The Delightful Republican Tea Party Problem.
Harry Hope
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December 16, 2009
By Kara Vallow
How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
Delightful for me, of course, not for the GOP.
This is the GOP's chickens-home-to-roost moment, and it serves them
right.
For thirty years and more, the strategists and moneymen of the far
right, abetted by their bought-and-paid-for sock-puppets in Congress
and their partisans in the slowly emergent right-wing media
establishment, have relentlessly poked the far-right bear, rousing it
into a wild and angry state, and attempting to co-opt its fury for
their own ends.
The logical culmination of all this hard work is the Tea Party
movement, whose loathing of government is so unhinged and reason-free
that it repudiates large swathes of an already half-insane Republican
Party (another time-bomb triumph for Dubya!).
Sadly, as any zookeeper could have warned the GOP, you can only keep a
bear in a riled-up mood for so long before it starts ripping limbs off
you one by one.
And now, say the pollsters of Rassmussen, the Bear looks set to eat
the Elephant alive.
And now Boner, McConnell, Kantor et al, try as they might, cannot
figure out what is happening to them.
The Party of No just became the Party of D'oh!
But for a long time it worked.
A politician like Newt Gingrich was able to make a name for himself
essentially by acting as if the United State and its Congress were
Yugoslavia and he was Slobodan Milosevic (lest you think I jest,
compare their shock-n-awful proto-Jim Jarmusch hair-do's).
Slobo's methods became Newtie's:
act as divisively and as chauvinistically against one half of the
citizenry as possible;
exploit the rawest and tenderest of national wounds and rouse the most
dangerous of its dormant pathologies,
then set the political landscape on fire from here to the horizon,
hoping one day soon to become ruler of the resultant smoking ash-heap.
As Gingrich can tell you though, it only works for so long, especially
if you're a maladjusted crybaby hypocrite leading the charge for
impeaching a president for sexual hanky-panky with an intern whilst
yourself copping backseat blowjobs from your very own intern!
(The greatest political assets you can possess on the right are not
honesty, integrity or superpatriotism - they're shamelessness combined
with stupidity and greed, and Gingrich has always had them in spades;
likewise most of the knuckle-dragging, government-drowning,
Contract-on-America crowd of the 1994 GOP Congressional sweep).
And lest we credit too much innovation to Gingrich, he was really only
following a template set down by Ronald Reagan,
who after a political life-time of scarcely veiled race-baiting,
commie-bashing and rhetorical war on the poor,
kick-started his 1980 campaign for the presidency in Philadelphia,
Mississippi, site of the notorious Klan murder of three civil-rights
workers (one black, two Jewish) in 1964.
At the nearby Neshoba County Fair, the Gipper talked of "States
Rights" which, last time I checked, and certainly in that part of the
country, was a widely understood codeword for "Keeping the Nwords
Down."
Nice thumb-in-the-eye politics from a master of the game - no wonder
they called him the Great Communicator: because no one had any doubt
what he was really saying.
And yet the GOP holds few attractions for the exultant neo-Tea
Partyists, despite containing such marvels of right-wing genetic
engineering as Jim DeMint, who looks like Andy Griffith's criminally
insane twin, or the chairman of the Mayberry White Citizens' Council
circa 1962;
Intra-species Predators like self proclaimed coked up rodeo clown
Glenn Beck, the apparently senile and no less extreme James Inhofe;
and foaming-mouth fascist-freakshow Michelle Bachman.
None of them are crazy enough, apparently.
Meanwhile the Tea Party cadres (or more fondly, "Tea Coots"), are
really crazy!
Bold and fearless, they continue with their tin-eared, clueless and
club-footed re-appropriation of the more gonzo aspects of 1960s
left-wing political theater,
taking back the buckskins and Crocket-caps retro-Revolutionary motley
once used - with a far more subtle sense of historical precedent - by
the hippies and the Yippies 40 years ago.
