GOP hopes to build momentum behind 'tea parties' »
Posted By Progressive 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
ATLANTA - Republicans have lost their grip on Congress and the White House , but they claim to have American anger over taxes and the economy on their side as tens of thousands turned out for anti-tax " tea parties " around the country.
The tea parties were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, who is now a lobbyist.
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Progressive6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Spadecaller6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Here's one teabagger with conviction:
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Poulenc6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well, the Repubs "have" to do something, don't they? I mean, they are, at the moment, totally disenfranchised.
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It's interesting the way the teabagging story got covered: FOX, of course, presented it as a mass populist over-swelling; CNN, on the other hand, nodded to it.
Predictable, of course, but I'd say that the latter's coverage is more consonant with the reality that the former's. By a long shot.-
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Progressive6 months, 3 weeks ago
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show did some interesting comparisons of crowd sizes in the various locations, as well as highlighting the disparate signs displayed by teabaggers.
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Anyone who watched FOX, CNN and MSNBC's coverage would no doubt wonder what kind of momentum anyone could expect from these tea parties. -
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beavith16 months, 3 weeks ago
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not2needy6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Progressive6 months, 3 weeks ago
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If these photos are any indication of their supporters, the GOP can kiss 2012 goodbye:
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Xaos6 months, 3 weeks ago
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This kind of demonstration was originally thought up by the Ron Paul campaign as a fund raiser. The Neocons must of thought it was a good idea or they are just that desperate. They are trying to disguise themselves as Ron Paul republicans to regain legitimacy.
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Who is in charge of the Repug party? Faux Noise or Drug Limpboy?
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What does it say that a right wing extremist mogal like the Australian Murdock and his side kick, the right wing neocon Roger Ailes own the WSJournal, Faux Noise, and hundreds of tabloids internationally, and these now share content?
Look at Italy, the Italian Equivalent of Faux noise now runs that country. Fascist noise, and the tea bag army of white supremacists joe the plumber morons. Its the end of the world if these freaks take over....,.oh yeah, the last 8 years they did. And, look what happened. -
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tadair9196 months, 3 weeks ago
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I honestly wonder if FOX is embracing the Tea Party in order to act as a divisive wedge between the left from waking up.
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It's difficult to look past limbaugh, beck, and Fox to see the important message.
This behavior is similar to how nobody on the right would listen to Moore because he was such a polarizing ass.-
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NoWayMan6 months, 3 weeks ago
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"It's difficult to look past limbaugh, beck, and Fox to see the important message."
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and what important message is that? that a 3% tax hike on the wealthiest 1% of americans (a tax hike that will actually keep taxes lower for this same wealthy 1% than during reagan, btw) somehow justifies the use of the phrase "taxation without representation?"
c'mon. serioulsy?
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Sageparadox6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yes, look at us! We are making a statement agaisnt wastefull spending, by um missing a day of work and wasting perfectly good tea to protest something we should have started protesting 8 years ago. Thank you Faux News, Hannity and Beck for setting me straight. Now where are my bibles and guns? Im feeling insecure and need something to cling to.
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calitennflo6 months, 3 weeks ago
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The GOP would build momentum behind the behind of a jack...you know what...if it would get them where they once controlled the White House again.
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Hard to believe those men anymore...as they do not even spell repub'lican correctly. The appostrophe shows there's something missing...republic american. -
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Ratskii6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Someone pointed out something to me that I'd forgotten from my American History. Great Britain had backed off the other taxes they were imposing on American. The tea tax was the last one. The colonists weren't so much protesting the tea tax as they were the fact that the East India Company had been given a monopoly on tea importation. This would have put all the smaller tea companies in the colonies out of business.
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So the original Tea party was a protest against monopolies and big business, not taxation. My how things have gotten turned around. -
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HOUSEMD6 months, 3 weeks ago
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i'm sure all the left wing nuts and obama appologists WISH this movement had been started by the gop, but it was not. worse for them, it was started by the people who were wronged by this incompent person who calls himself "president", the socialist. this is only just the beginning of the anger that is building. he has provoked this by defying the constitution at every turn. socialism was what this man ran on, only we were too captured by his ability to read well off of a teleprompter to look past that. you were sucker punched and you did not know it. he loaded his speeches with "gimmis" and loads of BS, while living and bedding with the mainstrean marxis davis, wright, ayres, alwensky, and all the other left he knew. well, now we have to fight back..write and call, mae your voice heard. 2010 will come soon and then 2012......
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Progressive6 months, 3 weeks ago
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You're right that the GOP didn't start the tea party movement, though right-wing billionaires underwrote this current manifestation.
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The GOP hasn't had an original idea in decades.
The tea parties were actually the idea of Ron Paul followers, with the intention of demonstrating AGAINST the Republican administration during which they were invented:
http://wonkette.com/407786/paultards-started-this-...
