F**k the Tea Party

[SkyChimp 0]

And I am a Republican saying this!

You tea party people are just fickle Republicans that evolved when Obama first started his crazy government spending. If you really cared about making a difference you would have stayed inside the party instead of bailing out thinking that was the answer. All you did was create disunity! Leaving the Republican party was like a spouse leaving the marriage because they didn't want to work thru the differences.... Tea Party members turned outside of their political marriage to find liberty when they should have stayed at home to fix thru the issues. It's called commitment..

When the 2012 election is held we will see two parties like we always have of any significance. Republicans, and Democrats.

By the way, the "Tea Party" hasn't even made it to the list of political parties of the United States. It's time to give it up and come home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States

Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!

[jgoose71 0]

I think you are a little confused....

We didn't leave the republican party, the party left us. There are a lot of people out there that are disenchanted with the political process and even more disenchanted with politicians.

The "Tea party" is not a party. They are still in the Republican camp. it doesn't matter if Herman Cain or Mitt Romney or who ever else gets the Republican nomination, they will have the tea party vote. That is if they were republicans before the last election. Keep in mind, there are democrats in the tea party too....

When both parties start representing the people instead of who ever there lobbyists are, then the tea party will go away. That's all a lot of us are after. Obama represents union (10% of the populations) and trial lawyers, and the republican party has lost its way with the small business man. You have to have a congressman in your pocket to be able to get out of enough taxes to start a business.

All you here it the 10 second sound bite on the news that says "stop spending," but there is a lot more than that going on. I know Herman Cain is not leading in the poles, but people need to take a serious look at him. i seriously think he is what the country needs to get back on track.

Or you could just vote for another politician......

"There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Life, the Universe, and Everything

[kelpdiver 2]

the Tea Party emerged because the GOP was a party of fraudsters with no interest in fiscal responsibility, and spending our money to install democracy in a place that doesn't really matter. It's the same reason why Nader ran for president on his own, hurting Gore in the process. The Democrats gave him lip service for decades, he got tired of his vote being taken for granted.

OTOH, the Tea Party now has morphed into some less principled, but that's a different tale.

[rushmc 23]

Something to think about
The Tea Party is not a political party

It is a movement

Which is growing and continuing to influence the idiots in Washington

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[kelpdiver 2]

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Something to think about
The Tea Party is not a political party

It is a movement

Which is growing and continuing to influence the idiots in Washington

a movement which has been overrun by idiots already. I think they went all-in with this block all government action gambit. We'll see if it pays off.

[Amazon 7]

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Something to think about
The Tea Party is not a political party

It is a movement

Which is growing and continuing to influence the idiots in Washington

A movement that only people like you fawn over. Who do they get their funding from again?

be sure to flush that movement.

[rushmc 23]

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Something to think about
The Tea Party is not a political party

It is a movement

Which is growing and continuing to influence the idiots in Washington

a movement which has been overrun by idiots already. I think they went all-in with this block all government action gambit. We'll see if it pays off.

You and others keep posting stuff like this

The ONLY place I see this kind of assertion is from libs and the main stream media

In cases like this I suppose you can try and link whom ever you want to this movement

but the only ones committing the bs that is leveled against the Tea Party is liberal left wing nuts

But I guess I really dont care

You nor anybody else can counter this with comments

It just helps the movement grow

Nov 2012 looks fun at this point

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rhaig 0]

About 5 years ago when I first heard of the Tea Party, I thought "hey... I can get behind this shit. They're all about fiscal responsibility, paying rather than borrowing, states rights, constituationalists... yeah.. I like this"

Then the nutters like Beck decided that they were Tea Partiers... except they changed the meaning of the movement. Now it's a fringe right group (no matter how it started, that's how it's perceived) and not one I have any interest in.

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Rob

[billvon 3,114]

A lot of people are feeling this way. There's even a term for it - TPDS (tea party disillusionment syndrome.) Here's one conservative's take on his experience with the Tea Party:

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Black Helicopters Over Nashville
Feb 8, 2010 7:00 PM EST

Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.

The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at tea-party events dressed in his trademark three-cornered hat and Revolutionary garb. When journalists interview him (which is often—his outfit draws them in like a magnet), he presents himself as a human bridge between the founders' era and our own. "We fought the British over a 3 percent tea tax. We might as well bring the British back," he told NPR during a recent protest outside the Capitol.

It's a charming act, which makes the tea-party movement seem no more unnerving than the people who spend their weekends reenacting the Civil War. But the 18th-century getups mask something disturbing. After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John Birch than John Adams.

Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits, such as Bill O'Reilly, who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement's more militant oddballs.

One of the most bizarre moments of the recent tea-party convention came when blogger Andrew Breitbart delivered a particularly vicious fulmination against the mainstream media, prompting everyone to get up, turn toward the media section at the back of the conference room, and scream, "USA! USA! USA!" But the tea partiers' well-documented obsession with President Obama has hardly been diffused by their knack for finding new enemies.

Steve Malloy, author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life, kicked off the first full day of conference proceedings by warning that Obama and his minions are conspiring to control every aspect of Americans' lives—the colors of their cars, the kind of toilet paper they use, how much time they spend in the shower, the temperature of their homes—all under the guise of U.N. greenhouse-gas-reduction schemes. "Obama isn't a U.S. socialist," Malloy thundered. "He's an international socialist. He envisions a one-world government."

I consider myself a conservative and arrived at this conference as a paid-up, rank-and-file attendee, not one of the bemused New York Times types with a media pass. But I also happen to be writing a book for HarperCollins that focuses on 9/11 conspiracy theories, so I have a pretty good idea where the various screws and nuts can be found in the great toolbox of American political life.

Within a few hours in Nashville, I could tell that what I was hearing wasn't just random rhetorical mortar fire being launched at Obama and his political allies: the salvos followed the established script of New World Order conspiracy theories, which have suffused the dubious right-wing fringes of American politics since the days of the John Birch Society.

This world view's modern-day prophets include Texas radio host Alex Jones, whose documentary, The Obama Deception, claims Obama's candidacy was a plot by the leaders of the New World Order to "con the Amercican people into accepting global slavery"; Christian evangelist Pat Robertson; and the rightward strain of the aforementioned "9/11 Truth" movement. According to this dark vision, America's 21st-century traumas signal the coming of a great political cataclysm, in which a false prophet such as Barack Obama will upend American sovereignty and render the country into a godless, one-world socialist dictatorship run by the United Nations from its offices in Manhattan.

Sure enough, in Nashville, Judge Roy Moore warned, among other things, of "a U.N. guard stationed in every house." On the conference floor, it was taken for granted that Obama was seeking to destroy America's place in the world and sell Israel out to the Arabs for some undefined nefarious purpose. The names Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers popped up all the time, the idea being that they were the real brains behind this presidency, and Obama himself was simply some sort of manchurian candidate.

A software engineer from Clearwater, Fla., told me that Washington, D.C., liberals had engineered the financial crash so they could destroy the value of the U.S. dollar, pay off America's debts with worthless paper, and then create a new currency called the Amero that would be used in a newly created "North American Currency Union" with Canada and Mexico. I rolled my eyes at this one-off kook. But then, hours later, the conference organizers showed a movie to the meeting hall, Generation Zero, whose thesis was only slightly less bizarre: that the financial meltdown was the handiwork of superannuated flower children seeking to destroy capitalism.

And then, of course, there is the double-whopper of all anti-Obama conspiracy theories, the "birther" claim that America's president might actually be an illegal alien who's constitutionally ineligible to occupy the White House. This point was made by birther extraordinaire and Christian warrior Joseph Farah, who told the crowd the circumstances of Obama's birth were more mysterious than those of Jesus Christ. (Apparently comparing Obama to a messiah is only blasphemous if you're doing so in a complimentary vein.) To applause, he declared, "My dream is that if Barack Obama seeks reelection in 2012 that he won't be able to go to any city, any city, any town in America without seeing signs that ask, 'Where's the birth certificate?'"

Many of the tea-party organizers I spoke with at this conference described the event as a critical step in their ascendancy to the status of mainstream political movement. Yet with rare exceptions, such as blogger Breitbart, who was reportedly overheard protesting Farah's birther propaganda, none of them seems to realize how off-putting the toxic fantasies being spewed from the podium were.

Perhaps the most distressing part of all is that few media observers bothered to catalog these bizarre, conspiracist outbursts, and instead fixated on Sarah Palin's Saturday night keynote address. It is as if, in the current overheated political atmosphere, we all simply have come to expect that radicalized conservatives will behave like unhinged paranoiacs when they collect in the same room.

That doesn't say much for the state of the right in America. The tea partiers' tricornered hat is supposed to be a symbol of patriotism and constitutional first principles. But when you take a closer look, all you find is a helmet made of tin foil.
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[jclalor 12]

Nothing worse than a deadbeat teabagger Congressman that can fuck and make babies but can't support them. What a low life, he can't even be bothered to show up to court. He claimed his vote in congress was too important to show up for the child support hearing.

