Mike Fitzpatrick, Dan Lungren Added To 'Tea Party 10' Target List For 2012

WASHINGTON -- A progressive push to defeat 10 Tea Party-affiliated Republicans has named its two newest targets Wednesday, with the addition of GOP House stalwarts in tough districts.

The liberal CREDO Super PAC launched a multimillion dollar bid to take down the "Tea Party 10" in February, when they identified the first six candidates, among them conservative champions such as Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa), Allen West (R-Fla.) and Joe Walsh (R-Ill.).

Two additions -- the more conservative Rep. Dan Lungren (Calif.) and the more moderate Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (Pa.) -- have more of a situational allegiance to the right, but they are in competitive districts that they could actually lose. CREDO also points to votes by both candidates to do things like defund Planned Parenthood, redefine rape and support the GOP budget that Democrats see as gutting Medicare and programs for the poor.

Democrats need to win 25 seats to take back control of the House.

"Rep. Dan Lungren is the Rick Santorum of California, and Rep. Fitzpatrick is one of the war on women's biggest champions," said Becky Bond, Political Director of CREDO. "If our grassroots activists can reach out to enough voters in the districts of Lungren and Fitzpatrick and share the message of these Republicans' extremist Tea Party votes, our efforts can make the difference between victory and defeat in November."

Below, the first group of Republicans announced by CREDO:

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Comments

[jshook99]

07:54 PM on 04/04/2012

1 MILLION Illegals Expected To Gain Fast-Track Legal Status

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that an estimated 1 million illegals currently within our borders will be eligible to apply for a "Provisional" Amnesty Waiver, remain in our country pending review, and then gain permanent legal status after just a few days out of the country.

This is the latest example of our Liar-In-Chief talking a big game of border security and then implementing his radical, open borders, pro-illegal alien agenda through Executive Orders and administrative “Rule” changes.

[soma77]

08:56 PM on 04/04/2012

The sad thing is most illegals are smarter and better citizens than Republicans that is why they are such haters.

[jshook99]

10:27 PM on 04/04/2012

So how long you been here Chico?

[Jawbey]

05:22 PM on 04/04/2012

VOTERS----- SEND ALL THE REPUB/?BAGGGERS AND THEIR BLUE DOG HELPERS--- PACKING IN NOVEMBER!!!!

[kywst09]

04:42 PM on 04/04/2012

Mike Fitzpatrick sanctione transvaginal probes, he needs to be defeated. I live in his town and his support was tepid 2 years ago and was swept in with the tea party extremists

[Joseph Scott]

04:41 PM on 04/04/2012

Tea Party extremists are funny ducks. They run from one place to another, issuing ultimatums, forcing signatures on pledges, narrowly defining issues in an ideologue's insistence for utter, lockstep conformity....forgetting Emerson's mild rebuke for such intellectual lack of heft, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of the simple mind."

These extremists are in a 'take no prisoners,' kind of mode, it seems to me, fighting viciously at every turn to impose their order, selecting ten politicians to target (as the article describes) in the usual political battles, but also targeting the American population at large, day in and day out, with an onslaught of repeated propaganda that would be outrageously funny in its literal depictions of the world as they see it, were it not for the fact that they would like to make OUR world look exactly as they see it!

Paul Ryan's social darwinism, as Gingrich aptly described it early on, is on the table.

And the ultra-right's cultural war on ....well, on culture of all kinds, art of any kind, and women hardest of all apparently, is also on full display.
People are rightly shocked.
Will Americans decode this in time, and vote for Obama to protect their own interests?

We'll have to see.

Gingrich quote: www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/03-01 day ago

[indietom]

05:30 PM on 04/04/2012

Teabaggers are like a flasher in a raincoat. Once you get over the initial shock of exposure, you notice that there's not much there.

[SirMartinM]

04:25 PM on 04/04/2012

What's a guidelien?

[Belle Starr]

04:18 PM on 04/04/2012

Will they have targets . . . . opps I mean SURVEYORS' marks on their names?

[Thinking Conservative]

02:57 PM on 04/04/2012

republicans are under attack from all quarters, even from their surrogates ( the tea party). you people had better circle the wagons and try and find some way to survive. Smart money say you will be extinct after this next election cycle or so far under ground that you will need to re-brand yourself--remember the Whig Party?

[Heckle]

02:55 PM on 04/04/2012

Vote the T-crazies out. They have no plan besides complete destruction of the social net, the very fiber of our society and the foundation that our greatness is rooted in. Vote for sanity
Obama 2012

[bluecub]

02:11 PM on 04/04/2012

I Iive in Iowa and I guarantee you there is none kookier than Steve King. Look up his 20 craziest quotes.
He said the terrorists would be dancing in the streets if Obama won the presidency. Maybe he meant swimming with the fishes and misspoke...

[manfrommars]

01:44 PM on 04/04/2012

these are folks whose brains are hard wired with stimuli going straight tot he amygdala (fear, fight or flight - mostly fear) The rest of us have external stimuli going first to our reasoning centers. These foplks cannot and will not ever change and are responsible for most of the carnage in the world today. Sorry, but it's true

[RepublicansAreFail]

01:43 PM on 04/04/2012

Wait a sec, how did that fool from that reality show get into Congress?

[bcupcake]

02:07 PM on 04/04/2012

I said the same exact thing!!!

[MarkJudiGoet]

02:15 PM on 04/04/2012

As with Walsh, all it took to fire up the drones was a big mouth spouting from an empty head.

[nypapajoe]

01:38 PM on 04/04/2012

Just think that after November 2012, we will be celebrating a nation almost free of fanatical war and hate mongers that are directly employed by the corporate elite and their owners! Tea Baggers will implode knowing that a "Blackman" is still in the white house and their irrational influence on the hill will be of no consequence!

[jbon911647]

02:28 PM on 04/04/2012

You should donate every dime you have to make it happen.

[Jeff Sadowsky]

01:38 PM on 04/04/2012

Lucky for the T.Slaggers that Mitt has bought a reunion La Jolla beach house for them to visit him during their respective retirements beginning Nov. 7, 2012.

[rdk70816]

01:35 PM on 04/04/2012

The TEA Party is still brewing. If anyone thinks it has gone away, keep on thinking that!

[ErnestineBass]

01:43 PM on 04/04/2012

Smell that? The kettle's boiled dry and now you Tbags are burning.

[rdk70816]

11:05 PM on 04/04/2012

In the dreams of the Great Occupying Destroyer.

[Belle Starr]

04:20 PM on 04/04/2012

I don't think it's going away--I know it is.

[rdk70816]

11:24 PM on 04/04/2012

I think not. You will still be pretending you are as lively as Belle Starr as you sink into the deep depression caused by the ascension of the TEA Party groups and the final mopping up of the Occupiers and their filth and deceit and lies. The Nation will not stand for the tyranny envisioned by destroyers of the legislative and judicial branches of government. A pox on you and your kind. Begone!

[sagmann]

01:21 PM on 04/04/2012

Whining on having a hard time barely "surviving" on $174.000 a year??? That's an insult to all Americans! This Duffy is a dead duck!

[jmac44]

08:43 PM on 04/04/2012

That's how far out of touch they are with the middleclass.. $40/50,000/yr.... these are the men & party that feel $7.5/min wage should be lowered to $5/hr.... same people who dont undersand what $800/mo for health ins does to a family of 4's budget...but he cant live on $174,000/yr he's "struggling"...Really?

[sagmann]

09:02 PM on 04/04/2012

It's my guess that, Nov 7, he will be the first to apply for unemployement...