FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients
FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients
ThinkProgress reported last week that corporate lobbyists are helping to orchestrate the anti-Obama tea party protests. These lobbying-run front groups, along with promotion help from Fox News, are organizing the tea parties by calling right-wing activists and asking them to organize. They are also coordinating conference calls among activists, writing press releases, providing sign ideas, building websites supporting the protests, and distributing talking points so that the protesters can stay on message.
Today, FreedomWork’s Adam Brandon responded to the criticism that its efforts to organize these anti-Obama protests are ‘astroturf,’ saying that the organization’s work in coordinating and planning the events would be akin to “MoveOn’s model.” However, MoveOn is not run by corporate lobbyists and is funded by actual grassroots activists. On the other hand, the leader of FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, who is ranked as one of DC’s top “hired guns,” is a corporate lobbyist with a history of directing FreedomWorks to support the goals of his lobbying clients. For example:
– Armey’s FreedomWorks is actively organizing against health care reform. Indeed, Armey’s lobbying firm represents pharmaceutical companies, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, that oppose comparative effectiveness research in the health reform plan because such a program may cut into revenue for branded drugs.
– Armey’s lobbying firm represents the trade group for the life insurance industry. Indeed, FreedomWorks mobilizes its members for deregulated life insurance reform.
– Currently, FreedomWorks is focusing their energy activism on supporting the status quo reliance on fossil fuels. In addition to working for various domestic oil companies with a vested interest in opposing change, Armey’s lobbying firm represents Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the UAE, on energy related issues such as maintaining the U.S.-UAE relationship where “U.S companies have played major roles in the development of UAE energy resources, which represent about 10 percent of global oil reserves.”
– In 2006, Armey’s lobbying firm represented the Senado de Republica (Mexican Senate) on “enhancing U.S.-Mexico relations,” and specifically on immigration policy. Curiously, during the same period, Armey’s Freedom Works stood out as one of the few right wing organizations to boldly support comprehensive immigration reform.
Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed FreedomWorks for building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of Armey.
FreedomWorks represents a top-down, corporate-friendly approach that has been the norm for conservative organizations for years. As Obama prepares to push to close corporate tax loopholes, reform health care, and transition to a clean energy economy, we can expect more corporate lobbyists to create astroturf protests to oppose change.
We'd like to say we are one of the main driving forces, but we are not THE driving force behind the protests. We're mainly helping activists get in touch with each other.
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They have a name for that.
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It’s called “coordinating the event”.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:33 pm“We’re mainly helping activists get in touch with each other.”
he left via the propoganda netwotk, faux.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:34 pmDarn it, I thought from the headline they were being served… with court summons.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pmWhy would anyone, any working american support a group like Freedomworks. I’ve lived in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and small town in between.
I’ve meet thousands of people and only a few have I known who were uber rich.
All of the working people I’ve met were worried about tuiton, rent, mortgage and healthcare. Taxes never entered the conversation because taxes had nothing to do with our everyday living situation. Almost no one goes home and says “I wish I had an extra $10. but they took it out in taxes.”
Taxes aren’t what’s making us broke, it’s the policies of these fools at FreedomWorks and the fools that fall for their bullshi* hook, line and sinker.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:44 pmAnti-American Scum.
Fcuk the Republicans
April 14th, 2009 at 7:45 pmRich H, it’s been obvious to me for about ten years now that They will kill for a nickel.
If you get between a corporatist and a nickel’s profit, you will likely die.
Over a corporate policy. Over an ingredient deadly to a fraction of the population, and a known threat. Over a tax cut. Over federal corporate welfare.
Human life means nothing to these people, and I do not exaggerate. Money means all.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:47 pm“We’re mainly helping activists get in touch with each other.”
April 14th, 2009 at 7:48 pmDick Armey, like Tom Delay and Phil Gram, belongs in prison for bribery.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:54 pmIn the immortal words of Sherrif Bart….
They Desperate!
THEY DESPERATE!!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 7:55 pmI don’t give a f- one way or the other about these tea parties. Their stupid to begin with.
But, if they really are protesting taxes and government spending, then I don’t see why they deserve ridicule for that.
I mean, who here is in favor of the bailouts? That added immensely to the national debt. Now, every man woman and child in the US “owes” about $38,000 to the public debt right now. Every “taxpayer” owes about $146,000. Who here is willing or able to pony that up? And for what? Needless wars to make contractors rich, bailouts to keep bankers rich? Waste fraud and abuse? We’re all cool with that?
What I’m asking is what is the problem with protesting excessive government spending and taxation?
April 14th, 2009 at 7:55 pmWhat I’m asking is what is the problem with protesting excessive government spending and taxation?
When it was 12 billion per month in Iraq, these concerned folks didn’t even let out an anguished peep. When it was low bid, no cost contracts, they were silent. When Bush shoveled money into boondoggles like missile defense, they had other priorities that complaining about profligate government spending. And now that they are politically powerless, suddenly they are to be taken seriously about government spending? You are either a political neophyte, or a concern troll.
Which is it?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:03 pmFreedomWorks represents a top-down, corporate-friendly approach that has been the norm for conservative organizations for years. As Obama prepares to push to close corporate tax loopholes, reform health care, and transition to a clean energy economy, we can expect more corporate lobbyists to create astroturf protests to oppose change.
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SINCE IT’S BEEN THE NEO-CONS NORM FOR YEARS THAT’S WHY AMERICA ENDED UP IN THE CONDITION IT IS IN NOW.
“oppose change” to keep robbing and bullying people for the sake of a dollar?
Interesting how these ‘red’ states are systematically holding up much needed fed. assistance by creating an illusion that it’s all Obama’s fault. Just this one man and nobody’s else’s fault, just think about that for a minute.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:04 pmWell, thanks for the insults.
So then, you assume that all these people in these protests supported the wars? I’m sure plenty of them do and they are hypocrites, but don’t you think there is a good percentage of them that didn’t and don’t support the ongoing wars?
Are YOU against excessive spending on the war? Well, Obama is asking for something like $80 billion more. Are you going to protest that?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:07 pmAlejandro Says:
You are either a political neophyte, or a concern troll.
Which is it?
Well, thanks for the insults.
So then, you assume that all these people in these protests supported the wars? I’m sure plenty of them do and they are hypocrites, but don’t you think there is a good percentage of them that didn’t and don’t support the ongoing wars?
Are YOU against excessive spending on the war? Well, Obama is asking for something like $80 billion more. Are you going to protest that?
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as soon as we get out of the mess
bush and the neo-cons put us in
i will.
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 8:09 pmbarfly Says:
You are either a political neophyte, or a concern troll.
Which is it?
I’ll go with the “f-king moron” option you politely left out LOL
April 14th, 2009 at 8:13 pmbut don’t you think there is a good percentage of them that didn’t and don’t support the ongoing wars?
No.
Are YOU against excessive spending on the war? Well, Obama is asking for something like $80 billion more. Are you going to protest that?
Obama needs the money to wind down our occupation, so no, I’m not going to protest that. Or do you think our soldiers should just bug out?
Well, thanks for the insults.
Merely asking a question. Which is it, by the way? you never did answer. Perhaps you can present a case, for why they should be believed now, after being silent when a republican was running up the debt?
This, I’d like to hear.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:13 pm“Well, Obama is asking for something like $80 billion more. Are you going to protest that?”
It’s a smaller request than Dufous Bush ever put in.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:14 pmAnd with Obama,it goes on the books, instead of off in some make believe separate financial reality.
Wayne, always the diplomat…
April 14th, 2009 at 8:16 pmFollow the tea-kettle!
April 14th, 2009 at 8:22 pmDr. Moth Matt Says:
Never forget…
Glenn Beck = Tea Bag Messiah
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beck’s own words.
