No tea-bagging for me; I want to see Chipper hit a four-bagger
Jim Galloway over at Political Insider reports that the $25,000 cost of the “grassroots” tea-bag protest at the Capitol tonight is being underwritten by Americans for Prosperity. That’s a Washington lobbying group funded in part by the billionaire Koch family (if you want to know how rich they are, well, they bought Georgia Pacific). Jim Stephenson of Yancey Brothers, maybe the biggest the heavy-equipment seller in Georgia, is also on the AFP board (corrected from original).
They’re getting people all ginned up as a means to keep their own personal taxes low, and I’m sure they think it’s money well-spent. And hey, if some folks don’t mind getting manipulated like that, that’s their business.
Me, I’m going to the Braves game.
UPDATE:
Well, Chipper’s out injured, I see. So much for that.
But I did run into some friendly folks on MARTA headed to the Capitol for the rally. They were about to miss their stop until I told them they had reached their destination. They said thanks for the help, and were on their way.
Dress warm if you’re going. It’s a bit chilly and windy.
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I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
5:52 pm
I was seconds away from complimenting Bookman on his maturity and shazam, he juveniles up.
He finally got the tea bagging TP memo
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I think Obozo hasn’t quite reached the level of fascist yet, simply because he doesn’t have the required intelligence, you could call whoever fills in the syntax for his Teleprompter, now there’s your fascist-
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report sent to law enforcement that lists veterans as a terrorist risk to the U.S. and defines “rightwing extremism” as including groups opposed to abortion and immigration.
Hatin on our soldiers, gosh, I wonder who accused you filthy pinkos of that before, hmmm?
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
No, it ain’t gonna be alright.
Joe Matarotz
April 15th, 2009
5:55 pm
Jay, maybe the Koch family just doesn’t agree with your political views. You can use your journalisitic talent and write a Vent to have them deported.
And maybe, just maybe, there are other people who don’t agree with your views. SO I guess that makes them spineless or mindless or shallow of character in your eye. I certainly get the feeling that you might not be at the level of compensation that you believe you deserve. I can’t explain your vitriol towards people who have worked hard to be successful and earn what they have. You must have been absent the day they discussed fairness in reporting – you are as far from fair as Rush is.
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
6:02 pm
Gee, what an in depth know it all beat reporter bookman is, I guess when you spend all your time waiting by the fax machine for your next column……..
Jim Stephenson of Yancey Brothers, the largest road contractor in Georgia, is also on the AFP board.
Yancey Brothers sells Caterpillar construction, logging and farming equipment.
They no buildee thee roadee, genius.
It’s all the same thing to a socialist, I guess, hahahahaha
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
6:07 pm
Tea Brained, hehehe.
Ed on MSNBC rightly says you can’t support the troops if you don’t pay your taxes.
These malcontent, childish indivuals need to shut it and pay their damn taxes.
jt
April 15th, 2009
6:08 pm
I would rather be manipulated by successful businessmen than goverment hacks.
RW-(the original)
April 15th, 2009
6:15 pm
Jay B,
I too thought that you were one of the few liberals managing to resist the tea-bagging routine and in fact I thought you might have even been on the verge of having your sycophants tone it down. Too bad you couldn’t restrain yourself and to make things worse it’s not even original in any way by the time you decided to hop in the gutter.
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
6:16 pm
What this tea bag thing really is is a “Celebration of our Irrelevence.”
These people aren’t mainstream America…unless mainstream America is a bunch of wingnuts on the verge of wigging out.
TUESDAY VANDY GIRL
April 15th, 2009
6:18 pm
We conservatives have a tax PROTEST with tea as the symbolism..Tea Bagging is seperate..It involves Barney Frank
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
6:19 pm
Ed on MSNBC rightly says you can’t support the troops if you don’t pay your taxes.
Oh yeah, if it were only that.
How simple can a liberal be, quite, let’s see what “brilliance” BrainDeadAtlanta displays next.
Kamchak
April 15th, 2009
6:22 pm
jt
You have been manipulated by successful businessmen colluding with a laissez-faire executive branch of this government for the past 28 years. What we are experiencing is the logical conclusion of supply-side, corporate worship. Trickle down is a warm yellow stream.
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
6:24 pm
Astro turf movement as opposed to a grass roots movement.
Mwuhahahahahaha
Even Pelosi understands this is an attempt by the wealthy to keep the focus on tax cuts for the wealthy.
Look at all the working class and middle class people out there rallying for the rich folks who can’t make it if they have to pay another 10% of their income in taxes.
Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. “Get in line, people, get in line and keep your noses clean.”
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
6:24 pm
Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union
Damn best idea I’ve heard all day.
You heard these Atlanta pinkos just the other day, they don’t like us Red Staters and we don’t like them.
They can have their filthy third world perverted rathole, tax themselves to damn death for all we care.
getathejoke, we’re taking La. with us, you better start house shopping up yon way.
