Your morning jolt: Michele Bachmann and the tea party as an act of God
This morning’s topic appears to be whether – like Hurricane Irene, an earthquake, or Chuck Norris – the tea party wields enough power to be declared an act of God. Campaigning in Florida on Sunday, Michele Bachmann seemed to think so.
From the St. Petersburg Times:
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”
In Georgia, there was less enthusiasm for giving the tea party credit – or blame — for the failure of Gov. Nathan Deal’s effort to move the next year’s transportation sales tax vote to November. From the Associated Press:
House Speaker David Ralston downplayed the tea party’s role in sinking the transportation measure.
“I think the Republican caucus in the House thinks for themselves,” Ralston said. “We listen to a lot of groups here.”
To be sure, counties also opposed moving the date of the transportation referendum, which had an effect on the outcome.
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle stopped short of calling the transportation tax a victory for the tea party, but agreed they are having an impact on the state’s politics.
“I think all constituencies that bind together have a voice,” Cagle said. “This is what democracy is all about. They clearly weighed in very heavily, but (they were) not the deciding factor.”
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And speaking of the transportation SPLOST, an interesting few Sunday lines from Laura Armstrong of the Marietta Daily Journal:
…[T]here’s the perception among more than a few educated citizens that the Atlanta Regional Commission and their friends the municipal associations, community improvement districts (CIDs) and chambers of commerce (that have sadly evolved from really great networking organizations into just more power-imbued lobbyists with major political influence) not only want our dollars, but are also trying to force certain lifestyle concepts down our throats.
Urbanization, high density-no back yards (HDNBY) Agenda 21 “sustainable community” stuff that will transform our once quiet suburbs into, well, something very few of us seek.
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Strange doings down in Lowndes County. From the Valdosta Daily Times:
Valdosta Mayor John J. Fretti entered a guilty plea Friday morning stemming from an investigation into his being doubly reimbursed by the city and state for the same trips.
At approximately 9:45 a.m. Friday, Fretti entered a guilty plea in Lowndes County Superior Court to felony false statement, but did not step down as Valdosta’s mayor.
Fretti knowingly signed Georgia Department of Community Affairs vouchers between June 3, 2009, and June 2, 2010, according to Southern District Attorney David Miller, and also returned to Valdosta and claimed mileage reimbursement from the city for the same trips.
Additionally during these trips, he accepted the $105 per diem from DCA, while charging all of his lodging and food expenses to the city….
The charge carries a sentence of one to five years in prison and a fine of approximately $1,000. DA David Miller requested that the sentence include full restitution to the City of Valdosta in the amount of $4,194.
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We didn’t go to Saturday’s GOP fish fry down in Perry. But Shannon McCaffery with the Associated Press did:
Saturday’s event featured an awkward moment as Gingrich bumped into former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, who initially signed on to be national co-chairman for his presidential bid only to quit _ without so much as a phone call _ when the Gingrich campaign unraveled earlier this year. Perdue launched the middle Georgia fish fry as governor. Since he left office, the state party has taken over the event.
“It was cordial,” Perdue said of his brief hello with Gingrich. “Listen, I still respect his intellect and ideas.”
…..Gingrich said Saturday he was “saddened” that the political action committee he founded _American Solutions _ has shut down. The 527 group had struggled with financial support since Gingrich left to run for president.
Under Gingrich, the group had been a fundraising juggernaut, raising millions of dollars that allowed Gingrich to travel the country prompting his ideas.
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That red carpet treatment of Jon Huntsman at the state Capitol last week apparently paid off. GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who placed first in Saturday’s GOP straw poll in Perry, will address the Senate at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday – just before the General Assembly flees home for the rest of the year.
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia today examines GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s recent Tweet that “We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Romegaguy
August 29th, 2011
9:11 am
Who knew Newt and Cain were still running for President?
eatmotacos
August 29th, 2011
9:12 am
Aren’t we going to get to comment on Shady’s ethics probe?
Road Scholar
August 29th, 2011
9:29 am
Miss Bachman is wrong again. Maybe God is angry at the shallowness of the Republican field? Or that she lied that she would be able to cut the cost of gasoline?
Some cannot understand that plate tectonics (movement of the earth’s crust) and weather are sciences.
Bob
August 29th, 2011
9:32 am
No coincidence that M.B. also stands for “MoonBat”.
Patrick
August 29th, 2011
9:33 am
“Perdue said of his brief hello with Gingrich. “Listen, I still respect his intellect and ideas.””
Ummm…Is having Sonny Perdue compliment you on your intellect really saying much?
Derek Wain
August 29th, 2011
9:48 am
Bachmann’s language was obviously a political metaphor, which all her listeners and readers understood. But Team Obama media jackal Jim Galloway thinks that his use of the term “seemed to think” allows him to pervert the obvious meaning of her language that the Federal Gvt. is gross overspending mney it doesn’t have.
RGB
August 29th, 2011
9:50 am
Jim,
Your blurb would win a “pants on fire award” because it is false.
Michelle Bachman didn’t claim that either she or the Tea Party caused either the hurricane or the earthquake.
To suggest that she claimed that is an outright falsehood and you should remove this purloined story and its headline and you should refrain from attributing false claims to people in the future–even if you do not like them.
How would you like somebody making up something about you?
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Tom
August 29th, 2011
9:54 am
Derek, I’m a life-long GOP voter about to hit 50. Bachmann’s a nutcase. If she’s the nominee say hello to 4 more years of Maobama.
DannyX
August 29th, 2011
9:57 am
“pervert the obvious meaning of her language that the Federal Gvt. is gross overspending mney it doesn’t have.”
Meaning of her language???? How about the meaning of Bachmann’s actions?
Bachmann has made a political career benefiting from “gross overspending.” She has benefited personally, receiving of tons of federal dollars.
What about the meaning of her actions????
DannyX
August 29th, 2011
9:59 am
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.”
Just how in the hell is that a metaphor?
whacko.....
August 29th, 2011
10:02 am
are people actually defending bachmann on here?? guess the pot and the kettle really are the same, a bunch of whacko’s. for a politician to claim she is “quoting god” is ludicrous. the god i know isn’t about punishing citizens of a country for the acts of the politicians who are supposed to be leading it. bunch of idiots who still listen to this woman…..thanks iowa for keeping her around…….idiots!!!!!!!
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southpaw
August 29th, 2011
10:11 am
Bob @9:32
MB stands for MoonBat–or Most Believable. I don’t actually think of her that way, but maybe you’ll see how much initials really mean.
whacko…. Let’s hear it for the civility your president suggested.
