Tea Party Logic

 

The Tea Party . . .

Never have so few,
spoken so much,
and said so little.

Sarah Plain 'n Simple

Sarah Palin appeared on the Sean Hannity comedy hour and Sean asked her about her most recent tweet. Sarah looked very pleased and proud as Sean recited her missive:

"Obama lies. Freedom dies."

It nearly moved Sean to tears.

Coburn's Racist Comments

 
Senator Tom Coburn made some vile and racist remarks about President Obama at a town hall meeting. Obama's "intent is not to destroy, his intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him,” he told a man who asked if Obama’s goal was to “destroy America.”

Coburn added that, “As an African-American male,” Obama received “tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs.”

Is Rick Perry Gay?

Boy Howdy! The Republicons done found themselves another actor / cowboy to gun for President! Sweet baby Jesus . . . haven't they learnt nothin' yet? These faux cowboys with shiny spurs will lie, cheat, and rob ya blind every time!

I know what Obama was thinking when Slick Ricky tossed his 10-gallon hat in the ring: "Bring it on!"

Brokeback Campaignin'

Before the Texas governor gets the nod from recently divorced Karla Rove, Perry apparently has to lasso in those pesky and persistent rumors that he likes to horse around with other fellers.

Yes, We Con

Michele Bachmann:
Small mind -- big mouth.

Dead Wrong

Real American patriots are rightly dispirited about the Tea Party's instant indignation and pre-packaged protests.

But there's no reason to become bitter. The Tea Party is extremely weak. I have no doubt -- it will evaporate into thin air very soon.


Back when it mattered, the militants in this "gas-roots" movement (BOUGHT to you by the Koch Brothers) were completely AWOL.

For 8 years, Bush and his Neo-CON artists pillaged and plundered America.

That Bush kid shipped our jobs overseas, declared a tax holiday for billionaires, blew through our surplus, then spent an additional 3 trillion on war. On top of that, he cut veteran benefits while he sent five thousand of our finest to an early grave.

Meanwhile, the Tea party movement played the role of Helen Keller (before Ann Bancroft). They blindly marched in lock-step behind the GOP. Where was the outrage? The TP people turned a deaf ear to the deficit warnings and remained silent about unnecessary wars.

Then we elected a person of color  . . . and OMG! Now suddenly the blind are miraculously healed! They don't like what they see . . . literally. They're having a hard time looking out the eye-holes in their white hoods.

The Tea Bigot movement will not last because it's largely made up of old, angry, White people. Like all political movements based on fear and racism, this TP will soon be flushed down the toilet of history.

Bigger Than O'Reilly

AMNESIA

Right wingers seem to think that demonizing government and Pres.elect Obama will solve all their problems. They think maintaining a strident sense of victim hood is good for our country. Man up and quit your whining boys! Obama is not yet sworn in.

'The last 7 1/2 years have been a failure', says Newt Gingrich. Garbage spewers such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity seem to think we went straight from the Clinton/Gore recession to the Obama depression.

Where for art thou Sen. Alan K. Simpson?
Your party needs you desperately.

Biz-Trib

Question:

'So, when does this story get retired from the "most posted"column so people can find something else to bicker about?'

Answer:

As soon as the Bismarck Tribune green lights another Brent McCarthy letter blaming all of our problems and social ills on the liberals and President Obama. Sorry old boy, we're not about to play "John Kerry' anymore. There's a new sheriff in town and your sequel has been canceled due to a shortage of funds and a lack of morals. Ain't life a Palin?

Honoring the Fallen

A poem by
David G. Bancroft

(Listen to TAPS)

I cannot help but think of those,
Whose anxious wait ended with a knock,
The wrenching ache felt deep down to the toes,
Knowing there was no more ticking for this clock.


Their brave loved ones served for our country’s sake
Be it yesterday, today, and time yet known,
Giving it birth and to protect … not take.
Their ultimate sacrifice shown.


The blinding tears of TAPS being played.
The overwhelming sadness of the colors given.
The proud thought of the difference made.
The final salute to the fallen . . . now in heaven.


