Comments on: Tea Parties: Grassroots Phenomenon

By: Chuck In Del

Chuck In Del — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:24:31 +0000

I will be there.
But I will be the first to laugh if anyone brings up socialism while standing on the public (socialist) green at the capitol.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:07:14 +0000

In little ole Delaware (“Home of Joe Biden”, LOL), we are having four throughout the State. I still need to figure out what I want my sign to say…..so many good ones out there !

By: V the K

V the K — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:07:29 +0000

â€œWe Lost! Weâ€™re Mad! Weâ€™re protesting because we lost and are mad!â€

The guys who gets all his “facts” from The Daily Show is apparently confusing the Tea Parties with the anti-Prop 8 protests. (The main difference being, we’re not going to be assaulting or harassing those who disagree with us, or demanding that their employers fire them.)

By: The Livewire

The Livewire — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:59:41 +0000

And again, confronted with reality, gillie does his best to ignore it.

Going to join us protesting, or are you cheering the money spending that per the NT Times, is very 1930’s of President Obama?

By: gillie

gillie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:39:10 +0000

#12 – Actually you are correct, the Tea Parties are simply a spin off of the Ron Paul Movement – which was to an extent – the merger of left and right principles.

By: gillie

gillie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:37:24 +0000

#8
â€œpoverty of visionâ€ â€“ Nice phrasing, I like it! And might use that sometime when looking at a Repub budget!

Further your posts, as insulting as some where, (here’s looking at you V) do nothing to address the fact that indeed you are not protesting spending, you are only protesting Obama.
â€“ which is fine but at least try and be honest about it.
If you were honest, you would say “We Lost! We’re Mad! We’re protesting because we lost and are mad!”
…
Maybe you guys could come up with something a tad more catchy than that.

By: GayPatriotWest

GayPatriotWest — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:30:15 +0000

fair point, gillie, perhaps we should have begun protesting higher spending under W . . . we might then have attracted a few lefties, there to protest the president and we would have assuredly garnered more media atttention.

By: North Dallas Thirty

North Dallas Thirty — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:01:46 +0000

Perhaps the silly gillie and his leftist Obama Party could explain why, if deficits of $400 billion were reckless, why ones five times that would be sensible.

By: V the K

V the K — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:51:38 +0000

Gillie is just parroting what Jon Liebowitz said on the Daily Show early this week, like the mindless little leftist sheep he is.

By: tim maguire

tim maguire — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:37:06 +0000

Really gillie. If there was a day before the protest, a day in which the protest didn’t happen, then the protest is for the reasons you want to think it is, rather than the stated reasons of the participants?

Be clear, please.

By: Harold Grantham

Harold Grantham — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:07:22 +0000

>>Instead, you are protesting your election loss.

Fail, both in fact, and in a poverty of vision resulting in failure to grasp historical context.

Instead of providing actual hope and genuine change, your guy chose instead to hit the gas and accelerate on a course that will inevitably end in a spectacular crash, providing the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Barack Obama is not a cause, he is an effect, and this all has been a long, long time coming.

Big government is intrusive government, and intrusive government is fundamentally incompatible with personal freedom.

Personal freedom and small government: get on board, get out of the way, or don’t be surprised when no one considers you one of the “good guys” any more.

By: gillie

gillie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:41:24 +0000

â€œwhen people first started protesting the presidentâ€™s spendthrift policies barely two months agoâ€

Let’s be clear, you are not protesting spendthrift polices. If you were, you would have done these before Obama was elected.
Instead, you are protesting the president of your country. Its fine and you are well within your rights to do so.

But please stop this illusion that you are protesting because of his actual polices. Instead, you are protesting your election loss.

By: MattJ

MattJ — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:13:04 +0000

If we are looking for direction, we could start by co-opting the manifesto of A New Way Forward Their proposals are supported by Simon Johnson and Yves Smith, two economists who have been very good on the financial crisis and who have proposed an alternate plan for dealing with the insolvent banks, rather than bailing them out.

It looks to me like the two major parties are trying to absorb the people who are angry about what they are doing by pushing these two organizations and trying to break them along party lines. I hope that doesn’t happen. I plan to attend both rallies this week in DC. I really don’t like to see Newt Gingrich trying to muscle into the Tea Party movement.

By: Julie the Jarhead

Julie the Jarhead — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:57:17 +0000

There will be a half-dozen Tea Parties in and around Boston (home of the ORIGINAL Tea Party).

Party on, Garth. Party on, Wayne.

By: A Moral Clarity « Elvis the Original Terminator’s Blog

A Moral Clarity « Elvis the Original Terminator’s Blog — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:11:57 +0000

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By: elvis

elvis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:07:35 +0000

This idea has a moral clarity that will wither the left.

By: DoDoGuRu

DoDoGuRu — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:01:49 +0000

Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I thought it would be in keeping with the Gay Patriot idiom…

Documentary to Out Gay Republicans

For the hypocrisy, naturally.

By: GayPatriot » Tea Party Movement: Phenomenon Based on an Idea

GayPatriot » Tea Party Movement: Phenomenon Based on an Idea — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:59:54 +0000

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