Sunday, August 7, 2011

Tea Party’s Next Targets: Blocking Judicial Appointees, Killing Gas Tax - The Daily Beast

Tea Party’s Next Targets: Blocking Judicial Appointees, Killing Gas Tax - The Daily Beast: "As the nation sweated the very real possibility that America would default on its debt, a band of the freshman congressmen blamed for the standoff gathered for a long-promised pot of seafood gumbo at the home of Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL), just a few blocks from the panicked Capitol.

These 19 Tea Party freshmen, as they’ve become known—derided as “terrorists” by Vice President Joe Biden and “bizarro” by their own Republican Party icons like John McCain—showed no remorse about bringing the nation to the brink of financial Armageddon."

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