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Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill

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Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill


The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the party’s members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul.

A plan first hatched and heralded on FOX by iconic conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) grew over the weekend as she e-mailed with a handful of colleagues. By the time activists started arriving at the foot of the Capitol around 8:30 a.m., it was clear no Republican leader could stay away.

Minority Leader John Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor and Conference Chairman Mike Pence all spoke.

Inside, Democrats were working to finalize a trillion-dollar health care bill that they say will deliver insurance to tens of millions of Americans who currently lack it, improve the quality of care and rein in costs both for individuals and the government.

Outside, on the grassy lawn just steps from where Barack Obama took the oath of office, an endless lineup of rank-and-file lawmakers and conservative All Stars – Bachmann, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, actor Jon Voigt and Mark Levin, author of “Liberty and Tyranny” – demanded that the health care bill be torn asunder.

“Madam Speaker, throw out this bill,” bellowed Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.).

“Oh come on, tell them how you really feel,” Bachmann yelled to the crowd from a temporary podium at the foot of the Capitol.

“Kill the bill! Kill the bill! Kill the bill!” the crowd replied.

“That’s exactly what you’re going to tell them,” said Bachmann, who was the clear favorite of the assembled masses.

She has more cojones than a lot of guys,” said Barbara McGrath, who traveled from Troy, Ohio, to participate.

So, some tea party folks think Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and others believe that Michell Bachmann has testicles--apparently more than two.

I think some of the signs at this latest shameful example of fear and ignorance fueled by hyper-partisan talking points tell the story:

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Yes, it's actually a picture of holocaust bodies. These people have no shame and no brains.

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Well, bully for you.

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Lemme guess, Beck has been harping on Mao lately... Am I right?

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And then they wheel out God to hammer the message home. Testify!!

A dozen people were arrested outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office.

Bachmann Crazy Overdrive.
 
Seems to be the unhinged wing of the Tea Party showed up to heed Bachmann's call. Damn, those signs are :shock:
 
Hey Haznut the last time I checked there is this thing called the 1st Adm unless Mr. Obama and Queen nacey are trying to get that throw out also.
 
Hey Haznut the last time I checked there is this thing called the 1st Adm unless Mr. Obama and Queen nacey are trying to get that throw out also.

Yep. I'm sure that 1st amdendment thingie is near the top of the list way above the 400 other campaign promises he's not intending to keep. But Obama can't be bothered with these "citizens" ... hell, he didn't have time to worry about the elections that just happened - too busy with the basketball game on TV. I hope he and all the other far left liberals keeps whining and ignoring about these regular people. Makes 2012 more certain for a "CHANGE" every day.
 
Conneticut and Kentucky. Remember those come 2010.
 
Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill




So, some tea party folks think Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and others believe that Michell Bachmann has testicles--apparently more than two.

I think some of the signs at this latest shameful example of fear and ignorance fueled by hyper-partisan talking points tell the story:

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Yes, it's actually a picture of holocaust bodies. These people have no shame and no brains.

slide_3518_49708_large.jpg


Well, bully for you.

slide_3518_49701_large.jpg


Lemme guess, Beck has been harping on Mao lately... Am I right?

slide_3518_49715_large.jpg


And then they wheel out God to hammer the message home. Testify!!

A dozen people were arrested outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office.

Bachmann Crazy Overdrive.
This was a great day for American Patriots who want to defeat Obamas marxist agenda. Another rally is planned for Saturday as Pelosi will ask for a vote to pass the Health Care Plan. The sign with the alleged holocaust bodies is nothing more that a symbol of freedom of expression carried by the Patriot. It symbolizes the reality of what will happen to patients under the Obama Health Plan.
 
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I love to read how the Leftist who claim everyone else is hateful are always first to call names and make disparaging remarks about others and as in this case they all all lies made up to detract from the issues at hand. The use of the term Tea Party in the mouths of the leftist is used with disgust and disdain and the people who attend these functions are called all kinds of unsavory things as pert of the leftist obfuscation. The turth is these crowds are peaceful polite they don't leave a massive mess behind like the Obama crowd did in January, they have legitimate questions and concerns that either go unanswered or ignored completely by a goofy bunch of idiots in Washington, and their dazed and confused followers are so happy still fighting against Bush they will will go along with anything their nonsensical inept amateurish leader Obama, Pelosi,and Reid come up with.
It would be nice if they would stop for one minute and think about the questions being asked and mess Obama is making worse and for once put the welfare of the Nation ahead of the glee they feel from being part of a party and they might start being part of a Nation instead of constantly running it down.
 
