tagged w/ Tea Party Movement
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A "walk down memory lane" as to how the Tea Party and their spokespersons view Democrats and the Democratic Party.
And we have so much more to look forward to next year as the rhetoric will be turned up to a fever pitch from the rightwingers and the Republican Party.
Mark my words......A "walk down memory lane" as to how the Tea Party and their spokespersons... more
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There's a lot of rumination over Occupy Wall Street and its growing raft of branch offices. Depending on your rhetoric, The Occupiers are doing righteous battle with corporate greedheads and associated serfs. The right sees them as a gold brickers who want to lynch Fortune 500 CEOs, crooked politicians, and their assorted Tea Partyish fellow travelers. It doesn't matter if a person's perception is right or wrong, it only matters they have it.There's a lot of rumination over Occupy Wall Street and its growing raft of... more
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http://goo.gl/G972l -- A virus has taken hold within the modern conservative movement. No one knows for sure what has caused this plague but many believe it is transmitted through close contact at boisterous tea parties. The most obvious, visible symptom is the incessant need to refer to oneself as a "constitutional conservative."http://goo.gl/G972l -- A virus has taken hold within the modern conservative movement.... more
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This is serious, major and should not be overlooked. After the last Republican debate, which I watched all of on Youtube, I was more frightened then ever. I felt after they booed the gay soldier, and then no candidate on stage come to his defensem that if they were in the same room as him I would feel for his safety. It's very frightening to hear people be cheered on stage splurging out such hateful remarks and fascist principals that we fought against during world war II.
Scroll down to the section on "Core Tenets" in the wiki article. Let me quote some of the most troubling.
Abortion, eugenics and euthanasia
"The Fascist government in Italy banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.[170] The Nazis decriminalized abortion in cases where fetuses had hereditary defects or were of a race the government disapproved of, while the abortion of healthy "pure" German, "Aryan" fetuses remained strictly forbidden.[171] For non-Aryans, abortion was often compelled. Their eugenics program also stemmed from the "progressive biomedical model" of Weimar Germany.-----"
^-- one of the biggest fights ideas in the Tea party
Culture, sex and sexuality
"-----Fascist movements and governments opposed homosexuality. The Italian Fascist government declared it illegal in 1931.[190] The Nazis argued that homosexuality was degenerate, effeminate, perverted, and undermined masculinity because it did not produce children.[191] They considered homosexuality curable through therapy, citing modern scientism and the study of sexology, which said that homosexuality could be felt by "normal" people and not just an abnormal minority.[192] Critics have claimed that the Nazis' claim of scientific reasons behind their promotion of racism and hostility to homosexuals is pseudoscience.[193][194] Open homosexuals were among those interned in Nazi concentration camps.[195] The British Union of Fascists opposed homosexuality, and pejoratively questioned their opponents' heterosexuality.[196] The Romanian Iron Guard opposed homosexuality as undermining society.[197]"
^--- As seen at the last Republican debate by the booing of the crowd to the gay soldiers question.
If you read through the article and compare Side by Side the views of the "Tea party" and the way the republicans are being forced to lean the trend is becomming more and more obvious.
We need to fight this now. We can not sit here idly by and let this happen, fascism should not be allowed to grow this freely. We have to rise up and put an end to this before they take control of the government. Even Moderate Republicans can see the trend. We have to fight this or I fear for our country in 2012 when the tea party takes the House/Senate/Presidency.
--Christine FoleyThis is serious, major and should not be overlooked. After the last Republican... more
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Former President Bill Clinton blasted the “non-fact-based political debate” surrounding the Republican primary race and Tea Party economic policies which advocate for limited government services and low taxation.
Clinton, who met with a small group of bloggers on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in New York City today, responded to a question from ThinkProgress about Texas Gov., and GOP presidential frontrunner, Rick Perry’s position that Social Security is unconstitutional, and about the Tea Party’s anti-social spending sentiment more generally. Clinton blamed the “continuing dominance of non-fact based political debate,” saying:
"You can stand up and say anything and nobody rings a bell if the facts are wrong. There’s no bell ringing. It’s crazy, we’re living in a time when it’s more important than ever to know things. And not just to know facts but to put them in a coherent. sensible pattern. And we live in a time, if you just want to talk about the economy, where the model that works for economic growth and prosperity is cooperation. But the model that works in politics is conflict."
Clinton went on to challenge the emerging GOP consensus that government size and spending require dramatic cuts, observing that the most prosperous parts of the U.S. “look nothing like the anti-government ideal of the Tea Party crowd”:
"You know, there’s not a single solitary example on the planet, not one, of a country that is succesful because the economy has triumphed over the government and choked it off and driven the tax rates to zero, driven the regulations to nonexistent and abolished all government programs, except for defense, so people in my income group never have to pay a nickel to see a cow jump over the moon. There is no example example of a succesful country that looks like that."
While blasting the Tea Party’s economic policies, Clinton also acknowledged that the media plays an increasingly dangerous role in fanning the flames of partisan rancor.Former President Bill Clinton blasted the “non-fact-based political... more
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Once the dust settles on last week's debt ceiling debacle it will be painfully obvious even for those tea party believers that all of us 'peons' are being slowly, and sytematically marched to our financial demise.
The professional political operatives behind the Tea Party movement were huge winners, but what about the rank-and-file Tea Partiers themselves?
