They're Just a Grass Roots Movement
That tea party is so grass rootsy they're holding strategy sessions at The Heritage Foundation. Good thing they're just looking out for the little people. I found C-SPAN's description of this program rather odd:
Tea Party leaders talked about the future of the movement among new members of the 112th Congress. Following their remarks, they responded to audience members' questions.
"Tea Party leaders" huh. And just who are those "leaders"?
- Michael Franc, Vice President, Government Relations, Heritage Foundation
- Ed Morrissey from HotAir
- Billie Tucker First Coast Tea Party
- Byron York, Washington Examiner
I didn't know Franc, Morrissey and York were "Tea Party leaders". The only self-identified "Tea Party" leader who was there, Billie Tucker had this to say about "entitlements".
Q: Now all three of you have mentioned that for true financial reform we need to cut back on entitlements. Is there the motivation and the courage and the desire for the tea party to go into that fight? That's a long hard fight to cut Social Security, food stamps, Medicare, all those programs.
TUCKER: Yes and we've had discussions about that because we know it is a problem. Again, the American people are smart and the tea party members are smart. And they know we cannot talk about, you know, doing away with spending without really looking at the entitlement programs. The word that we do not like in the tea party movement is to say that Social Security is entitlement.
People are sick of that and they want that changed. They paid into a system that was set up by this government, again, sort of like this health care, was not entitlement; we all paid into it. The problem is corruption happened and they didn't do with the money what they were supposed to do with the money. So we're willing to work on that issue, but we're not willing to give it all up, because they screwed it up. Does that make sense?
But when it comes to entitlements for people that are not willing to work, absolutely, we're willing to talk about that as well. Because there are a lot of good people out there that can get to work but they're now being paid... they're on the dole of the government and we can't have that.
So we're willing to negotiate. We're going to take care of the people who paid into the system. I've got a 85 year old mother in law who lives with us. She paid into that system and doggone it she's gonna' get out what she's entitled to. And she's willing to give up a little but not everything for people that are unwilling to work.
Gee, I wonder who she could be talking about here?
.. Prosecute the Banksters!
(when's the last time you heard them demand that?)
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
And restoring the Bill of Rights, protecting the Constitution, Auditing the Fed, and upholding the rule of law.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Sarah Palin and Dick Armey have never said that as far as I know.
of course they aren't real teabaggers and neither is Frank, Morissey, Tucker or York.
(I'm an original teabagger (21st century) ...and I never heard of these guys....
psssssstt (I think they are posers)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
The original tea baggers:
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And the term ol' dim one is poseur as you should know seeing as you're one.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Yup straight out of the GOP playbook. She is correct about SS...and then over the decades it has mutated into more than just financial safety net it was meant to be. The comment about able bodied people 'not wanting to work' is of course out of line. If, just if, you are lucky enough to have a job these days that can feed your family and pay some bills, you're most likely not making enough. As for for those who have not worked in sometime...It's not because they don't want to, it's because there are no 'real' jobs. She started sounding like she knew what she's talking, then went directly to 'stupid'. It's always the poor peoples fault isn't it?
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
Right under the all tea party anger is a hell of alot of fear. Fear that they are really just a pink slip or an "entitlement" cut from becoming one of the poor jobless folks they despise, judge, and blame. With the policies they advocate their worst fears just may come true.
and the Reich-wing of the Repuke party has used that fear to take control of the House and will now turn it right back on all those dumb suckers who 'marched' and chanted for the Beckster and Miss Sarah, yew betcha'!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
This clown is talking out of both sides of her mouth.....a characteristic of a "genuine teabagger". So long as I get what I want......then screw the rest.
A few corrections for this idiot. Not EVERYONE paid into the system. It was originally set up for handicapped and the forgotten poor. Today, most of us pay into it...but not all. And maybe it's time to cut off her 87 year old mom...cause I'm sure she has gotten more than SHE ever paid into it.
What a lame bunch of fools.
"So long as I get what I want......then screw the rest."
That's the slogan for the teabaggers and the banksters. How odd...
NOBODY 2012
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
"...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
AND HERE'S WHY WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED:
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2010/03/holocaus...
