Sen. Cornyn called ‘traitor,’ Gov. Perry booed at July 4 Tea Party protest in Texas.
Sen. Cornyn called ‘traitor,’ Gov. Perry booed at July 4 Tea Party protest in Texas.
On Saturday, right-wing astroturf organizers held a number of sparsely-attended anti-tax protests in several locations across the country. At one such event outside the Texas Capitol, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was labeled a “traitor” and was “booed at the start and close of his remarks.” Later at the same event, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) “drew scattered boos, notably from crowd members aware of his advocacy of toll roads to relieve traffic congestion.” Watch Cornyn’s hecklers:
Last week, Cornyn expressed a bit of anxiety about how he would be received by the crowd, saying, “I don’t yet know exactly what it’s going to be like.” He asked a reporter, “What do you think? You think it’s going to be OK? I’m waiting to see. I didn’t want to come some place that I wasn’t wanted.”
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they ginned up this hatred and now they can’t control it and it’s turning against them. freaking morons
July 6th, 2009 at 11:46 amSen. Cornyn called ‘traitor,’ Gov. Perry booed at July 4 Tea Party protest in Texas.
– - That’s because the only people attending these “parties” now are the lunatic fringe wingnuts along with FBI undercover agents, and the Secret Service.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:47 amAnecdotal view of TX Tea Party Supporters
What do ALL of the following items have in common?:
*Pistol Bag carrying case
*Glenn Beck’s – An Inconvenient Book : Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe (Hardcover, 2007)
*Rifle laser light
*Civil War Bullets
*Rifle Kit
*NWT Qi Man White Full Coverage Training Bra Size
*Outdoor Survival Board Game
*Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Banknotes
*Silver Coins
*Cold Coins
*Jungle Boots
*Militar Field Wire Cable Phone Install Use Equipment
*Schnauzer Argyle Socks
*Tif 8800 Combustible Gas Detector
*NEW Transforming Werewolf Lumberjack Plush Toy Vault
*Rifle Site
*3” Cohesive Tape Bandage Vet Wrap Wound Care 24 Rolls
*Rifle Magazine Clips
*Oval Shooting Targets
*Fibercon – 140 Caplets, Fiber Therapy for “regularity” needs.
All are actual Fox Tea Bagger supporters’ purchases. Actual Ebay items purchased by the 33 Ebay users who also purchased
July 6th, 2009 at 11:47 amthe official T-Shirt for the July 4, 2009 San Antonio, Texas Tea Party protest.
Well, it is Texas and it is a teaparty rally. I’d boo Cornyn and Perry, too, but did these morons even know who they were or what they were booing?
The Party of NO gets what it deserves.
PEACE
July 6th, 2009 at 11:47 amHow dare Fox report any dissent at gatherings of the Klan?
July 6th, 2009 at 11:51 amIt’s not fair.
Cornyn expressed a bit of anxiety… “…I didn’t want to come some place that I wasn’t wanted.”
Oh, so THAT’S why the Republicans hand pick their audiences…
July 6th, 2009 at 11:53 amIndSteveAZ, I have to laugh at your list! Interspersed with all kinds of militia gear and End Times prep kit items are:
NWT Qi Man White Full Coverage Training Bra
Schnauzer Argyle Socks
Fibercon – 140 Caplets, Fiber Therapy for “regularity” needs
I know this represents several people, but I have a mental image of a guy in a training bra argyle socks weilding a machie gun and constipated as hell!
PEACE
July 6th, 2009 at 11:53 amCornyn expressed a bit of anxiety… “…I didn’t want to come some place that I wasn’t wanted.”
Great, when are you leaving the country?
July 6th, 2009 at 11:55 amThe protestors hear anything that sounds like “this might cost a little to the taxpayers” and the BOO’s rain down like golf-ball-sized hail. I’m surprised ANY public funding occurs in Texas with that attitude.
