Can Tea Parties Brew Real Political Change?

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Warren Olney

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Scott Brown was sworn in today, the Republican who won the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. A lot of the credit for that game-changing political upset went to the Tea Party movement, whose convention begins today in Nashville, Tennessee. But it's still not clear just what the Tea Party movement is. As we hear on this rebroadcast of today's To the Point, tea partiers themselves are struggling to figure out if they're a movement, an adjunct of the Republican Party or a collection of angry protesters who can't get along.

Guests:

Kate Zernike: Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, @kzernike
Tony Shreeve: member, American Patriotic Taxpayers
Tom Fitton: President of Judicial Watch, @TomFitton
John Hawkins: Editor, RightWingNews.com, @johnhawkinsrwn
David Weigel: Senior Reporter, Washington Independent, @daveweigel

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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