Meet the Tea Party--same as all the other U.S. political parties...

[titsrock]

This purpose of this thread is to watch, revel, and rejoice the crashing and burning of the "great" Tea Party. That "take back the country" band of rabble rousin' rednecks and loonatarians seems to have built a political machine that didn't get very far before the machine began to (cough)(cough) experience, shall we say, breakdowns....

Exhibit A--
Looks like the Tea Party fav candidate for South Carolina Gov, Nikki Haley, apparently enjoyed teabagging a "Conservative Blogger" who used to work for her :eek::nanner: Whoops.:o
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/24/nikki-haley-affair-will-folks_n_587156.html



Exhibit B--
Tea Party Darling (well, is she or isn't she? :dunno: It's hard to tell based on the audience she speaks in front of)
Sarah Palin gave a 6 figure speech in Vegas in front of a very dumb audience of Real Estate agents, and even THEY weren't impressed with her speech :rofl:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/palin-speech-in-vegas-pan_n_588699.html
I guess the Real Estate geniuses didn't like that Madame Tea Party didn't tailor her speech to there, er, needs....awwww.....poor little Real Estate agents. It's okay. You guys are good enough and special enough. We're not sure why we need you, but we do :o

I should've added my Rand Paul Campaign Meltdown/Reorganization linky here too...he's really "got some problems" of his own at the moment :rofl2:

 

[tony c]

Rand Paul is similar to W, in that both are just milking their *****'s political gain, even though clearly neither seemed to be all that experienced enough or qualified. It's too bad he didn't soak up all his ****** knowledge; I stop and listen anytime his ****** talks. Ron Paul never seemed to get a fair shake and the grand prize.

Forget political party lines. The sooner we recognize it's like rooting for you favorite football team and their laundry/uniform, and not in fact the players themselves, the sooner we'll actually be able to get anything done in this country politically.

 

[StanScratch]

Word is Rove has made his way back into the political scene. I would put up a buttload of money on he being a puppet master of the party.

 

[CurtJa]

"I have been 100 percent faithful to my husband throughout our 13 years of marriage. This claim against me is categorically and totally false"

Experience has taught me that whenever a politician says this they've been f'ing somebody other than their spouse's brains out.

 

[CurtJa]

Word is Rove has made his way back into the political scene. I would put up a buttload of money on he being a puppet master of the party.

Well, Freedomworks (TeaPartyUSA) was cofounded by Dick Armey, who had more than a passing role in both Bushes and the Clinton presidency, so it's not too hard to draw the link.

 

[Facetious]

Who's ''Rand Paul'' and what immediate impact might he have on my life?
:confused :dunno:

Sorry, guys, I'm a real greedy type who works to earn his keep 5 to 6 days a week, you see, I don't have time to trawl huffyopolous, CPUSA and media matters etc. each day to get the latest fringe - far left strategies for undermining my political opposition.

After all, who want's to be a shameful bump on a log at the end of the day?


Commie up! :banger:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Well, Freedomworks (TeaPartyUSA) was cofounded by Dick Armey, who had more than a passing role in both Bushes and the Clinton presidency, so it's not too hard to draw the link.

The only role Dick Armey had in the Clinton presidency was opposing everything Bill wanted to do.

To say that the former Republican House Majority Leader and one of the engineers of both the Contract On/With America and the Republican Revolution of the mid 90’s “had more than a passing role in the ....Clinton presidency” is woefully misinformed.

 

[CurtJa]

The only role Dick Armey had in the Clinton presidency was opposing everything Bill wanted to do.

To say that the former Republican House Majority Leader and one of the engineers of both the Contract On/With America and the Republican Revolution of the mid 90’s “had more than a passing role in the ....Clinton presidency” is woefully misinformed.

I'm not sure where you're getting that -- while I wouldn't say he was "huge" in the administration (I don't think he was elected until the second term?) he was a major spokesman for the "trickle down" side of Reaganomics. He was also a HUGE advocate for the rightfully maligned war on ***** in Texas. He was also in the same sort of "pro-amnesty" type cabal as Reagan. I guess saying he played an "integral role" would be incorrect, but it is almost certainly where he got his start.

Edit: okay, should have read REAGAN, not CLINTON. My bad.

 

[D-rock]

Rand Paul is similar to W, in that both are just milking their *****'s political gain, even though clearly neither seemed to be all that experienced enough or qualified. It's too bad he didn't soak up all his ****** knowledge; I stop and listen anytime his ****** talks. Ron Paul never seemed to get a fair shake and the grand prize.