You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and if a state says: ‘I don’t want to go there, because that’s suicide, they have a right to back out. They have a right — people have a right to not commit economic suicide…
…Texas says go to hell, Washington, which by the way has been said before. I believe it was Davey Crocket…it’s about time that somebody says that again.”
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h/t kos, media matters.
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so now it’s secession.
:|
April 14th, 2009 at 8:25 pmYou’re caught in the two party paradigm. You think that every single one of these people is a Republican? Hey, even if every single one of them were Republican, maybe some of them are waking up and breaking out of the left/right paradigm. I’ve seen plenty of people doing that in the past couple of years.
Let me ask you in a different way. Do you agree with massive spending and taxation by the government? If not, then do you feel the need to protest it?
Because what I see are a bunch of ‘progressives’ appearing to be FOR massive spending and taxation. But it’s just because they see people protesting their glorious leaders. They get offended by that, just like the pro-Bush idiots got offended when people protested the war.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:26 pmOh yeah. The pentagon is all cleaned up now. It’s a miracle.
I think someone was talking about political neophytes a minute ago.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:27 pmAlejandro Says:
It’s a smaller request than Dufous Bush ever put in.
And with Obama,it goes on the books, instead of off in some make believe separate financial reality.
Oh yeah. The pentagon is all cleaned up now. It’s a miracle.
I think someone was talking about political neophytes a minute ago.
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the party that ran on your platform was defeated last november.
but you’re welcome to give it a try.
go ahead. sell the voters on slashing taxes for the rich,
massive cuts in spending and no stimulus package.
if you really believe in it run on it and get elected.
:|
oh i’m sorry, are you afraid of becoming
a political neophyte?
(or maybe neo-con…?)
good luck.
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 8:36 pmAlejandro Says:
You’re caught in the two party paradigm. You think that every single one of these people is a Republican? Hey, even if every single one of them were Republican, maybe some of them are waking up and breaking out of the left/right paradigm. I’ve seen plenty of people doing that in the past couple of years.
Some of them are Libertarians, Constitution Party folks, or “nonpartisan,” but they’re pretty much all extreme right wingers. Their “breaking out of the left/right” answer is to go completely off the map to the right.
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Alejandro Says:
Let me ask you in a different way. Do you agree with massive spending and taxation by the government? If not, then do you feel the need to protest it?
It’s not clear what’s being protested exactly. What constitutes “massive?” What percent of the GDP should be invested in America’s infrastructure, and how? Once you start considering those questions, disagreements become matters of nuts-and-bolts, and not overarching matters of belief.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:45 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Obama`s blind economic policy is great for our country. The more debt, the better! just keep livin like a rockstar, i love it!
So tell me what you think of Dubya’s debt policy…
April 14th, 2009 at 8:47 pmI better not see no stinkin anti-Obama anything.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:47 pmI just can’t wait for Texas to secede and elect Chuck Norris as their president. *banjo*…”Texas Teabag”
Jon Stewart is wondering how he lucked into such an era of comedy gold…
April 14th, 2009 at 8:52 pmThey better hold their anti-Obama bullshit in rural backwood parts like the kkk.
There are tons of people ready for their bs.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:52 pmLet me ask you in a different way. Do you agree with massive spending and taxation by the government? If not, then do you feel the need to protest it?
In order to correct past republican “governance” (or, non-governance would be more apt), it would be reasonable to assume a large palliative would be necessary.
Do you think a large military budget cut should also be enacted?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pmBush is not the president anymore, Obama is fixing his mistakes.
Is that what you meant, Rocky?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:55 pm10. Alejandro Says: What I’m asking is what is the problem with protesting excessive government spending and taxation?
Pop quiz, hotshot: Some village idiot steals your car, takes it on a joyride, tears it to sh¡t, torches it and runs away leaving it a smoldering wreck. Then takes your credit card from the glove compartment and runs up a massive debt.
Now, you need a car to get to work to repay all that money, but you have to go into debt in order to get the car and buy gas and food until the paychecks kick in and your income stabilizes…
What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:57 pmDaddy-O #6,
I totally agree with you. So again, the question is, why are there ANY working americans who would support them?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:58 pmLiberals remind me of 1984.</e
Conservatives, of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:58 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
ElBruce Says:
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Obama`s blind economic policy is great for our country. The more debt, the better! just keep livin like a rockstar, i love it!
So tell me what you think of Dubya’s debt policy…
Typical Liberal response, Ignore the question, bring up old presidents. Bush is not the president anymore, Obama is.
Damn you are one stupid teabagger. Do you know anything about econ101 or learn how to handle a cash register?
President Obama is not creating debt, remember there is a recession going on.
I would go into what is happening in the economy but all you would do is focus on shiny things instead of the truth.
Are you going teabagging tomorrow?
Admit it teabagger you would impeach President Obama for a hangnail.
TP posters what name can we come up for this common troll?
April 14th, 2009 at 8:59 pmJust think how much money it would have taken Bush to send men to Mars.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:00 pmYa know what? I’ll concede that lots of people from both parties, and people with no party, have all shared in making a mess of things.
Obama ran on a message that he would take emergency action and that it would be expensive. That’s what we voted for!
And I’ve yet to hear much evidence for “reckless spending”. What I see is a serious investment in things that have been stalled and/or neglected while everything started crumbling.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:01 pmI would say Trillions of dollars is pretty massive. The Iraq war to date cost less then what Obama has already spent. Thats pretty massive.
A lot of it’s going to red states, so quit complaining. How much infrastructure projects did Bush approve? And how do you know how much was spent, since large amounts of it were off-budget?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:01 pmAnd next, is fox news organizing and aiding home grown activists/terrorists? The details here at 9:00.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pmThe “new” troll keeps blabbering about “blind policy” and “reckless spending” and has to to produce examples. What’s up with that?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:04 pmYou voted America`s next Idol in as president!
And without a stacked Supreme Court. Super-Obama!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:05 pmThe Iraq war to date, has cost 650 billion dollars.
Off budget spending is unknown. But you’re funny. Please continue.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:07 pmWhenever I read something as stupid as what Rock posted I can’t help but think of silence is golden.
What amazing bullshi* Hopefully he’ll have time to go teabaging tomorrow and get interviewed on FOX. FOX being the total nutjobs they are would air it.
Then we’d see the end of all this freedomworks/teabagging nonesense.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:09 pmThat falls far short of Obama’s stated goal of 75 percent in the first 18 months
Yet Goldman Sacks has announced they will be paying the TARP money back ahead of schedule, argely due to an improving economy.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:10 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
I would say Trillions of dollars is pretty massive. The Iraq war to date cost less then what Obama has already spent. Thats pretty massive.
Obama has spent trillionS? If you aren’t going to actually look up the numbers, then maybe you shouldn’t be pontificating based on them.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Typical Liberal response, Ignore the question, bring up old presidents. Bush is not the president anymore, Obama is.
Not at all. After Dubya tanked the economy (the crash happened in September, you will recall), it was clear that temporary extra spending was the only way to dig ourselves out of it. The problem is that while tanking the economy, Dubya also ran up the deficit, leaving the next President behind the proverbial eight-ball.
I’m assuming that you had nothing to say about Dubya’s profligate deficits at the time. But all of a sudden now that somebody needs to use the deficit to get ourselves out of this mess, you’re all up in arms. It’s relevant.
It’s not just about a number, it’s about whether that number is necessary and what it will be used for.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Liberals remind me of 1984.
Reagan’s second term? I don’t get it.
Or are you referring to the book about a tyrranical regime that employed electronic surveillance, extraordinary rendition, populist drum-beating and perpetual war? Because that would be the Bush administration, there.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Only Change Obama has brought is more debt and less responsibility.
