- Joined
- Jun 23, 2009
- Messages
- 133,631
- Reaction score
- 30,937
- Location
- Bagdad, La.
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Very Conservative
Yeah, totally meritless tea party subliteracy.
How so? Care to prove that comment?
Yeah, totally meritless tea party subliteracy.
I hope this fairy tale keeps you warm at night. Meantime, the GOP can only become more and more extreme, more and more freakish, with subliterate weirdos like Palin in the lead.
The rightwing noise machine doesn't have an off switch.
Subliteracy and xenophobia, with a dollop of debt fetishism, is the GOP conscience. Perfect.
He's the boss of the GOP. Get used to it. Anybody in the GOP who bucks him will be denounced by Limbaugh and his gang of subliterates and they'll lose the next primary.
Wow. Looks like an old troll learned himself a new word.I hope this fairy tale keeps you warm at night. Meantime, the GOP can only become more and more extreme, more and more freakish, with subliterate weirdos like Palin in the lead.
The rightwing noise machine doesn't have an off switch.
Wow. Looks like an old troll learned himself a new word.
I see the Tea Party as the extreme wing of the Republican Party, not unlike the extreme left was for the Dems after LBJ. The struggle between winning and standing for 'your principles' didn't go well for the Dems- doesn't seem to be going very well for the Repubs now.
A measure of the strength the Tea Party has was seen in the Congressional races. In both houses the GOP lost seats. This is significant because many key Tea Party players were tepid toward the Presidential race but swore great efforts to turn Congress Red. Senator DeMint was quite vocal about concentrating his efforts on the Senate races and the GOP lost two seats! Have not heard much from the usually not so shy DeMint!
Karl Rove is not known for accepting personal responsibility when things go south but his extremely expensive efforts to turn key races for the GOP was a bad flop.
While some will continue the 'Takers have won' or the 'gifts won' the GOP sounds like it is at least starting to study the loss past talking points.
The public stance on the cliff sounds tough and unrepentent, but I see signs it is a front... time will tell and we don't seem to have a bunch of that left.
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
I think that, more than anything else, is what we are seeing right now.
The GOP hopped on the Tea Party bandwagon in the hope that it would bring votes and in 2010 it did just that but then the GOP discovered that some of those who were elected were actually serious about getting some of the changes made. At that point the GOP had a choice to make; they could adopt a true fiscally Conservative agenda and stand against Stateism or they could try to play the middle again and ride the coat tails of their new found "base". They chose the latter and a whole lot of Conservatives bailed. It was really pretty reminiscent of the way that the GOP bailed on Conservatives in the 90's because they were afraid of causing too much bad blood by going after Clinton.
Unfortunately, the GOP are not fighters. The Democrats have no qualms whatsoever about gouging your eyes out or kicking you in the nuts if they think they might get an advantage that way but for some reason the GOP just curls up into a ball when the fight comes their way.
We need fighters...why is there only a few to stand up?
Probably because fighting means putting ones political career on the line.
Yeah, their only concern is the lining of their own pockets and staying in power.
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
Not surpising at all that someone whose posts represent the very worst of right-wing self-aggrandizing greed and disdain would put up a picture of pigs.it is amusing that someone whose posts constantly advocate collectivist/statist values would accuse conservatives of being parrots.
It's also a copyrighted image belonging to Masterfile Corporation. I assume that Mr. Lawyer was careful to negotiate and pay for the rights to use that image before posting it. Or is he just a common criminal, given that the watermark would have been removed from a properly licensed copy?...but I agree, there is a better illustration of those who vote for statist/progressive/socialists
Not surpising at all that someone whose posts represent the very worst of right-wing self-aggrandizing greed and disdain would put up a picture of pigs.
It's also a copyrighted image belonging to Masterfile Corporation. I assume that Mr. Lawyer was careful to negotiate and pay for the rights to use that image before posting it. Or is he just a common criminal, given that the watermark would have been removed from a properly licensed copy?
The Tea Party does a better job of representing the regular working folks than any other political faction in the country. You know; the other 50% of the country that didn't vote for Obama with their hand out.
The election is over, why would Obama or anyone else care what you get or don't get?
If that were true, then the GOP would have nominated a tea party member to represent them. Guess what, they didn't.
So the democratic party is represented by Nancy Pelosi? That is the end all be all Democrat?
No, Obama is right now. Which is why I haven't been a registered Dem in over two decades because they have picked people to represent the Dems that I don't agree with.
GOP leaders remove 4 from plum House committees - Yahoo! News
Looks like republicans may have had enough from the tea party. Could the republicans be ready to cave and increase taxes on the wealthy? Might we actually get a true conservative proposal involving less spending all around, and some increased revenue from the rich and spoiled? Have the republicans actually learned a lesson from this past election?