And they wonder why people are upset

Let’s hope the tea party zeal translates into voters at the polls in November. My question for the tea party members and other conservatives who are justifiably upset by the direction of the country is thiss: how many of you stayed home in November ‘08 rather than vote for McCain. If you did, you share the blame.

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AFTER 8 LONG YEARS OF REPUBLICANS LOOKING THE OTHER WAY WHERE GOLDMAN AND THEIR ILK WERE CONCERNED, THE TEA PARTY PEOPLE NEED NOT VOTE REPUBLICAN. JOIN THE TAR AND FEATHERS PARTY, WE ARE INTO REVENGE.

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Bubba – Not too worry, the Tea Party has supporters who can’t come to the rallies because they are working, but will take the time to vote in November (like me).

Tar and Feathers – don’t believe a word from the SEC; that’s the same group who ignored the warnings about Madof. The root of the financial breakdown can be traced to our own peanut farmer president who started the program to put people in housing the could not afford. Presidents since him let it continue, but Boozo Clinton turned up the pressure with Janet Reno intimidating banks to make more sub-prime loans. From that point, the loan packaging, etc. go out of hand and there is no excuse for that, but it was kinda like giving a kid a gallon of icecream and telling him to eat only a few scoops. Progressives who favor government control of everything won’t agree.

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The Goldman Sachs thing is a dog & pony show.
The dirty little secret is that Wall Street Exec’s(not the rank & file workers) are hooked in with the govt & are liberal.
I don’t need any analysis or comments from the supposed brainiacs about this little game that they are playing on us.
GS knows that they will be totally fine in the end & Obama gets whatever he wants.
I tell ya, the Big 3 (Media, Govt & Wall St Exec’s) is sickening, joined at the hip & very liberal.
They’re all buddies that hang out & socialize together. I’m sure they will all have a nice summer together in the Hamptons laughing there arses off on how they continue to screw us.

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Enter your comments here”The dirty little secret is that Wall Street Exec’s(not the rank & file workers) are hooked in with the govt & are liberal.”
Now there is a well kept dirty little secret, you’ve a brilliant imagination, JJ.

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What makes me so upset with the Tea Party in particular, and what is summed up in your cartoon, is that both parties have been doing this! Repubs are just as much to blame for writing nonsense bills and having a hey day with the taxpayer monies. The Tea Party only became a “movement” after Obama won – which to me equals – they lost control and are now having a 2-yr old-like tantrum over it. (The author of the Tea Party Contract stated he began drafting the contract right after Obama won – not after Obama actually did anything)

If everything in the past year had turned out the same – same taxes – sames legislation – same everything – except McCain won – would the Tea party be in existence? (this is a real possibility considering McCain’s views on the campaign trail)

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Yes T & F, the connection from K Street to Wall St management is incestuous. But the media & the politicians are right there in the middle of it. That group of people are all in it together.

Hey jopar, please debate my point about how close these people are. If you don’t know that these people are all friends you have not been paying attention.

