Posted on 04/24/2009 8:43:22 AM PDT by Zakeet
The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.
If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.
It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.
The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is. But they know they're fed up with "it," and that "it" has got to stop.
Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law.
And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.
Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?
It's sad what's happened to the Republicans. They used to be the party of the big tent; now they're the party of the sideshow attraction, a socially awkward group of mostly white people who speak a language only they understand. Like Trekkies, but paranoid.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
‘It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about.’
First off, Billy boy, they were “tea party” protests. I know you have a fixation with “teabagging” but it’s not shared by everyone.
Second, they were about many things, but the main theme was unsustainable government spending. If you’d taken all of five seconds to look into it you’d have known that. There is also plenty of concern about other anti-freedom, anti-defense, and pro-socialism (or worse) initiatives being pursued by 0bama and his corrupt cronies.
I just hope for your sake you’re prepared for the results in 2010 and 2012!
A whole week and this dope still can’t figure the tea parties out.
The man is a really stupid moron.
Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?
As evil and as deceitful as Bill Maher is, he may have a partial point here.
Have a bad day Bill.
I have seen few people who exhibit so much hatred to their fellow Americans.
Nam Vet
There is only one that is not true...the nuclear codes...
He’s like dissolving into some gray mass of paste. He must have a degenerative disease or something.
and the LA times probably wonders why nobody buys their rag.
I would rather listen to chipmunks speak on existentialism that wade through attack ads from supposed (half mad)comics. Too bad the LA Times could not pair this with a opinion piece from Keith Olbermann.
You must have me confused with John McCain.
You know how you can just glance at some people, and before they even open their mouths, you can tell that they’re self-satisfied, self-promoting, tasteless pricks who are full of themselves? Bill Maher is that kind of guy. That was my impression of him when I saw him for the first time. Just knew that he was going to spout garbage, just by looking at him.
Oh, anybody who shows up to a Halloween party dressed as Steve Irwin with a fake stingray piercing his chest (just about 6 weeks after Irwin’s death), deserves NO respect from anyone. Period.
That's been the major problem with the RNC and "elites" within the party -- that's the formula for election losses not electoral landslides!
I’ve seen many, many pictures of the tea parties around the country. But my favorite was sent to me by a friend this morning. A woman is holding a sign that says, “If Obama Screws Up Health Care, Where Will the Canadians Go?” Perfect, in so many ways. There was also the young woman who held up a sign saying, “Help Me, Mr. Obama — They Want Me to Work and Stuff!”And I would like to echo a point that Jonah has made: One of the most touching things about these tea parties is the homemadeness of them — the unorganizedness of them. These are just Americans, saying what they have to say: freely and rambunctiously. The signs are all homemade, and all different. Some are clever, and some are dumb. But they’re all individual.
These tea parties are so, so different from the robotized rallies we see from the Left all the time — with their seas of identical, professionally produced signs. It’s no wonder that Anderson Cooper and the like hate them so: hate the tea parties. They go sharply against the modern grain, thank goodness. They are not . . . well, controlled, and official, and approved.
You ever seen a SEIU demonstration? The term Orwellian is too loosely used, but . . .
A socialist pretending to be a cool, youthful hipster used lies, trickery, vote fraud, and a bought-and-paid for media to steal the 2008 election. This socialist has since embarked on a major effort to destroy the economic engine of the United States of America in order to increase the political power of himself and his party in perpetuity.
That, Mr. Maher, is "it". Pretty simple, really.
Bill, Bill, Bill... you ignorant slut.
You never will get what they were about. You don't have two functioning brain cells to rub together.
Bill sounds even more imbalanced than is common to his frail mind. He may need to change meds.
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