Judgment Day looms for Georgia’s tea party movement
Signs abounded at last week’s tea party in downtown Atlanta that the movement has peaked – at least in Georgia.
Despite the beautiful weather, the recent passage of the health care package in Washington, and the lure of a “young Elvis” impersonator, the crowd was roughly half the size of last year’s event.
Fox News, anchor of the larger Tax Day rallies here and elsewhere, seemed to anticipate the waning energy. Last year, the network dispatched its rock star, Sean Hannity, to capture the erupting anger in Atlanta. This year, Fox sent the efficient but less magnetic Neal Cavuto.
Last year’s Fox coverage was wall-to-wall, extending deep into the night. On Thursday evening, Bill O’Reilly’s attention was focused on that Russian kid whose adopted parents had given him a one-way ticket back to the Old Country.
“It’s time for the tea party people to move onto the next level,” said Erick Erickson of RedState.com, a Georgia-based political blog designed to keep conservatives across the country stirred up. After a year of shouting, he said, the movement needs to start showing measurable results.
Ask any divorce attorney – anger is a difficult emotion to keep stoked, day after day after day. And novelty, by definition, is a perishable commodity.
But there is another reason that the tea party movement may have trouble laying down long-term roots. Tea parties make Republicans in Georgia just as uncomfortable as Democrats in Washington.
For each of their two Tax Day rallies in Atlanta, tea party organizers have chosen the state Capitol as a venue. The building provides a dramatic backdrop for television, especially after sunset.
But last week, most of the people inside the Capitol declined to mix with the people outside. Gov. Sonny Perdue was elsewhere. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle was down in south Georgia for a barbecue. House Speaker David Ralston remained on the third floor, working.
Of 13 candidates for governor, only state Rep. Austin Scott (R-Tifton) attended the Atlanta rally. He remained behind the stage and did not speak.
Like any fresh movement, the tea party enthusiasts see things in black and white. Us versus them. But government is a gray thing, even when controlled by Republicans. Us and them are often thrown together in a jumbled heap, impossible to pull apart.
A day before the Atlanta tea party, a majority of the 236 lawmakers inside the Capitol approved a measure that patched together a $17.8 billion state budget. It contained a $216 million hospital bed tax, a $90 million increase in various fees charged by the state, and – for the benefit of GOP lawmakers — $387 million in tax cuts that will be delayed until better times.
Deferred tax cuts have become the Republican version of deficit spending in the Legislature. The matter of what state services are to be cut as a result will be left to future legislators.
The governor had condemned a previous attempt to attach a future tax cut to the hospital bed tax, but he was in on the creation of this one. The budget deal is the kind of sausage that is essential to government, but difficult to explain on the stump.
And so the only legislators eager to appear at the Atlanta tea party were those who voted against it.
“I stood up and said no, I don’t want to come down to Atlanta and raise taxes,” Preston Smith (R-Rome) told a cheering crowd. “As a result of that, my position as chairman of the senate judiciary committee was stripped away from me. And I say, so be it.”
Smith cited the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Doobie Brothers’ “Takin’ It to the Street” as historic precedents.
Judson Hill (R-Marietta) also voted against the tax cut/tax hike package, but did not make an issue of his stand from the stage.
Before the crowd disappeared, the organizers of the Atlanta tea party set their own future measure of success. They endorsed a number of candidates for office.
Two tea party endorsements were made in Republican congressional races – Tom Graves of Ranger in the 9th District contest on May 11 replace Nathan Deal, and Clay Cox of Lilburn in the 7th District rush to fill the shoes of John Linder on July 20.
These will be the tests that could very well determine whether tea party activists intend to remain a force in Georgia, or will be judged a group of well-intentioned citizens who — once a year — know how to throw a lively bash.
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JC
April 17th, 2010
3:51 pm
Just like a damn liberal speaking negatively about the Tea Party. Just remember this, Mac Daddy obama is a one term president.
zeb
April 17th, 2010
4:20 pm
Obama is a visionary and pragmatic president. He is already tackling what former Senator Sam Nunn and others conside the most important issue of modern times: keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists, and limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. While the teapartiers take to the streets to protest–what? Obama is far from being a crazed Socialist. He is moderate in his words and deeds and devotes himself to solving problems that others have previously sidestepped or pushed off on future generations. I applaud his courage in the face of constant hysterical rhetoric and mudslinging.
