A Question for the Teabaggers

[pcford]

Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

[CK 17]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

Nope.

[seanz]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Any volunteers?

[CWSmith]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

You're looking for rational thought from people who are running on emotion.

[hanleyclifford]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

When I first became aware of the "teabaggers" I thought it was just a fad that would pass like all 3rd parties do. But if the vitriolic invective from this forum is any indicator, they must be a force to be reckoned with.

[CWSmith]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

I do believe PCford has a point based on his sarcasm, but he will have a hard time impressing anyone while picking his bigoted nose in the process.

Comments like that contribute nothing to the dialog and reflect poorly on the author. They only inflame and we should all strive to do better than that.

[hanleyclifford]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Comments like that contribute nothing to the dialog and reflect poorly on the author. They only inflame and we should all strive to do better than that.

Please, dear sir; when a thread begins the way this one did, we are already in the gutter and going lower.

[CWSmith]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Please, dear sir; when a thread begins the way this one did, we are already in the gutter and going lower.

Really? If an obvious statement of sarcasm is "in the gutter", where does that place references to nose picking?

Politicians elected by the tea party are actively assaulting working men and women. The apparent question is whether the tea party members can recognize this. Or, do you contend there is another interpretation?

[hanleyclifford]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Really? If an obvious statement of sarcasm is "in the gutter", where does that place references to nose picking?

Politicians elected by the tea party are actively assaulting working men and women. The apparent question is whether the tea party members can recognize this. Or, do you contend there is another interpretation?

Though not my statement, I'll venture a guess that "nose picking" was a poor choice of words and the writer probably was thinking "nose thumbing", rather a different concept. At any rate the OP is clearly spoiling for an unpleasant argument that cannot solve anything but may provide a little entertainment.

[genglandoh]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Just of give a little background about the Taxed Enough Already Party (TEA Party).

October 3, 2008 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 is passed to bailout of the U.S. Banks. $700 Billion

October 3, 2008 - Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is passed. $300 Billion

February 17th - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Stimulus) is passed. $789 Billion.

February 18, 2009 - Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan is announced to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. $75 Billion plus $200 billion in additional funding for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

February 19, 2009 – Rick Santell on a CNBC broadcast criticized the government plan to refinance mortgages, which had just been announced the day before. He suggested holding a TEA Party.

February 27, 2009 – First TEA Party protest to protest the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) bailout bill signed by President George W. Bush in October 2008 and the ARRA stimulus bill signed by President Barack Obama ten days prior to the protest.

April 15, 2009 – TEA Party Rallies occur in more them 750 cities.
Congress and the President ignore these events.

Summer 2009 – TEA Party members attend many Town Hall trying to get their message heard.

September 12, 2009 – Tax Payers March on Washington – Large numbers show up in Washington to protest Government Spending and the Government Health Care issue.

2009 - The entire year the TV News first ignores the TEA Party events then try to belittle the movement. (Tea-baggers, Astroturf, racists, etc)

March 23, 2010 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is passed.

April 15, 2010 – TEA Party Rallies occur in more them 2,000 cities.

Summer 2010 – The TEA party focuses on the 2010 elections

Nov 2010 – Large win for the Republicans in Congress.

Basically the TEA party is a reaction to all the new Government spending and takeovers.

My personal opinion is the TEA party is not going away until the Government Spending is reduced.

[hanleyclifford]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

So there is your answer, OP; the Tea Partry is a response to the badnesses, not the cause.

[Waddie]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

If the tea party is too fanatical, emotional and extreme for you what other organization is going to push as hard as they do for fiscal responsibility, that you would approve of? Obviously, neither the Democratic nor mainstream Republican party's have any real interest in fiscal reform. I don't agree with some of the Ryan proposals, but at least they are serious about the problem.

Tomorrow President Obama will give a speech to the nation about fiscal responsibility. I hope he lays out a specific plan that makes the hard decisions necessary for fiscal responsibility and debt reduction. I don't care if he has a tax increase on the wealthy and/or others in there, if also he has entitlement reform in there too, and major debt reduction. I hope it is an actual counter-plan to the Ryan plan, and has specific tax numbers and programs affected. We don't need any more speeches that are vague and written for spin.

regards,
Waddie

[Bob Adams]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

When I first became aware of the "teabaggers" I thought it was just a fad that would pass like all 3rd parties do. But if the vitriolic invective from this forum is any indicator, they must be a force to be reckoned with.

I read about the process somwhere.....something about dipping a certain body part like a teabag as part of a sexual perversion, when did these praticioners become a force to be reckoned with?

[Soundbounder]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

The Santelli rant always struck me as hypocritical hogwash.

Here he was, on the trading floor, surrounded by employees of the nations largest financial institutions who had received large bailouts in order to stay afloat. Santelli and his audience had no problem with the corporate bailout, but he screamed SOCIALISM when a program was introduced to assist homeowners struggling with their mortgages.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Re: A Question for the Teabaggers

Remember, the Teabaggers in Washington are now FEEDING AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH, just like the people they castigate.

Moby Nick