President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus ‘Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers’

Sadly it’s no surprise.

This is the most arrogant and ignorant President we ever had. Ive been around for a while and can assure you, this guy is beating Bush second to none.He has brought nothing but disgrace to the office.He has divided this country and claims others has done it.He has bowed to world leaders,has created a mess of a deficit,he has picked the most crooked people to top position, tax evaders, etc.I cant fix stupid but I can voted it out.

either he doesn’t know what that means and he is just spouting off at the mouth and showing his stupidy or he knows what it means and is mocking the american people. Either way the man is a Moron with a capital M!!!!!!!!!

So what is the date of the quote, as we all know that a new book doesn’t equal a new quote, as in he didn’t say that yesterday, obviously, or following the commencement speech– so the time frame set up is pretty hokey, Jake (and the timing to me suggests some handy dandy pandering to the right after receiving lots of complaints from the tea party ilk and their bffs–and George Will “fans”– about your lineup on Sunday)
The Tea Partiers and Fox News were the ones who started up with the use of the derogatory term with sexual connotations– and then they got it thrown right back at them and feigned hypocritical outrage. The first time I heard or saw it used in this context was on Tea Party signage–
And the “hippies” punched back by mocking them, and one upping the double entendres.
just sayin’

Out of the mouth of the man who gave us “typical white person”, you expected what?????

“The Tea Partiers and Fox News were the ones who started up with the use of the derogatory term with sexual connotations”
WRONG..that would be Anderson Cooper and MSNBC!
Get your facts straight!

The GOP opposition to the squandering of billions of tax dollars, helped to create the Tea Party.
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Riiiiiight/sarc. Meanwhile, there aren’t many advocates of limited government spending and small government during an oil spill now, are there? As Matthew Yglesias puts it, “It’s an interesting sociological fact about members of the conservative movement in America that they like to talk about “small government” and/or “freedom” or “liberty” but there’s no reason to believe that in an operational sense the conservative movement is aiming at any of these things.”
In addition, in response to Milbank’s post on GOP and tea party type hyposcrisy, he notes, “It’s true that conservative politicians tend to represent relatively poor states that disproportionately benefit from federal spending. But it’s people who vote, not states. And poor people in poor states don’t vote for Republicans and thus Sessions and Vitter have no particular concern with their interests. But an oil spill threatens people irrespective of class, so countermeasures have conservative fans.” (Yglesias)
And that is the crux of it.
lol.
But the feigned outrage on the comment board and the continued b.s. on the small government front is cute– and I’m sure there are dupes who believe y’all.

Somehow it’s okay for the tea drinkers to call him Dumbama, Fartbama, a terrorist, a seekret Mooslim, a moron, an illegal alien, etc — but suddenly they’re outraged when they get maligned?
Grow up.

And he wonders why he is called a lowlife piece of garbage and a socialist pig
He is just a racist and radical, with thin skin

Now that the times square bomber has been caught and it’s known he’s not a tea party member, is obama going to go on another apology tour?

whatsgoingonhere – Are you saying Americans don’t cling to their guns and religion? You people ae a laughing stock with your ridiculous criticisms of Obama. You kept in office for eight years the dumbest president this country will ever see – see how that worked out – and now you’re up in arms because we finally have someone smarter than every republican put together and you can’t stand it. Face up to it. He gets your goat becuase he’s smart, black and you have idiots for leaders. And if you ask me, everything he has said is true, from the gun nuts to the religious nuts to the bad cops. But I guess you’d rather your countrymen be labeled traitors and anti-American because they disagree with policy – you know, like King Bush did? Where were your up in arms posts? Right! You people are such hypcorits. You betcha!

Hey repubs, while you’re worried about name calling – a GOP senator was looking at porn on his government-owned computer. And while you diss the president, your idiot talking heads are wanting to micro-chip aliens. are censuring State seals, want to deport American citizens, saying the oil spill was ‘an act of God’, fighting Wall Street reform, standing proud because gays ‘were taken care of’ during his time in the military, is a stupid half-term gov., lies about oil spill timelines, etc. etc. etc. This is who you stand with. You people crack me up. Guess we see from your posts why this country is in the shape it’s in. You elect idiots to office then we have to have someone come in and try to fix your horrendous errors. And then you want it done in a year. Get a grip, dittoheads. Get a grip!!!

How sad that the president of the United States would stoop this low to speak ill of his political adversaries in such a vulgar fashion. And yet, as tasteless as his comment is, it says far more about him than it does those whom he seeks to oppugn.

Pamp205: you are absolutely correct…we re-elected one of the dumbest presidents and one who led us into the recession that Obama is being blamed for. The republlicans have made it seeme that this mess is Obama’s when in fact it came from 8 years of nothing by the republican party. How can they not remember that it was Bush who asked for the first stimulus and Mc Cain and Obama did not want to do this. They both relented because Bush asked them to do the right thing to save the country, and now that Obama is asking the reps. to do the right thing for the banking industry by putting sanctions on them to keep this from happening again, they suddenly don’t want to. They are saying it is another bailout. Bull. They have opposed everything he has proposed since the first week of his administration and have treated him disrespectfully also. Obama is not a socialist. He is fighting for the people the reps. forgot about. Their mantra was for the banks and the upper income people. When they say he has raised taxes they lie. The only people who will see a substantial raise in taxes will the those making over 250,000. Remember it was the reps. who did not want to keep the unemployment going and did not carethat people were being thrown off their insurance or could not get insurance. Is caring for these people socialism…well bring it on. The middle income people have been ignored and taxed to death. No other income section has seen the rise in taxes like they have so now Obama wants to make the upper income people pay. The tea party people are not the middle income people, they are over 50, own business’ and mostly retired with a good savings from their business. They are not fighting or the average guy ..let’s be honest here. Don’t forget that 1.3 trillion dollars of this debt came from the Bush administration. If they were so good for the country…why is it they did not get re-elected? They have done a good job of covering up their mistakes and when asked on talk shows about their spending…all they say is we have learned our lession. Bull. If they get back in…middle income people will be ignored again. Wake up America…

“‘I begged the president not to do this,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says…
ROLMAO!!!

UNPRECIDENTED UNPRESIDENTIAL

What a disgusting man.

You liberals are great, not that republicans are any better. Bush was a big government fool, just like Obama. Bush increased the size of government, as is Obama. Bush, a neocon, voted for TARP, as did McCain and Obama. Obama has escalated the war in Afghanistan, just as Bush escalated the war in Iraq.
However, the average unemployment rate while Bush was President was 5.3%. The highest the deficit got while Bush was President was just over $400 billion. Under Obama the highest deficit is $1.75 trillion, and the unemployment rate is just under 10%.
Prior to ’08s deficit of $450+ billion, the next highest was in ’04 @ $412 billion. By ’07 it was down to $162 billion.
Taxes are on the rise ladies and gentlemen. And we have Obama to thank for that, not Bush.

For a very long time, over many administrations, our borders have been open. I think most Americans welcome all people to our country. But we must have orderly imigration! All imigrants who are already here should be given a clear path to citizenship and encouraged to become citizens. But our border must be controlled at all times!
The President’s number one responsibility is to protect the citizens he serves! President Obama is failing at this. Yes past presidents have done nothing, it’s time to stop that NOW!! Mr. President protect your fellow citizens from Mexican drug dealers… NOW!

Funny how Obama gets away with comments blasting the TEA partiers, when the thing he is accusing them of is exactly what he does every time he and his cronies open their mouths! The only civility I have heard or seen from this guys is when he is acquiescing and bowing to foreign leaders!

Anyone who pays attention knows Obama doesn care jack about civility. Have people forgotten the campaign? How he constantly accused McCain that McCain would make fun of his name or mention his skin color. Of course none of that ever happened yet Obama kept making the same racist attack again and again.
I love how democrats keep blaming Bush unknowingly indicted Obama as a complete idiot. The last two budgets are all Obama’s (democrats made sure Bush could not sign the last budget of his presidency). Hence Obama is completely to blame for tripling the national yearly budget deficit. Not Bush. Also complaing about Bush now is like complaining about one guy stealing some acorns while another makes off with the entire tree. At work point, if ever, will liberals actually treat Obama like an adult and hold him responsible for his own actions?

It’s clear…Obama talks out of both sides of his teleprompter.

You know, it hurts the Left more than it hurts Republicans. American’s are tired of it; they want good debate now. They want facts. They are frightened, more than they’ve ever been, of their government!

