We're still pissed off and the bladders are still busting to go in 2010. Lots more pissing ahead!
Posted on 01/23/2010 8:43:20 AM PST by Kartographer
Count me in, too. These Liberal asses called Newsweek need a real lesson.
America is getting healthier Newsweak by ditching the Kool Aid and switching to anti-donkey’ant Tea. Have another cup and help build up immunity to those cancerous free radicals from the District of Cancer in Washington.
Accept NO "leader."
Do not allow the movement to be "co-opted" by ANY politician (Boehner) or media (FOX)
Hahahaha! Yeah, they wish it was over!!! LOL!
The party has just started, my friend.
Cheers
We haven’t even brought the pitchforks out yet!
Its not about challenging the two party system. Its about getting representation elected that represents us and upholds the constitution.
We're still pissed off and the bladders are still busting to go in 2010. Lots more pissing ahead!
If ... on the other hand, the liberals grow a brain cell and promise to increase funding to Medicare, instead of cutting it... the tea party will dissolve into chaos.
Parties succeed historically in one of two ways. They elect Presidents, or at least Governors, establish themselves, and replace former parties. The Whigs, Republican-Democrats, Democrats, Republicans, and Progressives. The other route to success is that the new parties decline, but their ideas worm their way into the platforms of the surviving parties.
Joe has not, apparently, read the platform of the Socialist Party of the 1930s which are fully adopted by the Democrats today, and largely adopted by the Republicans, today,
This is an article about what the political bigots and historical morons at Newsweek HOPE will happen. But it has no clear relation to the truth.
Congressman Billybob
Idiots think the tea party is a drive for a third political party. It is NOT. We are a group of mostly Republican (but some libertarians and Democrats too!) people who are angry at BOTH parties for their over the top spending.
Obama’s behavior merely was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
We are SICK of it.
Do we have our differences? Yes we do. Are we willing to set those differences aside in an embrace of the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment? You betcha.
Good question: the dying newsmagazine Newsweak hires Joe Scarborough, a one-time conservative stalwart now shilling on a dying “news” network....deigns to ask whether the thriving tea partiers—fresh off victories in NJ, VA, and MA (and a CLOSE ONE in NY-23) is “dying”.
Lotsa larfs.
“Is The Tea Party Over?”
The nominal leader of the movement has just endorsed and will campaign for the worst backstabbing sellout RINO in the nation in his senate race against a much more conservative candidate.
If it’s not over, it’s headed for ICU.
I ntook a look at who is asking the question.
Newsweek. 8^p
Nuff said - Just wishful thinking on their part.
“We’re just warming up. Next stop- Arizona.”
To support McCain?
Well Joe and Newsweek could attend the Tea Party Convention to be held February 4-6 in Nashville... Or perhaps when 1-2-3 million Tea Party type show up for the second March on DC on April 15 2010 - in front of the White House — maybe Joe and Newsweek will figure it out then...
And better yet — come the Spring 2010 Primaries and the Fall Federal Elections - when Liberal/Leftist Democrats and RINOs are knocked out of office — then Joe will really get it...
Scarborough does not get it. The Tea Party is a movement, not a political party and not an organization. Just as another FReeper has said previously, the original American Revolution had no grand poobah or “Committe for the Public Safety”. It was a nebulous but powerful collection of pamphleteers, lawyers, rabble rousers, businessmen, ex-soldiers and diplomats; some of whom were prominent only for a brief moment (Thomas Paine, Sam Adams, Paul Revere), others who stayed important for many years and wore many hats (George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin). There was no formal structure early on other than a loose affiliation of societies and clubs. Only when the revolution required an actual government was a formal leadership gradually elected/appointed.
Libs long since lost the ability to conceive of an actual popular movement that is not being outwardly led or secretly manipulated, re: all the current criticism on the Left of Axelrod’s “Organizing for America” and how it’s rigidly run from the White House and fails to co-ordinate with local organizations and dem apparatus.
I think most of us are smart enough to know that the best option is to exert influence on local Republican races and party chapters. We certainly do not need some Elmer Gantry type to claim leadership.
“If the Democrats—and the White House—weren’t listening before, they certainly are now. Indeed, one week after Scott Brown’s election, the tea-party movement should be celebrating its Massachusetts miracle, the collapse of health-care reform, and the destruction of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority.”
No, Joe, the tea-party movement isn’t over. But, you want it to be, don’t you? I heard you the other day on your show say that you had a lot of friends in the White House. You told them to call you and you would tell them how to reach the 60 votes for healthcare. Stop pretending to be a conservative. We don’t need conservatives like you.
The more I watch the Dark Knight, the more I think about Alfred's comment, "Perhaps master Bruce, you're dealing with someone you don't fully understand." The nature of the Tea Parties is outside the understanding of either party.
During the relative political stability that has existed since WWII, politics has coalesced around a group of political operatives that form into groups to force legislation that either funds their group, enacts laws that require entities to spend money for their group, or otherwise establish a legal advantage for their group.
The biggest risk to the Tea Parties is from within. The Tea Parties exist because of the basic premise that we want the government to quit spending money we don't have on things we don't need. The risk is that if they adopt too many other causes, the thrust will be diluted. While I strongly support gun rights, right to life, and several other causes, I believe it is better strategy to pursue those goals through groups other than the Tea Parties. If the Tea Parties start adopting other goals, eventually the original cause will be diluted and there will be battles over things such as the libertarian "should drugs be legalized" issues.
What confuses politicians now is that the Tea Partiers can't be bought by slathering a little more pork into a bill. They don't have a frame of reference to deal with a group that can't be bought off.
****If history is any guide, the prospects of long-term success are as unlikely as a Republican winning a Senate seat in Massachusetts.****
Does no-one read anymore? Does no-one understand satire?
Joe Scarborough appears to be trying to make a point!!!
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