Are the homeless and infirmed, the broken roads and schools, simply ignored by those citizens, who say “Sorry, but I like my money too much to help you out!” They gotta save up for that new RV or Jetski or rifle, I suppose.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:55 amdoing so is called ‘liberal media bias’
July 6th, 2009 at 11:56 amSpencersmom, I suspect the reason they are so cranky is due to constipation.
Cheetos should never come out with the giant ones.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:00 pmWho’d have imagined that there would be a crown anywhere for whom Perry and Cornyn would not be sufficiently wing-nutty?
They’ve been stirring up the hornet’s nest, and now their getting stung. Yet, a DHS report ordered by Bush on the potential dangers of right-wing terrorism sent them into paroxisms.
The Republicans are irresponsible – pure and simple. They should not be trusted with power. Hopefully, the Bush years taught this basic lesson to a sufficient number of citizens.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:00 pmThat’s precisely it. Fox News uses the claim of being “fair and balanced”, but they didn’t elaborate on the term. Their original intent was to “balance” out a perceived left-wing preference by the media. Their tax-party coverage/promotion shifts away from anything close to fair.
As Stephen Colbert aptly put it: “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
July 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pmWhen are politicians going to be able to tell the difference between wack F**ks and normal people?????
If you can’t tell the difference, don’t get into politics!!!!
Why in the hell would any politician show up for racist pigs?????
July 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pmSpencers Mom, LOL…I can see the image now. There were actually some other good ones. Just for grins I did the review thinking it would be normal folks just like me…As soon a I started I was laughing and shaking my head as the list developed on its own.
One cut on the list: Purse made from recycled plastics. Well at least there is hope for a greener radical leaning far right wing!
Cheers!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:05 pmHee hee….heh…ha ha ha…*snort*…hee hee…ho ho ho, har de har har…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!111!!!!!
*clearing throat*
How amusing…
July 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pmThey booed Perry for the wrong reason — he’s a traitor not because he’s suggesting the use of toll roads, but because he supports the secession of Texas from the U.S.A.
Damned wingnuts don’t even know why they’re booing these days…
July 6th, 2009 at 12:11 pmThey booed Cornyn for voting for the bailouts. Wouldn’t you boo him for that too?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pmExactly. They told their low-information acolytes that government was the enemy, not realizing that as elected officials, THEY are the government.
It’s like a kid who gets a pit bull puppy and lets it get away with everything because he thinks it will scare the other kids but will never turn on him. And then one day it turns on him.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pmHa ha. How anyone can believe that Perry really supports Texas secession?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:14 pmTracist, I think you’re mistaken about that “alternate reality” thing.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pmPoetic Justice, no? These guys attract the worst of society, now it’s biting them on their ass. LOL!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pmbut because he supports the secession of Texas from the U.S.A.
With that crowd I’d say they were booing because he hasn’t done it yet.
Must be a hitch in the negotiations with Oklahoma.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pmIndSteveAZ, what cracks me up (in a sick way) is that these teabag types thing they’re the only folks packing guns in the country. But from AP in Chicago starting late Saturday night through Sunday there were 39 people shot. The headline is misleading because that only represents the first 6 hours and includes a few stabbings.
The difference is these non-teabaggers don’t need camo to shoot people.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:19 pmPeter C is correct. The Republicans have lost control over these tea bag protests and now they are getting stung. They knew that these rallies attract the fringe element but they proceeded to help organize the second tea bag event. I like to think of it as divine justice.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pmYeah. How in the world?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pmSpeaking of little yappy dogs, the Tracist troll seems to be buzzing around somewhere.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pmWay to follow an analogy, Tracist.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pmAnd I bring up the subject of gun violence because teabag types and secessionists think if they start a civil war normal people will just cower in fear and not fight back. Right Tracy?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pmAnti-taxers booing toll roads?
