Tea Party takes a pass.

Blew it.

For some reason the Koch Brothers don’t seem to push their little pet project the “Tea Party” that much anymore. Maybe they’ve found some other and more effective ways to corrupt the goverment, or maybe their troops just didn’t do so well once let into power. A US downgrade and opposing tax cuts – something must have gone wrong there.

From Ohio:

“The Tea Party movement is dead. It’s gone,” says Chris Littleton, the cofounder of the Ohio Liberty Council, a statewide coalition of Tea Party groups in Ohio. “I think largely the Tea Party is irrelevant in the primaries. They aren’t passionate about any of the candidates, and if they are passionate, they’re for Ron Paul.”

[..] Littleton says Nominee Romney would be greeted by Tea Partiers with something between skepticism and disgust. A stronger disgust with President Obama would likely send Tea Partiers to the polls to vote for whoever the GOP nominee is, Littleton adds, but would not translate to the kind of shape-shifting energy the Tea Party delivered in 2010.

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Feingold takes on Industry powergrabs in America.

The story of inequality and transfer of wealth is mostly a story of industries grabbing for too much. Weakening the state in the process – diminishing freedom and liberty for the people.

A new movement is brewing:

Website here.

No Labels – or Moderate Republicans.

A new political movement with a no-name wrapping has emerged – but with people like Charlie Crist, Joe Scarborough, Bob Inglis and Michael Bloomberg on board – it’s looks like a fairly straight moderate-right initiative. Like the third way was moderate-left, with some conservative elements.

From their website the foucs is mounting debt, entitlement cost, failing schools and bad dependence on foreign oil (!). Maybe it’s a trial baloon – maybe it’s an attack on McConnell and Boehner, maybe it’s the beginning of a reformation and renewal of the Republican party – pulling a little bit towards the center-right camp. We’ll see.

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