Tea Party revels in newfound clout: ‘When we’re cutting, we’re winning’ (WTF!)
Boston Globe ^ | 4/09/11 | Matt Viser
Tea Party revels in newfound clout: ‘When we’re cutting, we’re winning’
By Matt Viser
Globe Staff / April 9, 2011
WASHINGTON — Americans learned yesterday the full power of the Tea Party, with newly elected conservatives calling the shots in the House rather than railing against government from the sidelines. For many in the movement, pushing the government to the brink of closure was a crowning achievement, an emphatic statement that spending must be reined in — and now.
“When we’re cutting,’’ said Representative Nan Hayworth, a New York Republican, “we’re winning.’’
“It’s a victory for the American people,’’ declared Representative Allen West, Republican of Florida. “When you look at what has happened over the past few years — where we’ve had these astronomical debt and deficits — it’s amazing how we’re actually having a conversation in Washington, D.C., about spending cuts.’’
But for those outside the movement, it put on full display the uncompromising principles of the far right, showing that Tea Party-aligned lawmakers are so ideologically rigid they will throw sand into the gears of government to prove their point. Democrats questioned why conservatives who campaigned on creating jobs were so eager to furlough 800,000 government employees and freeze their paychecks.
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