This is getting out of control. There are literally protestors in Washington throwing teabags... if only they could see themselves.
Also, hilarious:
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The First Rule of the Republican Party Is Always Say Indescribably Stupid Things
By John Cook, 12:58 PM on Wed Apr 15 2009, 2,257 views
Republicans are up in arms over the insinuation that their historical reenactments of acts of violent vandalism are somehow extremist. So they are comparing themselves—favorably!—to the guy in Fight Club who blows up banks.
Today's meme on the right is that Obama's storm troopers are deliberately painting law-abiding, peaceful tax protesters as dangerous right-wing terrorists. This fantasy is based on the confluence of two events: The scheduled "tea party" events wherein white rich people can vent their rage at having to concede power to a nonwhite rich people, and the release this week of a Department of Homeland Security bulletin warning local authorities to be on the look-out for right-wing nutjobs. When Michelle Malkin hears "violent right-wing extremism," her ears naturally start burning. She thinks DHS was talking about her, and she's outraged.
OK, so if the Tea Baggers aren't violent extremists seeking the overthrow of the federal government, what are they, then? Over to you, Matt Mackowiak, Republican operative and former press secretary to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, writing in the Austin-American Statesman:
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The coming revolution is akin to "Fight Club," the 1999 film that follows the struggles of day to day life for a regular guy who starts an underground fight club as radical and not terribly productive psychotherapy.
As Brad Pitt's character, Tyler Durden, says in the movie, "Fight Club was the beginning, now it's moved out of the basement, it's called Project Mayhem."
Tyler Durden, you may remember, was the imaginary friend a boring guy in a suit created during his descent into psychosis. And Project Mayhem, you will recall, was a plot to destroy the nation's financial system by blowing up credit card companies. Which is a fair approximation of what the Republican Party accomplished during its eight years in the White House.
So get it straight, Obamatards: Tea Baggers are not violent madmen. They just aspire to be like characters in movies who murder people and plant truck bombs in buildings in a coordinated effort to overthrow the existing power structure, with which they disagree.
There are some other ways the Republican Party is like Fight Club:
* They are both comically and deeply homoerotic.
* They are both always fighting among themselves for no reason.
* They are both ing insane.
* They both have ty endings.
Any validity that this tea-bag movement may have had got thrown out the window when Gingrich & Armey became leaders of this "grassroots" movement.
Capitalizt
lol nice title ;)
BARS-N-STARS
Just got back from the one in Madison Wisconsin. Great crowd turn out. You can tell all the Obama voters walking around with all that guilt hanging thier heads all low. Losers.
Shakka
Wow. Air America is on par with the onion with that report. No wonder nobody takes them seriously. I think this whole Tea Party movement is a bit overblown, but picking on those who pay the biggest percentage of the tax burden under the veil of safety that is a high approval rating for Obama isn't likely to pan out much better. If I were the left I'd take the high ground and ignore the protesters and not give them the attention they so desperately want. I can't help but feel like provoking the situation will only worsen the divisive situation we already have.
If it makes them feel better to look silly throwing some Lipton around to vent their frustration, let them do it and get on with it already. I fear that Atlas is shrugging during what is a very tenuous time for our country and we need better than name calling by anyone. It's only exacerbating the bitterness. Sorry, that little dykefest actually made me more sympathetic to the stupid tea party bull. I don't remember being in such a deep recession anytime in the 90's so I think this whole "Clinton level tax" argument is a red herring.
Hey, maybe if we just piss them off enough they'll just leave!
I'm ready for a new tax code. The current one only fuels class warfare.
Capitalizt
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Originally posted by Shakka
I fear that Atlas is shrugging during what is a very tenuous time for our country
*high five!* :wtf:
P.S. Looks like it's safe to say this is not really a grassroots anti-tax movement..but more of an anti-Obama protest organized by right wing media.. I do like the Santelli for President sign though. ;)
The17sss
What's great about the tea parties is that this is a genuine grass roots movement... started BY the people FOR the people. It's not something started with the backing of non-government organizations like ACORN who somehow end up funding their bull with tax dollars; it's not a union organized and funded operation where the people are still getting paid while protesting; and it's a lot more than just people pissed about tax cuts or no tax cuts.
The only thing it has to do with "Republican leadership" is that it is a movement from the people because of the LACK OF Republican leadership; the people are saying, "we're tired of you, the GOP, failing to represent your constituents with the principles you used to stand for." Some like Newt and a few others want the exposure and to tie themselves to a grassroots movement of course, but have no illusion- this is real democracy in action by the people with no leader heading it, and no tax money funding it. The Left loves to protest and glorify the virtues of their government "hearing from the people", so why they are trying to excoriate this is beyond me.
