Tea Time at the Capitol

Good God, I think I just saw my ex-mother-in-law in one of those pics…

Which isn’t really that surprising.

On a related note:

“The tea party insurgency has arrived in Washington, and so far, at least, it’s proving to be a rather rocky match. One of the movement’s national leadership groups, the Tea Party Patriots, mounted a phone drive last week seeking to influence incoming members-elect in Congress and get its message across to Washington think tanks. But the effort was so all-encompassing that some of its targets likened it to harassment, and it ensnared some accidental targets–prompting the activists to call the initiative off.

At the end of last week, leaders with the Tea Party Patriots issued an appeal to members to stop contacting incoming House members to remind them to attend their sponsored tea party orientation. ‘PLEASE STOP CALLING THE FRESHMEN,’ the Patriots titled one of three emails to supporters telling them to desist. ‘It’s time to turn off the heat.’”

The tea party is the kind of party that drink their tea with their blood pressure pills in the morning.

I love the ‘don’t spend my future’ sign.

But you want to ensure that your grand childrens future is spent.

This is not the greatest generation that spent their blood and backs to build a better country – this is their spoiled children who was handed something they so eagerly want to give away.

“As you can see, American flags were in no short supply.”
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I am glad you pointed that out. I am not sure more of the liberal readers here recognize it.

“This is not the greatest generation that spent their blood and backs to build a better country”

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You better look again

These are in the early 60′s and 70′s – the greatest generation is in their 80′s and 90′s and dying off very quickly. These are their children, now look again.

“I am glad you pointed that out. I am not sure more of the liberal readers here recognize it.”
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The integrity-less person questioning liberals patriotism again. Always a perfect display of what the fringe represent. Nothing.

It is amusing to see the libtards react to the Tea Party. One can easily tell that the libtards have lost their power, and they are not very happy about it at all.
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Enjoy!!
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Having integrity questioned by liberals is like receiving fidelity lectures from Bill Clinton.

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This entire site is now filled with nothingness. The bankrupt liberal philosophy has been unmasked and the public knows it.

Check the lame articles today. Any mention of Charlie Rangel walking out of his ethics trial and more ethic violations in improperly using money for his defense? Or Krugman talking about death panels (that conservatives warmed about and liberals denigrated them)?

So spare me you lecture on what you think my integrity is over one issue— your ENTIRE liberal based life lacks integrity

“I am not sure more of the liberal readers here recognize it.”
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Are you ever gonna make good on that bet?
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Criticism of others in regards to that whole patriotism/honor/personal integrity thing just mean a whole hell of a lot coming from you, Freeper.

I feel sorry for these people. They have been fed a pile of straw.

Seeing as all of those pictured above appear to be my grandparents’ age or older, I don’t think the Tea Party will be in “power” for very long. After all, it’s almost 4:00 and time for the early bird special at Country Kitchen Buffet!
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On a serious note, I would not consider controlling 1/2 of congress as being “in power.”

“Having integrity questioned by liberals is like receiving fidelity lectures from Bill Clinton.”
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Nice projection. Since you’ve proven that you don’t have any there’s no real point quibble over mine now is it?
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Do as I say, not as I do – that’s your motto every single day. BTW – I didn’t read anything after this sentence. Because it’s the regular liberal-hatefilled word salad you always offer.

The ironic part is that they don’t have any solutions other than fix it and don’t touch my oxygen. They will be long gone when the final nail is in the coffin and their grand children are left working the coal mines again. ‘Get off my lawn’ will be the last hand scratched notes on their grave stones.

“Or Krugman talking about death panels (that conservatives warmed about and liberals denigrated them)…”
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That’s because it was a Republican lie. Still is.

…not really death panels, of course, but consideration of medical effectiveness and, at some point, how much we’re willing to spend for extreme care…
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– Paul Krugman

edit: “…just doesn’tmean…”

Spare me. These old fogeys didn’t like drinking from the same water fountain as a black man. They sure as hell don’t like having one make decisions on their behalf.

That’s all this is. All the rest is noise.