It’s been how many weeks since he’s been in office? Five? Six? Bush took the first six months of his first term off on vacation.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
lol again typical liberal response. No facts, just slander and hate speach. Nice job!
You really don’t know what “hate speech” actually means, do you?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:11 pmObama_mania_RockStar,
Hey buddy, keep writing, we keep laughing harder. Amongst your intellectual superiors, your posts are nothing but comic relief.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:12 pmIt’s customary to provide a link when one copy/pastes.
And I still haven’t seen any specific examples of “blind”, “reckless”, or “unchecked” spending. In an $819,000,000,000 package there must be something specific that would make one reject the whole package and demonize anyone involved with it.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:12 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
the good thing about Obama is that he is such a poor president, no democrat will have a chance to win the next election.
Since Obama is trying to same the economy from total collapse, I must ask: why do you hate America?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:13 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
the good thing about Obama is that he is such a poor president, no democrat will have a chance to win the next election.
You keep saying that over and over to yourself while you rock back and forth sucking your thumb and sobbing.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:14 pmOops. Make that “save”
April 14th, 2009 at 9:15 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Wonder what Obama would do if all of the teleprompters just suddenly disapeared?!?
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wonder what you’d do if all
the oxycontin disappeared?
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April 14th, 2009 at 9:18 pmPlease provide examples of specific instances of “blind”, “reckless”, or “unchecked” spending.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:19 pmGOP Tea Party spokesman :
” And we appointed Lipton to be our leader”. !
“If you got ice, let’s tea party “.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pmI love how the trolls are using what we said about George Bush in the hopes it will stick on President Obama.
So funny! Nice try though! America after 3 months of President Obama being in office HATES YOUR GUTS, NEOCONS. Do you get that yet? Now take a second and let that sink into your cannonball head.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pmLiberal attack . Again.
An attack must be a declarative statement, Gizmo.
I merely asked a question.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Since Obama has become president, Not only has DoW gone down, But we now have less jobs and more debt. GOOD JOB OBAMA! Thats the change we wanted!
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bush/cheney 2012.
tan, rested, ready.
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pmAnd Reagan was an FBI Stooge.
Ronnie was a back-stabbing FBI tattle-tail. Another republican pussy liar.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:20 pmBy the way, regarding the cost of the Iraq war, it looks like you’re off by a factor of about a thousand.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:21 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
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the mouth is moving.
but nothing is coming out.
:0
April 14th, 2009 at 9:21 pmThe DOW under George Bush went from 14,000 points to under 8,000 on January 20, 2009 at noontime. Where was your outrage? Over 3 million jobs lost in his last year! Where was your outrage?
By the way, GEORGE BUSH’S POLICIES ARE STILL IN PLACE, hence, jobs being lost still. Where’s your outrage?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Since Obama has become president, Not only has DoW gone down, But we now have less jobs and more debt. GOOD JOB OBAMA! Thats the change we wanted!
http://www.moonbattery.com/osama_obama.jpg
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nothing new to say?
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April 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
But we now have [...] more debt.
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You seem a tad confused. Let me clarify your statement for you…
But we now ***KNOW HOW MUCH*** MORE DEBT ***BOTCH*** was sticking us w/.
See… so much more honest and meaningful now, huh?
You can thank me later.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pmGeorge Bush doubled the debt. Where was the right wing outrage over the last 8 years?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Since Obama has become president, Not only has DoW gone down, But we now have less jobs and more debt. GOOD JOB OBAMA! Thats the change we wanted!
Who’s this we? You didn’t vote.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:23 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
You can shove your sarcasm where the teabagging doesn’t shine!
Where in hell were you when Dumbya Bush was running up trillions of dollars in debt with the Iraq war and not including that debt in the fiscal budget??? Where were you? Rewind American history 8 years before you make those silly sarcastic statements. Then go read Can’t Cantor’s cartoon budget. Until you can come up with a more viable solution STFU!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:23 pmKayInMaine Says:
George Bush doubled the debt. Where was the right wing outrage over the last 8 years?
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They were too busy giving each other prostate exams to notice…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:23 pmPerhaps the most intelligent thing to ever come from you!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pmI’m still waiting to hear what “blind”, reckless”, and “unchecked” spending is being protested.
It just wouldn’t make sense to protest spending that just might save your job and not even realize it.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pmGEORGE BUSH REFUSED TO INCLUDE THE IRAQ WAR, THE AFGHAN WAR, AND THE TAX CUTS FOR THE UBER WEALTHY IN ALL HIS BUDGETS AFTER 9/11. Why? Because he knew they equaled TRILLIONS and did not want Americans to know how much is policies were costing us. HE COOKED THE BOOKS BY LEAVING THEM OFF.
President Obama added them to the 2010 budget. This half the reason why the 2010 budget is so expensive.
Thanks George! Spit.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Obama is 4 more years of G.W.B
April 14th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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does that…
bother you?
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:25 pmMcCain/Palin/Bush supporters = STUPID
April 14th, 2009 at 9:25 pmRock’s just angry that his 401 k is now empty, and he’s got no one to blame but the leader of his junkyard party.
Sad, but true.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pmYou’re losing your arguments here so you bring up the right wing mantra, “Oh yeah, well, Barack is a Muslim!!!! Nanny goats nanny goats!!!!”?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Get your facts straight troll! We wouldn’t be in this mess if if it wasn’t for Bush. Obama has done more in 100 days than Bush ever did in 8 years – THERE’S NO COMPETITION!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pmYou can hate if you want – that’s your first amendment right but at least come with facts! All you have his hate.
Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Obama is the biggest threat to homeland sercurity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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needs more
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
http://www.exposebarackobama.com/image/muslim.jpg
April 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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ah yes.
changing minds,
winning votes.
goodbye republican party.
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pmJust so we’re clear, George Bush is a Muslim:
http://www.ajmalbeig.addr.com/pictures/fun_muslim_bush.jpg
April 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pmGeorge Bush doubled the debt to $12 TRILLION IN TOTAL. Way to go George!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:28 pmGeorge Bush did not catch Osama bin Laden, so therefore, WE GET TO BLAME THE NEXT ATTACK ON HIM! Thanks George!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:28 pmThe biggest beneficiary of bush’s tax cuts, Exxon, cut 26,000+ jobs.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:28 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
fire _ant_chavis Says:
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Get your facts straight troll! We wouldn’t be in this mess if if it wasn’t for Bush. Obama has done more in 100 days than Bush ever did in 8 years – THERE’S NO COMPETITION!
You can hate if you want – that’s your first amendment right but at least come with facts! All you have his hate.
YEAH HE HAS DONE MORE IN 100 DAYS THEN BuSH HAS, ABOUT 1 TRILLION MORE LOL LOL LOL
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uh oh,
cap locks!
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:29 pmDick Cheney said the next attack will be a nuclear attack on our soil. Dick is planning another attack! Thanks George! Spit.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:30 pmAwwwwww, that’s sweet. You love your Muslim President. That’s nice.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:30 pmGeorge Bush is porking Sasquatch: KAREN HUGHES.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:30 pmSigh… another sock-puppet waiting to disappear in the dryer.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:30 pm100.Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Another no-source, make sh¡t up, factless, debate-less republican wussy who’s too afraid to go toe-to-toe with anyone here on substantive issues, providing links and sources.
So what else is new? It’s their SOP.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:31 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Obama is 2 busy porkin his fat ugly wife to fix our economy.
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so you believe the more oxycontin
you take, the smarter you become,
eh?
how would you like your very own radio show?
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 9:32 pmI wonder what makes rabbits like ‘Obama_mania_RockStar’ do deathly afraid of liberals?
