The tea party movement is a fraud

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http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/248374


The tea partiers oppose health care reform because they really don't care whether their neighbors have health care. I got mine, go get yours, and not with my money. That's a fine Christian attitude, don't you think?

The tea partiers scream about deficits and demand that government spending be reined in, but where were these people during the eight years of Bush profligacy? How many ever complained? No — instead they demonstrated that great conservative ability to march in lockstep and suppress private doubts for the good of the team. The wailing about deficits has only been turned up to 11 since Democrats took over and these supposed deficit hawks no longer had to pretend they agreed when Dick Cheney said deficits don't matter. ...

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And I guarantee you, I guarantee you, one of the next tea party jihads will be against new regulation of the banking industry. In a memo leaked last week, Republican pollster Frank Luntz detailed the arguments and language Republicans should use to kill financial reform, and I'll tell you right now that the tea partiers will be on board that train. No more czars, they'll shout; and if Goldman Sachs wants to bundle bad debt, sell it and then bet against it — that's the pinnacle of capitalism, baby. But if it was their pension fund that bought those securities, I'm sure they'll figure out a way to blame that, too, on government. Because their beloved capitalism is never responsible for anything.

The tea party movement is a fraud. These people are Bush conservatives who wish to recreate the Bush era as they imagine it should have been.

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Yep. We have no common ground with them. eom

[patrice]

2. Believe me, the first sentence in OP is not even the slightest exaggeration. I talk to their

constituency here in my red home-state and that's is precisely what they say.

I hear about THEIR health insurance and how it is just fine for their needs: some are very overweight, some have allergies, one told me, while she smoked, about her problem with some rash that she gets all over her body and how we MUST cut Medicare in order to protect everyone elses's health care.

P.S. Christianity* is a total failure.

[Andronex]

3. There is no Tea Party movement...

Just a bunch of uninformed citizens being bused around and organized by wealthy interests to give democrats something to play against, it's all fake. The Glen Beck crowd are the other side of the democrat equation, to keep citizens divided and throwing Poo at each other.

[Blue Owl]

4. FAKE FAKE FAKE

it's all fuckin' fake!

[Tsar_Bomba]

5. Add to the list of conservative movement fraud

Like the pro-life movement.