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Was It the Tea that Set Them Off ? – *Open Thread*

By Linda Anselmi on April 22, 2009 at 7:56 AM in Humor, Linda Anselmi, MSM, Media Bias

h/t Flopping Aces

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Or a lack of Koolaid?
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Tea Complaints

Tea Complaints



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All Overboard

All Overboard

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Tea Bag Tossing

Tea Bag Tossing

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  • elizabethrc

    It would seem that the Obama folks are petrified that a national movement might be underway. All of his appearances and speechifying around the country to quell disgruntled voters won’t work anymore and they know it.
    His judgments and actions in his first 100 days have set off a growing firestorm of anger and dissatisfaction and they are just now seeming to come out of the protective fog of invincibility with which they’ve covered themselves.
    Their mistake? They believed their own PR.

    • tminu

      lol, in fact he’s a guaranteed backfire

      that happens, when you’re a pathological liar

      like when he told people not to stock up on guns and ammo “no need” he said…and I guess that’s why gunstore owners are sending him thank-you notes

  • jmm

    Open Thread, so SVP of Freddie Mac, David Kellerman found dead today. Apparent suicide.

    • Portia Elizabeth

      I just heard about this. He was only 41. I hope, if he left a note, it sees the light of day. If it’s unflattering or revealing about the ones in power (like Barney Frank), we may never be privy to its contents.

      Even though I love Bill and Hillary, I still wonder why Vince Foster’s suicide note wasn’t made public.

      • tminu

        I read he both shot and hung himself at 5 am, for no particular reason. Yup woke up to Mr. Sunshine and did a double-dead-suicide. That’s like taking cyanide then throwing yourself off a cliff, just to be sure you’re good and dead if you survive the fall. This was a suicide no more than the story that Admiral Jermy Borda or Vince Foster somehow shot themselves numerous times in committing suicide or somehow shot themselves at the White House with a different weapon and then drove themselves to Ft. Marcy Park
        pfffft

        Add to Lt. Quarles Harris chief witness in the “OBama is an Indonesian” passport probe, gay TUCC choir lovers Bland and Donald Young, and the list of deadies is piling up quite dramatically.

        No wonder Sinclair made his life insurance video for youtube.

  • Phishmelt

    well, he is very informed on how a national movement can change the country. And since he is the strawman, it may not be hard for repubs to get back in power. They may take back congress or some of it in the next elections.

  • HARP

    Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

    • elizabethrc

      That’s excellently said!

    • Tom Cat “wodie j” Jefferson Esq

      well said.

  • viking
  • jmm

    I don’t know how to do the linky thing so it’s copy and paste time:

    Maddow Losing Viewers LATimes
    “The Rachel Maddow Show,” a huge hit during a historic presidential campaign, is losing viewers since President Obama has been in office, the Los Angeles Times reports. “My job of asking questions and being critical doesn’t stop depending on who is in the White House,” Maddow tells the paper. “My main concern is keeping the quality of the show high. We don’t debate the ratings very much.”

    • Portia Elizabeth

      I am so glad she’s keeping the quality high.

  • Betty

    I am so glad you brought this up, the Tea Parties were way more effective then both the current government and controlled media are willing to admit. Now they need to do what they can to put us back to sleep.

    I think Geitner saying the banks don’t need another bail out is in part an attempt to take the air out of the Tea Party movement.

    • listing starboard

      Apparently the Tea Party idea offends some PUMAS. They are convinced that it is a manipulation by rich Republicans. I am amazed that anyone would not be in favor of the Tea Party movement if they truly are opposed to the out of control spending and thinly veiled socialist agenda of Obama.

      • ziggy

        Middle class and blue collar conservatives will go for the same republican sales pitch again and again. They always seem to forget what happened the last time they went for it.

        By 2010 a significant number will have forgotten that most of the current national debt was a republican creation. They’re already beginning to believe that the economy went to hell because of excessive corporate taxes, an unfair tax burdon on the wealthy, government meddling with the free market system, and because the poorest segments of society are dragging us down.

        • penguin

          You have alot of good points. However, Obama is continuing the out of control spending. Which is unsustainable. The truth is middle class people have no one to represent them.

  • viking
    • politicalidentitycrisis

      From the article above:
      The ex-president had previously expressed admiration for Obama, but this time Castro blasted the new U.S. president for showing signs of

      “superficiality.”

      Gee, ya think? Funny that so many people can see through Obama, even Castro, but there are still many kool aid drinkers out there. I do hope the kool aid supply is running out.

      • viking

        Maybe its just the good mood I’m in this morning but doesn’t it seem like the wheels are falling off?

  • Sassy

    We southern gals have always liked our tea strong and sweet!
    You could starch your shorts with it! LOL!
    It’s gratifying to see that some Americans are ready to be seen and heard!
    Keep up the good work and make your voice and vote count!

  • Ray SF

    Hey you all! National Tea Party March on Washington September 12th! Book your rooms and planes now!

    • Portia Elizabeth

      Seriously?

      • Paula Revere

        Yes Portia, that one is serious. We need to get a Million people there at least.

    • Ulysses S. Moss

      Thanks Ray,
      I know that the economy is bad for all of us, but wouldn’t showing up in Washington as a group be just wonderful.
      We can all have a NQ event at the same time.
      Larry could organize places and times since he lives out there.

      I will seriously consider marching in Sept if some of my friends were marching with me.

  • viking

    I’d go.