Tom
August 29th, 2011
10:14 am
No theocrats for me. You can’t claim to be a Constitutionalist and also be a theocrat. The two are explicitly incompatible.
GaBlue
August 29th, 2011
10:14 am
“Bachmann’s language was obviously a political metaphor, which all her listeners and readers understood.”
Actually, the morbid obesity part was a metaphor. The God quotation was NOT, but it was totally obnoxious of her to suggest that God claims to have caused the earthquake and hurricane to get the attention of American politicians. I never trust anyone who claims special knowledge of what God wants. An omniscient, omnipotent God is fully capable of speaking to us directly, and would therefore not require the use of such a person as a mouthpiece on His behalf. What an insult to God and everyone who believes in Him!
It's All Dikkksie Now!
August 29th, 2011
10:17 am
Jim Kunstler described all this beautifully 2 weeks ago:
“Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penny, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the Republican pre-primary parade has turned into. I like to think of him as George W. Bush without all the encumbering intellect. I give it three months before media snoops catch him in bed with Michele Bachmann. The two of them will claim it was all right because Jesus was there as chaperone and anyway, “…alls we did was watch the Vikings-Cowboy game….”
Oh these sons and daughters of the high corn! Make no mistake (to borrow a favorite war cry from the presidential cheat sheet), both of these heartland bozos are dumb enough to lead America straight into the graveyard of failed states. Imagine a summit between Rick Perry and whoever succeeds Hu Jintao – the incredulous side-glances of the Chinese leader and his interpreter when Mr. Perry presents the official gift from our nation: a miniature Bible made by the inmates at Stringfellow State Prison and “prayed over by qualified preachers twenty-four hours a day!” Or how about Michele Bachmann and Vlad Putin. I’d sooner watch a gerbil in a terrarium with a King Cobra.
Meanwhile, the other day poor Mitt Romney tried to explain to a crowd of Iowa hot-heads that “corporations are people!” “
Partisay
August 29th, 2011
10:21 am
RGB – “How would you like somebody making up something about you?”
You mean like you were born in Kenya? You mean that kind of making up something?
“The day that the president became president gasoline was $1.79 a gallon. Look at what it is today. Under President Bachmann, you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again. That will happen.”
Speaking of lying, you mean this kind of lying? If it’s not a lie, why don’t you tell all of us how she, or any president, can’t make gasoline cost $2 a gallon. We’re all waiting on your response.
Aquagirl
August 29th, 2011
10:22 am
Derek, if Michelle Bachmann can’t take personal responsibility for her own words, maybe she should stay home and bake cookies.
Partisay
August 29th, 2011
10:32 am
Derek, since it seems so easy for you and others to understand Bachmann’s language, why don’t you tell us what she meant by getting gasoline down to $2 a gallon if she is elected.
“It will happen”
How is it going to happen? What is she going to do to make that happen? Sounds like she wants the government to do something to make it happen, whatever that is. Surely she doesn’t want the government to intercede into a private industry like that. And dictating to oil companies what they can charge for their product. I thought she wanted less government? Tell us what she meant….
gm
August 29th, 2011
10:38 am
I wonder how many tea party people are going to line up and take government money for Irene?
Tom
August 29th, 2011
10:39 am
Michelle and her hubby needed to spend mre time trying to PRAY AWAY THE GAIL-force winds.
ByteMe
August 29th, 2011
10:42 am
Strange doings down in Lowndes County
How is using your public office to steal from taxpayer money any different than what many other Georgia politicians do? Like, say, Rep. Tom Graves — the darling of the Tea Party here in Georgia — who took out a loan he knew he couldn’t repay and that had to be backstopped by taxpayers when the bank failed?
roughrider
August 29th, 2011
10:42 am
I could vote for Bachman if she would stop making these stupid, Sarah Palin statements.
Partisay
August 29th, 2011
10:43 am
Good question gm.
You know how they are always saying about tax increases, “If democrats want to pay more taxes, they can just send more in. Nothing is stopping them for sending more of their money in on their own if they think we should pay more.”
Let’s put it vice versa. Surely the tea pary people, or really any republican – since they are so worried about deficits (remember when Cheney said “deficits don’t matter) – would not dare take ANY federal money due to damages caused by Irene. Less government, right?
waterstime
August 29th, 2011
10:48 am
If you are a Christian, and you believe that God can do anything, then why are some of you insulting God and the people who believe in Him. You need to learn to keep your insulting mouths shut.
John K
August 29th, 2011
10:48 am
Bachmann is a complete nutcase. Amazing she’s not even more popular here in Georgia.
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Maggie McGowan
August 29th, 2011
10:48 am
Maybe I’m not the brightest light bulb on the planet, but nowhere in this article did I read anything that was quoted by Michell. Why do you insist on printing such obvious and misleading news? Doesn’t anyone out there in the news media have a consience left?
Robert
August 29th, 2011
10:55 am
Ms. Bachmann is really crazy. What Bible is she reading? The homegrown terrorist group(s) known as the “tea party” (klansmen, skinheads, birthers, etc.) weapons of choice are hatred, fear and rage/mob mentality against the American People (elderly, minorities, women, gays & lesbians and Muslims & Jews). The whole world saw their hatred and bigotry on display during the 2010 midterm elections and heard their call to battle (take back my country) as well as saw the majority of White Americans embrace the “tea party” as a potest vote against the American People for electing the first Black American President of the USA. All across the USA White Americans voted for the entire GOP ticket regardless of the candidates experience. The American People saw how reckless and dangerous this act of terrorism affected both Houses of Congress during the recent debate on raising the federal debt limit ceiling. The American People know the difference between good and evil. What side are you on? The American People or the homegrown terrorist group(s) known as the “tea party”? It is time for all Americans to choose sides.
gm
August 29th, 2011
10:56 am
Wow, I guess Irene showed government is important, thanks to the gov workers that worked around the clock to keep hypocrites like bachman and the tea party idiots safe.
Please tea party hypocrites dont take a dime from gov. because that is adding spending to our debt, oh I forgot that only applies for people on the left who needs help.
Sage
August 29th, 2011
11:03 am
Folks, we have a winner!! Someone who is more BATSH$T crazy than Sarah. Hooray!!
Young Lady
August 29th, 2011
11:03 am
Ugh. I’m trying to read her words and they just hurt. Someone get her a proofreader stat. There are a least 3-4 different ways to re-write that and make it flow better.