And while there is a special day,
That we honor the memory of the gift they gave,
It should go well beyond a national thought in May,
Like every time when seeing the flag wave!

Thou Doth Protest Too Much

From failed former governor, Sarah Palin:

"I am saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America’s Constitutional rights are somehow racists.

The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling . . .

. . . and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand."

GOP's Poster Child

North Dakota’s Democratic Party is outraged over the discovery of two posters hanging in a state agency’s office, calling the anti-President Barack Obama posters “outrageous” and “obscene.” In photos released by the state Democratic-NPL Party on Wednesday, one poster in the Public Service Commission office reads:

“Thanks, Obama. You’ve spent my lunch money, my allowance, my inheritance, 35 years of future paychecks, and my retirement. You  (N-word).”

Public service commissioners acknowledge that an employee had an anti-Obama poster hanging in his office of a little girl giving the finger.

All three commissioners claimed they were previously unaware of the poster.

BP (Back Peddling)

Representative Joe Barton, Texas Republican, shocked his colleagues during the House Energy and Commerce committee's hearing on the BP oil catastrophe.

Speaking to Tony "I want my life back" Hayward -- BP's chief officer -- Barton proclaimed that Mr. Hayward and BP were the victims of the tragedy. Barton apologized repeatedly to the oil executive who oversaw the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Barton:

I apologize. I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown. In this case, a $20-billion shakedown with the attorney general of the United States -- who is legitimately conducting a criminal investigation and has every right to do so to protect the interests of the American people -- participating in what amounts to a $20-billion slush fund. It is unprecedented in our nation’s history.

I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong, is subject to some sort of political pressure that is, again, in my words -- amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.

Rep. Barton has received more than $1.5 million in campaign donations from the oil industry.

Shortly after GOP officials threatened to strip the Representative of all privileges for his apology, Barton began back peddling. He apologized if anyone had "misconstrued" his remarks. The congressman's office then issued an apology for Barton's apology.

The Honeymoon is Over

Organized around fears of America's problems -- not on facts and solutions --  the Tea Party's political candidates were doomed to be revealed as right wing whiners, windbags and rabble-rousers.

However, few could've predicted the Tea Partisans would fall apart so completely, so fast.

A flood of devastating natural disasters and big business boondoggles, combined with the on-going oil catastrophe off the Gulf coast, has forced Rubio, Palin and most of the other Tea Party all-stars into a R.U.N.T. (Republican Under New Title) retreat.

It's difficult to get folks to parade around with signs saying "Drill, Baby, Drill" and "Taxed Enough Already" when they're living in emergency housing or standing in the unemployment line due to an oil spill. But that didn't stop Rand Paul! Fresh off his primary win in Kentucky, Ron Paul's libertarian son went on a Tea Party media tour.

Dr. Paul, darling of the disgruntled Tea Baggers, went on Rachel Maddow's show to air his bizarre views in prime time. The son of a senator established that, as Bill Maher put it, "the shit doesn't fall far from the bat."

Private businesses should be able to do whatever they want -- Paul indicated -- including discriminate against minority groups or Americans with disabilities.

What about corrupt companies or negligent corporations like BP? As far as the good doctor is concerned . . . "accidents happen."

That's true. Of course, accidents can be avoided with proper assessment and preparation . . . a fact that cannot be lost on the Tea Baggers in Kentucky. As the campaign begins, their candidate has decided to decline all press interviews.

"I've heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it's part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen."
-- Dr. Rand Paul

"When does my honeymoon period start? I had a big victory."
-- Dr. Rand Paul

Tempest in a Tennessee Tea Pot

It was just a few weeks ago when Mark Skoda -- chairman of the Memphis TEA Party -- was loudly complaining about paying high taxes.

Mark and his group of Tennessee patriots were fighting mad about the tax money they're shelling out and staged several anti-government rallies.

Questioned as to anger directed specifically toward the President -- who has actually cut income taxes -- Mr. Skoda reasoned, "Obama was the Pearl Harbor moment for conservatives."

But now Mark and his fellow Tennessee Tea Baggers are facing a new crisis moment.

