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On a personal level I approve of government spending because it will be paid back by the wealthy that created the problem in the first place. Also because I will probably be dead before the bill come due.
Beyond that, what level of attendance would be considered a success?
To measure their success you have to define their goal(s). Has anyone done that yet? That being said, if the TEA parties were such a dismal failure, why are you folks so interested in them? If their goal was simply to bring more attention to the issue of taxation, well, they were apparently successful.
I'm confused by the whole thing since the first step to lowering taxes is reigning in the budget. If that's the case, where were these folks during Bush's massive deficit spending?
The nationwide attendance figure was 26,000 people for the tea-bagging fest. Obama drew 8X more people in a single foreign city that he doesn't even live in...Berlin, Germany. He also drew more than 26,000 in Republican districts during the campaign. Pathetic.
Only an idiot liberal would look at this as more people supporting big government. 83% of the people want a reduced role for government - only 13% want a permanent big government and 44% disapprove completely!!
So in essence, this poll skews the numbers towards the liberals and big government role! Typical liberal spin.
What we can conclude when we think is that more people are in favor of a reduced role of the government! Thanks liberal whackos for providing us this data!
The tea parties made this morning's headlines in all of the newspapers in major cities.
Not really. It's in the Metro section of the Washington Post, right along with the traffic accidents and just beneath a story about how a book looted after the Civil War was returned yesterday to the library at Washington & Lee University.
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Originally Posted by PeterRabbit
It's not about Rep. vs. Dem., it's about the people taking back their govt.
By people who don't understand their government to begin with? What a wonderful idea...
That number is a joke. I know that there were at least 10,000 in my town. They had to open up another area of the city for overflow. This isn't just a few extremists getting together. We're a large group of Americans that are concerned about the way our country is heading and don't trust that our "dear leader" has our best interests in mind.
"Predictably, Democrats, the Hopium smokers in the media and the left-wing blogs condemned such "tea parties" as gatherings of right-wing wackos."
"What critics of this don't understand is that we're upset with President Obama, yes, but also upset with Bush administration bailouts, and how Obama has taken that and compounded it with all his spending," said Mike Lennox, a real estate manager.
"Democrat, Republican, I don't care about the excuses. What we're tired of is all the lies and the corruption," Lennox said.
"...she came to hear Democrats and Republicans, Libertarians and conservatives rip on the federal government for spending us into servitude."
They're all great quotes! I don't understand why some people don't get what the protest was about - the federal government spending us into servitude is the problem, not political party affiliation.
The nationwide attendance figure was 26,000 people for the tea-bagging fest. Obama drew 8X more people in a single foreign city that he doesn't even live in...Berlin, Germany. He also drew more than 26,000 in Republican districts during the campaign. Pathetic.
Oh what a pathetic turnout, did they blame the poor turnout due to weather?
What's next you ask? I have the answer, more hannity, beck, o'reilly and limbaugh, more of the same old $hit.
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Typical liberal spin.