I take it that our President really does not like any opposition to whatever plans he has and it has to be a real downer knowing that there are some who have different opinions than he.

racists, homophobic, religious zealots, etc.
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You’re words, not mine– so yes they are the same ole tired names as none of you are all that original– but, hey, if you insist, I have no significant objection. I ‘d say you likely know much more about all those things than I do. Its part of your culture, yes?
as for being angry, your projection amuses as all empty-headed courage-free bluster does.
What is true is that I think the right wing is moronic, hypocritical, fearful and very easily duped, and the GOP is backward and willing to exploit your fear (and anger, but the anger is fear-based so its all related.)
As for November, shrug. I’ve thought for a long time the average American is getting increassingly stupid– our average IQ is below average thanks to the conservatives dragging it down. And there are a lot of folks easily duped. I haven’t given up yet (Its intriguing that the average tea party is allegedly better educated but still willfully ignorant) but I did watch morons re-elect Bush, and morons vote for a ticket with Palin on it so nothing shocks me.
What cracks me up is that you think voting in more moronic Republicans will be a victory for anything other than those duping the dupes.
i’ll admit I’m hopeful that there are some true independents and progressives who will manage to vote out a few incumbents with good/better choices outside of the two party system– but it won’t come from the tea party movement. They’re just more of the same. A wholly owned subsidiary of the tired, regressive and redundant Republican party.

Wow. Very classy, Obama.

>”As for November, shrug. I’ve thought for a long time the average American is getting increassingly (sic) stupid”
FYI, it weakens your bulletproof “other people are stupid but I’m not” argument when you misspell words. Just so you know.
I’m wondering how far back your “long time” observing this alleged stupidity goes – to November of 2008, perhaps? America’s been electing members of your party to Congress and the WH in greater numbers since 2006, so have they been getting more or less stupid since then?
Let us know.

“Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.”
I’m shocked! /s.
If you believe the exact opposite of anything Obama says, you’ll be proven right 70%-80% of the time. He lies, conflates, battles against strawmen, and speaks incompetently on a wide range of issues (can’t blame him for this last failing, he’s never held a meaningful job that would prepare him as an executive and has chosen to populate his staff/advisors/cabinet with lawyers and others who are similarly unqualified to lead).

I’m with you greg!except I don’t like any side of him. all these liberals call everyone who don’t agree w/ them and their liberal agenda “racist”. Little do they know, I’m, wait for it, BLACK!!! Wow, there I said it! Now go ahead all you liberal loonies, call me racist if you will! I’m laughing at you!!!!!!!

This administration defines civility as shutting up and doing what your told. It is heartening to see that the Alinsky tactics of the left liberals currently in power are failing.

our average IQ is below average thanks to the conservatives dragging it down
Very good. And you, being an expert statistician, know what below average is.

>our average IQ is below average thanks to the conservatives dragging it down
Most students are educated in government-run, teacher-union-dominated public schools.
Ask them why their kids are getting dumber. It’s got nothing to do with “conservatives,” whatever that means.

Obama maintains a mid/upper 40 approval rating, in spite of everything we know about him.
I think Obama figures he can get away with just about anything because his base will always give him a pass, and the MSM will always cover for him.
He knows the majority of americans either get their info from the MSM, don’t bother to educate themselves, or just plain don’t care.
Americas only hope is that more moderates and independents will get fed up with him.

Ah, yes, “Civility for thee, but not for me,” said The Won.

let me clarify a little…before my above comment is scrubbed:
web dictionary definition:
“The term ******r is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense.”
let me extract from above, for emphasis:
“represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense”
Mr. President,
your words are offensive.
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“(Definition 1a, however, is sometimes used among African-Americans in a neutral or familiar way.)”
I can see a near future, when “bagger” is used as a sign of endearment-
as in…
“he’s my bagger”.

Forget the tea party people Obama, make
sure the new terror suspect is read his
rights, send him to Gitmo, which still is
not closed and the OBAMA-CARE will do the
rest.

Obama’s plot to paint himself as a Washington outsider, or a civil and different kind of politician is laughable.
He has some nerve to lecture Michigan grads about listening to opposing points of view. Is there a politician more thin-skinned and vindictive that Obama.
He has waged wars against Fox News,Chamber of Commerce, Rush, Beck, Palin, the GOP, the Tea Party– and mocked all of them publically.
I think Obama needs an extensive mental examination.

Tea-bagging has two meanings.
1- a gay sex act.
2- In multiplayer online first person shooter video games, the act of shooting someone at close range, then to add insult to injury, running up to their “body” and crouching over the head repeatedly to simulate the above sex act. It’s basically a way 13 year old boys say “in your face!” to other 13 year old boys. So when a conservative online cartoon showed, early in this political process, a protester with a sign saying, “teabag us and we’ll teabag you”, it was in this latter context. Obama and his staff and media sycophants have shown the maturity of adolescent boys – and they have been called out in similar terms. When those same O-bots switched to the first meaning, one most people had never heard of until then, they simply revealed the context of their knowledge base swings into the perverse/immature rather than simply the immature. When the average gamer hears this and associates it with adolescent boys, it ends up giving the O-Bots a slightly NAMBLA feel. The “safe” schools czar certainly adds to that feel from this administration.

Never seen a more childish and tacky president.
Obama acts like being president is some kind of game.

Interesting how leftists can cite international IQ numbers as evidence that Americans are dumb, but if you cite IQ numbers that describe different populations within the US, you must be a racist.
What is IQ? It means that want to win the argument.

“[the term "tea-baggers is"] now a common way for some on the left to mock Tea Partyers.”
Outside of how preposterous the apparent claim that this disgusting insult – used by the President, no less! – is somehow “okay” because the insulted party “embraced” it, it always was a “common way… to mock Tea Partyers.” Beside that, nobody “embraced” the term; they made a ridiculous video about it in response. Weak sauce.

I think that the Tea Partiers should take the Presidents advice and “punch back twice as hard”. He also advised to “bring a gun” which I hope that more will also heed. All in the name of civility of course.

“President Obama’s health care overhaul law will INCREASE the nation’s health care tab instead of bringing cost down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.” cbsnews/2010.04/03…
A big SHOUT OUT to those tea party members who hold a sign for me and others who are too busy trying to pay the bills to attend those demonstrations, to show we are not happy on the way this Country is heading for the future of our kids…

He has more understanding and compassion
for our enemies than for his own people
who happen to disagree with him. He
sounds desperate and petty.

Can you provide a link for this…
They don’t let you provide links but you can google photos of tea party signage with dates and put in the offensive word alongside liberals and Obama– and you’ll see misspelling of morons as Morans, and of course joker stuff and Hitler comparisons and so on. Ain’t they loverly?

I suspect most folks in the Tea Party movement didn’t immediately object to the term because, like me, they initially had no idea what it meant — unlike the media folks who joked about it, who clearly knew just what it suggested.

It was reported on a NYT blog that Obama used the term “teabag people” in a meeting with Democrats back in November. So appearently he used the term more than once at the least.

lol, RickS ….you missed my point.
We just steal your high IQ children when they get to our universities.
You can keep the rest.
:)

The most immature, narcissistic, polarizing, dishonest, manipulative, corrupt, thuggish, hateful, common sense deficient, tax and spend spend spend America into oblivion fiscally irresponsible administration that this country has ever had. We were fooled in 08, but we will not be fooled again. The sleeping giant is awake, and the reformation will begin in 2010. Obama as president is the equivalent of the Detroit School Board President Otis Mathis who can’t read or write. Neither are qualified for the jobs that each hold, and both are progressives.

Then how come we’re the ones having all the kids? ;-)
Posted by: Annalucia | May 4, 2010 11:45:49 AM
Because your parents insist abstinence is a viable form of birth control for you crazy conservative teens, and after the fact, a prayer shield isn’t a great form of birth control.

“Then how come we’re the ones having all the kids? ;-)”
Demographics are on our side…The libs know this which is one reason why they are pushing for amnesty for illegal immigrants…

“I don’t actually think angry old white conservative christians are much interested in any sort of sex.”
Then how come we’re the ones having all the kids? ;-)
Annalucia | May 4, 2010 11:45:49 AM
It is the angry old white conservative’s teenage daughters having all the babies. ;-)

Actually, the identity of the tea partiers isn’t racial as much as it is religious. I bet nearly all tea party attendees would selfidentify as christians. The Tea Party is not a grassroots movement seeking fiscal conservatism…that is the Paulites…..it is a grassroots white conservative christian grievance movement.
And the real leader of the Tea Party isn’t Palin…..its Tea Party Jesus.

How un-presidential – he is quickly earning the title of “worst president”.

Mocking innnuendo? If liberal Hispanic activists called themselves the Dirty Sanchezes don’t you think a little mocking would be in order? If you’re dumb enough to name your movement after a sexual activity (it’s called google, people) you get what’s coming to you, especially if you’re complaining that a president is out of touch.

