BREAKING NEWS BY THOSE WHO ARE BREAKING BALLS
- Why does everyone hate the Tea Party? - The Week
- You might think that with Ted Cruz still hoarse from faux filibustering the Senate, and House conservatives on the brink of shutting down the government, Tea Partiers would have reason to celebrate. But a Gallup poll released this morning might put any partying on hold:
- Popular support for the conservative movement has dwindled to a near-record low. The percentage of Americans who support the Tea Party shrank from 32 percent in November 2010, when Republicans retook the House of Representatives, to just 22 percent today. That’s not quite as low as the 21 percent support it commanded in late 2011, but it's still a distinct downward slide that looks set to continue. Opponents of the movement now outnumber supporters by five percentage points. The pollster Lydia Saad lays out the bottom line:
- U.S. support for the Tea Party is at a low ebb at a time when key issues of concern for the movement — funding for the Affordable Care Act and raising the U.S. debt ceiling — are focal points in Washington, with Tea Party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz prominently fighting both policies. And it’s tempting to blame the junior senator from Texas for America’s cooling on the Tea Party. Cruz’s theatrics in the Senate have reinforced his status as the patron saint of the movement, and to many, he has become its public face. But many Republicans believe Cruz’s strategy is harming the party, and that distaste may be translating into waning support among moderate conservatives for Tea Party goals. Cruz and fellow rabble-rouser Sen. Mike Lee (R– Utah) “have absolutely no idea what they are doing,” complains Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post, a onetime cheerleader for the movement:
-Lee and Cruz’s insistence that they are the ones "fighting" is belied by the facts. They are actually intent on running into a concrete wall again and again to prove their political machismo. For many Republicans this isn’t bravery but stupidity. [The Washington Post] But perhaps, as Jeb Golinkin suggested at The Week.com earlier this year, the Tea Party is losing support because its followers believe it has sold out to the mainstream Republican Party. Supporters may have realized that what was once a grassroots movement of true believers has been "appropriated by a new class of political insiders," made up of freshmen congressmen awed by Washington, and money-scraping strategists for political action committees:
"All of them owe their power to the existence of this thing called the Tea Party. But now they have to maintain the illusion that the Tea Party is totally distinct from the GOP, and stands for meaningfully different values. Otherwise, those [congressmen] may no longer seem quite so special, and those PACs may be viewed as the latest in a long line of conservative money-gathering operations." [The Week]
THE 24/7 SLANT, VOTER APATHY, RIGHT WING DINGERS, CHANGERS, BIRTHERS, NOW THE DEPENDERS
FAREED ZAKARIA HAS IT RIGHT
-His comments about the American Voter doing the least investigation into who they should vote for is the main problem in our country today. I agree 16% of Congress might by luck be doing their job. Thats means 84% really did not put the right person into the job. But thats a whole other story.
Then again, while support is dwindling, opposition to the Tea Party is not growing. In fact, 51 percent of Americans said they had no strong feelings about the movement at all — neither supporting nor opposing it, or having no opinion. And the percentage of people who consider themselves Tea Party supporters is still higher than those who admit to being liberal, notes William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection:
"Think about it another way, if you were at a dinner table with four other people who represented the American electorate, one of the people at the table would be a Tea Party supporter. And two others would have no opinion." And if Tea Partiers still believe their movement is leaking popular support, they might be comforted by the fact that there is still one group in politics even less popular than they are: The U.S. Congress.
This is a politically fueled and fed nightmare brought on by the likes of those who control the 24/7 media for personal gain, like Murdoch of FOX. Helped by the politicians who no longer serve us, but serve themselves, like Palin, Gingrich, and a greedy few who are self mandated and marinated (soaked in their own grandeur) into a quest for power at the expense of those who have been brain washed by the spewing of the extreme right or the extreme righteous. Congresswoman Bachman comes to mind. Some of the things she says make Bush seem normal…nah!
The conditions are right for the election of the slogan throwers and on occasional throwers of media excrement who wish to change history to match their outlandish thinking. We have been through the birthers and now we are confronted with the changers. Soon we will have the "dependers" if this crap keeps up long enough. Now thats a horrific sight. I can see it now, hundreds marching down Pennsylvania Ave. wearing "Depends". Slogans like "You can Depend on Us", "We'll handle Washington's crap". "We can stop the leaks! Insane? No, look at some of their signs, not far away.
I see the most dangerous as the "changers" looking to rewrite the Constitution's main, most profound calling, the Separation of Church and State. The Taliban and the Mullahs are a prime example when the two come together in a religiously controlled state.