Except this time they're not flinging real money onto the floor of the
New York Stock Exchange or running a pig for President,
they're shouting down handicapped people, punching strangers in the
face at Town Halls for wearing the wrong shirt,
sneering at personal tales of medical catastrophe and taunting the
grieving parents of sick or dead kids, just generally acting like
jackasses of limitless diameter.
To celebrate the anniversary of Sam Adams' big day, the best they
could come up with was a Senate Die-In.
So go ahead and die already!
....Or at least secede.
At what point do we stop shoving what we think is good for them down
their throats and let them choke on exactly what they do want - the
complete subtraction of government from their everyday lives - then
see how long it takes for them to start squealing for mercy.
They could drive their seat-belt- and airbag-less cars for maybe a
quarter mile before getting bogged down in the waist-deep mud that
used to be a government-funded road,
whilst breathing air thick with carcinogens and industrial pollutants,
as the fields dry up and the crops and lawns die because we've taken
back our communistic TVA dams and irrigation-systems.
They could hardily ford rivers on their own (Pioneers, O Pioneers!),
there being no bridges or tunnels to save them from wet feet or total
engulfment, or take their chances at unsignposted railroad crossings,
except there wouldn't be any railroads (cause you get what you pay
for, and you want to pay nothing, so go ahead, feast on all that
nothing).
They could throw pitiful little saucers of water on the flames
engulfing their houses after grandpa falls asleep with a lit cigarette
and then sit in the smoldering ash heap that was once their family
home and wax idiotic over firemen and FEMA and the social security
that would have enabled grandpa to live on his own.
They could eat poisonous food and imbibe untested medicines and
home-school their children - if the lack of government-funded
inoculations hasn't already killed them in their cribs - about the
latest developments in alchemy and phrenology and intelligent design
or whatever equally insane lunacy they choose to put their faith and
the health of their children in.
They could watch all that tax money formerly diverted from better-run,
richer northern and western states dry up and vanish (we'll use the
savings for mandatory family planning for children and to build inner
city skating rinks and train at-risk youths for future domination in
figure skating and hockey, just to piss them off),
then try to feed their families on cotton bolls or tobacco leaves or
rifle ammunition instead of food stamps.
Can't you just taste The Freedom?
Or they could just let God sort it out for them, not my benevolent,
merciful and providing God, but he of the lying, hateful, money-minded
gospel of gay-bashing, race-baiting and immigrant-assault.
About one week of this would have their hands outstretched like Oliver
with a pewter cup asking for "more" from the public treasure chest
they scorn so loudly.
If it was not for the innocent - the children, the disenfranchised,
the sick and the elderly, and all the red-state-line geographical
casualties, I would be tempted to just call their bluff and let them
all secede.
But for some reason, at the end of the day, I still care about my
fellow American too much to say "Take your tea and your pantywaists
and begone with you, and don't come crawling back across state lines
when your own child needs medical care that you cannot pay for".
Because I don't mean it.
I will always be there.
No matter how gag-inducing I find their appropriating the wigs and
stuff of great men who stood for everything these idiots stand
against, their willful misinterpretation of the Constitution of the
United States of America, The Bill of Rights and the proper way to
wear a tricorn hat, there is still a part of me that wants it all to
work out.
For there to be a "We the People" again.
"This Country and this people seem to have been made for each other,
and it appears as if it was the design of Providence that an
inheritance so proper and convenient for a ban of brethren, united to
each other by the stongest of ties, should never be split into a
number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties".
So said John Jay, Federalist No 2, in 1787.
Far be it from us patriotic Americans who know better, on the Right
and the Left, to let a man playing dress up and tea party, tear
asunder.
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Thank you, Kara Vallow.
Harry
Hiccum Blurpaedius
Tea baggers hang cherry teabags from their rearview mirrors. They are
really used kotex but don''t tell them.
David Hartung
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kara-vallow/the-tea-party-problem-whe_b_395087.html
>
> December 16, 2009
>
> By Kara Vallow
>
> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
>
> Delightful for me, of course, not for the GOP.
>
> This is the GOP's chickens-home-to-roost moment, and it serves them
> right.
