{"id":376555,"date":"2010-03-01T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77934"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:53:48","slug":"a-tea-party-debate-a-lot-of-promises-to-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376555","title":{"rendered":"A Tea Party Debate, a Lot of Promises to the Far Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Progress’s writeup<\/a> of a Tea Party-sponsored Republican candidate forum in Virginia’s 5th district — seen as one of the best opportunities for the GOP to take back a seat lost in 2008 — is being mined for quotes<\/a> by liberal bloggers, and I see why. Second-tier candidate Lawrence Verga calls Barack Obama’s election win “political correctness gone awry,” endorsing the much-whispered-about, rarely-spoken-aloud argument that Americans elected an unqualified president because he was black. But I’m just as fascinated by the comments of Robert Hurt, the establishment-backed front-runner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hurt said Climategate is \u201cscientists who have given us something that is not true. It is faulty information and it has real consequences in the 5th District, in the loss of jobs and in power bills from Appalachian Power Co.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents have power bills that exceed their income and businesses are closing or talking about moving overseas, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow is that possible?\u201d Hurt asked. \u201cIt\u2019s possible because of regulation and the idea that bureaucrats in Washington know better than anybody else.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would try to repeal those regulations,\u201d Hurt said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t rhetoric that should damage Hurt in this district — historically conservative, it voted narrow for McCain-Palin in 2008 — but it’s interesting to see how far he’ll go to please Tea Partiers. Another example, snagged by Howie Klein: Ed Martin, fighting a surprisingly strong race in a historically Democratic seat in Missouri, posts pictures<\/a> of Tea Partiers holding “Obama = Communist” signs at a rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily Progress’s writeup of a Tea Party-sponsored Republican candidate forum in Virginia’s 5th district — seen as one of the best opportunities for the GOP to take back a seat lost in 2008 — is being mined for quotes by liberal bloggers, and I see why. Second-tier candidate Lawrence Verga calls Barack Obama’s election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}