The new term for Teabaggers

[slackjawed]

I pretty sure that the TEA parties can survive without any sympathy from you. It's TEA. Taxed Enough Already. Works for me.... and millions of others.

Organizations like the Tea Party can only keep up the manufactured outrage for so long. They will be a historical footnote after they destroy the Republican chances in 2010 and 2012

Meh, you make a good point but I doubt they'll damage the republicans. Remember, these are predominantly very simple people who vote republican; Lower taxes is a hard policy to go against for people who have such a tentative understanding of how things work.

I encourage you both, rightwinger and cuyo, to continue your good work on behalf of the party. Please don't change a thing, your really doing a great job. Please, do not change your talking points, keep them the same. Continue to use information from your favorite sources and party leaders, no matter what the age of that information. Please continue to assert your party's intelligence, and cast dispersions of stupidity on the opposing side. That just makes American politics that much more entertaining. Please continue, please.

 

[namvet]

What should they be called?

put "Americans" up there and ill vote

 

[JenyEliza]

LOL, remember the lefties screams and foot stomping if you called the anti-war protesters, UnAmercian.

yet they have no problems calling Tea Party people a degrading sexual name.

oh the two faces of a Liberal.

Sorry Steph..

No sympathy for the Tea Baggers..

They picked one of the most pathetic names for a political movement since the Know-Nothings

They were the ones who initially called themselves Tea Baggers. They picked the gay sounding "Tea Party" name. They run around with tea bags hanging from their bodies. Then they whine that people laugh at them?

Why should we reward stupidity?

Apparently you are a dumbass who didn't even pass 6th grade American History.

The name "Tea Party" came from a great AMERICAN historical event.

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.

Wherein, "We, The People" (at the time) protested UNFAIR TAXATION of their tea by the English crown. It was one of the ORIGINAL grass-roots protests against government by regular, hard working Americans.

Look it up. Google it. "The Boston Tea Party".

Read and learn, grasshopper. Read and learn.

 

[Cuyo]

LOL, remember the lefties screams and foot stomping if you called the anti-war protesters, UnAmercian.

yet they have no problems calling Tea Party people a degrading sexual name.

oh the two faces of a Liberal.

Sorry Steph..

No sympathy for the Tea Baggers..

They picked one of the most pathetic names for a political movement since the Know-Nothings

They were the ones who initially called themselves Tea Baggers. They picked the gay sounding "Tea Party" name. They run around with tea bags hanging from their bodies. Then they whine that people laugh at them?

Why should we reward stupidity?

Apparently you are a dumbass who didn't even pass 6th grade American History.

The name "Tea Party" came from a great AMERICAN historical event.

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.

Wherein, "We, The People" (at the time) protested UNFAIR TAXATION of their tea by the English crown. It was one of the ORIGINAL grass-roots protests against government by regular, hard working Americans.

Look it up. Google it. "The Boston Tea Party".

Read and learn, grasshopper. Read and learn.

Oh Jenny, I'm afraid you're just plain wrong! This is the beautiful irony that goes hand in hand with this particular movement.

The Boston Tea Party was a was a protest on the Tea Act, which would have eliminated a tarriff on east indian tea importation, and ran down the price of local tea.

Do you see the irony yet? It was a protest AGAINST THE ELIMINATION OF A TARRIFF... due to the effect it would have had on their local economy. The original tea partiers were LIBERALS!!!

 

[slackjawed]

from wiki;
"Until 1767, the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.[6] Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain. These high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into Holland was not taxed by the Dutch government, meant that Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices.[7] The biggest market for illicit tea was England—by the 1760s the East India Company was losing £400,000 per year to smugglers in Great Britain[8]—but Dutch tea was also smuggled into British America in significant quantities.[9]

In order to help the East India Company compete with smuggled Dutch tea, in 1767 Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave the East India Company a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies.[10] To help offset this loss of government revenue, Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.[11] Instead of solving the smuggling problem, however, the Townshend duties renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies."

FYI- At the time of the revolution, ALL of our founding fathers were considered liberals. However; the term did not mean the same thing it does now.

On the other hand, I support the liberal and progressive movement's attempts a spinning, even rewriting history. That will certainly increase the standing of those groups in the minds of loyal american citizens.

Kepp doing what you are doing, please.

 

[SFC Ollie]

In May of 1773 Parliament concocted a clever plan. They gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to America. Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever before. However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament's right to tax them. Tea was a staple of colonial life - it was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than deny themselves the pleasure of a cup of tea.