“Criticism of others in regards to that whole patriotism/honor/personal integrity thing just mean a whole hell of a lot coming from you, Freeper.”
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Neither does well any post you make since liberalism as presented by you and most others here is based on a lie. Obama campaigned on lies, he forced legislation on us based on lies and he continues to lie about his agenda. And the likes of you cheer it while only denigrating anything conservative. You post nothing but a philosophy based on lies while questioning anyone else’s integrity and try to silence them so you can continue your sanctimonious spewing of crap without debate. Having you question my integrity not only doesn’t mean anything it is laughable!

When all else fails throw down the race card. When these same people (Democrats and Independents) voted for “change”, they were bright enlightened people. Now when the mask of Obama has lifted they are dumb , ignorant racists.

More likely, they have discovered the vacuous philosophy known as liberalism is nothing whittled to a point.

“Neither does well any post you make since liberalism as presented by you and most others here is based on a lie. Obama campaigned on lies, he forced legislation on us based on lies and he continues to lie about his agenda. And the likes of you cheer it while only denigrating anything conservative. You post nothing but a philosophy based on lies while questioning anyone else’s integrity and try to silence them so you can continue your sanctimonious spewing of crap without debate. Having you question my integrity not only doesn’t mean anything it is laughable!”
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Don’t let the facts slap you in the face. Over and over and…
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Look up integrity and apply it to yourself for real.

“Neither does well any post you make since liberalism as presented by you and most others here is based on a lie.
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You mean like the “small government” “fiscal conservatism” that “conservatives” keep promising you?

“More likely, they have discovered the vacuous philosophy known as liberalism is nothing whittled to a point.”
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You mean the political philosophy “based on the belief in human progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties….” (Webster’s Collegiate)? That “vacuous philosophy”?
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The fact of the matter is the liberalism has been right, often tragically, about everything: the erosion of democracy under corporatism, the ineffectiveness of centrist policy, the mendacity of “conservatives”, the psychopathology of neoconservativism, and the essential racism and fascism of the American right, all of it. OTOH, “conservatives” and centrists have been wrong, or lying, about it all.

The bitterness of scorned liberals makes me laugh out loud. The Tea Party was largely instrumental in kicking their butts two weeks ago and my oh my, the angst lingers, yet. The snide, juvenile remarks from a bunch of sore losers does nothing to diminish the remarkable accomplishment by these patriotic Americans and even better, knowing how they managed to reshape the political landscape for 2012, too.

That’s the technical definition. The real world definition (yes an unknown territory for liberals) . Liberalism is not based on goodness but confiscation of other people’s money to achieve an amorphous ideal of “fairness” as defined by the people who confiscate the wealth.

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Fairness is not 2% of the populace paying over 40% of the taxes while 40% of the populace paying no taxes requesting more “human goodness”.
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If liberalism were as elegant and sweet as the definition suggests liberals would not hide either being called liberals or by what their agenda truly is. The reality (there is that concept again) is the majority of the country views current liberalism as the extreme philosophy that is bankrupting the country and limiting their choice and freedom.

“Nice projection. Since you’ve proven that you don’t have any there’s no real point quibble over mine now is it?”

Its not a quibble- its the truth. The difference. My quibble was over a nonsensical bet–yours is a way of life. But dealing with reality is not what liberals do. They just demonize and denigrate for behavior that is fractions of their idiocy.

“They have been fed a pile of straw”
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But the real crap is liberalism

“Look up integrity and apply it to yourself for real”

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. Physician heal thyself!

“Fairness is not 2% of the populace paying over 40% of the taxes…”
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Actually, after taking half the wealth of the country for themselves, “fairness” demands it. Still wrong about everything.
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http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Myself, I am not too threatened, My (government) job is pretty secure, assuming the Republicans do not come out against all train travel. My city – New York – is already recovering nicely, thanks to the TARP program, a necessary evil initiated by the more intelligent elements of the Bush Presidency and carried to completion – quite well, in my judgment – by the Obama Administration. New York City will do all right in an America that allows its industrial sector to wither and die and devotes itself entirely to finanacial services, food exports and the endless exports of oue entertainment industry.