...
> Thank you, Kara Vallow.
What an ignorant twit.
Mullah Fuqu'ar
Thank you, Kara Vallow for not knowing what is talking about and Harry
Hope for hanging on to the words of an ignorant writer.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday asked voters to
rate Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party movement as positive or
negative. The Tea Party topped the list at 41%, either Very or
Somewhat Positive, Democrats followed with 35%, Republicans, 28%.
It looks the Tea Party will be a problem for Democrats and squishy
Republicans.
-
"More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how
they are promised 72 virgins when they die?
Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin."
buzz
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kara-vallow/the-tea-party-problem-whe_b_395087.html
>
> December 16, 2009
>
> By Kara Vallow
>
> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
First:
There is no "Tea Party", those who are part of the tea party movement
are conservatives who will vote Republican.
Second:
Generic Congressional Ballot
Generic Ballot: Republicans 44% Democrats 37%
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Republican candidates have bounced back to a seven-point lead over
Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44%
would vote for their district�s Republican congressional candidate while
37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
Support for GOP candidates is up just one point over the past week, but
support for Democrats slipped two points. A week ago, the Republican
lead was down to four points from a seven-point margin the last week in
November.
Republicans have held the lead on the ballot for over four months now.
Democrats currently have majority control of both the House and Senate.
If elections were held today, the Repubs win hands down, just like they
are going to in 2010 and 2012. Hussein and the simple-minded dummycrats
have finally shot themselves directly in their foot with this health
care and cap and tax debacles.
Too bad Hairy, you lose again.
Barack Hussein Obama...MMM MMM MMM
Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...MMM MMM MMM
Simple-minded dummycrats (the corrupt party that birthed the KKK) and
liberals...morons electing morons.
David Hartung
> Harry Hope wrote:
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kara-vallow/the-tea-party-problem-whe_b_395087.html
>>
>>
>> December 16, 2009
>>
>> By Kara Vallow
>>
>> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
>> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
>> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
>> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
>
> First:
> There is no "Tea Party", those who are part of the tea party movement
> are conservatives who will vote Republican.
Don't count on it. If the Republicans refuse to run conservative,
limited government candidates, the Tea Party folks may well support
someone else.
Bob
news:4b2d3f2a$0$5348$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net...
On that, you can bet the farm.
John Q Public
Remember this well, the primaries will cull the RINOS to some degree,
the tea party will
never vote for fiscal non-conservative so no DEMS will be gettin votes
so both your little
parties are in trouble but, remember this too,the tea party supporters
do know who is
currently blocking the fiscal irresponsibility and will reward them. No
DEMS there either
buzz
I would not count on that. People are smart enough to know that if they
let another party split the vote, Dems will always win.
Barack Hussein Obama...MMM MMM MMM
Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...MMM MMM MMM
Simple-minded dummycrats (the lying party that birthed the KKK) and
liberals...morons electing morons.
Bret Cahill
The "Wackadoodle Dandy Party" sound more patriotic.
Bret Cahill
Hiccum Blurpaedius
> David Hartung wrote:
> > buzz wrote:
> >> Harry Hope wrote:
>
> >>> December 16, 2009
>
> >>> By Kara Vallow
>
> >>> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
> >>> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
> >>> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
> >>> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
>
> >> First:
> >> There is no "Tea Party", those who are part of the tea party movement
> >> are conservatives who will vote Republican.
>
> > Don't count on it. If the Republicans refuse to run conservative,
> > limited government candidates, the Tea Party folks may well support
> > someone else.
>
> I would not count on that. People are smart enough to know that if they
> let another party split the vote, Dems will always win.
>
> Barack Hussein Obama...MMM MMM MMM
> Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...MMM MMM MMM
>
> Simple-minded dummycrats (the lying party that birthed the KKK) and
> liberals...morons electing morons.
Conservatives are religious terrorists. They give atheists the power
to corrupt. Like the Democratic owner of the Nurses Guild in Broward
County. They have over a dozen crack addicts and alcoholics committing
fraud to steal money away from medicare and other working americans.
