{"id":656605,"date":"2010-02-06T04:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2010-02-06T04:53:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:53:33","slug":"the-tea-party-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656605","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/05\/is-the-tea-party-movement-heading-toward-third-party-status\/\" >on a national level<\/a> has<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/02\/tancredo_obama_elected_because_we_do_not_have_a_ci.php\" > jumped<\/a> the proverbial <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2010\/02\/joseph-farah-to-cheers-at-tea-party-convention-again-questions-location-of-obamas-birth-.html\" >shark<\/a>. (And yes, using &#8220;jump the shark&#8221; is meant to be that snarky.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;m looking forward to an honest-to-goodness libertarian movement.<\/p>\n<p>And to give my first linked post due, the charade in Nashville is not the\u00a0entirety\u00a0of the Tea Party movement, but it is the current brand. And that will be a stink that&#8217;s pretty hard to wash off.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6649\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on a national level has jumped the proverbial shark. (And yes, using &#8220;jump the shark&#8221; is meant to be that snarky.) On the other hand, I&#8217;m looking forward to an honest-to-goodness libertarian movement. And to give my first linked post due, the charade in Nashville is not the\u00a0entirety\u00a0of the Tea Party movement, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KOp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}