But I’m not sure what worries me more about this snippet. The fact she is legitmately saying God is sending hurricanes and earthquakes to ‘get our attention’ or the fact people are defending her for it. This is completely messed up. I mean people have died in that hurricane. Doesn’t she have any shame? It’s not a political tool, it is an act of nature.
Bootnewt
August 29th, 2011
11:04 am
An odiferous and sulphurous pewt by the Newt lingers and lingers…
Chuck Allison
August 29th, 2011
11:04 am
How much more of his inept bumbling will it take before EVERYBODY realizes that Obama was a mistake? I can’t believe that anybody is still defending him. Incompetence is not restricted by skin color.
double
August 29th, 2011
11:06 am
Our homeowner insurance going up again.Guess this is an act of God also.
sheepdawg
August 29th, 2011
11:10 am
“the touring evangelical freak show that the Republican pre-primary parade has turned into.” That’s funny, and true!!!!
honested
August 29th, 2011
11:13 am
It will be an interesting year until the primaries finally occur.
So far, there seems to be adequate representation for all stripes of delusional.
Has the majority in this State completely lost touch with what is required for responsible governance and with which aspects of life are not to be intertwined with governance?
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
11:13 am
Robert- The only hate I see is your rant. To equate tea party people with skinheads and the klan is simply irresponsible. You are correct, people spoke in 2010 to reject the policies of Obama. The same rejection would have occurred if Obama had been white, red, or brown. It is the policies we reject not the color of his skin. Black support for Obama has slipped in one poll I saw recently, from 96% to 84%. Is that racist too?
Get a grip, you just have to realize many whites that voted for Obama in 2008 will not in 2012 because of his policies, not his skin color.
jd
August 29th, 2011
11:14 am
As to the MDJ editorial suggesting that Metro Atlanta leaders are forcing solutions that we the people do not seek — reminds me of a Henry Ford quote “If I’d asked the customers what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse.”
We all want a lifestyle of quality that is affordable (read sustainable) — continuing to support urban/suburban design as it is today will lead to neither.
Paul
August 29th, 2011
11:23 am
OK, so naysayers unite, and please tell us which front-running Republican (meaning one likely to win the nomination) is two toots in a windstorm better? Right now I too would settle for less insane than the ones out in front. Pretty easy to keep doing the usual “NO” thing, which got us here in the first place, but how about some actual useful ideas for a refreshing change of pace?
wayne
August 29th, 2011
11:28 am
I had breakfast this morning with God. He thinks Bachmann is full of crap and is getting tired of her attempts to speak for him. He is thinking of sending a natural disaster her way…..something customized just for her….like crabs…I picked up the tab.
Ralph
August 29th, 2011
11:30 am
I would like to vote against Obama next year, I think he has done a terrible job. Having said that, if all the Repubs can do is to run fools like Bachman and Perry, I’ll either stay home or vote for Obama.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
11:30 am
Paul-
Want an idea? The two democratic senators in Va. have a bill pending in the senate to waive federal regulations preventing oil drilling off the Va. coast. If this bill passes and Obama signs it it will create American jobs and produce American energy. What do you say Paul?
lovelyliz
August 29th, 2011
11:30 am
Sure,, the tea party is an act of God, their version of God, Mine says it’s not his fault.
Bob in Atlanta.
August 29th, 2011
11:31 am
The 2010 election was about jobs and the economy, not Obama’s policies.
What have the Republicans offered by way of a jobs program?\
Rick Perry for President.
lovelyliz
August 29th, 2011
11:34 am
Church: “Gov. PERRY. GOD HERE. THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD IS NOT ME. TAKE YOUR MEDS. CHOIR PRACTICE WED. 7P.M.
honested
August 29th, 2011
11:36 am
retired
It is a sure bet that those who didn’t vote for the President won’t vote for him again.
As for slipping poll numbers, it isn’t that opposition to sane policies is growing, it is that those of us who voted for him and will do so again want him to push harder to SUPPORT his policies.
We have to climb out of the 2001-2008 hole and going back to the shrub era policies won’t help the climb.
mike 'hussein' smith
August 29th, 2011
11:38 am
Casey Cagle never misses a chance to be unctuous. I can feel the grease emanating from his oily praise of the tea party. CC is a modern-day Uriah Heap (and I’m not talking about that lame rock band).
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
11:45 am
honested-
“It is a sure bet that those who didn’t vote for the President won’t vote for him again.”- Absolutely, Obama has done nothing to grow the support of those opposed to him in 08.
“As for slipping poll numbers, it isn’t that opposition to sane policies is growing, it is that those of us who voted for him and will do so again want him to push harder to SUPPORT his policies.”-
I disagree, Obama has lost many independants and the turnout of the liberal left will likely be lower than in 08.
“We have to climb out of the 2001-2008 hole and going back to the shrub era policies won’t help the climb.”- Then please inform the first step for him to make is to stop digging.
whacko.....
August 29th, 2011
11:45 am
@southpaw….you show your ingnorance and idiocy by making reference to “my president”. you have no clue. just because i criticize bachmann you claim obama is my president…..moron!! more republicans should be on here criticizing bachmann and refusing to vote for the whacko.
those who claim to speak for god are either a prophet or a nut……which one is she??
Annee
August 29th, 2011
11:47 am
If Bachman believes Irene was god’s message to D.C., surely she must also believe god is sending a message to Texas in the form of droughts. I guess we just need a good rain dance after Perry’s prayer session.
gm
August 29th, 2011
11:48 am
Retired Solider
I gues keeping America safe for the last 3 years killing more terrorist in 3 years then bush and cheney did in 8.
I guess when he has to sign those government check for the tea party hypocrite who lost their home in Irene shows his bad politicies.
Thank you Prsident Obama for keeping America safe
Dawged
August 29th, 2011
11:49 am
Dear Jim-Your headline is typical of a leftwing Progressive with a liberal slant in that it implies this was a statement of policy by Michelle Bachmann-when as reported by other national known newsmedia it was indeed delivered tongue in cheek attempt at humor over rival democrats.Of course you know this but the truth would not fit your agenda or that of your taskmaster Obama..Folks if you are looking for unbiased news go to the web(ie Drudgereport) you won’t find it only the constantly eroding and ship sinking AJC.Selah!
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
11:49 am
I belong to the Tea Party. We are not an act of God rather, an act of common sense economics and sick and tired of DC spending our money like drunken fools. That goes for both republicans and democrats.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
11:53 am
gm-
Where are the stats you are using to say Obama killed more terrorists than Bush? Second point, our military has killed the terrorists, not Bush or Obama. BTW, so you like Obama’s war policies? Interesting they are 100% opposite from the war policies he ran for office.