But the same cannot be said of “the industrial belt”, starting especially in your home state, Rusty, and moving west through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. That part of America where they make things. There, the absence of a second stimulus package and the likelihood that the House will devote the next few years to empowering those who would move yet more jobs out to China, Indonesia and all the rest creates a great likelihood that they will continue to experience double digit unemployment for the foreseeable future.

If you look at the federal budget, and the national economy, one cannot help but notice that two groups are doing better than the others: one is the wealthy, whose share of national income continues to increase, and the other is senior citizens, who are the beneficiaries of the two largest segments of the federal budget (Medicare and Social Security) which are also, ironically, the two most “socialistic” elements of the federal government.

Whether they realize it or not, the Tea Party agenda winds up being two groups doing relatively well in the economy and in their treatment by the government being mad as hell about the possbility that other groups – the poor and the working class most notably -might do as well as they are doing. I respect their passion and willingness to participate in the political process and will even acknowledge that they think they are being patriotic, but their program promises nothing but disaster to those most in need in this dark time.

“The ironic part is that they don’t have any solutions other than fix it and don’t touch my oxygen”
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No they don’t have YOUR solutions like tax the rich. Even a liberal state like Washington that was going to tax only “the rich” voted overwhelmingly to reject a tax the rich answer.

Maybe if we can make compulsory that people buy health insurance we can require to have a list of people to stupid to breed. You would top of the list.

Sorry, freeper, these aren’t the “same people” who voted for Obama. And they aren’t, for the most part, Democrats.
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These are rank-and-file Republicans and far-right “independent” John Birchers who voted for McCain (or didn’t because he was too liberal). They aren’t disappointed that Obama isn’t following up on the “change” that Obama promised. They opposed his “change” then. They oppose his “change” now. And if he agreed to scrap every plank in the Democratic platform and adopt the GOP platform wholesale, they would still oppose his “change”.
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By and large these are stone cold racists — nothing personal, that’s just how they were raised, but let’s not b.s. ourselves.
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No reasonable analyst of contemporary politics would call Obama particularly liberal. Ideologically, he is probably most close to George H.W. Bush. Bush I may not have been loved by the GOP, but he was no liberal. And neither is Obama.
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So, we have to ask ourselves. Why are a bunch of old fogeys so willing to believe that the President of the United States is taking the country on a “radical path” when his health care plan was less bold than plans by Nixon and Dole? Or so willing to believe that he wasn’t even born in the U.S. when they had no problem with John McCain (who was actually born outside the U.S.?
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Why do they accuse a former U.S. Senator who likes to pall around with Jamie Dimon, Robert Wolf, and various hedge fund managers a “socialist”? Why do they say that he wants to “redistribute wealth” when he has largely protected the wealth of the wealthiest Americans? Or call him a “community organizer” when it isn’t self-evident to anyone but a racist that organizing poor minorities is a bad thing?
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The answer is obvious to all but the most blind or those who don’t care: Many older Americans simply cannot move past their own prejudices and cannot help but be suspicious of people who look different than they do.
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It doesn’t make them evil or inhuman. Quite the contrary — they are all too human. But it does make them wrong.

“taking”
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No surprise that a liberal differentiate work from theft. The taking is wealth re-distribution or handing he auto companies to the UAW. accumulation of wealth through a legal activity is called work.. Look it up.

“No surprise that a liberal differentiate work from theft.”
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Well, keep trying, perhaps you’ll figure it out eventually. FYI: unaccomplished, wingnut-welfare, multimillionaire gasbags Limbaugh and Beck won’t help you so, perhaps not.

hippooath: You are so right. This is not the Greatest Generation but the “Silent Generation”. I know. I am one of them. We are the Mad Men generation, the “Man in the Grey Flannel Suit Generation.”
We were raised to look for security above all else. Our parents went through the depression but probably did not serve in World War II. All that silence has erupted into the misbegotten TPers. But it is all about keeping that generation secure.
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Many of them fought in Korea, with little recognition. However, my generation did bring you Rock and Roll and the beats poets. Some of that generation include the Beatles, Brando, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, MLK.
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It is sad but many of the TPers never accepted the cultural changes after World War II and still live in their “Leave it to Beaver” dream world. Unless you were in high school in the 50s you have no idea how narrow the prospective was. This was the McCarthy/loyalty oath/get pregnant get married/total nuclear annihilation era.