ACORN was bussing in 40 people at a time to AIG execuatives' houses, followed by 50 media people... yet the NY Times and Washington Times made zero mention of this on their front page today (but rather, filled up space with Bo the dog stories). Side note: Cindy Sheehan's 12 person protest team outside Bush's house got over 100 stories in the NY Times. There were over 700 of these parties organized throughout the country by regular people who are sick and ing tired of us spending our way to a 10+ trillion dollar debt in less than 10 years. When that bill comes due, who's gonna pay for it? How will it get paid without people becoming wards to the State?
Go ahead Democrats, and brush it all aside like it is some joke and all those people are "right wing crazies". If this is crazy, what do you call Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, and situations like the UNC students protesting in Tom Tancredo's face and forcing him out of his speaking engagement (brought to you by the party who believes in tolerance and the right of free speech, a.k.a. the culture of intimidation). As far as I know, it's our constitutional right to speak out against the government without being labled as "extremists". Only now that Obama is president, are people over the top if they oppose his policies.
These protests are the expression of individual liberty and freedom and the demand for more of it, which the Obama administration, the pathetic media, the pundits, and the zombified Obama-bots detest.
Groundhog Boy
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Originally posted by The17sss
What's great about the tea parties is that this is a genuine grass roots movement... started BY the people FOR the people. It's not something started with the backing of non-government organizations like ACORN who somehow end up funding their bull with tax dollars; it's not a union organized and funded operation where the people are still getting paid while protesting; and it's a lot more than just people pissed about tax cuts or no tax cuts.
The only thing it has to do with "Republican leadership" is that it is a movement from the people because of the LACK OF Republican leadership; the people are saying, "we're tired of you, the GOP, failing to represent your constituents with the principles you used to stand for." Some like Newt and a few others want the exposure and to tie themselves to a grassroots movement of course, but have no illusion- this is real democracy in action by the people with no leader heading it, and no tax money funding it. The Left loves to protest and glorify the virtues of their government "hearing from the people", so why they are trying to excoriate this is beyond me.
ACORN was bussing in 40 people at a time to AIG execuatives' houses, followed by 50 media people... yet the NY Times and Washington Times made zero mention of this on their front page today (but rather, filled up space with Bo the dog stories). Side note: Cindy Sheehan's 12 person protest team outside Bush's house got over 100 stories in the NY Times. There were over 700 of these parties organized throughout the country by regular people who are sick and ing tired of us spending our way to a 10+ trillion dollar debt in less than 10 years. When that bill comes due, who's gonna pay for it? How will it get paid without people becoming wards to the State?
Go ahead Democrats, and brush it all aside like it is some joke and all those people are "right wing crazies". If this is crazy, what do you call Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, and situations like the UNC students protesting in Tom Tancredo's face and forcing him out of his speaking engagement (brought to you by the party who believes in tolerance and the right of free speech, a.k.a. the culture of intimidation). As far as I know, it's our constitutional right to speak out against the government without being labled as "extremists". Only now that Obama is president, are people over the top if they oppose his policies.
These protests are the expression of individual liberty and freedom and the demand for more of it, which the Obama administration, the pathetic media, the pundits, and the zombified Obama-bots detest.
Is this a joke? You might want to look up who funded all of this. There's really no difference between Sheehan/Code Pink and Armey/Shelby when it comes to their rationales on the economy...they all obviously living in a place far from reality.
It's rather sad that the Republicans bastardized what could have been an event that called for more fiscal responsibility. Instead it turned into a mockery based on "grassroots" efforts from major lobbying groups headed by former GOP leaders that turned it into a partisan travesty.
BTW, it's rather hypocritical how you can be so in support of these protests yet I can guarantee supported Bush protesters being barricaded 1/2 mile away during the 2004 RNC convention in NYC.
The17sss
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Originally posted by Capitalizt
P.S. Looks like it's safe to say this is not really a grassroots anti-tax movement..but more of an anti-Obama protest organized by right wing media.. I do like the Santelli for President sign though. ;)
Are you kidding me? How could you of all people fall for that line? Are you really surprised to see a main stream media reporter naturally gravitating towards the guy holding a poster with a Hitler/Obama photoshop on it? Wow, who would have thought the media would single out the kookiest kids in the crowd in order to paint the whole movement as some sort of right wing militia, especially a couple days after the DHS's report on "right wing extremists" (which they admittedly have no proof of)?
