Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests
Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests
Yesterday, Think Progress reported on Republican lawmakers planning to speak at anti-Obama “tea party” protests taking place nationwide on April 15. Last night, Eric Odom of the DontGo website — one of the organizers of the protests — wrote a blog post stressing that these protests are displays of “regular American[s] in protest of government spending and extreme taxation,” rather than something affiliated with a political party or special interest agenda.
Today on Fox News — which has actively been promoting the protests — Glenn Beck pushed the tea party talking points, similarly claiming that the protests aren’t “coordinated” and are fully organized by “regular” people. Watch it:
Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests:
– Freedom Works staffers coordinate conference calls among protesters, contacting conservative activists to give them “sign ideas, sample press releases, and a map of events around the country.”
– Freedom Works staffers apparently moved to “take over” the planning of local events in Florida.
– Freedom Works provides how-to guides for delivering a “clear message” to the public and media.
– Freedom Works has several domain addresses — some of them made to look like they were set up by amateurs — to promote the protests.
– Americans for Prosperity is writing press releases and planning the events in New Jersey, Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, and several other states.
This type of corporate ‘astroturfing‘ is nothing new to either organization. While working to promote Social Security privatization, Freedom Works was caught planting one of its operatives as a “single mom” to ask questions to President Bush in a town hall on the subject. Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed Freedom Works for similarly building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of Dick Armey, the former Republican Majority Leader who now leads Freedom Works and is a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper.
Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is funded by Koch family foundations — a family whose wealth is derived from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated pro-drilling ‘grassroots‘ events around the country.
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now where have i seen that name before?
oh, that’s right, the abandoned car wreck
known as “think progress watch“.
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April 9th, 2009 at 6:11 pmI’m shocked! SHOCKED! that there is astroturf in this movement.
I appear to have been misinformed.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:11 pmThat cretin, Beck is a lying sack of Cheney.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pmYeah, this whole thing is about as spontaneous as a shuttle launch. And I’m not even sure what the organizers think they’re going to accomplish, because the premise is so stupid.
They’re not going to convince President Obama of anything.
I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of the people participating in one of these events won’t fully grasp the issues at hand. Oh, wait — that’s it! This isn’t so much an effort to let Washington know of the people’s dissatisfaction (like the Civil Rights march in Washington in 1963). It’s more like a giant marketing effort to sell the public a pack of lies. And they’re counting on their audience not knowing what the original Boston Tea Party was really about. Got it.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:13 pmThe corporations do not want the populace to institute oversight, regulations and transparency and will slime a populist president to undermine his authority and throw whatever monkeywrench they can into the effort to rein in deregulation and abuses.
This is just the beginning…
April 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pmAwwww, is your poor messiah being bad mouthed? Well he should, because he is no messiah, he is a politician. And it seems hes worse on civil liberties than Bush!
youtube watch?v=_7uomucNU8E
Thinkprogress will not report on this for some reason…
April 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pmJohnfive spews:
April 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pmFLAGGED
johnfive Says:
“And it seems hes worse on civil liberties than Bush!”
So, you admit that Bush was bad on civil liberties? I guess that’s a start.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pmIf Republicans hate America so much, they should just leave. They’re either with America, or they’re against America.
And real Americans support the President. We may have to smoke the Republicans out of their unpatriotic, unAmerican holes.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pmThe problem with the Tea Parties is that they are not spontaneous nor grassroots, no matter how much Beck protests. These tea parties are starting to feel like the second Woodstock festival–complete with sponsorship from the “fair and balanced” Fox News Channel.
The good news for Griff Jenkins is that he might not find himself in a progressive march this time.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pmProfessional Liars turning out Amateur Suckers to “protest”.
Those Amateur Suckers are going to be sorely disappointed when they wake up the next day to find nothing has changed.
Maybe then they’ll stop listening to Professional Liars.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pmHe’s not our messiah. Only frightened people from the right wing call him that. Why does President Obama frighten you so much?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pmThe sad thing is, the ordinary Americans, the ones who don’t earn enough to worry about paying more taxes, will once again allow themselves to be used as pawns by Corporate America — AGAINST THEIR OWN INTERESTS.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pmJust because I don’t like Obama doesn’t mean I liked Bush!!
I DON’T LIKE BUSH AND I DON’T LIKE OBAMA. They work for the same people!
I gave Obama a chance and he is doing the same things as Bush. Only more accelerated…
April 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pmtombaker Says:
Professional Liars turning out Amateur Suckers to “protest”.
Wanna bet the t-shirt and bumpersticker concessions are staffed and funded by Freedom Works?
Pathetic dupes.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pmdelafield,
I don’t even want to think about Republican’s “unAmerican holes”.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:27 pmjohnfive Says:
“he is doing the same things as Bush. Only more accelerated…”
Like what?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:27 pmAh, the fence-sitting troll. Neither side appears to be “winning,” so they never liked either of them. Liar.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pmWhat?! The protesters are merely pawns of the corporate lobbyists?! Golly-gee-willikers(sp), who who could have ever seen that one coming?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pmZooey,
I wish I could find confirmation of this, but I once heard that in a poll (yes, I disagree with poll results), something like 19% of the population thinks they are in the top 1% of income earners. So when there’s talk of raising taxes “on the top 1%”, almost twenty times as many people think it includes them. And Fox News Channel and their ilk do nothing to set people right about their misplaced fears.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pmjohnfive Says:
Thinkprogress will not report on this for some reason…
April 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Yes it will, and has.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pmJohnfive,
You are a LIAR.
pathetic
April 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pmjohnfive Says:
I gave Obama a chance and he is doing the same things as Bush. Only more accelerated…
Okay then. We all have our opinions. How much time did you give Bush before you were not happy with his policies? I really want to get the idea from the other side here.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmExtreme taxation??? For who, the rich? The teabaggers will fall for anything even this false warning.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmWayne Ant Schneider Says:
Zooey,
I wish I could find confirmation of this, but I once heard that in a poll (yes, I disagree with poll results), something like 19% of the population thinks they are in the top 1% of income earners. So when there’s talk of raising taxes “on the top 1%”, almost twenty times as many people think it includes them. And Fox News Channel and their ilk do nothing to set people right about their misplaced fears.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
That would be funny if it weren’t so tragically idiotic.
