leftist sliming of the tea parties has begun:

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It was covered DUmmies

Results 1 - 10 of about 598,000 from nytimes.com for anti-war protesters. (0.35 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=anti-war+protesters++site%3Anytimes.com&btnG=Search

Results 1 - 10 of about 100,000 from cnn.com for anti-war protesters. (0.28 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=anti-war+protesters+site%3Acnn.com&btnG=Search

Results 1 - 10 of about 72,400 from nytimes.com for tea party. (0.44 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=tea+party+site%3Anytimes.com

Results 1 - 10 of about 7,280 from cnn.com for tea party. (0.29 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=tea+party+site%3Acnn.com

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Mari333  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:25 PM
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White Nationalists Tied to Tea Parties
 Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 03:27 PM by Mari333



All that is nothing compared to the recruiting being planned by neo-Nazis at Arizona tea parties. You know you’ve really lost control when your quirky libertarian actions are mined by the scary bald guys with swastika tattoos. Stormfront, the hard-core white power website, is full of discussions about plans to attend tea parties all over the country. One Stormfront poster wrote, “Ladies and gentlemen, I think every WN needs to not only attend the April 15th Tea Party nearest you (I’m going to the Alamo in San Antonio) but then stay involved and help provide leadership to this movement. I believe that this is the white revolution we’ve been waiting for.” Uh, right. Let’s hope Fox News manages to televise that.

When we stop to think about the real message behind these tea parties, that a black president will never represent white America, it’s not surprising that the scary white nationalists have come out to play. Let’s be frank, these tax increase protests (for the super rich and not even at the levels of previous Republican presidents’), are just code for “we’re scared out of our minds of a president that might represent black, brown, and poor.”
http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/04/14/white-nationa... /


and more

http://gawker.com/5211747/neo+nazis-tea-parties-are-the...
 

OMG!!! The DHS was RIGHT!

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smoogatz  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:28 PM
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Really, the teabaggers are just exercising their first amendment right
 to suck on a big, hairy, sweaty pair of testicles. No, wait, they're exercising their first amendment right to protest incoherently the fact that their guys are no longer in power. Yeah, that's it--although you can understand how I got confused.

ridicule...

bdamomma  (1000+ posts)     Wed Apr-15-09 03:30 PM
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1. and could be racially motivated too. 
 they just hate the idea of President Obama and maybe his plans working out for everyone.

play the race card.


 

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re-write the history.

struggle4progress  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:35 PM
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Tea Parties and Pirates (Pat Ryan / Blue Oregon)
 ... Rick Santelli, News hack extraordinaire over at CNBC, who seems a little fuzzy on US history, called for a ChicagoTea Party, targeting the $75 billion set aside to sort out the mortgage crisis ... Ms. Cox pointed out at the time, he hadn't suffered a similar attack of The Vapors when the Trillions were being ladled into the top end of the big Trickle Down Funnel ...

So immediate hilarity ensued . Libertarians were out rubbing shoulders with Book Burners and frightened creationists. Michelle Malkin got into a terrible row with conspiracy nut Alex Jones, anti-taxers held signs opposing Taxation With Representation, and the only points that most could agree on was that they were unsure about Obama's birth certificate, but positive that he was sending the storm troopers to disarm them and shuffle them off to FEMA camps. The fact that almost every one of 'em got a chunk of Obama's largest tax cut in US history, and that it was the last guys that got us into this mess, does not impress. So I guess my take away from all that was that I just wish Michelle would smile once in while ...

In about the same time frame, we've been dealing with the Temporary Autonomous Zone of Somalia. In this libertarian paradise, there are no taxes, no speed limits, no uniform building code, and there is no Gummint pushing you around and telling you what to do. Of course there are also no police, roads, hospitals, and so forth and a reasonable career move <is> to head out and make your fortune on the High Seas. The down side of this Paradise of Free Will and Self Determination is that your best career option may lead to having a hole drilled in your forehead from a distance by people who are fans of a slightly more regimented regime ...

http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/04/tea-parties-and-pirat...

