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The tea party is right about one thing. The American people are mad as hell about big useless government and their spending and that means more than tea party people. Yet people still listen to the partisan bs coming out of the media and out of washington.
I know all I need to know about the tea party because my state is run by a tea party moron and he and his cronies have done enough damage to make sure I never vote for a tea party candidate ever. Oh and this morning got a lovely dose of awesome news that a new tax law he signed raises the taxes on electric bills! SWEET! Oh and he did that at the same time he lowered the corporate tax rate...more pandering to corporations and crapping on the people. Such a nice guy.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the President’s directive through his Climate Action Plan, issued a rule on September 20 that will kill the future for coal and raise costs for electricity in the future.
EPA’s rule limits the release of carbon-dioxide at any new coal power plant. In reality, the rule is a ban on constructing new coal-fired power plants…as there is no technology commercially available and capable of meeting the standards set.
without the reasonably priced base load electricity generated by coal-fired power plants, the President and EPA want us to move toward renewable power. While wind and solar are increasing the amount of electricity they generate, they are reliant on factors that do not permit them to be considered for our base load needs.
Whenever big business or bureaucracy gets behind a grassroots movement.....it is always bad.
It goes without saying that EVERY movement that gathers power will end up being used, to the maximum extent possible, by the Big Money interests that run our nation. But think about it, which is easier for the uber-rich to profit from:
--a corrupt political class in Washington that confiscates TRILLIONS of dollars from the working class in America every single year and then hands the money out to Special Interests and campaign contributors? or
--a movement to CUT the amount of taxes Big Government takes from the working class, and reduce the size and spending of a massive Big Government bureaucracy that steals from the working poor to give to the most economically destructive rich?
The Tea Party movement is one of the few political movements that actually THREATENS the incredible wealth and income of our current ultra-corrupt upper class. No wonder they will stop at nothing to disparage and discredit these movements, to slander them and label them as things they are NOT, to try and heap so much distain on them from liberal mouthpieces that the obedient sheep go insane at the mere mentions of the names.
We have had threads here on C-D where someone asked specifically WHAT liberals hated so much about the Tea Party movement, and the closest thing to an answer (in hundreds of replies) was that the Tea Party movement wasn't about reducing government at all, it was just about racism. Apparently liberals will swallow anything their mouthpieces tell them, even the absurd implication that if Tea Party politicians are elected the only thing they'll do is pass laws to put African Americans at the back of the bus. Do liberals not know that the only racism even possible in modern America is the reverse kind?
Truth is, most liberals don't have foggiest idea that they are supposed to hate the Tea Party because the uber-rich are threatened by it. Liberals are told: don't vote for the guy who at least promises to cut government spending, because he probably won't. Instead vote for the guy who wants even BIGGER government, paid for by the few remaining working idiots who love working for someone else so much they'll do it even when all their pay goes to Big Government.
Of course, liberals are outnumbered by conservatives in the American population by a factor of two to one--so it's good to know that MOST Americans aren't that easily manipulated.
I tend to be on the left and I don't think the Tea Party is going anywhere. A lot of them have a lot of power on the state and local level in the GOP and that is very important, because from there they can foster, train and recruit candidates for various office and give those candidates the support they need to fight against the establishment GOP in federal primaries.
The Tea Party is in a great position to take on the money wing of the establishment GOP since they control a lot of the county and precinct offices which are critical in primaries.
liberals should take a page out of the teabaggers book and revolt against their own establishment, the democratic party.
the democratic party lies to the liberals with a forked tongue. They get you riled up about single payer healthcare to help get elected, then deliver a horrible compromise that suits greedy insurance corps best. they say theyre about job creations, but it was not democratic presidents who championed NAFTA and the WTO that shipped jobs abroad, it was bubba and al.
but its almost like the liberals LOVE the lying, they just eat it up, hows the song go? "Lie to me! go ahead and lie to me!"
I tend to be on the left and I don't think the Tea Party is going anywhere. A lot of them have a lot of power on the state and local level in the GOP and that is very important, because from there they can foster, train and recruit candidates for various office and give those candidates the support they need to fight against the establishment GOP in federal primaries.
The Tea Party is in a great position to take on the money wing of the establishment GOP since they control a lot of the county and precinct offices which are critical in primaries.
I agree. The Establishment Republicans (a.k.a. "neo-cons") is not the GOP of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, or even Bush (41). 1992 was the last time I voted for a Republican presidential candidate. After Newt Gingrich resigned in 1998 the GOP became 1960s Democrats. That is why their own base turned on them in 2006, and again in 2008 with the re-branding of the TEA Party. The original TEA Party movement was created in Minnesota in 1974, and went national with their protest in DC on April 15, 1977.
If the TEA Party can restore fiscal sanity back to the GOP, then they have my support.
It goes without saying that EVERY movement that gathers power will end up being used, to the maximum extent possible, by the Big Money interests that run our nation. But think about it, which is easier for the uber-rich to profit from:
--a corrupt political class in Washington that confiscates TRILLIONS of dollars from the working class in America every single year and then hands the money out to Special Interests and campaign contributors? or
--a movement to CUT the amount of taxes Big Government takes from the working class, and reduce the size and spending of a massive Big Government bureaucracy that steals from the working poor to give to the most economically destructive rich?
The Tea Party movement is one of the few political movements that actually THREATENS the incredible wealth and income of our current ultra-corrupt upper class. No wonder they will stop at nothing to disparage and discredit these movements, to slander them and label them as things they are NOT, to try and heap so much distain on them from liberal mouthpieces that the obedient sheep go insane at the mere mentions of the names.
We have had threads here on C-D where someone asked specifically WHAT liberals hated so much about the Tea Party movement, and the closest thing to an answer (in hundreds of replies) was that the Tea Party movement wasn't about reducing government at all, it was just about racism. Apparently liberals will swallow anything their mouthpieces tell them, even the absurd implication that if Tea Party politicians are elected the only thing they'll do is pass laws to put African Americans at the back of the bus. Do liberals not know that the only racism even possible in modern America is the reverse kind?
Truth is, most liberals don't have foggiest idea that they are supposed to hate the Tea Party because the uber-rich are threatened by it. Liberals are told: don't vote for the guy who at least promises to cut government spending, because he probably won't. Instead vote for the guy who wants even BIGGER government, paid for by the few remaining working idiots who love working for someone else so much they'll do it even when all their pay goes to Big Government.
Of course, liberals are outnumbered by conservatives in the American population by a factor of two to one--so it's good to know that MOST Americans aren't that easily manipulated.
Yep. This hating on the tea party seems to be a fad/fashion statement with no real basis as to why they should be hated on. Not even sure where the connection of racism of the tea party even came from.
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