Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Bringing the tea to the party

An establishment backed candidate won the North Carolina senate primary.
Not a win for the Tea Party, but not a loss either.
Together, over the past two years, Tillis and McCrory have enacted a broad conservative agenda and pushed through some of the most ambitious legislative changes that any state has adopted in such a short period of time. The tax code got a rewrite, school vouchers were introduced, and an expansion of Medicaid was blocked. Tort reform, restrictions on abortion, and a voter-identification law were enacted. The moves so rankled Democrats that they began a weekly protest known as “Moral Mondays.” They garnered national attention as protesters were arrested week after week, prompting the editorial writers at the New York Times to declare the slew of legislative changes a “demolition derby.”
Maybe once he gets to Washington, Tillis can teach the establishment how to do things right.

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