{"id":5623,"date":"2011-08-05T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2011-08-05T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:26:41","slug":"tea-party-activists-name-calling-prove-our-impact-result-membership-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/tea-party-activists-name-calling-prove-our-impact-result-membership-increases.html","title":{"rendered":"Tea party activists: Name-calling prove our impact. Result&#8230;Membership Increases!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tea partyers exult in Democrats\u2019 name-calling<\/h1>\n<h2>Epithets attest to efficacy, swell ranks, leaders say<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos2.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/IST\/IST501\/1151682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"102\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Elitists,Tories, Didn&#039;t Like Tea Party then (and they still don&#039;t)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democrats in Washington have called them terrorists and extortionists, but tea party activists say the name-calling is only proof they are finally having a real impact on the debate over government spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enrollments go up, and people start new chapters,\u201d said Mark Meckler, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, as the dust settles from the recent epic battle with President\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/barack-obama\/\">Obama<\/a>\u00a0and congressional Democrats over government spending and borrowing. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely worked to our advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the contentious fight over raising the nation\u2019s borrowing limit, Republican lawmakers affiliated with the tea party were targeted for especial scorn as they held out for deeper spending cuts and no tax increases.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/mike-doyle\/\">Rep. Mike Doyle<\/a>, Pennsylvania Democrat, complained to Vice President\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/joseph-r-biden\/\">Joseph R. Biden<\/a>\u00a0in a closed meeting of House Democrats that the tea party-allied lawmakers \u201chave made it impossible to spend any money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have negotiated with terrorists,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/mike-doyle\/\">Mr. Doyle<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Several sources in the room said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/joseph-r-biden\/\">Mr. Biden<\/a>\u00a0agreed with the characterization and repeated it, although the vice president later denied it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/aug\/4\/tea-party-democratic-attacks-prove-we-won-debate\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/aug\/4\/tea-party-democratic-attacks-prove-we-won-debate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea partyers exult in Democrats\u2019 name-calling Epithets attest to efficacy, swell ranks, leaders say &nbsp; Democrats in Washington have called them terrorists and extortionists, but tea party activists say the name-calling is only proof they are finally having a real impact on the debate over government spending. \u201cOur enrollments go up, and people start new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1474,315,7,1344,344,1925,252,435,1331,1367,701,1867,1121,1502,705,924,1359,1680,1498,1620,35,251,68,450,6,466,434,108,1484,429,156,1920,1159,806],"tags":[2094,2093,2095,9322,2050],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse-and-abusers","category-action","category-america","category-attacks-from-the-left-on-the-righteous","category-bullying","category-character-assassination","category-christian","category-communism","category-conservative","category-deceptions-and-lies","category-democrats","category-evil-plot","category-failed-policies","category-godlessness","category-government-2","category-heroes","category-independence","category-injustice","category-insanity","category-moral-decline","category-obama","category-persecution","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-press-bias","category-pro-life-2","category-propaganda","category-religion","category-scriptural-living","category-society","category-take-action","category-taking-america-back","category-the-christian-revolution","category-warning","tag-membership-increases","tag-name-calling","tag-new-chapters","tag-tea-party","tag-tea-party-is-terrorists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tea party activists: Name-calling prove our impact. 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