Yet another piece of evidence leading to the conclusion that the actual reason for these rallies is to build a mailing list of the STUPIDEST people in the United States.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pmIt’s like them pandering to the religious right to get their votes and scaring off normal thinking independents and ending up with Bible Thumping Barbie as your candidate.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pmThe Republicans are slowly coming to realize what we have known here for a long time here. Feed and encourage the troll types and they go nuts.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pmIndSteveAZ Says:
Anecdotal view of TX Tea Party Supporters
……
*Fibercon – 140 Caplets, Fiber Therapy for “regularity” needs.
All are actual Fox Tea Bagger supporters’ purchases. Actual Ebay items purchased by the 33 Ebay users who also purchased
the official T-Shirt for the July 4, 2009 San Antonio, Texas Tea Party protest.
Proof positive they are a bunch of constipated a$$holes, LOL
July 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pmOh ralph, using such big words with Tracy? He probably just peed all over himself.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pmTo quote Nelson Munz “HA HA”
July 6th, 2009 at 12:31 pmJust think of the reception Palin would have received at one of those Teabagger throw downs.
She knows she has a cult-like following and I think she’s getting ready to take full advantage of it.
The next U.S. presidential election is going to make some of the banana republics look very civilized in comparison.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:36 pmowlbear1 Says:
Anti-taxers booing toll roads?
Yet another piece of evidence leading to the conclusion that the actual reason for these rallies is to build a mailing list of the STUPIDEST people in the United States.
That one surprised me as well, since user fees and toll roads are at the core of “libertarian” ideology. I figure there are two possibilities. No, three, since your comment is pretty convincing.
First, it’s faintly possible that they’re objecting to the means in which toll roads would operate. Here in Oregon, a lot of people are hysterical because the system would install devices in vehicles to track where and how far they traveled. Civil libertarians are very uneasy about that.
Second, they’re just incredibly selfish a-holes who don’t believe they should ever have to pay for anything except a new boat or a car.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pmKrauthammer: “What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.”
The text says differently, Tracist.
(emphasis mine)
July 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pmTracy__5 Says:
“I think you’re mistaken about that “alternate reality” thing.”
Not about the reality outside the BS ones inside Washington D.C. and New York media/journalism which is what Krauthammer and Colbert were referring to.
So now you’re interpreting Colbert for us? Even for you, twacy, that’s astonishingly stupid.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pmI see Tracist is going for the tactic of “if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with complete incoherence”.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:39 pmTracy__5 Says:
“Way to follow an analogy, Tracist.”
You made it up.
Which requires thinking. No wonder twacy is having a difficult time with it. Anything that isn’t cut and paste is beyond that one.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pmIt’s pretty obvious what’s going on with the tea parties.
The GOP saw an opportunity for latching conservative votes at these rallies and tried to get Fox involved. It equaled a good opportunity to get people against Obama, but it appears that it backfired on them, as these groups are generally anti-government.
The second batch of tea parties have shown the GOP that they have no handle on the grass-roots organization. This is a group of Americans who have grabbed Glenn Beck’s philosophy and ran with it. This is no longer an anti-Democrat crowd (if it ever was one) and is now an anti-government crowd.
I think it’s time to associate the tea parties with the Malkin / Beck loon front.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:41 pmowlbear1 Says:
Anti-taxers booing toll roads?
Kind of silly for these Republican morons who voted Perry in to be protesting him.
The toll roads here are a big mess now, and Perry basically sold them to be managed by the same German company that runs the Autobahn rather than being actually run by the state or a US contractor.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pmI noticed an ad on the idiot box this weekend. Fox has it’s very own ‘reality channel’.
I’m not certain if it was meant to compete with the Home Shopping Network, SciFi, the Comedy Channel or Lifetime.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pmThe Republicans have lost control over these tea bag protests and now they are getting stung. They knew that these rallies attract the fringe element but they proceeded to help organize the second tea bag event.
That tells it all….when you have to scrape the bottem of the barrel to gain support, you might as well start learning how to lick boots and take it up the a$$.