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Tar and Feather, you have got it all wrong. First, the problem with Goldman Sachs actually began with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back in 1998. First you had the repeal of Glass-Steagall which kept retail, commercial, insurance and investment banking segregated. Secondly, Bill Clinton along with Andrew Cuomo, then Sec of HUD, worked a deal with Republicans that if $2.8 trillion in low cost mortgages would be made available to minorities then he, Clinton, would sign the Graham, Leach, Bliley Act which repealed Glass-Steagall. This stroke of the pen by Clinton immediately created the Dot Com or Tech Bubble because now every bank could get into the underwriting business and is how the garage companies like DogFart.com became publically traded companies capitalised in the 100s of millions when it nothing but a one room daisey-chained computer server operation run by 2 individuals. The reason Clinton did this was Southern Christian Leadership organization had long argued that minorities were discriminated against when it came to getting loans because many did not have verifiable income nor did they even own a bank account. Well Fannie and Freddie solved that problem and they went from backing approximately 8% of the mortgage market in 1998 to roughly 60% by 2007. In return, home ownership went from a 100 year historical average of just over 50% before Clinton took office to almost 70-75% by 2007 in 15 short years. This debunked the law of large numbers reality. Fannie and Freddie were able to do this because of the financial derivative tools of securiting the high risk loans as well as using credit default swaps which had come on the scene in 1994 after a JP Morgan investment banker convention in Boca Raton, FL which made everyone believe that the entire system was safe from implosion as the other banks were counter party to each others risk. What no one thought about was a complete systematic collapse at the time. However, in 2004 GW Bush’s administration actually tried to have congress investigate Fannie and Freddie as they did see the possiblity of a collapse. It was good times though and Sen Chris Dodd and Rep Barney Frank saw no need to disrupt a wealth transfer program which was working as they saw it as intended. Minorities were buying homes no money down, no verifiable income and no job in some cases. They could stay in the home for a couple of years paying interest only and walk away with a 20 -30% profit. In short, the situation was not caused by Republicans and certainly not G W Bush. The Democrats were up to their eyeballs in what became the housing and credit crisis.

Here, I have enclosed and article carried in every major news paper from 1999 that raves aout Clinton’s little housing project that I described.

http://findarticles.com/p/mi_pwwi/is_20050229/ai_mark07000832/

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“faux tea partiers” — did not know that there was a litimus test or some pledge. Apparently you have to agree on all points to have a voice or to attend? What exactly is the test Kyle? How do you determine who is “faux” and how they are “dealt with”? If there are only true tea partiers “allowed” and a KKK guy is a part…I guess that means that all tea partiers believe that?

You cannot have it both ways Kyle. Tea partiers cannot disown and “deal with” a person in the protest and say they “dont represent my interests” and “faux partiers” and then claim there is not a “test” or that those who remain do not represent them. Where is the “party pledge”.

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Kevin@1:22, Your article can’t be found. Please retype it. Thanks.

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Tar,

It won’t let me link the article. So Google: 1999 Homeownership Rate Hits Record Annual High of 66.8%

There you will find it. Hope in enlightens you about what really happened and not what you wish had happened. The only way to solve problems is to look at what really caused then in totality. Then and only then can we collective come up with a viable solution.

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Despite the fact that 95 percent of Americans received tax cuts last year, the tea partiers gathered to whine about having received imaginary tax hikes in a country having among the lowest tax burdens of all developed nations.

I continue to be amazed that so many would allow themselves to be led around by the nose by the fact-challenged right-wing noise machine.

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Kevin – Will expire in next Jan. or already did? Either way, Bush cut taxes at a time when he also went to war with 2 countries, not usually a good idea, and the deficit skyrocketed. Isn’t one of the Tea Party contracts to balance the budget? Guess as long as you are a GOP then it is ok.

State, local, and property taxes are not exactly what the Tea Partiers are protesting. There protesting is aimed at the federal government. Not that I like that the State taxes keep going up, but they should focus their protests to the correct place.

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Scrappy, Tea Partiers were just at the Georgia State Capital yesterday. I don’t think that constitutes complaining to the fedreal government. I live in Atlanta and I can tell you that most are complaining about property taxes including whites, blacks, conservatives and liberals. So you are wrong to assume it is only directed at the ferderal government. Also, raising taxes has never increased the federal coffers. Wars…Well let’s see how many Democrats have waged war:

War of 1812 – James Madison – Democratic Republican (Today is the Democratic Party

Civil War – Abraham Lincoln – Republican – Southern Democrats succeeded from the Union and fired the first shots of the war in SC

WWI – Woodrow Wilson – Democrat
WWII – FDR
Cold War – Harry S Truman – Democrat – Inventor of the Truman Doctoran and Domino Theory
Korean Conflict – Harry S Truman – Democrat – Harry went to war without approval of congress
Vietnem – JFK and LBJ – Democrats – A Republican Richard M Nixon got us out of that war
Persian Gulf 1 – George Bush – Republican
Gulf War 2 – GW Bush – Republican
Afghanistan – GW Bush – Republican

Also, Since WW1 Democrats have controlled congress 66 years to Republicans 16 the other years it was equally divided. So tell me again who is responsible for wars and the shape of the country?