Why does he run away sooo fast?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:32 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Obama is 4 more years of G.W.B
You know, check back in in 2012 and we’ll see. Simple test: shut your crazy yap for three years, and if things are better, then I’m right. If they’re worse, then you’re right. But right now, you’re just being a crazy person.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:33 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Michelle Obama is built like a Linebacker. Big black and ugly.
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the tea baggers really do
attract racists, don’t they?
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April 14th, 2009 at 9:33 pm‘Obama_mania_RockStar’ is afraid of liberals. That’s why the no-fact, drive-by emptiness.
Tomorrow he’ll wake up with nothing to show for all that typing. No discourse, no facts, no changed minds. What a useful investment of his time…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pmWe’d like to say we are one of the main driving forces, but we are not THE driving force behind the protests. We’re mainly helping activists get in touch with each other.
Reminds me of Groundhog Day and a choice line in the movie…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pmBut I’m sad that we’ll never hear about all the “blind”, “reckless”, “unchecked” spending we’re supposed to protest. The dang trolls always go all “trolly” before they can give up any answers.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pmKeep them off-topic, inappropriate comments coming, folks!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Now you just confirmed all over again that all you have is hate and cheap shots! Keep it up – The GOP is done!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pmWhat wrong w/ you guys?
JUST FLAG THE CREEP!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pm117.Obama_mania_RockStar Says: Debating With Liberals is like arguing Religion,
Yet, here you are running away. That doesn’t take courage or intelligence, it takes a yellow streak all the way down your back. Because you’re afraid.
Boo!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
RAHAHAH – you probably belong to one of those snake handling churches! Crazy fool!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:36 pmHey Obama_mania_RockStar:
You know Laura Bush would shack up at the Mayflower when George was busy getting it on with Jeff Gannon.
G.W.B., tea bagging since 2003.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:36 pmBy the way, here’s the correct link regarding the real Iraq war costs, as opposed to the “official bookkeeping” number.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html
April 14th, 2009 at 9:36 pmObama_mania_RockStar Says:
Debating With Liberals is like arguing Religion, it just doesnt get anywhere.
Because you’re horrible at this. But rather amusing, from an anthropological standpoint.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:37 pm120. Obama_mania_RockStar Says: Jesus is going to…heehaw…heehaw…
See? Too afraid to take a position and defend it with anything factual.
Because you’re scared. Scared of liberals.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:37 pmC’mon tough guy, take a stand on something. Back it up. Hell, you’re not going to let a few liberals beat your @ss, are you?
Or will you just keep running away?
Boo!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:37 pm“Fact” is like holy water to conservatives. They’re scared…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:39 pmReducing a person’s tax credit as his income goes up also reduces his incentive to earn more income.
Say two wingnut-welfare bonus babies.
Evidence? Not so much.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:40 pmThe conservative plan is 300 BILLION more costly.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
When Rocky starts spamming, it’s time to flag him.
Please. My computer won’t work properly, or I’d do it.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:42 pmThis troll has been FLAGGED!
Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Michelle Obama is built like a Linebacker. Big black and ugly
April 14th, 2009 at 9:43 pmIt’s too bad, OBR. You had an argument, but then you went and posted it 5+ times. As Neil Cavuto would know regarding the Million-Man March, repeating something five times doesn’t make it truer.
DELETED.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:45 pma resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Has almost as much credibility after Iraq, as your garden variety inhalant abuser.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:46 pmhas someone gone off their lithium pills… Obama_mania_RockStar i’m looking in your direction.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:46 pmOh yeah, I’m flagging all the inappropriate posts. At least, as many as I can keep up with.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
pete…
You’re getting warmer. But copy/pasting articles from McCain’s campaign website isn’t the same thing as making a point. What you should have done is explain the point more briefly in your own words, and provide a link to the article. I ain’t reading some crap you copy/pasted just because you can’t actually think of what to say for yourself. Some research would help too, as that article doesn’t seem to cite any other sources for its own claims.
By the way, McCain lost.
Furthermore, now I can just post this in response. Obama pretty much automatically wins any argument regarding what he is or is not proposing for a tax structure. It’s like arguing with someone else about whether they like ice cream or not. You’d think you’d at least have gone and look up his actual proposal, instead of what his campaign opponent said his proposal was.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
ElBruce,
A. Washington Post is a liberal Paper
I know a lot of liberals who call it conservative. A LOT.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
B. 3 trillion is a projected “outcome” which means when the war is over. That is PURE speculation, seeing how the war is not over :)
Funny, the budget is also forward-looking speculation.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:48 pmhey insane obama guy,
The main flaw in the article you present from your whack jobs over at aei is most of us don’t make enough to care about the tax drawbacks of “earning additional income.”
I think I would be more concerned if I were a tax dodging corporate disloyalist. that 3% hike is 300 mil to someone.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:48 pmThis is a crock of pasture cookies. In NH we have 20 grassroots groups who planned a tea party. The media is going to cover it but they did not do anything to organize it. Groups like Freedom Works would like to take credit but in fact, have nothing to do with these protests despite the fact they have been telling people to join events all over the country. So what?
The NH Democrats are 100% funded by groups outside of NH, and even from outside the country… talk about not being grassroots! And the idiots in congress have never seen a tea bag before and are going crazy over the ones being mailed to them in protest. It’s really funny to watch Carol Shea-Porter who has an IQ of about 10…
If you get between a Democrat and other people’s money you will likely be killed for it. They will do anything to steal from those who worked to give it to those who don’t work or worse yet, as the worst president in history to his foreign banker friends who put him in office. Why do Democrats support people who are detrimental to their success? Not too bright.
Alejandro: The answer to your question is because Democrats are not too bright? Obama has fully tanked the economy and our debt will be in the QUADRILLIONS. Plus he has escalated the war effort and stepped up secret wiretapping worse than anything Bush ever did.
And you are right, there are NOT all Republicans at our party — and most do not support Obama’s WAR.
I find it very hypocritical that Obama is worse than Bush but you don’t hear peep. He congratulated the soldiers for winning the war in Iraq and liberating the people, but I guess the MSM did not hear about it? Amazing.
Face it all you duped zombie hypocrites — Obama is the new boss, WORSE THAN THE OLD BOSS, and he snowed you with his teleprompter skills. Reason he has the teleprompter is so he can do everything George Soros and Henry Kissinger (two Nazis) tell him to do and say. He can’t be without it. The markets were crashed on purpose to get the desired effect — our 401ks looted so the cabal of foreign bankers could be paid off, thanks to their puppet Obama. It’s worse than Chavez’s Venezuela!
He handed our sovereignty back to the Queen at the G20, and we are now in need of a new 1776. AND WE WILL PREVAIL to regain our freedom again, we promise you that.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:49 pmApril 14th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Fact:
Obama Reads from Teleprompter while Porking Fat wife
Really? I didn’t see it on camera. He must be hung like Mr. Ed, to be able to do that! Now I see: you’re jealous of his virile manhood.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:50 pmC’mon troll, Obama_mania_RockStar. That the best you got?
That’s it?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:52 pm@151 NH
“We’d like to say we are one of the main driving forces, but we are not THE driving force behind the protests. We’re mainly helping activists get in touch with each other.”
April 14th, 2009 at 9:53 pmAnd the idiots in congress have never seen a tea bag before and are going crazy over the ones being mailed to them in protest. It’s really funny to watch Carol Shea-Porter who has an IQ of about 10…
Like no one would think of mixing in something, besides tea?
Your IQ ain’t much better, buddy.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:53 pmNH
I’m betting we’ve got a Freedomworks mole on our hands.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:56 pmI say Obama should order the FBI to arrest the Tea Party people for Sedition against the Federal Government. Theses people are terrorists and are preaching violence. We must do something!
