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10-28-2010, 06:28 PM | #1 |
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Who leads the Tea Party?
You might have heard the term 'tea party', some where along the way, and realized they weren't talking about Boston, or Wonderland.
Slate has listed the tea party's movers & shakers, with a brief summary of what each organization has attempted and accomplished. Of course these are only the faces of these organizations, and not the power or the money. FreedomWorks - Founded: 2004 - Leaders: Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe Americans for Prosperity - Founded: 2004 - Leaders: David Koch, Tim Phillips Independence Caucus (iCaucus) - Founded: early 2008 - Leader: Frank Anderson Our Country Deserves Better/Tea Party Express - Founded: July 2008 - Leaders: Sal Russo, Amy Kremer Smart Girl Politics/Smart Girl Nation - Founded: July 2008 - Leader: Stacy Mott Senate Conservatives Fund - Founded: 2008 - Leader: Sen. Jim DeMint Tax Day Tea Party/Liberty First/Liberty.com/American Liberty Alliance - Founded: summer 2008 - Leader: Eric Odom Campaign for Liberty/Young Americans for Liberty - Founded: September 2008 - Leaders: Ron Paul Grassfire Nation/ResistNet - Founded: 2008 - Leader: Debbie Dooley Tea Party Patriots - Founded: 2009 - Leaders: Mark Meckler, Jenny Beth Martin The 9/12 Project - Founded: March 2009 - Leader: Glenn Beck Oath Keepers - Founded: April 2009 - Leader: Stewart Rhodes Palin, Inc. - Founded: July 2009 - Leaders: Sarah and Todd Palin Tea Party Nation - Founded: 2009 - Leaders: Judson and Sherry Phillips Liberty Central - Founded: February 2010 - Leader: Ginni Thomas Tea Party Caucus - Founded: July 2010 - Leader: Michele Bachmann
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10-28-2010, 06:35 PM | #2 |
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Karl Rove is the puppet master behind them all.
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10-28-2010, 08:40 PM | #3 |
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Karl Rove is America GPS and America Crossroads. Note the founding dates. All this made necessary because of an activist Supreme Court that trashed all campaign reform laws. Who said it was good to have every TV show sponsored by attack ads, lies, and people who need not attach their names to those lies.
My god. The recession has ended. Job losses have severely diminished from when they were greatest - the last months of George Jr's reign. The economy is slowly and strongly in a ten year recovery process. And a majority are so manipulated by attack adds as to think our nation in complete economic default. Is anyone is the Cellar that foolishly deceived by attack ads? Well if those myths were true, a footnote. This has been a spectacularly successful few years for any informed investor. How much better could it get? |
10-29-2010, 01:09 AM | #4 |
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Well, lower unemployment and not owing a mountain of money overseas would make it better, but so would a tasty sprinkling of mature cheddar cheese. That makes anything better.
Whoever is leading the Tea Party, they must be either a mad hatter or as loony as a March Hare.
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10-29-2010, 02:13 AM | #5 |
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Oh no, not loony, they know exactly what they are doing.
Now most of their followers, are just everyday people that have been frustrated with the politicians for a very long time. Seeing it get more blatant and feeling helpless to do anything about it... vote for the lesser of two evils, big whoop. So this tea party thing comes along, and provides a glimmer of hope, a chance that they can actually do something to make things better. Mr & Mrs Average join up, get on the mailing/email list, and maybe even contribute a couple bucks, in hopes this will work. In theory it would work too, if they worked within the system to make sure better candidates got elected locally, then worked their way up, all the while holding the politicians feet to the fire, to keep them (reasonably) honest. Knowing if they fuck up they're out, and they don't need the corporate money to get reelected. But the tea parties have been conned by people like Karl Rove, who really is working for GOP/big money, telling them it's all Obama/Democrats fault. Pumping them and full of half truths, distortions, and blatant lies, by saturating the airways & internet. Telling them all the countries ills can be solved overnight, by following their lead. It would be almost funny to watch the tea party being led down the path to complete corporate control, fucking themselves, if they weren't fucking the rest of us and the country, along with them. O'Donnell, Angle, Paladino, Paul, Webster, good grief, be careful what you wish for, they'd set this country back a hundred years. Now maybe some of them would like to turn the clock back a hundred years, or maybe just 50, to when god fearing people were in charge, niggers & fags knew their place, and women did what they were told. But you know what, you can't go back, the cat ain't going back in the bag.
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10-29-2010, 05:43 AM | #6 |
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They seem to want to create the same conditions that put us in this shitter... not that the Democrats have a viable alternative.
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10-29-2010, 06:13 AM | #7 |
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The tea party is run by Whitey.
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10-29-2010, 07:07 AM | #8 |
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Ha! I say that, and then later read this perspective...
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10-29-2010, 11:36 AM | #12 |
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Tea party in Delaware has shattered the Republican Party there. Apparently the rest of the Party will not 'celebrate' on Tuesday night at the same location that Christine O'Donnell will (according to polls) concede. At last report, nobody announced where O'Donnell will hold her election night party.
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10-29-2010, 11:51 AM | #13 |
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I heard an O'Donnell ad in the wee hours of this morning. It went along blah, blah, blah, Come on Christians, she needs your support (or vote, don't remember which).
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10-29-2010, 01:23 PM | #15 |
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UT, you lean libertarian, right?
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