It’s getting pathological. The media fantasizes again and again that the Tea Party is dead—even mere weeks after what they themselves deemed a Tea Party-staged government shutdown.
The latest fantasy piece from AP’s Donna Cassata, “Business, GOP establishment: Tea Party is Over,” begins with the popular GOP Civil War angle, pitting the big business/establishment types vs. the Tea Party rabble:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A slice of corporate America thinks tea partyers have overstayed their welcome in Washington and should be shown the door in next year's congressional elections. ... The 16-day partial government shutdown and the threatened national default are bringing to a head a lot of pent-up frustration over GOP insurgents roughing up the business community's agenda.
And of course, Cassata notes this is a great opportunity for the Dems:
Democrats hope to use this rift within the GOP to their advantage. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House committee to elect Democrats, insists there's been "buyer's remorse with House Republicans who have been willing to put the economy at risk," and that it is opening the political map for Democrats in 2014.
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