Liberal Welfare:
How those Republicans love farm subsidies especially for themselves.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/14/farm-subsidies-politicians-who-get-them-_n_783322.html
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Palin’s welfare state Alaska.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/11/14/2010-11-14_palins_true_reality_free_alaska_is_a_welfare_state_that_enjoys_generous_federal_.html
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Please read my comment 2.3 regarding the TP demographics.

Rusty,

As one Liberal, while I am a bit disappointed at the election results, I am not at all disappointed by the Tea Party celebrating. Thanks to them, by running two fringe candidates, they have kept the Senate in the hands of the Democrats . . . . . .

Actually, I am primarily a Liberal on social issues, so I was quite happy that the election did not center on right wing issues such as abortion or gay marriage. On economics, I tend to be much more of the classical “Liberal” believing in Capitalism and the free markets. However, I don’t believe in “anything goes” like we have had for the past 30 years, which help create our current economic crisis.

What I think is ironic is how much Tea Partiers are probably nostalgic for the 1950s. The funny thing is the 1950s was the greatest era of economic regulation of the economy. I am sure Tea Partiers love Harry Truman, but this is the guy who almost nationalized the steel industry. Truman was arguably the most “Socialist” president we have ever had. Compared to him, Obama is Reaganesque

Far from being a “Socialist”, Obama is a cautious Liberal, who does not want to rock the boat. The fact he views Reagan, and not Clinton as a transformative figure should tell you something. Reagan admired Franklin Roosevelt, even as he was dismantling Roosevelt’s programs. Obama is treating Reagan the same way.

I am laughing because the Tea Party is going to be very disappointed by the Republican leadership. The fact that Mitch McConnell initially opposed a ban on earmarks is very telling. Since then he has backtracked.

While “Hello, I am here from the federal government and I am here to help you.” may to you seem like the biggest lie, to me the biggest lie is “Hello, I am a Republican legislator and I plan to curb spending,” is even a bigger lie.

While yes, we “Liberals” may believe in Tax and Spend, it is still better than the “Conservatives” who believe in Borrow and Spend.

As for me, I believe in cutting spending, especially Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and Defense. To your credit, even you have agreed to cut defense spending. However, the Republican party in Congress has declared all three off limits, so where are they going to cut spending? Funding for public television? So now instead of free educational television, I have to pay for smut TV? Foreign aid? Great, that accounts for less than 5% of the budget!

Republicans have promised to lower spending levels to 2008. Oh great, that was a record deficit year until 2009. Actually, spending was less in 2009, but revenues were down even more.

So Rusty, I am looking forward to the Tea Party kicking some Republican Ass. It will be good for the country.

I think you leave no doubt as to who the real racist/racebater is square. You’re becoming quite shrill.

Old people with a lot of free time on their hands.
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Cant we increase the retirement age just for the teatards?
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And Kathy, How come there aren’t any pics of the medicare funded scooter borne teabaggers?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/a-tea-tray-in-the-sky/

This is fairly disappointing stuff from you, sqr1.
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Why would a group of people in this age, race and income cohort believe ridiculous, objectively false ideas about politics and economics?
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Maybe it’s because there’s an entire industry devoted to selling them those ideas, along with a devoted major political party?
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Maybe because liberals and liberalism are so disorganized, coopted, counterproductive, sanctimonious and hostile?
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Laying the blame at the doorstep of race doesn’t do good enough of a job explaining the successes of popular right organizing, and avoids the reality of the failures of the popular left.
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Taibbi, I think, had it best when he described the Tea Partiers not as racists, but proudly or blithely unconcerned with whether they were perceived as racists.
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Ascribing their views to a longing for Apartheid water-fountain days is way off, in my view, and counter-productive.

Hot air! Oh yes we will see cuts in domestic spending, not much in military spending though.

If a Republican is elected to WH in 2012 the tea party rage will be much less.

I support cutting the pork so if tea party can infuence some needed cuts more power to them.

But its entitlements and military that suck up the general money not a few welfare programs , sidewalks in earmarks or Commerce Dept.

Cel