 

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jenmito  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:30 PM
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"It's a genuine, grassroots uprising."
 Tim Philips, president of "Americans for Prosperity," just said that on CNN, which just happens to be the exact phrase of every other Repub. on tv today.  They're such liars. This "tea party across the nation" has been advertised by EVERYONE on Faux as well as conservative websites/groups.

fuax outrage at organizing, re-writing history, inventing facts...

Cha  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:33 PM
Response to Original message
2. Genuine coming out of all the idiots
 who don't know they're protesting bush's taxes and have hannity's and limpdick stuffed in their ears so they don't really know what's going on.

parrot the talking points...

alsame  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:33 PM
Response to Original message
3. DId you see Sanchez point out the sign with the white hand
 giving money to the black hand? Sure, these people aren't racist at all, that was just a coincidence.

play the race card...

Political Heretic  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:37 PM
Response to Original message
8. Literally TENS of americans!

 

ridicule


 

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ridicule, belittle, mock..

Hamlette  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-14-09 05:26 PM
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"The peasant mentality lives on in America" Great anti tea bagger rant by Taibbi

 It took a good long while for news of the Teabag movement to penetrate the periphery of my consciousness — I kept hearing things about it and dismissing them, sure that the whole business was some kind of joke. Like a Daily Show invention, say. It pains me to say this as an American, but we are the only people on earth dumb enough to use a nationwide campaign of “teabag parties” as a form of mass protest, in the middle of a real economic crisis.

snip

It’s been strange and kind of depressing to watch the conservative drift in this direction. In a way, actually, the Glenn Beck show has been drearily fascinating of late. It’s not often that we get to watch someone go insane on national television; trapped in an echo chamber of his own spiraling egomania, with apparently no one at his network willing to pull the plug and put him out of his misery, Beck has lately gone from being a mildly annoying media dingbat to a self-imagined messiah who looks like he’s shouldering more and more of the burdens of Christ with each passing day. And because he’s stepping into a vacuum of conservative leadership — there’s no one else out there who is offering real red meat to the winger crowd — he’s begun to attract not professional help but apostles, in the form of Chuck Norris (who believes we have to prepare for armed revolution and may prepare a run for “president of Texas”) and pinhead Midwestern congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, a woman who is looking more and more like George Foreman to Sarah Palin’s Joe Frazier in the Heavyweight Championship of Stupid. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

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After all, the reason the winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That’s why even people like Beck’s audience, who I’d wager are mostly lower-income people, can’t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who ****ed them over. Beck pointedly compared the AIG protesters to Bolsheviks: “ basically said ‘Eat the rich, they did this to you, get ‘em, kill ‘em!’” He then said the AIG and G20 protesters were identical: “It’s a different style, but the sentiments are exactly the same: Find ‘em, get ‘em, kill ‘em!’” Beck has an audience that’s been trained that the rich are not appropriate targets for anger, unless of course they’re Hollywood liberals, or George Soros, or in some other way linked to some acceptable class of villain, to liberals, immigrants, atheists, etc. — Ted Turner, say, married to Jane Fonda.

But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/14/americas-pea... /

Taibbi hits the nailon the head...again.

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MNDemNY  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:37 PM
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Teabagging report from Wilmington DE
 Currently there are 17 of what appear to be teabaggers on the Riverfront. No, wait, ...my bad, those are sea gulls. Never mind. More later.
 

mocking...

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Median Democrat (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:42 PM
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Where Are The Massive Teabag Protests? Nothing In LA and OC. Over-Hyped?
 I don't see any protests in LA or OC. I called up some buddies working downtown, and they really have not seen any protests. I personally have seen much larger protests over gay marriage, immigration, Earth Day, and employee labor disputes. Yet, I see a lot of coverage by the mainstream media that was not present for such events.

