Teabaggers Arrested for Littering...

[d.mcc]

At least they should be, as placing anything into an environment that would not occur there naturally is pollution...

Funny, they didn't feel compelled to protest Bush's record expansion of the federal government or his record spending. Why are people such sheep? The upper 1% doesn't want to pay a 10% LOWER tax rate than under Reagan, so they finance this embarrassing campaign and again try to con the working man? Wake up America! The republican party works for ... Read Morethe Waltons, not for you!

99 3/4% of them don't know the Boston Tea Party was held in protest of a huge CORPORATE TAX BREAK. These mutton-heads are being tea bagged alright... tell me, how do the balls of the upper 1% taste?

Oh and by the way the highest growth rate the US economy ever saw was when the richest 1% were taxed at 90%! Check the tax rates from the 40s up till Reagan and the corresponding growth..

[4real]

nice, people finally getting tea'd off that out of control government spending
has got to end and hopefully the tax sucking socialists that get unelected next time around.

here's a link to some tax tea party's
http://taxdayteaparty.com/teaparty/michigan/

[Bigb23]

I have to snicker everytime I hear "Teabaggers". Thanks, Drew and Mike.

[Johnlodge]

nice, people finally getting tea'd off that out of control government spending
has got to end and hopefully the tax sucking socialists that get unelected next time around.

here's a link to some tax tea party's
http://taxdayteaparty.com/teaparty/michigan/

Here's a link to some grammar help so we can tell what you're trying to say.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

[oldredfordette]

I have to snicker every time I hear a rightie call the current government "socialist".

[Pam]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...-Save-the-Rich!

To the surprise of exactly no one, it's now turning out that if you peek at what's really behind those teabags, you're gonna find out that what's back there doesn't pass the smell test.
What? Why are you all laughing? Cut that out, this is serious! It's about freedom and stuff!

[d.mcc]

Fact: Many of the same people at those ridiculous parties had no problem throwing away billions of dollars in Iraq to get Saddams WMDs...or was it to liberate the peole of Iraq...or was it to secure the safety of Israel...or was it ...well, you get my point, don't you???

Fact: These idiotic parties are being organized by some the the wealthiest Americans. You know, the only ones who are in danger of having their tax rates go upwards.

Fact: Spent us into oblivion? Unlike Bushie, who did such a good job shrinking government. Or George Herbert. Or Ronnie. Right. Obama, whom I'm not terribly enamored with, is cleaning up the mess caused by those who came before him.

[gnome]

you folks do know that not all those tax protesters are supporters of the former Administration? To cast the entire bunch as disguntled Bushies is rather shortsighted.

There is a huge anti-tax, anti-governement movement beginning to form. Folks are pissed off about Wall Street bailouts as well as loans to auto companies, they're pissed off about bailing out insurance companies and the rising cost of everything.

That doesn't make them Bushies and to dismiss them as such is to blind yourself from a level of discontent that is on the rise. In fact, much of that discontent was what swept Mr. Obama into power. How many Obama voters were simply mad at Bush and the entire downfall of American standard of living? They went to the polls in droves, and now many of those same people are even less happy now.

The obvious bawdiness of the teabagging double entendre aside, folks are pissed off and dismissing them as kooks is missing the point.

If anything [[[[[ie Rushiphiles have glommed onto an existing movement. Sure they are adding to the noise, but the noise was there before, but maybe you weren't listening...just like Bush.

[ccbatson]

Darn straight...Individuals are upset with expanding government. The 2 are going to be linked in terms of the degree [[bigger goverment=bigger discontent).

A model exists from history...more socialism=less liberty=more misery.

[ccbatson]

All such funds [[not that much...truth be told) are payments at less than market prices, for services rendered. Said services were specifically requested by the consumers and paid for by the proxy for those consumers [[as wrong as that is as a policy), the government.

[ccbatson]

Patients, and referring Doctors on their behalf are the requesting consumers...they come directly to me or request that I visit them. Energy, for now, is largely a private endeavor, where medicine is [[for me) about 25% socialized. That is the important distinction....who reaps the benefits? Who pays for the "service" in the realm of energy?

[ccbatson]

Big difference...here's how. Do taxpayers individually request R and D into alternate energy? Is it handled via a proxy [[ie Physician) operating in the private sector?

[Bigb23]

To the surprise of exactly no one, it's now turning out that if you peek at what's really behind those teabags, you're gonna find out that what's back there doesn't pass the smell test.
What? Why are you all laughing? Cut that out, this is serious! It's about freedom and stuff!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=teabagger

[oldredfordette]

Hey, I'm all for citizens standing up and speaking out. This exercise smells of Sean Hannity [[I don't think this is his first teabagging IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN) and the other shepherds of the radical right. The protesters might be very sincere, but the way they got there was deeply cynical.

[ghettopalmetto]

I don't understand why it previous April 15ths were perfectly okay, but all of a sudden, we need a teabagging party.

Leave it to the right-wingers to come up with an unintentional homosexual double entendre.

[Detroitej72]

I don't understand why it previous April 15ths were perfectly okay, but all of a sudden, we need a teabagging party.

Leave it to the right-wingers to come up with an unintentional homosexual double entendre.

Maybe they can invite Republicans Foley and Craig to the party and they can bring Ted Haggard, who probably knows a thing or two about teabagging!

