6 Years On, Is The Tea Party Here To Stay?
Via NPR
It was February of 2009. President Obama had been in office less than a full month. His approval rating was over 60, and nearly 60 percent of the House and Senate seats were held by Democrats. The country seem poised on the edge of a new era, perhaps even another New Deal.
Not a few mainstream Republicans believed their party needed to do some serious soul-searching, housecleaning and image-adjusting. A task force at the Republican National Committee was hard at work on just such a set of recommendations.
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