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With the mid-term election just days away, much is being made of the influence of the Tea Party movement and the inevitability of a Republican sweep of Congress, especially of the House. However, a report in Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post suggests the numbers of Tea Partiers may be inflated. The Post’s Amy Gardner writes that the Tea Party is “not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.” The paper attempted to verify the existence of more than 2,300 Tea Party groups identified by the Tea Party Patriots’ website, and found only 647 of them were reachable and verifiable. Yet, this loose network of ultra-conservatives have managed to alter the political landscape in a very short time, likely affecting the outcome of next week’s election. A new book published by OR Books, and edited by journalist and writer Laura Flanders focuses on the Tea Party, its politics, and progressive responses to it. The book’s title summarizes it well: “At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right\u2026 And Why We Should Take It Seriously.” At the Tea Party has essays by Max Blumenthal, Alexander Cockburn, Lisa Duggan, Bill Fletcher, Glenn Greenwald, Arun Gupta, Chris Hedges, Katha Pollitt, Sarah Posner, Tim Wise, Alexander Zaitchik and many others. <\/p>\nGUEST: Laura Flanders is the host and founder of GRITtv with Laura Flanders, author of the New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species, and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. Se also writes for The Nation and The Huffington Post and is a regular contributor to MSNBC <\/em><\/p>\n
Purchase the book online at www.ORBooks.com<\/a>. Find out more about Laura Flanders and her show Grit TV at www.grittv.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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