2010 can’t come soon enough. No wonder the media keeps giving more time to Repugs then dems….there to keep them in the converstation….and no wonder the press is loosing money!!!!
Tell it like it is…The repugs are basicly a party of WACK F***S with no vision or direction. Which is a blessing concidering what they have done to America. Even the press are chicken shits for not telling the truth….REPUGS ARE FACSIST PIGS!!! Oh wait…the press is controlled by five corporations who support the FACSIST PIGS….NEVER MIND!!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pmTracy__5 Says:
“Then you and ralph need start before A. writing it or B. going along with it.”
huh? are you drunk?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pmTracy__5 Says:
“The toll roads here are a big mess now”
Where?…exactly?
Which State is Perry Governor for Tracy?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pmNext elections, the Republicans will be claiming unfair coverage when they are associated with the radical right like the tea baggers.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pmWayne Says:
“Which State is Perry Governor for Tracy?”
whitetrashwingnuttialand wayne?
July 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pmTracist, you claimed that by “alternate reality” Krauthammer was referring to “the reality outside the BS ones inside Washington D.C. and New York media/journalism”.
Unfortunately for you, Krauthammer was quite clearly referring to FOX NEWS.
The text, both Krauthammer’s and your own, undermines any semblance of an argument you’re trying to mount here.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pmTracy_5 sometimes pines for rural PA for reasons unknown….
July 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pmI got two words for these Republican instigators of treason against this nation:
DRAGON’S TEETH
July 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmNot necessarily, Bozo. Tracist’s astounding intellect is such that in its highest functioning capacity, an impartial observer might confuse its output with that of a person of a normal intellect who is blind whiskey drunk.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmYou didn’t get the reduce the size of government part?
You mean the part about how the federal government has increased more under Republican stewardship?
Or the part that while increasing the size of the government they also increased the number of ‘outsourced’ operations that benefited private contractors while still maintaining the expanded government?
Or the part that you really have no idea about anything beyond your bag of Cheetos?
Which one, tracy?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pmTracy__5 Says:
“Unfortunately for you, Krauthammer was quite clearly referring to FOX NEWS.”
Who do the job of presenting the reality outside New York and Washington D.C.. It’s too bad for you that this so called “alternative reality” is the “rest of America”.
FoxNews doesn’t present reality of any kind anywhere, nitwit. And your final sentence doesn’t do much to explain last November’s election results, considering that most of the people voting are outside DC and New York.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:05 pm“rest of America”.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:06 pm—
So I assume that includes LA, San Fran, Chicago, and Boston…
Hey, aren’t toll roads anti-tax? I mean, there are only two ways to pay for a road: 1) taxes, or 2) tolls. So if you’re against taxes, then you should be for toll roads. So how are the anti-tax “teabaggers” against toll roads?
Unless they’re really just a bunch of inbred buffoons who are against ever paying anything for anything and want a free ride off the rest of us…
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Tracy__5 Says:
“I think you’re mistaken about that “alternate reality” thing.”
Not about the reality outside the BS ones inside Washington D.C. and New York media/journalism which is what Krauthammer and Colbert were referring to.
No, here’s the original quote from Colbert:
He’s talking about nationwide approval ratings.
Here’s Krauthammer:
He’s talking about the nationwide media environment.
Neither of them were talking about beltway insider reality. It was easy to check. What you did was to lied there. You are a liar.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:06 pmOh yeah. When a politician says something, it’s always sincere and honest.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pmWhat about Seattle? I mean it is outside of NY and DC…
July 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pmThe toll road thing is a little more complicated than that.
The anti-toll road people aren’t against the idea of toll roads. They are against the selling of roads that have already been built by tax money to foreign corporations who will then collect tolls.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:10 pmAlejandro Says:
Oh yeah. When a politician says something, it’s always sincere and honest.
Translation: when a Republican says something insane and alarming like my state is gonna secede, or we’re going to have a holy war on Islam, or we’re going to start a direct military confrontation with Russia, he’s just lying, don’t worry about it.
