Ten Reasons Tea Party Caucus member Sandy Adams (R) Will Lose to Florida New Deal Democrat Nicholas Ruiz III (D) in 2012

-by Nick Ruiz

1. Adams elected John ‘Republican Obstructionist’ Boehnor (OH-8) as the Speaker of the House, by which Adams ushered in the most ineffective House and leadership Congress has ever seen in the history of the United States. The 112th Congress polls at 12%. The public despises this Tea Party Congress because they represent the warped interests of the 1% Committee-– and they will be replaced in 2012.

2. Adams voted to deny healthcare services to millions of people by virtue of voting to repeal the current federal governmental effort to provide more health care services to Americans by widening access to health care insurance. And yet, Adams has government health insurance sponsored by her spouse’s government job.

3. Adams represents the 1% Committee’s twisted idea that we should not invest in America’s maintenance and future. To that effect, Adams voted to rescind investment in United States government efforts by rolling back to budgets from nearly half a decade ago.

4. Adams voted to reauthorize provisions of the most notorious aspects of U.S. surveillance of U.S. citizens understood as the USA Patriot Act. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the founders roll over in their graves nightly at this continued foul overstepping of U.S. citizen liberty initiated under George W. Bush’s tenure as President.

5. Adams' hysterically reactionary abhorrence of the vital functions of the EPA flies in the face of America’s dying rivers, lakes and seas in need of environmental protection and conservation from industrial waste and pollutants.

6. Adams voted against the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program, which serves only to assist homeowners ensnared in the Wall St. foreclosure debacle. Adams position on the foreclosure crisis is an affront to the American people who need and demand economic relief.

7. Adams voted to defund National Public Radio, but likes giant tax breaks for corporations like Fox News (where she is a regular guest), and the 1% entourage like the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch.

8. Apparently, Adams is against the National Weather Service –ostensibly, because private cable weather ‘TV can just do it.’ Someone should remind her we live in Florida, that the National Weather Service is a major contributor of weather news, and that millions of Americans do not subscribe to and in many cases, cannot afford cable/satellite TV or internet information.

9. Though we live in the age of peak oil and amid desperate public need for green energy development-- instead, Adams wants more offshore oil drilling, pipelines for dirty tar sand fuel. Astonishingly, Adams advises that the federal government should cut funding to NASA for global warming/climate research.

10. The Tea Party contingent that Adams represents is responsible for the intellectually-crushing move to cut funding to NASA and valuable exploratory projects like the James Webb Space telescope, which means our space partners in Europe will have to collaborate on mutual space projects with other countries like Russia instead. This amounts to Tea Party/neocon intellectual isolationism.

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UPDATE

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