"I can confirm that the attack ads in Mississippi run by “All Citizens for Mississippi” were funded by Senate Republicans, including Senators Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Rob Portman, Bob Corker, and Roy Blunt. It appears our Senate Republican leaders are willing to risk losing a Senate majority so long as they can get their own re-elected. Yes folks, it is true. I can confirm what we all suspected.
The advertisements attacked Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel and painted conservative Republicans and tea party activists as racists. According to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission, All Citizens for Mississippi received funding from a Haley Barbour backed group called Mississippi Conservatives.
Mississippi Conservatives, in turn, was funded in part by Sally Bradshaw of the RNC’s Growth and Opportunity Project, former RNC Chairman and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the political action committees created for Senators Mitch McConnell ($50,000), John Cornyn ($50,000), Rob Portman ($25,000), Bob Corker ($25,000), and Roy Blunt ($5,000)."...
Didn't Ronald Reagan say the Republican Party needs to be a big tent, but here you have a lot of Republican money in to re-elect old, white guys known more for handing out pork than good legislation.
I think so much of the hate for the TEA Party comes from people who lap up what the press tells them too. I always ask them what have they done to destroy America since they have been elected? Birth control, still legal and available. Abortion, still legal and available. Draconian spending cuts? Not really, the biggest cuts have been against the military and they were bipartisan decisions. Defense Sec'y Hagel wants to reduce the military even more.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
