October 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
2 posts
Poll: Tea Partyism in Major Decline as America... →
theatlantic:
Tea party polling has been an inexact science, and data like these have been used to count (inaccurately) how many people are involved in the movement. Pollsters have gotten more specific at times, asking whether people are members of tea parties, and then asking those people what they think of things, but even self-identification doesn’t seem too reliable to me. What this...
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
4 posts
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
8 posts
“He’s right, I am sure that at least 90% of the tea baggers have no idea that...”
– George E. Mills, Jr. on Tea party activists are ‘pawns’ to corporate interests, Clinton says
Anyone who understands economics and what Fox News, the primary promoters of Tea Party Events, is about, this has been very obvious for over a year.
As a partisan figure with no office to seek, it’s...
August 2010
7 posts
July 2010
7 posts
“There’s no racism in the Tea Party. They don’t have racist signs.”
– Rush Limbaugh (via rushlimbaughisabigfatidiot)
“People would walk by my booth and say ‘TARP, TARP, TARP, TARP!’ But when you...”
– Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), who lost his primary race to Tea Party candidates
realitychex
(via brooklynmutt)(via apsies)
(via ericmortensen)
[BG note: You know, I tried just so hard to leave this one alone, but…I’m me, so I’m writing something anyway.]
What do you expect from a movement that...
“It will die out.”
– Lindsay Graham, straight talking about the teabagger movement (via blogonthe)
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
7 posts
April 2010
47 posts
Losing our cherishes freedoms
squashed:
The Tea Party is livid about our purported “loss of freedom”. But … we haven’t lost any freedoms under Obama. (Except fake freedoms like the freed to get a tan without paying a 10% tax.)
At least, most of us haven’t lost any freedoms. If you’re Hispanic and in Arizona, you’re likely to be stopped and interrogated by the police for looking insufficiently white. But that’s not Obama’s...