April 14th, 2009 at 9:56 pmI apologize for the fellow from NH. He certainly does not reflect every Republican opinion from the Granite State.
But don’t let me stop you from ripping his arguments to shreds.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:57 pmWhat is it with trolls on Tuesday?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:58 pm158.Beetlejuice Says: Theses people are terrorists and are preaching violence. We must do something!
I’m thinking catapult and dirty diapers…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:58 pmHe handed our sovereignty back to the Queen at the G20,
Oops, my mistake. This is a loony, not a mole.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:59 pmAll these tea parties will doubtless have white table cloths…
..with two holes in each one.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:01 pmReason he has the teleprompter is so he can do everything George Soros and Henry Kissinger (two Nazis) tell him to do and say.
Um, I think Kissinger was in a concentration camp as a child, but don’t let that get in the way…
April 14th, 2009 at 10:01 pmThat’s all that troll has – taking shots at our First (CLASSY) Lady Michelle Obama. Respect to all my fellow insects who give the trolls the smack down! LOL
April 14th, 2009 at 10:03 pmBeetlejuice
Trajan, trajan, trajan … (shaking head)
This one’s favorite tactic out of the trolling manual: Be the man in order to beat the man.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:03 pmThe republican party is in ’steep’ decline…
*rimshot*
April 14th, 2009 at 10:04 pmNH Says:
This is a crock of pasture cookies. In NH we have 20 grassroots groups who planned a tea party. The media is going to cover it but they did not do anything to organize it. Groups like Freedom Works would like to take credit but in fact, have nothing to do with these protests despite the fact they have been telling people to join events all over the country. So what?
Publicizing the potential of upcoming events amounts to creating events. FAUX News has been doing this. Telling people to join the events, as well as providing communication tools to organize and promote them amounts to organizing events. Freedom Works has been doing this.
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NH Says:
The NH Democrats are 100% funded by groups outside of NH, and even from outside the country…
100%? Nobody in NH has ever contributed to a NH Democratic candidate? Are you really going to stand by that?
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NH Says:
And the idiots in congress have never seen a tea bag before and are going crazy over the ones being mailed to them in protest.
Yeah, it’s not like an envelope with a powdery lump in the middle being mailed to politicians would raise anybody’s red flags. I thought y’all were supposed to be thinking like it’s 9/12! Sheesh.
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NH Says:
Why do Democrats support people who are detrimental to their success?
From where I sit, every Republican who makes less than $1M/year is doing exactly that.
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NH Says:
Plus he has escalated the war effort and stepped up secret wiretapping worse than anything Bush ever did.
News citation please? No idea what you’re referring to whatsoever. Sounds like something a crazy person made up the other day.
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NH Says:
– and most do not support Obama’s WAR.
What war would that be, pray tell?
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NH Says:
The markets were crashed on purpose to get the desired effect — our 401ks looted so the cabal of foreign bankers could be paid off, thanks to their puppet Obama.
The markets crashed in early September, 2008. Obama was not even the President-Elect at that point.
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NH Says:
He handed our sovereignty back to the Queen at the G20…
Awesome. This one I gotta hear more about!
April 14th, 2009 at 10:04 pmWhat does 1776 have to do with anything? The Boston Tea Party was in 1773. I’ve seen signs saying “party like it’s 1789″ which I can only assume is a reference to the French Revolution. 1776 was the Signing of The Declaration of Independence.
What are we supposed to protest, again?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:04 pm@151 NH
NH, don’t forget to congratulate Glenn Beck and Armey on a sucsessful grassroots teabagging tommorow.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:05 pmSad that you folks don’t read and don’t even know what happened at the G20. But you too will find out soon when your dollar is worth that of Zimbabwe’s. I am not sure how spending on bigger government is going to ’stimulate’ anything but a payback for all the supporters who put this guy in office — Soros, Kissinger, Warburgs, Goldman Sachs, to name a few. The foreign bankers are having a ball manipulating us with no accountability with their willing puppet doing their bidding.
I am one of the organizers of the NH tea party and if Freedomworks is going to contact me, I think it’s a little too late isn’t it? Since it’s tomorrow I doubt they would contact me at this late date. In any case their name is not on the handout.
This is a list of sponsors that have added their names to our event. Believe me, no one had to pay anyone to do this… we are concerned enough as it is. The more your people find out what is being done to them, the more we have coming into our camp…
Americans for Limited Government
April 14th, 2009 at 10:06 pmAmericans for Prosperity NH
Coalition of NH Taxpayers
Cornerstone Policy Research
Glenn Beck 912 Project
Granite Grok
Granite State Patriots
Granite State Taxpayers
Manchester GOP
Murphy’s Tap Room
The National Taxpayers Union
NH Advantage Coalition
NH Citizens for Leadership
NH Federation of Republican Women
NH Liberty Alliance
NH Liberty Calendar
NH Reagan Network
NSP Graphic Communications
Portsmouth Tea Company
WGIR AM 610 (a local radio station)
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England?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:06 pmhanshiro the antlion Says:
All these tea parties will doubtless have white table cloths…
I’m also seeing a variation of the Mad Hatter/Red Queen themes.
“He’s trying to avert massive financial catastrophe? Off with his head!”
April 14th, 2009 at 10:06 pm171.NH Says: Sad that you folks don’t read and don’t even know what happened at the G20. But you too will find out soon when your dollar is worth that of Zimbabwe’s
Only if you promise to tongue-fcuk a goat when all your predictions turn out false.
Promise?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:08 pmEngland is as good a guess as any, Ape-Man. At the rate things are going they soon won’t have enough hours in the day to be afraid of communists.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pmOMR says
Typical Liberal response, Ignore the question, bring up old presidents.
Typical Republican response, Ignore the question, bring up old presidents.
There I fixed your error.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pmbarfly Says:
Liberals remind me of 1984.</e
Conservatives, of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
Liberals remind me of commonsense of the 21 century (eeerrrr well, errr when we get rid of the trite dems)
repugs/neocons/cons remind me of shitbags.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pm@ 171
When you say “your people” you are reffering to the majority that elected the government and appooves of the way things are being handled.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:10 pmI am one of the organizers of the NH tea party and if Freedomworks is going to contact me, I think it’s a little too late isn’t it?
Post your real name, or it’s all baloney.
Murphy’s Tap Room?
In what town, so we can call them, and check on you?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:10 pmWell dang, where do I sign up? That’s a great list… some really cool names, too. What’s Liberty Calendar, and are they just a little ticked off at Liberty Alliance for stepping on some toes?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:11 pmNH – YOU’VE BEEN PIMPED!
April 14th, 2009 at 10:12 pmI think O_m_R is drinking. His asinine posts have become increasingly nonsensical as the night goes on.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:14 pmPortsmouth Tea Company
Yeah, I’ll just bet they aren’t looking for any free advertising by running a banner with their logo on it, before the cameras.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:15 pmpete Says:
What does 1776 have to do with anything? The Boston Tea Party was in 1773. I’ve seen signs saying “party like it’s 1789? which I can only assume is a reference to the French Revolution. 1776 was the Signing of The Declaration of Independence.
What are we supposed to protest, again?
Funny thing, the original “Boston Tea Party” was staged vandalism, with the perpetrators disguised as Native Americans so they wouldn’t be held accountable under their own identities. Which at least disqualifies it as a “protest” in the modern sense of the word. Furthermore, technically they were acting against a reduction in taxes on tea provided by the British East India Company, since it amounted to “dumping” tea on the market to undercut the competing Dutch product. That is, the central issue was not whether taxes were lower or higher, but it was used to make the case that the Colonies should have a representative say in what the tax policy would be and why. Which we do today. Losing an election is not the same thing as lacking representation.
