EarBucket: So, his plan is to give the Tea Partiers a perfect excuse to disavow association with anyone who acts like an asshole at any of their rallies? Do I have that right?There are many sound reasons to disapprove of a plan like this, but honestly, I don't think the Teabaggers require any assistance in the areas of convenient disavowal, cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy, or intellectual dishonesty. They'll manage all that just fine either way.
If you can find a telling of the tale of how it was born that has a start date before the below events do post it. Your version is correct under 'we don't like the way tax money is being spent' but ignores the tax-day tie in.According to the eXile, the chicagoteaparty.com domain was registered back in August 2008 by Milt Rosenberg, a right-wing talk radio host in Chicago. So that predates whatever this Libertarian Party fellow is claiming.
Donny Ferguson, Director of Communications, Libertarian National Committee
Donny.Ferguson@lp.org claims"
"The Libertarian Party of Illinois got the idea to hold an April 15, 2009 anti-tax “Boston Tea Party” in Chicago way back in December of 2008. On February 10, 2009 they started a Facebook page and began promoting the website throughout the Illinois media."
be sure to ask the Libertarians there how their court watching program is coming along. When they counter "what program?" point out if the courthouses are made of crooked timber, how can their Libertarian vision come to pass with no "justice for all"Well, that's a bit lengthy to write on a protest sign, but you're definitely on the right track.
I personally don't think it would have mattered WHO was in the White House once the merde hit the fan.
"Turns out that the 'tea party' movement sweeping the nation is disproportionately composed of individuals who have higher-than-average incomes. It’s also disproportionately composed of men. And disproportionately composed of white people. And disproportionately composed of self-identified conservatives. And disproportionately composed of self-identified Republicans."Who are the Tea Party activists?
"Activists in the Tea Party movement tend to be male, rural, upscale, and overwhelmingly conservative, according to a new national poll.Tea Party Demographics: White, Republican, Older Male with Money
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey [PDF] released Wednesday also indicates that Tea Party activists would vote overwhelmingly Republican in a two-party race for Congress.
...According to the survey, roughly 11 percent of all Americans say they have actively supported the Tea Party movement, either by donating money, attending a rally, or taking some other active step to support the movement. Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas.
...The poll indicates that about 24 percent of the public generally favors the Tea Party movement but has not taken any actions such as donating money or attending a rally. Adding in the 11 percent who say they are active, a total of 35 percent could be described as Tea Party supporters. That larger group is also predominantly male, higher-income, and conservative."
"Bloomberg gives a bit more detail in its more current analysis and observes more than 90 percent of Tea Party backers say the U.S. is moving more toward socialism than capitalism, while 70% want more government involvement in job creation. In other words, they don't want the government interfering except in certain designated areas, as they also were found by majorities to want Social Security to remain under government control and didn't see the Veterans Administration as socialism.Video: Keith Olbermann questions Tea Party for lack of racial diversity.
...What Bloomberg observes from the poll is this: 'Tea Party supporters are likely to be older, white and male. Forty percent are age 55 and over, compared with 32 percent of all poll respondents; just 22 percent are under the age of 35, 79 percent are white, and 61 percent are men. Many are also Christian fundamentalists, with 44 percent identifying themselves as 'born-again,' compared with 33 percent of all respondents.'"
"Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express, the group that organized the event, said, 'Political correctness led to 9/11. Political correctness led to Barack Hussein Obama. We have a full blown case of AIDS and we're the cure.'"No coded language there. No way.
I'm kinda offended at the lazy and prejudicial characterisation of the people who are participating in these protests. Yes, they do have their share of nuts and kooks; but guess what-EVERY PROTEST GROUP DOES. To include your favorite cause.I want to thank you for your insight into who the Teap Party people are-- people like your husband, run-of-the-mill right-wing Republican activists throwing a temper tantrum because the Democrats tossed them out of power after 30 years of deluding themselves that Republicans were somehow the "natural" ruling party that representing "real America" in this country. Insofar as that attitude and the attitude of Republicans in general is downright crazy, I think it's reasonable to call them out for their kooky temper tantrums right now.
Because most of them were busy trying to make a living and not paying attention to the economic news and not believing those who said the sky was falling.That, however, is not true. The people who are now "tea partiers" were the same people engaging in a relentless campaign of hate and rage against Democratic candidates like Gore and Kerry who were advocating more fiscally responsible paths than Bush were and were simultaneously too cowardly or morally ignorant to call out the abuse of government power, wiretapping, politicization, and use of torture by the Bush administration.
Republicans honestly believe that the grassroots groundswell of opposition to Bush and company was all part of an elaborate, contrived Democratic political strategy.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.If ordering the assassination of a citizen isn't depriving him of life without the due process of law then what is? During his campaign Obama, who is a lawyer and a Constitutional scholar, repeatedly said that Bush's mere wiretapping of citizens without due process was a violation of the Constitution. If wiretapping someone without due process is unconstitutional how can killing them without due process be anything but?
"Wow, RedMassGroup and Michelle McPhee were apparently so angry about our small, polite counterprotest that yesterday they actually checked on our permit and then told people to contact inspectional services on us because we’d be serving homemade sandwiches. That’s just hilarious and sad."posted by ericb at 12:26 PM on April 15, 2010
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