What gives? With all the hype, I was expecting something on par with the protests against Congress's efforts to increases criminal penalties for illegal immigration.

talking point 10...the event is a failure.

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On to HUFPO...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wellington-ennis/on-teabags-and-douchebags_b_187005.html

The Teabagging movement appears to be a dart board of broad complaints about American government today, insidiously co-opted by the Republican party, FOX News and corporate lobbyists.

It's like the venerable blog, Hot Chicks with Douchebags, devoted to otherwise attractive females attaching themselves to appalling macho cheese. The mantra of the site is, "What is she doing with him?"

Somewhere in the Tea Party outrage are some desperate people asking worthwhile questions you can relate to, such as "Where the **** is all this government bailout money going to?" and "How come I am so broke?" But before you can answer, you see they are standing next to other people who advocate burning books about evolution.

I believe this Astroturf agitprop will soon spin out, as its poorly disguised populist pitch has been revealed to be another partisan stunt with no actual criticism or legs. Just as the real Boston Tea Party involved colonists dressed as Indians to avoid retribution, this Tea Party appears to be right-wing hit men posing as concerned citizens.

But is it really composed of aimless, bitter conservatives chomping to criticize anything and everything that happens as long as Obama is in the White House? There is a real surge in public mistrust of the government, though I suspect much of it is based on self-propagating misinformation. Like commenters on conservative sites such as the aptly named Hot Air, one of whom said, "Obama wants to take away our rights." (Where were they for the last eight years when their rights were already taken away?)

Gone are the simplistic Good vs. Evil dogmas of the Cold War, the War on Terror, the War on Iraq, the last presidential campaign, the Wild West, you name it. Without the certainty of fighting something so easily dubbed evil, too many people fall adrift of their sense of self -- what makes them good? When there is no imminent evil threat, the same paranoia finds new outlets. And so they unearth some other arcane fear-fed meme, as relevant as the Red Scare, and peddle facile orthodox with a new spectrum of threats.

And now, as an incipient extension of all these misapplied ideas of individual manifest destiny, there is the Tea Party Movement.

Like lofty literature, tying yourself to something great does not equate you as great, or even accurate. Further, simply using the term "taxation" does not imply moral superiority just because it was a word used by the founding fathers.

What is mystifying is the lack of either real policy criticism or advancement of any ideas. Watch this clip from FOX News. What is the purpose of this organized effort? "We're hopefully going to have more tea parties...let other people know we can't believe what's going on...We're going to stand up...show the politicians...tell them how you feel...what can we do?"

It is amazing to see a movement take off without either a specific cause or a specific goal. The Tea Party movement makes a mockery of the struggle our founding fathers fought. What they did was seriously dangerous and rebellious, an act of war with fear of death.

Today, when outrage does not take hold of the country the way some conservatives and business interests would like, the rallying cry is broadened from "cap and trade agreements restrict coal plants unfairly" to "they will take away your freedoms, guns, and children!"

Why would people think this could even be possible? Might it be because of the constant threat of socialism after every commercial break?

The outcry against socialism is in response to some imagined threat of totalitarianism that has not been raised by anyone except these outraged individuals. Naturally, that fear spreads quickly by rhetorical repetition. Those repeating these threats are the ones that have to gain by public fear.

There is a much larger issue at stake. We need to reclaim the meaning of our founding fathers.

It is bad enough that people who haven't seen Sex and the City insist on waving their tea bags in people's faces. But this misappropriated sense of superiority in imitating the founding fathers leads to all kinds of wrong, like the inane videos put out by a guy in a wig on a green screen dressed like a tour guide from Colonial Village calling himself Thomas Paine.

That he is talking about something completely different than Thomas Paine writing about separating from England is apparently irrelevant. All he needs to do is start off rhetorical questions with "Is it common sense to...?" And from there, the escalation into outright xenophobia is swift. He ends with "Buy a gun, you'll need it."

You might prefer to write off such nuts, but Bob Basso's rants have received millions of views on YouTube. Maybe some of these people really do want to go back to what our country was founded on: slavery. (If Barack Obama could still count as three-fifths of a person, would we have to listen to him?)

