tea party And Their Supporters Are A Joke
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It's not my job to govern how you blog, it's my job to govern my blog.
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RE Mark Steyn; When you put your trust in someone who drops out of school to become an entertainer who then turns music critic/music author and then becomes a right wing social issue commentator, You are surely better to think of him as an entertainer rather than a factual writer.
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The far right loves to show debt graphs, especially ones with whimsical bleak futures intended to scare rather than be realistic. I wonder why they never show the following graph detailing US debt as compared to GDP. The correlation past to present is telling. Please note the paralleling event that caused debt to skyrocket and then call your Congressional delegate and ask them to bring the troops home.
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How many times in the past two weeks have you heard the far right scream that government should stay out of religion? When will religion stay out of government?
Rick Santorum questions Obama's Christian values .By STEVE PEOPLES
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama's Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney's Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, "ground zero" in the 2012 nomination fight.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator known for his social conservative policies, said that Obama's agenda is "not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology."
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Factual graph concerning Muslim population growth from Pew Research.
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From Barbara Riddle giving us lip service on who the tea party is;
We are God-believing people. We teach the Constitution and adhere to it. Our members are folks who are veterans, schoolteachers, small-business owners and retirees who paid taxes and took care of our families — and still do. We also give to charities and volunteer.
From The Tennesean, actually showing us who the tea party is;
Councilman, tea party group founder arrested
A Nashville councilman and the founder of a Sumner County tea party group have been charged with patronizing prostitution.
Councilman Brady Banks and Sumner United for Responsible Government co-founder Matthew Moynihan were caught in a sting on Thursday after responding to an Internet advertisement for an escort service, according to a police account reported in The Tennessean.
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Barbara forgot about mentioning how politically crooked the tea party is also. Remember the Floridian tea party bloggers slathering for Rick Scott and other tea party favorites in Florida. Here's the result of a tea party takeover in Flori-duh;
Lobbyists' pay hits a record – and it's paid off
February 17, 2012|Aaron Deslatte, Capitol ViewTALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott told supporters in 2010 his hard-fought electoral win was leaving Tallahassee insiders "crying in their cocktails" as a Tea Party-fueled election wave swept record Republican super-majorities into the Capitol.
But in reality, those insiders are laughing all the way to the bank.
Year-end reports indicate that companies, unions, trade associations and local governments spent a record $127 million to lobby the Florida Legislature in 2011 – topping the $116 million spent in 2010. The figure represents the mean of all individual contracts, most of which are reported to the state in $10,000 ranges.
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And the most grievious find this week from a local blogging tea party member, and an event becoming more and more common place amonst tea party members. Another example of weak minded individuals giving up.
Now even if Obama should win reelection, what do people think will happen in 2016 when a President Ryan or Rubio takes office?
The primaries aren't even concluded and they are already hedging their bets.
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Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. was the beloved Republican sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colo.,
for nearly 20 years before he retired in 2002. In 2001, he was named national Sheriff
of the Year.
...snip...
He was booked into that Arapahoe County Jail, which also goes by the name Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility.
What Didn't Get Judge Napolitano Fired
Monday, 13 February 2012 09:41 Staff Don't believe everything you see on the internet folks. Unless of course, it's a Firefly episode synopsis on Wikipedia, those things are monitored like they're the Vatican's secret gold (not to be confused with the Vatican's publicly displayed gold).
A rumor has been circulating that Judge Napolitano has been fired from his job at Fox Business, following this rant against the two party system and the main stream media:
The rant is of course real, and Napolitano's show has been cancelled, but the claims that he was canned for the rant are unfounded. A similar rumor is going around that he was fired after an anti-Israeli rant in which he said that Israel is more dangerous to the US than Iran because Iran can't really attack us, while Israel can drag our forces into foreign wars. That is actually true. Iran isn't a military threat to the US, and defending Israel puts more American lives at risk. But, by the same logic, we put the police more at risk when we ask them to respond to domestic violence calls and foil bank robberies. They'd be safer guarding the police station. Safety just isn't the end of the inquiry.
Either way though, neither segment got Napolitano canned. The truth is that Fox Business has sacked its entire prime time line up, cancelling Power & Money with David Asman, and Follow the Money with Eric Bolling. Napolitano and the others have been kept on as contributors, so they weren't fired at all. They just lost their shows.
And, their shows weren't cancelled for their content, but rather the remarkably poor ratings. Fox Business News draws fewer than 50,000 viewers during prime time. By comparison, CNBC does close to 200,000, MSNBC does over 1 million, and Fox News is close to 2.5 million.
In a way, it's disappointing that Napolitano wasn't sacked for his views. Not that we think his views warranted a sacking, but rather that the entire question of whether to cancel a show or keep it on comes down to viewers, not the quality of the program. Fox Business, unlike it's more popular sibling, does a pretty decent job in terms of providing actual news and not being terribly hacky, and they get canned. At the same time, you'd probably get to keep a show on Fox News just by ranting about how Obama's in secret league with the Golden Golems to sell America to the abortionists. If that doesn't cut it, add in incoherent equations scribbling on a chalkboard and spend a full two minutes of the show blowing on a vuvuzela, that ought to add another 20,000 viewers.
Yes it is. It is a shame that lazy people spout out so much that is not true because it fits into their narratives
Tripe Trilogy from MSNBC's First Read
Santorum: Obama makes US 'less safe'
Santorum: Obama believes in 'phony theology' not based on Bible
Santorum says Obama looks down on disabled, encouraging more abortions
West's latest outburst: that President Barack Obama will lose the 2012 election in a brutal bloodbath, was shocking to some. But it's pretty standard fare for the Florida Congressman, who called on his supporters to "gather their muskets" and go to Washington to throw the "tyrant" Obama out of office.
Wall Street Journal - 4 minutes ago
By CHRISTIAN BERTHELSEN And TOMI KILGORE The Dow Jones Industrial Average pierced the 13000 level for the first time since before the financial crisis.
...and my retirement dreams say thank-you, not to mention my childrens aspirations of attending an ivy league school.
An Indiana lawmaker has decided not to support a resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts because he feels the group is a "radicalized organization" that "sexualizes" young girls and promotes homosexuality.
In a letter sent to Indiana lawmakers obtained by the Journal Gazette, Rep. Bob Morris (R-Fort Wayne) said he plans to pull his two daughters out of their Indiana Girl Scout troop because information he found online about how the organization allegedly operates. One source he mentions is conservative "news" site World Net Daily.
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