The top 1% makes $25,000 or more a year, right? ;)
April 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pmjohnfive,
I never said you liked Bush. I asked why President Obama frightens you so much. And it is completely false to suggest that “he is doing the same things as Bush. Only more accelerated…”.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pm@Purple State – I started to hate Bush after he started to exploit 9/11. Which was fairly soon after he took office.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pmBut anyways…
My observation is that many people in America are desperately looking for a miracle worker and they fully expect Obama to be that person. The reality is neither Obama or any other president is a miracle worker. In America Congress and the president pander to the public to get elected and re-elected by making promises they never plan to keep. This is the norm for most politicians. Americans as a group are very naive. The sad reality is Obama and friends on Capitol Hill didn’t even know the country was in a recession for over 12 months until they got a memo in Dec. ‘08 None of these politicians has any clue how to create permanent U.S. jobs to build a stable economy. Instead they plan to throw trillions at welfare programs and drive up the national debt. This will just extend the economic depression to a full decade or more.
Gotta love the wingnuts. They can’t even get their history right. The Boston tea party was over the King cutting taxes on tea. Doh!
April 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pmZooey – This seems to be a pattern with these people. Perhaps they should seek professional help instead of listening to Beck and Limbaugh for advice.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pmCats r Flyfishn Says:
Zooey – This seems to be a pattern with these people. Perhaps they should seek professional help instead of listening to Beck and Limbaugh for advice.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
They don’t think they have a problem! :-D
April 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pmCorporations resonate with radical right wing.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pmCorporations become public enemy #1.
@ Wayne Ant Schneider
Look at the people in his cabinet. THEY ARE ALL TIED TO WALL STREET. The treasury secretary headed the New York Federal Reserve!!! This man and his company funded wall street!!!
Hes going to resume the ’security and prosperity partnership’ with Mexico and Canada that Bush started. If you thought NAFTA was bad then this would be NAFTA on steroids.
Scary if you ask me.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:42 pmThis is some sort of counter revolution ala’ Merry Prankster style that the socially retarded multi-generational republicans never “grokked” during the 60’s…this is how far behind the curve the wing nuts actually are (yes, I know this is a poor sentence, but it was the best way to state my premise). They are trying to act like 60’s protesters, but, they don’t have anything to say. If indeed they did, then why would they have to lay out a premise of hate and lies as the theme for their protest? Huh?
I don’t get it, but, I do know they will probably be armed and dangerous and run around the streets like gang thugs
April 9th, 2009 at 6:43 pm…hope they get arrested and held on conspiracy to overthrow the government.
I understand your concern, j5. Let’s not assume too much out of our politicians. However, let’s not assume too little from them, either. I don’t consider them completely incompetent.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:47 pmjohnfive Says:
My observation is that many people in America are desperately looking for a miracle worker and they fully expect Obama to be that person. The reality is neither Obama or any other president is a miracle worker. In America Congress and the president pander to the public to get elected and re-elected by making promises they never plan to keep. This is the norm for most politicians.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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Whoa whoa whoa – you mean the President is HUMAN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
April 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pmcavuto@foxnews.com
Here’s an email address we can ALL send our “What do you think?” responses to, for Glen Beck and his team of winners. Let’s applaud his comments on how we feel about why the 911 victims and family members are so horrible and worthless, commend him on instigating the shooting of police officers in PA, let’s tell him how we don’t understand what it’s like to work paycheck to paycheck, how we don’t get it on why others have to use credit cards to buy food or how some just can’t
April 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pmdo anything for fun anymore for it’s too expensive. The middle of the country is hurting yes, just like the East & West coasts like everywhere else, except to those at Fix Noise.
johnfive,
Well, at least you seem to have reasons. I do not agree that ALL of his cabinet members are “tied to Wall Street” though I am aware that Timothy Geithner headed the New York Federal Reserve Board. Want to hear something that may surprise you? I’m not happy with Geithner, either.
As for the “’security and prosperity partnership’ with Mexico and Canada”, I am unaware of anything about that. If I were allowed to guess, I would guess that he is simply continuing current policies until he can decide how best to change them within the context of all the other changes that need to be made.
Let me ask you something. How do you feel about repealing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999? It was a major cause of the current financial crisis.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pmHeh. The very people that are profiting from government spending are rallying together sheople that are against government spending.
How un-originally Orwellian.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm@32 johnfive Says:
OK. now we’re talking substance. What exactly has the president said about this ’security and prosperity partnership’? Let’s start there.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:53 pm#1 joe cantwell
very interesting link you posted.
It sounds a lot like verbiage from billo.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:02 pmLOL! Not to mention that these are HOSTED & SPONSORED BY FOX NEWS.
They couldn’t get enough people to actually go back in Feb & March that they need corporate sponsors.
Some “spontaneous” “grass roots” events, eh? This will be BIG FAT anti-Obama hate fests.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pmIn America Congress and the president pander to the public to get elected and re-elected by making promises they never plan to keep. This is the norm for most politicians.
Obama’s plan to lower mortgage payments would never have occurred under a republican president.
And the plan will start taking applicants on the 15th of this month according to Wells Fargo, so it’s promise made, promise kept.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pmwatchdog Says:
The participators of the original Boston tea party in 1773 did so because they felt the Tea Act violated their constitutional right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.
They had a constitution then?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:07 pmwatchdog Says:
The participators of the original Boston tea party in 1773 did so because they felt the Tea Act violated their constitutional right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.
And also during this time the phrase was coined “No taxation without representation”.
So, calling this a tea party is extremely relevant to the current government power intoxication.
Is that your final answer?
Can we start telling you all the things that are incorrect about this?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pmI read the link and then saw this at the bottom of his post:
No one cares what Eric Odom has to say. LOL
April 9th, 2009 at 7:13 pmDick Armey, like Tom Delay, belongs in prison for bribery.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:15 pmThe thing i like about TP is that they will point out backwards thinking and backwards policy no matter who is president.