Finally, the last Party to balance the budget was the Gingrich Republicans.

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To add to Kevin’s comment….
The fed. govt. back in 1934 began the process of redlining, preventing lending in neighborhoods they considered risky, printing & distributing the maps to real estate agents & lenders.
In 1977 community organizers, ACORN-type groups, convinced Carter to reverse the trend with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, but it only applied to banks.
In 1995 Clinton strengthened it to apply to all lenders. Congress, led by Dodd & Frank, required Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (Government Sponsored Enterprises) (GSEs) to reduce their lending standards. Countrywide & other mortgage companies soon joined their lead.
Mortgage companies originated the loans, sold them to secondary lenders such as Fannie & Freddie, who packaged them with prime loans & sold them to big banks on Wall St. as mortgage investments/securities.
Developers, builders, real estate companies, mortgage companies, home buyers, real estate investors, tax departments, etc. were profiting until the real estate bubble burst. Who would have ever thought that buyers with no down payment, no job & bad credit could not afford to make their payments, especially when the adjustable rate mortgages adjusted?
Republicans! In 4/01, Bush’s budget request for ‘02 said that Fannie & Freddie posed a “potential problem” & if either were in trouble, it could “cause strong repercussion in the financial markets.”
Republicans introduced bills in both ‘03 & ‘05 to rein them in.
Frank said on 9/13/03, “I think we see entities who are fundamentally sound financially…The more pressure there is there, then the less I think we see in terms of Affordable Housing…”
Greenspan said on 2/24/04, “If we fail to strengthen the GSE Regulation, we increase the possibility of insolvency in a crisis. We put at risk our ability to preserve safe & sound financial markets in the US.”
Dem. Sen. Charles Schumer, said on 4/7/05, “Things are good in the housing market. Why are people entertaining radical change?”
By the beginning of ‘08 the GSEs had issued over $4 trillion in loans.
TARP, the toxic assess relief program has not bought a dime of toxic assets.

(They tried to rein in Fannie & Freddie in both 2003 & 2005.

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Did the pawns eat prawns at the party?

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scrappy@1:52, You said, “Bush cut taxes at a time when he also went to war with 2 countries, not usually a good idea, & the deficit skyrocketed.”

By 2/09, those 2 wars had cost us about $800 Billion dollars fighting for 15 years, 8 years in one & 7 years in the other.

That didn’t stop Obama & the Dems from spending almost the exact same amount of money 3 wks after he took the oath with a bill they didn’t even take the time to read, when we were still fighting both of those wars, one of which he later escalated. That bill also included tax cuts which Obama was bragging about today.

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Kevin O’Keefe: The Black community has been hit the hardest because they are the poorest. That does not mean they borrowed the most and defaulted on the most. Poor people with loans less than 100K could not have put us in this trillion dollar disaster, it took upper middle class people making 90K and up buying 500K house they could not afford, in hopes of selling a few years later for a 100K more.

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O’Keefe, The black community can be hit the hardest without being the largest number of cases. Blacks make up less than 8% of the US population,but like many things are portrayed as the main beneficiaries of public assistance.When most people think of welfare(Food Stamps) they think black people. Now it has been true that many in the Black Community have been affected by the mortgage crisis and the effects have been pretty bad. Many Blacks who were affected were living in the homes they were financing which then had catastrophic results.Many of the other forclosures were in many cases 2nd or rental/investment properties. I remember how so many people went to real estate/wealth building seminars and thought they could be the next Donald Trump. So when the bubble burst many of them just walked away. After all, many of them had somewhere to live. It was much more than sub-prime mortgages going bad,Here you had banks and large companies carrying huge debts with very little liquid(reserves),you had the country spending billions on wars and once the bubble burst,it was the blame game. Everybody has some blame,many people bought homes they couldn’t afford, banks packaged bad debts into other investments,the Govt bailed out some and were responsible for encouraging these bad business practices, capitalism at its best, money rules and greed is looked at as the standard, but unfortunately when all is said and done this all started because Black people were allowed to buy homes they couldn’t afford and to make matters worst the Black President just gave Health Insurance to who else”Black People”.