Your second sentence makes no sense.
Thank you American military for keeping our nation safe.
messed up!
August 29th, 2011
11:53 am
Whatever happen to separation of church and state & conservatism. Stay out of the bedroom, stay out of the pews! Govern fically and let people live free! I would vote rep. but they are all nutcases!
honky talkin'
August 29th, 2011
11:54 am
Bachmann appeals to the ignorant and uninformed base of the GOP.
honested
August 29th, 2011
11:58 am
I don’t get it. Bachmann makes her latest nutcase statement and Mr. Galloway is called a ‘leftwing progressive’ (as if that were a bad thing) for publishing it.
The teapotties are still stirred up about the Federal budget, yet still have no answer of where to come up with the 4 trillion to pay for the military adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan (money wasted and the direct cause of much of our continuing economic difficulty).
In short, don’t notice if a candidate is probably nuts, and don’t face economic reality.
It must be Monday morning in Georgia.
honested
August 29th, 2011
12:00 pm
retired,
By your logic, you place the blame for being flat footed on 9/11 on the military?
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
12:03 pm
honested-
You have to ask Obama about Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama followed the Bush plan in Iraq, doubled down in Afghanistan and has a third war in Libya. Don’t blame Bush any more about war, Obama has taken it to new levels.
BTW, what about Gitmo?
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
12:06 pm
honested-
Nope, the military is not responsible for terrorism in the United States. Flat footed? That would be the FBI, to a lesser extent the CIA and other intel agencies.
Brown Eyed Girl!
August 29th, 2011
12:12 pm
1 Corinthians 14:33 – For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
I wish that people will quit blaming things on God! In His infinite wisdom, He does allow some things to happen, but He doesn’t make mess…we do! Stop mixing politics with religion!
Tom
August 29th, 2011
12:16 pm
Where’s all the blame for the TRUE source of the hurricane….Aigaios?
Ol' Timer
August 29th, 2011
12:16 pm
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but my neighbor told me that Jeff Foxworthy was going to moderate the next Republican/Tea Party debate because he had a sack full of questions to ask them from Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader.
He’ll probably have to dumb em’ down to keep from embarrassing em’.
Pamela
August 29th, 2011
12:19 pm
hahahahahaha! Now that’s funny. There is no way in he!! that the teaparty is an act of God. They are just as much as an act of God as the Ku Klux Klan. They both represent the same thing…racism….That’s too funny!
RGB
August 29th, 2011
12:20 pm
Partisay,
You must be itching to pick a fight with someone today. I’m your huckleberry.
If you had the capacity for both reading and comprehension, you would have understood that I was commenting that Jim Galloway’s depiction of Bachman was not supported by anything she said.
I didn’t comment on $2 gasoline which has absolutely nothing to do with this topic or what I wrote.
Having said that, Obama’s energy plan is not to look for it. Do you believe that willfully choosing to block the discovery, procurement, and refinery of new petroleum sources serves to increase or decrease the price of gasoline at the pump?
I, too, am anxiously awaiting your reply and trust that you will be able to add focus and discernment to your comments.
Ol' Timer
August 29th, 2011
12:27 pm
If we were in the market for a preacher and Sunday School teacher we’d be in good shape with Michelle and Rick.
But I don’t think they’re smart enough to sit in the big chair.
gm
August 29th, 2011
12:29 pm
Retired Solider
This is hypocrite stuff I am talking about, when Sadaam was captured all the hypocrites were hailing bush for this victory his numbers sky rocketed, now when Obama has kept this nation safe by killing 1,2 terrorist in the world, now he had nothing to do with it.
I guess he did not give the order? this is why people around the world look at this country with a bunch of bigots in it.
DannyX
August 29th, 2011
12:30 pm
Watch out Texas. God is about to get the attention of the politicians in Texas.
Gov Perry was center stage at a huge stadium prayer event. Jesus said to pray alone in a closet, not in a 70,000 seat capacity fancy domed stadium with air conditioning.
REPENT!!! Matthew 6:1
mum
August 29th, 2011
12:37 pm
Wasn’t there something in the bible about false prophets? Be careful of people telling you that god sent them because if they hve to tell you, it’s a lie!
Didn’t Jesus throw the money changers out of the temple?
Didn’t Jesus say something about, “Whatever you do unto the least of these my brothers you do unto me?”
Something’s wrong if God is telling politicians to send kids into war so that the children be blessed people with are murdered. God is responsible for everything good, bad or indefferent it seems.
gm
August 29th, 2011
12:39 pm
I am waiting to see Sara, Hannity, Rush help these tea party people who homes have been destroyed by Irene Oh, but wait the gov is going to have to help them, the same gov these hypocrites takes shot at day in and day out.
Those cool rich idiots of Sara, Hannity, Rush are not going to bad mouth those checks that will be comming to the tea party.
DeVante
August 29th, 2011
12:39 pm
“…[T]here’s the perception among more than a few educated citizens that the Atlanta Regional Commission and their friends the municipal associations, community improvement districts (CIDs) and chambers of commerce…not only want our dollars, but are also trying to force certain lifestyle concepts down our throats.”
That’s my perception too. What’s being done with the taxes the government already collects from us? They never seem to have enough. If, God forbid, this transportayion sales tax passes they’ll be back in another year asking for more.
Nona
August 29th, 2011
12:40 pm
The relevant question here is how the heck a single one of these clowns came to be in a position of power.
Something’s wrong with US if these are who our leaders and potential leaders are. We allowed this. It has to STOP!
Pud Wilkinson
August 29th, 2011
12:41 pm
God’s got a sick sense of humor.
TRUTH
August 29th, 2011
12:43 pm
Tea Party, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, hmmm, if I just left those names up, wonder what kind of reaction it would get? My thoughts are that the Republican Party wish there never was a Tea Party (even though it was created by Freedomworks and other “faux grass roots” Republican auxillaries.”). This whole mess has blown up in your faces and now you’re trying to give credence to extreme fringe Republicans.
How’s that working for ya?
Bill Lewis
August 29th, 2011
12:44 pm
The Democrats want to pass it off as a small group of right wing extremist but the Tea Party is the Silent Majority that is sick of the career crooks who are in office now! Beware ! there will be major changes with Obama and his cronies added to the unemployment numbers in 2012!
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
12:46 pm
gm-
My response to you is due to my military background, not because I am a bigot. Bush did not “kill” any terrorists either. Your comment begs the question, did you give Bush kudos for capturing Sadaam? No? Then I suggest you look at yourself.