I question the timing. :) No, not the book… but of his return to the bipartisanship theme he ran with during the election.
After being the most partisan president I can remember, right after an event that he is being criticized for (oil spill response); he is back on it and complaining about the tone…

Obama disgraces the office of president every day with his insensitive, naive,rude and immature comments. He forgets that he is president of ALL the people, not just his party. I’m disgusted and offended by his use of that term. It’s absolutely pathetic that we have a man of this low caliber as President.

Once again, Obama works to change the tone in Washington.
He has demolished the dignity of the office completely.

The idea that tea partiers “coined and embraced” the term is nonsense; early on, nobody used the the term other than critics. (Well, there is *one* picture of one guy holding a sign that said “tea-bag them before they tea bag you”… but that one-off joke isn;t the same as geneating a label.)

@foghorn
Insofar as most of the COUNTRY self-identifies as some kind of Christian it stands to reason that most of the tea partiers would be. But your assertion that it’s religion which motivates a desire for less spending, lower taxes and less intrusive government is just dumb. I’m an athiest, as are most of my friends, and we support the same things.
You’re mistaking bigotry and predjudice for analysis and then patting yourself on the back for it.

Obama will never the use of Alinsky style ridicule . The press has insulated him from it with the false allegations of racism .

Speaking about Obama’s duplicitous behavior…anyone else find it totally bizarre that a man who told his followers to “get in their neighbor’s faces and argue with them”; “bring a gun to a knife fight” and “punch back harder” was actually lecturing people about civility at the recent University of Michigan commencement?

Obama has proved to be a divisive and polarizing president that has and will continue to tear the country apart.
He seems to say one thing and do another, it is nice to see someone call him out on it for a change.
He thinks people are idiots and cannot see through his partisan lenses.
I for one have been disappointed in him, at this point it is hard to imagine voting for him again. My 2 cents.

“I’m an athiest”
do you attend the rallies James?
the rallies about taking back “real ammurrika”.
im jus sayin’ i bet the tea party ATTENDEES all SELFIDENTIFY as CONSERVATIVE christians.
as opposed to Obama, who is a liberal christian.
people carrying signs about Obama as a witchdoctor and wearing funkie tri-corner hats aren’t concerned about fiscal conservatism.

Whattya want, Jake? He’s a cheap piece of goods.

osted by: pfft | May 4, 2010 12:25:34 PM
Nope, I didn’t make it up. Its all there. Easy to find. That you have poor googling skills doesn’t surprise me, but I would’ve thought you’d be familiar with Fox News archives.
I stand by my claims. Only partisan nuts with their heads in the sand don’t know what happened or understand the timeline.
The tea partiers thought they were really funny and they got it turned around on them, and now they feign outrage.
lol. They’re thin-skinned whiners.
As for links, try posting one. They get scrubbed.
Progressive means for progress as opposed to conservative which means conserving the status quo when it comes to power and wealth structure, come what may, even if its to your disadvantage (as long as you’re taking care of Big Biz and your patriarchs!!)

This is disgusting! When Bush was in office it was patriotic to disagree with the Government, now that the tables are flipped it is unpatriotic and RACIST to disagree with the GOV!
Hypocrisy and double standards, welcome to America!

Posted by: OxyCon | May 4, 2010 12:22:21 PM
Silly! He meant for YOU, not for him. “Do was I say” is the liberal lifeblood.

This is disgusting! When Bush was in office it was patriotic to disagree with the Government, now that the tables are flipped it is unpatriotic and RACIST to disagree with the GOV!
Hypocrisy and double standards, welcome to America!
Zander | May 4, 2010 12:34:28 PM
I’m not sure if you’re pointing out the hypocrisy of the Right or the Left, which amuses me greatly.

What people do not stop to reasonably consider is that the Tea Party movement is something that sprung up as a result of America’s core DNA being touched. This country was founded by people who felt that a government located far away was taxing them too much, growing too much in its influence and treating them as subjects rather than citizens. A lot of people feel that way today.
It is as simple as that. Obama is as big an idiot as the sycophants that blindly follow him. He is becoming caustic and more arrogant by the day. There is always a big political price to pay for such behavior.
Has anyone ever heard an American president make an appeal to citizens for votes based on their specific race, ethnicity or gender. Obama did it. What a disgrace.

In my opinion, Jake Tapper is the most fair person in the “mainstream” media. At least he calls out double-standards, and doesn’t just ignore them, like most of his “journalist” peers. Good work, Jake!

Steve: Has anyone ever heard an American president make an appeal to citizens for votes based on their specific race, ethnicity or gender. Obama did it. What a disgrace.
Yes, his name was Ronald Reagan. As Lee Atwater admitted in the book “Southern Politics in the 1990s”, and as Michael Steele recently admitted as well, Republicans pursued the Southern Strategy of pitting whites and against blacks for votes for decades.

Obama is such a small man.

jvill:
We could go back and forth on this. Suffice to say that anyone who does what we are talking about is an idiot, and should be equally reprimanded and shunned.

jvill:
One last comment: didn’t Obama present himself as the “post racial” president. Didn’t the joke of what we call a media in this country endorse this notion? What a joke. No wonder no one pulls a buck out of their pocket to buy an newspaper anymore.

jhw539:
The answer to your question is, certainly. People ALWAYS have the right to express there opinions in peaceful mass gatherings. Dissent was patriotic then. Sorry, I’m no hypocrite on this point. You might be, however.
The irony here is that when Obama became president, even though he escalated in Afghanistan, the daily bodycount reports disappeared from the newspapers, and all the Code Pinkos went to demonstrate Carl Rove book signings. Might there be some hypocrisy there?

Steve: One last comment: didn’t Obama present himself as the “post racial” president. Didn’t the joke of what we call a media in this country endorse this notion? What a joke. No wonder no one pulls a buck out of their pocket to buy an newspaper anymore.
Another fabrication. Find me a quotation of him saying that. You can’t. Why would a man, who still gets deranged claimed about being born in Kenya think he’s post-racial? Clearly, this country is not. Much like most of the feverish anger right the far right, there’s no there there. Death Panels, Greenpeace Demo teams attacking oil rigs… It’s just fantasy after fantasy used to enrage people. Even Glenn Beck recently admitted he has no interest in the political process, “I’m an entertainer” he said. You’re being played, Steve. You and millions of others in order to enrich the rightwing elites.

Posted by: De Oppresso Liber | May 4, 2010 1:04:14 PM
Ok, I’ve had it. Let’s get this Civil War over with and retake the nation from the leftists.
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Oh, sure, it’s the *leftists* that are speaking with hatred, here.

Posted by: buffman | May 4, 2010 1:11:43 PM
I am beginning to miss W despite all his faults, he never stooped to the garbage low levels this president has chosen to travel.
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Lying to a country in order to go to war is much better.

“Lying to a country in order to go to war is much better.” Can’t wait to hear, this loon? Exactly what lie did President Bush tell? WMDs were stated to be in the country by the CIA and 8 other country’s intelligence agency. Did Bush make all of them lie to the nitwits in congress? Were the Dums not smart enough to figure out the lie??? LMAO

“it might be too much to take on at the same time as the recession.”
This presumes the One gives as much a damn about the country as his own agenda.
And he does not.

Obama is a national disgrace, and he is doing irreparable damage to his party, his allies, those he tries to represent (clearly, not all Americans), and unfortunately his race since he is the “historical” first black president.
Those with any class or dignity in the groups mentioned above would do well to speak out and distance themselves from Obama.
Once a leader who understands our country emerges to lead us away from this Obama travesty, it will take a lot of work to bring the country back together.
What a horrible chapter in American history this administration has been. I look forward to the joy and relief that will spread across the land when he is voted out of the office.

“leftists and their history of oppression, death and evil. Each individual leftist needs to consider the historical context of their belief system (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Alinsky, Hitler, Mussolini, Castro, Chavez, Che”
Anyone lumping Alinsky with Hitler certainly has a limited knowledge of history, but in general I just LOVE it when right-wing dumb-brains try to classify Hitler and Mussolini as “leftists.”
How about Pinochet and all the people he “disappeared”? How about Trujillo? I will put it out that it is _extremists_ at both ends of the spectrum who do horrible things to other people, but somehow the Right wants to pretend that all the bad stuff is done from the left.
Get real about mass murders from the Right and people would take your arguments much more seriously.

Jake: It’s a term they used for themselves long after it was pointed out to them what it meant, and you know it. Only once it really drew laughs did they reject it.
Looks to me like you’re trying to generate a story where there is none. It’s understandable I guess; conflict draws a lot of readers. But it’s not good journalism.