The conventional wisdom holds that the Tea Partiers were among the “winners” of the debt ceiling fight. We know this because the Washington Post, that font of Beltway conventional wisdom, told us as much:
There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first — the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman members. We got our answer to that question late Thursday as House Speaker John Boehner was forced not only to postpone his compromise bill but ultimately to add conservative sweeteners to get the 217 votes he needed. (He got 218.) The tea party — inside and outside Congress — will almost certainly be emboldened by the result of this fight.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
http://www.alternet.org/news/151898/four_reasons_the_tea_partiers_were_big_losers_in_the_debt_ceiling_deal/Once the dust settles on last week's debt ceiling debacle it will be painfully... more
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This has been my sentiment all along. Obama is really helping conservatives destroy this country.
Tell me what you think.This has been my sentiment all along. Obama is really helping conservatives destroy... more
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Ask the Tea Party, and Americans don’t need or want any of the protections and services that their tax dollars pay for, and they conveniently wave select, shortened lines of the Constitution to make their point, while ignoring the complete document with all of it’s amendments, additions and rights for everyone..not just a select few.http://moderncirc.us/5-simple-reasons-why-the-tea-party-is-full-of-idiots/Ask the Tea Party, and Americans don’t need or want any of the protections and... more
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Your just gonna love this ...Bernie gives it to 'em straight, tells em like it is and by the way I love you Bernie you may be the last member with any integrity at all.Your just gonna love this ...Bernie gives it to 'em straight, tells em like it is... more
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Dr. Woody sometimes wonders, what have some people been smoking and where can I get some (though I probably couldn’t afford it), meng???Dr. Woody sometimes wonders, what have some people been smoking and where can I get... more
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So Michele Bachmann has signed a pledge to support families that’s got some very creepy stuff in it. In particular, there’s this:So Michele Bachmann has signed a pledge to support families that’s got some very... more
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After reading Phil’s articles about Capitalism and Socialism, I’ve been wondering about the real differences are between governments and economic systems. The variations we’ve seen around the world over the last century or so have pretty much sucked because leaders seem dedicated to keeping privileges for themselves.After reading Phil’s articles about Capitalism and Socialism, I’ve been... more
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In her Textbook of Americanism, GOP saint Ayn Rand wrote: “The basic principle of the United States of America is Individualism.”In her Textbook of Americanism, GOP saint Ayn Rand wrote: “The basic principle... more
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Dr Woody was reminded the other day of Robber-Baron Jay Gould bragging that he could hire half the working class to kill the other half. That doesn’t seem so absurd, anymore,Dr Woody was reminded the other day of Robber-Baron Jay Gould bragging that he could... more
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Don’t tread on them. Drive with them.
Thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, Arizonans will now be able to wear their activism just above their bumpers. The local tea party’s commemorative “Don’t Tread on Me” license plates have been approved.
Though Brewer vetoed bills requiring presidential candidates to provide evidence that they were born in the United States and to allow guns on college campuses, she made a small nod to the tea party movement this week by green-lighting the new plates, which will have a deep yellow background and a rattlesnake symbol, visual references to the Gadsden flag that has been adopted by the movement.
Similar tea party license plates already are available in Texas, on tap in Virginia and under consideration in South Carolina and Nevada.
The Arizona bill passed with unanimous support in the state Senate, where it was introduced by Sen. Don Shooter, the former chair of the local Colorado River tea party. All except nine Republicans in the state House backed the bill as well.
With Brewer’s signature, supporters must raise $32,000 to design and produce the plate. Once available, it will be sold for $25, with $8 going to the state and the rest going to a 13-member “Arizona tea party committee” created by the bill. Unlike other states, Arizona allows proceeds from plate sales to be directed to entities other than the state government. For the tea party plates, the $8 fees will be put to tea party causes.
Democrats had complained that the license plates would be interpreted as a state endorsement of the tea party movement, while some Republicans and tea party members said it violated the movement’s principles of smaller and less-intrusive government.
The legislation also includes provisions for plates supporting hunger relief and multiple sclerosis research.
No word from Brewer yet on why she signed the bill.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53933.html#ixzz1KwvUYpsk
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53933.htmlDon’t tread on them. Drive with them.
Thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Jan... more
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From the film Astro Turf Wars: How Corporate America Is A Grassroots Revolution, this clip shows Austin James of the conservative Republican funded American Majority training tea party activists on guerrilla internet tactics to “control the online dialogue.”
The footage was shot at the 2009 American Liberty Tour, run by a group of libertarian groups tied to real-estate mogul and Koch associate Howie Rich. The clip is taken from a section of the film showing how libertarian/free-market groups are recruiting tea party protestors into their cause.
Now if only activists on the left would stop spending all their time arguing with each other on e-mail listservs and in Facebook group comments and get the message about how to do this too, American democracy might have a chance to recover from the past 30 years of corporate and religious Republican dominance in the fight for the hearts and minds of the public.
We need to find a way to fight back or we will loose our democracy and we will have a corporate plutocracy!From the film Astro Turf Wars: How Corporate America Is A Grassroots Revolution, this... more
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It was reported this week that the conservative commentator Glenn Beck may start his own cable channel when his contract with Fox News expires this year. Here’s a preview:It was reported this week that the conservative commentator Glenn Beck may start his... more
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