Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: UCO VY | Judge:
Tea Party influence is low now – recent polls
Sareen 2013
ANJALI SAREEN, Editor at The Huffington Post, “Tea Party Popularity Falls To Record Low, Rasmussen Reports” January 7th, 2013, http://www.mediaite.com/online/tea-party-popularity-falls-to-record-low-rasmussen-reports/
According to a new...their muted influence.
Tea Party hates drones
Yonkman 13
(David, Newsmax Washington Correspondent, "ACLU, Tea Party Align Aainst Drone Program", Feb 13, www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/aclu-drone-policy-counterterrorism/2013/02/13/id/490246 NL)
The American Civil...against terror suspects.
Restraining government power key to future Tea Party influence
Johnson 2013
(Drew Johnson, Editor of the Free Press opinion page, “Right Side Round Table: What is the future of the Tea Party? What does the Tea Party need to do in order to remain influential and effective?,” http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/may/16/right-side-round-table/)
Gallup polls routinely...to effect change.
Tea Party momentum destroys any possibility of solving for warming—religion, distrust of elites, and fear of redistribution of wealth
Broder 10 John Broder—covers climate change and politics for the New York Times. “Climate Change Doubt Is Tea Party Article of Faith.” New York Times. 20 October 2010. Accessed 14 September 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html?_r=0
Skepticism and outright...alarms about it.
Warming is anthropogenic and causes extinction – answers all your defense
Deibel 7 – Terry L. Deibel, Professor of National Strategy at the National War College, 2007, Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft, p. 387-389
Finally, there is...on this planet.