John Lewis
August 29th, 2011
12:48 pm
Racism is voting for a person just because they are Black!
DannyX
August 29th, 2011
12:50 pm
mum those things may have happened but we now use a new and improved Bible,
From the New Republican Bible Perry 3:1
“Poor people should sell all of their belongings and give the money to a Rich man.”
That’s pretty much the Republican jobs plan.
Donna P.
August 29th, 2011
12:50 pm
All this attention on the Tea Party is just a media distraction from Obama and his failures. He is a complete failure and I can’t wait until he just becomes a footnote in American politics.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
12:50 pm
TRUTH-
Just like the 2010 elections. Keep up the faith and you’ll see a repeat in 2012.
RGB
August 29th, 2011
12:54 pm
lovelylez et. al.,
Many of you write disparaging comments about people who believe in God. You criticize people for worshiping Him and believe that elected officials not only should not be allowed to worship God publicly, you suggest that these individuals should not even be allowed to possess a belief in the Lord on a private basis. Your actions are directed at chasing these people “back in their holes”.
For a long time I failed to understand the rationale for anyone so viciously attacking people of faith. I thought that in America people had a choice whether to believe or not, and that given that pluralism was a tenet of this country’s founding that individuals would respect others’ choices in this area. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 29 had seminary degrees.
But now I understand that having faith in the Sovereign God threatens those who have faith only in government. Therefore it is operationally consistent for these people to persecute those who profess or possess a faith.
Rick Perry’s recent meeting in Houston is sarcastically mocked by the Left even though Perry attended as a private citizen and never claimed to represent the State of Texas. The name on the mega-screen at the event simply read “Rick Perry, Austin, TX”. No taxpayer dollars were expended to hold the event. But that was insufficient for the mockers.
Many of you commenters are left unsatisfied, so I just wanted to tell you: We get it. We understand that you don’t believe in God. We realize you don’t respect or regard Him in any way whatsoever. That explains the absence of the term “Religious Left”.
Further, we get it that you don’t believe that any elected officials should ever have any religious faith. In addition, we understand that you are self-appointed enforcers whose goal is to lambast, criticize, ridicule, mock, and persecute any person of faith.
Your actions are unlikely to do anything but strengthen the resolve of people of faith. But we prefer leaders whose pastors say “God Bless America” than those who say “God D— America.”
It’s as simple as that. Deal with it.
honested
August 29th, 2011
12:54 pm
More teapottie delusions.
They never poll at over 18% acceptance, but now they are a ’silent majority’.
Only in America.
gm
August 29th, 2011
12:58 pm
Retired Solider
No one call you a bigot, just another person who try to hold President Obama to different standards then previous Presidents.
The only reason you idiots on the right won in 2010, because you lied to the American people claiming you were going to create jobs,.
This congress has not passed one single job bill and the American people know they have been had.
DannyX
August 29th, 2011
1:02 pm
Just whose “sovereign God” are we following? It sure wasn’t Thomas Jefferson’s.
He was very much against organized religion, but kept faith as a free thinking Christian.
Should we all get out our Jefferson Bibles? Did Jefferson start the war on Christmas by taking out all the miracles?
honested
August 29th, 2011
1:10 pm
rgb,
I don’t care what your pastors say, or what the pastors of elected leaders say, as long as they keep it separate from their business in Government.
pb
August 29th, 2011
1:12 pm
gm,
Your sentences run on too long. And accusing people of being racists is not going to help Obama get re-elected.
NANNY STATE
August 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
most people are too smart to argue with a fool. gm = fool
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
1:21 pm
The Tea Party is the Talibanization of American politics. The government is the problem. Gays are evil. Regulation is the anathema to progress. Environmental protection is a communist plot to keep America in the Dark Ages. Minorities and immigrants are leeches. The poor and the middle class have a moral responsibility to deliver the rich to the Promised Land, because that is how the former can insure that they will keep their slave wage existence. Barack Obama is Satan.
The Tea Party has picked up where Al Queda left off.
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
1:23 pm
I have learned over my 50 years of life that people who run around calling other people or groups racists are usually either a) ignorant or b) racists. I believe after looking at gm’s posts that he/she is both. The Tea Party scares the hell out of lefties and well it should. We are working to get some of you to stand on your own intead of living off the sweat and money of others. I know that concept does not sit well with your thinking but, that falls under “it sucks to be you”.
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
1:26 pm
RAMZAD, you are another ignorrant lefty that has no idea what the Tea Party stands for, not that you want to. It is eaiser to label them as what the far left tells you to label them as. For that, it shows both your stupidity and makes you a follower of people and not a leader. Somehow that would not be surprising to those that know your ignorant a**.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
1:32 pm
gm-
Ok, I’ll hold Obama to the same standard as Bush. Bush’s fiscal policy was poor, Obama’s is terrible. How is that?
honested
August 29th, 2011
1:41 pm
kramer,
Many in this country who worked to modify the healtcare financing system in 2009 were working to prevent people from living off the sweat and money of others.
Unfortunately, we ended up with the for-profit health insurance companies and all their attached parasites are still in place.
I hope we do better next time.
I do wish the teapotties would hold an internal seminar to teach their minions what it costs to run a Civilization and that letting the top earners off the hook doesn’t make a lick of sense.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
1:47 pm
@Kramer: Kramer, life is good. I got you to hate me and call me names and curse me. That is exactly what the Tea Party does best- invest in fear, profit from propaganda, vilify those who disagree with it, and troll for scape goats. It is your hate Kramer. Keep it. It is making you very ugly. It would be better for you if you started smoking cigarettes.
findog
August 29th, 2011
1:48 pm
If the Tea Party didn’t stop the TSPLOST then please have the Speaker, Lt Gov, Gov tells us who did!
Was it those democrats they were trying to manipulate?
Carl J.
August 29th, 2011
1:55 pm
The Tea Party has one huge “Achillies Heel” that is going to backfire on them. Namely….. their constant insistance of connecting Jesus Christ with American politics. I wish I had a dollar for every time a Tea Party member starts up with the: “”Jesus is the government and the government is Jesus”" rant. They also have a narccisist, narrow belief that just about EVERYONE in the United States thinks exactly like they do. Just wait until they find out that NOT all Americans are cornfield, Bible-thumping clones from Podunk, Nebraska.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:01 pm
findog-
You won’t like this answer, but the democrats stopped it. They supported moving the date to Nov and then pulled their support. There wasn’t enough Reps to support it to pass without Dem support.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:03 pm
Carl J.-
Just like it backfired in 2010? Facts are such an obstacle to invented truth.
honested
August 29th, 2011
2:07 pm
retired,
2010 was a mistake not likely to be repeated.
