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1. #1
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am, sonofdy said:

   Agent 2843 of the world wide wingnut conspricay reporting for duty, Commander Malkin. What are your orders???

   he he he he

2. #2
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 am, PBoilermaker said:

   I guess they figure it takes a conspiracy for anyone to be against the wholesale destruction of our nation as we know it, right?

   Effing nutjobs.

3. #3
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am, verogolfer said:

   Yes, another agent reporting in to our Dear Commander. We have the opposition confused, disorganized and paranoid. (althought that may be their natural state). What’s next, Commander Malkin?

4. #4
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 am, cpodug said:

   The dedicated leftists can’t stand it when their own tactics are used against them. They go into shock and denial.

5. #5
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am, Ralph Gizzip said:

   Wow, Michelle, loon is right. It must be extremely difficult to think and type with one hand.

6. #6
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm, rplatt said:

   Worry not . . . liberalism is a serious mental disease and is completely void of reason, logic and rational thought.

7. #7
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

   Aw, screw ‘em. It isn’t like we need the moonbats’ permission to protest TheOne’s B.S. policies.

   It’s great that their heads are asplodin.

8. #8
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm, WarTip said:

   CNBC and Fox organized by the evil corporations all conspiring to protest corporate welfare and the taxpayer funding of evil corporations?

   Wow! Forget the coffee, I think I need a beer! After enough of them, maybe I will begin to understand that.

9. #9
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm, olbroad said:

   For the first time in his life, my husband went to an ‘event’….the Nashville Tea Party. Why? Because, even though he’s one of those “don’t rock the boat” types, he is completely, and totally, FED UP! Amateurish? Damn skippy! So were the guys who tossed tea in the Boston Harbor.

10. #10
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm, Just A Grunt said:

    But I thought Rush Limbaugh was our leader??? Does anybody out there have the chain of command chart so I can keep this straight?

11. #11
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Like the old saying goes, “From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks.”

    The Tea Parties are that acorn, and they are growing! That’s why the doubters are tryin’ to talk `em down – they’re represent the indefatigable will of the people.

    Everyone, keep up the good work and don’t let the naysayers get to ya!

12. #12
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm, tarpon said:

    Michelle, you know you are over the target when you can see the flak … Keep up the good work.

13. #13
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm, DBNinKY said:

    Oops! represent = representative of

14. #14
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    An organized PR campaign would have received much more media coverage than the tea party movement. The fact that some starlet I’ve never heard of is now single has received more coverage.

15. #15
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm, Room 237 said:

    DBNinKY — please do not use the word ACORN in connectuion with anything I have been invovled with.

    I was at the NYC one Saturday. Yes it was small. A big part of it is that those of us on the conseravtvie and libertarian right tend to be more individualistic, somewhat distrustful of political crowds (they can easily turn into mobs) and frankly have better things to do on Saturday afternoon than our neighbors on the left.

    Also, frankly, the cities, where it is easier to mobilize people, are about 90% of the left therse days.

16. #16
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm, Kevin K. said:

    [MM:] But I think they’d [politicians] be better off staying on the Hill, engaging in combat on the House and Senate floors, and doing their jobs. What say you?

    I agree. The good Republicans need to be fighting the good fight. The RINOs need to stay away to avoid diluting (poisoning?) the movement.

17. #17
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm, Room 237 said:

    Persoanlly, I wish this does not turn into a Republican thing.

    I was once on the board of my state college Republicans and sat on my county GOP committee. Why would I say that?

    Because the GOP is a political party and it exists for one reason only, get Republicans elected. And frankly the GOP was no break to fiscal irresponibility, so lets keep this a pressure movement, as opposed to a political movement.

18. #18
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm, pdigaudio said:

    Those tinfoil-hat wearing conspiracy wackos are nuttier than a Chinese chicken salad.

    Every time I read or hear one of their rants, the Looney Tunes theme plays in my head.

19. #19
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm, shooter said:

    staying on the Hill, engaging in combat on the House and Senate floors, and doing their jobs. What say you?

    When the pols are interviewed on ntnl TV (like Kyl yesterday) asking for Americans to ‘get involved’ ‘stand up’.. ‘be heard’ , etc. they should mention, at the very least, these Tea Parties. We will need the free pub.
    Then get their own butts back on track engaging in combat on the House and Senate floors.

    So yes, voice support but do their own darn work, LOUDLY.

20. #20
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    These are the same people who for years are claiming that George Bush was a gibbering idiot yet at the same time an eeeeevil genius.

    My personal guess is that the Tea Parties start with the pledge of alegance and the national anthem – this abject show of American pride and patriotic harmony drives the left right over the deep end.

