Mar 24 2010

The Monster That Won’t Go Back in the Closet: Up Dated

This is just lovely. Isn’t wonderful when someone you really dislike starts to get what they deserve? Well, the Republi-won’t’s and their billionaire supporters created the Tea Party as a supposed “non-partisan, grassroots” activist group. Their main agenda was shouting down the Health Insurance Bill. Now, they won’t shut up about open rebellion, survivalist tactics, out right hate speech and openly carrying weapons. The Tea Partiers have not so subtly hinted that they would like to over throw the government.

The Tea Party’s right wing extremist agenda is now hurting the Republicans in the poll heading into the 2010 Midterm Elections. Quinipiac conducted a poll which showed that most Tea Partiers are white, Republican, more women than men and less educated. They also believe the government does too much.

They view the Republican Party as soft and ineffective. In certain districts if they ere to run their own candidates if would cut into votes for the Republican on the ticket, giving the advantage to the Democrat. This is what happened in the NY-23.

The Republicans have created a monster that will not go back in the closet and it is no longer lurking under the bed..  

If this is true they have gone too far and the GOP needs to denounce the violence.

Severed gas line found at home of Perriello brother

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    • TMC on March 24, 2010 at 21:16
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    I can almost guarantee that this one will be back.

    • TMC on March 25, 2010 at 01:07
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    Stupak Receives Threatening Fax With Drawing Of Noose

    Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) received a fax today with a drawing of a noose and gallows, labeled “Bart (SS) Stupak.”

    [Also today, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who is African-American, received a fax depicting a noose. Click for full story.]

    The fax also a included a printout of a post from a blog called the Collins Report, a screed against Stupak for voting for Health Care Reform. (There is no reason to believe that anyone connected to the Collins Report added the noose and gallows or sent the fax to Stupak’s office. The person who runs The Collins Report did not immediately return a request for comment.)

    You can see the fax here.

    Also Rep, Jim Clyburn, who is African-American, received a fax with a noose.

    While the FBI is investigating, maybe they need to start hauling some of the known instigators in for questioning and get some subpoenas to look at their computers. A little real law and order for a change.

  4. Ive barely had tv news on now for a couple fo weeks but I turned it on today for maybe all of ten minutes and saw that report.  Disgusting. Even after being told they had the WRONG HOUSE (they didnt realize it was the brother not the Congressman) they didnt care. “So?”

    ridiculous

  5. They know me, and we get along fine, even if we disagree.

    But their fuse is short. If the group I know ever became

    economically distressed, watch out. Sometimes I’m not so sure that electoral politics matters much anymore. Our culture is so out of equilibrium that it’s frightening.

    Do polls mean anything anymore, seriously?

  6. And this is what is so galling.  The existence of the Tea Party is the number one fundraiser and vote getter for the Democrats.  The Democrats have, now, their own very bestest wish in the world — a real life boogeyman.

    Prominent bloggers on the Democratic side would rather talk about the Tea Party as opposed to what ails our government and our society.  They would rather point fingers at Republicans and obstructionists than they would try to talk about fixing anything, or demanding the Democrats do so.

    So the Tea Party throws rocks through windows, goes to Congress and spits on people and calls them racist and homophobic names.  To me, that’s galling too.  They want to complain to me, because the tool of their own creation is biting them on the hand?

  7. we stopped in for a couple of beers, and CNN was on one of the TVs.  I think this is the story they were running (couldn’t hear it, but from the subscript, it looks right):

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITI…

    “There’s a real feeling that some of the comments from the Republican leaders and Republicans are not tamping down the fire, they are throwing fuel on the fire. And that is totally inappropriate,” Van Hollen said.

    But Boehner, who compared the legislation’s passage to “Armageddon,” said Democrats had not complained to him that Republicans haven’t been quick enough to condemn the threats and vandalism.

    Clyburn said his wife has forwarded the phone numbers from the calls to law enforcement agencies. Slaughter said federal agents and local authorities were investigating the threat and vandalism at her offices. And in Virginia, Albemarle County fire marshals and the FBI are looking into the slashing of a propane gas line outside the home of Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother, the congressman’s office said.

    • dkmich on March 25, 2010 at 11:09
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    I know I probably should, but I don’t.   They made their beds, let em lie in it – both sides.   I still say if they had simply expanded Medicare, none of this bull shit would have happened.   Instead they created some huge beauracy that will benefit the rich more than the people, and again, the people will get the tab.   Minnie the Moocher has nothing on these guys.  

  9. when u open a can of worms……

    u need a bigger can to put them all back in……

    this is going to escalate not go away……

    and it will support calls for more loss of freedom…..

    worse intrusions into our privacy…..

  10. Sure the T-gagging started with a political veneer, admittedly an Astroturf one, but a political one nonetheless, but I don’t think it’s really a political movement any more (if it ever was).  The more it goes on, the less it has to do with any particular political ideas or issues.  I think it’s more of a reactionary, nihilistic counter-cultural movement, one in which these symbols (carrying guns, threatening violence, use of reactionary language, racist name-calling, disrupting meetings, talking about revolution, etc etc) are what’s important for their shock value, and the content of their ravings are almost completely code.  Their point imo is to be pissed off, disruptive, dangerous, defiant, reactionary.  So you have RWNJs assembling on 4/19 for an open carry event as close as they can get to DC, etc etc.  It’s nothing new. You’ve seen it all before:

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    This is 1928.  That’s the Klan in DC.

    • TMC on March 26, 2010 at 00:48
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    Dick Armey gets thrown under the bus by the members of the organization he created. Too frelling funny

    partiers air doubts about Dick Armey

    It seemed a strange fit to begin with – a former House Republican leader turned $750,000-a-year Washington lobbyist who resurfaced as perhaps the single most identifiable leader of a populist, anti-Washington movement.

    And in recent weeks, Dick Armey has found himself targeted by a quiet, but concerted campaign from fellow conservatives challenging – and seeking to undermine – his status as a leader of the tea party movement.

    Critics ranging from prominent conservatives to bloggers to grass-roots tea party activists have called into question whether Armey’s stances on illegal immigration and social issues, his candidate endorsements and his past lobbying work are fundamentally inconsistent with the tea party movement. They also have suggested he raised the white flag too early in the fight over the Democratic health care overhaul and is beholden to corporate benefactors, and have accused him of trying to hijack the tea parties to serve those benefactors or his own personal political ambitions.

    To be sure, some of the resentment seems to stem from jealousy over adept positioning by Armey that has put him and the small-government nonprofit group he co-chairs, FreedomWorks, at the vanguard of tea party activism, which everyone on the right – from the Republican Party and its elected officials to the groups that emerged from the 1960s restructuring of the conservative movement – has jockeyed to harness.

    LMAOROTF

  12. “The Monster That Won’t Go Back in the Closet”

    Huhmmmm!  Too much VIAGRA and Bohemian Grove?

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    O.K., I’ll get serious!  Ya’ don’t suppose, just maybe, that the “War on Terra,” illegal aggressions on other countries, torture, renditions, et al.” tauted as just and warranted throughout the media, coupled with the Military Commissions Act and other Acts attempting to “legitimize” our very real WAR CRIMES, with NO recompense, just might have given way to an “anything goes” mentality in this country?  For, certainly it has!  We are a totally lawless country and morals have been out the window for a long time.

    We are retrogressing in this nation, in every respect possible,  in intellect, emotion and mentality — it’s unbelievable to see such behavior from so-called adults.  You have to wonder what’s next, lynchings?

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