The Tea Party's Difficult Mission To Take Down Harry Reid

The New York Times:

The blinds drawn against the desert sun, this is the new burrow of Eric Odom, a chief organizer of the first nationwide Tea Parties last year. Mr. Odom moved here a few weeks ago with his fiancée and a blogger sidekick to mobilize the state's Tea Party groups for the midterms. By training activists in get-out-the-vote tactics like the "voter bombs" that helped Scott Brown become the new Republican senator from Massachusetts, they are hoping to unseat Nevada's senior senator and the Democratic leader, Harry Reid.

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Comments

[DevonTexas]

10:58 AM on 04/06/2010

Gee. you wait long enough and you can find something to agree on.

[jws2346]

07:37 AM on 04/06/2010

I love it. The Tea Party, America's no 1 enemy.

[iLoveGiraffes]

04:09 AM on 04/06/2010

Was HCR Harry Reid's waterloo?

[ChicagoSuz]

12:59 AM on 04/06/2010

HCR has a provision for an Asst Secretary of HHS. Maybe the President should appoint Harry to it. He knows an awful lot about HCR. Just a thought...

[termgirl]

12:33 AM on 04/06/2010

The Justice Department is considering indicting Senator Ensign.
Apparently money laundering doesn't bother tea-partiers.

[CTtransplant]

01:23 AM on 04/06/2010

They should...and Ensign should have resigned. He is an embarrassment to Nevada!

[Dosadi]

10:20 PM on 04/05/2010

These anti-Americans cannot hide their true colors for long.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI

[Greg Petty]

10:29 PM on 04/05/2010

No, they are really creating problems for the GOP

[Squeglen]

08:43 PM on 04/05/2010

The tea party can do whatever they want, it all comes down to the people of the state that vote. So I could careless if they storm the state ten fold, the money they will make from them will help their economy and Reed will be laughing in the end.

[CTtransplant]

11:25 PM on 04/05/2010

I agree! I do not think they realize just how many people really like Reid as our Senator!

[JohnBryansFontaine]

06:19 PM on 04/05/2010

Who Are the Tea Partiers?
by Chris Good
Apr 5 2010, 5:40 PM ET
TheAtlantic.com

"...But these results should come with a caveat: they are not the demographics of activists who regularly go to meetings hosted by "tea party" groups, nor are they the demographics of people who show up for tea party rallies.

They are the demographics of people who told Gallup they consider themselves to be a "supporter...of the tea party movement," as opposed to an "opponent," or "neither." It's one thing to tell a Gallup pollster that you support something; it's another to show up at a rally and hold a sign, or chant, or just be there in the crowd to oppose the agenda of President Obama and the TARP bailout initiated under President Bush. Gallup's poll is as much a test of the "Tea Party" brand as it is of the movement itself..."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/who-are-the-tea-partiers/38510/

[Dosadi]

10:22 PM on 04/05/2010

I you were not polled you have no reason to believe anyone else was. Just ask your friends if they were polled. That will tell you a lot.

[widdles]

03:57 PM on 04/05/2010

Anybody and everybody who is a progressive is an enemy to the Tea Party!

They can continue their fight for power. More POWER to them. They will do so much damage in the primaries and general elections by splitting the voter base with the Republicans that the Democrats will win.

They truly just need to take a deep breath, admit that they lost in 2008 and that a b___k man is sitting behind the chair in the Oval Office and work towards bettering our nation instead of dividing it.

Oh yes, some tr0// will come along and say that is exactly what they are attempting to do.

Really? So, you think all the name calling, attacking anybody who does not think/act like they do is bettering this nation? Really?

[NevadaLib]

02:14 PM on 04/05/2010

not true, necessarily. The only person I watched was Nate Silver. He took each poll with a grain of salt, speculated on how they worked, and came up with an outcome more accurate than anything I saw anywhere. He was not only on the money more than any one poll, but didn't use variations. He made a concise perdition and was only wrong about like, 2 states.

[JohnBryansFontaine]

02:09 PM on 04/05/2010

No, the Tea Party isn't just like the rest of America
By Stephen Stromberg
April 5, 2010; 12:11 PM ET
The Washington Post

"...Headlines this morning proclaimed all the nasty myths about the Tea Party that the media has peddled over the last several months to be “busted.” Four in ten Tea Partiers are Democrats or independents, according to a survey by a right-leaning polling firm. So, readers might conclude, maybe the Tea Party isn’t dominated by cranky right-wingers. Writes the Los Angeles Times’s Andrew Malcolm:

They've been portrayed variously as angry fringe elements, often inarticulate, potentially violent and merely Republicans in sheep's clothing or disgruntled pockets of conservatives blindly lashing out at a left-handed President Obama and the same side of his Democratic Party finally getting its chance to drive home a liberal agenda after eight years of Republican rule and six under a centrist Bill Clinton.

So does the data easily knock down this straw man? Not really, actually..."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/04/no_the_tea_party_isnt_just_lik.html

[libsralwayswrong]

02:13 PM on 04/05/2010

another one http://politifi.com/news/Juan-Williams-Tea-Party-Anger-Reflects-Mainstream-Concerns-379760.html

[A Meat Beetle]

02:56 PM on 04/05/2010

Juan Williams has absolutely no credibility whatsoever. He's a yutz.