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NH Says:
Sad that you folks don’t read and don’t even know what happened at the G20.
You said Obama gave our sovereignty to the Queen. I can’t find any mention of that anywhere in the Googles. But I’d love to read all about it, if you can provide a link.
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NH Says:
I am not sure how spending on bigger government is going to ’stimulate’ anything but a payback for all the supporters who put this guy in office…
That’s because you don’t know anything about economics, because you are a wingnut. It’s actually not very complicated. I’m not sure exactly how nuclear fusion works, but I don’t disbelieve the sun.
But if you don’t even know enough about Keynesian economics to argue intelligently against it, then you’ve got no business having an opinion on economics anyway.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:16 pmAmericans for Prosperity NH
I love the smell of cooked astroturf.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:16 pmOT
April 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pmWatching “Rescue Me” and at the quarter past hour, a firefighter gave a 4 point synopsis of PNAC and the neo con goals and how it related to 9/11.
Don’t often see such commentary on regular TV — if you can catch a re-run on cable, that two minute rant is worth the time.
Once again i’d like to congratulate Glenn Beck on the focus he has shown while organizing the FOX tea parties.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:18 pmWe should try to organize a counter protest against these seditionists. They are causing disorder and I am troubled by them.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:19 pmAlpuz the G20 wants to adopt a reserve standard based on a basket of currencies and gold to stabilize inflation not to create it.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:19 pmYeah, ‘grassroots’ my @ss…
April 14th, 2009 at 10:19 pmJust part of the sock-puppet life-cycle, Marie.
It always ends with insane blabbering. Now, no doubt, the poor creature is aiming a weapon at the nearest mirror or web cam while laughing maniacally.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:21 pmWell, our big fat local CBS affiliate last night gave the local “Tea Party” gatherings a big boost by putting up on the screen the locations and times of the gatherings. Now, I don’t mind them covering this as a “news” event, but to help them in their efforts…that’s going a bit far.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:21 pmThis begs the question: Why?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:21 pmApe-Man; I have not been in contact with either Beck or Armey…and you might want to check the group World Can’t Wait (another ‘progressive’ site) to see what they have to say about Obama’s escalation of spending and troops as well as the wiretapping. Don’t tell me you don’t listen to Olbermann? Even he was ranting about it.
You suckers have been duped. For you ElBruce you should get hold of a dictionary and look up the word sovereignty. But if you are related to Susan Bruce then I don’t have much hope you will figure out what the word means. She is the resident Democrat ’slow’ person.
Beetlejuice, Obama should arrest himself for sedition for associating with his friend William Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn since they actually DID blow up people. It’s really funny when you left wingers protest it’s always justified but now that fiscal conservatives are doing it, it’s sedition! OMG, I’m scared. /sarcasm off
And if you don’t know that thousands of soldiers have been deployed to fight in Afghanistan you people are more of the ‘banjo’ crowd than I thought.
The markets were crashed when Soros withdrew money on Sept 15th in order to blame the then current administration, and give a push to the candidate he purchased. Even the PM of Malaysia complained that he was manipulating the markets in many countries. He was after all CONVICTED of doing this.
As for his NAZI ACTIVITIES, he admits that if he hadn’t done it, someone else would have.
“The principal financier of the Democrats, the man whose early support catapulted Obama into the lead for the nomination, the man who made billions from the stock market crash that changed everything in the fall campaign (McCain was in the lead when the crisis hit), has been given a record fine by Hungarian financial authorities. AFP reports:
Hungary’s financial supervisory watchdog announced Friday it had slapped a 1.6-million-euro fine on an investment fund founded by US billionaire George Soros, for manipulating the market.
The PSzAF “is imposing a 489-million-forint fine on Soros Fund Management LLC… for violating the rules regarding the illegal manipulation of financial markets,” the supervisory authority said in a statement on its Internet site.
This is not the first time Soros has been fined for illegal market manipulation. That he is the most significant financial backer of the American left should serve as a clarion call to Americans. Do not trust this man.”
Feigning ignorance about the war, the $$ to foreign banks at the G20, and the wiretaps is not going to work.
And our tea party is non-partisan.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:22 pmNH Says:
Sad that you folks don’t read and don’t even know what happened at the G20. But you too will find out soon when your dollar is worth that of Zimbabwe’s. I am not sure how spending on bigger government is going to ’stimulate’ anything but a payback for all the supporters who put this guy in office — Soros, Kissinger, Warburgs, Goldman Sachs, to name a few. The foreign bankers are having a ball manipulating us with no accountability with their willing puppet doing their bidding.
I am one of the organizers of the NH tea party and if Freedomworks is going to contact me, I think it’s a little too late isn’t it? Since it’s tomorrow I doubt they would contact me at this late date. In any case their name is not on the handout.
This is a list of sponsors that have added their names to our event. Believe me, no one had to pay anyone to do this… we are concerned enough as it is. The more your people find out what is being done to them, the more we have coming into our camp…
Americans for Limited Government
Americans for Prosperity NH
Coalition of NH Taxpayers
Cornerstone Policy Research
Glenn Beck 912 Project
Granite Grok
Granite State Patriots
Granite State Taxpayers
Manchester GOP
Murphy’s Tap Room
The National Taxpayers Union
NH Advantage Coalition
NH Citizens for Leadership
NH Federation of Republican Women
NH Liberty Alliance
NH Liberty Calendar
NH Reagan Network
NSP Graphic Communications
Portsmouth Tea Company
WGIR AM 610 (a local radio station)
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don’t forget this guy, he’s on your side too.
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Obama_mania_RockStar Says:
Michelle Obama is built like a Linebacker. Big black and ugly.
:|
April 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pmNH Says:
I am not sure how spending on bigger government is going to ’stimulate’ anything but a payback for all the supporters who put this guy in office — Soros, Kissinger, Warburgs, Goldman Sachs, to name a few. The foreign bankers are having a ball manipulating us with no accountability with their willing puppet doing their bidding.
_________
Of course, you have some valid proof of these comments?
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I am one of the organizers of the NH tea party and if Freedomworks is going to contact me, I think it’s a little too late isn’t it? Since it’s tomorrow I doubt they would contact me at this late date. In any case their name is not on the handout.
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Perhaps the didn’t think you ranked.
They’ve been setting this up for MONTHS…
ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson, was live within twelve hours.
Huh… ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008…
Gee… a website named “ChicagoTeaParty.Com”, organized SIX MONTHS EARLIER.
ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.
http://www.wikio.com/news/Zack+Christenson
Geez, your little story appears to be about as genuine as the whole teabagging thing. Nice try though.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pmThe National Taxpayers Union has a nice ring to it. Where can I get a little more information about these guys. I think it would look sweet on a jacket. What’s a Grok?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:24 pmAddendum to my last post…those times/locations of the tea parties were included at the end of a news report during last night’s 11 o’clock newscast.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:25 pm193. NH Says:
And yet, where are the sources/links for your scattershot claims?
*crickets chirping*
April 14th, 2009 at 10:26 pmBeetlejuice Says:
We should try to organize a counter protest against these seditionists. They are causing disorder and I am troubled by them.
Wear plaid sheets instead, to symbolize multi-culturalism, and to make their stained whites look drab by comparison.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:26 pmFunny that the same folks who helped elect big government big spending Bush are lecturing others about being duped….
April 14th, 2009 at 10:27 pmNH – if this is about warrantless wiretapping i appologise. My mistake. I hope your placard gets on TV!
