Yesterday I said, "It's obvious to me that the GOP has decided that right here and right now is the time to wage the war and first kill off the Tea Party, then absorb its remnants."

Today: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10...nion_newsreel_1

Yes, I am amazing!

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"The most important election yesterday wasn't the governor of New Jersey and it wasn't the governor of Virginia, it was the special election for Congress in South Alabama, where a candidate who said the shutdown was a great idea, the president was born in Kenya, and that he opposed Speaker Boehner came in second." The victory of a more electable Republican, is significant, Mr. McConnell says.

"I think it's irresponsible for some people to characterize themselves as sort of true conservatives, to mislead their followers into believing you can get an outcome that you can't possibly get."

The tea party, he says, consists of "people who are angry and upset at government—and I agree with them." But "I think, honestly, many of them have been misled. . . . They've been told the reason we can't get to better outcomes than we've gotten is not because the Democrats control the Senate and the White House but because Republicans have been insufficiently feisty. Well, that's just not true, and I think that the folks that I have difficulty with are the leaders of some of these groups who basically mislead them for profit. . . . They raise money . . . take their cut and spend it" on political action that hurts Republicans.

He refers to the Senate Conservatives Fund. "That's the one I'm prepared to be specific about." The fund "has elected more Democrats than the Democratic Senatorial Committee over the last three cycles." The group is targeting Mr. McConnell with ads slamming his leadership during the shutdown. "Right now they're on the air in obvious coordination with Harry Reid's super PAC—Harry Reid's!—in the same markets, at roughly the same amount, at the same time."

{Attention Tea Party: Ya ever hear the one about the dog that chased the truck.....and then caught it?!?!}

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No. 'I'm waiting for them to come to us, because that's when you know you'll have real leverage.' "

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I don't see this happening.

When people get so invested in a cause they seldom are able to back up and see where they may have been led astray. Look what it took for some libs to finally see the light on obamacare abuses. But they will still back him for the mst part.

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No. 'I'm waiting for them to come to us, because that's when you know you'll have real leverage.' "

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I don't see this happening.

When people get so invested in a cause they seldom are able to back up and see where they may have been led astray. Look what it took for some libs to finally see the light on obamacare abuses. But they will still back him for the mst part.

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I don't think Mitch The Magnificent does either.

But he's publicly taunting the Democrats....which is noteworthy in itself.