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Newenglander6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Actually I find them sadly comical. Claims of bipartisan attendance that somehow can't be corroborated. Claims of six million in attendance when best actual attendance estimates are around 250k. Claims of it being a grass roots initiated gathering when it has been sponsored by media Fox News Network and other well heeled conservative entities. We don't have to work hard at all to discredit this, You cons do a great job all by yourselves.
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Tcaros6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Fox news kept "talking" about the "tea baggers," but they never materialized. The only broadcast was from San Antonio Texas where they showed a dozen or two Repbulican "tea baggers." It was really quite pathetic and sad, but funny.
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money4stock923046 months, 3 weeks ago
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The GOP is hoping something will stimulate and revive the GOP, but i don't see it happening until they change the way they think, act and govern. As it is, i only see them further disappearing or at least we can hope.
guess taxes don't matter to you when you collect welfare huh. Obama's spending habits really don't matter if you, your children, or grandchildren won't be the ones paying for it over the next 100 years. As nanci pelosi said back in 06' change change change. Same stupid slogan that Obama ran under in 08'. America is waking up. -
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MisterX6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I have little affection for libs/dems, but repubs weren't exactly saints under dubbya. They went on wild spending sprees and stripped the Constitution as well. Howabout if we have a government that has genuine concern for the people who just want to live meaningful, fulfilling, lives?
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, anybody? -
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galletta61216 months, 3 weeks ago
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I love how all you hypocrites bash the tea parties organized by true American patriots who bleed red white and blue everyday of their lives, and who without, you would not receive your taxpayer funded home relief. You talk about these people as if they were promoting the shameful act of America bashing, yet not a peep comes out of your hypocritical mouths when radical America haters marched on city after city in the name of ANTI-WAR, but were anything but Anti-war. You had communist flags waving proudly in the air, while freaks ran wild, faces covered with bandannas, all while celebrating and promoting the lifestyle of Homosexuality, the pro invasion of Americas borders, The promotion of Socialism, Burning and stomping on American flags, side by side with radical Muslims, and on and on I could go. But that was all Okay with you, RIGHT! This is what the hijacked Democratic Party looks like in the year 2009 people. A party that has become entrenched with anti-Americanism, whether it be bashing the military, or to promote rights for Muslim terrorist who given the chance would slit your little liberal throats. Or the total disregard of threats coming from countries that want to destroy you, your family, and your liberal utopia. The Democratic Party covers it all. It has become a cesspool of congressional committees run by radicals, Quite a few coming from the socialist , racist anti-white, congressional Black caucus, and others northeast liberals who haven't got a clue how government works, and have very little understanding of the world. What a disgrace of a party. Yet some of you so called moderates will go along with it all, and protect with a vengeance a party that has very little of yours and your families interest at heart. All for the sake of that holier than thou, (D) you hippie-crits would willingly surrender your souls, as you elect into office the devil himself, if he had a (D) after his name. But no, the crowd of innocent Americans, who also included people from other parties, they are the enemy. RIGHT! Wrong, they are true blooded Americans. Something most of you will never be.
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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You are confusing patriotism with loyality to Faux Noise the the billionaire Austrailian and his side kick, the Israel firster neocon Director of Faux Noise.
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Hup two three four, who does gal bend over for? Murdock, Glen Goebbles Beck, Hannity and Limpboy.
Just because your a facist right wing white supreamicist idiot loyalist to billionaires and brown shirt locksteppping lemming spewing swiftboating crap does NOT make you a patriot.
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Albmore6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I think The GOP is just as fooled as the Dems where fooled in not attending. First this tea party is against BOTH parties. BOTH have and CONTINUE to spend away OUR futures. Both are self serving. Although the GOP tried to hang on to these TEA parties for their own gain, THEY just like the Democrats think we are dumb or have a short memory. WE the people know that the pork was added almost 50-50. WE the people know that the GOP spent just as uncontolled as the Dems are NOW doing. HERE is a message to BOTH parties. The 4th party is comming. Independents are comming. "VOTE EM OUT 2010" both dems and reps. End the power games by taking their power away. Let Obama be president with an independent congress who will force him to serve the peoples interest and not their parties!!!!
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Albmore6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Tcaros. You are 100% correct. Neither the Rep. or the Dems. show any restraint when it comes on spending OUR money. Like I wrote above "VOTE em OUT 2010".
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I do not see Obama as a GOOD or BAD president at the moment. I disagree on many of his plans but not all. It is still to soon to see. I DO though think its time to CHANGE the game. Vote in independent parties into power in 2010. REMOVE the Democratic and republican members and give Obama and America the chance to move ahead on a even playing ground without these two parties quest for power. -
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