The schisms btw the "new" Tea Party ethos and the old GOP powers that be are causing some interesting fissures on issues like the Patriot Act and...more surprisingly, maybe, abortion. Tho this topic is covered in a variety of blog entries, it seems to me that this is a developing/ongoing story that deserves its own tracking.
Maddow is out front on this/watch (from Feb 8 2011):
(More on the Patriot Act split is under the "Civil Liberties" entry).
TP v GOP on Abortion (!)
(on the abortion as wedge issue more generally, see "Culture Wars" entry)
(Feb 8, 2011)
- y, the GOP never had any intention of addressing the economic concerns of the tea partiers, (3/2011)
- Wisconsin: the Tea Party's Waterloo? (3/2011, Salon)
- ORCs vs YATs (budget showdown btw GOP/TP- 2/10/11)
- Dkos not so sure it's a TP/GOP split (2/9/2011)
- Libertarians heckle Cheney/Rumsfeld at CPAC (2/2011, Alternet)
- Tea Party wants Boehner to be primaried 3/2011
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