Cal Gal your ignorance of political science is glaring. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao were all statists. I bet you thought that fascism is to the right as communism is to the left. You are sadly mistaken. Fascism is not an ideology. It is a form of statism (the state is mother and father). Apparently you also lack knowledge of history as the Nazis (National Socialist Party) and Mussolini’s government were socialist in nature, i.e., state control of everthing. Yes Hitler and Mussolini gave the appearance of free enterprise but it was simply that. Whether outright ownership or indirect control, there is no difference. You should read up before engaging those who think critically and are not wowed by Hope and Change.

Jake: It’s a term they used for themselves long after it was pointed out to them what it meant, and you know it. Only once it really drew laughs did they reject it.
Looks to me like you’re trying to generate a story where there is none. It’s understandable I guess; conflict draws a lot of readers. But it’s not good journalism.
Posted by: Jody | May 4, 2010 1:36:51 PM
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Exactly, plus we’ve seen pictures of them wearing tea bags hanging from their hats – it’s only natural.

What a hack.

Ryan C what is about the founding fathers and the Constitution that you dislike?

**Some liberal bloggers, taking issue with this post, have noted that some Tea Partyers coined and embraced the term “tea-baggers.”**
Coined? Debatable without evidence. Even with evidence, I think it’s pretty clear which side uses the term the most, and why.
And I’m sure President Obama is hip on what the slang “tea-bagger” means, just like he knows during speeches how to use his wandering middle finger and race- and sex-baiting when he wants to play punk amateur schoolyard bully with his political opponents and the American people.

I now know that for the Right “real americans” are by definition only white, Christians, with a southern accent and no comtamination with hippies. Outside the protected group all are presumed guilty, subject to arrest and torture. Torture is an instrument of oppression, and the Right advocates torture. War is an instrument of oppression, and the Right advocates war. Unlimited police power and the authority to make arbitrary arrests are an instruments of oppression, and the American Right advocates arbitrary arrests for Brown and Black people and the white people who have not joined the tribe. Totalitarians of the Right and Left both love to rewrite history to fit their cause, and you guys are writing books out of whole cloth. It must feel wonderful to hate so well.
This is pretty weak stuff Tapper. Pretty weak.

Obama lied, people out of work cried.
God let November get here already so we can make this whole nightmare go away and castrate Obama from his power trip.

Ryan C communism is an ideology. The well spring of all big government entitlement types. Fascism as I wrote before is not an ideology rather it is form of statism: concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry (courtesy Merriam Webster). Therefore you are wrong in your assumption.

Jake: It’s a term they used for themselves long after it was pointed out to them what it meant, and you know it. Only once it really drew laughs did they reject it.
Looks to me like you’re trying to generate a story where there is none. It’s understandable I guess; conflict draws a lot of readers. But it’s not good journalism.
Posted by: Jody | May 4, 2010 1:36:51 PM
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Totally agree. The tie-in with the commencement speech is absolutely ridiculous given there is a new book,not a new quote.

teabagcongress was a pretty earnest site from way back in the beginning.

Ryan C Republican Guard, ehhh? Your analogies are weak.

Oh, please, Nazism is left-wing. Just because those in the hollow-headed halls of whackademia got away with calling Nazism “right-wing” for the last six decades doesn’t make a bunch of NATIONAL SOCIALISTS “right-wing”.
Hitler, Geobbels and even Mussolini expressly identified themselves as socialists and killed others socialists whose views different from theirs. Socialists and communists aren’t above engage in fratricide. Socialists of any ilk are left-wing even if they are racist or overly “patriotic”. NAZI stood for “National Socialist German Workers’ Party”. Some of the worst Jew hating racists and motherland patriots were left-wing Soviets.
Whackademia and the emerging American left needed a “right-wing” boogey man to balance their historical ledgers so it became the Nazis. However, the Nazis were socialist collectivists who attempted to create a national socialist state whereby industry was privately owned but whose production and profits were absolutely controlled by a highly-centralized authority. There’s nothing “right-wing” or conservative about that arrangement. And it’s no coincidence that Sov-Coms, Nazis, Italian Fascists, and American leftist socialists ALL DESPISE free market capitalism. Birds of feather and all that.
So please desist in the persistent lie that Nazism is “right-wing” when Hitler was trying to create a New Germany and NOT revive the old German Republican. Nothing “conservative” or “right-wing about that either. In fact, most dictatorships, given their highly centralized form of government are by definition “left-wing” – if we are to understand centralized big goverment as “left-wing”, limited representative government as “conservative/old school liberalism” and no government as extreme right-wing.

All the anti-Americans running the country into the ground is more than enough reason to form an anti-socialist party.

Let me guess you think the People’s Republic of China is actually a Republic or that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a shining beacon of democracy.
Posted by: Ryan C | May 4, 2010 2:22:21 PM
Nice.
And,sadly, you probably hit the nail dead center on its head.

“I’ll take the freedom to choose my own path, make my mistakes, earn my victories, pick myself when I’m down, all without government interference anyday.”
So when do you leave for Somalia?

“All leftists today are good little bolshevicks following the call of big government (mother and father) who must rely on the collective because left alone, they are failures.”
We are all products of a collective whether that be our school, our family, our hometown.
We do not exist inside a vacuum as solitary beings.

If liberals want to call people ‘tea-baggers’, it’s their right. If they want to believe that conservatives identify with homosexual pranks, it’s their right.
Not that they’re right, but it’s their right. And it’s my right to call liberals anything I care to.
But maybe some of us are actually trying to have a political discussion, not just an insult session. As has been noted, ad hominem attacks are usually employed once one has run out of actual arguments.

BTW, we had a local leftist in some letters to the editor in our local newspaper trying to deny reality by claiming any leftist socialist regime that begins killing its own citizen somehow magically becomes “right-wing”! What idiocies, just like CND FOX’s claims above.
What determines whether a regime is left-wing or right-wing is the structure of the government itself. Big government socialists are by definition “left-wing” – a big emphasis on a collectivist/progressive government that rules and ruins the lives of its citizenry.
Limited constitutional of representational governments which defuses the power of government have typically been considered “right-wing” but are actually “centristic” since it exists between left-wing big government socialism and far right-wing no goverment anarchism.
Those systems of thought which posits no government or extremely minimal government is the best arrangement are typically referred to as extreme right-wing anarchism or anarcho-socialism – that is they argue the institution of goverment is to be so transparent and unnecessary that everyone can morally govern their own lives to the point no collective or central govermental entity is needed. A great theory if everyone had such self-restraint and moral scruples.
In the real world anarchism on a large scale is an unworkable pipe dream since it denies the very nature of fallen mankind in that there are always individuals who seek to accumulate power unto themselves by any means possible.
And please don’t make me explain anarcho-syndicalism, another pipe dream political theory doomed to failure.

We are all products of a collective whether that be our school, our family, our hometown.
We do not exist inside a vacuum as solitary beings.
Posted by: Ryan C |
It takes a village, eh comrade?

I dunno…I bet could do a global replace of “liberal” with “christian” in goldbergs book Liberal Fascism and it would make more sense.
Sarah Palin and the Mormons think god should be running America, doontcha know.
;)

Let me guess you think the People’s Republic of China is actually a Republic or that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a shining beacon of democracy.
Posted by: Ryan C | May 4, 2010 2:22:21 PM
Good golly, no.
Obama thinks they are ideal, which is why he’s making every effort to turn this country into them.

“Freedom was the watchword for the Civil Rights Movement. Social Justice takes away that freedom”
Nothing is more disgusting than the recent move by the right wing to get Christian approval of their ideology of greed and selfishness by eliminating social justice as a central tenet of it.
The abolisitonists believed in social justice.
The Civil Rights movement believed in social justice.
No wonder the right wing hates social justice.

“Obama thinks they are ideal, which is why he’s making every effort to turn this country into them.
Posted by: drjohn | May 4, 2010 2:52:09 PM”
Tell me again how chemoterapy is experimental….

“.I bet could do a global replace of “liberal” with “christian” in goldbergs book Liberal Fascism”
I almost forgot how much Beck relies on that book to spew his idiocy to his gullible audience who then, like good little parrots, repeat it.
Its the circle of lie.

Posted by: De Oppresso Liber | May 4, 2010 2:58:45 PM
I can’t speak for Ryan C, but based on his posts, I doubt he’s voted for many Republicans. Like me, I’m pretty sure his conscience will be clear, alongside a few others.
The question is how will you explain being so easily duped time and again given your family history and what you should know?