TRUTH
August 29th, 2011
2:10 pm
Well, Retired Soldier, I am also a vet (US Army). I will keep the faith that this country has had its eyes opened too the Republican party. I don’t care if you call yourself a Tea Partier, Conservative, or whatever the new thing is. You are still a Republican. Those who voted in the Tea Partiers, and returned the house to the Republicans, now have seen the light. I hope you, Retired Soldier, are ready for the 2012 elections, I don’t see it going well for the Republican party at all.
Hoorah…
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:13 pm
You do not have to know what the Tea Party stand for when you see what it falls for- hate and derision for people of color; propaganda and incitement to commit violence against those in disagreement with it (see AR-15 at campaign rally and cross hairs on political districts), trickle down nonsense as the basis for middle class prosperity and success, rape the environment and terrorize the prospects for middle class to survive and the poor the overcome poverty, pillage and burn the notion that Barack Obama is an American, implement the fraud of their moral superiority
to destroy the citizenship and worthiness of gay Americans, take those of us who do not agree with it as political hostages- even if it hurts the country, and launch into petty diatribes to overstate is own self righteousness and intellectual validity.
It is not what the Tea Party stands for that is meaningful. It is what it falls for.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:13 pm
honested-
Is that way in congressional polling for just the second time in history, 2010 was the first time, generic congressional republican leads generic democrat? Between redistricting and the low approval numbers of Obama I believe 20-25 seats in the house and 4-6 senate seats are realistic goals. That would move 2010 from mistake to bell weather.
Partisay
August 29th, 2011
2:13 pm
RGB – I know exactly what you said. I can read and conprehend fine. You ended with “how would you like if people made something up about you” and I asked – you mean like you were born in Kenya? I was waiting on your response. Is that the kind of lie you were talking about?
As for gasoline prices, I said – speaking of lies, what do think of her comment? So what do you think of her comment? I didn’t know I had to actually stick “right on” topic to see what you thought about something she said.
But I understand if you don’t want to touch any of those 2 topics.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:16 pm
Truth-
Please look at my 2:13 post. 2012 will be a continuation of 2010, Obama approval just it a new low in Gallup, 38%. I guess that hope and change isn’t working so well.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:18 pm
RAMZAD-
You do exactly the same thing you rail against. You have seen the enemy and it was you.
Tom
August 29th, 2011
2:20 pm
The actual Tea Party movement (9/12) has no social agenda.
RGB
August 29th, 2011
2:21 pm
Carl J. ,
Since there are millions of instances where Tea Partiers have precisely said ”Jesus is the government and the government is Jesus”, would you favor us by providing a few links illustrating this?
I Googled the precise term you claim has been used countless times and found only 2 hits. Both appear on the Huffington Post by someone who also cannot spell or use proper English.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Do you oppose the First Amendment right of people to peaceably assemble?
Do you oppose the First Amendment right of free speech?
Can you point out in the Constitution where it says that elected officials–or others–cannot hold or express religious beliefs?
Finally, I’m always intrigued when people reduce their argument to terming Tea Partiers as Bible-thumping clones from Podunk, Nebraska.
I guess I’m just a stupid, unlearned individual but I do know the meaning and proper spelling of “narcissist”. Narcissism entails “self-love” while Christianity entails loving Almighty God and his son Jesus Christ. In that regard Christianity is the antithesis of narcissism.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:21 pm
@Retired Soldier you are negligible. It is your powerlessness that haunts you. Your personal value went way down after you became dis-useful to the military.
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
2:22 pm
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
1:47 pm
@Kramer: Kramer, life is good. I got you to hate me and call me names and curse me. That is exactly what the Tea Party does best- invest in fear, profit from propaganda, vilify those who disagree with it, and troll for scape goats. It is your hate Kramer. Keep it. It is making you very ugly. It would be better for you if you started smoking cigarettes.
Your thinking is typical liberal hypocrit. Your posts are so filled with hate that when hate is spilled on you what do you do? You call foul and call the person a hater. Sort of like your racists rants and then calling others racists. I would feel sorry for you but, that would mean I care about you and your thinking. The far left hate for the Tea Party only makes us stronger. Please keep up hating and your racist rhetoric.
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
2:24 pm
Tom
August 29th, 2011
2:20 pm
The actual Tea Party movement (9/12) has no social agenda.
Finally, someone who knows the Tea Party! The only social agenda we have is the one that the far left tells everyone we have. In fact, it does not exist. It gives them the ammo to call us racists like they do on this blog.
Partisay
August 29th, 2011
2:25 pm
RGB – While we are at it, When you wrote, “You criticize people for worshiping Him and believe that elected officials not only should not be allowed to worship God publicly, you suggest that these individuals should not even be allowed to possess a belief in the Lord on a private basis.”
I don’t think i have ever seen anybody on here state elected officials, or anybody for that matter, should “not even be allowed to worship God publicly.” Really? People have actually stated that on here – that people shouldn’t be allowed to worship God? I missed that one. You used Rick Perry as an example. Did anyone ever tell him he should not be allowed to possess a belief in the Lord on a private basis?
“I thought that in America people had a choice whether to believe or not, and that given that pluralism was a tenet of this country’s founding that individuals would respect others’ choices in this area.”
Actually the people I believe you are referring to are the ones who are trying to stop Muslims from building Mosques to worship in near ground zero, in Murfreesboro Tn and other places. Is that the people you are referring to that respect others’ choices in this area? Because that is the only people I see on here trying to restrict people’s freedom to worship.
Oh, I forgot, it’s not THEIR God so they shouldn’t be allowed.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:26 pm
Ramzad-
Thank you for those kind words. It is always helpful that you make my point better than I can. Good job.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
2:28 pm
Kramer & Tom-
You are correct, the Tea party is about fiscal policy.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:29 pm
KRAMER: Not calling foul at all. In fact, it is delightful that you start calling me names and opening up
with Tea Party behavior. It just proves my point. I actually embraced you for your response, because
you are just being what you are a Tea Party supporter.
