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   ODon said, 3 months ago

   Neo Kool-Aid
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   AgentSmith101 said, 3 months ago

   Shouldn’t there be a piranha in that cup?
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   Rickapolis said, 3 months ago

   The tea-party is like that body in the water tank in LA. Polluting everything. Bigots, fools, haters. But we have to allow them to exist, no matter how loathsome they become.
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   jdlambert said, 3 months ago

   Definition of the Tea Party Movement from Wikipedia: “The Tea Party movement is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution, reducing U.S. government spending and taxes, and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.” Which of these does Mr. Bennett hate, and why?

   @Rickopolis, I visited a tea party meeting in Northern Virginia to meet some of them first-hand. They were average, nice, intelligent people, including several of African and Hispanic descent, and when I asked them, the items listed in the definition above were the only issues their group was organized to address. Why do you call them bigots, fools, and haters? How many have you met? It seems like many tea-party-haters are the bigots and haters, prejudiced against tea party supporters without justification.
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   ahab said, 3 months ago

   @jdlambert

   Do you believe President Obama is an American? Do you believe President Obama is a Muslim?Do you know that the Tea Party promotes the ideas that President Obama is not American born, is a socialist,and not a Christian?!
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   CDK said, 3 months ago

   @jdlambert

   BBBBBUT they are liberals so it is OK
   Bet if you looked into it you would fond some smart democrats in the Tea party.
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   I Play One On TV said, 3 months ago

   @jdlambert

   “Definition of the Tea Party Movement from Wikipedia: “The Tea Party movement is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution, reducing U.S. government spending and taxes, and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.” Which of these does Mr. Bennett hate, and why?”

   Good point.

   Now, here’s the rub: the difference between what they say and what they do. All politicians say the right things: government wastes money, it’s time to limit spending, and we should pay attention to the Constitution.

   I don’t think those points will stimulate argument. Many tea partiers believe that there can be no revenue enhancement. This is an untenable situation. If we do nothing but cut, the resulting loss of jobs will send our economy into another tailspin. If the parties had been working with each other to help ameliorate the recession, instead of trying to prolong it to make the other party look bad, the need for revenue enhancement may not have become as dire.

   Similarly, even the threat of default was enough to cause the US to have its credit downgraded to the point that we all have to pay more on the government’s interest payment. Still, many of the tea party want the country to go into default for real.

   Stated goals are one issue. How to obtain the goals is another. Almost all of the people in the position of leadership say the right things at the right time. Their deeds often do not match their words.
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   eclodyrag said, 3 months ago

   @jdlambert

   Well put.
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   Fuzzy Thinker (I) said, 3 months ago

   Strawman- Define a terrible Fictional character and put a label on it and then beat it up. Sounds like Clay. Rich Democrats should stop hiding under the table and volunteer right now to be taxed more.
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    1opinion said, 3 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    “No, that would be the cartoonist.”
    ?????
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    Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago

    A gov’t by extremism will always be dangerous to someone, and ultimately, to itself.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

    The haters have spoken. The TEA party is a minority, should we take lessons from O?
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    dtroutma said, 3 months ago

    When the “TEA party” got started, there were actually a few fairly rational people involved, they’ve all left in disgust at where it’s gone.
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    Tigger said, 3 months ago

    Why does Bennett oppose our Freedoms?
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    AgentSmith101 said, 3 months ago

    @1opinion
    Yeah, I didn’t get it either.

    My point was the Tea Party about to rip apart its own in a blood fury over adherence to the strict rules it espouses. A view which has continually barred my desire to rejoin the Republicans.As a moderate Republican I’m supposed to hate everyone receiving government benefits and anyone in a union. Government is the total evil and must be reduced to the point of being nonfunctional so it can allow people to pollute, damage themselves, hurt others and the environment. But it’s supposed to pay for farm subsidies, gun law enforcement, road improvement, border control and everything else that conservatives want..We all want to cut government ‘s wasteful spending, but how? With the axe and butcher’s knife of total austerity or the scalpel of reform to the current system? Instead of driving the Republicans to be the party of “No”. We could have been the party of “Let’s work to fix it.”

    
    But these days compromise is such a dirty word which can’t be communicated over a burnt bridge.
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