GOP Senate Candidate Rob Simmons Boasts Of Adding A Tea Bag To The Constitution
GOP Senate Candidate Rob Simmons Boasts Of Adding A Tea Bag To The Constitution
Speaking to a group of right-wing activists recently, former congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT) — who is running for the Senate in Connecticut — demonstrated his commitment to the “tea party” movement by showing that he has added an actual tea bag to his copy of the Constitution.
Although three of Connecticut’s leading newspapers denounced the tea parties for promoting “insulting drivel” and “mindless thuggery,” Simmons told YouTube user “AndersonScooper” he has never see anything offensive at any of the tea parties he has attended:
SIMMONS: This state and this country needs people like you. [...] I’ve made it a habit over the years to carry my Constitution in my pocket as a reminder of what this country and what this country’s government is all about. But more recently because of the participation of many of you, I’ve added something to my Constitution. I’ve added a tea bag. [audience chuckles]
Watch Simmons adding a tea bag to his pocket Constitution at a recent tea party gathering and excitedly addressing a Norwich tea party in July:
Connecticut tea baggers authored the infamous memo outlining the strategy for intimidating Democratic lawmakers with shouting and interruptions at town halls. Tea Party Patriots, a website managed in part by FreedomWorks, then distributed the memo.
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I say “Nuts” to teabaggers.
Is that clown the latest repiggie retard trying to make a name for himself, or trying to secure a post-election position at FoxNews?
October 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pmI’m kinda torn on what to do this coming Saturday.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:18 pmAntiwar rally in downtown Detroit, or heckle the teabaggers at their rally in nearby Troy.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions.
I’m sorry… but this man is an idiot, pure and simple…
October 14th, 2009 at 12:19 pmCan these guys get anymore pathetic? Do They honestly believe this is what the majority of Americans think? They are buying their own spin. But I guess when you have two MSM channels (Faux News and CNN Lite) telling you what you want to hear, you believe it.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:19 pmHow ironic…back in 2005, Simmons (who was a “moderate” NE-style repub) was denounced as RINO.
This kinda rhetoric won’t endear him to CT voters.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pmSIMMONS: But more recently because of the participation of many of you, I’ve added something to my Constitution. I’ve added a tea bag.
Rush Limbaugh is next up for a teabagging from Simmons.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:21 pmJeez, Simmons – we don’t need to hear every perverted detail about your private life. What you do behind closed doors is your business.
Word of advice – try not to cut your taint on the Preamble. It’ll sting for days. General Welfare indeed!
October 14th, 2009 at 12:22 pmApparently, the bandwagon has room for one more.
You know, how about treating the Constitution with a little respect, sir? If you’re going to treat it like a Bible, then let’s not mess it up.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:22 pmSimmons told YouTube user “AndersonScooper” he has never see anything offensive at any of the tea parties he has attended:
Why does anyone attend these teabagging parties? None of the teabaggers ever seem to see what is going on at them.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:25 pmPerhaps instead of pimping some astroturf movement Simmons might want to boast about something that would help all Americans not just the crazies on the right, like pushing for FDR’s second bill of rights.
Second bill of rights: Recognizes “economic truths [that have] become accepted as self-evident” — the right to a job, a home, adequate health care, and an education.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:26 pmWhen this guy goes to meet his maker, the Founding Fathers will be waiting there to kick his ass.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pmMore on FDR’s second bill of rights: http://www.mediaite.com/columnists/fdrs-second-bill-of-rights/
* The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
* The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
* The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
* The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
* The right of every family to a decent home;
* The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
* The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
* And finally, the right to a good education.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pmDodd will lose to this clown because he is in bed with the banks.
I will hold my nose for 6 years while this idiot wins the Senate.
Folks – we got to get the incubents out. They are all bought and paid for.
Term Limits
October 14th, 2009 at 12:32 pmThis ying yang is tea-bagging the Constitution and Conservatives are sending Olympia Snow rock salt! What meaningless gestures! WTF? Can’t they think up something more substancal? I guess not.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:33 pmAdding a teabag to the constitution is divisive and defacing. It’s including only the racist teabaggers. Way to go teabagger!
Well at least the teabaggers are beholding to something that is brown.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:33 pmPerry logan says:
When this guy goes to meet his maker, the Founding Fathers will be waiting there to kick his ass.
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oh nooooooes… Perry… faaaaaaar more appropriate that they should be waiting to teabag him… for all eternity…
October 14th, 2009 at 12:33 pmThis ‘tea bag’ crap is getting old. In fact, many Americans think the ‘Tea-Baggers’ are nuts.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:37 pmThe next amendment of the constitution should emphasize that it’s a man’s world. Propose a photo of [[cock and balls]] be added to the constitution and have it ratified by the states. You know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and America will know who is the man … the man!