While there is much prefabricated fanfare for these Tea Parties, I would caution that they are catching on with something in people right now. But here's the rub: we're stuck with them. Like the founding fathers said, all Americans have their right to free speech. And these are still Americans, who still have to be won over as much as possible. Like Hot Chicks with Douchebags, we embrace these embarrassments, even if while cringing. That's what this country was supposed to be about: tolerance.

[DixieBelle]

Oh FFS! I'm STILL waiting for the primitives to tell me what rights we lost under George W. Bush.

[USA4ME]

faux ax outrage at organizing, re-writing history, inventing facts...
 
parrot the talking points...
 
play the race card...
  
ridicule

belittle

mock

And the primitives are desperately failing at each of these.

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[Servonaut]

Utah Democrats have been a consistent voice against the ballooning of the national debt during the Bush years.

The national debt was oh so bad during the Bush years.

Your future DUmmies



 

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The government steps in to red tape a protest...

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:48 PM
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Teabaggers bring a million teabags to DC to dump in Lafayette Square, but are sent away.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

There will be no tea-dumping in the Potomac River -- that's illegal -- but organizers of today's national tea party tax protest found out this morning that so is their plan to dump a million tea bags in Lafayette Square to demonstrate displeasure at government spending and tax policies.

Protesters, using a rented truck to haul the million tea bags, began unloading their cargo at the park this morning but were told by officials that they didn't have proper permits and must move the tea . They complied with the order but are still considering what to do with the load.

The tea had been purchased online by people upset over recent government policy, said John Gauger, a spokesman for the grass-roots conservative group Reagan.org.

The protesters got more bad news when security officials also told them that they did not have proper permits for a rally in front of the Treasury building.

That noon-time protest had been expected to provide a national stage for speeches by such figures as Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; former presidential candidate Alan Keyes; and Thomas A. Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. But after the discussion with security officials, the protesters sent away the advance crew that was to set up risers and equipment for news crews.

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What are the odds this was a leftist infiltrator?

sabra  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:47 PM
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Protesters throw apparent tea bags at White House (prompting SS to lockdown the compound) 
 Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service says a suspicious package thrown over the fence and onto the White House's North Lawn was not dangerous.

Tax protesters threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags toward the White House on Wednesday, prompting officials to lockdown the compound. The Secret Service also used a robot to inspect the package thrown in an apparent act of defiance meant to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.


Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJlIl...

 

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Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:51 PM
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This tea party BS is going to backfire on the GOP massively.
 The more this BS goes on the more people are going to associate the GOP with these lunatics.

classic!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Dutch,

I'm sure you've read Sun Tsu's maxim that if you know your enemy as well as yourself you have nothing to fear.

DUmmies should be afraid...very afraid.

These DUmmies walk in such willful ignorance they pose no threat and only serve to hasten our successes by showing the middle-grounders that they have no rebuttal. The DUmmies refuse to study their adversaries. Marc Cooper at the LAT is getting flayed by hundreds--now probably thousands--of people taking him to task for this very same mindset.

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JeffreyWilliamson  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:52 PM
Original message
Ha ha! And courtesy of Wonkette, a Counter-Teabagging Photo!
 http://wonkette.com/407814/teabaggers-really-dont-care-...

counter protesters:



 

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walldude  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:52 PM
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Permit? We needed a permit? 
     

So lemme see if I have this straight, huge protest in D.C., a million tea bags, guest speakers, thousands of people.. oops, no permit. Fox's take on it: "Bad weather".

   
 

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Common Sense gets shouted down:

960 (348 posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:54 PM
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People calling teabagging protests "white power rallies" are racist.
 You are assigning a racial motivation to a cause that is not about race.
You are being prejudiced and RACIST yourselves.
Are there racists at the protests who hate Obama and his policies because he is black? I'm sure there are.

