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So...you think the dems will retake the House? Hold onto the Senate (they have 23 seats up for reelection, compared to 10 for the GOP)?
You think the "progressive" message of MORE taxes, MORE spending, MORE regulation, MORE intrusion, MORE debt, LESS jobs, is a winning one?
That TEA party seems to have been just that. A little girls TEA party! Nothing more of substance. The OW is a true people's movement and has gone worldwide! 30 thousand on the news tonight in Taiwan...hitting every major city in this country as well. The class war has started in earnest...finally...people have had enough and have taken to the streets. This could be bigger than the civil rights, womans and enviornmental movements of the 60's! Change is coming, the 99% will preail! Luckily for you, you are one of US.
That TEA party seems to have been just that. A little girls TEA party! Nothing more of substance. The OW is a true people's movement and has gone worldwide! 30 thousand on the news tonight in Taiwan...hitting every major city in this country as well. The class war has started in earnest...finally...people have had enough and have taken to the streets. This could be bigger than the civil rights, womans and enviornmental movements of the 60's! Change is coming, the 99% will preail! Luckily for you, you are one of US.
They talk extreme. I see them as left extreme. They want college paid for. They want , want , want and their distain is for the rich... sounds like coveting to me.
The tea party wave flags , wants lower spending, balanced budget and responsible government. so what is soo extreme about that?
That TEA party seems to have been just that. A little girls TEA party! Nothing more of substance. The OW is a true people's movement and has gone worldwide! 30 thousand on the news tonight in Taiwan...hitting every major city in this country as well. The class war has started in earnest...finally...people have had enough and have taken to the streets. This could be bigger than the civil rights, womans and enviornmental movements of the 60's! Change is coming, the 99% will preail! Luckily for you, you are one of US.
Oh please, you have a few thousand TOTAL around the country.
Now, in order to be considered a "force" and effect change, OWS would have to maybe win some elections for their side and message...you know, like the Tea Party did in the historic election of 2010.
OWS is a progressive/liberal movement, with the usual cast of characters, commies, socialists, anarchists, America haters, drug addicts, sexual predators, etc, etc.
Seems to be losing steam to me. If it were a true people's movement, you would have the local businesses on their side, which they aren't - in fact, the Occupy sites are costing business a ton of money. Same with the residents - they are sick and tired of the stench, filth, violence and dangerous environment inherent in this bowel movement. You would have normal everyday people joining in, instead, all we see are whining, crybaby liberals who have moved on from other battles lost (WI).
We sure did, we accomplished what we wanted to in 2010 and we're looking forward to doing it again in 2012. We're smarter than any idiot sleeping in a tent in a cold park tonight peeing in a bucket and eating donated food.
Liberals claim that the Tea Party is 100% Republican and during all of the thousands of Tea Party protests and events that took place nobody got raped, the police never had to use tear gas to protect themselves and people didn't end up in handcuffs nightly. The Tea Party gathered the support of millions of people across this country and did something liberals claimed was impossible during the 2010 elections.
The OWS is 80% liberal Democrats and we've gotten reports daily about people stealing from each other, fighting each other and the police, breaking laws and then blaming the police when they're forced to enforce those laws. The OWS morons have accomplished NOTHING positive whatsoever, most of the protestors can't even convey their goals because nobody really knows what they are.
Liberals claim that the Tea Party is 100% Republican and during all of the thousands of Tea Party protests and events that took place nobody got raped, the police never had to use tear gas to protect themselves and people didn't end up in handcuffs nightly. The Tea Party gathered the support of millions of people across this country and did something liberals claimed was impossible during the 2010 elections.
The OWS is 80% liberal Democrats and we've gotten reports daily about people stealing from each other, fighting each other and the police, breaking laws and then blaming the police when they're forced to enforce those laws. The OWS morons have accomplished NOTHING positive whatsoever, most of the protestors can't even convey their goals because nobody really knows what they are.
The Tea Party was old farts. The OWS is young people. Young people cause more crime. This does not legitimize one over the other. From what I have seen, both are dominated by idiots, just different flavors.
Regulations have been put back on Wall Street, the troops are coming home, my family's health care will be better in 2014, and Osama is dead. The change I "hoped" has come to fruition.
Timely too, considering redistricting was at stake.
I'm amazed you don't realize the HISTORIC nature of that election.
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“What they don’t say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens’ movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.”
In April, 2009, Melissa Cohlmia, a company spokesperson, denied that the Kochs had direct links to the Tea Party, saying that Americans for Prosperity is “an independent organization and Koch companies do not in any way direct their activities.”
Later, she issued a statement: “No funding has been provided by Koch companies, the Koch foundations, or Charles Koch or David Koch specifically to support the tea parties.” David Koch told New York, “I’ve never been to a tea-party event. No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me.”
At the lectern in Austin, however, Venable—a longtime political operative who draws a salary from Americans for Prosperity, and who has worked for Koch-funded political groups since 1994—spoke less warily. “We love what the Tea Parties are doing, because that’s how we’re going to take back America!” she declared, as the crowd cheered.
In a subsequent interview, she described herself as an early member of the movement, joking, “I was part of the Tea Party before it was cool!”
She explained that the role of Americans for Prosperity was to help “educate” Tea Party activists on policy details, and to give them “next-step training” after their rallies, so that their political energy could be channelled “more effectively.”
And she noted that Americans for Prosperity had provided Tea Party activists with lists of elected officials to target.
She said of the Kochs, “They’re certainly our people. David’s the chairman of our board. I’ve certainly met with them, and I’m very appreciative of what they do.”
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historic...lol