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
6:27 pm
I Report/You Whine searches the internet, 24/7 to find something to copy and paste into this blog that backs up or is supposed to represent whatever little sparkle of a thought he has and what does he come up with?
John Lennon?
Some folks either never have a thought of their own or maybe they just don’t know how to express a though using the english language in its written form?
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
6:31 pm
John Lennon?
Actually, moron, it was the Beatles but whatever.
jt
April 15th, 2009
6:32 pm
Senator Saxby Chambliss R. Ga. joins forces with Ex-Governor Roy Barnes in Vidalia. It’s a par 4.
jt
April 15th, 2009
6:33 pm
Kamchak- I’m well aware of that. But I don’t look to the same entity to save me. I just want them to leave me alone.
jt
April 15th, 2009
6:35 pm
Kamchut- If you think they changed by a letter behind their name, then you might be a Bookman liberal.
ray
April 15th, 2009
6:41 pm
say, foley gonna be teabagging in the ‘a’ tonight?
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
6:45 pm
I Report,
That’s from Instant Karma which was post-Beatles John Lennon
Proud American
April 15th, 2009
6:47 pm
These non-events are really strange. First off, the name – do these guys not know the kinky connotations of “teabagging?” It seems that the cable news people are having fun with that one at the “teabaggers’” expense. Secondly, doesn’t it seem weird for all these NASCAR lovin’ folks to be carting around tea bags? When was the last time any of them drank tea? Powdered iced tea doesn’t count. Shouldn’t they at least be required to wear powdered wigs, or, like the Bostonians of yore, be dressed up in fake Indian gear? I guess I don’t understand. Close to 100% of these yahoos get a tax cut under Obama’s plan, so what tax are they protesting, exactly?
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
6:47 pm
I Report,
That’s a perfect example of you quoting anything from anywhere with no idea what it means or who wrote it. If it appears to flow with your brain flow you cut and paste it in here.
Now, who is the moron?
Kamchak
April 15th, 2009
6:48 pm
jt
If you are speaking of Clinton then no, I don’t think a letter makes a difference–that’s why I said the executive branch. It goes beyond that-I remember a report in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s that said before 1980 there were only 1000 or so registered lobbyists in DC. After 1980 that number ballooned to over 10000. The most hare-brained decision of the Supreme Court judged that money = free-speech. Money = bribery. Lobbyist do play a vital role in giving a voice to those who cannot access our elected officials, but I find it difficult to believe that large corporations are voiceless.
ty webb
April 15th, 2009
6:48 pm
BDatlanta,
Did Ed really say that. How dare he question the patriotism of the millions of people at the bottom of the income bracket who pay no income taxes. Not very progressive of him.
We The People
April 15th, 2009
6:50 pm
It’s only a matter of time until there is violence due to this false grass roots movement against government officials, that’s what Fixed Noise and others really want to see, you know..?
Also much of this is just that many will not accept a black man being in the White House no matter what he does or how good a job he does…a lot of this is about race, simple as that..!
The Corporal
April 15th, 2009
6:53 pm
Jay:
The “gulf” widens. This does not bode well for our Republic.
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
6:54 pm
BrainDeadAtlanta- Say what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts
Ray
April 15th, 2009
6:55 pm
Watched both Cavutto and Beck in San Antonio and in Sacramento. There didn’t seem to be any Nazi armbands, any violence and it seemed that the people were there expressing their views. I did see an alarming lack of black people there. This appeared to be a protest by white America that the government is spending too much money and is not making good decisions regarding our future. It was made clear by both hosts that there were disgruntled Democrats, Republicans and Independents in the 10,000 or so people who showed up at the Alamo. This is going to grow. The whole problem started with Clinton, then came Bush who doubled the deficit and then Buckwheat who will double it again. We are getting tired of this. The Congress, regardless of party, has spent us into a corner and then we are asked to spend more to get us out of this mess. The same people who created the mess in the first place are the ones trying to find a solution. Makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?
D in Larryville
April 15th, 2009
6:56 pm
Stop the madness.
Repeal the 17th.
getalife
April 15th, 2009
6:58 pm
Comedy gold.
LMN
April 15th, 2009
6:58 pm
Have you seen any of the coverage? Does this mass of the unwashed look like they earn over 250K?
ty webb
April 15th, 2009
6:59 pm
Oh, right, it’s about race. How long did that take?
Eleanor Rigby
April 15th, 2009
7:01 pm
So, tax reform is radical and people who don’t want to pay more than their fair share are just ignorant rubes. Wow, I feel like Alice in Wonderland. But the people have spoken. If the majority of Americans had wanted tax reform they could have voted for Ron Paul or Bob Barr. They didn’t. So the people got what they wanted. I don’t know what they’re going to do when tax payers stop working because it just isn’t worth it.
By the way, the term “Tea Party” is in reference to the Boston Tea Party. It has nothing to do with tea bags. I guess the folks who threw that tea in the harbor were radical, ingorant rubes who had the audacity to think they could take on Great Britain. What were they thinking?
