Tea Partiers, in my close experience, are like drunks at the end of the evening. They make no sense, and you just want to get away from them.
H/T to Mark Warren.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102202873.html
tea party and “elites”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-24/unions-the-real-big-money-culprits-this-election-season/
money from Unions to the dems.
Depends on who you listen to. The New York Times puts the amount spent a lot lower-8.7 million. The WSJ-the evil clone of Darth Murdoch came up with your 87 million number -which I doubt is accurate. Even if it were, they are still being out spent about 7-1 by self financiers and corporate donors.
But Salon makes the really accurate point here:
In order to argue about this picture with any confidence, you need data. You need to know who is spending what. And of course that is the problem with this election cycle: Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn our already highly inadequate campaign finance rules, we voters don’t have even the most basic information about who is spending how much on the elections.
You can argue that “money is speech” from now till doomsday. We aren’t anywhere close to the stage of having the important discussion of how we actually restrict this kind of spending. All we’re saying is: surely the American people have a right to know who is buying its lawmakers.
Right now this demand comes from the left, but I have a feeling we might hear a little more of it from the Tea Party types after this election, when they see how effectively all that corporate cash deep-sixes their hopes of dynamiting the status quo.