In the interview, Long, who told the Joplin Tea Party audience that he was not very popular with House leadership is described as "developing a reputation as a straight talker and House leadership has taken a shine to him."
About the tea party, Long says, "I’m probably more tea party than the tea party. In southwest Missouri, we were tea party before tea party was cool. I don’t join caucuses unless I really feel like I have time to devote to them."
About whether he would vote to raise the debt ceiling:
"We are going to have to get some extreme, not extreme—we’re going to have to get some good-sized spending cuts before I’d even look at it. It’s going to be another negotiating thing."
4 comments:
Billy likes to play softball.
"I invented the tea party." Al Long
Billy's all about the Tea Party if it's sweetened heavily by special interest funding.
"In a free society, there comes a time when the truth -- however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say -- must be told."
AL GORE, fundraising letter, May 2006
p.s. "I invented the Internet"
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