The Tea Party, emboldened by the recent elections, held a rally near the White House. They were uttering some of the same words they used before in racist chants.
The Congress coming in 2015 will be pandering to these bigots. At least half the Senate and a fair amount of the House Republicans will continue their focus of extreme right wing views.
February 11. 2013
By Brendan DeMelle
A new academic study (click here) confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.
Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption.
The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke....
