All-Purpose TEA Party Thread

What was that someone was saying about "2nd Amendment solutions"?

 

Would you include the Carnegie's?

 

The tea party has never been about anything more than strumming the rubes. That is the entire function of everything the Republican party pretends to stand for. In reality the GOP is only concerned with concentrating resources to their cronies and themselves. All else is BS.

 

I think you're right on, and you especially nailed it with your last paragraph.
as long as US Americans care more about football and reality TV shows than the state of their country, and the quality of their leadership, they will continue to get self-serving crap for leaders. as long as US Americans are content to be fat, dumb, and happy, their leaders will be content to pander to them, while robbing them and serving their own interests.

 

And the great thing about this country is that your neighbor can be fat, dumb, and happy watching the latest installment of American Idol while you can be active, smart, while lining your own pockets.

 

indeed. and the one thing we both have in common is that we are both happy doing our own thing and neither of use gives a farthing about holding our leaders accountable. and that is why we get what we get, and why we deserve what we get.

 

The Dems loaded the tax bill with earmarks because they knew that the Reeps wouldn't shoot down a bill that has goodies for the top 2%. Push come to shove, addressing the deficit or fixing earmarks is less important than cutting the estate tax.

 

That's bush league. You're bitching about addressing the deficit and going to introduce a bill that increases spending and cuts taxes. I've heard this story before...

 

Do you support the bill or reject it?

 

American politics is truly a sausage factory. you don't really want to know how it's done or what all goes into it. just watch your football game and your keeping up with the kardashians and pay not attention to the man behind the mask.

 

As a whole, I reject it. What about you?

 

just curious, did anyone have any misgivings about this, that this is exactly the way it was going to happen?

 

I like that you reject the bill. It means that you're not willing to sell your dislike for federal deficits and for earmarks down the river in exchange for goodies for the top 2%.

The Reeps who support the bill, on the other hand, are as Hertha states -- stooges for the rich who will toss their principles out the window if you help their friends. And that's most of them, my friend.

 

it's easy to stand on principles when you don't have any interest ($$$$) at stake. that's why the average Rep, who has no interest at stake, will oppose the bill and stand on principle (debt reduction), but Rep lawmakers, who have some interest at stake from those top 2% will support the bill. and don't pretend you wouldn't find a way to rationalize it to yourself and vote for the bill if you were in the same position. you're just being pragmatic after all.

 

The Reps who support the bill aren't my representatives.

What I don't understand is how you can fault the Reeps for throwing their principles out the window but you don't fault the Dems for playing politics while the economy is still on fragile footing. The tax issue is a necessity that needs to be dealt with moving forward. The earmarks aren't - they've gotten by without introducing increased spending thus far, they will continue to make it without them.

 

have you seen how the Dems did in the last election??
they have to have something to bring home to their constituents for the next election cycle. it's all about self preservation at this point.

 

The Dems are at fault. They can take the ethanol subsidy, place it far up their collective backsides, and ignite. If they want to do earmarks, do them elsewhere.

There. I said it.

 

Tea Party Nation Founder wants to ban the Methodist church

 

Except for the fact that in other countries they'd be watching German Idol or Albanian Idol or Danish Idol, how are we unique on this?

This is a common cliche, and I just wonder why people write it. In all sincerity, I'm curious...did you just put it out there as a cliche without thinking about it? Or did you think about it and then write it?

The whole idea of stringent American exceptionalism baffles me. I don't understand how smart people can believe it. So, I'll ask a smart person* why he believes it.

*Merry Christmas steve-o.

 

Yeah, but we're still leading the pack!

USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!

[/pauses to catch breath and worry about pain in chest and shoulder]

 

just to set the record straight about american exceptionalism and how everyone wants to be like us...

American Idol - UK did it first
Dancing with the stars - UK 1st
Skating with the stars - UK 1st
Big Brother - netherlands 1st
Survivor - Sweden 1st

Maybe that wasn't exactly your point though.

But anyway - I'm pretty sure the best reality tv show was fully created in america - America did Joe Millionaire 1st...

 

Bullsh*t its the one with the midgets and pitbulls....

 

Is there really any such thing as the "best" reality show? Is that like being the smartest brain-dead idiot? Or the most agile quadriplegic?