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." - Voltaire
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
From your link:
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts -- the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Vote Democratic in 2012!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
More Islamophobia?
More like Republican-o-phobia i think.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
new bumper sticker idea:
GlennBeck is ABSURD
prisons.
Let's see 'em cut essential programs then report "looting" as during Katrina.
Fools - All of them.
"The American people are smart", "The American people are not stupid" & then we have to turn around & look at this recent mid-term election which totally puts the lie to both those statements.
It's not all or nothing.
Some people also say that America is #1.....of something. ;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Byron York...why yes, his column is in my local paper today. I wonder if the editors know he's a "tea party leader"?
These despicable "Things" are talking more and more like Nazi's. America had better wake up before it is too late to do anything about it.
I'm afraid it is too late .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Both Ann Coulter and the Tea Party haven’t seen their natural roots in so long, neither could tell you what color they really are. If I had to guess, I'd say only Ann has green roots.
More like rotten to the core roots.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
if we had prosecuted Buchco and let the banks go under. "Hope and change" like that is what we all voted for.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
watching in your estate as low-wage Americans picket to cut your taxes. Again... ;^)
when I was unemployed and ran out of benefits I could have taken Social Security? Doesn't it sound like she's saying that ? What a hideous tool of the rich. This woman is your typical selfish bagger. I guess we really will have to starve a few hundred thousand poor people before they wake up and smell the manipulation.
I have a child with real, scientifically proven disabilities. He will NEVER pay into the system. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not because he is a lazy fat crack addicted slob, but because he can't. Wailt till the shit hits the fan for you lady, because one fine blue day it will, and your friends will leave you for dead on the side of the road. Can't wait to see it.
fedup
The right doesn't care for the disabled.
@SKdeA_Miss1929: I guess we really will have to starve a few hundred thousand poor people.
We can always eat the rich.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
sorta... until the part about people "that are unwilling to work."...
i mean, i don't appreciate the "entitlement" tag either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rBtikm1Kuw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ4wVAOxoc8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The Fascism Foundation: Rich a**holes and psychopath's talking about how they next want to screw the poor and dispossessed, over $800 a glass brandy's, and lobster bisque of course.
It's fun watching poor people live in terror and die for want. Ebenezer Scrooge must have had a bunch of illegitamite children, who became the roots" of the republican party.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Who provides security for these events? The Aryan Nation?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
So we're willing to work on that issue, but we're not willing to give it all up, because they screwed it up. Does that make sense?
NO
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Sweeping generalizations and false equivalencies..........nothing has changed here.
'Talk to the hand'
There was a HILARIOUS mockery of teabagger candidates on 30 Rock tonight!
I can tell you one thing for sure that she is not willing to give up her entitlement to eat and yes she did eat. Getting down to the facts, her mother-in-law paid in to the system. How long did she work? How much did she pay in? Do her loving son and daughter-in-law benefit from her Social Security now or will they at her death? Once again, it's this anger over someone getting something for nothing. The lazy hordes just are sitting around waiting for handouts. This isn't true of most of the people whom I know. Most of them would rather work than sit on their derrieres. When did it all get to be about me,me,me? These people are puppets being used by the rich to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Ain't w e got fun! Someone needs to tell her that her Cleopatra do didn't.
I'm sick of conservatives (and the media parroting them) attaching disdain to the word "entitlements". I paid for my federal retirement (all $23,000 a year of it), and am entitled to it. I also am entitled to the Social Security benefit I'll eventually get, as I also worked enough quarters for civilian employers to qualify (and my SS payment will be reduced because of my federal retirement). I paid into Medicare and am therefore entitled to it.
I highly resent hearing over and over the phrase "these entitlement programs" as though we who paid into them are leaches of some kind. "Entitled to" means "earned" in most cases.
And she's willing to give up a little...
Really? Why?
If she couldn't live with you, would she be able to make it on her own? What if you and your husband died in a crash on the way back from a Teabagger rally? What about her then? Why should she have to "give up a little" when the banksters we bailed out are INCREASING their bonuses yearly since the crash?
Teabaggers are "smart"? No, they are not. Just a fact. You prove that fact.
She should get her roots done, by the way.
Thar ain't nuttin' in the Constitushion about no dye jobs!
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