Originally Posted By alexbook Looks like Harry Reid's home town will the place for tea partiers to be next weekend: >>RV Parks Sold Out as “Showdown in Searchlight” Nears: Hundreds of Motorhomes/Trailers Expected in Searchlight, NV for March 27th Event Against Harry Reid<< >>“So many of us at the Tea Party Express have grown up camping and traveling across this great nation in our family’s motorhomes, so we know how beautiful the desert Southwest is. It occurred to us that a lot of retirees and snowbirds are fiscally conservative constitutionalists who are disgusted by the out-of-control growth in the size and power of the federal government. “These folks can come enjoy a beautiful vacation in the southern Nevada desert near the breathtaking Lake Mead, and at the same time help take their country back from the big government politicians who keep trying to shove their tax-spend-bailout nonsense down our throats. “We have been contacted by people from all across the country who are coming to Searchlight in their motorhomes and trailers. You will literally see hundreds of RVs in Searchlight on March 27th, and we’ve got plenty of space at the rally location for you to park your rig. So RV’ers, come join us for the giant tea party with Sarah Palin in Searchlight on March 27th!”<< <a href="http://littlemissattila.com/?p=14600" target="_blank">http://littlemissattila.com/?p=14600</a> (Actually, LMA is re-posting from a press release, but I feel the need to plug Joy's blog every now and then.) Should somebody point out to these folks that Lake Mead was created by the Federal government and is named for a Federal bureaucrat?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <A group of people whose name is taken from tax protesting, who are all about fighting government taxes, who organized under the banner of anti-taxation, DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TAXES!> What's even more remarkable is that since, as ecdc pointed out, most of them think their taxes went up when they actually went down...they don't even know anything about their OWN taxes.
Originally Posted By SuperDry In their defense, if their radios or Fox News haven't told them that their taxes actually went down, how are they to know?
Originally Posted By markymouse Their taxes could go to zero, and as long as the President was a black man with a foreign sounding name, they'd be out there. It takes a lot, Jesse Helms or Jeremiah Wright level stuff, before I'm willing to pretend I can see into a person's heart and know them to be just a mean racist. But these folks showed that.
Originally Posted By markymouse ecdc wrote "They initially were called "tea baggers" because they would take tea bags to the rallies. But tea bagger means something else..." I wasn't sure what that referred to, so I googled "tea bagger". Can I just say, I think these people would be a lot less cranky if they gave THAT a try instead.
Originally Posted By gadzuux This was an appalling and disgusting display. What's important now if for this to become widely known. How many people are going to affiliate themselves with this obnoxious group when it's made known that they scream the n-word and spit at congressmen? I dare the republican party and it's leadership to continue to curry favor with these racist hayseeds. Go ahead and cozy up to them - see how well that works out for you. We've already seen GOP leadership standing in front of them with their dispicable signs and offer speeches of support. If these people are your constituents, you don't deserve public office. If you don't denounce them, you're nearly as bad. A year ago, the GOP and it's minions set out to rabble rouse over health care, and this is the rabble they roused - this is the republican 'base' - fearful and ignorant white people, many of them rural, many of them "christian", many of them southern. People that will form a mob, shout vulgar epithets at politicians, spit on them, and wave signs of barely veiled malice. And possibly even riot. Is that what's coming tomorrow? Let's listen closely for republican leaders to stand up and repudiate these people. So far - not a peep. I'd even settle for a conservative pundit or two to denounce these actions. But I'm not holding my breath waiting.
Originally Posted By Daannzzz ""If you don't denounce them, you're nearly as bad.""" Nearly as bad??? I would say much worse.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 This was raised on Meet the Press this morning. Boehner and Steele predictably dismissed them as "a handful of idiots." Well, it may (or may not) be just a handful of people shouting the n-word and the f-word within range of a microphone (close enough for it to be picked up as intelligible words as opposed to unintelligible crowd noise; something tells me there would have been more N and F-words flying around in that background noise). But it's certainly a lot more than a handful carrying around signs calling Obama a fascist, or a socialist, or with barely concealed death threats (i.e. "if a Brown can't stop you, a Browning can" - complete with picture of a Browning pistol). I doubt this has "legs" much past this morning's talk shows unless liberals insist on exposing the ugliness consistently.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I've got no patience for ignorance in any form and from anyone. I think the teabaggers by and large are a nuisance taking taking away from what are legitimate concerns about health care and other issues. Stupidity comes from both sides of the aisle but in this case these folks certainly make conservatives look bad.
Originally Posted By velo And the problem is that Meet the Press probably allowed them to dismiss it (I did not watch so let me know if I'm wrong). I am waiting for someone other than Jon Stewart/Keith Olberman to stand up and say "You CANNOT dismiss this behavior any longer." I wish they'd keep Rachel Maddow on MTP as a regular moderator.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>A year ago, the GOP and it's minions set out to rabble rouse over health care, and this is the rabble they roused<< Yep. This is the bunch Sarah Palin and those like her bring to the party -- short on ideas and critical thinking, long on bumper sticker rhetoric and phony platitudes. The "debate" has never been about healthcare for most of these numbskulls. Healthcare is too complicated, to nuanced, too difficult to put in a "for" or "against" box. So for them, it's about the fact that a black guy is president. They can't comprehend it, can't get over it. >> I am waiting for someone other than Jon Stewart/Keith Olberman to stand up and say "You CANNOT dismiss this behavior any longer."<< Exactly. Politicians on the right are tripping over each other to claim membership with the teabaggers. If they want to be associated with a mob, then they should also get to enjoy the humiliation that mob splatters on them.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt What's very telling is that the passage of health care reform was ultimately a straight party vote with no Republicans voting yes. The midterm elections should be very telling. Oh, and thank you Barack and Nancy.
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^ I'm not feeling quite as confident, BUT I will say I'm feeling better about Dem's chances in November this morning, and started feeling that way last night.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy Mid-terms will be entirely about the economy and unemployment. If employment doesn't improve, incumbents don't stand a chance. Health care reform is irrelevant.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I agree Sport Goofy. I think the news media is making too much about the health care debate in relation to the mid term elections. People want to see some real improvement in the economy and unemployment. With health care reform taking the back seat I wonder if the House can craft a bipartisan jobs bill or will the conservatives try and hijack that debate too?
Originally Posted By gadzuux Why should it be bipartisan? What has the GOP done to be included in any efforts to move our society forward? What they HAVE done is to marginalize their party to such an extent that they have no relevance other than being a catch-all category for people who are opposed to Obama for a variety of invalid reasons. For the record, the republicans have already voted against a proposed jobs bill. They've declared their position - let them own it. Come November, the democrats can point to a whole host of accomplishments, and the republicans can come back to their constituents empty handed, and say that they voted 'no' on every single blessed thing. They may be ideologically pure, but they're also useless and irrelevant to the entire process. Let's see how that plays in Topeka.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 DO you know what is really sad? My 7 year old likes to watch political news with me and the last couple of months I haven't been able to let him do so. I am not going to let my child watch footage of crazy people yelling disgusting things about our leaders. I am not going to let him see elected officials, who I should be able to hold up as good examples, condone that behavior. When you have members of congress being spit on, when you have a congressman shouting baby killer to another member on the floor, it has gone too far. It is a very sad day when I cannot tell my son that, whatever their political beliefs are, the men and women in congress are good examples.
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