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ment first" strategy. Republicans are divided on providing a pathway to citizenship, with those such as Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) backing one, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) opposes it. Fifty-one percent said that Republican economic policies played a major role or "the biggest role" in the financial crisis, w

ontested that Reagan actually "wrote the playbook" for today's far-right GOPers. He compared Reagan's views on income inequality and race to today's Tea Party ("On race, his ideas couldn't be more Tea Party if he shouted them from a rascal scooter") and even credited him for inspiring today's colorful Tea

globe. Certainly, figures such as Senate Environment Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (who calls man-made warming a "hoax") and presidential candidate Ted Cruz (who fancies himself a modern-day Galileo opposing the "global-warming alarmists") are not about to change. But as corporations abandon the untenab

to bust unions, further deregulate energy industries, and avoid the imposition of regulation in commodities trading. AFP spends generously to elect Tea Party candidates, and has been a primary funder of controversial Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's election and bid to avoid a recall after his crusade to

e electric. 2 EFTA_R1_01946340 EFTA02672610 And while Republicans in the rest of the c=untry are threatening to deport every immigrant not named Ted Cruz, California just OK'd driv=r's licenses for undocumented aliens. That's right, we're letting them =rive cars -- just like white people! You Red Sta

ow, it sounds like =ome crazy science fiction story, but you see, here in California, we're not=just gluten-free and soy-free and peanut-free, we're Tea Party free! Virgini= could do it, too, but they're too busy forcing ultrasounds on women who want abortions. Texas could, but they don't because they're t

e went for a deal with Mitch McConnell which makes it easier, if the two leaders want to do something, to overcome individual rogue senators, like a Ted Cruz or a Rand Paul. But it didn't bank on, he didn't bank on the Republican leader basically going back to where he had been for the first four years o

d this rightward march of the party, both among elected officials, but also rank-and-file Republicans. And the strongest, most extreme of those, the Tea Party people, have pulled the others back toward them. It's a reality, and it's not just ideological difference either. They begin with those differences

achieving an electoral victory. At this dire moment, Trump in some essential sense sold his losing campaign. The right-wing billionaire Bob Mercer, a Ted Cruz backer, had shifted his support to Trump with a $5 million infusion. Believing the campaign was cratering, Mercer and his daughter Rebekah took a hel

ain off-again presidential candidate, in 2010; at a meeting in Trump Tower, Bannon had proposed to Trump that he spend half a million dollars backing Tea Party-style candidates as a way to further his presidential ambitions. Bannon left the meeting figuring that Trump would never cough up that kind of dough.