By Eric W. Dolan
A Tea Party-backed candidate who allegedly murdered two unarmed Iraqis could win a seat in the House of Representatives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26689.htm
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What will Tea Party members do when the pols betray them?
Our Future Blog
by Dave Johnson
10/26/10
Tea Party members hate Wall Street bailouts, trade deals like NAFTA, job outsourcing, giant corporations buying laws, government spending, and elites telling the rest of us what to do. But there is no question that their candidates ? many of them wealthy corporatists themselves ? are funded by big corporations (even foreign oil companies) and Wall Street. So the question is, once in Congress will they vote with their base or their owners? And when they vote with the people who bought them, what will Tea Party members do about it?
http://tinyurl.com/2639ele
Three things progressives and Tea Partiers can agree on
Fox News Forum
by Sally Kohn
10/26/10
Some Tea Party activists are complaining that their grassroots movement has been co-opted by the corporate mainstream Republican Party. Progressives are complaining that their hope-and-change president has been co-opted by pro-corporate, Democratic centrism. Books could be written about the myriad ideological divides between the Tea Party and Progressives, but I?m struck at this moment by our similarities. Perhaps it?s time for these populist insurgencies to unite in the short-term to topple the political status quo that hampers each of our long-term agendas...
http://tinyurl.com/36puw6v
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+mainstream
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eric+W.+Dolan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Johnson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sally+Kohn
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