There hasn’t been a lot of backwards policy making by president Obama to this point, but when he slips i’m quite sure TP will be there to catch him, as will we thread posters!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the right wing reciprocated.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pmwatchdog Says:
watchdog, i beg to differ – you got your representation in November, and you’ll get it again real soon.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:18 pmisn’t this the same peckerhead shouting about some marxist underground revolution forming on university campuses promoting this crap? peckerhead beck should be slapped in cuffs and charged with intention to incite a riot.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:22 pmyeah, you damn leftist kids with your dot-orgs & your ACORN & your rock ‘n’ roll cassette tapes & your Spirographs & your portable telephones…
April 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pmI’m shocked! SHOCKED! that there is astroturf in this movement.
I appear to have been misinformed.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:27 pmANOTHER NON-STORY!
LOL, you quote a blogger and dress it up as though the Radical Right Wing is trying to pull a fast one here. You quote A BLOGGER (one of millions with an opinion) on his use of the word spontaneous. Wow, that is REALLY holding the “media accountable” lol. And as far as assistance from conservative groups? HYPOCRITS! You get/have gotten the same help for your websites, protests, mailing and calling campaigns. So you condemn the right for utilizing assistance legally available to them? Is this as far as your “critical” analysis skills can take you? This is a tranparent attempt to juxtapose something completely irrelevent next to a brand new in hopes to smear said name.
Please continue with your little reindeer games…
April 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pmCan he corporatist lobbyists muster up enough energy from their kool aid drinking sheep to protest in behalf of corporate taxes? Could the corporate media possibly exaggerate the protests for their gain.. as they have diminished dem protests for their gain?
April 15th should be an interesting day.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:31 pmAmazing-first we get the ’storm is coming’ fearmongering ads with actors, now we’ve got lobbyists ‘posing’ as ordinary citizens for a tea party – ROTFL! Didn’t have to go too far down the rabbit hole to find out who was behind these antics! Wow – the rethuglicans are on a roll! Thoroughly entertaining.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pmCrymeariver Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pm“ANOTHER NON-STORY!”
then please feel free to leave
Are you referring to Eric Odom in the post who is the right wing blogger this post is based on?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pmwatchdog,
April 9th, 2009 at 7:35 pmi don’t recall the organizer of the million man march using words like “uprising” in their rhetoric.
“Your suggestion couldn’t be politically motivated could it? Can we say hypocrite?”
April 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pmwell, according to ole becky as of two days ago on his show, this wasn’t a partisan even. i nearly wet myself on the elliptical over that one.
scratchdog Says: the million man march….beck and the teabaggers
You are trying to compare cats and dogs, fleabag…..
April 9th, 2009 at 7:38 pmYou could start a band, Scratch-Dog and the Fleabaggers…
April 9th, 2009 at 7:39 pm@53 Crymeariver Says:
I’m sorry Crymeariver, what is your concern again @53? It’s not quite clear what your suggestion is…
April 9th, 2009 at 7:39 pmi guess cryme and watchy cut out early to have their own private teabagging party. i wonder who’s the “catcher” first.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:42 pmKayInMaine Says:
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Crymeariver Says:
ANOTHER NON-STORY!
LOL, you quote a blogger and dress it up as though the Radical Right Wing is trying to pull a fast one here. You quote A BLOGGER (one of millions with an opinion) on his use of the word spontaneous. Wow, that is REALLY holding the “media accountable” lol. And as far as assistance from conservative groups? HYPOCRITS! You get/have gotten the same help for your websites, protests, mailing and calling campaigns. So you condemn the right for utilizing assistance legally available to them? Is this as far as your “critical” analysis skills can take you? This is a tranparent attempt to juxtapose something completely irrelevent next to a brand new in hopes to smear said name.
Please continue with your little reindeer games…
April 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Are you referring to Eric Odom in the post who is the right wing blogger this post is based on?
Yes. He is one person that used one word that this whole non story is based on. Please reread my original post.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:44 pmso cryme,
an honest question for you:
where were you & becky and his little t-party when 43 was trashing the global economy and spending money like a drunken sailor?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:47 pmPlease reread my original post.
I’d rather not, thank you. But I can’t help but notice that you spend an inordinate amount of time, yourself, reading “non-stories”. Why is that? Do you have nothing better to do with your time?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pmI’m glad that we outnumber the rightwingnutcrazies! Trolls say whatever you like – it’s your 1st amendment right! Go ahead have your tea parties and keep taking Beck’s word as gospel – even Bedlam clownboy Beck thinks you’re idiots!
April 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pmjohnfive Says:
AHHH you ignorant brainwashed troll. The only ones calling Obama a messiah are the rightwing retards who are too stupid to make legitimate complaints about him. You are a moron john. A stupid brainwashed troll.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:51 pmBozo The Neocootiebug Says:
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so cryme,
an honest question for you:
where were you & becky and his little t-party when 43 was trashing the global economy and spending money like a drunken sailor?
That is a whole different topic, my comments were confined to the topic at hand. You want to start a different thread, fine, Im in, but unlike others, I tried to stay focused.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:51 pmC
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pathetic
April 9th, 2009 at 7:51 pmokay, cryme, apparently my question for you @66 was too complex for you. how about this one:
you do realize part of obama’s budget is to fund the iraq and afghanistan war which 43 kept off the books for 8 years. 43 chose to hit up congress for “emergency funds” like the beggar outside of the 7-11.
my question for you is:
April 9th, 2009 at 7:52 pmwhy do you want to cut off funding for our troops?
Aren’t the conservatives becoming everything they hate by mass protesting on this sort of level?
I thought “no good” libs and hippies protested, carried placards and marched around with a lot of other so-called “unsavory” and “dirty” people on any sort of inane subject!
April 9th, 2009 at 7:53 pmwatchdog Says:
So, calling this a tea party is extremely relevant to the current government power intoxication.