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Intown – your post shows you do not understand the Tea Party folks. I had an exchange with Jay Bookman yesterday because he did not understand why the Tea Party referred to Tyranny.

The Tea Party bases such signs as Don’t Tread on Me, and references to Tyranny on the history of the colonies separating from England. Don’t tread on me was a popular saying then. As for Tyranny, if there is not Liberty, there is Tyranny. Any number of Obama policies and bills passed since he took office show a loss of Liberty. The health care bill being likely at the top of the list.

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scrappy@2:52, You are right. The Tea Party movement is national & 99% of our protests are against the actions at the federal level.

If a GOP member had won the White House, he would not have done the exact same things. I’ve never experienced any president fighting against the Constitution & trying to turn our country from capitalism into a socialist state.

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Hey Kyle ……… People are upset because we melted down under the BUSH / Republican watch…….

Remember the Republican Mantra is….. no regulations, let the markets sort all out !

You are a Funny Guy Kyle !

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For a unique look at the Tea Party Movement, its historical context, and its most likely disposition, you may want to read an in interesting article at:

http://funks2.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-trip-to-nowhere-on-the-tea-party-express/

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Tar and Feather, again you assume too much. There are many more $100,000 properties than there are $500,000 ones. The GSE’s have reported that the average foreclosure is $77,935. So you still want to tell me that it is mostly $500,000 homes? your math doesn’t add up! If you read the article you would see that minorities BY FAR benefited the most during the housing boom and because of that they have also been hurt the most by the bust. As Linda said better than I, people (often minorities) were given (Ninja) loans. (N)o verifiable (I)ncome – (N)o (J)ob – or (A)ssets because black leaders had argued that using the same criteria on blacks to qualify for loans was discriminatory. This was why lending standards were dropped also as Linda said. In return for assuming that increased risk Fannie and Freddie bought those loans and repackaged them into tradeable securities which were literally sold around the world as AAA investment grade paper or shares. As fannie and feddie grew and posted astonishing returns every other bank wanted in on the game and because of the repeal of Glass-Steagall they could do it.

Scrappy,
It is the right and duty protected in the constitution to assemble in peaceful protest. If you don’t like it then don’t watch it. However, I find it odd that people didn’t mind when Bush was being protested and he deserved to be. Obama represents the opposite extreme of Bush. Most people want something more moderate in government and leadership. That is why they are there and will continue to be there until the will of the people is achieved. You don’t like it…Then find another country to plop you stuff in. We have been protesting in this country long before we were a country and we will protest long after you and I are dead! It is called freedom. Free at last…Free at last…Thank God Almighty, We are free at last…REMEMBER?

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JohnnyReb@3:10,
In the ’90’s, the Dems/Progressives were pushing Affordable Housing in the name of Social Justice. It caused a world-wide financial recession.

Now, in 2009-10, the Dems/Progressives were pushing Universal Health Care in the name of Social Justice.

They took the best hc system in the world that insured 85% of Americans, 95% who were happy, lumped millions more people into Medicare that’s broke, lumped billions of dollars on the states, putting our insurance companies out of businesses, taxing our manufacturers of medical devices, adding 16,500 IRS police officers, raising taxes on taxpayers, raising taxes & reducing incentives to corporations to cover their retirees, raising taxes on drug makers, adding a 6000 member army, mandating Americans to buy insurance, mandating employers to provide insurance, cutting Medicare & ignoring the Constitution.

