Thread: Modern Day Tea Parties

Originally Posted by raycarey

ted cruz will never be elected president of the US

Of course not. My guess is he'll end up in some right wing think tank- doubt he'd fetch much dosh on the lecture circuit.

^ Sure hope Cruz can get the nomination though. He is unelectable in a general election.

Originally Posted by bsnub

^ Sure hope Cruz can get the nomination though. He is unelectable in a general election.

No way ... His name isn't white enough. Ain't no self respecting redneck gonna come in from alligator hunting in Mississippi to vote for a 'Cruz' ...

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by bsnub

^ Sure hope Cruz can get the nomination though. He is unelectable in a general election.

No way ... His name isn't white enough. Ain't no self respecting redneck gonna come in from alligator hunting in Mississippi to vote for a 'Cruz' ...

Or a Canadian named Rafael for that matter.

Heh...what's the big controversy here? We got a sitting president who was born in Kenya. Canada is, like, almost the USA so...have a nice day!

Well thats it then. Can't be Potus if you were foreign born. Well, except maybe a stealth Muslim born in Kenya. Or a Panamanian like John McCain.

Originally Posted by sabang

Well thats it then. Can't be Potus if you were foreign born. Well, except maybe a stealth Muslim born in Kenya. Or a Panamanian like John McCain.

You got it!

the current tea party darling is a foreign born guy named rafael cruz.

Well it would seem to me the birthers should be up in arms about a Canadian born wetback running for POTUS. Or would they?

Democrats should adopt the following tactic: Whenever you're referring to Republicans, call them "Tea Partiers"; whenever you're referring to Tea Partiers, call them "Republicans."

As in "My Tea Party opponent for the Senate seat, Mr. So-and-so, says that we should default on our debt."

and "Last week several town hall meetings were disrupted by activist Republicans demanding the defunding of Obamacare."

Quite funny that it was the Tea party that first dubbed themselves teabaggers. you asked for it.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Violent Radical leftists vandalized the office of Rep. Roger Williams (R-Austin) this week. The radicals hung tea bags and MoveOn.org signs.

Oh ya they are sure violent hanging some teabags on a door. They should be caught and executed. Very dangerous to the safety of America.

A little display of dissention i would have thought was long overdue. To say/do nothing when all is not right with your elected can be seen as tantamount to support.

Certainly more Republicans need to feel the wrath of the people who are paying their salaries. Come out from under those rocks you despicable, treacherous, unfit for office clowns

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

A little display of dissention i would have thought was long overdue. To say/do nothing when all is not right with your elected can be seen as tantamount to support.

Certainly more Republicans need to feel the wrath of the people who are paying their salaries. Come out from under those rocks you despicable, treacherous, unfit for office clowns

Far enough although it's Obama who up until quite recently refused to negotiate one iota.

A little reminder of who the Tea Party really is vs. some boogie-man character drawn by the far-left. To the TDMA, this is The Tea Party Extremist - Defined:



The No Free Lunch thing seems to be forgotten these days...

Plain fact is, a a neo-'republican' teabagger type would hate the real Ronald Reagan. The retards worship a fantasy reagan.

Which Americans? The ones who control the lower house or the ones who voted in Obama?

Time to be specific, methinks.

Originally Posted by sabang

Plain fact is, a a neo-'republican' teabagger type would hate the real Ronald Reagan. The retards worship a fantasy reagan.

if reagan were in office today, he would be primaried by the t-hadists in a heartbeat.

and you can bet they'd call him a RINO.

Originally Posted by sabang

Plain fact is, a a neo-'republican' teabagger type would hate the real Ronald Reagan. The retards worship a fantasy reagan.

absolute truth....

for gun control
for huge deficits
raised taxes
cut & ran in Beirut after a few marines were killed by terrorists
made backroom deals with terrorist (iran)
had a gay son whom he supported

ya... I can see how people like Boon Mee would be all for this guy today...

sheesh he would not even make it to the primaries....

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by sabang

Plain fact is, a a neo-'republican' teabagger type would hate the real Ronald Reagan. The retards worship a fantasy reagan.

How do you know?

Spent a few months in the States years ago and now yer an expert on how Americans regard various issues?

He is correct. Reagan nor Bush senior could get the Republican nomination today.

After he switched to the Republican Party in 1962, Ronald Reagan famously quipped: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”

Now, the Republican Party is doing the same thing to him — and Democrats are happy to take Reagan back.

At Tuesday morning’s meeting of the House Democrats, caucus chairman John Larson rallied his colleagues for the day’s debt-limit debate by playing an audio recording of the 40th president.

