Tea Party Activists Angry at G.O.P. Leaders
By KATE ZERNIKE

As Tea Party politicians prepare to take their seats when the 112th Congress convenes this week, they are already taking issue with Republicans for failing to hold the line against the flurry of legislation enacted in the waning weeks of Democratic control of the House of Representatives and for not giving some candidates backed by Tea Party groups powerful leadership positions.

Just a month ago, Tea Party leaders were celebrating their movement’s victories in the midterm elections. But as Congress wrapped up an unusually productive lame-duck session last month, those same Tea Party leaders were lamenting that Washington behaved as if it barely noticed that American voters had repudiated the political establishment.

In their final days controlling the House, Democrats succeeded in passing legislation that Tea Party leaders opposed, including a bill to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks, an arms-control treaty with Russia, a food safety bill and a repeal of the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military.

“Do I think that they’ve recognized what happened on Election Day? I would say decisively no,” said Mark Meckler, a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, which sent its members an alert last month urging them to call their representatives to urge them to “stop now and go home!!”

“We sent them a message that we expect them to go home and come back newly constituted and do something different,” Mr. Meckler said. “For them to legislate when they’ve collectively lost their mandate just shows the arrogance of the ruling elite. I can’t imagine being repudiated in the way they were and then coming back and saying ‘Now that we’ve been repudiated, let’s go pass some legislation.’ ”

“I’m surprised by how blatant it was,” he added.

As for ad hominem attacks on Crowley (who is making blatant threats directed at me), I would say I have exercised considerable restraint under the circumstances. I did take the measure of emailing Chris Mac to advise him that AC is once again making threats directed at persons on the forum. I don't know when you joined us but AC has a history of not only making threats on the forum but then escalating it to the point of calling people at their homes and even their places of employment as he takes said threats to the next level. He has been banned before for this behavior and it appears to be surfacing again.

Let me ask your opinion. How do you feel about renewing ADHD drugs initiated by someone else and then doing so over a long term basis. Also where do you stand on renewing controlled substances in significant quantities and on a chronic basis when these scripts where started by someone else and you have inherited the patient. It makes me very uncomfortable yet I have worked in institutions where there is considerable administrative pressure to do just that. I don't like it at all. In fact, Ken, I have left jobs because of it.

Comrade Ken,

I agree with you, the elected Republicans have done a poor job of spending cuts, let's hope a tea party influenced group motivates the rest of the GOP to get on the project. And, I agree with you, we are having to a high a concentration of wealth, but the only way to solve that is to have the lower and middle classes rise up, there will be opportunities going forward.

You do not well serve him by defending him. You would better serve him by calling him on the behavior and advocating that he seek treatment. Your defense of him at this time puts you in the role of an enabler, however, well meaning you might be. There is considerable history here concerning which you might not be aware. Better you should assist him and encourage him to seek treatment.

during my forest service stint, i considered myself a liberal. As the forest service usually got a bigger budget under them. Then,,,i saw how they spent said budget-which brought out the conservative side- a bit of ping pong if you will. At this juncture, it is hard for me to get behind ANY side, as they all have a hand in the general sell out of America.

Ken...

I am going to have to disagree with you, to a degree...

because nothing Lois has written here deserves the behavior she is getting from A Crowley (and others all the way to being called a "Cunt" again)...

The liberal side is

WE want to fix Government, not make it bigger and less efficient

The right wingers say we want big wasteful Government, what a F-ing lie

we can fix the system, if there wasn't so much special interest involved, and that my friend, was put in place by the Conservatives

Get the conservtive special interest OUT, and we can do whats right

"Healthcare Professionals" are HUMAN too...
and on the OTHER side of the coin...
the MENTALLY ILL are very often AWARE and IN CONTROL of their behaviors...
MENTALLY ILL does not = STUPID...
;-)