I'll say it before... the tea partiers have no united cause. They all come out of the woodwork protesting about an array of different things. They have no coherency.

Seeing those signs is disturbing. I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that they think the rest of the country takes them seriously, or the fact that their signs are all talking points from Fox news. Have the news conglomerates risen to religious proportions or something?
 
Seems to be the unhinged wing of the Tea Party showed up to heed Bachmann's call. Damn, those signs are :shock:

For what its worth, you can go to any rally sponsored by people of any political persuasion and see signs that are just as stupid. Crazies flock to rallies like moths to the flame.
 
People are listening to Fox because the rest of the of the Lame Stream Obamedia is no better than a shill for Obama. Even the most hated guy the left has their sites on may be a bit melodramatic, but Beck uses Obama's and his disciples own words to prove what he says it true.
The signs are only confusing to those who are blinded by their faith in their false Messiah's lies I believe the last count I saw was an astronomical number.
 
Is it just a coiencdence that violent acts coincide with these rallies?

9/12 = Teabag rally...Cencus worker hanged.

11/5 = Teabag rally....Mass murder of troops.

I hope this trend doesn't continue.

Perhaps Miss Bachman should consider holding back on the "Armed and Dangerous" or the "Look into the whites of their eyes" rehetoric.
 
I'll say it before... the tea partiers have no united cause. They all come out of the woodwork protesting about an array of different things. They have no coherency.

Seeing those signs is disturbing. I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that they think the rest of the country takes them seriously, or the fact that their signs are all talking points from Fox news. Have the news conglomerates risen to religious proportions or something?

And who does have such proclaimed "coherency"
The Democrats?

Hardly :roll:

They attacked McCain on everything from his age to his claimed political party - without giving a single notice to his actual views, values and accomplishments - many of which were quite Democratic.

When Bush was in a fickle pickle overseas they claimed it to be a quagmire, yet when their Obama is in the same fickle pickle in another country they claim he's being "cautious."

They've dominated D.C. for half a century boasting about their favor of civil rights and equality yet when people oppose some of their works (such as continually building national debt) they demand that the opposition be silenced (such as with the passing of the Sedition Act by Woodrow Wilson and the Fairness Doctrine).

Lo and behold, I continue with this "Democratic Cohesion Fallacy"

They've started countless failed and bankrupt programs - everything from CHIP, Social Security on down to Fannie Freddie, none of which are sufficient, all of which are riddle with holes and badly need repair like our failling infrastructure (which they also lobbied for obtusely in the past to get the grant money for, yet failed to continue to maintain it with the same enthusiam).

Amid massive foreclosures (related to Fannie and Freddie and their beloved 'equal rights for housing' beliefs) and amid spiking costs of everything from milk to wheat, amid horrific job-losses and a trainwreck of society they turn to focus on healthcare and RAISING taxes.

Part of their healthcare plan, by the way, details RAISING taxes ON people's health insurance to PAY for research ON health insurance. So cohesive, sure!

The very thing they stand on, equality and civil rights, is the very thing they were against when the Democratic Party first was formed.
Yep, the Democratic Party was against the emancipation of the slaves. The Republican Party fought for it.

Everyone harps up Bush's leg for "starting a war that wasn't ok'd by Congress" - yet over 125 instances of battle or war have been committed by decision of the president, only 13 of which have been Congressionally declared as "war."
Who's the most recent Democrat-president violator of this "unacceptable act of undeclared war?" - President Clinton . . . but we can't consider that, now can we?

And though they've held the majority in Congress more than Republicans - they're always claiming to "go to Washington and clean this mess up" . . eventhough they're the ones voting in all the policies that become "this mess " to begin with.

I can go on, the list is very long.

So, obviously, my point is that "cohesion" hardly has anything to do with whether someone's right or wrong, politicially correct or corrupt.
 
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Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill




So, some tea party folks think Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and others believe that Michell Bachmann has testicles--apparently more than two.