October 14th, 2009 at 12:37 pmCarrying it in his pocket doesn’t mean he reads or understands it. This is the usual far right conservative recipe involving grilling a steak without cooking it, telling the gullible that the steak is done, but not telling them you’re actually feeding them raw, red meat.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm# 13 ctcadguy says:
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While I agree about term limits, what good will that do as long as there are lobbyists and special interest groups who have their tentacles tightly wrapped around Washington DC.
First we need to get all of the money out of politics (Will never happen) Have publicly financed elections. Free and equal air time for all candidates. Debates which include ALL candidates not just the candidates from our two winged, one party political system. Then pass and enforce a law which makes it illegal for corporations or lobbyists to give money to any candidate.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pmSimmons needs to switch over to herbal tea…
October 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pmHe acts like he’s had to many cups of Morning Thunder.
I’m putting you lefties on board as supporting the wrestling CEO then.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pmTea-Baggers are anti-freedom of speech.
They refuse to let anyone speak freely, they only support yelling and screaming to drown-out anyone who refuses to parrot their party line.
Because Tea-Baggers don’t want to hear from anyone with whom they disagree, they prove themselves anti-freedom of speech.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:44 pmLove it!!!!! The fighting intensifies for the remaining 20% nutballers that embrace the wingnut fringe….Just keep alienating the moderate republicans, good strategy there!
October 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pmI’ve Got POOP In My Pocket….
October 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pmGO HERE to his website and see his spew:
http://www.joinrobsimmons.com/
CONTACT him here and tell him to take his tea-bag-nonsense on a hike:
12 Roosevelt Ave
2nd Floor
Mystic, CT 06355
Tel: 860-415-4633
October 14th, 2009 at 12:53 pmFax: 860-415-4629
info@joinrobsimmons.com
Post 23…Democrat Soldier,
You are RIGHT on!
October 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pmTeabaggers need a giant Kool-Aid pitcher looking mascot
October 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pmtea bag: A small porous sack holding enough tea leaves to make an individual serving of a hot drink.
tea bagger: A small minded, porous brained sack full of enough dried up ideas to make an individual self-serving and not think.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:56 pmAnother website just reported that Glenn Beck is now referring to President Obama as our “Chairman Mao.”
Last month, Beck was calling him our “Adolf Hitler.”
These repiggies are all totally crazy and off-the-wall.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:56 pmEck.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pmMr. Simmons teabagging the Constitution does not paint a pretty picture during lunch, but does help with dieting.
I lost all sense of an appetite. In fact, I’m quite nauseated.
Milk, cookies and heckling good fun in Troy or a possible bullet in the head from an Obama voter on crack in Detroit. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
Nothing like healthy dose of angry cynicism in the morning. Thanx iri.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pmThese people are all the same. They see the Country changing and it scares them. Their all white ‘Utopia’ is quickly fading. They can’t find anyway to embrace the benefits of a mulicultural society. Well, they better get used to it.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pmTeabaggers need a giant Kool-Aid pitcher looking mascot
Ohhhh, so THAT’S why Huckabee put all that weight back on.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pmHey, right between the i’s;
October 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pmLong time no see.
Thought you would have got your ass shot off in Iraq by now.
Term limits have been very bad for California, in MHO. I think limiting the campaign cycle (ala England) and/or cracking down/eliminating lobbying would be more productive.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pmiRi worries about crackheads?
The shootings, to date, have all been by right wing extremists, iRi.
Lie much?
October 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pmUncle Fester – I should have finished reading your post! Right on!!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pmWhat’s the matter? Are you having trouble keeping up with the smart kids?
October 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pmiRi says:
“It seems like a no-brainer to me.”
Right up your alley, eh?
Lower Michigan is a long ways to drive your gas guzzling honker pickup from Texas, I-Right-I.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pmRemember to take the gun rack out of the rear cab window before you go, they aren’t legal once you cross the Mississippi.
Ohhhh, so THAT’S why Huckabee put all that weight back on.
Heh
October 14th, 2009 at 1:02 pm… um… ok… leave for a while, hoping something of substance shows up here… another teabagger instead…
i heard ann curry report this morning that the finance committee bill is the only one actually endorsed by president obama…
it happens to be the only one withOUT a public option…
and queen olympia will not go for any public option…
i’d like to hear more about those things…
is that possible?
October 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pmevangenital says:
Another website just reported that Glenn Beck is now referring to President Obama as our “Chairman Mao.”