The only difference between Ron Paul and his *** is that Rob Paul is better at "politician speech" and instead of telling the direct truth if he thinks the vast majority of the people won't like what he says he will either lie or dance around the issue enough to not answer it. If you could ***** Ron Paul to be completely honest and to be as direct and concise as possible and asked them the exact same questions they wouldn't be that much different.

 

[titsrock]

Who's ''Rand Paul'' and what immediate impact might he have on my life?
:confused :dunno:

Sorry, guys, I'm a real greedy type who works to earn his keep 5 to 6 days a week, you see, I don't have time to trawl huffyopolous, CPUSA and media matters etc. each day to get the latest fringe - far left strategies for undermining my political opposition.

After all, who want's to be a shameful bump on a log at the end of the day?


Commie up! :banger:

You don't know who Rand Paul is? Seriously? But, you started a thread about Papa Paul and immigration? :dunno:

For someone slaving away 5 to 6 to "earn your keep" and who avoids trawling sites for topics...you sure create a lot of anti-gov't threads and anti-Obama threads :dunno::rofl:

Here's more on Randy Rand Paul..
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/rand-pauls-cafeteria-constitutional-0

Now, I am not a strict Constitutionalist, so repealing the 14th Ammendment makes sense to me today. We have enough citizens in this country. Let's auto amnesty the undocumented that are here now, and repeal the 14th Ammendment as a compromise.

But, take a read of how Randy Rand wants to patrol the border. This sounds like something even dumbass Hollywood wouldn't create although perhaps Rand really watched "Enemy of the State" a bit too much...:dunno::rofl:

Imagine this movie with a thin-veil of immigrant hunting instead of gov't *******...

 

[bustybbwlover]

politics attracts a certain type (politicians) and they're the same in every party in every country: narcissistic anal retentive power freaks

 

[titsrock]

Who here knew that Linda MacMahon, wife of Wrestling Czar Vince MacMahon, was actually running for U.S. Senate (Repubican) in Connecticut

I know Jesse the Body won the Governorship of Minnesota awhile ago...but c'mon...

Is anyone offended by this? What has Linda MacMahon done to warrant running for the Senate even in a hopeless race like CT--she has no chance of winning in this bluest of blueblood states.

Seriously. She is willing to throw $50mil down the toilet? Is she really bored with the WWE :dunno:

Has the Senate outlived its usefulness if its attracting nothing but rich incompetents? :weeping:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/27/2010-campaign-meet-the-to_n_592542.html#s94431


I also want to come out and say that I saw Nikki Haley's alleged one night stand on MSNBC and the guy is a complete tool. I'm not sure I'm going to criticize her much other than she should choose to have sex with an actual man next time and not a complete fool/douchebag...

 

[titsrock]

Glenn Beck Declares 'J.D. Hayworth's Campaign Is Over' (VIDEO)
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...ayworths-campaign-is-over-video.php?ref=dcblt

I think the Fox News backstab of the Tea Party has begun and this clip from the Beckster's radio show (watch if you dare) pretty much strikes the first blow against the Tea Party by throwing the dirt on JD Hayworth's senate bid to upset McCain.

Beckster pretty much summed it up--I mean Arizona. JD Hayworth. Seriously. Is that all you got? :rofl:

 

[titsrock]

Gee, Pa...(sniff), ya mean this here Tea Party ain't a grass roots revolution afterall, but just another billionaire-funded scheme to hoodwink the "lil' people" :weeping:

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his ***** exactly 47 years earlier.

Vive la révolution!

There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar ******* who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who these brothers are.

Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdoch’s, go well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power, and given the recession-battered electorate’s unchecked anger and the Obama White House’s unfocused political strategy, they might.

All three tycoons are the latest incarnation of what the historian Kim Phillips-Fein labeled “Invisible Hands” in her prescient 2009 book of that title: those corporate players who have financed the far right ever since the du Pont brothers spawned the American Liberty League in 1934 to bring down F.D.R. You can draw a straight line from the Liberty League’s crusade against the New Deal “socialism” of Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission and ***** labor laws to the John Birch Society-Barry Goldwater assault on J.F.K. and Medicare to the Koch-Murdoch-backed juggernaut against our “socialist” president.

Only the fat cats change — not their methods and not their pet bugaboos (taxes, corporate regulation, organized labor, and government “handouts” to the poor, unemployed, ill and elderly). Even the sources of their fortunes remain fairly constant. Koch Industries began with oil in the 1930s and now also spews an array of industrial products, from Dixie cups to Lycra, not unlike DuPont’s portfolio of paint and plastics. Sometimes the biological DNA persists as well. The Koch brothers’ ******, Fred, was among the select group chosen to serve on the Birch Society’s top governing body. In a recorded 1963 speech that survives in a University of Michigan archive, he can be heard warning of “a takeover” of America in which Communists would “infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.” That rant could be delivered as is at any Tea Party rally today.

