GOP Holding Pattern: The News, Reported in Cartoon Form!

The GOP is between a rock and a Tea Party

The Republican Party is in a tough spot…

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so they’re trying to reach out.

GOP holding pattern

The Teapublicans keep them drifting…

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farther and farther off the deep end.

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And they’re looking pretty silly at this point.

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But GOP strategists are doing all they can…

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to keep things in order…

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and keep their base happy.

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From Wikipedia:
Fox News commentator Juan Williams argues that the Tea Party movement emerged from the “ashes” of Ron Paul‘s 2008 presidential primary campaign. Others have argued that the Koch brothers were essential in fostering the movement. In 2013, a study published in the journal Tobacco Control concluded that organizations within the movement were connected with non-profit organizations that the tobacco industry and other corporate interests worked with and provided funding for, including groups Citizens for a Sound Economy (founded by the Koch brothers).Al Gore cited the study and said that the connections between “market fundamentalists”, the tobacco industry and the Tea Party could be traced to a 1971 memo from tobacco lawyer Lewis F. Powell, Jr. who advocated more political power for corporations. Gore said that the Tea Party is an extension of this political strategy “to promote corporate profit at the expense of the public good.”
Tea Party activities have declined since 2010. According to Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, the number of Tea Party chapters across the country has slipped from about 1,000 to 600, but that this is still “a very good survival rate.” Mostly, Tea Party organizations are said to have shifted away from national demonstrations to local issues. A shift in the operational approach used by the Tea Party has also affected the movement’s visibility, with chapters placing more emphasis on the mechanics of policy and getting candidates elected rather than staging public events.
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