But when a Democrat’s 87 year old grandma mentions in passing that she thought she recalled that he was born in Kenya, that’s proof of something, throw out all the paperwork and eyewitnesses to the contrary!
July 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pmThey are against the selling of roads that have already been built by tax money to foreign corporations who will then collect tolls.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm—
What are they socialist or something…
Alejandro Says:
They are against the selling of roads that have already been built by tax money to foreign corporations who will then collect tolls.
… to maintain the roads. So are they against privatization, free markets, or globalization? All three maybe?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:13 pmHow do ratings indicate why people watch something. Plenty of people listen to Rush just to goof on him….Lots of people eat at Applebbe’sas well but it is still crap…
July 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pmBeats me. It sounds incoherent to me too.
But from what I understand of this crowd, they say they are for free markets, as long as you keep foreigners out of it. And they are definitely against globalization.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pmIn the case of Perry and secession: Anyone in the least bit familiar with Dubya-minion Perry LOL’d when they heard Perry say that Texas should think about seceding. They knew he was a corporate/federal whore and that he was just blowing smoke.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:19 pmAttention citizens: if you don’t like big government, vote Democratic.
Most people now know that, contrary to decades of right-wing propaganda, the government grows less under Democrats.
Fewer people know that two 20th-century Democratic Presidents–Truman and Clinton–actually succeeded in making the Federal government smaller.
Because this information confutes the dominant paradigm (that Democrats are the party of big government), it is simply ignored.
This suggests what we all suspected–the teabagger types are malcontents who don’t know doodley-squat about the government they hate and fear.
PS: Heritage Foundation report proves that Torture is GOOD for You
July 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pmTracy__5 Says:
What bag? You actually eat that junk? You and few other here are ALWAYS on this site. Same SFBs different day.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
It’s so fascinating how the Tracist troll misses the point so often, and so entirely.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pm–the teabagger types are malcontents who don’t know doodley-squat about the government they hate and fear.
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Well other than how to wrap a flag around themselves in some weird bipolar dichotomy…
July 6th, 2009 at 1:24 pmTracy__5 Says:
“FoxNews doesn’t present reality of any kind anywhere, nitwit.”
The viewer ratings and numbers squash your BS assertion.
Tracy, ratings don’t reflect reality. They reflect the news that people WANT to hear, regardless of whether it is true or not.
If two sides show a scene and give two different perspectives or interpretations on it, that doesn’t necessarily reflect right or wrong, but there is a likelihood that one side is presenting more of a realistic depiction of the scene.
If one network is more popular over the other, that does not automatically make their perspective more realistic. It makes it more populist. More people want to accept that reality, but that doesn’t make their perspective either right or real.
Ratings are just one side’s reason to brag. I’ll say that about Fox’s numbers, Obama’s numbers, the GOP’s numbers…any of them. THEY MEAN NOTHING.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm…i.e. the “rest of America”.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:41 pmWhich is everywhere but NYC and DC as you have previously stated?
Tracy__5 Says:
“FoxNews doesn’t present reality of any kind anywhere, nitwit.”
The viewer ratings and numbers squash your BS assertion.
Millions of kids play Grand Theft Auto. It doesn’t make it “reality”, dumbo. People like you love Faux because they validate your confused ideology, 24/7. Reality never enters into it.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:47 pmAlejandro Says:
The toll road thing is a little more complicated than that.
The anti-toll road people aren’t against the idea of toll roads. They are against the selling of roads that have already been built by tax money to foreign corporations who will then collect tolls.
So they’re against the idea of getting construction money back into the budget? They’re against private funds paying for road maintenance? Are these people communists or what?
July 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pmTracy_5
July 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pmHow long until you think someone will make the birth certificate reference?
Tracy__5 Says:
And who do you think does the polling? Washington and New York newspapers maybe?
Are you telling me that it’s a myth that Bush had low approval ratings for his last year in office? That there was a big conspiracy to make him seem unpopular when he was really very popular? Is that what you’re asserting?