How did he vote? present.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/7656284-417/judge-scolds-rep-joe-walsh-in-child-support-case-with-ex-wife.html

[Amazon 7]

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Nothing worse than a deadbeat teabagger Congressman that can fuck and make babies but can't support them. What a low life, he can't even be bothered to show up to court. He claimed his vote in congress was too important to show up for the child support hearing.

How did he vote? present.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/7656284-417/judge-scolds-rep-joe-walsh-in-child-support-case-with-ex-wife.html

From your link.

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In a video lecturing Obama on the need to get the country’s finances in order, Walsh said, “I won’t place one more dollar of debt upon the backs of my kids and grandkids unless we structurally reform the way this town spends money.”

For a guy so far behind in child support, I wonder if he can define hypocrisy for his Tea Party buddies the next time he is on FAUX News

[rushmc 23]

You really dont like to post links to show where you get your crap from

but it is not too hard to look

But you said it it a conservative who wrote this yet you do not provide a link or a name

Why?


Afraid of exposing to all from where you get told what to think?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Black+Helicopters+Over+Nashville+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[RonD1120 62]

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And I am a Republican saying this!

You tea party people are just fickle Republicans that evolved when Obama first started his crazy government spending. If you really cared about making a difference you would have stayed inside the party instead of bailing out thinking that was the answer. All you did was create disunity! Leaving the Republican party was like a spouse leaving the marriage because they didn't want to work thru the differences.... Tea Party members turned outside of their political marriage to find liberty when they should have stayed at home to fix thru the issues. It's called commitment..

When the 2012 election is held we will see two parties like we always have of any significance. Republicans, and Democrats.

By the way, the "Tea Party" hasn't even made it to the list of political parties of the United States. It's time to give it up and come home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States

I changed my voter registration from Republican to Independent prior to BHO coming to power.

Our government needs an overhaul and I don't think the Republicans are any more competent than the Democrats.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[captain_stan 0]

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And I am a Republican saying this!

Is that supposed to give you credibility?

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Leaving the Republican party was like a spouse leaving the marriage because they didn't want to work thru the differences....

Actually it's more like the battered spouse who has tried to no avail in asking a partner to stop the abuse.

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When the 2012 election is held we will see two parties like we always have of any significance. Republicans, and Democrats.

And therein lies the problem--business as usual. Each of the two parties assumes the arrogant posture that they are the only rational choice and the electorate will have to give up our values and try to pick the lesser of two evils.

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It's time to give it up

That's some sales pitch you have.

[kallend 2,147]

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Nothing worse than a deadbeat teabagger Congressman that can fuck and make babies but can't support them. What a low life, he can't even be bothered to show up to court. He claimed his vote in congress was too important to show up for the child support hearing.

How did he vote? present.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/7656284-417/judge-scolds-rep-joe-walsh-in-child-support-case-with-ex-wife.html

"Family Values" GOP style = "Stiff your kids"

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Amazon 7]

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You really dont like to post links to show where you get your crap from

but it is not too hard to look

But you said it it a conservative who wrote this yet you do not provide a link or a name

Why?


Afraid of exposing to all from where you get told what to think?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Black+Helicopters+Over+Nashville+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

Why should he.. you don't post your "company" newsletter written by the Koch's where you get your "thoughts" on global warming and environmental pollution from!!!

[kelpdiver 2]

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You and others keep posting stuff like this

The ONLY place I see this kind of assertion is from libs and the main stream media

I'm pretty sure you were around for the Reform Party - it lasted just over 4 years before imploding...well really it died when Perot stopped feeding it money.

The GOP has a majority of the House - the Tea Party members in particular have a very limited incumbency advantage, yet they're playing a giant game of fiscal chicken with the debt payment. If the voters punish them for it, Pelosi may be Majority Leader again (though I would hope others challenge her for it).

[rushmc 23]

Why should he.. you don't post your "company" newsletter written by the Koch's where you get your "thoughts" on global warming and environmental pollution from!!!

[rushmc 23]

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You and others keep posting stuff like this

The ONLY place I see this kind of assertion is from libs and the main stream media

I'm pretty sure you were around for the Reform Party - it lasted just over 4 years before imploding...well really it died when Perot stopped feeding it money.

The GOP has a majority of the House - the Tea Party members in particular have a very limited incumbency advantage, yet they're playing a giant game of fiscal chicken with the debt payment. If the voters punish them for it, Pelosi may be Majority Leader again (though I would hope others challenge her for it).

doesnt answer the question

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[kelpdiver 2]

was there a question somewhere?