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No it isnt. You are stupid and you are a troll.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pmWayne Ant Schneider Says:
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Please reread my original post.
I’d rather not, thank you. But I can’t help but notice that you spend an inordinate amount of time, yourself, reading “non-stories”. Why is that? Do you have nothing better to do with your time?
Im not here for you Wayne nor any of your bed wetting friends. I am exercising my 1st amendment rights and speaking to those that don’t post. Even I know common sense is lost on the likes of you.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pmOH YEAH SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE RADIO AND ALL OF THE LEFTWING BLOGGERS, WRITERS, ETC. OK caps off – LOL
A bit OT but…
April 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pmI’m watching Chris Matthews show, Hardball, now the wingnuts are bytching about Obama giving a speech at Notre Dame! Wingnuts like Pat Buchanan are just looking for something and they have NOTHING! NADA! on President Obama! Just silly nonsense. Unbelievable.
CryingMORON with another post consisting entirely of
April 9th, 2009 at 7:55 pmWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. You are a punk CM
Lets hope these teabaggers and their supporters in the Chinese tea growers association go on to refuse to pay their taxes.
That way the IRS can swoop down on them with felony convictions for tax evasion.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pmEugene atrax robustus Debs Says:
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CryingMORON with another post consisting entirely of
WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. You are a punk CM
Good one.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pmApe-Man Says:
@53 Crymeariver Says:
I’m sorry Crymeariver, what is your concern again @53? It’s not quite clear what your suggestion is…
In all the angry typing, there is a message…somewhere. I just think our friend needs to complete the 5th grade.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pmSome of the “tea party” websites that “spontaneously” sprung up after Rick Santelli’s famous rant on CNBC actually went live weeks BEFORE Santelli made his rant. It was all well planned and rehearsed n advance. Santelli isn’t answering any questions, either.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pmPooPooPool
Estimated total attendance as percentage of population?
I call .002%
April 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pmEven I know common sense is lost on the likes of you.
Yeah, that’s what everyone says about me.
April 9th, 2009 at 7:59 pmturkeyfish Says:
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Lets hope these teabaggers and their supporters in the Chinese tea growers association go on to refuse to pay their taxes.
That way the IRS can swoop down on them with felony convictions for tax evasion.
Im sorry, were you talking about the administration?
April 9th, 2009 at 7:59 pmCrymeariver Says:
My GOD you are stupid.
Im not here for you Wayne nor any of your bed wetting friends.
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No you are here repeating WWWWWWWAAAHHHHHHH endlessly for your OWN bedwetting cowardly reasons
I am exercising my 1st amendment rights and speaking to those that don’t post.
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You HAVE no first amendment rights to post on a private message board. No more than I have a first amendment right to put up a billboard in your front yard. How do you KNOW you are posting FOR those who dont post? I mean you are stupid but even YOU cant be stupid enough to think you can read the minds of those not posting. No you are doing all this sniveling for yourself
Even I know common sense is lost on the likes of you.
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The likes of YOU wouldnt know common sense from a warthog. You dont have any. STUPID you have in spades common sense, not a whit
April 9th, 2009 at 8:01 pmCrymeariver Says:
Im not here for you Wayne nor any of your bed wetting friends. I am exercising my 1st amendment rights and speaking to those that don’t post. Even I know common sense is lost on the likes of you.
Shouldn’t you be helping monitor U.S. military bases, looking for German/Italian tanks and helicopters brought in “from the U.N.” or looking for any people who don’t match the label of “American” at power plants?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:02 pm@37 Absolutely repeal. But I’m only a fan of 3 laws: No violence. No Fraud. Respect Property.
@39
I first saw this on youtube a while back watch?v=Ah1kAy3OEaQ.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pmand then watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
I watch Glenn.
I don’t want to miss it when his head explodes live on the air.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:07 pmDr. Moth Matt Says:
O/T: The DOW closed UP 246.27 (3.14%).
Reich-wingers are suicidal because America is succeeding.
The GOP won’t be satisfied until the USA has third world status, but that their 5% will be the 5% that holds all the cards.
It’s easy to see why Rush, Glenn, and Tom Delay support this crap.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:14 pmCrymeariver Says:
Im sorry, were you talking about the administration?
I’m sorry, just who in this administration has been charged or convicted of tax evasion?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:16 pmjohnfive Says:
Number 5 from the left?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:19 pmAnd which row?
Do you get pumped out daily?
A non-story? You don’t think the fact corporate lobbyists are behind these tea parties isn’t an issue? Wow. Okay. Just like Sarah Palin you blame bloggers first. *rolling eyes*
April 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pmHey Cryme….
…still lookin’ for a goat?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:33 pmFor the protests, I wonder how much the reichwingers would have to pay an out-of-work person to show up for the parades ?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:34 pmyou know….
..the acronym WATB
could also stand for
Wingnuts Are of Tea Baggers
coincidence?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pms/b no “of” above.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pmIs there a need for counter protests? Is that what they want?
April 9th, 2009 at 8:38 pmI wouldn’t walk across the street to piss on one of those idiots if they were on fire, let alone go witness their perverse circlejerk.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:42 pmThats fine, but this is a private blog, not a public picnic table for you to rant on. TP is tolerant, unlike the Freeper site, which, really, you would probably enjoy.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:45 pmComing to a website like this then sniveling like a punk about what is posted ON the site is about like going to someones house for dinner eating their food while whining that it wasnt good enough and they should have served lobster.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:52 pmThese morons have not realized how insignificant they really are. Newt Gingrich is a lying, philandering, idiot and all the protestors have absolutely no power to change anything. If it makes them feel good, do it morons. You are losers with not power.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:55 pmThis afternoon I received a ROBO CALL urging me to attend one of their tea parties. I hung up half way thru. Pity, I might have more to tell you. I’ve always been a Democrat, should not be on any repig call lists.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pmI only have one question, what do these people hope to accomplish with these tea parties? When they wake up April 16 what do they think will be changed? Do they think the President will run out of the White House screaming Oh I get it now you were right all along. I just do not understand help me
April 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pmPaddy Chayefsky laughs at us from the grave.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:59 pmwatchdog Says:
So, calling this a tea party is extremely relevant to the current government power intoxication.