Talk about your alternate realities…
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Tracy__5 Says:
What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.”
…i.e. the “rest of America”.
Um, no. The “alternate reality” is not the real reality. I live in the rest of America, and the sky is blue, whether or not that’s politically advantageous for Republicans.
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Tracy__5 Says:
“FoxNews doesn’t present reality of any kind anywhere, nitwit.”
The viewer ratings and numbers squash your BS assertion.
Reality is not something that people vote on. If two Republicans and a sane person are in a room and asked to determine whether 2 + 2 = 4, it doesn’t actually = 5 just because both of the wingnuts vote that it should be. It’s still 4.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:02 pm86. Alejandro Says:
ElBruce Says:
… to maintain the roads. So are they against privatization, free markets, or globalization? All three maybe?
Beats me. It sounds incoherent to me too.
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To jump in on your point, if the corporations are the ones best suited to do the jobs, and a good number of our corporations have significant overseas ownership,
then wouldn’t having corporations do it be the same as selling off our resources to have the money shipped overseas ?
And we think we hear too many foreign accents on help lines now. Can you picture it: Have a pot hole in the road, well I’ll let our international repair team know right away.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:07 pmTracy__5 Says:
“It’s so fascinating how the Tracist troll misses the point so often, and so entirely.”
You being a regular here should know all about the Cheeto reference.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Still missing the point. :-D
July 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pmZooey Says:
Still missing the point. :-D
Forever and ever, amen.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pmThe tea-baggers are the psychotic portion of society that needs to kept an eye out on.
They are the nut-cases, the “kill everyone who disagrees with me”, gun toting, ammo stocking, racists, homophobes, religious zealots, sore-losers, sour grapes types who are a danger to society in general.
The FBI should be taking down the names of everyone who attends these Anti-American functions, they are a danger to everyone.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:20 pmCornyn helped to whip up the frenzy within the ranks of the racists over the past 20 years. He well deserves the contempt of the monster that he helped to create.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pmWhat’s with the goofy hats that these “Faux Cowboys” wear?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pmTracy__5 Says:
“People like you love Faux because they validate your confused ideology”
Confused? You mean the one the values liberty, low taxes, limited government and self reliance? If yours represents the zenith of these then move to Cuba.
No, the one that values greed, selfishness, hypocrisy and the belief that might makes right. The one that believes it’s perfectly OK to invade a sovereign nation, or to bomb it into oblivion, if it fails to hand over resources or appear to be strategic competition in the Middle East. The one that believes that “me” is all that matters and that big talk makes a strong nation.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:32 pmCalling Cornyn a traitor? Booing Governor Good hair? Boy, this is cheery group the Rethugnicans are trying to recruit as their next voting block. I think Rush and Glenn better watch where they’re stepping. The knuckle draggers on the Reich have “let slip the dogs of war” and they will be unable to control them for sure.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:44 pmWell something is happening in Texas, there is a High speed chase… Wow, look at that white SUV go, followed by the Police. {Pssst, Maybe he stole Saddam Hussein’s pistol.}
These people who decided to do the teabagging, why didn’t they do it during the Bush Administration, when he taxed the middle and lowerclass people and gave taxbreaks to the filty rich. Maybe that is why we are hearing about Ponzie scemes of late. (raising a brow)
July 6th, 2009 at 2:56 pmTracy__5 Says:
“People like you love Faux because they validate your confused ideology”
Confused? You mean the one the values liberty, low taxes, limited government and self reliance? If yours represents the zenith of these then move to Cuba.
Confused because you’re advocating pure selfish anarchy as the only antidote to totalitarian Communism. The rest of the world happens somewhere in the middle. As an advocate of an extreme, you are an extremist. Your free market fantasy is just that – a fantasy. Anarchy is not sustainable.
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Tracy__5 Says:
No of course not, but when Colbert said interjects the “reality has a liberal bias” crap that was nothing more that a plug and reinforcement for what Krauthammer and many others have been saying for years.