Immigration reform will add perhaps another 12 million people with others to follow.

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The word “nobody” it the cartoon should be replaced with “the tea party”.

The Tea Party doesn’t seem to understand much of anything. But I will hand’em this: they are real good at making home-made signs.

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Mit, I actually believe that with every law that is passed we lose more of our freedoms. I believe in less government in my life. Living in Atlanta I snarrle everytime I drive through an intersection that has cameras although I haven’t had a traffice ticket in 14 years which was my third ever. I am a law abidding citizen who doesn’t need Big Brother looking over me and my family. I am against a 2000 plus page healthcare bill that didn’t have one sentence within which addressed controling healthcare costs. I am against being intellectually insulted by leadership which tells me that my premiums won’t change and I’ll have access to the same or better services when more doctors are leaving medical practices faster than they are being replaced according to the AMA. What I saw was government agency after agency being formed and program after program being created (”at no additional cost”) – yea right! If you are for that then I say to you that you support a much larger government than I, my friend. If governments were so efficient at doing things we never would have needed trade, markets and entreprenuers. In reality those three things were present before governments ever existed.

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o’keefe, I am talking about the will of the people. they use govt. to control other people.

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I believe in less government in my life -o’keefe

so your for gay marriage, pro-choice, and all the other wills people have used govt. to control others.

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who wonders? it’s no mystery.
teabaggers are a bunch of aging white conservatives from the rural west/south who are upset that political/cultural dominance is slipping from their grasp.
their rage won’t be quenched with one or two elections. the underlying issue is that teabaggers represent a declining demographic… soon, the multiculturals that tom tancredo and co. fear so much will be the majority and dominant power in this great nation. and the teabaggers will rage on…

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Well mit, you will never get 100 percent of people behind or for anything. There is an uninhabited island down in the Bahamas though….I think you know what I’m getting at. Point is that the majority of people polled in poll after poll are against the form, style and manner in which this government both democrat and republican, both Bush and Obama have operated. I see a lot of people in this world that want not equal rights but speacial rights. Until we kick that mindset then we as a country are going to be like a crack addict in a crack house trying to get clean.

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Kevin O’Keefe: You’re wrong in this aspect about wars: Vietnam – JFK and LBJ – Democrats – A Republican Richard M Nixon got us out of that war…

Actually, a Republican got us into Vietnam – Dwight David Eisenhower!! When he signed the SEATO Treaty in September, 1954, he committed us to go to Vietnam. When the French pulled out of IndoChina, we were committed to go in!!

You’re also wrong in that lending standards were reduced; the preponderance of mortgages were created by non-financial entities (mortgage brokers)…and they sold them to the financial entities!! Please do not blame the CRA for what mortgage brokers created!!

Linda: You fail to see what Reagan and Bush did to get this nation on this path that Obama is trying to take us AWAY from!! Reagan’s quadrupling of the deficit in his first term and his persistent cutting of domestic spending…and Bush’s unfunded mandates got us here!! Start looking at them before you start blaming Obama!! And BUSH pushed the Ownership Society….the explosion in the real estate market occurred under HIS tutulage….

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If governments were so efficient at doing things we never would have needed trade, markets and entreprenuers. In reality those three things were present before governments ever existed.

Kevin…if governmental controls weren’t properly applied…the result is the financial collapse!! Remember….loosening of tariffs allowed increased trade….but it also allowed manufacturing to go offshore…and the economic capability of the nation to decline…..

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SEATO was created as apart of the Truman Doctrine.

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Joe, Joe @ 2:48. Please remember that when you go to the polls next time and pull the lever for your candidate that he not be a lawyer or someone who has no financial or economic background. We both know that the Congress is the arm of government responsible for the budgets that get passed. As the old saying goes, the president proposes and the Congress disposes.

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JohnnyReb@3:47, I didn’t think hc would pass. It’s amazing how holding Senators hostage on Xmas Eve Eve, threats over the Strategic Air Command, dropping indictments, proposing youhonorships, offering money & other miscellaneous bribes & pork can muster up votes.