That does not mean the protests are "white power rallies".
And saying they are is incredibly stupid, and only helps those who wish to use race as a wedge.

I think the protesters are off base and that it is an astroturf campaign.
But I will also defend their rights as Americans to protest. Including the douchebags protesting at my school today.

SemiCharmedQuark  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:55 PM
Response to Original message
1. Having a sign that says "Obama = White Slavery" injects race into, really.
 Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 03:55 PM by SemiCharmedQuark
Using White Supremacist organizations to help set up your protests injects race into it too.

 

JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:56 PM
Response to Original message
7. You should do your homework before posting rants... 
 There is a neo-Nazi group at the "grass roots" of this deal.

WeDidIt  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:57 PM
Response to Reply #7
14. Yep, Stormfront is recruting heavily at these things
 It's all about racism.

Political Heretic  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:56 PM
Response to Original message
8. This would be true, if there had not been so many examples of OVERT racism at these rallies.
 So yeah, we shouldn't just call something racist because we disagree with people. That's true.

However, already today, there have been so many examples of blatantly racist rhetoric and paraphernalia that it should at least be commented on.

It's all about race, you see.
 

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Solomon  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:58 PM
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LOL Showing Their Ass.
 Beer and popcorn, a rainy day, and a white power show. This is almost like the 21st Century version of the KKK marching down Pennsylvania Ave. in the 1920s, all dressed in white and carrying Confederate flags.

This time they wearing our flag.

YOY  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 03:59 PM
Response to Original message
1. Not just wearing our flag. 
 Claiming it belongs to them and not us.

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Historic NY  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 03:59 PM
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Teabagger's are the ones who lost the election...
 the more I'm seeing is the Republicans are trying to re-play the election season all over again.

they really don't get it.

Stagecoach (432 posts)     Wed Apr-15-09 04:01 PM
Response to Original message
1. That's exactly what this is about
 Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 04:01 PM by Stagecoach
But by acting like it's about taxes they feel it prevents anyone from saying they're being sore losers. They're trying to make it look like that even though they lost that their base is still strong.

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KansasVoter  (1000+ posts)        Wed Apr-15-09 04:02 PM
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What is the best argument to use when I nicely confront the Tea Baggers at 5:00pm today?
 I was going to point out that they (GOP) had control of the House, Senate and White House 6 of the last 8 years and they caused this mess. And that they are 'Born Again Deficit Haters' after Reagan and Bush. Any other ideas?

yup, Bush's fault! Talking point Number 11.

Dr Fate  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 04:04 PM
Response to Original message
4. Discuss fiscal irresponsibility in Iraq- and refuse to change the subject.
 n/t

 

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spanone  (1000+ posts)      Wed Apr-15-09 04:04 PM
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i guess we can assume that all the 'teabaggers' make over $250,000 a year
 because anyone below that level of income receives NO TAX INCREASES.....or maybe they can't read.

talking point number 12.
 

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theboss  (1000+ posts)       Wed Apr-15-09 04:07 PM
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Ok...my brain hurts...I need someone to explain to me why corporate fat cuts are protesting bailouts
 of corporate fat cats.

Honestly, I'm not that interested in these protests, but I feel like I am missing something when being told that these are being funded by big business.

They seem to be like they are being funded by Conservative Think Tanks who use their mouth pieces on talk radio as organizers.

Corporate fat cats seem pleased as punch with TARP and such.
 

talking point number 13. The rich are for the bail outs.

plus: not a grassroots happening- funded by the rich

[Rebel]

counter protesters:



 

I've been arguing with f'n dumbass moonbats all day long at the Augusta Chronicle how taxing ONLY the people making 250K or more will not even TOUCH what Obama has spent, or is planning on spending, and the idiots STILL don't get it. As for any tax cut for those that don't even PAY taxes, I.e. get all of it back at the end of the year or get more via the EITC, it won't f'n MATTER if you can't get a damn job because that ****in' moron Obama has taxed the damn businesses out of prosperity.