Buz Thompson
April 17th, 2010
4:44 pm
General Motors belongs to the Federal Government and you call that idiot a “moderate” . How dumb can one person be.He is as far to the left as any President we have ever had. God help us. Help these dumb people wake up to this destruction going on in Washington…. This country is just too big. We’ll never make it this polarizied. Were’re still fighting the civil War…. Lincoln said we would be either all slave or all free. He was right. The same thing is true today. Either were’re gona be all left or all right. The middle [moderate] days are over slick…. Get ready and screw’em on tight…. Your philosophy is going down, the right way…… the ballot box…..We’ll talk in January……..
The Real Politico
April 17th, 2010
4:54 pm
Where was everyone Friday? I was lonely!
Jason
April 17th, 2010
5:05 pm
@ZEB: Are you still in Woodstock waiting for the next roll? Throw away that last cup of Kool-aid and finish your toke and take a deep breath. Go back and read how idiotic your blathering reads to those of use whose IQ’s are above plant life.
Yep, Obama’s got Iran and N. Korea on a short string alright, and he’s depending on a shot in the arm from an ally he and his minions have downgraded to schoolyard chums, not close allys (Israel).
You and the othere idiot that writes this blog need to put your head back in the sand and keep it there.
Civil Republican
April 17th, 2010
5:06 pm
I don’t agree with President Obama’s politics. I work to get Republican’s elected. I want to see a Republican president in 2012. That said, I want to gently remind all Republicans that barely more than a year ago, we we’re angered when Democrats said things like: “George W. Bush is not my president” and “Who is this idiot in the White House?”
George W. Bush, we maintained, was the President of the United States. Even if you don’t agree with his politics, we screamed, respect the office.
Please, please, please — as Republicans — let’s stop refering to President Obama as “this guy” and “this idiot” etc. etc.
Don’t forget: we, the Republicans, are the party with manners and class — even when we are angry.
fred
April 17th, 2010
5:21 pm
You have to consider what Obama would do if he were allowed to change our government as he saw fit. You have to know it would be full blown socialism the next day!
Buz Thompson
April 17th, 2010
5:45 pm
Civil Republican: Your absolutely right and I apologize for calling Our President an idiot ………………………. “Lord that hurt” !!! If you lack faith act as though you have faith and it will be given to you……. amends made
art
April 17th, 2010
6:07 pm
Maybe the Perdue and other Ga Republicans realize just how toxic the tea klu klan really is. This isnt 1950, it’s 2010 and even these southern Republicans realize it’s not good politics to be associated with an angry mob.
dan
April 17th, 2010
6:09 pm
IF REPUBLICANS ARE SO GOOD WE WOULD NOT BE IN THE MESS WE ARE IN TODAY
Glass House Rocker
April 17th, 2010
6:17 pm
We have a government which includes three branches to assure a system of what was once called checks and balances. This was to assure that we would maintain control.
Since Reagan, when the President and Congress have been of the same party, Congress mindlessly rubber stamps whatever the President wants. One glaring exception is that a Democratic controlled Congress approved money and gave Bush carte blanche authority to go to war–and acted surprised when he did! Am I the only one who recalls Bush saying that his war would be paid for by Iraqi oil?
The Georgia Legislature and Governor’s office have been in Republican control for 7 years–most of them originally were elected as Democrats
What has really changed? Our schools are down the tubes. Our existing infrastructure has been obviously crumbling for years, bridges are dangerous–yet we could always build new roads. And on and on!
These people keep getting reelected. We vote them into office again and again–expecting different results this time? Who is the dummy?
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
April 17th, 2010
6:28 pm
Jim, If you really beleive that the Tea Party movement has peaked, then you’re going to be mouth hanging opened stunned come November.
Robert E. Lee
April 17th, 2010
6:32 pm
If I was a better commander we would not be in the mess we are today.
Jumbo G is the king of conventional thinking
April 17th, 2010
6:33 pm
Yeah. But back then the ATL party was on of the only one in the state that day. This year there were over 50 different rallies. Nice try Jumbo G. You are so transparent and so very sad.. See you in Nov., you fat liberal hack.. Take solice in this, fat arse, you will still be able to call of us racist.. You libs love to do that. Or maybe you will claim that the election is stolen. You pick. I don;t care, just as long as you are blaming and not celebrating.