My bet is on FedX. They can find an envelope any where in the world in 60 seconds.

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Kevin: the commitment was made under Eisenhower; first combat troops were placed in Vietnam under Eisenhower….the escalation was under Kennedy and Johnson!!! It’s called LBJ’s War because of the escalation…but Eisenhower made the committment for the US to BE there!!

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mit@4:00, The definition of marriage is very simple but it does discriminate against the sex, age, number, relationship, will, life & species of the parties. If you open it up for one group, it would not be fair to all the other groups.

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CrazyInGA

When he said that the average foreclosure was $77k, that doesn’t mean that the property/house was worth $77k. That’s however much was left on the loan when the owner defaulted. I doubt too many people buy a mortgage, never make a single payment, and then default. You own the property for a period of time, lose a job or something, and have no ability to pay your mortgage.

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HDB,

This is off topic of this thread but I just read up on SEATO and there was three thing that Eisenhower required prior to signing

1) At least one other European power would become involved in any conflict, not just the USA;

2) The USA would only provide air and sea cover, other countries would have to provide ground troops and

3) The USA would only act against ‘communist aggression’. It was not prepared to commit forces to Asian inter-country conflicts.

As you can see, JFK and LBJ went far beyond to stipulations within the treaty. Thanks for making me look that up.

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#1 Foxy Lady

April 16th, 2010
3:44 pm
To all you Tea Partiers, #1 Foxy Lady says:

SUCK IT, LOSERS!!!

How many teeth do you have? Any?

I’ll bet you look really good in that ‘68 Camaro with the bondo on the left front fender.

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Shane

April 16th, 2010
5:02 pm
Tea Partier = Angry old white people

the republican party is on life support and almost dead. They arent even relevant nationally anymore.

You keep believing that, Tonto.

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Tea Partier’s protest the status quo but offer nothing in its place. A lot like the Republicans they truly are.

You see, a strong tax base helps support the military. Something they’re vehemently in favor of. Hmmm. Can’t have it both ways.

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The tea party crowd statistically is white, male, over 50, well-educated, and well-off financially. Their protest is that their pile of goodies might get smaller. That’s it. Period. Be honest.

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The tea party crowd statistically is white, male, over 50, well-educated, and well-off financially. Their protest is that their pile of goodies might get smaller. That’s it. Period. Be honest.

Thats it exactly. But hey they gots theres right?

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Shane

April 16th, 2010
5:19 pm
You keep believing that, Tonto.

I will. The republican party has moved so far to the right they have lost alot of followers. When Sarah Palin an Alskan beauty queen is seen as one of the leaders of your party you are in big trouble. The republican party is pretty much a regional party now. They will win in the south but thats about it.

Sarah Palin is not the leader of the Republican party. Michael Steele is. Sarah Palin is just doing what they’ve asked her to do, becuase it infuriates liberals.

You guys always tip your hand when it comes to who scares the heck out of you. First thing you do: character assasination.

As far as moving right; perhaps. But gladly we’re not told what to do by MoveOn.org, SEIU, The Daily KOS, that unemployed proctologist from Vermont or Keith Olbermann.

Win the South only? Who’s the Govenor of New Jersey?

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Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if Rep. John Lewis showed any evidence the N-word was actually yelled at the Congressional Black Caucus by a Tea Party member the weekend the hc bill was passed. There were cameras & cell phones all over the place.

There’s a lot of lyin’ going on.

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Linda,

The days of screaming,”Racism or somebody just called me the N-word,” to get their way is coming to an end. Even black neighbors of mine are sick of how some of these people are handling themselves. WHen Norwood was accused of being a racist by Reed in the recent majoral race here in Atlanta many minorities felt Reed went too far.

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Tea-baggers, we’re white, not too bright, and think a black President is not right.

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Michael

April 16th, 2010
6:07 pm
Tea-baggers, we’re white, not too bright, and think a black President is not right.