It is absultely grass roots.... here is the truth about how it started, with links, and what you won't see reported on MSNBC. Tell me this isn't grass roots:
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Feb. 15: Keli Carender, who blogs as “Liberty Belle” spread the word about a grass-roots protest she was organizing in Seattle to raise her voice against the passage of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill. It’s the first time she had ever jumped into political organizing of any kind. She is not affiliated with any “corporate lobbyist” or think tank or national taxpayers’ organization. She’s a young conservative mom who blogs. Amazingly, she turned around the event in a few days all on her own by reaching out on the Internet, to her local talk station, and to anyone who would listen. http://www.redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com/
Word of the Seattle protest spread across the blogosphere. Readers suggested there should be a Denver protest on Feb. 17 to greet President Obama for the porkulus signing. Separately, the local chapter of Americans for Prosperity was already working to put something together on the fly. I met the head of the state AFP for the first time on the steps of the Capitol. No conspiracy here, tinfoil hatters. It was a union of like minds in an impromptu show of outrage against the legislation-without-deliberation process in Washington. Also there: Jon Caldara of the libertarian Independence Institute on one end of the spectrum and Tom Tancredo on the strict immigration enforcement end (hundreds of the protesters were mad about the absence of E-Verify standards for the stimulus funding).
On Feb. 18, 500 fed-up taxpayers showed up in Mesa, AZ to oppose President Obama’s campaign for massive expansions of the government mortgage entitlement and to mock what SC Gov. Mark Sanford rightly called savior-based economics. No top-down organization. Just the effort of local talk radio station KFYI. No Beltway GOP involvement. Zero national media coverage. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/135640
On Feb. 19, reader Amanda Grosserode e-mailed that she was organizing a tax revolt protest in Overland Park, KS the following weekend. More than 400 people showed up in freezing weather to protest Rep. Dennis Moore’s vote for the bill. Glenn Reynolds did the reporting the MSM didn’t do. http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/70323/
On Feb. 19, CNBC’s Rick Santelli issued his now-famous “Tea Party” call — prompted, many people forget, by Obama’s mortgage entitlement expansion plans.
On Feb. 21, the grass-roots Internet group, Top Conservatives on Twitter, founded by Michael Patrick Leahy and powered by Rob Neppell, announced “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” on Feb. 27. Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor was one of the rare national MSM reporters who attended one of the tea parties (Atlanta) and provided a fair and balanced look at protesters mad at both parties: http://features.csmonitor.com/polit...-new-tea-party/
An Internet-based coalition spearheaded by TCOT, Smart Girl Politics, and the DontGoMovement formed to coordinate today’s Tax Day Tea Party. It is a totally unprecedented phenomenon that no Beltway GOP guru or elected leader can claim credit for. The grass-roots coalition has held open planning meetings on BlogTalkRadio every week and maintained the transparency that Washington abandoned during TARP/porkulus/budget process. They’ve spent weeks helping first-time political activists get connected, obtain permits, and learn the ropes.
Along the way, many different taxpayers’ groups, talk show hosts, individuals, and websites have stepped up to the plate to pitch in.
And along the way, detractors have fumbled and bumbled over how to discredit the Tea Party organizers — first blaming a cabal tied to CNBC, then jeering at the amateurishness of the participants before crying “astroturf,” then claiming the events were “financed by Fox News” or (fill-in-the-blank) conservative conspiracy, then smearing the protesters as crazed gun nuts (FNC’s Bob Beckel) and racists (FNC’s Geraldo Rivera).
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if MSM coverage refrained from parroting all the lazy, groundless, uninformed canards and reported the simple truth?
The17sss
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Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
Is this a joke? You might want to look up who funded all of this. There's really no difference between Sheehan/Code Pink and Armey/Shelby when it comes to their rationales on the economy...they all obviously living in a place far from reality.
It's rather sad that the Republicans bastardized what could have been an event that called for more fiscal responsibility. Instead it turned into a mockery based on "grassroots" efforts from major lobbying groups headed by former GOP leaders that turned it into a partisan travesty.
People weren't calling for fiscal responsibility? Headed by former GOP leaders? Like who... Newt? He had nothing to do with the organization of this. He is one of many that saw a movement and wanted to attach themselves to it. Steele asked to speak at one and they told him no. Read the post above this one with the short history of the grassroots efforts. Mock it and try to diminish it all you want.. but you can't deny how sick the people are of what's going on, and it showed today. It wasn't a contrived fake outrage thing.
Groundhog Boy
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Originally posted by The17sss
People weren't calling for fiscal responsibility? Headed by former GOP leaders? Like who... Newt? He had nothing to do with the organization of this. He is one of many that saw a movement and wanted to attach themselves to it. Steele asked to speak at one and they told him no. Read the post above this one with the short history of the grassroots efforts. Mock it and try to diminish it all you want.. but you can't deny how sick the people are of what's going on, and it showed today. It wasn't a contrived fake outrage thing.
People talked about fiscal responsibility, but no one listened because of who was preaching about it. People like Dick Armey & Newt completely jumped on a bandwagon that had already been created and tried to distort it to make it seem like they've agreed all along.?
And of course Steele wasn't a keynote. He's been the most worthless example of a party leader that I've recalled. I mean, a big chunk of the party doesn't respect him for the most obvious reason, then he goes and takes on Limbaugh and the talk show media. Would you want to associate yourself who seems that intent on killing his political career.
