A follow up to an earlier post:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

So this is what being interested in the deficit and cutting taxes looks like, eh? Seems to me more that the Tea Party is Christian Right politics with a thin Fiscal Conservative veneer:

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/02/montana-bill-to-ban-all-local-lgbt_23.html

http://www.salon.com/news/islam/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/tennessee_islam_law_felony_bill

And can anyone answer me how this remotely is compatible with Lawrence v. Texas? I thought Tea Partiers were also about defending Law and Order and Society As It Is? To me, this is just one of many examples of how the "Tea Party" is nothing but a front for the religious politicians of the Republican Party. Oh, and as to the second article: how does making Shariah Law a felony reduce the deficit and shrink government? I thought Supply-Side was Voodoo Economics, this type of deficit reduction is even harder to understand.

But if we take Tea Partiers at their word, and they are nothing but honest and honorable people, they are always about the deficit. When it's:

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/indiana-official-jeff-cox-live-ammunition-against-wisconsin-protesters

This it's always about the deficit.

When it's advocating that President Obama is not a US citizen, it's always about the deficit, for Tea Partiers are nothing but honest and honorable people and when they say it's all about the deficit, surely we should believe such honest defenders of the US as it is, the Constitution as it was:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/01/26/83026/tea-party-birthers-movements-somewhat.html

http://teapartynationalism.com/the-blogbri-news-updates-and-morei/item/131-tea-party-nation-founder-declares-himself-a-birther

When it's condemning something their own children are involved as re-education camps, it's all about the deficit and reducing spending, for Tea Partiers are honorable and honest people, and they would never say anything but honest and honorable things:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/michele-bachmanns-son-joins-group-she-once-called-a-re-education-camp/

So yes, the Tea Party *is* all about the cutting the deficit and less spending, and somehow, in some way these brave champions of White League thuggishness freedom and justice for all will reduce the Federal budget to an entirely balanced and well-founded fiscal base, and belief that the President is not a citizen, that live ammo should be used on strikers, that Shariah law should be a felony, and eliminating all the progress (however slow and halting it's been) for LGBQTI individuals since the 1970s will make the US Budget balanced.

Oh, and it might good to remember who the father of the Tea Party's sugar daddies was:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30065386/Fred-C-Koch-Going-Off-On-A-Bircher-Rant-Newspaper-Clipping-1964

There is indeed nothing new under the Sun.

Comments

[404.livejournal.com]

Maybe it we give him more support more, he will stay in our own time more often

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Or maybe if you could address some of his points, just for a change?

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

The Serious Brigade has only seriousness and assertion.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

ASSERTION IS SRS BSNS!

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

Words cannot describe just how serious I am being about this. I'm sorry you can't recognize facts.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I only recognize facts that have been introduced to me by reputable, distinguished citizens. I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR!

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

He didn't have any points, he's just ranting again.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

That makes your task even easier, doesn't it?

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

but half of his points are prehistoric comparisons.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should try to reinforce this good behaviour by staying and having a discussion rather than punishing it with a drive-by quip.

[404.livejournal.com]

Ok, well the awesome thing about political parties and people within and slightly associated with parties is that they act like cats on steroids: good luck corralling them and having them work in concert.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

That's the nature of a "headless" political organization such as the Tea Party. Since there's no central authority you can go to to find out what the goals of the movement are and aren't, there is no way to hold any of its members accountable to those goals - you can't keep anyone on-message when there's no message. The result is a kind of ideological deniability: you can get elected on what are popularly perceived to be the "party's goals", and when you stray from them, no one gets to say "but what about the tea party message?"

This is also why the party benefits from having racist jerks show up to the protests (who, i hastily acknowledge, form a small minority of those in attendance), and everyone else seems happy to let the jerks inflate their numbers, but acts blithely as if those same jerks don't reflect badly upon the movement as a whole. They're having their cake and eating it too.

[404.livejournal.com]

In fairness, the tea party is barely 3 years old, and is an organic object which is still growing to maturity.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, all of this is also true of Anonymous.

That doesn't figure into anyone's point, but it's an interesting comparison which just occurred to me.

[404.livejournal.com]

FTFY

[dwer.livejournal.com]

In fairness, the tea party is barely 3 years old, and is an organic object which is still growing to maturity. a fully owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.

Re: FTFY

[404.livejournal.com]

Don't quit your day job.

Re: FTFY

[dwer.livejournal.com]

How could I possibly afford to do so? I'm a member of the middle class, and thus my financial situation is getting worse quickly.

Re: FTFY

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Kennedy was controlled by the Pope, and that there really are secret Zionist and Freemason conspiracies controlling the machinations of all the world's angst, guiding it to thier own will.

Great Scott! Maybe you and Glenn Beck are on the right track!

Re: FTFY

[dwer.livejournal.com]

except, you know, for the part where there are documented links between the Koch Brothers and the Tea Party.

Re: FTFY

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

As there was with Van Jones and the President. The question of whether or not there is a casual link, the question is what it actually means and how much importance one can reasonably give to them. There are people in the Tea Party here in Arkansas whom I know personally and none of them get marching orders from anyone but themselves, and have in fact been resistant to becoming attached with the large-name national tea party organizers like "Tea Party Express" et al.

Re: FTFY

[dwer.livejournal.com]

Cool story, bro. But that doesn't change the fact that the Koch brothers started and fund the Tea Party movement. The President doesn't fund Van Jones.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I dunno, Bachmann seems pretty bent on representing the movement. If she says she's head of the caucus, it's only fair to point out she almost drove herself into the unemployment line.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

That was a bit better.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

drive-by quips keep things moving.