Former Republican House Majority Leader and tea party organizer Dick Armey made the cable news rounds this morning, appearing on CNN and MSNBC and taking questions about this weekend’s National Tea Party Convention and the relationship between the tea party movement and the GOP.When CNN asked him why he won’t be attending the convention in Nashville this week, Armey called the convention a “different model” than the one used by his organization, Freedomworks, to organize their tea party rally Washington DC in September. “We’ll see what happens with that model.”
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