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Many may not realize it (not even the Tea Party members here), but Dick Armey WAS the Tea Party.

I think the Tea Party is over. The remainder of Tea Party leaders are the sort with tattoos and mullets. This might be good news for normal Republicans. The Republican party might survive after all.

WASHINGTON — Eased out with an $8 million payout provided by an influential Republican fundraiser, former GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he has left the conservative tea party group FreedomWorks because of an internal split over the group’s future direction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/freedomworks-chairman-dick-armey-quits-tea-party-group-in-secret-deal-that-pays-him-8-million/2012/12/04/200bd46a-3e32-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_story.html

With $400,000 a year in 'consulting' fees for the next 20 years, Mr. Armey will probably land on his feet. It's amazing how 'principled' you can be when you get an $8 million severance package.

Like many Tea Party Leaders, Mr. Armey pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred consulting fees...They may have been misguided, but I feel sorry for the people at the bottom who thought they were being led in a revolution.

MeDotOrg wrote:With $400,000 a year in 'consulting' fees for the next 20 years, Mr. Armey will probably land on his feet. It's amazing how 'principled' you can be when you get an $8 million severance package.

Like many Tea Party Leaders, Mr. Armey pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred consulting fees...They may have been misguided, but I feel sorry for the people at the bottom who thought they were being led in a revolution.

I wonder how history will judge the Tea Party and the Occupy movements. Was the Tea Party worse for accomplishing something, but perhaps doing so at the expense of the overall conservative movement, or was Occupy worse for accomplishing nothing, but making a lot of noise (and destroying city parks) in the process doing it?

cinepro wrote:

MeDotOrg wrote:With $400,000 a year in 'consulting' fees for the next 20 years, Mr. Armey will probably land on his feet. It's amazing how 'principled' you can be when you get an $8 million severance package.

Like many Tea Party Leaders, Mr. Armey pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred consulting fees...They may have been misguided, but I feel sorry for the people at the bottom who thought they were being led in a revolution.

I wonder how history will judge the Tea Party and the Occupy movements. Was the Tea Party worse for accomplishing something, but perhaps doing so at the expense of the overall conservative movement, or was Occupy worse for accomplishing nothing, but making a lot of noise (and destroying city parks) in the process doing it?

Last I heard, Obama won the election. What Occupy accomplished, if anything, was to challenge the notion head on that what is good for the one percent ... your friends call them "job creators" ... is good for the country.

One can argue that the Democrat party is a stronger party today, in part because it embraced the Occupy notion that the rich need to make a greater sacrifice, without embracing and allowing the Occupy movement to co-opt the party.