No, it was a riff on the “the media has a liberal bias” meme, extending it to say that wingnuts disagree not only with the MSM but with actual real reality itself. As a parody of a wingnut, Colbert typically demonstrates by example how insane they are, which is what he was doing there. It’s highly informative that you fail to grasp this simple concept.
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Tracy__5 Says:
It’s just that people have been listening to the same biased media outlets for years have finally woken up from the trance.
“Reality is not something that people vote on.”
No wonder people voted for Obama. Good one.
FAUX Noise has been demonstrated to have a pervasive pattern of intentionally lying and misrepresenting facts. The rest of the MSM has not.
The only purpose of this whole “all the media except for the one biased for us is biased the other way” thing is to attempt to confuse people as to whether there’s any such thing as actual truth or not. So that people like Rove can lie about established fact and get away with it, at least with enough confused people to sway certain elections.
Since you believe that people can vote for what the truth is, you seem to have swallowed the biggest of all Big Lies hook, line and sinker. However, since as you point out, people voted for Obama, then you should switch sides per your own belief system. The marketplace of ideas has spoken, and it turns out the wingnuts have been selling everybody shit sandwiches the whole time.
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Tracy__5 Says:
The point is that regulars such as yourself should know what a bag of Cheetos tastes like….I don’t.
You don’t know what Cheetos taste like? Really? What, are you from some third-world hellhole where they don’t have snacks?
July 6th, 2009 at 3:33 pmTracy__5 Says:
So when is Obama going to declare the invasion of Afghanistan illegal…
That one was legal under the U.N. Iraq was not. The entire world was with us on Afghanistan. Not so on Iraq.
In case you forgot, Al-Qaeda members being harbored by the Taliban government of Afghanistan conspired to crash airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a third undetermined D.C. target on September 11th, 2001. It was in the news and everything.
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<em.Tracy__5 Says:
… as well as the incursions into Pakistan and take back his crap talk about invading Pakistan if we find out bin Laden is inside their borders?
Is this an example of your “9/12 mindset?” Why do you love terrorists so much, terrorist-lover?
July 6th, 2009 at 3:57 pmTracy__5 Says:
“No, the one that values greed, selfishness, hypocrisy and the belief that might makes right.”
Then you are referring to so other idelogy
I’m not referring to any abstract ideology, actually. I’m referring to exactly what you, personally, have demonstrated over time about your own ideology.
The one that believes it’s perfectly OK to invade a sovereign nation…”
So when is Obama going to declare the invasion of Afghanistan illegal as well as the incursions into Pakistan and take back his crap talk about invading Pakistan if we find out bin Laden is inside their borders?
Still completely divorced from reality, aren’t you? For your information, Al Qaeda targeted and attacked this country a few years back. When the Taliban refused to turn over their leadership, the US and allies invaded. Bush pretty well ensured this would be a massive failure by diverting troops and resources to a completely unrelated nation. He also announced that bin Laden was no big deal and that he wasn’t really interested in pursuing him.
“…and that big talk makes a strong nation.”
That would be a your big mouth boy Obama who thinks we can talk our way out of problems.
No, that would not be President Obama, who understands that we cannot work our way through problems simply by blowing the crap out of other people, and that “talking” is what adults do to resolve problems. I was referring rather to the bloviation of your favorite morons at FauxNews, and the neocons they like to drag on as “experts.”
July 6th, 2009 at 3:58 pmTracy__5 Says:
“I’m referring to exactly what you, personally, have demonstrated over time about your own ideology.”
Then actully present some evidence of what you describe.
You’ve presented yourself for months, with virtually every word you’ve typed. Anyone who follows TP comments is already quite familiar with your opinions and I have no need to dredge any of it up.
When the Taliban refused to turn over their leadership, the US and allies invaded.”