[Flanders]

For most conservative teabaggers, their exhilarating little protests are likely the most publicly daring group participation activity that they have been personally involved in during their entire lives, since the GOP has held the executive office for most of the past 40 years. Maybe the males won't need a pill tonight to get it up for their little women for a change.

And no, I doubt that any liberal or Democrat worth his or her salt would join a protest orchestrated and backed by wealthy corporate capitalists. Maybe they could get corporate advertisers to help sponsor any future tea parties, for instance, by putting a Nike icon slash on the bottom of their signs.

[ghettopalmetto]

For most conservative teabaggers, their exhilarating little protests are likely the most publicly daring group participation activity that they have been personally involved in during their entire lives, since the GOP has held the executive office for most of the past 40 years. Maybe the males won't need a pill tonight to get it up for their little women for a change..

I'm surprised their nannies let them outside during naptime.

[Philbo]

Maybe if some of you bone heads criticizing the tea parties went to one like I did you'd learn something. I met intelligent people who were protesting the tremendous debt and potential lessening of freedoms such as the 2nd ammendment being passed on to future generations. If you can't understand that well..... As far as corporations being behind these tea parties, wheres your proof?

[reddog289]

Good thing I'm not drinking and have to go to bed. 3 things I don't like, LITTERING , TEA, and TAXES.

[d.mcc]

Maybe if some of you bone heads criticizing the tea parties went to one like I did you'd learn something. I met intelligent people who were protesting the tremendous debt and potential lessening of freedoms such as the 2nd ammendment being passed on to future generations. If you can't understand that well..... As far as corporations being behind these tea parties, wheres your proof?

I went to one, and for every intelligent thinking person who was protesting something valid, I heard the spewing of filth from 4-5 others...

[firstandten]

So Philbo since we are all boneheads I guess we just don't understand this populist reaction to taxes since most of us will be seeing decreases in our taxes. You folks don't even know what your protesting about. You don't know your history. Google Thom Hartmann and the Boston Tea Party and you will get a history lesson on the REAL reason for the Boston Tea Party.

As far as the 2nd amendment I'm still trying to figure out when Obama said he would take your assault weapon away from you.

Please read why this is such a bogus protest. By the way astroturf means phony like this protest. Just answer this Philbo why didn't we have this anger when Bush was in office?

But I guess since Fox News is also behind this event as well it must be a honest- to- goodness news item.



"Despite these attempts to make the “movement� appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests:

– Freedom Works staffers coordinate conference calls among protesters, contacting conservative activists to give them “sign ideas, sample press releases, and a map of events around the country.�
– Freedom Works staffers apparently moved to “take over� the planning of local events in Florida.
– Freedom Works provides how-to guides for delivering a “clear message� to the public and media.
– Freedom Works has several domain addresses — some of them made to look like they were set up by amateurs — to promote the protests.
– Americans for Prosperity is writing press releases and planning the events in New Jersey, Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, and several other states.

This type of corporate ‘astroturfing‘ is nothing new to either organization. While working to promote Social Security privatization, Freedom Works was caught planting one of its operatives as a “single mom� to ask questions to President Bush in a town hall on the subject. Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed Freedom Works for similarly building “amateur-looking� websites to promote the lobbying interests of Dick Armey, the former Republican Majority Leader who now leads Freedom Works and is a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper.
Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is funded by Koch family foundations — a family whose wealth is derived from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated pro-drilling ‘grassroots‘ events around the country"

[rb336]

according to a pajamas media [[one of the big pushers of the tea party bs, and the guys who hired joe the plumber as a "war correspondent") press release, a whopping 60,000 people turned out, after weeks of the right-wing anti-american media hawking the thing including hourly updates for the last two weeks on every faux news program. that translates into less than 200 people per tea party.

[ghettopalmetto]

Maybe if some of you bone heads criticizing the tea parties went to one like I did you'd learn something. I met intelligent people who were protesting the tremendous debt and potential lessening of freedoms such as the 2nd ammendment being passed on to future generations. If you can't understand that well..... As far as corporations being behind these tea parties, wheres your proof?

Personally, I don't take any issue with the teabaggers protesting. In fact, I welcome it. It means they're pissed off enough about something to care. I don't necessarily agree with their premise, but it is well within their right--their responsibility--to make their voices known. Aside: Did anyone notice, at any of the teabagging parties, anyone who had been taxed into poverty???

What I do not condone, however, is the imprecision of their message. Protesting taxation is one thing, but combining that with a perceived lessening of the Second Amendment [[What do you mean I can't walk around with an automatic rifle in public???) ? Combining that with blame for the economy's present state on Barack Obama? It becomes disingenuous. Fox News should really step up its "grassroots" organizing efforts, and make sure its protestors do a better job of staying on message.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...pinion/columns

[Johnlodge]

Some people were turned off by the republican/limbaugh/faux news attempt to commandeer and take credit for the event, considering the republican party brought us record increases in size of government, debt and deficit.

That's why third parties are needed. The repubs turned it into just another "us vs. them" because that's how they roll. In response, the left decided it was all a neo-con ploy and generalized anybody involved as their enemy. It was supposed to be The People Vs. both parties and our overspending, overtaxing government of waste and corruption.