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Another fascinating, relevant similarity…
The people who were complaining in the 1770’s were basically wealthy, white land holders. Some prolly owned slaves. A great deal of that ‘wealth’ had been created by taking land from the natives (meaning UNEARNED in the truest sense of the word…) and they certainly did not want their slaves, women, or the natives to have ANY SAY at all in how they ran their affairs…
And who’s behind this new ‘tea bagging’ phenomenon?
Wealthy, white land owners… fill in the rest as you see fit…
April 9th, 2009 at 9:02 pmThe right wangers will go along with this thinking their taxes will be reduced when the reality is that they are being made into cheerleaders for a corp-o-pigfest at the government trough [IE more govt spending/higher deficits/generational theft]
April 9th, 2009 at 9:04 pmCrymeariver Says:
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Cryin’… yer back!!!
Sorry I slapped you around so much last night, but you did have it coming.
Nice make-up job… really covers up the bruises. Almost as good as Hannity’s when he does his show.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pmGood Gawd, Republicans are RETARDED. Totally effing RETARDED.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pmI wonder if it would help the wingnut tea parties if all of us called all the police departments in the localities of these tea parties, and warned them that some participants were planning on brandishing weapons, and inciting violence.
The only good wingnut is a wingnut in prison.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:37 pmRachel Maddow teamed up with Anna Marie Cox on the Teabag issue.
“Well who wouldn;t want to teabag John McCain” (Cox).
The whole thing is very serious yet hilarious!
April 9th, 2009 at 9:39 pmNaaaaaah, I wouldn’t do that, because you honestly won’t have to. April 15th will be a violent day and they will have their guns taken away all by themselves after they act like the immature control freaks they are. See? They’ll blame President Obama too for their guns being taken away! Idiots.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:42 pmIt’s a poorly-kept secret that the entire Republican Party is gay.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pmI’m planning on going to a tea pary dressed in hillbilly garb with a big misspelled lie of a picket!
April 9th, 2009 at 9:51 pmspring heeled jack Says:
It’s a poorly-kept secret that the entire Republican Party is gay.
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I recently talked to a gay man and he said they’ve (the gays…) have talked this over and are refusing ownership. The GOOPers are on their own…
April 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm5th Estate Says:
I watched the show it was too funny!
KayInMaine Says:
Yeah we should just warn folks to keep a safe distance as the fools get arrested! May they fall into the hole they’ve been digging for Obama.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pmThe conservative patriots are having their very own little tea party to save the country from “that man” Obama. What will be their excuse be if they don’t get the turn out they are expecting?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:04 pmYeah real people all right like the teabag the white house groups lol getting support from such real people as the neo Nazis the white nationalist movement and several secessionist movements that support the imperialist ideals of the confederate traitors to Democracy and strangely enough Capitalism yup they are regular folks alright just the kind of people the right likes
April 9th, 2009 at 11:44 pmThink progress and the Center for American Progress is also organized by lobbysists and Corporate figures. care to discuss this. This is a case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:47 pmHint:
George Soros and John Podesta?
Please tell me how TP is organic?
WAITING FOR THE DAY BECK IS COMMITTED TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION
April 9th, 2009 at 11:50 pmCenter for American progress is corporate funded also. So TP is hypocritical.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:55 pmOrganic as in carbon bearing?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:58 pmaint capitalism great.
how few americand understand the capitalism leads to imperialism and our wars for profits.
ike knew this but no one listened.
instead we blame and blame some more never looking at the system that created our war machine.
the end result bye bye middle class hello tent cities.
the have mores love capitalism because it allows them to have more.
for all of you have nots out there that think you are a half more keep voting for politicans that stick it to ya and claim they represent ya.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:35 ambarfly Says:
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In America Congress and the president pander to the public to get elected and re-elected by making promises they never plan to keep. This is the norm for most politicians.
Obama’s plan to lower mortgage payments would never have occurred under a republican president.
And the plan will start taking applicants on the 15th of this month according to Wells Fargo, so it’s promise made, promise kept.
*****
April 10th, 2009 at 1:28 amI agree this wouldn’t be a plan done on the rupublicons watch, however, there are a few catches here. First, to refinance you have to pay closing costs all over again, which can be as high as 10K in states like NJ so that gets added to the principal balance. Second, after a few years the interest rate goes back to where it was. So after those few years you’ve actually increased your principal balance. Third, the program isn’t available to people who have two mortgages such as an 80/10/10. Really isn’t worth it in the end.
Newt Gingrich sure has strong opinions against a lot of stuff.
It sure would be nice if he offered some alternative solutions instead of moving the fat around his mouth.
Maybe that’s why he’s doing all this from a non-government role. Because he prefers T-ball to the major leagues.
April 10th, 2009 at 1:36 amI hope you people don’t realize you are an absolute product.
April 10th, 2009 at 2:43 amHeheh… He said “you people”. We’re all brothers and sisters RP2012. One day you will know this.
April 10th, 2009 at 2:48 amFight tea with dirty socks !!!!!
If the right wants to send tea bags, I suggest the left mail in old dirty smelly worn out socks to the republican congress.
Just a thought and an opportunity to donate clothing to the right wingers who may not be getting as much lobbying money these days.
April 10th, 2009 at 2:56 am@129 Robt Says:
I think the tea bags are already going too far.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:11 amIf you didn’t believe everything you heard on TP you might be intelligent.
yours to interpret!
April 10th, 2009 at 3:11 amDamn radical anti-Obama protests….what will we do??
April 10th, 2009 at 3:13 amRP2012,
April 10th, 2009 at 3:17 amYou got anything other than projection?
Really? Where do you hang out to get your information? Under the front porch of the RNC waiting each and every day to get your talking points in the form of a snack thrown to you by Rush Limbaugh and others?
Oh wait. Scratch that. You’re hanging out at TP now because you know realize that you were being fed a bullcrap and lies, so you came here to get some truth!