“Mussolini and Hitler were both socialists.” No, Foghorn, they weren’t – and you get an “F” for today’s lesson. The nazis called themselves “socialist” intentionally, in a Karl Rove-style case of propaganda, to get people on their side. Although, your misunderstanding is a common one among right-wingers, and may explain why so many right-wingers seem so ignorant. Mussolini and Hitler were both FASCISTS – look that up in ANY legitimate historical reference, and you will find it to be true. Fascism is an extreme RIGHT_WING ideology, and Hitler and Mussy were both RIGHT WING extremists. Many say that today’s American conservatives have strong fascist tendencies, e.g their religious support of any and all corporations and corporate power. Look up Mussolini’s definition of fascism, and you will find it closely describes today’s USA, a country that most political scientists agree is a right-wing country. Gee, Foghorn – would education make you more liberal?

“He also voted against the tax hikes in California last year so walking the walk doesn’t appear to be his thing.”
I realize context matters little to you but I vote against most propositions in CA as they are usually misleading.
In this particular case it was because I think the legislature and Governor should actually do their jobs when it comes to budgetary matters.
Odd to remeber such a thing though….people might start to talk.

“I must wholeheartedly concur. It would take far too much courage for them to admit Jesus was the king of bleeding heart liberals.”
That whole rich man’s chance at heaven, camel through the eye of the needle thing really gets them.

I mean…..lets be honest.
The Tea Party Express doesn’t go to Cooltown.
It only goes to crazytown.
My demographic grew up ‘t-bagging’ our fallen guildies in WoW.
We don’t think of taxation without representation in the context of tea.

‘t-bagging’ is gamespk or l33tspk.
it permeates mainstream culture.
Epic Fail came from gamespk.

“Jesus would not have supported the latter”
Of course not, it’s supposed to be voluntary. But woe to them who do not volunteer.

“Nice try, Ryan – well not really, kinda amateur.”
Jay, I think you meant some one else.

My apologies, Foghorn, I see it was Gary making that claim (“the arrow points down, not up, Goofy!”). Easy to get riled when I see the same nonsense repeated all the time. “Hitler was a socialist” is one of the Wrong Wing’s most beloved lies. BTW – for all those here who think “socialist” is an immediate “bad word”, let me point out that one of the highest standards of living today, along with one of the longest life-spans, best physical health, best familial strength, and LOTS of other quality-of-life measures – is enjoyed by the citizens of the proudly socialist SWEDEN. And yes, they can own their own homes, and quit their jobs when they want to, and move around as they wish, and own big corporations (IKEA, Volvo, Big Pharma). 100 years of right-wing lying about this will not be easily undone, though.

DUMB moves
hmm…a strange way to describe 11D chess.
HCR passed….FinReg is in debate (while the media fuses the Goldman-Sachs bankstahs currently on trial with the GOP)….DISCLOSE, Obamanesty, and cap-n-trade are going to hit the floor before november, and Obama gets to appoint his SCOTUS before we are even 2 years in.
Our guy got HCR passed, and you cant repeal it.
What did your guy promise you?
Oh yeah…..Waterloo.

The reason this country led the world for over two hundred years is not based on progressive ideology, but conservative-independant thought.
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Actually, conservative thought isn’t independent, it’s bought and paid for by the “aristocrats.” And the reason this country has become what it is after being founded on lofty and liberal ideals is because many believed in progress and revolution– you know, science, technology, social advancement, justice, liberty and so on. (In the French Revolution, the rightwingers, the conservatives, were the ones against freedom and in lockstep with the king, yes? scared to death of change and moving forward. scared to death of equal opportunity and liberty; scared to death of upsetting the apple cart of tradition and power and wealth being in the hands of a few)
What amuses me is how backwards the conservatives have it– and that they know there are others as easily duped who will buy it.

“I will be a witness to that event for whatever it’s worth Foghorn. Ryan was courteous enough to take time out of his busy day debunking right-wing baloney to explain to me personally how he feels these propositions are passing the buck.”
The worst one I have seen happened a year or two ago.
T Boone Pickens sponsored a prop that set high standards for the state to produce alternative energy.
The catch (among others such as this being a bond)was failure to meet these goals would have locked the state into buying renewable energy out of state (indeed the law required it)
Guess who owns most of the wind farms in NV and AZ as well as a large market share of vehicles that run on natural gas?

So they would naturally approve of the President of U.S. using such an abusive and sexually explicit term during their son’s or daughter’s commencement address? Wasn’t he actually undermining the underlying point of his address by dropping the term?
Posted by: TW | May 4, 2010 3:35:35 PM
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He didn’t. Read the article above.

Ryan C what has this country not done for you that you have such dislike of free enteprise and free will?

Jay Dana, aside from labels, how do you distinguish Marxism from Fascism? They both destroy the individual, they both impose the government’s will on the individual, they both work towards the “good” of the collective, they both deal harshly with critics, they both control the economies of state, etc. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.

You haven’t refuted my statement, Liber. Show me the proof that it’s not correct.

“First of all we should not assume that redistribution of wealth means funds are going to the poor. During the Bush administration we were redistributing wealth to the richest Americans.”
But right wingers are just fine with that kind of redistribution.
Its when the poor and more specifically minorities who are poor getting tax payer dollars that sets them afire.

Posted by: TW | May 4, 2010 3:35:35 PM
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He didn’t. Read the article above.
Posted by: tierra | May 4, 2010 3:41:21 PM
Thanks for posting that. My post on the same topic may have been a little harsh– but…. YOWZA!!

Ryan C define “the infrastructure they are dependent upon to create their wealth”.

Right, “liberal bloggers” complained about your blatant misstatement. Because if a “liberal blogger” corrects your factual errors, they’re not really egregious errors.

Jay Dana, read the book. The author’s learned opinion is that Nazism (German Fascism) is very similar to Marxism. To bad for you that can’t dispute the similarities between Nazism and Marxism that I posted earlier.

“Ryan C define “the infrastructure they are dependent upon to create their wealth”.”
Well let’s see, there’s the literal
such as the transportation of goods via the government built road system.
There’s the legal in which companies operate under the same laws.
Then there’s the innovation spurred by gov’t research and investment, such as this thing we are using to communicate.
There’s a reason that commerce and capitalism don’t exist beyond the incredibly small scale in places with failed or non existent governments.

Obama is a socialist who has never exercised the slightest bit of restraint in his support of government spending. That he would truly hate, and use every effort to demean, those who believe in fiscal responsibility, comes as no surprise.
Here’s my response to both him and the rest of you lying, thieving socialists: keep your damned hands out of my pockets and away from the money I earned myself. You’ve lied about Social Security and every other socialist policy we’ve ever had in this country. They’re all ponzi schemes, and they’re all going broke.
Wind up Social Security, end medicare and medicaid, and end government aid to education, and watch the cost of government, medical care and education PLUMMET. Socialists destroy everything they touch because their underlying philosophy can only have the slightest hope of temporary success in a closed, racially and theologically undivided society. In a multicultural society as America is now, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Don’t think so? Look at what Greece is doing to the Euro right now. Freeloading will do that, and socialism draws freeloaders like rotten garbage draws flies.

Ryan C if you mean infrastructure in the literal sense then the “rich” already pay. I’m sure you are familiar with the 53%/47% dichotomy between tax payers and entitled. As an aside, do you know why government is in the “infrastructure” business? Private enterprise simply does not see it as profitable. Therefore, the government fills a necessary void. As far as R&D you must be kidding if you think government is the perverbial fountain of knowledge. Yes government has had successes, e.g., NASA, however private enterprise is where innovation is truly born. Did the government lay down the first transatlantic communicaiton cable? No it was a private enterprise. I do not know what you mean by “legal in which companies operate”. If anything, government does more to impede business (see the as an example FDA) than it does to further it.

progressive mama “scorched earth obstructionism” is that what you call standing against the tide of Marxism?

“If anything, government does more to impede business (see the as an example FDA) than it does to further it.”
I am baffled as to why ANYONE would think food inspection should handled privately.
Are right wingers really longing for a simpler time when food borne illness went unchecked because simple sanitary conditions interfered with profit margin?

Ryan C perhaps I should have been clearer. I am referring to the drug side of the agency. Do you know how long it takes and how much it costs to bring a drug to market? The waits can be measured in years that it is caught up in the FDA (after clinical trials). Moreover, the cost is measured in the millions. Why do you think meds are expensive here? This government bureaucracy has been heavily criticized by all sides for its sloth like movement.

Joyous One:
You are right. It is as simple as you say,and the fact that Obama and a lot of politicians discount the millions of people that feel this way is to their own political peril.

“I am referring to the drug side of the agency. Do you know how long it takes and how much it costs to bring a drug to market? The waits can be measured in years that it is caught up in the FDA (after clinical trials”
So you think that drug makers should be able to make any claims they want about medication to say nothing of about the safety of the product itself?
We’ve seen the folly of that in the supplement business that actively preys on the desperate and sad to say gullible.