The Boston Tea Party, 1773

 

[JenyEliza]

from wiki;
"Until 1767, the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.[6] Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain. These high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into Holland was not taxed by the Dutch government, meant that Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices.[7] The biggest market for illicit tea was England—by the 1760s the East India Company was losing £400,000 per year to smugglers in Great Britain[8]—but Dutch tea was also smuggled into British America in significant quantities.[9]

In order to help the East India Company compete with smuggled Dutch tea, in 1767 Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave the East India Company a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies.[10] To help offset this loss of government revenue, Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.[11] Instead of solving the smuggling problem, however, the Townshend duties renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies."

FYI- At the time of the revolution, ALL of our founding fathers were considered liberals. However; the term did not mean the same thing it does now.

On the other hand, I support the liberal and progressive movement's attempts a spinning, even rewriting history. That will certainly increase the standing of those groups in the minds of loyal american citizens.

Kepp doing what you are doing, please.

Any questions Cuyo? You dumbass.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Another name?

How about this: Genuine American Patriots rubbing their nutsacks on the faces of would-be tyrants in both major political parties?

 

[rightwinger]

Organizations like the Tea Party can only keep up the manufactured outrage for so long. They will be a historical footnote after they destroy the Republican chances in 2010 and 2012

Meh, you make a good point but I doubt they'll damage the republicans. Remember, these are predominantly very simple people who vote republican; Lower taxes is a hard policy to go against for people who have such a tentative understanding of how things work.

I encourage you both, rightwinger and cuyo, to continue your good work on behalf of the party. Please don't change a thing, your really doing a great job. Please, do not change your talking points, keep them the same. Continue to use information from your favorite sources and party leaders, no matter what the age of that information. Please continue to assert your party's intelligence, and cast dispersions of stupidity on the opposing side. That just makes American politics that much more entertaining. Please continue, please.

Gladly...

The Tea Baggers are a republicans worst nightmare. They have very little influence on Democratic candidates.
-If the Tea Party runs a third party candidate....those votes come from Republicans not Democrats
- If a moderate Republican runs in a moderate district, he will be forced to adopt teaparty doctrine which will make him unelectable

For the most part, the Tea Baggers "I'm mad as hell" rantings can only go so far. They need to appear more rational, more mainstream......Otherwise they fade away

 

[rightwinger]

LOL, remember the lefties screams and foot stomping if you called the anti-war protesters, UnAmercian.

yet they have no problems calling Tea Party people a degrading sexual name.

oh the two faces of a Liberal.

Sorry Steph..

No sympathy for the Tea Baggers..

They picked one of the most pathetic names for a political movement since the Know-Nothings

They were the ones who initially called themselves Tea Baggers. They picked the gay sounding "Tea Party" name. They run around with tea bags hanging from their bodies. Then they whine that people laugh at them?

Why should we reward stupidity?

Apparently you are a dumbass who didn't even pass 6th grade American History.

The name "Tea Party" came from a great AMERICAN historical event.

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.

Wherein, "We, The People" (at the time) protested UNFAIR TAXATION of their tea by the English crown. It was one of the ORIGINAL grass-roots protests against government by regular, hard working Americans.

Look it up. Google it. "The Boston Tea Party".

Read and learn, grasshopper. Read and learn.

Duh.......No shit Jenny

Still one of the dumbest names for a movement in history. Do you really find adults running around waving tea bags to be inspiring?

 

[slackjawed]

Please tell us more rightwinger, and, thank you for your unyielding support!

 

[skookerasbil]

Well let's see them then. From a credible source please. I don't think numbers that somebody else just made up out of thin air will probably be very convincing.

I can assure you that there is NO alliance between the Tea Party movement and the GOP, however. Yes, there are Republicans, some with much name recognition, who appear at Tea Party events. Also Libertarians and Democrats and Independents and some who don't identify themselves with any ideological group. Just from local news interviews and those in our local group that I visited with, there were a minority of those who identified themselves as Republican at our local events.

Would the Republican Party be more likely than liberal Democrats to be identified with the Tea Parties? Sure. The GOP has long included in their platforms many or most of the concepts supported by the Tea Partiers. Unfortunately, for some time the GOP has not governed as they campaigned. They were almost as bad as the Democrats in that regard.

But hey. That's why we have Tea Parties unaffiliated with either. Some here will never understand that, and some are so threatened by the idea of free people governing themselves and who value personal integrity, responsibility, and accountablility that they will continue to try to trash the Tea Parties.

Fortunately I think those who trash the Tea Parties are a continuously shrinking minority. As the Obama administration continues on his reckless and ultra liberal course, those Tea Partiers are looking smarter and smarter to more and more people.

You really don't need five paragraphs to say something you can sum up in one.

I already posted the numbers if you haven't seen them. The majority of the tea party people would vote Republican if there was no third party candidate, right off-the-bat.

And if you seriously think Obama is Ultra-Liberal, you need to learn history and current events.