[Richter]

03:56 PM on 04/05/2010

Murdoch employee writing in Murdoch paper concludes that Murdoch's target audience is just plain hardworkin' average 'mericans.

This is like getting information on communism from Pravda.

[CHICAGOSTYLE]

02:01 PM on 04/05/2010

and now it is coming out that about 40 % of the Tea Party are Independent or Dems

[ljc]

02:14 PM on 04/05/2010

40% of how many that were polled ? 500? 1,000? Are any of these people actually residents of Nevada who can vote ?


I doubt that the busload of people traveling the country will be much of a factor in the fall elections. All politics are local unless we are in a Presidental year.

[JohnBryansFontaine]

02:16 PM on 04/05/2010

the Gallop poll shows that 49% of the Tea Partiers are Republicans; 43% are Independents and only 8% are Democrats.

[Dustee]

03:25 PM on 04/05/2010

That's about the size of it.

[kgb999]

01:59 PM on 04/05/2010

Oh geez. They brought in a paid teabagger from Chicago and set him up in a condo? If they had half a braincell they'd have pumped the money into a local and kept this guy out of the picture all together.

This should be fun. Ground zero for the battle between the Ron Paul Tea Party folks and the teabaggers. They were already POed at the GOP in Nevada ... wonder how they like having someone parachuted in to clear all their candidates from the field.

Toto ... you aren't Massachusetts anymore.

[lohu]

01:46 PM on 04/05/2010

Why is the current admin demonizing the tea party and still say they believe in free speech?

[amaboss52]

01:54 PM on 04/05/2010

Give an example of your "demonization" please.

[mcmutter]

01:57 PM on 04/05/2010

TeaBaggers = awholes

[r213 goldwater]

01:46 PM on 04/05/2010

It is all about Federal Government Spending.

Federal Government Spending as a percentage of GDP has increased from 19 percent to over 25 percent. That is, an increase from 2.9 Trillion dollars per year to over 3.7 Trillion (or approximately the size of eight Exxon/Mobil(s))

From the Office of Budget and Management...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/historicals/

------------ Year --------- GDP ----- Receipts --- Outlays --- Surplus/Deficit
Clinton............ 1993. 6,587,300 1,154,341 1,409,392 -255,051
Clinton.............1994. 6,976,600 1,258,579 1,461,766 -203,186
Clinton.............1995. 7,341,100 1,351,801 1,515,753 -163,952
Clinton............ 1996. 7,718,300 1,453,055 1,560,486 -107,431
Clinton.............1997. 8,211,700 1,579,240 1,601,124 - 21,884
Clinton.............1998. 8,663,000 1,721,733 1,652,463 + 69,270
Clinton.............1999. 9,208,000 1,827,459 1,701,849 +125,610
Clinton............ 2000. 9,821,000 2,025,198 1,788,957 +236,241
Clinton/Bush. 2001 10,225,300 1,991,142 1,862,906 +128,236
Bush............... 2002 10,543,900 1,853,149 2,010,907 -157,758
Bush............... 2003 10,979,800 1,782,321 2,159,906 -377,585
Bush............... 2004 11,685,600 1,880,126 2,292,853 -412,727
Bush............... 2005 12,445,700 2,153,625 2,471,971 -318,346
Bush............... 2006 13,224,900 2,406,876 2,655,057 -248,181
Bush............... 2007 13,896,000 2,568,001 2,728,702 -160,701
Bush............... 2008 14,439,000 2,523,999 2,982,554 -458,555
Bush/Obama 2009 14,237,200 2,104,995 3,517,681 -712,686
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prior 8 year Total ..................... 17,273,000 20,820,000 -2,846,539
Prior 8 year Average ................. 2,160,000 . 2,602,500... -355,817

The total Federal Government Deficit is now increasing 1.3 Trillion dollars each year!!!!

------------ Year -------- GDP ----- Receipts -- Outlays --- Surplus/Deficit
Obama 2010 est .. 14,623,900 2,165,119 3,720,701 -1,555,582
Obama 2011 est .. 15,299,000 2,567,181 3,833,861 -1,266,680

[mcmutter]

02:05 PM on 04/05/2010

Worst economic depression/recession out there since '29 - the last time the banks and investment houses got out of control - thats the reason we spend fed money, to gun all the engines on the plane and keep from crashing - digging out will take some time. All the more reason to be prudent in the good years - so that we able to get through these lean ones.

[r213 goldwater]

02:19 PM on 04/05/2010

The worst recession since the great depression -- yeah yeah, I've heard that excuse.

The last time the Federal Government attempted to spend us out of a recession was the 1970's. All that gave us was eight years of double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation. Google "stagflation", if you didn't live through it.

BTW - the 1970's recession lasted over eight years. This one is barely two years old and already it has been tagged as the worst one ever.

[Squeglen]

08:41 PM on 04/05/2010

Nice try guy, you need to tell people that when Bush got into office the country had 200 billion dollar surplus and when Bush left, we were 1.3 trillion in debt. How do you figure that this is the Dems fault when the rethugs gave away our money left and right. Yes we now need to spend money in order to make money and try and get this country back on track after the disaster we just went through. But please be factual and read and listen to other programs other then Faux News.