Immigration reform: 3 reasons why the Tea Party is losing August

[pampango]

Town hall season was supposed to be the anti-immigration fringe's time to shine. What happened?

August 2009 was the month of the Tea Party town hall.

We were just eight months into the Obama presidency, and Democratic congressmen headed home for recess only to get ambushed by mobs chanting their opposition to ObamaCare. As The New York Times reported at the time, "members of Congress have been shouted down, hanged in effigy, and taunted by crowds." The August 2009 town halls certainly created obstacles on the road to health care reform, and in many ways, gave birth to the national Tea Party movement.

Now here we are in August 2013, when some observers thought that Tea Party groups would actually derail the tenuous legislative push for immigration reform. The anti-immigration group NumbersUSA is certainly trying, posting "Town Hall Talking Points" along with lists of congressional events at which to reel them off.

But midway through August, the Tea Party is barely a blip on the national radar. What happened?

http://theweek.com/article/index/248292/3-reasons-why-the-tea-party-is-losing-august

[customerserviceguy]

1. Let's see what happens when Congress gets back

before we fully assess what damage the Tea Party is going to do to the country.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Sure Sounds Premature To Me...

...I've seen plenty of teabaggers making a scene at rushpublican congresscriter dog and pony shows. They want to shut the government down to "defund" Obamacare. Yep, they also want to box up all Hispanics and also impeach President Obama just 'cause. They have a number of primary challengers already lined up...against Turtleman in KY and Little Linz in SC...with more to come. They still have big pockets bankrolling them and continue to push the ruhspublican party off the political abyss.

We won't have to wait too long to see how well the teabaggers are fairing...you've got the senate race in New Jersey and the governor's race in Virginia with two bona fide teabaggers. Let's see how well they do...