The Tea Party and the Suppression of the Left

Ted Cruz: Wrecking Ball

Good tweet from David Corn

.@samsteinhp Tea Party philosophy on govt: we have to burn the village to save the....Oh, let's just burn the village.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 13, 2013

Bill Moyer: On the Sabotage of Democracy

Carl Bernstein Slams Media's '50/50' Shutdown Coverage

The Daily Show does a masterful job taking on Fox and government shut down

Republican Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer Confronts Park Ranger at WWII Mem...

Idiots in Congress. Tea party lunkheads.

Has GOP Already Defeated Obamacare? State Opt-Outs Leave Millions of Poo...

Has GOP Already Defeated Obamacare? State Opt-Outs Leave Millions of Poo...

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The Tea Party Consensual Sex

Netroots Nation: From the Eyes of Susie Sampson!

Obama's radical idea teachers matter when it comes to education. Shocking

For more on the GOP's war on knowing things. http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/08/americas-love-affair-with-ignorance.html

How The Banks Bought The Tea Party

How The Banks Bought The Tea Party:

 "The 15 freshmen Republican representatives in the House Tea Party Caucus each ran in 2010 on a populist anti-Wall Street message, highlighting their opposition to bank bailouts like the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and criticizing Washington for enabling the banking sector as it became “Too Big to Fail.” After winning, all fifteen received significant PAC contributions from the banking industry — and have become a reliable vote and mouthpiece for the financial industry, a ThinkProgress analysis of campaign contributions, voting records and public statements reveals.

Rather than campaigning on a typical pro-business platform, the Tea Party freshmen tapped into public resentment of big banks and bailouts. For example, then-candidate Sandy Adams (R-FL) said on her campaign website that she “opposes government bailouts” and “would have voted against TARP and the auto bailout.” Jeff Landry (R-LA) said bailouts of private businesses had “corrupted our free market system by rewarding the irresponsible and penalizing the responsible,” blasting “bank bailouts, which led to taxpayer money directly or indirectly going into multi-million dollar bonuses.”

But in Congress, the Tea Party has toed the line for big banks. Eleven of the 15 have become co-sponsors of H.R. 3461, a top priority for the ABA. According to Americans for Financial Reform, the legislation would “tilt the playing field further in the direction of excessive deference to industry interests and tie the hands of regulators attempting to protect the public interest.” The bill would make it harder for bank examiners to do their job, giving regulatory responsibilities to an industry that’s already shown it can’t police itself.

Here is what happened:

full story here: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/21/484283/how-banks-bought-the-tea-party/?mobile=nc

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Family guy joins the tea party

FAMILY GUY - Preview #4 from "Tea Peter" airing SUN 5/13

Through the looking glass: dinner with the tea party

For some reason the government should have let Detroit go bankrupt because all they are doing is bailing out the CEOs. I wonder how if they put all those people out of work how that would possibly have helped the economy? I also wonder how rolling back one hundred years of labor law that went along with those jobs would help either. My friend appears indifferent as to the ripple effect that this would have on the Michigan economy. These laid off people would no longer be unable to buy things at stores and restaurants. This is a position that shows very little concern on empathy to the people lives while totally valuing the cerebral thought of economic austerity.

The most important right that the federal government provides is the second amendment: the right to bear arms and defend yourself. All's I know is I heard how tough it was to buy a gun in certain states - why don't you want me to have a gun - no, I really don't care if you have one. Thanks NRA for the talking points. Machine gun like weapons, that spray more bullets than water from a water hose, can't be regulated because of the "slippery slope" from banning one M-16 to leaving the citizenry defenseless with sling shots. They live in an area where they can't leave their first floor windows open and they're arming themselves against the hoards,  hoards which are usually off-white, that are coming. If the area is that bad then I don't think I'd be saving up for a gun but more likely for a U-haul.

They vote for politicians who are totally in the tank for Wall Street banks in order to teach Wall Street  banks a lesson.

They think George Soros is the scariest man in the world, and I don't know why. They don't say it but you know they are one step removed from declaring Obama to be a Kenyon Nationalist Socialist Muslim though you really think the Republican national committee would have Obama to serve one term before they tortured him..

They might not like being labelled as the pull yourself up by the bootstraps crowd though everything about them promotes pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. That's what happened in the seventies when their parents separated. When you ask them how much worse it is today than it was in the seventies they have no idea. The answer is that the seventies is when  the factories began to pack up and leave for places like China in the "original rust belt" states (PA, OH, MI, NY). Or the free market regulators who allowed the country to bleed jobs into Mexico. Just between 2001-2009 the US lost six million manufacturing jobs (CNN). Those jobs often have higher wages and benefits than the ones who replaced it. In real spending money the Americans are going backwards.

Everyone on welfare is automatically a moocher who wants nothing but to stay on welfare. My friend doesn't believe in the working poor who work two or three jobs and still can't get by. They offer no stats or data to back up this point and all's they offer is anecdotal evidence, namely theirs. For some reason they appear to be a lot more upset over a person stealing an extra bag of cheese doodles, with their food stamps, than they are with a guy who parks his millions in a Cayman bank.

Hilary Rosen  was dead wrong about Ann Romney. How dear she attack a woman, Ann Romney, who has survived both MS and breast cancer. The way she says it you know she believes that Rosen is actually working directly for Obama rather than just being someone who actually draws a check from CNN. You forget to tell your friend that Ann Romney is lucky to be married to former governor of Massachusetts. Under her husbands plan, she would have pre-existing condition and wouldn't qualify for health care if she wasn't. The ones who would qualify if they got as sick would be people, like my friend, a poorly paid Romney supporter.

Dick Lugar about to go down in a primary. He should go the liebermann and Murkowski route and just not let the voters decide

Embattled Indiana Republican Sen. Dick Lugar has fallen behind his Tea Party challenger in a new poll that finds the veteran legislator in danger of losing after 36 years in office.

 The Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll released Friday puts Lugar a stunning 10 points behind state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, trailing 38 percent to 48 percent. It surveyed 700 likely voters from April 30 to May 1 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

 Voters go to the polls Tuesday. Lugar has been one of Indiana's most popular political figures for decades, and had a reputation as a statesman, running clean, positive campaigns. But with Mourdock riding the Tea Party's enthusiasm and putting Lugar's political life in jeopardy for perhaps the first time, Lugar fired off a string of negative attacks.

They don't appear to have worked, and on Friday Lugar was trying a more positive approach in a new TV ad aimed at getting out the vote and stemming Mourdock's surge.

Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/dick-lugar-senate-race-poll_n_1477441.html

Mitt Romney: The Salesman Trapped in the GOP Madhouse

Mitt Romney: The Salesman Trapped in the GOP Madhouse

Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper. He's a salesman. Romney has been running for president since 2007. He has been running as a pragmatic conservative in a party no longer interested in pragmatism or even conservatism. He is now running as a moderate in an extremist party. The party of his father is no longer a party at all; it's an insane asylum.

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