When you try and equate the federal government and economic policy with a single person, you cannot complain when it is pointed out you are showing a simplistic view.
I dunno, let's ask this guy.
massa Lincoln done freed us but Massa Roosevelt's gonna feed us
an old mantra from years ago that still holds true
The average TEA Bagger is white, middle-aged, overweight, with racist tendancies. He opposes abortion, supports state sanctioned murder as punishment, is a war monger and knows he is too old and purned out to ever have to fight. He owns several guns and listens to country music. He tells people he has many coloured friends but in fact would shoot the first coloured guy who came onto his property after dark. Yes, the TEA Baggers are just what America needs.
If you read the Wsj/NBC poll results it goes far beyond simple fiscal issues. It attracts REPUBLICANS first and foremost and they make up the vast majority of the group.
Seventy-five percent of strong Tea Party supporters compared with 32% of the overall public identified with or leaned toward the Republican Party.
LMAO...This dude is amazing, I think he has no idea what he is saying..incoherent.You give liberals a bad name.
I think a lot of people who are members of the tea party are Independents, Greeen, Democrat and Republicans that are fed up with these parties, they feel let down other third parties that has come and gone. The tea party has grabbed hold and took root, this will attract those who believe they have been disinfranchised.....the Middle Class is who they are, aging from 30 to retirement.what percentage consider themselves STRONG supporters compared to just tea party supporters?
I make love to the Papaya!
The Tea Party is quickly being absorbed into the Republican party. Ever notice how there are no "Tea Party" challengers in Democratic primaries?
I think a lot of people who are members of the tea party are Independents, Greeen, Democrat and Republicans that are fed up with these parties, they feel let down other third parties that has come and gone. The tea party has grabbed hold and took root, this will attract those who believe they have been disinfranchised.....the Middle Class is who they are, aging from 30 to retirement.
Now that sounded racist.
Responding to the OP, I would say the Tea Party is good. It is good because it is a sign of citizens voicing their greivances against their government. Can you think of some countries that would not tolerate this at all? Just look at the Arab Spring movements to get an idea on how some governments deal with citizen activism.
Having said that, I will say that the Tea Party seems to have evolved since 2009 when it first came onto the national stage. I remember hearing of the initial protest and agreeing partially with the message. We panty-waist liberals typically don't like war, so we had been yelling about the cost of Iraq and Afganistan for years. And some pundits like Rachel Maddow and Thom Hartmann harped on the rising deficit since before Bush was elected. Now, it does seem that the Tea Party, at least for members in congress, are struggling with the established GOP members for their say in the legislative process. I think it is fair to say that there is a power struggle inside congress and it is unclear who is winning.
The other change I see is that the Tea Party began as a largely grass root mission, but I think it has been co-opted by those with other agenda's in mind, like the Koch Bro. and Dick Armey.
You give liberals a bad name.
Perhap your right, I was thinking Perot party...oops.Green party? Not so sure about that. Aren't they mostly far far left environmentalist loons? Seriously, I mean know disrespect, but that's been my experience with the green party.
This is exactly what I am talking about actually. Overly simplistic views of the economy. Hint: the country is not a private individual.
Way bigger than the bible or War and Peace.By the way, if you go to the US Government Printing Office ( U.S. Government Printing Office Home Page ), you can order a complete set of Title 26 of the US Code of Federal Regulations (that's the part written by the IRS), all twenty volumes of it, at the bargain price of $974, shipping included.
According to the US Government Printing Office, it's 13,458 pages in total. The full text of Title 26 of the United States Code (the part written by Congress--available for an additional $179) is a mere 3,387 printed pages, bringing the adjusted gross page count to 16,845. The number of words has been left as an exercise for the student.
So what you're saying is that if I get a tapeworm from eating sushi that I have to live with it because I knew that was a possibility.
You do understand that technically a fetus is a parasite, defined as an organism?
Just thought the other side of the debate should come in.
What' s up? Are people saying that blacks are racist because they don't want to join a white organization? I can't read everything.
I don't think that people know who the tea party is.. I went to a rally last year and I was with several friends from the Libertarian Party, Most of the people I met at the rally were Fiscal Conservatives and Social Moderates. I shot a couple of pictures at the rally, it was a fun day.
there were so many people that it took an hour to walk the length of the reflection pool to the lincoln memorial
Wow. Lucky you. Wish I could've been there.
I'd rather go to a Mad Hatter Tea Party than go on a Zombie walk looking for brains to eat and carrying a sign that says eat Walker.
I don't know what grasp of history you have, but the Tea Party didn't form until after Obama was elected and primarily as a response to his health care reform. I don't know why you guys keep trying to rewrite history and pretend that it began before Obama was elected.
tea parties started on tax day 2009, well before Obamacare - the group was in opposition to the bailouts and "stimulus" programs that were exploding the deficit under Bush and Obama; you could probably have read some early the-natives-are-restless rumblings in the earlier opposition to immigration reform; but Obamacare was just fuel on the fire.