Last week the Kochs were shoved *********** into the spotlight by the most comprehensive journalistic portrait of them yet, written by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker. Her article caused a stir among those in Manhattan’s liberal elite who didn’t know that David Koch, widely celebrated for his cultural philanthropy, is not merely another rich conservative Republican but the founder of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which, as Mayer writes with some understatement, “has worked closely with the Tea Party since the movement’s inception.” To New Yorkers who associate the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet, it’s startling to learn that the Texas branch of that foundation’s political arm, known simply as Americans for Prosperity, gave its Blogger of the Year Award to an activist who had called President Obama “cokehead in chief.”

The rest of this here...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?ref=opinion

 

[CunningStunts]

As a Libertarian, the co opting of the Tea Party movement by the fundamentalist "conservatives" pisses me off. The original intent of the Tea Party was to protest BOTH major parties and send a message to the corrupt cesspool that is Washington, DC, that we need to stop the failed policies and programs, get back to fiscal responsibility, let's put America first, and oh yeah, stop treading on our Constitutional rights in the name of these so-called noble causes.

Ugh, makes me ill...

 

[Hot Mega]

As a Libertarian, the co opting of the Tea Party movement by the fundamentalist "conservatives" pisses me off. The original intent of the Tea Party was to protest BOTH major parties and send a message to the corrupt cesspool that is Washington, DC, that we need to stop the failed policies and programs, get back to fiscal responsibility, let's put America first, and oh yeah, stop treading on our Constitutional rights in the name of these so-called noble causes.

Ugh, makes me ill...

Interesting considering "TEA" allegedly stands for "taxed enough already" and they held their national rallies in 2009 while we were paying and currently pay some of the lowest taxes in US history.

But to say it was co opted by fundamentalist conservatives is not true IMO (as you can scarcely find any). It was co opted by mainstream GOPers seeking to do nothing more than conflate their anti-establishment message with anti Obamaism and an excuse to trot out a Gadsden Flag.

It's hard to really take their cause seriously when it couldn't practically be about taxation. They say cut spending but until the bailouts they were perfectly okay with the billions being borrowed and spent on a new democracy in Iraq but somehow have a problem with our g'ment loaning American business money to save our economy.

Chalk up the whole exercise as another GOPer gimmick.

Stop treading on our constitutional rights???:1orglaugh You so crazy.:1orglaugh

 

[titsrock]

^
Yes. That's the thing I don't get...the ~OUTRAGE~ over saving a true American brand like GM. If there was anything that the Republicans would support unequivocally it is directly assisting an American business I mean the GOP is all for helping the wealthy..I guess presumably because the wealthy will, of course, use all tax break money to start small businesses, huh :rofl:

 

[CptHa]

Looks like the Tea Party fav candidate for South Carolina Gov, Nikki Haley, apparently enjoyed teabagging a "Conservative Blogger" who used to work for her

Women can't teabag, they can however, milkjug.:tongue:

 

[titsrock]

Joe Miller Campaign Funded By God, K Street


Alaska Republican Joe Miller is telling his supporters that he is refusing to take corporate and out-of-state money, yet the Tea-Party-backed candidate has hired a prominent K Street fundraiser to help with his bid for the Senate.[]

Miller, to date, has relied extensively on the Lord to raise funds for his Senate run, his campaign told supporters in an email sent Sunday evening that was obtained by HuffPost.

"So far the Lord has always provided the money in this grass roots campaign, and this time God is going to use you to provide!" Miller's campaign told supporters, inviting them to attend a fundraiser with Miller and his wife. "It cost alot of money to run a clean campaign and we all know that Joe's campaign isn't receiving any monies from corporations or from out of State entities." [:surprise: :anonymous]

That pledge, however, runs counter to news, broken by Roll Call, that Miller has hired Mike Gula, a high-powered Washington fundraiser with The Gula Graham Group. [] K Street will now be supplementing the Lord's work. "Gula is in the process of assembling a K Street steering committee on behalf of the Miller campaign, and sources say he would not have taken Miller on if he didn't think he could raise political action committee money for him," Roll Call reported Friday. Gula and Miller did not immediately return calls requesting comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/miller-campaign-funded-by_n_705370.html

I thought using religion to win elections was a Republican dirty campaign trick? Isn't this wiping away the separation between...oh, nevermind... :dunno::1orglaugh

 

[Trident1]

The slaughter of the Douchecrats will continue as planned in November.