Wrong, Mr. TOTUS, YOU created the Tea Party. YOU and YOU alone. And I am so happy you did. We have grown into several MILLION patriotic citizens who don’t want BIG GOVERNMENT, uncontrollable spending and selling our grandchildren’s future to CHINA! So, Thank You. We’ll see you in November and again in 2012!

This is a call to all Americans alerting you to a dangerous egomaniac behind the wheel. Argue terms and history but look for patterns
of despotism, because they are there. Look anyone with a few slivers of street smarts
knows that this deeply troubled
President and his inept gang of
radicals care only about raw power. They will do
anything to aggregate more of it and use it on you
the gullible people/media
who created this communist Frankenstein
wrapped in DNC clothing. Decent liberal/conservative people are being used to divide and conquer by this administration. This is a thug,
banana republic President who
uses and abuses people and power. This is done with race, technicalities, demonization, projection and bold mendacity. Explore the dangerous
people involved in this administration. Look at the
thin skinned attacks against the media taking place. They cannot handle the
light of day on their true intentions. This leader
has so much bad karma for absolutely lying about everything and stabbing the citizenry in the
back with a corrupt health care bill that should
be at the bottom of a fireplace.

Ryan C if you wish, go study the FDA and its methods of operations. You can then decide for yourself if the machinery of bureaucracy is helpful in that instant.

Ryan C why can’t you get over the fact that the Tea Party encompasses a broad spectrum of people who oppose Obama’s radical agenda? This is not about race it is about protecting our country from the scourge of Marxism in whatever its form. Obama is the embodiment of the push for more control over the lives of private citizens. If you can’t see that then so be it.

“Ryan C why can’t you get over the fact that the Tea Party encompasses a broad spectrum of people who oppose Obama’s radical agenda?”
Because it doesn’t embrace a broad spectrum of people, poll after poll bores that out.
The premise itself is a lie.

“This is not about race it is about protecting our country from the scourge of Marxism in whatever its form’
ROFLMAO!
Yeah campaign on ending Social Security and Medicare.
That would be a landslide for the ages.

This is typical of someone whose only capable of being an agitator and not a leader.

Ryab C your poestings greatly resemble
those of the poster loyal opposition. Are you the same poster using a different handle?

Thanks for sticking up for the Tea Partyers Jake. How about doing some real journalism and investigating “Emerald Cities” and its ties to Van Jones, The Apollo Alliance, and The Tides Foundation to name a few?

“What?? You empty-headed, tyrannical leftists fail to mention that 45% of the Tea Party are Democrats and Independents.”
So that means at least 55% are Republicans.
When self ided GOPers are in the low 30% in polling.
IOW, the tea parties are far more Republican than the average American.
In the same NYT/CBS poll, 0% described themselves as very liberal, 4% described themselves as somewhat liberals and 20% described themselves as moderate. 34% described themselves as at least somewhat conservative with 39% describing themselves as very conservative.
That compares with 4, 16, 38, 22, and 12% respectively among non tea partiers.
IOW, tea parties are even more likely to be very conservative than even being Republicans versus the average American.

“What?? You empty-headed, tyrannical leftists fail to mention that 45% of the Tea Party are Democrats and Independents.”
So that means at least 55% are Republicans.
Posted by: Ryan C |
Actually it means AT MOST 55% are Republicans but you got the 55 part right.

Ryan C, don’t avoid the question.
What is it that you want your country to do for you?

“Ryan C unfortunately Medicare and Social Security are too deeply engrained in this culture”
So the “scourge of Marxism” should be fought wherever it rears its head unless it proves immensely popular.

Ryan C “So you feel the FDA review process is why our drugs are more expensive than elsewhere in the world?”
As I wrote before R&D + FDA contribute to the high costs of meds. You do know what R&D stands for, right?

“Ryan C, don’t avoid the question.
What is it that you want your country to do for you?”
ROFLMAO!
Speaking of avoiding questions, I notice every time your reliance on the Book of Beckian knowledge makes a fool out of you when reality is brought in, you seek to change the subject.
But I digress…
I want my country to live up to the ideals we say represent this country.
Too often we fall short of those ideals but one of the great things we have learned as a country is recognizing and seeking to correct mistakes.

The National Equality March wasn’t held until October 2009. So I, for one, was aware of the double meaning but not of the Tea Partier objections at that time.

“NYT/CBS has it at 54% GOP, 5% Dem and 36% Ind.”
And I’m willing to bet many of those self-described ‘independents’ vote Republican every time.

Of course he’s called the Tea Party (and Republicans) names. That IS Obama’s game. He is working very hard to pit the two parties against each other. He has laughed at us, baited us, sent SWAT teams to our gatherings. So what? We still know how to vote. Obama isn’t MY president – he’s president to Democrats and Liberals and Socialists only. His loss.

Fact: The tea party people are mostly republicans.
Fact: They do not represent middle America or the middle income people of the USA as most people think. They are over 50, well educated, rich and many are professionals or own a business and are basically set for their retirement. They don’t have to worry about raising children with no health care, nor do they have to worry about finding jobs or losing their homes. As I said before…the middle income people have been ignored and taxed to death and finally, someone came along to help them. This president is the one who really cares about them. Do you remember for years people wanted affordable health care…they now have it. People wanted stem cell research,..they now have it. Health care for children..they now have it. Equal pay for women..they now have it. Now it is time for him to address the banks and who is fighting him…the republicans. They are in the pocket of the banks as Boehner went there in Dec. to say he would fight to defeat this bill if they would donate. Do you think an agreement was made? I do. Obama is being called a socialist because he cares for middle America…finally someone cares. People please realize this is your hope. If republicans get back in…Ceo’s will be estatic and bankers will dance in the streets. We need to think about this.

“This president is the one who really cares about them. Do you remember for years people wanted affordable health care…they now have it”
This president does not care about anyone except for his precious unions. As far as health care, please tell me where I can go to get the free treatment for my child as promised by Obama. Also…..tell me where I can purchase an affordable policy to cover my family. You can’t because it is a bunch of B/S that does not exist. Health care costs are going to increase and so are policy premiums. How else are you going to pay for the extra 30 million people and all of the illegal aliens given amnesty? YOu think that is going to be free or even affordable? You really fell for it.

“The government needs to start with NOT paying illegal aliens SS since they have probably not put a single dime into the system.”
You have this backwards.
Illegal immigrants often pay payroll taxes but do not collect the benefits derived from them.

“Leftist Motto: I am too lazy, indoctrinated, ignorant, incompetent, and pathetic to take care of myself”
Fomenting the myth that right-wingers are the only ones who really work. Some of these illegal immigrants work alot harder every day than fat-cat monkey suits who shovel around nominal wealth on computer screens all day.

“And yes, we have a legitimate right to take the lives of those who would oppress us, terrorize us, steal from us and enslave us”
To stay out of jail you’re going to have to prove to a jury that somebody actually did any of those things to you….Good Luck!

Control of illegal aliens is not a supply problem. It is a demand problem.
If American businesses were harshly penalized for hiring an illegal there would be less of a problem. Illegals do the work most Americans do not want to do. How many illegals have taken the place of IT workers? Teachers? Air Plane
pilots, and the list goes on. America’s willing to hire illegals because they can pay them a days wage for a weeks worth of work. Additionally, it is the American business man, the almighty capitalists that keep our borders ppealing. Punish the fire and not the moths that fly to it. After fighting two Wars to define who we are, it’s apparent a small minority have no idea what America is and stands for. Put on your hateful Tea bag hats and yell inaccurate, uninformed comments until you are all blue in the face. Fact is you are a national disgrace. A blight on the beautiful Red, White, and Blue American flag. Tea Party people Re Americans in name only. America should not be stained by a handful of fringers.

So what if “some liberal bloggers” claim that the Tea Party first used the term “tea-baggers”? And why would you say that it “seems true”?
I’ve heard this myth repeated many times by the left, but I have yet to see a shred of credible evidence that it actually occurred.
Then again, that mere puts it in the same ballpark with the still-unproven claim that Tea Party protesters shouted the N-word at least “15 times” at black Congressmen. Repeat a lie often enough and some people regard it as fact.

