What is a tea-bagger?

[Stephanie]

It takes a TOTAL moron to misinterpret Tom Tancredo's opening salvo...

Former Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, told about 600 convention goers in the Nashville ballroom that in the 2008 election President Barack Obama was elected because of "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English.'"

Expressing his disappointment that America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama." Tancredo went on to suggest that a literacy test be implemented to prevent electoral outcomes in the future.

Suggesting a literacy test is nothing short of calling for a return to Jim Crow laws. Under Jim Crow laws literacy tests were used to prevent blacks from voting during segregation. They were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1964.

Oh my gawd, Trancredo didn't say people should "take a literacy test" he said people should know Civics literacy before voting.. But don't let that stop you all from making shit up.

That's still illegal! Show us where any kind of testing, literacy, civics, financial standing, marital, etc. is required for franchise. The only test is citizenship and age.

A political litmus test is something worthy of the Taliban, not a free American citizen.

ILLEGAL. worthy of the Taliban. good grief. can ya get anymore DRAMATIC.

 

[Foxfyre]

LOL, they were formed just to hate on the poor wittle Obama. That must be it.

If they were sincere, they would have formed while Bush was in office. As it is, we never heard of a tea party movement until after the McCain concession speech.

Tea baggers are only missing a hood and a burning cross. Otherwise, an argument defending their long held hatreds and paranoias could be made.

The Tea Party movement DID begin organizing during the Bush administration right after the first bank bailout that appalled so many of us.

Until the housing bubble burst causing the economic collapse in 2008, the economy was strong and people could prosper. Unemployment was beginning to rise in 2007 which of course was a factor in the bubble bursting, but it was not in unusual or alarming range. None of us who are now Tea Partiers approved of President Bush and the GOP congresses fiscal irresponsibility which I believe is the most significant reason that the Democrats took over in 2007. Of course the Democrats then proceeded to make it much MUCH worse, especially since President Obama was inaugerated.

As for your last comment there, I think only those of a hooded and cross burning mindset would even attempt to attach that analogy to the Tea Parties.

Once again I give praise that I am not a liberal of that stripe. I simply don't have it in me--I don't think any American conservative has it in them--to be that narrow minded, prejudiced, bigoted, and/or hateful.

 

[Nosmo King]

Oh my gawd, Trancredo didn't say people should "take a literacy test" he said people should know Civics literacy before voting.. But don't let that stop you all from making shit up.

That's still illegal! Show us where any kind of testing, literacy, civics, financial standing, marital, etc. is required for franchise. The only test is citizenship and age.

A political litmus test is something worthy of the Taliban, not a free American citizen.

ILLEGAL. worthy of the Taliban. good grief. can ya get anymore DRAMATIC.

Why would you, or any American think that civics testing is a proper thing to do to ensure franchise? Or is the old maxim playing itself out as true all over again; Conservatives will always erode freedom.

 

[Foxfyre]

That's still illegal! Show us where any kind of testing, literacy, civics, financial standing, marital, etc. is required for franchise. The only test is citizenship and age.

A political litmus test is something worthy of the Taliban, not a free American citizen.

ILLEGAL. worthy of the Taliban. good grief. can ya get anymore DRAMATIC.

Why would you, or any American think that civics testing is a proper thing to do to ensure franchise? Or is the old maxim playing itself out as true all over again; Conservatives will always erode freedom.

Well how about literacy testing? Would that be a good idea? If you actually could read what was said, you wouldn't keep repeating that anybody suggested civics testing.

 

[Nosmo King]

ILLEGAL. worthy of the Taliban. good grief. can ya get anymore DRAMATIC.

Why would you, or any American think that civics testing is a proper thing to do to ensure franchise? Or is the old maxim playing itself out as true all over again; Conservatives will always erode freedom.

Well how about literacy testing? Would that be a good idea? If you actually could read what was said, you wouldn't keep repeating that anybody suggested civics testing.

Literacy testing has been roundly defeated as a measure by the SCOTUS. The Conservatives ran literacy testing in the south during Jim Crow to suppress the Black vote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

It's not surprising to see the Conservatives dip into their nefarious bag of tricks yet again.

 

[Bfgrn]

If the "oh so Intelligent" lefties thinks it's a good idea to call, ma and pa, grandma and grandpa middle Amercia, teabaggers. Then by golly they should continue.

