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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Tag Archives: tea party
Movement Failures and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
So far, Common Cause is the only liberal organization that has brought the power of civil disobedience to bear on the 112th Congress in this time of manufactured debt limit crisis. Eleven clergy were arrested in a demo under the … Continue reading
Stripped to Their Core, Tea Parties are More Dangerous than Ever
This is a week old, but there’s a reason I’m quoting it now: A small political gathering of about 18 liberal thinkers at River Forks Park Sunday afternoon erupted in conflict when about 35 members of the conservative tea party … Continue reading
Double-Down on the Crazy
What to do when half the independents in your “movement” have figured out the scam? Utah’s independent voters are cooling to the state’s tea party movement, with support dropping by more than half over the last several months, according to … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Racism Comes Out of the Tea Party Closet
Remember “Lil Obama”? The elder white man who showed up at a 2008 Sarah Palin campaign rally with a stuffed monkey that had an Obama bumper-sticker for a crown? Remember Palin rallygoers speaking their crazy-minds about Obama’s religion and background? … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Rick Rolls Robocalls
Rick Scott, teapublican idiot, took a secret trip to visit with the Koch brothers last weekend. Apparently, they gave him some bad advice to robocall Floridians with a spoofed number. Turning your phone into a propaganda device is so 1984: … Continue reading
Dana Rohrabacher is a Stupid Jackass
A Congressional junket to America’s Middle East hotspots has a certain Republican congressman showing his ass. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, cited the rebel refusal to issue a commitment to repay the United States for the military mission against the regime of … Continue reading
Teapublicans Don’t Want to Hear from You, Especially at the Ballot Box
This is what worse looks like. I got it off Reddit: It’s not enough that teapublicans have attacked local government and your First Amendment right to peaceable assembly and redress of grievances.
Tea Party Sees Working Americans As Oppressors, Government As The Solution
I’ve written dozens of posts over the last two years about authoritarianism in the tea party movement. The crisis in Wisconsin is drawing this element out into the open. Governor Walker’s threat to use the National Guard against tens of … Continue reading
Further Adventures Of The Teabag Terror
When David Gregory called tea parties “the most animating force right now in the Republican Party,” he accidentally hit on exactly the right word. Like a political Frankenstein, K-Street astroturfers borrowed an obscure Ron Paulite meme and pumped it full … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Approving Violence
By way of LGF: a CBS poll asking whether violence is “ever justified” got a yes from 16% of respondents. Their breakdown: Republican 28% yes, 64% no Democrat 11% yes, 81% no Indepdent 11% yes, 81% no
A Tea Party Is Not A Protest
At WaPo, Amy Gardner gets the tea party exactly wrong in one word: Two years ago, (Gena) Bell was a floral arranger in Cincinnati with plenty of time on her hands (she used to trim five Christmas trees in her … Continue reading