“Congress consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility,” Reagan says in the clip. “This brinkmanship threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on Social Security and veterans benefits. Interest rates would skyrocket, instability would occur in financial markets, and the federal deficit would soar. The United States has a special responsibility to itself and the world to meet its obligations.”

“Kind of sums things up,” Larson said, playing the same clip again at a news conference.

Nobody knows what Reagan, who died in 2004, would make of the current fight over the debt limit. But 100 years after Reagan’s birth, it’s clear that the Tea Party Republicans have little regard for the policies of the president they claim to venerate.

Tea Party Republicans call a vote to raise the debt ceiling a threat to their very existence; Reagan presided over 18 increases in the debt ceiling during his presidency.

Tea Party Republicans say they would sooner default on the national debt than raise taxes; Reagan agreed to raise taxes 11 times.

Tea Party Republicans, in “cut, cap and balance” legislation on the House floor Tuesday, voted to cut government spending permanently to 18 percent of gross domestic product; under Reagan, spending was as high as 23.5 percent and never below 21.3 percent of GDP.

That same legislation would take federal spending down to a level last seen in 1966, before Medicare was fully up and running; Reagan in 1988 signed a major expansion of Medicare.

Under the Tea Party Republicans’ spending cap, Reagan’s military buildup, often credited with winning the Cold War, would have been impossible.

No wonder Democrats on Tuesday were claiming the Republican icon as one of their own. After the caucus meeting with the Reagan clip, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) began the day’s debate by reading from a 1983 Reagan letter to Congress warning that “the full consequences of a default — or even the serious prospect of default — by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate.”

“In the year of his 100th birthday, the Great Communicator might be amazed at how far his own image has shifted from the original,” Quigley charged. “He’d see his most dedicated followers using his name as justification for saying no to honoring our debts. He’d see his legacy used to play chicken with the world’s greatest economic engine.”

Republicans have continued their ritual praise of Reagan during the debt-limit fight. Rep. Trent Franks (Ariz.) claimed that the budget caps would allow America to be “that great city on a hill that Ronald Reagan spoke of.” Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) invoked Reagan’s belief that “the closest thing to eternal life on Earth is a federal government program.”Kevin Brady (Tex.) cited Reagan’s line that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ ” Both Steve King (Iowa) and Bobby Schilling (Ill.) informed the body that they had granddaughters named Reagan.

But while Reagan nostalgia endures, a number of Republicans have begun to admit the obvious: The Gipper would no longer be welcome on the GOP team. Most recently, Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr. (Calif.) called Reagan a “moderate former liberal . . . who would never be elected today in my opinion.” This spring, Mike Huckabee judged that “Ronald Reagan would have a very difficult, if not impossible time being nominated in this atmosphere,” pointing out that Reagan “raises taxes as governor, he made deals with Democrats, he compromised on things in order to move the ball down the field.”

During the debt-limit debate, a procession of Democrats — Vermont’s Peter Welch, Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen, New York’s Paul Tonko, Texas’s Sheila Jackson Lee and Gene Green — claimed Reagan’s support for their position. Reagan is “revered by many Democrats,” said Welch, who praised Reagan for fighting “the absurd notion that America had an option when it came to paying our bills.”

Half a century after he left the party, the Gipper is winning one for the Democrats.

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This is a spot-on analysis of the Tea Party thru an a European viewpoint:

One of the reasons Europeans are so fearful of the Tea Party is that they assume that because it is right wing and populist it is like the National Front in France or Golden Dawn in Greece. Today’s small government American Tea Partiers are much farther from Huey Long and Father Coughlin in their political views than some European right wingers are from the darker demagogues of Europe’s bloody past, and until the European establishments understand this, they will likely continue to misjudge the state of American politics.

Of course, Father Coughlin and Huey Long were actually lefties, though they favored fascist-style politics — which were also lefty politics then, of course. And now?

But they’re probably also afraid that the Tea Party is about slashing elite privilege, of which Europe’s ruling class has even more than America’s.

Europe Is Burning, Slowly | Via Meadia

There seems to be a hue & cry for a third party within the American Democratic system and the Tea Party certainly fulfills that need.

From the American Conservative no less:

The Republican Party has driven the country to the brink, and this morning, House Republicans bolstered their ranks by … standing together and singing Amazing Grace. It’s Strangelovian. Maybe there won’t be a long-term fallout from this, but I tell you, it’s very hard to see entrusting power to a party that behaves this way, that manufactures crises like this for its own short-term political gain. The Republicans, having lost their mind, have destroyed their brand.



Read the full article here: The Strangelove Republicans | The American Conservative

^^ A super majority for the Dems in 2014! The Republican party is imploding as we speak.

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