Flooding from two days of heavy rain is wreaking havoc in Tennessee. Up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of the state over the weekend. The rains have washed out major roads, caused evacuations, and prompted dam failures. In Nashville alone, more than 600 people were rescued from the water this weekend, reported emergency management officials.

Of course the rescue missions, emergency shelters and other services are supplied by local, state and federal GOVERNMENT.  And they cost a lot of MONEY.

The TN Emergency Management Agency has already requested help from the National Guard.  The state will now appeal to President Obama for federal relief.

Needless to say . . . the anti-tax protests from Mark Skoda, and the angry complaints about taxes from the Tennessee Tea Baggers, have instantly dried up.

Spill, Baby, Spill

The normally talkative Sarah Palin has fallen strangely silent on the topic, but the good old boys down South are facing an oil spill crisis. An oil rig explosion in the gulf has resulted in about 42,000 gallons of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico daily. The oil is now moving towards the Louisiana coast.

The Wall Street Journal reports: "The crude spill, emanating from broken drilling infrastructure 5,000 feet below the surface at a rate of 1,000 barrels a day, was caused by the explosion and sinking last week of the Transocean Ltd. Deepwater Horizon, which was drilling an exploration well for BP."

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official says the oil is expected to hit shore within days. If that occurs, it could create an economic and environmental disaster.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal says he is receiving constant updates on the oil spill. He insists the spill can be contained and that the government is prepared to handle the crisis. 

. . . Government? . . . Who needs government?

Party Down

The anti-government Tea Parties planned for the state of Mississippi have all been canceled . . . due to natural disaster. The anti-tax parties, protests and parades will be re-scheduled after federal and state government officials have assessed the damage and rushed aid to the tornado ravaged area.

"We don't like the government intrusions in our lives," barked Mississippi Tea Party President Roy Nicholson just a few weeks ago at an April 15 protest.

I agree with Roy!

No federal money should be forced on these proud patriots. Let them pull themselves up by their confederate boot straps. Our filthy government money is no good down there in Mississippi.

Congresman Baby Killer

The loud-mouthed clown who cried "Baby Killer" during Rep. Bart Stupak's March 21 floor speech in favor of health care reform was not some drunken moron in the visitor's gallery. The "Baby Killer" heckler has been identified as Republican Randy Neugebauer, a third-term representative of the proud people of Texas.

Politico reports that "Neugebauer was a co-sponsor to a March 2009 House resolution that would've required presidential candidates to provide a copy of their birth certificate."

While Neugebauer admits he lost any sense of decorum, dignity or basic self-control, he contends he was calling the bill a "baby killer" -- not Bart Stupak. Well, to quote one of Randy's birther buddies, "You lie!"

Speaking of baby killers, an estimated 45,000 Americans die every year due merely to a lack of health care insurance. Regardless of the federal deficit George Bush ran up, this nation is too wealthy to allow scores of innocent men, women and children to needlessly die.

It's Randy Neugebauer and the GOP who've fought like the devil to maintain the status quo death sentence on millions of Americans.

President Obama and the Democratic congress -- without a single vote from the Bible-thumpin' Republicans -- have at last put an end to America's deadly neglect of its own citizen's constitutionally protected right to life.

For Shame

On the 7th anniversary of the biggest lie the Republican party and that Bush kid made, I salute and take my hat off to the 4400 dead American soldiers. The Rich and right wing Republicans aren't even patriotic enough to contribute to the war effort. They haven't paid one dime towards it since their taxes went down when we went to war...that's Republicans for you, lying unpatriotic hypocrites.

I will never understand how anyone can call themselves Republicans with any pride. They have lied so much over the last year about the Health Care Reform bill and now that it's finally ready to be passed and they are seeing that there is nothing they can do about it. They continue to lie and put out as much false information as possible. For shame.

Fresh Brewed Backlash

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"As a member or supporter of the Coffee Party, I pledge to conduct myself in a way that is civil, honest, and respectful toward people with whom I disagree. I value people from different cultures, I value people with different ideas, and I value and cherish the democratic process."

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