Did you get a prize in your box of Cracker-Jack?

And he’s half-white, in case you’re wondering.

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You WANT to believe that Palin annoys liberals. The truth is, she wields ZERO power, ZERO influence, over the decisions of our day. She is a figurehead, self-anointed, and nothing else. You may dig her, but just because you’re a fan doesn’t empower her in the least.

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Tommy

Yeah – You’ll vote for the same pretenders you ALWAYS vote for…the ones who talk about “principles” and then sell us all down the river.

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Linda…really you spew a lot of misinformation…mostly from Fox. Check in on reality.

16,500 new IRS agents to enforce health care? Absolutely false. There are currently only 17,000 enforcement agents now for the entire IRS code. And what are they enforcing? The law says no penalty or jail time.

I’m not going to bother with the rest. You can fact check yourself or just go to a source like Politico.com.

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It’s not necessary to go to any great lengths to make the tea baggers look stupid. They do that all by themselves. They are just really rabid fascist morons!

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Linda, O’Keefe, and JohnnyReb: You guys are very good at selectively reciting history. Linda, as I remember it, Republicans had taken over Congress by 1995, so you cannot blame anything that happened in Congress between ‘94 and ‘06 on just Democrats. You give credit to the Newt Republicans for balancing the budget, but then blame Dems for mortgage policies. How exactly does that work? Clinton and congressional Repubs deserve credit for balancing the budget. Both parties deserve blame for the current mortgage mess. Yes, many people who could not get mortgages before were able to get them after the affordable housing policies were put into place. However, none of this crisis would have been possible without the repeal of Glass Steagall, which was a Republican initiative (repeal).

Also, the affordable housing policies benefitted poor people, not just minorities. The fact that so many of you want to pin this on minorities says much about your motivations. The vast majority of foreclosures (both in numbers and dollars) are for caucasian homeowners. There just are not enough minority homeowners to create a mess of this magnitude. Furthermore, it was people with middle incomes that caused the bulk of this crisis, not the poor homeowners enabled by Affordable Housing. The problem was middle income folks wanting to buy more than they could afford and getting in over their heads.

I could be wrong, but my firm belief is that the TEA party movement, as well as the Repub party’s drastic swing to the far right, is caused by the election of an African-American President. It is a drastic change from the status quo, and something I never expected to see in my life time, and I am not yet 40. It is a sign that the demographics and ideology of the country have changed more quickly than most of us could have imagined. That being said, he is the legally elected president of this country, and to call him and the Dems in Cogress socialist is simply inaccurate and reeks of xenophobia. No policies passed in the last year and 3 mos can even remotely be accurately labeled as socialist. They passed a stimulus full of tax cuts and healthcare reform that provides insurance companies with millions of new customers. How is that socialist? How is that a gov’t takeover? It simply is not.

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BTW – Does anyone, conservative or liberal, really believe that McConnell and the rest of the Repub Senators are standing on principal when they oppose financial reform? I just want to know what you guys think.

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The Tea Party sure has the Big GUB’MENT socialist-liberals scared, as rightly they should be.

For whatever it is worth Kyle, I agree with the earlier blog comment made to ban the use of the word “teabagger” and any variants of it.

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This, too, shall pass.

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LibraryJim

April 16th, 2010
3:19 pm

That’s the reason those of us who work/want to work are not represented by our politicians. I’m guilty too. The democrats sit at home with entitlements and have all the free time they need to protest and be represented. Meanwhile the republicans just outsource their protesting by hiring lobbyists. Just imagine the working class giving up some their precious free time to demand representation. If the middle class actually demanded good government, they might actually get it.

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Vote out the incumbents and start over

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Some people don’t like President Obama because he is half black. Some people voted for Candidate Obama because he was half black. So let’s expose and discredit racism where ever it is found.