April 14th, 2009 at 10:27 pmCareful, they’ll f$%ing do it too! I’d hate to play any of the regulars at poker. They seem to like to call bs.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:27 pm199.barfly Says:
Beetlejuice Says:
We should try to organize a counter protest against these seditionists. They are causing disorder and I am troubled by them.
Wear plaid sheets instead, to symbolize multi-culturalism, and to make their stained whites look drab by comparison.
I’ll just drink coffee at Starbucks and have a rainbow cookie…
April 14th, 2009 at 10:28 pmnh,
you left off the john birch society.
they’re with you too.
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pmWHERE WERE YOU TWELVE YEARS AGO?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pmI guess NH realized calling Kissinger a nazi was a little to absurd, since he’s dropped it from his response.
Still waiting for you to give us the town where “Murphy’s Tap Room” is located.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pmSo where were the tea-baggers the last 12 years when government was growing and deficits hit record levels while the republicans sat by, voted for and supported Bush, elected to shrink deficits and government went just the opposite direction??
April 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pm**
god this is easy.
no wonder they lost last november!
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pmXisithrus Says:
Alpuz the G20 wants to adopt a reserve standard based on a basket of currencies and gold to stabilize inflation not to create it.
Oh yeah, the supercurrency. That sounds like exactly the kind of idea that keeps getting proposed but is never going to happen.
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hanshiro the antlion Says:
Yeah, ‘grassroots’ my @ss…
George Soros! George Soros!
/wingnut
April 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pmXisithrus Says:
So where were the tea-baggers the last 12 years when government was growing and deficits hit record levels while the republicans sat by, voted for and supported Bush, elected to shrink deficits and government went just the opposite direction??
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attacking us.
supporting bush.
:)
April 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pmIt was only a matter of time before a wingnut would barge in and link President Obama to Mugabe inflation. One black guy and another black guy, what’s 2+2?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:31 pmNH Says:I am not sure how spending on bigger government is going to ’stimulate’ anything
Google ‘Bush spending’, I dare you.
I did. Heres the first link:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51342
April 14th, 2009 at 10:33 pmBush spending up to 5 times more than Clinton
Reagan Revolution architect calls it ‘era of obese government’
It has been interesting scrolling through the posts on this topic, and trying to read some of the rant b the latest troll “rockstar”. His frothing and fury made me think that this is one unstable dude – who is about ready to explode. Is it just me, because I can’t help thinking we are on the verge of some real violence from these right-wing crazies? I saw this link on the Huffington Post
and it just helped increase my paranoia. Like Rachel says “I need someone to talk me down”.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:33 pmsorry – my link didn’t do what I wanted – came up in the wrong place – but it did at least point to the right article
April 14th, 2009 at 10:33 pmI’m going out on limb here, but I think NSP Graphic Communications has a super cool patch. I think it would look great on my National Taxpayers Union jacket.
NH, will they be selling this stuff on fox?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:35 pmAmericans for Bagged Prosperity
Sounds comfy, doesn’t it?
Real meaning: Americans for Bank Robbery
If it’s bullshit, slap a title on it and sell it to the masses.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:35 pmNH – if this is about warrantless wiretapping, and the excesses of the Bush administration, your message is not getting across.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:36 pmThese people dont use logic, they repeat talking points.
The fact is that inflation in Zimbabwe started well before 2006, actually around 2002.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 25 — How bad is inflation in Zimbabwe? Well, consider this: at a supermarket near the center of this tatterdemalion capital, toilet paper costs $417.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:37 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/world/africa/02zimbabwe.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
An army of dicks. How fitting to represent the Publican party.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:38 pmalpuz3 Says:
I’m going out on limb here, but I think NSP Graphic Communications has a super cool patch. I think it would look great on my National Taxpayers Union jacket.
NH, will they be selling this stuff on fox?
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April 14th, 2009 at 10:39 pmOh my, I’m having another episode …
I’m trembling in fear …
I’m about to EXPLODE …
So-So-So-So-So-So-So — SOROS!!!!!!!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 10:43 pmSo let me get this straight I pay taxes for police,fire,water,
April 14th, 2009 at 10:48 pmroads,teachers,university`s,parks and other commons,get the fcuk what so do all of you on the Right, what the hell are you complaining about?Herr dubya left Obama a huge deficit and watched as Rome(America)burned and you don`t want to help.To bad get over it you lost we won we are in charege because you guys on the right don`t play well with others.
get the fcuk,it should guess the fcuk what so do you,sorry way to much going here in the house.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:50 pmErica Hill just totally botched the recounting of the tea party as “a protest when tea taxes went up”. granted she is just reading cards but who is writing the cards, CNN?
April 14th, 2009 at 10:50 pmNH Says:
You are a sheep and a moron who never had an original thought in your entire life BAAAAA Ayers BAAAAAAA soveriegnity. BAAAAAA. You dont even know what these words mean. Obama should be arrested for serving on a comittee with someone who has not been convicted of anything??? You are a joke and a bone ignorant fool. IF stupidity was criminal they would arrest YOU and you would be doing life.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:00 pmApe-Man Says:
Erica Hill just totally botched the recounting of the tea party as “a protest when tea taxes went up”. granted she is just reading cards but who is writing the cards, CNN?
God only knows. Actually, it was a protest against taxes on specific teas going down. Which is not that relevant, but really funny, as people who make lots of money to know what they’re talking about keep saying the opposite.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:02 pmHey guys I just got back in and after a few of Rock’s posts (the M.O. derrogatory ones – I flagged the hell out of him), does that work or not, because I still see his feces flung all over the place?
April 14th, 2009 at 11:03 pmAlthough Obama is offering a new series of tax breaks, they undermine rather than improve economic incentives.The solid line in the nearby chart illustrates the effective marginal tax rate under Obama’s tax proposals (based on the authoritative “Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans,” published by the Brookings Institution/Urban Institute’s Tax Policy Center).
So, if I understand this correctly, the person who posted this is arguing against the president’s just-proposed tax plans based on an analysis of what the president put forth as a candidate. I would not call that a valid argument.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:05 pm***
watch as a forty-seven year old british woman
drive a stake into the heart of cynicism.
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that’s the kind of courage
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April 14th, 2009 at 11:08 pmThe really weird part about all this is that the very corporate interests that have garnered control of government dont know what to do with the giant corporation they have created.
They call Obama a socialist yet he is doing what a giant, interlocked directorship, corporation would.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:13 pmbarfly Says:
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I guess NH realized calling Kissinger a nazi was a little to absurd, since he’s dropped it from his response.
Still waiting for you to give us the town where “Murphy’s Tap Room” is located.
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Barfly,
That would be the “Larry Craig Tap Room” and I believe it’s in the Minneapolis airport. Look for the stall with the sticky floor.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:13 pmAnd even stranger, the Tea-baggers are backing the same coporate interests that helped to create this mess.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:14 pmHas anyone quoted David Shuster yet?
“If you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all around the country, you’re going to need a Dick Armey.”
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. :-D
April 14th, 2009 at 11:24 pmI will watch in amazement as the consertives pull out all the stops. It is a free country and they are entitled to their little tea parties. Ashame they look like a bunch of idiots. I will be really amused if they bring out their best and brightest, so far they have sounded pretty dumb to me!
April 14th, 2009 at 11:26 pmThis man Armey is like most former legislators. He cannot wait to get out and become a lobbyist. This is the wet dream of all of them. And they don’t care about doing good for the majority. Just themselves and friends. Lobbyists swarm around Washington like snakes or sharks circling the carcass they left behind.
This so called grass movement is no such thing. When you read about who sponsors these rallies, they are all right wing. And they get these morons who show up for what they think are valid reasons. Most of them can barely read and vote against their own interest, because they are too stupid to know what they are. We are the United Corporation of America.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:37 pmI agree, flight.