Rafe Hollister
April 17th, 2010
6:52 pm
You think the folk are angry now, just wait until they see how much their insurance premiums and their taxes rise. Just wait until they wait for hours to see that physician’s assistant, who is way overbooked. Wait til they demand to see a real MD and are told, they are only seeing real serious cases. Wait til Barry rams cap and tax down our throat and the folk see their electric bill. Wait and see how angry they get if we get hit by a terrorist attack. See how angry they get when Barry reveals his ultra-leftist Supreme Court nominee. Wait til we here his ideas on comprehensive immigration reform or amnesty.
There is a lot of anger coming; just hope he keeps up the pressure on the freedom loving , Constitution loving, overtaxed and underappreciated producers in this society. November offers us comfort.
Rafe Hollister
April 17th, 2010
6:53 pm
Hear vice here! You would think as a government school graduate I wouldn’t make that mistake.
Jackson Walls
April 17th, 2010
7:18 pm
On one hand I hear the Tea Partiers say they do not endorse candidates then other hand they say they endorse candidates. Is anyone in charge? Doesn’t look like it.
A couple of weeks ago I read that Clay Cox laid claim to the TEA Party endorsement and then read in the next paragraph that the Tea party did not endorse him. Who in the heck is the tea party anyway – a 10 headed Hydra? Could Woodall claim to have the Tea Party Endorsement too? Why not?
Apparently the real politicians are running away from the TEAers. Maybe they fear it will be a stain by November. Who knows, we have 5 months – a lifetime. Could be a risky tactic.
How long will it take until the Tea Partiers are corrupt???
professional skeptic
April 17th, 2010
7:23 pm
Rafe Hollister
April 17th, 2010
6:52 pm
Of course taxes will have to rise. It’s only a question of when. We’ve been enjoying tax giveaways for years, swiping the government credit card all the while. We just looooove to issue bonds to pay for everything from infrastructure to wars to entitlements. Sooner or later we’ll all have to pay the piper.
That’s right… at some point we’re all going to get a taste of what it feels like to take responsibility for our past excesses and pay down our debts.
Eva Ann Henson
April 17th, 2010
7:37 pm
We the people must take back our country we have lost so much
pride, why are our we so afraid to thank God for our blessing he has given to us all we just let the gove rnment politicians heck our way of life we need the tea party for the people we have now are a sleep @ the wheel. may God Bless our USA and may we all pray
Eva Ann Henson
April 17th, 2010
7:40 pm
I think we all should have a day to light a candle @ 09:00Pm and pray
for our USA from sea to shining sea
Fire Eater
April 17th, 2010
7:47 pm
Tea Partiers need to take a much more forceful stand against third-world immigration…they should demand that Georgia follow Arizona’s lead in driving the illegals from the state. Emphasize that every illegal alien is an unemployed American’s job stolen. If they think that the debate over health care was hot, wait til the O-man tries to ram amnesty through congress.
The biggest danger to the movement is that neo-cons and Establishment Republicans want to hijack their votes…they need to be even more eager to wage war upon RINO’s than Democrats like they did in the NY congressional race.
James
April 17th, 2010
8:08 pm
By November the T-Bagger-pity-party will be off the dole and back at work …
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html
“SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.”
“Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law,” which denounces public benefits as “false philanthropy.”
“If you quit giving people that stuff, they would figure out how to do it on their own,” Mr. Grimes said. “
Hubert Horatio
April 17th, 2010
8:15 pm
If it’s really a rally for Republicans, then say so. Calling it Tea doesn’t is a weak attempt at novelty.
Dave
April 17th, 2010
8:42 pm
Zeb – where you buy your drugs? They’re obviously first class – you’re existing in a different reality than most of the rest of us. I guess your “line” about Barry being a moderate works better when you type it, because I’ll bet even when you say it you can’t help but laugh.
Dave
April 17th, 2010
8:44 pm
James, the “Tea Baggers” aren’t the ones on the “dole” you know it and I know it.
James
April 17th, 2010
8:57 pm
@Dave – Oh really? (and the best part is their last name is “Shirk”) You just can’t write this stuff …
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/15/tea_party_rally_generates_plenty_of_criticism_opposing_views/
“The problem in this country is that too many people are looking for handouts,’’ said Valerie Shirk, 43, of Prospect, Conn. “I agree with the signs that say, ‘Share my father’s work ethic — not his paycheck.’ We have to do something about the whole welfare mentality in this country.’’
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For the Shirks, it was a day for their children to seek inspiration from Palin and the other speakers, who questioned Obama’s patriotism and at least one of whom referred to him repeatedly as Barack Hussein.
