal woes”.
No, retard, they’re fed up with Washington politics which help the super-wealthy and the corporations drive ordinary working people into poverty while allowing the super-wealthy and corporations to ammass more and more of the nation’s wealth. That would be YOU.
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LookingForward
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 8:17 pm
Rand Paul is a different kind of crazy…he believes his Rhetoric. He has a lot of support in Kentucky and other Crevices! All the Paranoid, new world order freaks, personhood, racist, gun nuts…..love prissy Rand! “If I were President”. You know he dreams of this! Could you imagine, he being the most powerful man in the world……..
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SinghX
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 7:53 am
…”Rand Paul is a different kind of crazy…he believes his Rhetoric….
Ya’ gotta keep in mind that this guy was born into the
“Cult of the Randites”…they are technically not Ayn Randian’s but their own little off-shoot group lead by charismatic “Daay-dee Ron”. Of course he believes his own rhetoric! He doesn’t know any better! He was raised in a lifestyle that doesn’t “exist” anywhere but in his isolated, elite, little circle jerk.
His mind-set sort of reminds me of that character in “Meet the Fockers” (De Niro’s character) who is always letting Ben Stiller know about his conspiratorial, infamous “Circle of Trust”–who’s in and who’s not.
It is only natural that the crazy-making teabaggers are the only political allies who are allowed “in” Paul’s “Circle of Trust”.
As someone else pointed out, it’s a circular firing range.
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dar winn
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 10:21 pm
when confronted with a circular firing squad, get out of the way…. benny hill
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nancy cunningham
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 10:25 pm
What a bunch of crap! Go home paul rand and the tea party! Your opinion is unimportant and does not represent what the people of this country believe! Totally not relevent!!
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majii
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 11:29 pm
Rand Paul is totally unsuited to be in Congress. He has no facts to support the claims he makes, tells outrageous lies, promotes conspiracy theories, thinks more of his political abilities than he should, and takes no responsibility when he’s wrong. When Paul Krugman embarrassed Rand Paul on a Sunday “news” program, he posted RW information on his web site and continued to assert that “the size of government has grown under President Obama.” None of it was supported by facts. None of it. Rand Paul seems to live in his own little world where a few dedicated individuals tell him he’s the greatest thing since Jesus was born, when he isn’t. On the basis of this adoration from a small percentage of the American population, he seems to think he’s destined to be POTUS. I would love for him to toss his hat in the ring in 2016. He’d discover that he’s been lied to and that the political abilities he thinks he has are non-existent. Seeing him crash and burn would be one of the highlights of the 21st Century for me. NO phoenix is he.
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Viva
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:08 am
I hope you all remember the time Rand Paul’s campaign beat up a woman on the street. This bastard truly fancies himself as a candidate for POTUS.
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Barry Roope
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 5:57 am
I think it’s great, division in the Republican party equals a stronger Democratic party.
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RICHARD LOWE
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:05 am
The media should just ignore these idiots and not give them a voice. Then they will go away quietly!
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PSzymeczek
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
They won’t go away quietly. They just clamor more loudly for the spotlight.
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Sabyen91
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
They are IN Congress. They hold some sort of power. There is no ignoring them, there is only the sunlight disinfectant.
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Christopher
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 8:21 am
The networks should all agree not to cover this. Only the SOTU and official GOP response should be aired.
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buckeyewill
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:03 am
SO when will the real Tea Party start stepping up to the podium and speaking up????
What I see is nothing but the same old same old.
When will the TP decry overseas military bases???
When will the TP denounce and eliminate corporate welfare to the oil companies and wealthy via legislative action????
What I see is the same old same old.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:52 am
Never, so long as the Gebrüder Koch are funding them.
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tz
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:43 am
Thinking out loud here . . .
I tend to feel that the crazier they are, the more media attention they should get. It helps cement the image of Right Wingers as the true loons they are. A black colleague of mine once said that he preferred to deal with overt racism over the covert kind. I prefer the reactionaries, err, “tea party” types to be overt not covert. So, reactionaries, your true colors so the majority of your fellow citizens can see what you are, and adjust their voting accordingly.
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Anne
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 11:54 am
Self-righteous stupidity is just as bad, if not worse than, sincere stupidity. The Tea Party has equal amounts of both, because the rejection of their policies during the presidential election has done nothing to make them any wiser or less determined to foist their backward, ignorant ideology on us. No matter who the GOP messenger is, in the name of their version of “diversity,” they are still bent on trying to impose their toxic views on us. The attempts to appear “moderate” are just that, not an attempt to change the ideology that’s so repellent to many of us.
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Rudy Gonzales
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
What are we missing in this new point of interest? I thought both were TEA-questaters? Both are positioning themselves for a run at the presidency, both are supported by TEA-types dead-set against president Obama, and both are anti-immigrant by action, voice and vote! I’ve often said there was a coalition of Birchers(B-1), Birthers(B-2), Evangelicals(E) and Libertarians(L) and the omnipresent TEA-types(T) who did not want Obama to get anything done. They were severely thumped by Obama in 2012 because they were backing and supporting the like of Paul Ryan, Todd Akin, Roger Rivard, Rick Berg, Richard Mourdock and John Koster(all R) who wanted to define rape, demean women and continue their anti-women crusade. Everyone knows the background of TEA-questaters when they showed up at meetings with guns on their hips and shouted down speakers rather than sit at a table and converse and compromise. But TEA-types do not want to compromise at all. Now we’re going to have dueling anti-Obama State of the Union broadcasts. Let’s get together and change the mix in the House and Senate to get real legislation done for the middle class. We well know the truth of the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people and the concentration of power in stricter, less compassionate hands. “Sweep the HOUSE CLEAN….in 2014″
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Sharon
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Tea Party Express is an arm of the Koch Brothers – Rubio is also Tea Party but GOP is trying to put the face of a Cuban American on TV to show diversity. Both Rubio and Paul support Tea Party agenda but Rubio is aligned with Jeb Bush so occasionally he will back-off Tea Party when it suits his future.
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inez
Feb. 9th, 2013 at 9:41 pm
Rand’s SOTU is a last ditch effort to prove to the Tea Partiers and the Express that there is till hope for them..If BS was music Rand would be the Boston Philharmonic///////////////
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RT
Feb. 10th, 2013 at 12:59 am
If you’re going to pick someone to foul up the proceedings, pick a Paul. They don’t live in the same world we do anyway.
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