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
7:01 pm
I like liberals, especially when they demean and ridicule people that think their government is out of control, you know, sort of like our Founding Fathers did. So that means the liberals are assuming the role of King George and his drunken band of losers that got their as-ses kicked up and down the east coast.
Anyone else up for a repeat?
Watson
April 15th, 2009
7:02 pm
Sign at Tea Bag Protest:
“The
American
Taxpayers
Are The Jews
For Obama’s
Ovens.”
http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/30549/teabagger.jpg
The rot in the Republican party is deep. Very deep.
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
7:03 pm
Here we go. They are officially wigging out. Parenthesis are mine:
TEXAS GOVERNOR THREATENS TO SECEDE
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”
An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt. [but we like wars and our troops, and lots of police and Navy Seals with excellent marksmanship skills but we don't use tax money to pay for all that, do we? Duh]
Perry repeated his running theme that Texas’ economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the “federal budget mess.” Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.
Perry called his supporters patriots. Later, answering news reporters’ questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that.[Go ahead Texas, we really don't need you anyhoo. in fact, we'd be better off without the 2 recent idiot Presidents you've supplied us with.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
TW
April 15th, 2009
7:03 pm
Surely there must be a liberal mastermind behind this abortion of political display. The rightwing knowingly feeds steroids to the redneck Palin/JTP factor that cost them the election? C’mon…
Teabagging?????
C’mon…
jewcowboy
April 15th, 2009
7:05 pm
I wonder how many fo these tea baggers actually took MARTA. And how many of them in the past couple of weeks have said, “let MARTA die, they can’t have my tax money to help them out.”
Phil
April 15th, 2009
7:07 pm
Maybe Texas will secede and take Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina with them.
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
7:07 pm
no, Eleanor Rigby. Trying to connect this farce with what happened 200 years ago is what we would call “ignorant rube.” These are malcontents who are acting childish.
This President is trying to save capitalism but you don’t want your money/taxes going to help out the cause? Move somewhere else and enjoy the benefits of living there without paying your taxes and see how long you are welcome.
BDAtlanta
April 15th, 2009
7:10 pm
I Report,
I stand corrected. I guess I am the moron.
getalife
April 15th, 2009
7:11 pm
“Teabagger of the Day”
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/teabagger-day
Hilarious.
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
7:12 pm
Phil- If we secede, you’ll be back to the thirteen colonies plus Kalifornia, if you are willing to travel through Kanada to get there, hahaha-
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
Taxpayer
April 15th, 2009
7:13 pm
Well, Jay, the fring right wing tools clearly do not mind be used some more. After all, they enjoy much worse such as being the recipient of the Koch family trickle-down technique and now a Koch teabagging. The tools. You can’t help but feel sorry for them. Or, not.
Taxpayer
April 15th, 2009
7:18 pm
Kamchak,
Apparently, they’ve bought into the line about it being warm yellow rain. They have enjoyed that for so long that they are now ready to move up a little, to the tea bags. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. Then again, the Constitution does not expressly prohibit them from their activities — even protesting.
I Report/ You Whine
April 15th, 2009
7:21 pm
Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.
Phil
April 15th, 2009
7:21 pm
Let Texas go…better yet, give it to Mexico. In trade, we get the Baja peninsula. But first, pull all federal spending from the state, the Houston Space Flight Center, the various military installations, all the air traffic controllers, all support of their interstate highways, all support of Medicare and Social Security, all the border patrol folks.
While we’re at it, give Florida to Cuba. In exchange, we get to reopen the casinos.
Both these places have been nothing but trouble for years. Hmmm, they both had Bushes as governors. I see a pattern here.
Phil
April 15th, 2009
7:26 pm
I have for some time now conjectured that Bush and Cheney might very well be the first past president and vice-president to be forced to live in exile. Little did I know that Texas may accomplish that feat for them!
Taxpayer
April 15th, 2009
7:28 pm
It really is amusing how some in this right wing fringe get all bent out of shape about a harmless word that doesn’t even have a formally accepted definition. Teabagging has no formally approved definition. So, your right winger can just teabag to your heart’s content and define it as you want. Define it as Koch crotch for all we care.
jt
April 15th, 2009
7:29 pm
Headline AP-
Colonel Hank Paulson of the United Nations Goverment Sachs force has just gained control of the operating interests of Bermuda. “It was a tough fight and there were many a scuffed tassled loafer, but we beat those tea partiers’. He warns of “Frozen” banks unless he can get the cash to “unfreeze” it. According to anonymous sources, Reprensenative Nancy Pelosi is looking for the check book.
Kamchak
April 15th, 2009
7:32 pm
Taxpayer
Protesting is one thing–secession is another. I thought Dave R was the fringe the other day, then our resident military expert wanted a rational dialogue to justify splitting the Union–as if there is anything rational in the very idea. We went through this a century and a half ago, and the results weren’t pleasant, and obviously some have unresolved issues about it.