You crack me up. It would be nice if we could sit down for tea, eh? If we are ever in the same city, I invite you to join me for tea! You can be as leftist as you want, but can we be polite? =-D
The Tea Party notion was originally a few constitutionalists who wanted us to get our government and ourselves free of the corporations who now rule the world. But that idea has been lost under so much anger and fear and senseless talking points (Obama is a socialist, etc) that the original utility of the modern Tea Party has been lost. And then the Palinists and other ignorant republicans hitched their wagon to the tea party, not really realizing what it has become.
Now the Tea Party is a radically disenfranchised mob that can't agree about anything of any complexity among themselves, much less with infiltrators who may actually think instead of just shouting bogusness. I have gone to several events and talked with lots of people and mainly I've found a ferocious sort of certainty that is generally based on wholehearted belief in some pundit's view, but not on reason or discourse or personal research. Whenever I interject a fact, like for example, the fact that Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 12 years (so he probably knows a bit more about the constitution than I do), I am faced with disbelief and hostility. Facts are of no use in the face of such emotion.
It's not clear to me when we're ever going to get around to that cup of tea and figuring out how to straighten things out. But over kitchen tables is a good place to start.
OH! I just went to your link. HILARIOUS! The one liners are great.
* What health care problem? I feel just fine. * Let them eat Advil. * Whatever happened to an apple a day? * Band-Aids are affordable. * Nothing Says “Freedom” Like Denying Claims * Don’t Tread My Freedom to Deny Your Claim * Don’t Blame Me for Your Pre-Existing Condition * Skyrocketing Premiums: What’s Not to Like? * Your fight is not with us, it’s for us. (to the teabaggers) * Ask not what your healthcare corporation can do for you…but what you can do for your healthcare corporation * For the past 8 years, health care costs have been moving in the right direction…Up! * Nobody’s forcing you to get sick, you know. * Support Our Troops: Stop Giving Them Socialized Medicine! (thru the VA) * Fight Socialism! Take Away VA Benefits from our Troops Now! * Fight Socialism! End Medicare Now! * Who needs infrastructure? * Your premiums may have doubled, but our salaries have tripled! * The system works great — for the insurance industry! * Keeping our profits healthy will require some sacrifice. Not on our part, of course. * You deserve the healthcare you can afford * Private Insurance works just fine * Walk it off. * Wealth before health. (used a la “age before beauty”) * We’re just like you — minus a few billion dollars and a butler or two. (to teabaggers)
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Date: 2010-04-16 03:15 am (UTC)The Tea Party notion was originally a few constitutionalists who wanted us to get our government and ourselves free of the corporations who now rule the world. But that idea has been lost under so much anger and fear and senseless talking points (Obama is a socialist, etc) that the original utility of the modern Tea Party has been lost. And then the Palinists and other ignorant republicans hitched their wagon to the tea party, not really realizing what it has become.
Now the Tea Party is a radically disenfranchised mob that can't agree about anything of any complexity among themselves, much less with infiltrators who may actually think instead of just shouting bogusness. I have gone to several events and talked with lots of people and mainly I've found a ferocious sort of certainty that is generally based on wholehearted belief in some pundit's view, but not on reason or discourse or personal research. Whenever I interject a fact, like for example, the fact that Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 12 years (so he probably knows a bit more about the constitution than I do), I am faced with disbelief and hostility. Facts are of no use in the face of such emotion.
It's not clear to me when we're ever going to get around to that cup of tea and figuring out how to straighten things out. But over kitchen tables is a good place to start.
OH! I just went to your link. HILARIOUS! The one liners are great.
* What health care problem? I feel just fine.
* Let them eat Advil.
* Whatever happened to an apple a day?
* Band-Aids are affordable.
* Nothing Says “Freedom” Like Denying Claims
* Don’t Tread My Freedom to Deny Your Claim
* Don’t Blame Me for Your Pre-Existing Condition
* Skyrocketing Premiums: What’s Not to Like?
* Your fight is not with us, it’s for us. (to the teabaggers)
* Ask not what your healthcare corporation can do for you…but what you can do for your healthcare corporation
* For the past 8 years, health care costs have been moving in the right direction…Up!
* Nobody’s forcing you to get sick, you know.
* Support Our Troops: Stop Giving Them Socialized Medicine! (thru the VA)
* Fight Socialism! Take Away VA Benefits from our Troops Now!
* Fight Socialism! End Medicare Now!
* Who needs infrastructure?
* Your premiums may have doubled, but our salaries have tripled!
* The system works great — for the insurance industry!
* Keeping our profits healthy will require some sacrifice. Not on our part, of course.
* You deserve the healthcare you can afford
* Private Insurance works just fine
* Walk it off.
* Wealth before health. (used a la “age before beauty”)
* We’re just like you — minus a few billion dollars and a butler or two. (to teabaggers)