Couldnt agree more with the "ultra-liberal" label being incorrect!!! Lets face it.........the guy is by far the most radical president in the history of the Republic. He's more what I would call "extreme progressive".
I told everybody 18 months ago, "Look at this guys voting record, people!!!". Even calling him a socialist is way, way off!! The guy's hero's are devout Marxists!! His views are grounded in Black Liberation Theology!! You need look no further than his appointment of Van Jones........an extreme radical looking to use government to level the playing field via a BS green economy = massive government welfare program!!

Thankfully...........the folks responsible for electing him have gotten the message as independent support for this fraud grows by the day!! They know they were bamboozled!!

 

[rightwinger]

Please tell us more rightwinger, and, thank you for your unyielding support!

Any time slack..

Always willing to help a Tea bagger out

 

[Cuyo]

from wiki;
"Until 1767, the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.[6] Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain. These high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into Holland was not taxed by the Dutch government, meant that Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices.[7] The biggest market for illicit tea was England—by the 1760s the East India Company was losing £400,000 per year to smugglers in Great Britain[8]—but Dutch tea was also smuggled into British America in significant quantities.[9]

In order to help the East India Company compete with smuggled Dutch tea, in 1767 Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave the East India Company a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies.[10] To help offset this loss of government revenue, Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.[11] Instead of solving the smuggling problem, however, the Townshend duties renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies."

FYI- At the time of the revolution, ALL of our founding fathers were considered liberals. However; the term did not mean the same thing it does now.

On the other hand, I support the liberal and progressive movement's attempts a spinning, even rewriting history. That will certainly increase the standing of those groups in the minds of loyal american citizens.

Kepp doing what you are doing, please.

Any questions Cuyo? You dumbass.

No, not really, he confirmed what I said...

 

[Father Time]

Stupid thread with bogus poll choices. Grassroots movements are only approved of by the Left if they're anarchists. Intellectual Hypocrites. What happened to "I may not approve of what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?

So calling people nasty names = censorship?

You can say what you want and we get to call you all sorts of nasty names for it (as long it isn't slander/libel).

How is that difficult to comprehend?

 

[sboyle24]

Tea bagging party? I'm in if I get to make the "tea."

 

[Father Time]

Organizations like the Tea Party can only keep up the manufactured outrage for so long. They will be a historical footnote after they destroy the Republican chances in 2010 and 2012

Meh, you make a good point but I doubt they'll damage the republicans. Remember, these are predominantly very simple people who vote republican; Lower taxes is a hard policy to go against for people who have such a tentative understanding of how things work.

I encourage you both, rightwinger and cuyo, to continue your good work on behalf of the party. Please don't change a thing, your really doing a great job. Please, do not change your talking points, keep them the same. Continue to use information from your favorite sources and party leaders, no matter what the age of that information. Please continue to assert your party's intelligence, and cast dispersions of stupidity on the opposing side. That just makes American politics that much more entertaining. Please continue, please.

it's funny when people have to resort to reverse psychology and BEGGING to get something. Have you no dignity sir?

 

[Foxfyre]

Couldnt agree more with the "ultra-liberal" label being incorrect!!! Lets face it.........the guy is by far the most radical president in the history of the Republic. He's more what I would call "extreme progressive".
I told everybody 18 months ago, "Look at this guys voting record, people!!!". Even calling him a socialist is way, way off!! The guy's hero's are devout Marxists!! His views are grounded in Black Liberation Theology!! You need look no further than his appointment of Van Jones........an extreme radical looking to use government to level the playing field via a BS green economy = massive government welfare program!!

Thankfully...........the folks responsible for electing him have gotten the message as independent support for this fraud grows by the day!! They know they were bamboozled!!

I suppose it comes down to how you define liberal. In this context I define liberalism as a belief or conviction or purpose to involve government or give it power over as much of life in America as can be accomplished. That could include, but would not be limited to, what we wear, what we eat, where and how we live, what transportation we will use, our healthcare, how we make a living, what portion of our earnings are appropriate for us to use as we see fit, how we educate our children, what the people's money will be spent on, and what we should be exposed to on the radio, television, and internet.

In contrast, I define conservativism as government doing only what it absolutely has to do to secure our rights and provide basic services necessary for the general welfare, and then leave us alone as much as possible to live our lives as we see fit.

Dogbert is right though that if the only viable choices in the next election are Democrat or Republican, the Tea Partiers, whether they identify themselves as GOP, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent, will be voting mostly Republican. They've had it with liberalism.

 

[Stephanie]

you know that saying, sticks and stones could break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Keep up the great work lefties. The people from the Tea Party and the Republican party applaud you.

 

[Father Time]

you know that saying, sticks and stones could break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Keep up the great work lefties. The people from the Tea Party and the Republican party applaud you.

So when morons on the right were calling lefties unAmerican they were really just showing support?