Another example of this arrogant liar talking out of both sides of his mouth. He can certainly lecture but he does exactly as he wishes even though it totally disregards what he’s just lectured on. He’s pathetic! And another book? He not only flies around the world, parties, entertains, golfs, vacations but now he has another book? When does he have time to be president? I know, he doesn’t! That’s why we have so many crises!

this bears repeating..
C’mon Jake, lets be honest.
The TPM is a white conservative christian grievance movement. It has nothing to do with fiscal conservatism, and everything to do with the demographic timer and cultural evolution.
There is no culture war…there is only an evolution of culture event… like glaciation or the extinction event at the K-T boundary.
And the TPM is just one big tantrum that they cant “take THEIR country back”.
And the only reason you media elites give the TPM memespace is that you can’t sell a one-sided fight. Its rubberband theory from the gameverse….if you want the conservatives to Play the Game you have to lower the standards for them….leveling a skillarchy.
Independents? lawl.
They just say they are independents to scrape the bush/cheney off their shoes.
The TPM movement is not bipartisan.
Actually there are two tea parties….the one that gets polled in national surveys has some token democrats and Paulites…..but the one that ATTENDS rallies self-selects for enthusiasm….you know, like those rasmussen statistics you guys endlessly cite?
The TPM rally attendees are nearly all white and nearly all christian and nearly all old. They arent protesting fiscal irresponsibility and big govt–they WANT THEIR COUNTRY BACK.
They are protesting cultural and demographic evolution.

The American people are not as stupid as the media believes.”
True.
Unfortunately, right wingers ARE as stupid as their right wing media thinks they are.
How else to explain how the right wing base is played emotionally day in and day out.

“Maybe Economics 101 and history tells us if have wage controls and price controls, unemployment goes up!”
Economics 101 tells me that while the Republicans holler about it alot they will never do anything about immigration reform at the federal level…because they love to exploit the cheap labor.

“Funny, it’s actually the libs and progressives who are played emotionally daily.”
Like the non existent War on Christmas….oh wait that’s Fox News.

First O blames Bush for the deficit he voted in, now he blames republican opposition to the stimulus for the tea parties, see a trend? It speaks to his inner liberal, everyone is at fault except the perpetrator himself, who in this backwards way of thinking is actually a victim.
Obama received millions from fannie mae and freddie mack as a senator, and as such went along with his dem cronies to block any investigation into their subprime lending.
Obama received over a million in campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs, and as such went along with the Dems, repubs, hank paulson, and the last administration to vote for and publicly support the bailouts of Goldman Sachs and others.
Obama shares responsibility of the current economic mess and the massive deficits to which he added a failed stimulus and an empty promise to bankrupt the country over healthcare.
But because tea partiers are not like the zombie knee jerk idiots who comment on msnbc or cnn in support of such wasteful policies, its actually theirs and the GOP’s fault for questioning the first black president, thus making them racist. The emperor really has no clothes.

O is a ZERO. fussy, thin skinned, petty little bitter man with limited brain function, no empathy and no work ethic.
And America is turning on him.

He leaves Iraq to get bogged down in a quagmire in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He tries to drill for oil, and the leftys blame Obama for not standing up for the enviroment, and backing big buisness… Boy Obama must be one lonely SOB, but then he has “resources” to cure THAT problem just like “Brotha Bill” did…
Stay classy Barky! This is what INCOMPETENCE looks like! I can’t wait til the next (s)election. Globalist Obama, vs. Pawn Palin! It doesn’t matter who wins, the American people STILL lose. But that’s what happens when you think an election is “American Idol” and personality cults, masquerade and substitute for substance.
You wanted a billboard for President, you got it!
Replacing one empty suit with another is lunacy… You expecting “Change” while sticking to the SAME policies…
I don’t know who is more insane… The bureaucrats in Washington looting the country at record levels, or the brain dead MORONS who cheer them on, like they were their own children, or actually gave a DAMN about them…
Newsflash, Obama doesn’t care about YOU, the Gulf Coast or ANYTHING other than milking YOU for what’s left of the country’s wealth.
And Palin throwing human lives and your grandchildren’s futures chasing boogeymen in caves while propping up druglords who get your kids addicted to pure heroin, aint much better, GOT IT!?!

“That seems true,” is to journalism what “let’s just kill this patient” is to medicine. Maybe one in 30 pieces on Political Punch do not serve as public relations missives on behalf of Obama and I thought this was one of them. But, in an instant that “one in 30″ is sacrificed to the casual assertion “that seems true,” without a speck of substantiation. Incredible. Especially since what seems true, in this “UPDATE,” isn’t.

Um, hello, the Tea Party folks showed up at rallies with tea bags stapled to their hats. Tea-baggers seems like an appropriate name to me.

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”                – Dr Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963

They are protesting cultural and demographic evolution.
Posted by: matoko_chan | May 4, 2010 6:43:56 PM
That was absolutely worth repeating.

Ryan, The great pretender BO is also the great divider. The American people are tired of ills such as ILLEGAL immigration and handouts such as welfare, HUD etc. We know who the feckless RHINOs are and we will vote them out, too. We don;t need progressive. elitist “lawyers” running the show. Time for TERM LIMITS!

Well, the Voyeur Club proves just how much the GOP is into S&M. So whatever the quote is, it already sounds accurate.

Come November!

Well, the Voyeur Club proves just how much the GOP is into S&M. So whatever the quote is, it already sounds accurate.
Posted by: kravitz | May 5, 2010 1:09:10 AM
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A less than $2000, one night expense “proves” just how much the GOP is into S&M? More like it proves just how much the GOP is NOT into S&M.

This president has such a huge ego and distaste for American’s…he can’t control his mouth. His filthy mouth matches his dark heart…Evil baby..evil

Why would the GOP pay $2000 for something they could observe for free in most DNC leaders homes any given night?

OWN faults…excuse me

I don’t care what anyone calls the Tea Party …..the fact is, they are ALL PRO-AMERICA, and that is all that matters! If you dems want Obama and his ways -cool, keep him! But please take him somewhere else-because the MAJORITY of AMERICANS want no part of his foolishness. IF, we let this FAUX President continue, you won’t have the freedoms that you now possess, then we will see you crying, but it will be too late!

@ Jen who writes “More like it proves just how much the GOP is NOT into S&M”:
How exactly does spending $2,000 of RNC money at a lesbian-bondange-themed strip club prove “just how much the GOP is NOT into S&M”?
It’s like saying that storm clouds, falling drops of water and wet pavement prove just how much it’s NOT raining.
Please, do tell.

The “N” word used between “friends” in the black community doesn’t seem as offensive as when it is used in hate and disrespect. The same goes for tea-bagger and the President should understand this!

the President should understand this!
understand what?
it is what you will be called in the history books.
thing is, the youth demographic leads culture. ‘tea’ does not make us think instantly of taxation without representation and funnie hats…..it makes us think of tea-bagging our fallen comrades in video-games.
you should have a picked a name that was relevent to contemporary culture.
The TPM is disenfranchised from mainstream american culture.

now what was wrong with this comment?
“when it is used in hate and disrespect”
tillyerkt…..do you deserve respect?
i don’t think Obama hates you.
you have people on government run healthcare protesting government run healthcare. you have people carrying signs of Obama as a witchdoctor or as the joker supposedly protesting fiscal irresponsibility.
you have people with badly spelled signs protesting for english as a national language….
You are just sillie.
Sure, you are mad…..but you are really mad at your old adversary, evolution.
Cultural and demographic evolution.

Clean sweep in November. Impeachment in 2011. That is a great plan. Restore America!!!

I mean…..why even put this up?
Is it “news”?
Or do you just want to drive up linkage and traffic by throwing gasoline on a flame war?

barry is the lamest excuse for a president i have ever seen and read about, what a disaster he has been for our country, please, please please impeach

The unlining problem with Obama and liberal Democrat Socialists is that they do not understand reality and Natural Law. Their basic philosophy is to have middle-men steal from producers and give to non-producers. Middle-men that have never produced a product or a service running everything. How can that work? Answer: it can not, and leads to bankruptcy. Look at Greece.
Obama’s basic philosophy is based on theft, and the Tea Party knows this. By the way, so does Obama. Obama and his men are the men that can’t do anything, and they know it and are OK with it.

C’mon Tapper.
How is this news?
Its just the truth. The GOP demagogued holy hell out of HCR and helped create the tea party movement.
And tea-baggers is what they will be called in the history books. They might as well get used to it.

So, how would this have stopped any of the terrorists from committing violent acts? Perhaps Hasan would have had trouble, but I believe he had someone else buy his guns. The latest and greatest NYC bomber used propane tanks, gas cans, and fertilizer. Outlaw terrorists from buying those things and they will not be able to mow their lawns or barbecue! If that is the case they may just leave the country. Guns play no role in these guys lives or acts of terror. Get real. This will only be used to keep people that Janet Napolitano thinks are terrorists, like me, a vet. Screw her and her boss. I can’t wait until November, but I am kinda hoping things will change before then. What does anyone think of impeaching obama for not keeping us safe with the policies he has put in place and continues to install daily?

