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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (239300)	12/4/2013 12:35:15 PM
From: research1234	Respond to of 541965

The Reps who want to actually govern are called RINOs by the TPers, and the TPers are doing their best to purge the party of them. The TPers seem to be calling the shots in the House, and if they take the Senate it will be due to new TPers. I don't have any hope that the current Rep party that is being lead by the TP wing actually wants to govern - all they want to do is cut taxes and shrink the government. The business wing is fighting back, finally, and maybe they will bring the party back from the TP current anarchist fringe. If so, then they will be a party that wants to govern. Until then, all they seem to want to do is tear it all down.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (239300)	12/4/2013 12:39:35 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 541965

you really live in some kind of alternate universe to say the republicans are "out of power" ever heard of the Congress, Steve?... they have controlled Congress since late 2010... and the teapartiers control the message seriously, what kind of bizzaro world do you live in to not know this? does the name John Boner ring a bell? Rafael "Ted" joe mccarthy Cruz??

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (239300)	12/4/2013 1:46:33 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541965

There are a few extreme Tea party members - that are an exception. I'll give you that. Would that it were so. There is little doubt that the Tea Party controls the House Republican caucus. Just no debate about that. And they do so either through their votes or their threat to run TP folk against them in primaries should they decide to vote against TP policy. As for the Senate, it's the same issue. A growing but not dominant caucus of TP types with a serious threat leveled against any Rep Senator who votes against them--witness Mitch McConnell's behavior is the most obvious. The Dems have commitments to governing in all the areas you cite. And do so. It's only the Reps who are unwilling to partner in governing. Having the power to stop things is having a big deal of governing clout. Instead they are using it to stop governing.