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
2:29 pm
“You do not have to know what the Tea Party stand for when you see what it falls for- hate and derision for people of color; propaganda and incitement to commit violence against those in disagreement with it (see AR-15 at campaign rally and cross hairs on political districts), trickle down nonsense as the basis for middle class prosperity and success, rape the environment and terrorize the prospects for middle class to survive and the poor the overcome poverty, pillage and burn the notion that Barack Obama is an American, implement the fraud of their moral superiority”
This is typical liberal racism in the form of trying to be intellectual. Not only are his claims false and can not be proven with any sort of facts, this person, RAMZAD, is clearly of a bigot mind and takes no responsibility for his life or his actions. It is people of other color who are to blame for Obama’s poll numbers and RAMZAD’s failures in life. So sad.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:30 pm
Retired Soldier, just obliging you with a picture of your reality.
carla roqs
August 29th, 2011
2:31 pm
@Romegaguy August 29th, 2011 9:11 am, forgive my ignorance, but i agree with thee. i did see that luckovich included him as well. maybe he is courting the nomination undercover the same way it has been reported that he did his current wife while with his previous wife.
RGB
August 29th, 2011
2:33 pm
Partisay,
If I didn’t grasp even rudimentary economics, I too would avoid answering the question I posed.
But I will answer yours. Gasoline was $1.79 when Barack Obama took office. Could the price decline to that when George W. Bush was president? I don’t know. Prices are driven by supply and demand and, sometimes, speculation.
But what I do know is that Obama has stopped most new oil drilling in the U.S. and is acting to prevent a major oil company from retrieving a billion barrel find in the Gulf. With demand from China and others escalating on a daily basis–combined with Obama’s refusal to allow private companies to realize new sources–prices will likely increase. Plus, we won’t realize the new jobs that accompany the discovery, production, and refinement of petroleum products. With less disposable income, the economy will suffer further and more people will be dependent on government–which is what Obama and the Democrat party crave.
If gasoline had doubled under a Bush administration, the na-na-na-na-na-na crowd would have claimed that Bush was enriching his “oil buddies”.
So is Obama enriching his oil buddies?
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
2:33 pm
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:29 pm
KRAMER: Not calling foul at all. In fact, it is delightful that you start calling me names and opening up
with Tea Party behavior. It just proves my point. I actually embraced you for your response, because
you are just being what you are a Tea Party supporter.
The only person acting himself here is you. You are so full of disdain and hate for anyone of color who does not agree with Obama and your thinking. You tell lies about the Tea Party and act like you are an expert on the group. In fact, I do not think you are an expert on Obama and his policies. Here is a chance to prove me wrong Ramzad, tell us Obama’s economic plan and what it will do if put into place to increase jobs? Give the readers digest version if you like.
TRUTH
August 29th, 2011
2:35 pm
Quite frankly @Retired, many great Presidents ratings tanked towards the negative in the first term. Further, Retired, I operate from a factual perspective and although you’re hopeful that the same will continue in 2012, just wondering what’s in it for you as a citizen. All that we worked to defend while in service to this country is now all of a sudden no longer the freedoms we fought for? Say what??
You do know one of the Republicans position is to do away with your retirement benefits, right? Your medical, right? It’s a part of the pensions that they are looking to cut. But, they will look you right in the eye and say, Noooo, we’re not going to do that…
But you see Retired, we didn’t serve for just ourselves. We served for this country. I for one will not see the rich take away from the people who built this country.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:35 pm
Kramer: More names and self serving diatribes….you are good…..lolll..amazing how quickly you think about that which may be able to bring people down to your level. A word of advice! Try thinking about things that may bring you up…
RGB
August 29th, 2011
2:38 pm
Partisay,
Clearly I’ve touched a nerve with you.
And I note that you even wrote: “Did anyone ever tell him (Perry) he should not be allowed to possess a belief in the Lord on a private basis?”
That’s mighty generous of you.
Kramer
August 29th, 2011
2:41 pm
Ramzad, typical liberal blowhard. I ask you to give me Obama’s economic plan and you divert attention back to me. Which tells me you are a phony and one of many of all colors, who voted for Obama based on his color. Which makes you a bigot and uninformed and I would invite anyone on here having a serious discussion about politics to not include Ramzad as he is both a racist and not capable of having an intelligent coversation. I say goodbye to Mr. Racist and advise you to enjoy the next few months of Obama’s presidency. They will be his last.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:41 pm
Kramer: Obama does not create any jobs. It is Congress that spends money. Republicans lied about Yellow cake uranium and invaded Iraq for almost three trillion dollars. Invaded Afghanistan- the source of our 911 problems and then walked away for Iraq which had nothing to do with 911. Gave a massive tax break to the richest 5% of Americans and these guys took everything overseas.
Obama is working to clear up the crap Bush left us. Even is we get Bachman as President it is going to take a good while for the jobs to come back. Obama does not hire anybody, and by the way, is it not your people who claims Obama is already spending too much money?
honested
August 29th, 2011
2:41 pm
If in fact the tea-whatevers were concerned about fiscal policy, they would be out in force to restore sane taxation as existed before 2001 to pay down the massive and unnecessary ward debt.
But that would admit the mythology in being taxed enough.
RAMZAD
August 29th, 2011
2:43 pm
Kramer: The word racist makes me shudder. Clearly that word is the more decent part of your vocabulary.
Dan
August 29th, 2011
2:44 pm
In the months ahead, we can expect to see the Bachmann and others in the TP movement become more angry, more volatile, and even more dangerous as it desperately seeks to remain relevant, but as the recent polling has shown, it is far, far too late for the Tea Party Movement to save itself or the hateful doctrine it embraces. It was always a movement founded on lies, disinformation and fear and such a movement cannot, and will not survive in the greatest country in the world. http://wp.me/pNmlT-JV
Tom
August 29th, 2011
2:46 pm
I am a STRONG believer in the true Tea Party principles (9/12), and I consider myself to be a social libertarian (small “l”, not big “L”).
I also am not a theist.
Those who came to associate themselves with the TP movement of 2010 repesented a broad swaty across the political landscape. There were certainly a large number who identified themselves as Republican, by their voting history, but large numbers also came from those who considered themselves to be “Independent” as well as “moderate” and, yes, even “Democrat”.
Oh, and yes there was (and still are) a significant number of those who connected with the message of the Tea Party movement who were minorities. Fiscal conservatism crosses many lines.
Partisay
August 29th, 2011
2:50 pm
“You criticize people for worshiping Him and believe that elected officials not only should not be allowed to worship God publicly, you suggest that these individuals should not even be allowed to possess a belief in the Lord on a private basis.”