April 10th, 2009 at 7:14 amHIGH-sterical! I put this quote on the top of my blog today. Again, HIGH-sterical and so true! Thanks for the laugh. ;-)
April 10th, 2009 at 7:19 amRP2012 Says:
I hope you DO realize you are an absolute FOOL.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:19 amRP2012 Says:
So a jerk AND a moron. The wingnut daily double
April 10th, 2009 at 7:22 amThe Skunk Says:
Think progress and the Center for American Progress is also organized by lobbysists and Corporate figures. care to discuss this. This is a case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black.
Hint:
George Soros and John Podesta?
Please tell me how TP is organic?
I’ll bite. I like skunk.
TP and CAP are not claiming to be “spontaneous grassroots” experessions of “the average citizen”. They are progressive and political, and admittedly so. Posters are not organized to come and post on this site — you are free to find it and post, or not.
The extent and accuracy of your “lobbyist and corporate” claims I am not familiar with. However, again, I don’t perceive any deception from TP or CAP on that matter, either.
What is clear is that framing of these tea protests is intentioanlly deceptive, claiming that they are spontaneous eruptions of like minded citizenry of the average worker-type who have “had enough”, when the FACT is that these are being advertised, organized and orchestrated by lobbyists and corporations, all the while denying the lobby and corporate influence — these are partizan protests. And it is just fine to have a peaceful partizan protest, but it is not fine to try to claim that these are not partizan, not organized/funded by partizan or corporate interests, and representative of the average citizen, because all three of those are lies.
And note well, many, MANY peaceful protesters, who demonstrated in a purely peaceful way, have been beaten, gassed and arrested by the police. For my own part I hope to see some justice served, as many of those attending these events will be those who laugh at images of peaceful protesters being beaten by the police. …. and that these events remain peaceful is highly doubtful, considering the predelictions of some of the organizers and their followers who will be attendees.
TP and CAP are not protests. Comparing either to organized protests is impossible — there is no basis for comparison. So, no, there is NO “pot and kettle” here.
Discussed. Have a nice day, stinkybutt.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:52 amThey didn’t post my message, and I don’t know why, but I’m going to give it another go:
I would gladly attend a counterprotest or something, but being that I’m an accountant, I actually have to work to get these whiners their refunds. The VAST majority of people get refunds, many of them good sized, yet they still manage to complain about it. I can understand complaints coming from people who are getting a tax increase, though I find that more than slightly selfish, but these people are complaining about policies that are designed to help them.
I’m going to go as a Republican for Halloween this year. I’m just going to walk around chastising people for what they’re doing, then proceed to do exactly the same thing. If I’m feeling extra self-destructive, I may carry a BB gun around with me and repeatedly shoot myself in the foot, then complain about the pain.
April 10th, 2009 at 9:03 amThe Tea Party Protests are actually Republican affirmative action protests.
Republicans, which include DINO’s like Bayh, Lincoln and NAFTA Nancy, think that Chinese, Vietnam, Guam, Vietnam and Mexico peasants have more of a right to your job than you do, since they gave the multi-national corporations tax inventives to send your job to them.
Now that they have made millions and billions off of this, they want you to protest for lower taxes on all that extra money that would have been in your pocket had your job stayed here in America.
April 10th, 2009 at 9:11 amWhat does this even mean?
April 10th, 2009 at 9:16 amConservatives are gathering in public displays of teabagging and they’re going to show it live on fox? Keep the kiddies away.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:49 amthese nutjobs are out of control. they don’t even understand the concept that they are butchering. even thomas jefferson hates them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuP2gf7BLHY
April 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pmwags camponotus saundersi Says:
I hope you people don’t realize you are an absolute product.
What does this even mean?”
Well I’m sure you know what a product is, but it means that you all don’t think for yourselves or ever ask any critical questions. These tea parties are not meant to be anti-Obama even though a small minority will make them that. Think of it like the anti war protests, they were supposed to be against the war though some people made them against Bush. We are protesting decades of unfair and oppressive taxation not Obama.
April 10th, 2009 at 1:09 pmTempest in a teapot. If this movement has no legs, why chase it? There are bigger fish to fry.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:06 pm“you people” Hehehe.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:07 pmWe already know some people refuse to pay taxes for some reason. they don’t have to go stand outside.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pmRP2012 Says:
Kieth is right you have nothing but projection. You are a COMPLETE zombified, brainwashed moron. Charter member of the Limborg hivemind and you are telling US we dont think for ourselves. My GOD you are stupid. It really isnt our fault you are so gut checkingly stupid you cant even RECOGNIZE independent thought. I mean we all know you are way too stupid to ever actually pull off the higher brain function thing but perhaps you could AIM at recognizing it
April 10th, 2009 at 10:04 pmGregorSamsa Says:
I dont care about the protests. I believe in protest. They SHOULD protest if they think it is the right thing to do. I am not against them protesting just because I think they are wrong. I am mildly annoyed by the dishonesty of acting like a corporate sponsered event is a grass roots movement but my MAIN gripe is FOX News, the very people who were calling war protesters traitors are throwing all journalistic ethics to the wind and pushing these events with huge amounts of free publicity and advocacy. I sure didnt see ANY newsstations ADVOCATING the war protests.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:09 pmI am the mother of 3 and my husband and I are doing pretty good with a combined income of 50,000 a year. So we aren’t super rich, but we aren’t poor either. I am not a Republican or Democrat. I wish we could please stop this “left” vs. “right”, Dems vs. Republicans and vise versa war. I try to look at raw facts when forming my opinions. That having been said, I am going to my local tea party. My first ever protest. I am not doing this because Fox news, any talking head told me to. The problems our nation face did not start with George Bush or Barack Obama. The trajectory began almost 100 years ago and has slowly been building. I should have been out protesting earlier, but I believed that surely our leaders would come to their senses on both sides of the isle and start reigning in spending. We have a huge unfunded commitment to Social Security and we stole from it to continue spending and to delay the inevitable pain. Blame can be laid at many people’s feet, but ultimately we must lay it at our own for failing to act. I blame myself for being silent too long. I was appalled by the Patriot Act and the assault to our liberties it represents, but I just complained! I was frustrated over increases in spending and the Iraqi war under Bush, but again I just complained! Then came the bailout and TARP fiasco and I became alarmed and I finally did something and contacted my representatives, but they voted for it anyway. Then came the huge stimulus plan and again I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. They hadn’t even read it! Our debt soaring, just when the Baby Boomers will soon come calling for their promised benefits and also begin withdrawing from the tax paying work force. Again I contacted my lawmakers, but again they all voted for it! Then what I really hoped for, troop withdraw, is being delayed and the troops in Afghanistan increased. I was so hopeful that Pres. Obama would bring our troops home. I have to go and share my concern that our country is debasing our Dollar and amassing a debt that our GDP can’t support. Even by raising taxes, we can’t cover increasing debt and our SS obligations. I must stand up and say at least I tried to stop the reckless spending on ALL sides of the isle. This isn’t sustainable. We have to act now. I know that many of you will think I am ignorant and perhaps you are right. I just love my country and I can’t bear to see her spent into oblivion. My voice is small, but I must try no matter how useless others think it is. Maybe nothing will change, but I know it can’t if we don’t speak up and take a stand. I will go to this tea party out of love for my country and not hatred for others. I won’t be shouting or screaming, just quietly saying, “I’m here! Please listen!”
