I don't get this whole "Tea" party thing.

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  1. Rodolfo

    Rodolfo Double Stamp>Triple Stamp

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  2. oldguy

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    Putting your racism aside, it was a BIG bunch of 'dumb old white people' in DC last year. Well over a million, and some reports say pushing two million.

    Check the pics out at this site. [video=youtube;TwoCJjH4gwQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoCJjH4gwQ[/video]

    I'm not a tea bagger, sexually or politically, but I know a few of the latter. I would describe them as people that are tired and disgusted about being lied to and betrayed by their leaders. That leader group would include that strong young black man you refer to.

    You get that a lot of those stupid white people voted for that strong young black man, right?

    Go Blazers
     
  3. Sug

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    So the fact that Dick Army has put tons of money into organizing the "tea party" movement is a bottom up movement?
     
  4. Ed O

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    That's not a complete sentence. Can you try again?

    Ed O.
     
  5. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    hahaha really? that would have been PRICELESS!:biglaugh:
     
  6. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    They are a bottom up movement, not a sexual movement....

    Aside from that little bon mot...

    If their only issue is too much spending, and they aren't just a glossy new Palin-type face invented solely to energize the Republican Party, then where were they when all this spending started? You know, when Bush destroyed the miraculous Clinton deficits in the months before 9-11. Why weren't they motivated to complain when a Republican was doing the big spending?
     
  7. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    What was Bush's approval rating for most of his 2nd term?
     
  8. BLAZER PROPHET

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    Let me get this straight.... there are some predominatly elderly people who are fed up with rising taxes and tax & spend policies from liberal politicians. So, excercising their constitutional rights they lobby their Congressmen, protest and vote.

    So, if I continue to follow your logic, since their views are not your views they are to be silenced and ridiculed.

    Oh, ok, I get it. :pimp:
     
  9. MrJayremmie

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    Reminds me of something funny...

    [video=youtube;8abEJ2tKEcE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abEJ2tKEcE[/video]
     
  10. maxiep

    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    They were there and dissatisfied (as shown by President Bush's approval ratings), but the spending pattern driven by a combination of a Democratic Congress with the most liberal president in history pushed them over the edge. To pretend that spending is only incrementally higher is to deny reality. By the end of this fiscal year, President Obama will have added as much to our national debt as President Bush did in eight years.
     
  11. blazerboy30

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    It took longer than I thought it would, but eventually it came, just as predicted.

     
  12. maxiep

    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    I get tired of posting it over and over, but it seems once again I need to repeat myself: No one should pretend that President George W. Bush was a fiscal conservative.
     
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    Actually I believe it has been shown many times that those shots of the supposed huge tea bagger fest were fake. I have seen many programs where experts came up and showed where they cut in film from other marches and showed they faked them.

    I think the tea party is just a scam to get a bunch of people to give money to them.
     
  14. BLAZER PROPHET

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    MARIS61 Real American

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    And America.
     
  16. MARIS61

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    No, they are America's least educated and most gullible citizens stirred up by a couple of Fox News trolls.

    It's like when a bunch of posters get all riled up about Mixum's posts.
     
  17. Buzz Killington

    Buzz Killington Great Sea Urchin Cerviche

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    Yes. They already had their say, now time to sit down and take it like a bitch. :clap:
     
  18. Buzz Killington

    Buzz Killington Great Sea Urchin Cerviche

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    To me, they are like the hippie contingent anti-war types.

    Just a bunch of fucking losers who need to accept that they won't accomplish shit.
     
  19. Buzz Killington

    Buzz Killington Great Sea Urchin Cerviche

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    personally, i just hate all protestor types, they just come across as whiny. I think it should be legal to run them over if they're blocking my way or traffic.
     
  20. MARIS61

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    Teabaggers did not elect Obama, they voted against him. Obama has not stopped listening to those who elected him, but both parties are tying his hands and using him as a scapegoat.

    I truly believe he was set up by both parties to be the patsy.

    It's time to entirely do away with state reps and senators, they ARE big government.

    This is one country, not 50 countries.
     

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