December 08, 2009 01:24 AM UTC

Baggers may splinter the GOP

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• by: allyncooper

(May splinter the GOP? The splintering is already happening. – promoted by Colorado Pols)

From the Yahoo News Blog

New Poll shows “Tea Party” more popular than Republican Party

A new Rasmussen poll finds that the tea party movement’s popularity is growing, so much so that it garners more support than the Republican party on a generic Congressional ballot. The poll hints that the burgeoning discontent among conservatives within the GOP threatens to splinter the party at a time when the popularity of President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress are waning as we head into an election year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/…

Just when it looked like the GOP was getting its act together in what historically should be a promising election year (midterms are almost always beneficial to the party out of power), it looks like there’s trouble a brewin’ in that cup of tea.

We’ve already seen the evidence of this in the past few days in Colorado with McInnis getting into hot water (pun intended) for his usurpation of the Bagger mantle, only to be soundly spanked for not being a true believer.

The draconian tax cut proposals are going to further the schism and cause big problems for the GOP. There is already some blowback from some Repubs on these proposals, especially from those who are actually in office already dealing with our budget crisis, and who know things would go from bad to worse.

Stay tuned, this is going to be interesting.