The teabaggers have every right to get out there and protest….whatever it is they’re protesting.
And we have every right to point and laugh. ;)
April 14th, 2009 at 11:44 pmIf you ask a dozen different people attending the “tea parties” why they plan to attend, you will get a dozen different reasons and none will have any merit based on reality.
Obama has not raised taxes, he has cut them for the vast majority of Americans.
The Bush Administration created the national deficit problem, and now we MUST invest federal dollars to re-right the ship.
And it was the LACK of government regulation that caused the banking system to crash.
Complaining about “socialism”? Does that mean you plan to refuse Medicare when you become eligible? Will you encourage your elderly loved ones to do likewise? Cause there isn’t anything more “socialistic” at the federal level than taxpayer-subsidized health care for senior citizens.
Or are you one of those extreme right-wing fringe whack-jobs that still think Obama is a Muslim…or a foreigner….or an alien?
Quick, run to Rush. He’ll give you a new batch of scripted talking points.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:13 amThanks for the link joe cantwell. That lady is amazing.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:14 amDoodlebug Shayne Says:
Thanks for the link joe cantwell. That lady is amazing.
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April 15th, 2009 at 12:18 amSo tomorrow we won’t have to deal with any troll right they’ll all be teabagging.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:21 amGrass Roots, Inc.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:22 amlabman57 Says:
Obama has not raised taxes, he has cut them for the vast majority of Americans.
Actually, he hasn’t done a damn thing to the tax code, yet. I mean, he intends to cut them for most of us, but it’s important to note the degree to which the teabaggers have no idea regarding whatever the hell they’re talking about.
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Doodlebug Shayne Says:
So tomorrow we won’t have to deal with any troll right they’ll all be teabagging.
Do not misunderestimate them.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:31 amAwwww, slippy.
I think you’ll have to check out your local teabaggery to find out.
Do you need help with the Google?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:39 amAnyone else see Dick Armey on Insanity tonight? Definitely so in the bag he could hardly talk.
That’s your leader and financier, Fleabaggers!
Breaking News: Which will last longer, The Fleabagger Brigadoons or Dick’s liver?
Too, too funny.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:48 ambarfly Says:
Liberals remind me of 1984.</e
Conservatives, of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
Liberals remind me of commonsense of the 21 century (eeerrrr well, errr when we get rid of the trite dems)
repugs/neocons/cons remind me of shitbags.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:13 amslippery Says: How long before the next hit piece?
Im gonna fill you in slippy. Make a wild guess, and if you hit the target it will appear to deny its existence.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:17 amwoodguy Says:
Anyone else see Dick Armey on Insanity tonight? Definitely so in the bag he could hardly talk.
That’s your leader and financier, Fleabaggers!
Breaking News: Which will last longer, The Fleabagger Brigadoons or Dick’s liver?
Too, too funny.
HAHAHAHAHA
Wasn’t he blamed for outing Plame?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:24 amteabaggers if you are fronting a sign with anything about lowering taxes, you’re a complete idiot.
HAHAHAHA
April 15th, 2009 at 1:31 amslippery Says:
How long before the next hit piece?
If you’re asking about the TP post schedule, it usually runs from morning ’till noonish, then slows down unless something really interesting comes up by midafternoon. From what I can tell, most of the TP staff is usually on the links by 3pm, sipping margaritas with their socialist bailout money and laughing at the poor “hard working Americans” who are footing the bill for it all.
See ya tomorrow!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:35 amwatch capitalism self destruct.
and the atheists say spiritual laws dont exist.
they are too busy taking on religion.
these universal laws go right over their heads.
we atheists have a rational mind and all.
american political idealogy is failing fast.
capitalism demands it fails. we are witness to that failure.
and all we can do is blame and point fingers and miss the big picture.
few will understand my words very few.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:56 amZooey Lepidoptera Says:
Has anyone quoted David Shuster yet?
“If you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all around the country, you’re going to need a Dick Armey.”
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. :-D
Zooey, did you hear Shuster last night? He was throwing around the double entendre during the entire segment.
It starts with “it’s going to be teabagging day for the rightwing and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands whipped out… while the party is officially toothless… teabaggers are full-throated about their goals… want to give President Obama strong tongue lashing” and goes on and on.
If you haven’t seen the clip, here it is:
http://videogum.com/archives/twss-archives/the-twss-archives-msnbcs-teaba_064262.html
HILARIOUS, David! Makes me sorry they cancelled his show.
PEACE
April 15th, 2009 at 2:19 amNH Says:
I am one of the organizers of the NH tea bag party.
So how much money do they pay people like you to betray America?
April 15th, 2009 at 4:27 amRepublican Teabag Contest:
Which Republican has the….
hairiest teabag? – Ann Coulter
April 15th, 2009 at 5:40 amsmelliest teabag? – Rush Limbaugh
meanist teabag? – Dick Cheney
smallest teabag? – Joe Lieberman (Yes, Lieberman really is a rotten Republican)
strangest teabag? Bill O’Reilly
ugliest teabag? – Michael Savage
Keep the tea, and throw their traitorous asses overboard.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:19 amresearcher,
Capitalism was raised as the hope for the underclass, when all it ever was, is the futile attempt to think you had a fighting chance at scrambling and foraging for the few crumbs the ultra-elite, Rothechilds of the world would happen to allow to fall to the ground.
Capitalism is Totalitarianism in its truest form. The hopeful endpoint of Capitalism is a monopoly on your market, ergo totalitarisnism.
Capitalism should NEVER have been allowed to thrive anywhere in the world.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:24 amI like drinking tea, so I think I’ll go out and try and find the 10 or 20 idiots who show up and get myself some free tea. I can just get a box with a sign that says “drop tea bags here” and I should be set for months. snark…
April 15th, 2009 at 7:49 amThe face of the Republican Party has become the washed up Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich with the mouthpieces being Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. Oh, and for laughs there is the imploding Sarah Palin. What a lineup. Who, in their right mind, can identify with that group of losers?
April 15th, 2009 at 8:02 amOf course, there are a few real right-wing grassroots movements. They are always small, destructive, and criminal, viz: militias, white separatists, white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, anti-abortion murder and terrorism, mass purchase of firearms, hate crimes against gays and Hispanics.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:17 amLifted from my local paper’s online blog:
Agenda for Tea Bagging Publican Party
April 15th, 2009 at 10:32 am7:00 “I Am a Fat Drug Addict” speech presented by Rush Limbaugh
7:15 Burning Gays, Blacks and Illegal Immigrants in effigy celebration
7:30 “I don’t believe in Social Security but where is my corporate tax break” seminar
7:45 “Make Hate work for You” speech by Michelle Bachmann
8:00 “My Daughter, My Virgin” by Sarah Palin
8:15 Book Burning
8:30 Cross Burning and light refreshments followed by silent prayer for the soul of our nation
Well, I see Fox is already blaming “poor weather” and “permit problems” for the low turn out so far ;)
April 15th, 2009 at 11:19 amThe tea parties would have more credibility if the participants were not so ignorant about the merits of their cause. It would be like people protesting “illegal aliens” by holding up signs that read “Martians go home!”.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:24 amKateWords Says:
Well, I see Fox is already blaming “poor weather” and “permit problems” for the low turn out so far ;)
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April 15th, 2009 at 4:54 pmOne of the persistent themes being voiced at the tea parties is the notion of “taxation without representation”, a concept borrowed from the original Boston Tea Party.
However, we just had an election during which every adult citizen had the opportunity to vote. So what these folks are really complaining about is that their candidate(s) LOST!
This does not invalidate the election, people. All it means is that you are SORE LOSERS. Suck it up and try again in 2010.
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