I am surprized that they are allowed to be in business. But even the
Republican Florida Governor CHUCKY allowed Scott Rothsteins Law Firm
to swindle billions from its legal victims.
The justice system is totally corrupted. They send spies to search my
property all the time. Once at gunpoint. I have not done anything but
exercise my 1st amendment wishing religion would leave me alone. They
do not use warrants. And I would not dare to bear arms against
unreasonable search and seizure because they is no system of checks
and balances.
George Bush and the secret service kidnapped me and stuck a monitoring
device in my back in 1982.
I am alive today but not free to tell you about it. Terrorists like
ABC and Charles Gibson are only money hungry sponges
God is a piece of shit
ArmyOfDorkness
"buzz" <bu...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> David Hartung wrote:
>> buzz wrote:
>>> Harry Hope wrote:
>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kara-vallow/the-tea-party-problem-whe_b_395087.html
>>>>
>>>> December 16, 2009
>>>>
>>>> By Kara Vallow
>>>>
>>>> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
>>>> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
>>>> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
>>>> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
>>>
>>> First:
>>> There is no "Tea Party", those who are part of the tea party movement
>>> are conservatives who will vote Republican.
>>
>> Don't count on it. If the Republicans refuse to run conservative, limited
>> government candidates, the Tea Party folks may well support someone else.
>
> I would not count on that. People are smart enough to know that if they
> let another party split the vote, Dems will always win.
But we're talking about republicans and teabaggers. Not the sharpest knives
in the drawer.
Hiccum Blurpaedius
> "buzz" <b...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>
> news:hgkcut$vd6$5...@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>
>
>
>
> > David Hartung wrote:
> >> buzz wrote:
> >>> Harry Hope wrote:
>
> >>>> December 16, 2009
>
> >>>> By Kara Vallow
>
> >>>> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
> >>>> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
> >>>> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
> >>>> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
>
> >>> First:
> >>> There is no "Tea Party", those who are part of the tea party movement
> >>> are conservatives who will vote Republican.
>
> >> Don't count on it. If the Republicans refuse to run conservative, limited
> >> government candidates, the Tea Party folks may well support someone else.
>
> > I would not count on that. People are smart enough to know that if they
> > let another party split the vote, Dems will always win.
>
> But we're talking about republicans and teabaggers. Not the sharpest knives
> in the drawer.
Yet the ones protecting the democratic jew scum. Starting with
lieberman.
Bob
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Actually, the stupid tend to vote Democratic in
presidential elections.
Hiccum Blurpaedius
> "ArmyOfDorkness" <DorkAsKni...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
>
> > "buzz" <b...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> >news:hgkcut$vd6$5...@news.eternal-september.org...
> >> David Hartung wrote:
> >>> buzz wrote:
> >>>> Harry Hope wrote:
>
> >>>>> December 16, 2009
>
> >>>>> By Kara Vallow
>
> >>>>> How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea
> >>>>> Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an
> >>>>> election held today if it had to face off against an as yet unformed,
> >>>>> generic (yet gayly dressed) "Tea Party Party."
>
> >>>> First:
> >>>> There is no "Tea Party", those who are part of the tea party movement
> >>>> are conservatives who will vote Republican.
>
> >>> Don't count on it. If the Republicans refuse to run conservative,
> >>> limited government candidates, the Tea Party folks may well support
> >>> someone else.
>
> >> I would not count on that. People are smart enough to know that if they
> >> let another party split the vote, Dems will always win.
>
> > But we're talking about republicans and teabaggers. Not the sharpest
> > knives in the drawer.
>
> Actually, the stupid tend to vote Democratic in
> presidential elections.
Immigrants are not stupid. Just ignorant that freedom really exists.
They really believe we live in a democratic society. Then after they
steal enough money to buy information they find out. IT is all about
money. Print god on it and everything goes.
Which is why the Cubans in Miami are all Republican scum bags.
7 supreme court justices are catholic.
Exterminate god god dammit