The couple, who rely on Medicaid for their health care, were also upset about the nation’s new health reforms.
When asked why her family used state-subsidized health care when she criticized people who take handouts, Valerie Shirk said she did not want to stop having children, and that her husband’s income was not enough to cover the family with private insurance.
“I know there’s a dichotomy because of what we get fro
James
April 17th, 2010
8:58 pm
Adding clipped punchline ….
“I know there’s a dichotomy because of what we get from the state,’’ she said. “But I just look at each of my children as a blessing.’’
Awesome. Don’t give them handouts ’cause that would affect my handouts.
Rafe Hollister
April 17th, 2010
9:00 pm
Prof skeptic, the problem with blindly accepting the tax increases is that the spending never stops. If we agree to go along with increased taxes, congress grins and licks their chops over the increased revenue. Their last priority with the extra money is paying down the debt. We can not agree to the tax increases unless they demonstrate over time that the money will be spent responsibly. Remember the first budget Obama signed with all the ear marks and waste. He made the statement that he was going to sign this pork laden bill because he didn’t have anything to do with it, but by God he wasn’t going to allow that in budgets in the future. That was real responsilble signing off on something that was so wasteful in the time of our great financial meltdown. Then he proposes the “Omnibus Spending Spree” to waste 878 Billion dollars, because that is what “stimulus is, is profigate spending”. No one permanent identifiable job created. Irresponsible at the least, so we are to lie down and send mo money to those crooks.
Go Away Jesse Jackson
April 17th, 2010
9:09 pm
This is the kind of article I’ve come to expect from the AJC. Again, Jim, you’re just printing a bunch of words to create a controversy you can profit from……enjoy it while it lasts.
Marya
April 17th, 2010
9:18 pm
A few days ago, The New York Daily News had pictures of a large number of signs being carried around by Tea Partiers, all with basic misspellings. If the poll that said Tea Partiers are the most educated political group in America is correct, we might as well turn the lights out and give the keys to China now.
James
April 17th, 2010
9:20 pm
Rafe, 37% of the stimulus contained tax cuts that benefited 98% of working families. So you’re saying you don’t like tax cuts?
http://ctj.org/pdf/truthaboutobamataxcuts.pdf
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/08/obama-has-cut-taxes-for-986-percent-of.html
Marya
April 17th, 2010
9:30 pm
If Obama were a white man, there would be no Tea Party. The rest is just a little dressing to make it appear more palatable.
Rafe Hollister
April 17th, 2010
9:44 pm
James: Tax cuts are wonderful, but these were too palty to have much effect. Really stimulating weren’t they? If he wanted to effectively use the money he would have given the tax cuts to small business, since they create most new jobs. These were just wealth redistribution.
Marya, GWB was a white man, he sure was unpopular, almost as unpopular as Barry. The Left didn’t fiddle with a Tea Party, they just advocated assassination.
James
April 17th, 2010
10:13 pm
Rafe, it doesn’t matter who you give tax cuts to, this places money into circulation across the board. Trickle up is just as good if not better than trickle down. Let the middle class keep their money with a tax cut, they spend it on small and other business as they see fit and that increases profit in business which allows them to create jobs. Simple.
The idea that a one tax cut by one administration for the wealthy is a truly a tax cut, but another round of cuts for 98% of working families is somehow wealth distribution is a laughable position.
Tax cut for us = good, tax cut for them = socialism. I mean really?
James
April 17th, 2010
10:19 pm
I also support Marya’s position. I’ve gone to the protests at the capitol and spoken to the T-Baggers. Every time you hone in on a specific position and press them they fall back on “we want our gov back” and “I just don’t like socialism” with nothing else to reflect an argument nor anything to support one. The vast majority of the folks I’ve encountered, in my opinion, would be singing the McCain/Palin praises in the exact same situation as we are now but with that administration. I don’t know if the majority are racists, but their herd sure is unsettled right now and they can’t seem to explain exactly why.
Dave
April 17th, 2010
10:22 pm
I can not stand people that life is white or black. If President’s agenda is not stopped in November then it will hit all people were it hurts, in the pocket book. We all know how hard we work now think about the same amount of work or harder with less pay. I have been worked hard all my life to save and to a good provider not to see all I worked for help people too lazy to work. Not only will we pay but our children for generations to come. If we still have a country.
Audrey in Georgia
April 17th, 2010
10:22 pm
“Old, white men made this country what it is.”
