Campaign 2012 Tidbits (1 of 16): Obama on the Tea Party.

From Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down – Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), p. 14:

“If people vote for *this*,” [Barack Obama] told one of his aides [about the ascendent Tea Party], “they deserve it.”

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