The Tea Party rallied in DC today to fight against GOP compromise on the budget. More from Gawker:
National Tea Party groups had planned to make a statement to lawmakers today with a well-publicized rally on Capitol Hill. Hordes of attendees were going to demand that wavering Republican members of Congress not compromise halfway with Democrats on a budget deal. A compromise for $33 billion in cuts instead of the Republicans’ maximalist proposal of $61 billion, Tea Party folks believe, would be a betrayal of promises made during the 2010 election. So the Tea Party held its big important rally this afternoon as planned — but it only drew “perhaps a couple hundred” attendees. C’mon, Tea Party! Get your act together, or go extinct.
Who knows if House Speaker John Boehner gave a shit about this rally, its size and its intensity, at all in the first place. But if anything, seeing the Tea Party’s last big budget rally in Washington draw such a small crowd will likely push him more towards the “reach a compromise and avert a shutdown” path, and further away from the Tea Party’s preferred “never compromise on anything” approach.
Read more here. And Donald Trump’s birther claim has caught the baggers’ interest:
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