I don’t like President Obama because he is twice the war and four times the debt of Bush. I don’t fall for that ‘Bush made him do it’ routine, like President Obama was Ginger Rogers to Bush’s Fred Astaire.

BTW, thank you so much President Obama for letting me keep that extra $10 per week of my own money. Thank you, thank you, thank you, n + 1, to the 52nd power for bailing me out like that, with my own money. At least for last year and this year, as you have determined that it will be too expensive for you to continue to bail me out like that, with my money, after this year.

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You Distort/We Deride – yep.

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Obama is a lightweight marxist tool (as are most who support him). His supporters by and large are lazy and want something for nothing and they want the government to do everything for them. Obama is more than willing to do just that but at the very high cost of the loss of personal freedom and personal rights. Good thing he will be neutered by the november Senate and House elections and be made a lame duck. This will one day be looked upon by history as the worse administration the US has ever had to endure. Carter’s is next and Bush’s will be right behind him.

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Oh ye of little faith.

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Conservatives don’t excuse the previous administration headed by a liberal George Bush and the “Libertarian Neo-Republicans” who spent tax payer money like drunken socialist Democrats.

However, it is very interesting to note that among “Comrade in Chief ” Dear Leader Obama’s major contributors it does tend to read like a Wall Street who’s who list.

Goldman Sachs $994,795

Citigroup Inc $701,290

JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132

UBS AG $543,219

Morgan Stanley $514,881

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

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Corrupted Government ministers, congressmen, senators that seems to be the habit of the times lately! It is well passed the time to clean up the crap on both the Establishment Left and Right in all countries! Reflect the seriousness of our corrupt politicians, look at what has happened in Poland, look at the corruption in Greece, Iceland and the USA, it is right in front of our face!
There is a problem our laws, courts and lawmen only seem to be able to arrest, charge and convict ordinary law abiding citizens!
Should you have super wealth and position we are being shown that these tyrants are above the law, is that the kind of Fascist country Americans’, Canadians’ and the world desire?
Take a look at this brand new video that tells all and illustrates just exactly what is occurring in the upper Echelons of the Political Wealth Mafia!
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Film maker Jason Bermas has collected a truly monumental amount of video archive and document material to render completely obsolete claims that the agenda of today’s ruling elite is not the open move towards a global totalitarian world government which will be run to the detriment of the people in the self-interests of the tiny ruling class that sit atop the power pyramid.
Invisible Empire 1 of 16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJuyti1YjU

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Tea Begging and Tea Beggers have run it’s course. At the end of the day your “party” has become a lap dog shill for the G no P. The ideas you have are bogus because most of you in the movement are bogus human beings. Where were you when the Bush tax cuts poured in, or how about Iraqi War fever when you pilgrims gave Bush a blank check to fund a war based on the WMD hoax. Now all of a sudden you hypocrites got religion because an African-American occupies the oval office. Well, me and others out there are not drinking the Tea Begger Kool-Aid because at the end of the day you people are what you have always been, a bunch of yellow, shallow no nothing hypocrites. Yet again you have been exposed, that is why you silly party is going on where…PERIOD.

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vuduchld

April 18th, 2010
9:46 pm
“Well, me and others out there are not drinking the Tea Begger Kool-Aid because at the end of the day you people are what you have always been, a bunch of yellow, shallow no nothing hypocrites.”

Good. I want you and all four of your friends to go to some socialist utopia and call us periodically to let us how you’re doing.

“All legislation will be posted on-line for 48 hours so you can read it.”
“I’ll go through every bill, line by line, and remove every earmark.”
“All the healthcare debates will be on CNN.” …………ad nauseum.
From the Hypocrite-in-Chief, Little Barry Soetoro.

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Oh the hypocrisy: Christian Tea-bagger who advocates throwing bricks through the windows of democrats in protest of health-care lives off of government disability checks:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032501722_2.html?sid=ST2010032402500

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Well, look who’s here, Perfezor Huffnpuff. Where ya been, Perfezor? Indoctrinating another classroom of little Comrades?

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