Posts Tagged: Koch Brothers  Reliable New Polling Shows 48% of
Americans Favor the Tea Party  It might seem like the self-
destructive mob known as the Tea Party was a brief living
nightmare from 2010 that was handily smacked back into its grave
by Barack Obama's epic 2012 re-election win, which also saw
Democrats again winning the Senate with a two-seat gain and the
House GOP majority losing eight seats. Democrats actually won
1.4 million votes more than Republicans in the House, the first
time since 1996 that the GOP held the House while losing the
vote count.  But this is the kind of talk that has long
distanced liberal media elitists from the Tea Party faithful.
While the straggling and embarrassing remains of the Tea [...]
The simple rhetoric of the Wisconsin budget battle is that the
Democrats are just "thug" unions—and that Republicans are
carrying water for wealthy corporate sleaze. It's more
complicated than that. For one, several teachers' unions
endorsed Wisconsin Republicans last year—unions are