Demonizing the tea party people has been the agenda of both this regime and MSM. They accused them of being violent, when there was nothing to prove the claims.
Yet, during the immigration protests, there was over $100,000 worth of vandalism, and 3 men were beaten in LA. In Chicago, arrests were made. Government and MSM were silent.

It amazes me how often comments here state that they represent ‘the will of the people.’ when more than one poll has shown that ‘tea partiers’ are a small minority of ‘the people’ and that the candidates they supported in 2006 and 2008 were handily defeated by a majority of ‘the people’
Bush’s margin was 51-49 in 2004, Obama beat McCain 53-47 in 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 Democrats gained 13 senators and 51 house members. So, it appears to me that the Democrats are trying to do ‘the will of the people’ who elected them.
The tea party is composed of people who didn’t like the outcome of the last 2 elections; as citizens they have every right to work to change it. But they can’t claim to be doing ‘the will of the people’ when they do.

Posted by: RadGal66 | May 5, 2010 3:18:32 PM
1 million Republicans did not vote in the election in 2008. What the outcome would have been if they had. Their vote would have saved this country. We can Thank McCain for that. His last min. decision on Palin for VP kept those voters home. If the rules were changed to allow us to vote on the Presidential and VP ticket together then Mr McCain would not have won the ticket for the Repulican candidate. It will be sorted out come November watch and see. Then you will be crying but your protest will be small as they were for the 8yrs of Bush’s administration.

Is there any evidence anywhere that “some Tea Partyers coined and originally embraced the term “tea-baggers.”" ? Until I see it, to me, that’s just another leftist fabrication.

Funny, I didn’t know what tea-bagging meant when Obama first used the term. I had to ask around. Wonder why he was so familiar with the term?

Democratic Republic of the Congo another cousin.

“Posted by: SGTYork | May 5, 2010 3:38:23 PM”
I used to think truthers were gullible and willing to ignore facts but I think the birthers may be worse.

What Facts have I ignored
Obama’s Mother is an American? Right?
Obama’s Father was Kenyan? With British Citizenship? Right?
To be President of the USA both of your Parents have to be an American Citizen? Right?
So these are the facts and once the Democratic Communist Party is out then there leader will be impeached. If any politican refuses then they will be dealt with in the following election. I think the Democratic Communist Party will go the way of the Federalist and the Wig parties. To Bad…… So tell me where the fact are wrong. Now that you have the Facts you might want to leave the Democratic Communist party behind and join the rest of America in saving Her for future generations.

Can you imagine what the People of England and there King called Americans during the Revolution.

If so, thank God.

Before the liberals pat themselves on the back regarding the percentage point differences between McCain abd Obama, we shouldn.t foeget the following:
Many conservatives stayed out of the last election as a protest of the Repub’s who were not listening to the will the people and the illegal corruption in the GOP that mirrored the Democrats Corruption when they were swept from power in the 90′s. This was not a mandate of the people, but a protest of the people who were tired of business as usual in Washington.
ACORN was caught red handed buying votes, mstuffing ballot boxes with illegal ballots of people who admitted to voting “Seventeen Times.” Although the Black Panthers were shown with weapons intimidating voters, it was swept under the carpet, as was just about every other illegal, unethical and immoral action that occured during the election.
Obama can’t produce a birth certificate that verifies exactly where he was born. He has spent milloins of taxpayer money getting every lawsuit thrown out by bought and paid for political hack judges who couldn’t care less about the legalities or ethics of their actions.
Obama continues to consolidate His power behind closed doors and cares nothing about the will of the people, only His Marxist agenda.
The Tea Party crosses political parties and philosophical beliefs, and it represents people of all walks, colors and parties who are tired of the spend and tax mentality of Washington elites that so easily forget they were sent to SERVE the people and DO NOT “RULE” the people.
Defecite spending is out of control. Obama is desperate to shove his Marxist agenda through before the populace throws him and his criminal cronies out on their asses. The Tea Party stands for Taxed Enough Already.
As for president Obama using an immorallly insulting term of a disgusting homosexulal act to refer to people trying to protect their ever decreasing rights from a corrupt and deaf government is beneath any ethical or decent behavior.
As a citizen, I DEMAND this pretender to the throne appologize immediately to the American people. America has had enough of this Anti-American Communist puppet and his immoral minions.
Remember in November!!!

Remember Obama’s campain promisses? Never mind he broke every one of them. He knew what Americans were sick and tired of. The lies, the party filibusters, business as usual of telling the people what they want to hear then doing whatever you want.
Never mind he broke them all and did the very same thing after promissing not to.
Never mind that he promissed not to raise one dime the taxes of anyone making less than $250.00 (couples) and his new plans for major taxes for everyone.
Never mind his promisses of transparency and his closed doors backroom deals on healthcare “reform.”
That’s just what he wants us all to do is never mind what these political hacks impose on the once free and proud Americans. They want us to trust the monsters who espouse the political system that is responsible for more suffering and death than any other system ever forced upon mankind.
Commmunist rule is what is coming very quickly to America. God save us all.

If there had not been so many centerists tired of the Repubican parties ignorance the Dumbrats would never have taken either Congress or the Admin. If the Repubican party would have endorsed Ron Paul instead of their sleazy McCain maybe things would have been different. But since they did turn out like they did we can always hope that the GOP will back people that support the Constitution instead of the Socialist party of impeach Barry Sotoro as non eligable to hold the office he userped and prosecute Obama-aka Barry Sotor, Pelosi and Rieid for treason and sedition. Then start prosecuting more Congress persons for commiting the crime of bribery, both giving bribes and taking.

President Obama is pretty much correct. Much of the country did not want the to be stimulated but a majority of representatives, senators and the executive branch saw to it that it was rammed down our throats. So techinically in opposition to the practice, the majority dangled a repugnant item into places it was not wanted!

“Race” is a scientific fact. There are several races within the human race. These races have behaviors unique to their genes, good and bad. Human behavior is controlled partialy by nature (genes)and partially by nurture (learning). In an evolving multicultural society, each race can share the good behavior and supress the bad behavior through learning. That is racial tolerance. To fight for the right to keep a racially bound behavior, good or bad, is racism. Discrimination based upon race is bad, but discrimination based upon behavior is natural.

The term was introduced by Anderson Cooper during a live discussion on CNN.

“the teaparty is 2% of the american electorate.
good luck with that.” matoko: Not sure where you got your figures. There are those that join the Tea Party events that are probably being counted as the Tea Partiers. There are millions more of us that have a job and can’t attend the events but we are also Tea Partiers at heart. We believe as they do and are working to get the current administration ousted. Just because you don’t see us at an event or on TV, don’t count us out! November may surprise you! We have very long memories. Obama has ticked us off SO badly, along with his goons, that we won’t forgive or forget – we’ll vote!

Most people who say it do not know why its derogatory. Its just easier to say than TeaPartier. This controversy is just another media creation. Are we seriously using “Urban Dictionary” to determine what we cant and cannot say now?

I know we have truth in advertising and if a product is not what it says it is then the government can take action, but what about the healthcare bill? The president lied about what it was, these people voted on the bill with the assurance that the bill was not going to cost what it costs and we would be able to keep our health insurance. Now companies will get rid of coverage for their employees because of this bill so therefore the president lied. “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”. Well would this happen with any other product? No, false advertising. The bill should be repealed because of all of the lies. And people want more government control. At least with private companies they want to keep your business and will try to satify their customers because it is in their best interest to do so, government can screw you over because what the heck are you going to do about it??????

If the tea party wants to call Obama a socialist, or Hitler, or the anti-Christ, then he ought to be able to offhandedly refer to them as tea-baggers (particularly if the nickname had already been coined elsewhere) without getting crucified. Free speech, right? . This has nothing to do with anything. This is not even news.

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I don’t know which of these guys is more stupid: Obama for using the phrase in AN INTERVIEW, or Biden for advising Obama that it’s no big deal to throw out a disgusting sexual phrase.
These two are a national disgrace.

Obama is a disgusting PIG!!!!!!!!

I am a tea partier and find it disturbing that everyone belies this on the basis of one unidentified interview. I find it dubious at best and will not give into that human desire to believe poorly of someone without due evidence. Where is the source?
There are other proven examples of incivility such as rubbing his face with his middle finger while talking about Hillary. Somebody ought to do a montage of that video next to his preaching about civility.

All of you need to Google “Bush-free speech zones”
You might learn something.

Race is not a scientific fact. It is a social construction. It only matters in ways we cause it to matter. The idea that people’s attitudes and behavior are genetically determined has been long scientifically disproven. There is no such thing as “racially bound behavior.” It is a racist concept.