April 12th, 2009 at 4:16 amThe truth is that we will need much greater tax increases and social programs to undo the greed of the Bush administration. We need to punish the greedy, help the homeless, the children and the inner city. Corporations are destroying America. Health care, food, medicine, housing and transportation should all be FREE.
April 12th, 2009 at 5:03 ammiller123-
Go if you want to go; just be aware that this “protest” tea-party thing isn’t what it’s advertised to be. In fact, it’s just about the opposite- not a grassroots movement by ordinary americans to protest spending, but a corporate-sponsored farce to derail adminstration policies which may hurt corporate profits by limiting their ability to exploit workers, pollute the environment, and hide their money in the Cayman Islands. More than anything it’s just a cynical attempt by the Right to cause Obama to fail at all costs, because on top of the GOP losing recent elections, they’re hemorraghing membership, and thus campaign contributions. They have no solutions, no vision, and no ideas on how to get America out of the mess that THEY have largely created- with a bit of help from Democrats, but- it WAS their policies which have basically ruined us.
The ONLY way to dig ourselves out of this whole as a country is for the Federal Govt. to spend massive amounts of money to kick-start the economy. Will it work? Time will tell. But to do nothing, or to cut spending and slash corporate taxes as the Republicans would have us do, would be disastrous. Do what you will, just please don’t be fooled by reich-wing hypocrites.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:53 pmmosby12 what you are saying sounds like socialism to me. Please understand that I am not name-calling. If you prescribe to Socialism, that is certainly your right as an American and doesn’t make you evil! I just want you to understand that all those things you list (Health care, food, medicine, housing and transportation) can never be “FREE” because SOMEONE will have to pay for them. I have a disabled child and we could get “Free” health care via a medical card from the state if we wanted to, but chose not to since we are able to acquire private insurance for him. We pay the premiums and deductibles ourselves because WE are responsible for his care, not the government or others. If we were in a destitute position, or course we would have no choice but to accept help, but just because it would be “free” for us to take the help now doesn’t make it right. I would rather that money be used for people who really need it and not wasted on my family out of personal greed or the belief “someone” else will pay.
I agree that we have greedy individuals, but we have so many generous people as well. I can personally attest to American generosity. My son goes to Shriner’s Hospital for some of his treatments and it is 100% free to us because of the generous donations of thousands of American’s, but the main reason we go there is because their treatments are hands down THE BEST in the nation! (And yes I do work actively to repay my “debt” to them by working charity events whenever I can!)
Would you agree that “Greed” didn’t start in the Bush administration and it won’t go away now that he is gone? I wish it were that simple. Also how do we decide what “greed” is? Who makes that decision? Remember government can also be a greedy and oppressive instrument, except that it can do so lawfully and backed by force. You see with great power comes corruption, favoritism, and lucrative kickbacks. (And yes it can get worse than it already is!) You loose control of your hard earned wealth and someone else decides what is “best” for you and society and how best your money should be spent. When you lose your economic freedom, you cease to be free, as denying someone the fruits of their labor is the very definition of slavery.
I have an acquaintance that emigrated here from Russia. He grew up under the Soviet Union and told me of the utter failure of “state control”. Those who had connections got what they wanted and the others got what was left. He had never seen a Banana until he came to this country! Sure his housing, health care, and food where “free”, but he was often hungry and lived in cramped and poor conditions. And the hospitals often did not have supplies, so you had to purchase your own on the black market. Does this sound like freedom to you? How about prosperity? It didn’t matter how hard he worked, his lot in life would not improve, and it also wouldn’t get any worse if he slacked off. I know this is an extreme example, but it really happened, and isn’t it conceivable that it could happen again?
Please understand that this is not a personal attack, rather an open debate. I believe that if we all start talking we can find a solution that throws out the extremes of both sides and puts us on a path to common sense.
Sorry this is so long! It is good to talk to people of differing beliefs. Keeps you mentally flexible!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:44 amFrankly, this should be front page news in every news outlet in the US.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:14 amcolinjames I want to note that I am not going to the tea party to protest taxes. Unfortunately with our current situation, lower taxes would be difficult, especially without substantial cuts in spending which is not going to happen, in fact spending has increased. Myself and a large group are actually going to encourage support for a house bill that would require the Federal Reserve be audited and make known who its funds are going to and how much money these groups have received. (Something that they currently do not have to disclose.) Start with something small and doable. Accountability in government is SO important!
Also just a “what if”: What if the government worked like a home economist. They spent less than they took in and put away the extra money (especially during the good times) in an emergency fund that would cover one year of services in case of hard times. Then instead of borrowing money and paying interest on debt, they could use their emergency money to take care of temporary short falls. If short falls are longer term, then they have to cut back on their spending to bring their budge into balance. Not increase taxes at the worst possible time.