Same thing happened in Iraq. The U.S. didn’t invade Iraq and occupy alone. Just because more countries agreed doesn’t make it more justified. BTW do you have a specific U.N. resolution that authorized the invasion of Afghanistan?
“Same thing”? bin Laden was hiding out in Iraq? Wow. I wonder why no one has mentioned that in the long list of “reasons” for invading Iraq.
I love that you keep raising the question of a UN resolution. The answer is “we were attacked” and this was a response to that aggression; no resolution was required from the Security Council. The Security Council did authorize UN forces to help maintain security for the new government shortly thereafter however. Thanks so much for caring.
The only problem is is that the “other side” are not adults and force or the threat of is about all they understand as demonstrated by their continued tatics of using ONLY force to get their way…unless you can cite an example of lasting peace in the Middle East brought on by careful negotiations and diplomacy. Carter and Reagan couldn’t do it, Clinton took it up the ass by Arafat (a terrorist to the bone), Bush didn’t try, and Obama isn’t making any progress either.
No lasting peace yet, no, and “Bush didn’t try” is a good part of it. I’m not sure why you limit this to Israel & Palestine, though. You may not have noticed but there are other people there, and your need to belittle them as “not adults” is more evidence of your screwed-up ideology.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pmTracy__5 Says:
“Anyone who follows TP comments is already quite familiar with your opinions and I have no need to dredge any of it up.”
That’s because you have nothing boy. The people who would believe your BS assertion do so at their own peril because of the preconceived notion that I am for anarchy, no regulations or laws. I am only asking for one. Is that too hard for you? You zoo animals are weak.
Reading your comments once is bad enough. Having to dig through them repeatedly is too nasty to ask anyone to do.
It’s amazing how you seem to think that if we took out bin Laden somehow al Qaeda would just disappear.
More fantasy on your part. Neither I nor anyone else hear have said anything remotely close to that.
But according to you we had every right to go after those who harbored bin Laden (I agreed) even though the Taliban wasn’t responsible for the attack, eventhough hostilities NEVER ceased after the first Gulf War and we continued to have our planes shot throughout the 1990s by Saddam we had no right to take him out.
No manned aircraft were shot down by Iraq in the no-fly zones. And, no, we had no “right” to attack Iraq in 2003, and doing so crippled our chances in Afghanistan — along with all the other unpleasant side effects of the war and the occupation.
And, seriously, quit pretending you give a damn about whether or not the UN authorized the Afghanistan operation, or whether is was covered by UN Article 51. One invasion was a direct response to an attack on US soil, the other was not. Period.
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July 6th, 2009 at 7:08 pmRe #58 Twacy:
The toll toads that are in trouble are the ones that become head-on death chambers when there’s NO safeguards in place to keep wrong-way drivers from careening down the cement corridors of no return, which has resulted in multiple deaths already this year.
THOSE toll roads, a$$-hat.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:51 pmAnd the booing of Cornyn was in response to his support for TARP. Someone yelled to him “you’re part of the problem”. Don’t think they don’t know what they’re protesting or why. They’re actually more likely to emerge as a strong 3rd party alternate in the near future..
July 6th, 2009 at 11:01 pmWow! what an entertaining week it has been. Who needs a fourth of July with these Republicans on board. The laughter never stops. One can’t even hear the fire crackers anyway with the hissing, booing, shouting, etc.,. at the two Texans, John Cornyn and Rickity Perry. The only thing missing were the rotten tomatoes and rotten eggs. And to make thing even worse was “God” didn’t intervene.
Consider the following: (all within one week, I must say)
Sarah Palin,
Mark Sanford,
Joe the Nut (or is it the plumber?)
John Cornyn,
Rickity Perry,
Anyone I missed?
Poor Republicans, everything they say or touch or even look at turns to muck! Cornyn and Perry remind me of Terry Dicks, the British politician who said: “They are undoubtedly living proof that a pig’s bladder on a stick can be elected as a member of Parliament.”
July 8th, 2009 at 4:40 pm