Take it up with the pea brain that started the phrase...Griff Jenkins from Fox News...

 

[Stephanie]

If the "oh so Intelligent" lefties thinks it's a good idea to call, ma and pa, grandma and grandpa middle Amercia, teabaggers. Then by golly they should continue.

Take it up with the pea brain that started the phrase...Griff Jenkins from Fox News...

I'm not taking it up with anybody. I truly BELIEVE you lefties should continue on with the word..

Please whatever you do, don't stop using teabaggers to describe the Amercian people.

 

[Bfgrn]

It takes a special brand of liar (i.e, a typical modern American liberoidal) to make the patently false claim that the tea partyers are in any way "racist." There's not a scintilla of truth in it. So, of course, assbites like Nosmo Queen simply have to keep saying it. Some liberoidals are incapable of speaking at all unless they are deliberately lying.

The dishonest term "tea-bagger" by the way is just an asshole Olberpuke-way of trying to dismiss the opposition he can't refute with logic. Properly understood, tea-baggers tend to be liberoidal Democratics, like Bawney Fwank.

It takes a TOTAL moron to misinterpret Tom Tancredo's opening salvo...

Former Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, told about 600 convention goers in the Nashville ballroom that in the 2008 election President Barack Obama was elected because of "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English.'"

Expressing his disappointment that America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama." Tancredo went on to suggest that a literacy test be implemented to prevent electoral outcomes in the future.

Suggesting a literacy test is nothing short of calling for a return to Jim Crow laws. Under Jim Crow laws literacy tests were used to prevent blacks from voting during segregation. They were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1964.

Oh my gawd, Trancredo didn't say people should "take a literacy test" he said people should know Civics literacy before voting.. But don't let that stop you all from making shit up.

If you can't comprehend what Tancredo is implying, ask your mommy to explain it to you.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-cEtUfJhI]YouTube - Ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo Racist Speech At Tea Party[/ame]

"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."
Barry Goldwater

 

[Foxfyre]

Why would you, or any American think that civics testing is a proper thing to do to ensure franchise? Or is the old maxim playing itself out as true all over again; Conservatives will always erode freedom.

Well how about literacy testing? Would that be a good idea? If you actually could read what was said, you wouldn't keep repeating that anybody suggested civics testing.

Literacy testing has been roundly defeated as a measure by the SCOTUS. The Conservatives ran literacy testing in the south during Jim Crow to suppress the Black vote. Literacy test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's not surprising to see the Conservatives dip into their nefarious bag of tricks yet again.

I haven't seen the Conservatives dip into anything on that issue. I do see you continuing to misread and misrepresent what was said.

And that's the scary thing. You vote too don't you.

 

[sboyle24]

Tea Bagging- When one places their testicular sac onto the face of Whoopi Goldberg's facial region. Similar to the action of "Steeping" a bag of tea leaves to make tea.

 

[Foxfyre]

It takes a TOTAL moron to misinterpret Tom Tancredo's opening salvo...

Former Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, told about 600 convention goers in the Nashville ballroom that in the 2008 election President Barack Obama was elected because of "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English.'"

Expressing his disappointment that America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama." Tancredo went on to suggest that a literacy test be implemented to prevent electoral outcomes in the future.

Suggesting a literacy test is nothing short of calling for a return to Jim Crow laws. Under Jim Crow laws literacy tests were used to prevent blacks from voting during segregation. They were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1964.

Oh my gawd, Trancredo didn't say people should "take a literacy test" he said people should know Civics literacy before voting.. But don't let that stop you all from making shit up.

If you can't comprehend what Tancredo is implying, ask your mommy to explain it to you.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-cEtUfJhI]YouTube - Ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo Racist Speech At Tea Party[/ame]

"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."
Barry Goldwater

The fact that YOU can't comprehend what Tancredo is implying surely gives a lot of credence to what he actually said.

 

[VaYank5150]

If the "oh so Intelligent" lefties thinks it's a good idea to call, ma and pa, grandma and grandpa middle Amercia, teabaggers. Then by golly they should continue.

Take it up with the pea brain that started the phrase...Griff Jenkins from Fox News...

I'm not taking it up with anybody. I truly BELIEVE you lefties should continue on with the word..