Am I going to have to change my name to Comrade Mary?
John McCain misattributed a campaign quote to Mao several times during his 2008 presidential election bid, saying “Remember the words of Chairman Mao: ‘It’s always darkest before it’s totally black.’”
October 14th, 2009 at 1:07 pmSince we have a teabagger here, I have a question. iRi, the original Boston Tea Party was a protest against unfair trade practices by a multi-national corporation. Is that what you are protesting at your tea parties, because I haven’t heard anyone mention that yet.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pmiRi – well there’s a blast from the past! A particularly smelly blast I must say.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pmiRi sez:
It’s nice to know that your sunny disposition hasn’t mellowed since your absence.
SNARK!
October 14th, 2009 at 1:14 pmExamples, iRi?
October 14th, 2009 at 1:14 pmiRi says:
Sounds like they have a lot in common with some of the university students when a conservative stands up to speak.
Students carry guns? LOL! ;)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:14 pmiRi says:
Milk, cookies and heckling good fun in Troy or a possible bullet in the head from an Obama voter on crack in Detroit. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
Guns, meth and lunatic racist in Troy you mean? LOL! You racists are all alike patsy. You’re “No-brainers”… LOL! ;)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pmiRi says:
“I’m kinda torn on what to do this coming Saturday.
Antiwar rally in downtown Detroit, or heckle the teabaggers at their rally in nearby Troy.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions”
Milk, cookies and heckling good fun in Troy or a possible bullet in the head from an Obama voter on crack in Detroit. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
IRI,
You are both ignorant and disgusting.
And, yes, you sound to me like you have no brain.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:16 pmZimzone says:
iRi worries about crackheads?
The shootings, to date, have all been by right wing extremists, iRi.
Lie much?
Crack heads and students commonly go to political rallies with guns to intimidate conservatives according to patsy! LOL! ;)
October 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pmLet’s face it. We all know ‘Tea-baggers’ ain’t bright. They are mindless sheep being used by Big Business. In their hatred over the fact Obama’s black, they will do anything, even if it hurts them in the long run. What a bunch of losers.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pmTea party protest = Corporate sponsored KKK lynch mob rally.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:25 pmI’ve said it before and it is worth repeating. The G.O.P. are so far to the right that their core constituency is no longer,”main street U.S.A.” but an identifiable subculture. This subculture are anti-intellectual and easy to manipulate by appealing to emotional issues. This group are a tangible demonstration of cognitive dissonance theory in that they are not swayed by facts. The current lot of G.O.P’s feel that they have the right to define American values, patriotism, and morality. They couldn’t be more wrong. I reject their definitions completely. I reject their continual portrayal of undereducated rural citizens as the,”real Americans.” In fact I am greatly offended by this being an educated city dweller. The only plus is that they continually alienate large sectors of the American population while trying to appeal to their shrinking base. Simmons was preaching to the choir. An unfortunate lot.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:27 pmPelotonpro 048 says:
I agree with your analysis. As long as there are people like Simmons, the Dems will have an easier time getting elected in most areas of the country. If Huckabee wins the nomination and takes the party further right, the losses will be big. When that happens the blame game will be nothing short of a major internecine war from which no one will come out unscathed.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pmIs that a teabag in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
October 14th, 2009 at 1:52 pmMrs. Simmons:
October 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm“Rob, I found a tea bag in your pocket when I did your laundry, are you seeing someone else?”
Dear Idiot GOP Candidate,
The original “Tea Parties” were started by the wealthy ruling class such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson etc. They made in upwards of (in todays money a 100K+ (Washington was the richest man in America) Rarely did any “common folk” come down and help protest the high tea taxes. Why? Because most Colonists were dirt poor and couldn’t even afford tea. It’s pretty funny that the common folk are falling for it again…well a few of them at least.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:37 pm60. Eli Harold,
you beat me to it. right on target
October 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pmrob simmons is a whiny beyotch. and the teabaggers in norwich didn’t appreciate me tossing them the bird when i drove by them
October 14th, 2009 at 3:22 pmI gotta reread that John Adams book. My memory is that although he was able to attend Harvard at 17, as an adult he was not very wealthy during the revolution, farm mortaged to the hilt, and he had to pay his own way in Philly.
Jefferson, absolutely had money. But I don’t think Adams did, at least not during Tea Party times.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:58 pmAdams was quite wealthy,he had made it while being a Lawyer. One of his biggest cases was defending the British Troops who were involved in the Boston Massacre.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:41 pmR
You ignorant putrid racist pile of dogshit. Go kill yourself. The world will just flat be a better place without you in it
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October 21st, 2009 at 4:45 am