RGB – You are the one stating people are saying elected officials should not even be allowed to possess a belief in the Lord on a private bases. Who is telling them that? And why would you think you are hitting a nerve with me. I am responding to the things you write just like you are responding to things others are writing on here.
I just love it when you totally ignore the questions. You never said how she was going to to make gasoline under $2 a gallon. You just change the subject to Obama. I thought we were only suppossed to to talk about Bachmann since that was the topic we were on. Your words again.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
3:05 pm
Truth-
Your post is so hokey you should change you handle to “fiction”. Nowhere have I seen they want to reduce my retirement, the pentagon has suggested changing the retirement for future soldiers. If you have seen anything other than that please tell me where to look. SS would not change for those over 55, logical.
What is in it for me as a citizen if we elect a conservative Congress and president? Hopefully fiscal sanity for a start. Fewer regulations and less taxes. How is that for a start?
honested
August 29th, 2011
4:01 pm
retired,
While cutting substantially from the entire bloated MIC is in order, a wholesale change for future military retirement certainly needs to be a component. ‘20 and out’ should have gone the way of the dodo 30 years ago.
Also, I had to do a quick check and I was amazed that apparently you ‘cherry picked’ one of the only polls (of course excluding raz-munchkin) that shows the ‘generic republican’ in Congressional races in positive territory. Certainly with your obvious wealth of knowledge in all things political it should be obvious to you that the trend over the last couple of months has been the ‘generic Democrat’ and that trend is firming.
Taxes are the price of Civilization. Those unwilling to pay them should move to a country where taxes are not charged.
Regulations are necessary to prevent predatory activities posing as ‘business’, ensure public safety and prevent environmental degradation. There are countries that have few regulations as well.
For the no tax, no regulation, lassiez-faire crowd, the iron is hot to strike out and form a new utopia.
Somalia is waiting!
lovelyliz
August 29th, 2011
4:56 pm
Never trust a social conservative in a political setting
lovelyliz
August 29th, 2011
5:09 pm
If you don’t like taxes: Do not become a member of the US military, who are paid with tax dollars, Do not ask the National Guard to help you after a disaster. Do not call 911 when you get hurt., Do not call the police to stop intruders in your home. Do not summon the fire department to save your burning home. Do not drive on any paved road, highway, and interstate or drive on any bridge. Do not live in areas with clean air.Do not drink clean water. Do not walk or run on sidewalks Do not use cures that were discovered by labs using federal dollars. Do not fly on federally regulated airplanes.
Do not watch the weather provided by the National Weather Service, Do not use the internet, which was developed by the military. Do not swim in clean rivers.Do not ask the military to defend your life and home in the event of a foreign invasion.Do not buy firearms that wouldn’t have been developed without the support of the US Government and military. That includes most of them.Do not eat USDA inspected produce and meat. Do not buy any product that is protected from poisons, toxins, etc. by the Consumer Protection Agency. Do not save your money in a bank that is FDIC insured. Do not use Veterans benefits or military health care. Do not run for public office. Politicians are paid with taxpayer dollars. Do not ask for help from the FBI, S.W.A.T, the bomb squad, Homeland Security, State troopers, etc…
53. Do not apply for any government job whatsoever as all state and federal employees are paid with tax dollars.Do not apply for loans from any bank that is FDIC insured. Do not ask for taxpayer dollars for your oil company. Do not seek medical care from places that use federal dollars. Do not use electricity generated by Hoover Dam. Do not use electricity or any service provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Do not whine when someone copies your work and sells it as their own. Government enforces copyright laws.Do not use money printed by the US Treasury. Do not see any doctor that is licensed through the state.Do not use any water from municipal water systems.Do not complain when diseases and viruses, that were once fought around the globe by the US government and CDC, reach your house.
Retired Solider
August 29th, 2011
5:24 pm
honested-
Enjoy your trip, liberals love to defend the muslim way of life. Hope you enjoy it too.
Mark Montgomery
August 29th, 2011
5:25 pm
I love it when Michele Bachmann runs her trap about something as stupid as thinking some imaginary man up in the sky is punishing us because of our behavior. The more she yaps the deeper the hole she digs herself into and the less likely that she will get the GOP nomination. She is very dangerous. Let’s be clear about one thing: the tea party is the present day KKK. The tea party is a small group of old, white, rich racists who hate minorities, muslims, the middle class and the poor and hide their racism behind “states’ rights”. Rick Perry is a perfect example of a typical southern racist KKK member. We have to fight the tea party like the cancer that it is. Mark Montgomery NYC, NY boboberg@nyc.rr.com
mum
August 29th, 2011
5:41 pm
Relision is a very dangerous thing. If one were to believe much being said out there, God is punishing us for electing Obama, or one could say that God is punishing us for being so extremely partisan and hateful. It works both ways.
If you say God Bless America, are you saying god curse every body else? Isn’t God supposed to be a loving God, and if so, why are our kids being blown to pieces in Afghanistan? Since Republicans are the only true Patriots and the only people “tough on defense” does it mean that God tells them when to start wars and that it’s ok to send kids to die? But, God is a God of love, so that doesn’t make sense does it?
honested
August 29th, 2011
6:49 pm
retired,
I’m sure you are bright enough to realize I was suggesting that for ‘you guys in the teapottie’.
That way you can build the country of your dreams and leave the rest of us alone.
double
August 29th, 2011
9:14 pm
Yes Libya does belong to Obama,Now look at how it is being done.Compare to the Bush way.Look at the cost.Look at the american lives lost.
President
August 29th, 2011
9:20 pm
Unbelievable! There is no reason she should be making jokes about fiscal responsibility while people are losing there homes and dieing. Wake up and understand the reality of the world. No President should ever make jokes during a situation like this and she proves again and again why she should never receive the nomination.
Check out more of my comments at: http://aneastcoastview.blogspot.com/
double
August 29th, 2011
9:51 pm
Presient why check out your comments,Can’t spell very simple word.
double
August 29th, 2011
9:52 pm
Heck you could leave out letters…………DUH
Clinton
August 30th, 2011
1:53 pm
Herman Cain used to work for the Federal Reserve and Rick Perry used to work for Al Gore and as of late…George W. Bush. Like Romney and Newt Gingrich they are all Globalists and subscribe to the Secular part of the Rockefeller Republican party except when it comes to pretending to be followers of Jesus Christ. Talk about controlled opposition and CFR Huckabee and Palin just waiting on the sidelines to jump in for the establishment in case their hand picked candidate falters…what a joke….Bachmann is clearly the REAL DEAL at this point and she is not a theocrat as those who do not understand the first amendment claim.