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Are you honestly asking, or is this just another "tea partiers are racists cause they just don't like Obama" thread?
Seems like you're trying to make it be about that, because I neither mentioned Obama nor racism nor race at all. I'm talking about real fiscal issues here. Please don't play try and play the victim.
Thats what I'm saying, where was this movement for fiscal responsibility during
Bush years? The Iraq war was neither necessary nor fiscally responsible, but people seemed okay with that.
Why wasn't it? Sounds like it would have been the perfect opportunity and reason to complain and rally against wasteful spending.
I'll tell you why..they are either too stupid to realize who and what is funding them or have such a rabid hatred of the POTUS that it does not matter.
The Tea Party movement began as an authentic grassroots uprising, the result of real, on-the-ground resentment against the government (for the bank bailout), the new African-American president and the falling fortunes of middle- and working-class white people in the devastated economy. Corporate-funded astroturf groups such as FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity and the Club for Growth saw in this burgeoning resentment the means to undermine progressives and to pave the way for enacting an anti-regulatory agenda that could spell billions in new profits for corporations and the financial industry at the expense of everyday people. And so they got busy, initially organizing the discontented in opposition to the health care reform legislation passed earlier this year. http://www.truth-out.org/the-tea-par...ht-wing-politi
These dumb and blind fools are being manipulated by the very entities that they were against in the first place. They are feeeding the beast that they originally sought to kill.
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You really have no timeline conception do you. The Tea Party had not yet been born.
It's fairly obvious he meant where was the uproar when billions were spent into a useless war. Not to mention wasted american lives and countless iraqi civilians, the destruction of Iraq and huge blow to american credibility abroad.
Don't be obtuse on purpose. It's a legitimate question. Why wasn't there any opposition back then to this wasteful and immoral spending but there is now, for social programs? Where was the uproar when Bush spent billions into record deficits? Remember that Obama's budget deficits include military spendings, which Bush/Cheney made sure to carefully leave out of the budget as a 'parallel spending'.
If anything, the fact that the Tea Party, or a similar movement, didn't exist during the Bush years...an era of wasteful spending and infringment of rights (patriot act I/II, torture, wars, etc...)...only shows that it's a partisan movement fueled by partisan media whose only interest is not "freedom" and "saving the economy" but rather taking down Democrats who won the last election.
Basically it's just plain old politics. The Tea Party is nothing new. It's just an attack dog for the Republicans and it works wonders because Republicans aren't looking like partisan hacks if they were the ones throwing the mud, but since the Tea Party has no real constituency, the gains are really for the Republicans.
Even a five year old would see through this silliness but people get easily carried away and become emotional.
Are you honestly asking, or is this just another "tea partiers are racists cause they just don't like Obama" thread?
Wait a minute I thought only liberals brought up race?
Oh I get it...you played a preemptive race card that way if it was played later in the game you could cut it Good move
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Good move