Now let’s really dream and say that after the emergency fund is in place, government continues to put surpluses into a savings account. So now not only would the government not have to pay interest on debt, but it would also have interest payments and dividends PAID TO IT, and would therefore have more funds available to add additional services, do public infrastructure projects etc. So in essence become “independently wealthy” so that some or eventually all of the spending could be covered by interest from its investments. They are often referred to as “Sovereign Funds”. Countries like China do this and have almost two trillion in savings, I believe. Then you could either cut taxes to allow more of the citizens to keep their money and spend it in the marketplace, thereby boosting the economy, or you can keep the taxes steady and keep building up your savings. Eventually you could in theory have a large enough nest egg to pay for things like health care, college education and other social programs without raising taxes.
Of course you would NEVER want to dip into the principle investment, so you would have to make sure they stick to their budget and exercise fiscal discipline and not raid the savings funds. (Like what was done to social security!) Remember that is what the emergency fund is for.
Is this so crazy? It would take a lot of sacrifice on our part NOW, but the payoff would be a better country for future generations. Are we willing to sacrifice for our children’s future? Of course we are in deep right now, so we have to stop the bleeding first. I wish we were working harder to cut spending, but that isn’t popular right now.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:23 pmmiller123:
I am right there with you. I did not like the Patriot Act. I thought Iraq was a foolish gamble. I was against the Bush tax cuts. I have long been against spending recklessly. I have complained often about our fiscal irresponsibility. I urged my representatives to vote against stimulus after stimulus and the bail out plan.
We cannot spend our way out of this recession. It has never worked and will not work now. Just like tax cuts do not stimulate an economy, pumping trillions of fake dollars into the economy will not help and it will have serious long-term consequences to the value of the dollar (but Americans are not able to look beyond their weekly TV guides anyway so why should they care). Although things appear to be looking brighter now (I would not trust the stock market to gauge the health of an economy), I do not see a light at the end of the tunnel and I would certainly not credit anyone in our government with getting us out of this mess; especially when they are the reason we are in this mess to begin with (of course along with every American that spent more than they made and bought houses and cars and boats and other crap they could not afford). Next bubble – government spending bubble.
I intend to go to the Tea Party in Kansas City. I am against spending more than we can afford. I am against an $11 trillion and rising national debt. I am against a budget deficit. I am for decreasing the defense budget by 25%, closing all foreign bases, and securing our borders. I am for a 10% across the board slashing of the remaining federal budget. I am for term limits in Congress. I am for a balanced budget amendment. I am for serious campaign finance reform. I am for a comprehensive solution to our current sick care system – we could save a lot of money by taking the friction out of health care. I am for securing social security. I am for smaller federal government.
We need to address the unsustainability of our federal government now and not push this problem on our children. If we do not address this our children (maybe even us) will have very high federal taxes (>50% at all income levels) and all the government will be able to afford will be Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and interest on debt. Nothing else. Have you seen I.O.U.S.A.? If you have not, you should.
My worst fear is that the social conservatives trot out at the tea party and make this about abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research. This is not the time for those inconsequential issues. This is the time to demand real change that will secure the country for future generations.
Every generation should leave the world better than they found it for the next generation. Well, the baby boomers have failed by all accounts and will be leaving us a huge, sloppy mess.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:33 amwitness the (possibly) above concerns about “fixing” the economy… really?
April 14th, 2009 at 5:59 amAt the teabagging with Fox’s friends?
Find another venue.
Does anyone know what the #Teaparty is about other than corporate/GOP greed? I’ve posted an article about it but I honestly cannot tell you what they’re about.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:42 pmTime to attend the parties and demand that Ruppert Murdoch pay his taxes instead of finding imaginitive ways to fund republicans to help him avoid his taxes!
April 14th, 2009 at 4:10 pmWow..
This is a joke website.. right?
To have so much liberal folly in one place is amazing…
I am laughing my butt off with some of these half-baked comments.
This is great.. keep it up!
April 14th, 2009 at 5:58 pmThank you very much.
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I just listened to ThinkProgress comments on Cspan. For me the problem with your argument is your smooth dismissal of those you disagree with. The argument does not go to the party who most effectively demonizes or dismisses the opponent. It goes to the party who most effectively hears and embraces the legitimate issues of the opposition and provides more compelling answers.
When either the Tea Parties or you fail to do that, what becomes evident is a greater interest in winning a fight than in advancing strategy that effectively addresses legitimate issues and goals. Why not have confidence your proactive stance can legitimately address the legitimate issues of those you oppose?
April 15th, 2009 at 11:56 amwatchdog Says:
The participators of the original Boston tea party in 1773 did so because they felt the Tea Act violated their constitutional right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.
And also during this time the phrase was coined “No taxation without representation”.
So, calling this a tea party is extremely relevant to the current government power intoxication.
They’re intoxicated…..that explains some things
April 16th, 2009 at 11:15 amIf the illegal aliens had been demonstrating yesterday would Nancy Peelosi have dismissed them like she disgracefully did to WE THE PEOPLE. Would she have asked them who sponsored their demonstration –LAAA RAAAAAAAZZZA. She’d be slobbering all over them. It is a sad day in American when this loon speaker of the house treats american citizens in this matter.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pmWhy didnt, YOU THE FOOLS, protest when it was necessary! The nerve of these people who have no integrity, nor do they have respect for our government and its consisted effort in fixing this mess that our former bonehead president and his teabagging cohorts got us in!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:01 pmNot only did Charles Koch senior make his initial money from design and installation of refineries in Russia in the 30’s, but he was at one time in the 60’s on the board of MIT and the John Birch Society at the same time.
They succeeded in not only getting books eliminated from the Wichita KS (home of Koch Industries) school system but even a couple of teachers removed.
The beat goes on with Charles Jr., listed by Forbes as one of the 5 richest people in the US. With tens of billions of sales each year in oil, they will surely pull out every stop to block green industries.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:27 pmThe astroturfing charge is bunk.
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