I think some of the signs at this latest shameful example of fear and ignorance fueled by hyper-partisan talking points tell the story:

slide_3518_49703_large.jpg


Yes, it's actually a picture of holocaust bodies. These people have no shame and no brains.

slide_3518_49708_large.jpg


Well, bully for you.

slide_3518_49701_large.jpg


Lemme guess, Beck has been harping on Mao lately... Am I right?

slide_3518_49715_large.jpg


And then they wheel out God to hammer the message home. Testify!!

A dozen people were arrested outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office.

Bachmann Crazy Overdrive.

Is it impossible for you to start a thread that isn't a partisan diatribe? Your side is just as ****ing stupid, you know...
 
4 signs you object to out of 20,000+ people... I can find as many signs at a 10 person liberal protest... But hey. I realize you have to bitch at something, because how else is the left going to deal with so many people showing up with little notice to protest the Messiah and his disciples.
 
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Is it just a coiencdence that violent acts coincide with these rallies?

9/12 = Teabag rally...Cencus worker hanged.

11/5 = Teabag rally....Mass murder of troops.

I hope this trend doesn't continue.

Perhaps Miss Bachman should consider holding back on the "Armed and Dangerous" or the "Look into the whites of their eyes" rehetoric.

Yes... and my dog farted when Obama was giving his inaugural speech... Should I also show astounding ignorance and link those events like you did those above?

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Fox is in the early stages of creating a new political party to overtake the republicans.
 
I'll say it before... the tea partiers have no united cause. They all come out of the woodwork protesting about an array of different things. They have no coherency.

Seeing those signs is disturbing. I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that they think the rest of the country takes them seriously, or the fact that their signs are all talking points from Fox news. Have the news conglomerates risen to religious proportions or something?


Could yiu please link me to said "fox talking points". I cant seem to find them. :shrug:
 
Congratulations. You managed to find pictures of some nutjobs out of a group of 10,000.

I'm proud of you. Really I am. Great job. I'm sure that was an extremely difficult attempt :roll:

I know at all the various protests over the past 8 years where thousands of liberals showed up we never were able to find signs of crazy nutjobs.

Oh wait, yes we were.

Yet I'm sure if I tried to suggest that those nutjobs were the majority of those at those protests you'd have a fit. Yet you sit here and attempt to imply that here. Its pathetic.

Just because there are some nutjobs in the crowd does not devalidate the message of the whole, nor the thousands upon thousands of non-nutjob people in there that just simply disagree strongly with YOUR position. Which is really the problem...because you point out the crazies because that's the easy one, but what it really comes down to is the belief that anyone that disagrees with you and is on the other side is really, in the end, no different than those crazies.
 
Is it just a coiencdence that violent acts coincide with these rallies?

9/12 = Teabag rally...Cencus worker hanged.

11/5 = Teabag rally....Mass murder of troops.

I hope this trend doesn't continue.

Perhaps Miss Bachman should consider holding back on the "Armed and Dangerous" or the "Look into the whites of their eyes" rehetoric.

For the love of christ.

Seriously Goldendog, its pathetic and disgusting that you are in the other thread degrading and talking down people for speculating on what happened there after the disgusting disgraceful, and absolutely baseless, constant speculation and idiotic assertions you made in the census worker thread that you're not continuing now. Hypocritical of the highest degree and pathetic.
 
Is it just a coiencdence that violent acts coincide with these rallies?

9/12 = Teabag rally...Cencus worker hanged.

11/5 = Teabag rally....Mass murder of troops.

I hope this trend doesn't continue.

Perhaps Miss Bachman should consider holding back on the "Armed and Dangerous" or the "Look into the whites of their eyes" rehetoric.

Suicide is the leading theory right now on the census worker that died here in Kentucky. I know you are disappointed and were hoping some crazy right wing militia did it. Sorry about that.
 
Is it impossible for you to start a thread that isn't a partisan diatribe? Your side is just as ****ing stupid, you know...

My side?

What's my side?

You're response to the OP is a vague attack on my political stand based on what? That's pretty feeble...:roll:
 
I'm surprized that Glen Beck and the teabaggers aren't on here claiming the crowd numbered in the millions!
 
Could yiu please link me to said "fox talking points". I cant seem to find them. :shrug:

Easy -- watch FNC for one day. Every show for one day.

After the idiots on Fox and Friends wrap it up and they roll out that empty headed blond, you'll start to hear little phrases and story spins over and over...

Start writing them down and adding them up-- how many times during the day do you hear the respectable news people :roll: on FNC repeat the same phrase or story spin...

I've done this. It's scary.
 
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