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Yale Professor 'Embarrassed' to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literat

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Another partisan hack... do you feel proud?
Bless your heart.
 
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Bless your heart.

I guess so... only 42% of American approve of Obama. That is Democrats and a few Independents.
 
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stupid ideas to those who like to suck on the public tit and outsource being an adult to the government, or worse yet, power hungry control freaks who want to be everyone's parent?

Nope. Just stupid ideas in general.
 
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Nope. Just stupid ideas in general.

well given that the main cause of the TEA PARTY is reining in government largesse and cutting back taxes on productive people, why don't you tell us what ideas of this group offend your sense of intelligence the most?
 
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I guess so... only 42% of American approve of Obama. That is Democrats and a few Independents.

Mainly those sucking on the public tit or those who get power from having so many teat sucklers able to vote
 
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He's giving away cars now? THAT SOCIALIST BASTARD.

They are equipped with the favorite rightwing accessory, the ubiquitous Obamaphone.
 
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They are equipped with the favorite rightwing accessory, the ubiquitous Obamaphone.

wrong, us real rightwingers want a belt fed SAW on ours. preferably a twin mount
 
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well given that the main cause of the TEA PARTY is reining in government largesse and cutting back taxes on productive people, why don't you tell us what ideas of this group offend your sense of intelligence the most?

The existence of the Tea Party is directly related to Obama's election. They are a partisan group of closet Republicans who are disgruntled they didn't win in 2008. Nothing else. Want proof? Here is their idea of "cutting spending":

Dana Milbank - Forget Tea Party rhetoric - pork barrel politics is back

Even Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a darling of the movement, is going wobbly. First, she dropped her bid for a leadership position in the House when it became clear she wouldn't win. Then she raised questions about the House GOP's plan to ban "earmark" spending on pet projects. The woman who once maintained that "all this pork is bad" told Politico recently that there must be a way to funnel infrastructure money to her district. "This isn't trying to be too cute by half of what is an earmark and what isn't," she said, "but we have to address the issue of how are we going to fund transportation projects across the country?"

Christie: Paul should 'start cutting pork barrel spending he brings to Kentucky' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Christie was kicking back at a claim Paul made on Monday, in which he accused the New Jersey governor of being too eager to accept money from the federal government. Christie argued that New Jersey receives just 61 cents back from the federal government for each dollar it pays in taxes, while Kentucky receives $1.51.

since she defeated Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (in part by making an issue of Herseth Sandlin’s marriage to a lobbyist), Noem has hired her new chief of staff from . . . a lobbying firm! And on Tuesday afternoon, she was the guest of honor at a “Meet & Greet” with Washington high-rollers at the powerhouse lobbying firm Barbour Griffiths Rogers. Once these boys start throwing money at Noem’s feet, she’ll soon be chin deep in lobbyist greenbacks.

The Tea Party Darlings all seem to come from states that get more than they give. The Tea Party Darlings are all beholden to the same lobbyists as everyone else. These are the representatives elected by Tea Party supporters. So as I said, their ideas are stupid. Why? Simple. Tea Partiers elected to congress won't even adhere to them. :)
 
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that is a ridiculous response Hatuey. You didn't address what ideas you found stupid. Claiming some people are hypocritical-take for example mercedes marxists or country club commies like Kerry and his crocodile tears for the poor doesn't mean his welfare socialist ideas are stupid.

I want to know what part of the Tea Party's stated agenda is stupid
 
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is Palin all of the tea party?

No more than HOJ is all the anti tea party:mrgreen:
 
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It's hard to believe how constantly enraged the loons are. The more they win, the angrier and more bitter they become. It has to be a burden to carry, all that emotion and self-righteousness.

It has to be the respect thing. They know we never stop making jokes and ridiculing them.
 
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It has to be the respect thing. They know we never stop making jokes and ridiculing them.
TheY came out of the gates self identifying themselves as "teabA
ggers".
 
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Your source doesn't say what you want it to: only three in 10 want it repealed outright
It says 50% want
to scale back or repeal entirely.

Only 38 % want to keep as is or expand. Massively unpopular. Exactly as I said.
 
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So much for the picture the liberals try to paint of tea party people.

"You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you're stupid. Well, obviously that's not the case, nor has it ever been true. Now, a Yale professor has released some new research showing that the so-called "Tea Party radicals" are actually scientifically literate.
Professor Dan M. Kahan of the psychology department at Yale says he was surprised to discover a positive correlation between science comprehension and members of the Tea Party:
Well, perhaps some of those previous opinions could've been dispelled earlier when the New York Times wrote in 2010 that Tea Partiers are more educated - and financially better off - than the rest of the public

- See more at: Yale Professor 'Embarrassed' to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate | CNS News


"However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said."

Read more: Eureka! Tea partiers know science - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com

The tea party aspect of that post is tough to square with my experience. For example, take the "skewed" polling of the last election. It was a purely emotional response to unfavourable data. Instead of confronting reality, there was a self imposed wilful blindness that's totally at odds with any scientific reasoning. (eg, I was banned from Red State for saying that that was nothing in the polling to indicate a Romney landslide, but there's a decent chance he wins in a squeaker) Also, consider the fixation with debt to GDP ratio. The Reinhart-Rogoff which indicated a strong droppoff in GDP at 90% has been thoroughly discredited. Yet the Tea Party remains in a bubble.

I'll buy that Tea Partiers might be more scientifically literate. They're primarily white, middle class, and older. But I'd want to see the results of a test that was limited to just the Cognitive Reflection Test.

Regardless, it's an interesting read.
 
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So much for the picture the liberals try to paint of tea party people.

"You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you're stupid. Well, obviously that's not the case, nor has it ever been true. Now, a Yale professor has released some new research showing that the so-called "Tea Party radicals" are actually scientifically literate.
Professor Dan M. Kahan of the psychology department at Yale says he was surprised to discover a positive correlation between science comprehension and members of the Tea Party:
Well, perhaps some of those previous opinions could've been dispelled earlier when the New York Times wrote in 2010 that Tea Partiers are more educated - and financially better off - than the rest of the public

- See more at: Yale Professor 'Embarrassed' to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate | CNS News


"However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said."

Read more: Eureka! Tea partiers know science - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com

Like Obama supporters (who pass out candy and try to fondle children) know anything about science

Just watch the videos. They've been programmed like robots by MTV/Hollywood/MSM to do what they are told
 
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line liberals love to lob

ooh, baby. Such mellifluous alliteration.

The gods of prose will surely award some extra points for this one.
 
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Doesn't surprise me in the least.
 
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