Old, white men made this country what it is TODAY. They gave us President Barack Obama.
Thank you.
ACC 12 Booster
April 17th, 2010
10:23 pm
Jim Galloway, I wouldn’t say that the Tea Party movement is waning just yet. As an earlier poster stated, there were most likely fewer people at this year’s Tax Day Tea Party at the State Capitol because there were lots more Tea Parties in small towns and big cities alike while last year’s Tea Party was crowded with participants because it was likely the only one of note in the state.
As is the case with any grass-roots movement, the Tea Partiers may not always have the most eloquent delivery, but their message of more responsible fiscal management and limiting the size and bureaucratic reach of government at all levels should not be discounted or disregarded. It’s not as if they have absolutely no reason to be angry, not when the United States has a national debt of 13 TRILLION dollars and a federal budget deficit of nearly TWO TRILLION dollars! These trillions of dollars of debt and deficits are real money.
It should be noted that not all of the anger is aimed at the Obama Administration. I seen many a sign expressing continuing disapproval at the job that “Shrub” (George W. Bush) did of mismanaging the size of government and the nation’s finances. One example in particular was a sign that said “King George Ignored Us, Too” which, ironically, served as a backdrop in the tape of a supposed Tea Partier spitting on Congressman Eldridge Cleaver as he and a group of Congressional Democrats walked through a crowd of protesters on their way into an office building at the Capital after the passing of the Health Care bill.
It just seems as though that Obama has come along and expanded on Bush’s work in an extreme way. The tax cuts that were given to all Americans making under $200k/yr don’t get acknowledged because they get drowned out by all of the continued talk of possible tax increases to come from the just-passed health care bill (starting with a 10% tax on indoor tanning salons), a proposed V.A.T. (Value Added Tax) on every step of the production process, the proposed cap-and-trade legislation, etc. Taxes are important to keep core services operating like education, public safety, sanitation, national defense, infrastructure, etc, but too much tax can retard investment, consumer spending and cripple an already nearly non-existant job market.
As for the misspelled signs, many in the media on the left are singling out and concentrating on the worst examples of inappropriate individual behavior and misstated signed messages in an attempt to discredit the Tea Partiers and the real message that the movement is trying to convey to the public about limiting the size of an out-of-control government. It’s not really a just a message, but a warning about the dangerous path that our society is headed down.
heartlandboy
April 17th, 2010
10:46 pm
I’m from “Joe the Plumber’s” neighborhood in the flyover country of NW Ohio. Around these parts, the tea partiers had very little brewing. Joe had to go all the way down to Cincinnati (three hrs. down I-75) to find a decent-sized rally.
From here in the heartland, it looks like tea parties are just big-city events organized and planned from the top. If the movement is looking for some sort of grassroots wildfire…they’ve got a long way to go.
Nona
April 18th, 2010
1:17 am
That these ignorant fools think their movement has the slightest thing in common with the original Boston Tea Party shows what tools they are of FOX News. They’re poor sheep falling prey to the ultimate media manipulation.
Participants in the original Boston Tea Party were protesting taxation without representation. YOU HAVE THAT. You go to the polls and elect the candidates of your choice. Those people you elect represent you. You are NOT taxed without representation.
The original Boston Tea Party participants had NO PROBLEM paying taxes. They realized that civilized societies must pay taxes for the common good — to finance a national defense, public health, education, a national banking system, roads, ports and the other things required to maintain a healthy society and to avoid becoming like, oh, Somalia. The original tea party participants just wanted to be represented. Once again, YOU ARE represented.
What the modern so-called Tea Party stands for is the ultimate handout: pay for my security, my national defense, my schools, my roads, my airports, my FDIC, my public health — oh, and don’t expect me to chip in a dime. They’re not patriots – they’re anarchists, and they have the critical thinking skills of a herd of sheep who go wherever FOX News tells them to go (so Fox News can profit) and baa back the same twisted misrepresentations that FOX News inundates them with, like Two Minutes Hate from 1984.
This ain’t no tea party. It’s a pee party.
Just GETOVER IT
April 18th, 2010
5:45 am
I believe in calling a spade , a spade, the so called “teapartiers” are THE KKK out of thier robes, and the ONLY galvanizing factor, for them, IS HATRED OF A BLACK PRESIDENT, remember he is 50% WHITE !! I pray he is a one term president, he is WAAAAAY TOO GOOD for this racist country !!!!