Please whatever you do, don't stop using teabaggers to describe the Amercian people.

That segment of the American people is disjointed and without leadership. Different Tea Party groups actually fight each other. I am beginning to think the Tea Party "movement" is simply a way for irritated white folks to try and better understand the gang lifestyle.

 

[elvis]

A Tea Party Pledge and all the talk about our founding father's vision of America is totally lost on this band of white trash.

In simple terms, they're right wing Republicans having a temper tantrum because they were sent packing by We, the people and they face the harsh reality of becoming a minority in the next half century.

In historical terms, they would be called tories, redcoats and lobsterbacks by our founding fathers. Their protests are sponsored by agents OF the modern day East India Companies.

Our founding father's CREATED a government. The tea-baggers and the 'government is the problem' wingnuts are protesting AGAINST the representation our founders fought for in favor of taxation (fees or payments) without representation BY today's East India Companies...United Health Group, WellPoint, Aetna, Humana, Cigna, Health Net, Coventry Health Care, Amerigroup, Universal American, Centene...

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An important milestone in the history of corporations was passed in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth of England granted a charter to the East India Company. The new company enjoyed the relatively new privilege of limited liability: investors would be liable only for the amount they invested in the company, even if total debts exceeded total investments. Limiited liability attracted much greater investment, which was the goal as England strove to create the means to establish colonies and extract wealth from the New World.

Led by the Dutch and British East India companies, corporations gained significant power to shape world trade and transport, the governance of colonies, and even the creation of new laws to benefit their interests - one reason Thomas Hobbes likened them to parasitic worms in the bowels of the body politic in his 1651 political treatise Leviathan.

By 1776, however, one host population was ready to purge its system of parasites. A series of laws, including the Townshend Acts and the Tea Act of 1773-which essentially granted the East India Company a tax-free tea monopoly in the American colonies-helped incite the colonists to revolt against England and form a new republic in which the role of corporations was significantly constrained. In the newly minted United States, state legislatures imposed tight limits on corporations' purposes, the amount of capital they could procure, even how long they could exist. As corporate law expert Robert Hinkley observes, "These restrictions ensured that there was very little corporate abuse of the public interest in this country from the American Revolution to around the time of the Civil War."
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/575

What is a teabagging? It's what Chris does to you every night.

 

[Liability]

Oh my gawd, Trancredo didn't say people should "take a literacy test" he said people should know Civics literacy before voting.. But don't let that stop you all from making shit up.

If you can't comprehend what Tancredo is implying, ask your mommy to explain it to you.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-cEtUfJhI]YouTube - Ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo Racist Speech At Tea Party[/ame]

"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."
Barry Goldwater

The fact that YOU can't comprehend what Tancredo is implying surely gives a lot of credence to what he actually said.

You mean adding the clearly qualifying adjective "CIVICS" before the word "literacy" actually has some MEANING?

Wow. I wonder how many of our modern American liberoidal partisan friends will be objective enough to acknowledge THAT?

 

[Bfgrn]

LOL, they were formed just to hate on the poor wittle Obama. That must be it.

If they were sincere, they would have formed while Bush was in office. As it is, we never heard of a tea party movement until after the McCain concession speech.

Tea baggers are only missing a hood and a burning cross. Otherwise, an argument defending their long held hatreds and paranoias could be made.

The Tea Party movement DID begin organizing during the Bush administration right after the first bank bailout that appalled so many of us.

Until the housing bubble burst causing the economic collapse in 2008, the economy was strong and people could prosper. Unemployment was beginning to rise in 2007 which of course was a factor in the bubble bursting, but it was not in unusual or alarming range. None of us who are now Tea Partiers approved of President Bush and the GOP congresses fiscal irresponsibility which I believe is the most significant reason that the Democrats took over in 2007. Of course the Democrats then proceeded to make it much MUCH worse, especially since President Obama was inaugerated.

As for your last comment there, I think only those of a hooded and cross burning mindset would even attempt to attach that analogy to the Tea Parties.

Once again I give praise that I am not a liberal of that stripe. I simply don't have it in me--I don't think any American conservative has it in them--to be that narrow minded, prejudiced, bigoted, and/or hateful.

What a pile of self righteous dogshit...