CHRISTIANITY IS JUST AS DANGEROUS
- Just Google the words "war, Knights Templar, Infidels, and Crusades", and you figure the rest out. The western style or Christian religions tried to rule the world in terms of their style have been just as guilty in trying to force their will against others. Read about Pope Urban II and you see a different light as to tolerance. What happened to Christian forgiveness in respect to the hatred against Muslims today. Religion conveniently picks the right side for themselves. Our Supreme Court on religious issues has made movements lately that go way beyond normal thinking. We need elected jurists not appointed political clowns.
TEXAS TALIBAN
- Those who challenge and want to change history in our schoolbooks. The Texas school board wants to ban many books and parts of history to appease fundamentalism. So they literally got a whole fundamentalist board elected. I see this no different than the beating and sometimes shooting of citizens in the middle of soccer fields by the Taliban. One group finding ways to bring their thinking down upon another group. I'm appalled that it even occurred in such a smart state like Texas who brought us the Bush's. Thus we have the Texas Taliban. Hmm, OK I get it.
WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING?
- The TEA Party was formed, slightly right of Attila the Hun and the indoctrination meetings were copied from old Vietnam War era films. Same parades even looked like some of the old gang. Several things immediately became apparent about them. Image for one thing, those mis-spelled signs, hate pictures, and the Obama Hitler, the Joker and other artwork told me a lot about some of them.
May I suggest the following:
• Learn how to spell, you idiots, nothing like a moron to represent the masses with misspelled words like Washington. Are you that frickin stupid?
I stop or disregard many emails I get from concerned citizens who forward just about anything they think has merit. Usually some TEA party slightly slanted right wing fear message but they added something to it. Their personal touch and comment. And again poor spelling. Morons seem to congregate around morons.
• The email forwarder is asking me to forward a lot of bogus stuff to others. Topically, they are under the guise of patriotism, much of it is nothing but vitriolic racial and semitic hatred definitely aimed at a reaction against immigrants, Jews like me, black citizens, non-believers, Hawaiian birth certificates, and usually left wing Democrats.
• We really have to be careful with some of the stuff coming out when the TEA Party, those well- meaning self-proclaimed great Americans, meet with a few loose cannons from the NRA and hopefully it will be an intelligent gathering and verbally low-scale. Well, it's already failed.
NOT A WORD FROM THE NRA DENIGRATING THESE NUTS WHO WERE GOING TO SHOOT COPS
Let me state, I WAS a proud lifetime member of the NRA and I respect it as a great organization. I also am a Range Officer in IPSC, and I love and participated heavily in the shooting sports. I write about the shooting sports. I am one. I was a fan of the late great Charlton Heston until he got too theatrical.
I watch Charlton Heston movies ad nauseam and sometimes agree with Wayne LaPierre on some issues, but some of the policies and members frankly "scare me to death”. I hear some of their rhetoric and see little from the organization to calm their fears and actions. Fear sells membership.
Here is how it works. If we say, " the government will not take your guns away", or the Government passes laws supporting the second amendment, the new membership numbers goes down. The simple words “New World Order” in the context of the NRA was such a crock of spin-shipt I wrote an entire article on it. George the first was implying the New Word Order meant a Global Economy. Had nothing to do with taking guns away.
On the other hand if we say, "the government bought six new Black Helicopters", the new memberships go up. Of course the government bought six new "Black-Hawk" model helicopters, and is using them for Border Patrol, Mosquito SWAT control, Seal team Six, or Home Land civil defense in Washington. Spin, spin, spin.
And the organizers behind some of these rallies are just looking for the right trigger. The last thing we need is a penis envy gathering of self appointed “Saviors’ of the Union”, totally paranoid that their guns will be taken away wearing their semi-automatics on the hip and their battle rifles over the shoulder. What happens when you mix gasoline, fertilizer, wood dust and a nut? Timothy McVee and some bad karma.
BACKLASH FOR THE TEA PARTY
- Party TEA POTS could care less about public opinion. The government shutdown and debt ceiling fight, they believe will not harm their status as elected officials because of the well thought out non-competitive, gerrymandered districts carefully developed under secrecy most of the time, and slowly twisted to protect them.
As we come closer to the debt ceiling it became more apparent that the Tea Party thinks that they have this thing under control but, they are going to find out they might lose the support of one of their strongest allies. Big business is not happy with what is going on and some of the business interests are openly thinking that it might be wiser to support more reasonable business friendly candidates then some of these slogan goofball imbeciles from the Tea Party who will ruin retail business and crash the economy.
Brilliant, "We have come to the conclusion that sitting on the sidelines is not good enough," David French, the head lobbyist at the National Retail Federation, told the New York Times. Who set the cherry bomb under his seat and woke him up? The business community was already miffed with the Tea Party's tactics ahead of the government shutdown. The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with some 250 allied groups, sent a joint letter to Congress on the eve of the shutdown urging Republicans to back down lest they crush the weak growth the economy has fought to bring back.
Bottom line was it cost us 24 Billion (with a B) dollars….