Iknowanidiot
April 18th, 2010
5:56 am
To ALL you imbeciles, who keep referring to THE PRESIDENT as an idiot, you are a little late, THE BIGGEST IDIOT-IN-CHIEF left office , January 2008, altho he has some serious competiton ,in your goddess, Sarah Palin !!!!
Boots
April 18th, 2010
6:52 am
When the rhetoric goes up. . .when the anger accelerates. . .the I.Q. drops proportionatly.
Not on my watch
April 18th, 2010
7:35 am
I could support alot of what the Tea Party beleives in if I didn’t think they were being manipulated by Palin, Hannity, and FOX et. al. They continually bash the mainstream media, but never tell you they ARE the mainstream media!!
Sugar HillDawg
April 18th, 2010
8:23 am
Hey Just Get Over It! How many times do we have to tell IDIOTS like you that it’s NOT about his color, it’s about his philososphy!!!!!!! He and the people he surrounds himself with would make Vladimir Lenin look like John Birch. it’s so tiresome to try keep saying this BUT it’s easier for MORONS like you to play the race card,
Tony
April 18th, 2010
8:24 am
My problem with the Tea Party is their priority. Instead of fighting the government and “increasing taxes”, why not focus on the corporations that deliberately send jobs to other countries. That is the biggest problem. Just last year, Whirlpool decides to lay off 1500 people in Ill. and move the jobs to Mexico. Despite being offered generous tax breaks and incentives, Whirlpool still plan to move the jobs to boost their PROFIT margin.
How come the Tea Party members won’t protest Whirlpool or other corporations that send good-paying jobs to other places? They are more of an enemy than the government. I don’t see the Tea Party group protesting the big banks. I don’t see the Tea Party group protesting the Big Oil companies and Wall Street speculators that deliberately jack up the price of oil.
If any Tea Party person reads this, I would like a logical answer. I can expect higher taxes because the corporations are raping this country, forcing people to lose their jobs, and basic services being cut as a result of less revenue.
Until the Tea Party start protesting the real culprits of our economic problem in this country, their so-called movement is meaningless, in my opinion.
jconservative
April 18th, 2010
8:49 am
The problem the Tea Party has, and will continue to have, is they make no plans for how they will govern if they are elected. And if you are elected you must govern. The US House spends every dime in revenue, and since 1981, every dime not raised by revenue.
What will the Tea Party do? Raise taxes to balance the budget? Cut spending to balance the budget? Do a combination of both tax increases and spending decreases? Has the Tea Party even thought about this?
I would recommend a hard look at the combination of tax increases and spending decreases. For the past 30 years we have been doing the exact opposite, tax cuts and spending increases. Just reversing that 30 year trend will go a long way toward getting the “deficit problem” under control.
GOP is gone
April 18th, 2010
9:33 am
Brandon from PA could not have said it better or more true than his response to the Opion piece in the Times, “A Mighty Pale Tea”:
125.
Brandon
PA
April 17th, 2010
11:56 am
Tea baggers are VERY diverse. Some are in their 50s, and some are in their 60s. AND some are white men, while a few others are white women. Some gradiated 8th grade. While others finished all the way to a deeplomee. Some are angry that their lower tax bill this years means their taxes went up, while others are angry that the market based health insurance reform law is a government run socialst medical system. Some are furious because the fact that not a single peice of legislation has proposed any new gun laws means that the commies in the Obami administration are trying to take away their weapons. Some are fuming that the improving economy is proof that Democrats wrecked the economy. Others are anrgy that FEMA is secretly setting up concentration camps and the ZOG ad the One World Order conspiracy are making their move. Some are angry that our US citizen Hawaii born president is Kenyan, while others are angry that he attended a Christian church for the past 20 years which proves he is Muslim. And of course some are simply angry that a colored boy is in charge of “their” country. How much diversity do you want?
The Cynical White Boy
April 18th, 2010
9:43 am
The anger is more than just bailout mania and ultra liberal policies.
I don’t think any organizer or politician has the guts to say it, but our star as the Super Power in the world is setting. It happened to Rome, to Athens, and finally, to England….now it’s our turn.
The future power is Asia, or China particularly, if they decide to open up.
We are on our way to a bankrupt economy, wholly dependent upon other powers. It’s gonna be tough on our kids and grandkids for the USA not to be what it was for our parents and grandparents. The politicians on both sides of the aisle will remain in denial for a long time on this.
Southern Dawg
April 18th, 2010
10:09 am
Don’t you wish. I can see November from my house.