former house republican leader dick armey warned his colleagues not to use this as an excuse to give up the spending fight. but dick, i'm worried that's what will happen. >> i think the republicans need to understand that they have a special place right now in this country. the whole obama administration, 90% of the press, they are in a sea of dlusion. and if the republicans don't coel some sensible, solid ground and understand that the biggest threat to american prosperity is the size and clumsiness of the american government. we must correct that or face dire consequences for nerations to come. the republicans don't claim that ground -- if they don't asserted strongly, we could all be out there on an iceberg or headed for one like the titanic. this is a serious problem. neil: they have given up the ghost. i am hearing their latest negotiating tactic, they are going to push for a simplified tax code. but in the quest for tax reform, they have essentially taken away this push for spending cuts. would he make of that? >> well, i think it is the old cart and horse velocity. obviously si

it just didn't have cache and we see this over and over again in one thousand nine hundred seven dick armey with a set of other republican congressman they go to boston at that moment they're working with a bunch of corporate lobbyists that are trying to push the flat tax they want to get rid of the progressive income tax replace it with a flat tax everything with the same amount they dumped on the harbor they launch all these you know kind of organizations to support a new boston tea party to support the flat tax they were just kind of lampooned in the media no one took them seriously and we see. the koch brothers. their group citizens for a sound economy which changed to americans for prosperity this kind of grassroots organizing organizing group trying to develop tea parties in two thousand and three two thousand and four going to places like michigan and north carolina organizing rallies bussing people the problem was the time just wasn't right and we see in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight a group of libertarian billionaires developing. a think tank called the same adams a

actors that became the leaders of the tea party movement in early two thousand and nine literally dick armey and americans for prosperity they had tried this before so that the left over from the tibet's of the tobacco industry they tried it than the flat tax industry they tried it and but this time didn't catch on this time because they were genuinely under siege or because of the. the element of an african-american in the white house or was a boat i thought was both there was a lot of planning a lot of money but a lot of good circumstance because you know obama you can't just blame these quote astroturf groups you have to also blame obama obama took his grassroots organizing group and folded it into the d.n.c. and left it there he stopped using the populist rhetoric and he actually stopped using the populist tactics early in his administration he also did a lot of things that kind of engendered populist outrage by refusing the clawback those bankers bonuses from all those banks that were bailed out by tarp pretty much as opening the field for a populist anger for anyone to swoop in so in a

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said they put people at the head of freedom marks, 70-year-old dick armey, a former business lobbyists, a former leader of the republican party in the 1990s on the camera to speak for the grassroots insurgency that he now said he was representing. we shouldn't imagine the grassroots tea party went away. what he did was to dig into their global group and monitor closely the state legislators in congress people they hope to elect in the republican party and they are constantly contacting our legislators and pressure in non-. meanwhile, the right-wing funders are busy deciding which primary elections to intervene in this site: i've sent checks to challengers to overly moderate republicans in places like indiana were dick lugar is in the fight of the movement. that brings me finally to what all this tells us about 2012. we have to keep in mind that 2012 will be an election were closer to three out of five eligible voters will go to the poll. of the act is in this drama, democratic strategist, elite teapartiers in many grassroots teapartiers understand the dynamic is a bit is a bit differen

these these this huge apparatus functioning as well as it is as it has been since since you know dick armey and the koch brothers rolled out the tea party and to. a republican being the victim of gun can gun crimes rather than just people in in africa and poor african-american communities so you know congress got things done and i think it's just bizarre and tragic that we're not able to do things now that's it for your take my take live thank you for all of your calls if we didn't get your call tonight tries to get back next week and keep the video questions coming it's easy just grab your phone or your question or comment and e-mail it to us at your take my take at g. mail dot com. coming up america has been captivated by the story of three cleveland women who were kidnapped abused raped and held captive for ten years and who escaped captivity earlier this week what if i told you that it's possible this horrifying ordeal could have been prevented i'll explain in detail. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your

their efforts to dick armey as a hard-line conservative. fair enough. be hardline liberals. in five years the l.a. times used the term hardline liberals twice won time to refer to the gorbachev. this is the kind of crap that people in l.a. have endured. there is not a single regional conservative columnist in that newspaper. stuart: at the end of the day we have not had a date yet from the koch brothers. there is no been there. high anxiety in los at the end of the day what is all worked out, you'd think it is going to happen? i am with you. i am praying that we get a bastion of intelligence in southern california. i am praying that the gate. the end of the date you think it will? >> that is a good call. depends on terms and conditions, of course, and whether or not a more conservative newspaper would survive in this left-wing place. i have no idea. one other columnist faced obamacare, it is legitimate because of the preamble of the constitution which says provide for the domestic tranquillity. never anybody use that argument. this is the kind of left-w