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh played 'Barack The Magic Negro' because he's a huge Peter Yarrow fan. And Chip Saltsman, who was campaigning for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee mailed the song on a "Christmas CD" to fellow RNC members who would soon be selecting their new national chairman because he likes the melody.


THIS is ignorant and SICK...

 

[MIPS]

If they were sincere, they would have formed while Bush was in office. As it is, we never heard of a tea party movement until after the McCain concession speech.

Tea baggers are only missing a hood and a burning cross. Otherwise, an argument defending their long held hatreds and paranoias could be made.

The Tea Party movement DID begin organizing during the Bush administration right after the first bank bailout that appalled so many of us.

Until the housing bubble burst causing the economic collapse in 2008, the economy was strong and people could prosper. Unemployment was beginning to rise in 2007 which of course was a factor in the bubble bursting, but it was not in unusual or alarming range. None of us who are now Tea Partiers approved of President Bush and the GOP congresses fiscal irresponsibility which I believe is the most significant reason that the Democrats took over in 2007. Of course the Democrats then proceeded to make it much MUCH worse, especially since President Obama was inaugerated.

As for your last comment there, I think only those of a hooded and cross burning mindset would even attempt to attach that analogy to the Tea Parties.

Once again I give praise that I am not a liberal of that stripe. I simply don't have it in me--I don't think any American conservative has it in them--to be that narrow minded, prejudiced, bigoted, and/or hateful.

What a pile of self righteous dogshit...

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh played 'Barack The Magic Negro' because he's a huge Peter Yarrow fan. And Chip Saltsman, who was campaigning for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee mailed the song on a "Christmas CD" to fellow RNC members who would soon be selecting their new national chairman because he likes the melody.


THIS is ignorant and SICK...

Those signs kind of remind me of these signs

Which leads one to the conclusion that there are often a few fringe lunatics in every legitimate protest movement, huh?

 

[masquerade]

Take it up with the pea brain that started the phrase...Griff Jenkins from Fox News...

I'm not taking it up with anybody. I truly BELIEVE you lefties should continue on with the word..

Please whatever you do, don't stop using teabaggers to describe the Amercian people.

That segment of the American people is disjointed and without leadership. Different Tea Party groups actually fight each other. I am beginning to think the Tea Party "movement" is simply a way for irritated white folks to try and better understand the gang lifestyle.

 

[ItHappens]

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent."
-Vice President Joe Biden


Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis."

-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write."
-- Mike Wallace, CBS News

"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
-- Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?"

-- Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

 

[Stephanie]

The Tea Party movement DID begin organizing during the Bush administration right after the first bank bailout that appalled so many of us.

Until the housing bubble burst causing the economic collapse in 2008, the economy was strong and people could prosper. Unemployment was beginning to rise in 2007 which of course was a factor in the bubble bursting, but it was not in unusual or alarming range. None of us who are now Tea Partiers approved of President Bush and the GOP congresses fiscal irresponsibility which I believe is the most significant reason that the Democrats took over in 2007. Of course the Democrats then proceeded to make it much MUCH worse, especially since President Obama was inaugerated.

As for your last comment there, I think only those of a hooded and cross burning mindset would even attempt to attach that analogy to the Tea Parties.

Once again I give praise that I am not a liberal of that stripe. I simply don't have it in me--I don't think any American conservative has it in them--to be that narrow minded, prejudiced, bigoted, and/or hateful.

What a pile of self righteous dogshit...

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh played 'Barack The Magic Negro' because he's a huge Peter Yarrow fan. And Chip Saltsman, who was campaigning for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee mailed the song on a "Christmas CD" to fellow RNC members who would soon be selecting their new national chairman because he likes the melody.


THIS is ignorant and SICK...

Those signs kind of remind me of these signs

Which leads one to the conclusion that there are often a few fringe lunatics in every legitimate protest movement, huh?

you'll burst their little bubble of how ALL Republicans, Conservatives are the RACIST HATERS.

 

[Bfgrn]

Which leads one to the conclusion that there are often a few fringe lunatics in every legitimate protest movement, huh?

HERE'S your BIG problem MIPS...there were NO elected Democrats giving speeches in shadows of those fringe lunatic signs giving legitimacy and credibility to the hatred OF fringe lunatics...