21. #21
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm, DanVanSmak said:

    Glenn Reynolds was right to observe that:

    Of course they’re amateurish.

    The left is one gargantuan professional protesting organization. Readers of Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” realize this. Wolfe, through the character Reverend Reginald Bacon, was right when he said that “whoever controls the steam controls the issue.” So, it’s not surprising to see a bunch of hot air coming from the supercilious left. Perhaps we can harvest this “renewable wind energy” to combat global warming…if only global warming actually existed. It’s too bad the redistribution of wealth via taxation is all too real.

    *out*

22. #22
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm, Cosmo said:

    Yes, this is true. Much like Ricardo Montalban’s watch-trigger cuing Reggie Jackson to kill Queen Elizabeth in “The Naked Gun,” Santelli’s floor rant from the Chicago Exchange was the cue that “Tea Party Sleeper Cells” were waiting for so they could act.

    Don’t you know conservatives all get their orders from their mind-controlling overlords? They all read the Limbaugh Letter and O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo before opening their mouth? If Fox doesn’t say it, conservatives don’t act.

    /sarc

    Does anyone who reads Playboy actually read it for the insightful political commentary? Does anyone actually take anyone who comments on politics at Playboy.com seriously? Yikes.

23. #23
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm, sonofdy said:

    Wow! Forget the coffee, I think I need a beer! After enough of them, maybe I will begin to understand that.

    I think the correct meal required to understand this is:

    Steak with magic musroom sauce with a Mary jane salid.

    and to drink…
    tequela with acid drops and an ever clear chaser.

    Chain of command?

    Commander: Malkin
    Sub-commander: Rush
    Operations planner: Satan
    Deep cover agent: Biden

24. #24
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm, sonofdy said:

    Does anyone who reads Playboy actually read it for the insightful political commentary?

    There are WORDS in that magazine????

    WOW…

25. #25
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm, CyberCipher said:

    From Dennis Mooney’s article A Liberal’s Eye’s View of the Seattle Tea Party.

    So I’m on my way home looking for one phrase that will sum up my #teaparty experience. I do believe in fate. On the bus seat is the Seattle Times left open at a full-page ad from Saturn-GM exclaiming “Change Starts in the Driveway”. That’s what this is all about. It’s all about keeping your money and not worrying about your neighbor. Well as long as it doesn’t cost you anything……….

    Nothing could be further from the truth.

    Now I suggest that you compare Mr. Mooney’s “eye witness account” with the video tape. All 45 minutes (broken into 5 individual 10 minutes segments) are posted on YouTube and can be viewed at my website at:
    http://cyberciphering.com

    I think that you will find that Mr. Mooney is true to his last name (a slang term for a religious cult that believes that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is God). Video tape doesn’t lie — but Dennis Mooney clearly DOES.

    My collie says:

    I was there. There was PLENTY of discussion about helping one’s neighbor. It’s IN the videos.

    You know what REALLY burns my *ss about Mooney’s remarks? Last week, my aunt and I received our 2008 tax refunds. We IMMEDIATELY sat down and wrote out personal checks to a Christian charity that focuses on helping homeless, disadvantaged children — in amounts exceeding $25,000. That’s more money than the Obamas and Bidens have given to those kinds of charities in THE PAST 5 YEARS. According to my electronic bank statements, those checks have already been cashed, and that money is already working to help those people.

    My collie says:

    Liberals are THE BIGGEST liars and hypocrites on the planet. So much so, they even make Satan blush.

26. #26
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm, flenser said:

    That idiot Moran jumped the shark a long time ago. How do some of these clowns get to call themselves “right wing” any way?

    I’m not saying Moran is really Kathleen Parker, but have you ever seen the two of them together?

27. #27
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 pm, shooter said:

    oh, and as for the Tea Party-bashers, they really don’t deserve the time of day.
    Glad you slammed them down with some facts and truth Michelle, but only non-liberals care about such things as truth and facts.
    Libs make ‘em up as they go and I’m not in the mood right now, hussein is too busy buying us into socialism, grand theft via liberal generational larceny and stealing middle-America’s retirement for ACORN’s house warmers. (not to mention canceling out all future inheritances).

    Don’t let Dear Leader distract us another minute from what he is doing.

28. #28
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm, huhwhat said:

    More Tea Parties and hopefully larger turn outs. I live in the St. Louis area and missed the one last Friday. I was tied up with a customer on the other side of the city, however, I was there in spirit and will break any and all commitments to attend the next. And I say no politicians. If they were worth a damn, we wouldn’t need to have these protests.

29. #29
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm, shooter said:

    they even make Satan blush.

    altho they air brush it away on the magazine covers obambi ‘graces’.

30. #30
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:27 pm, katablog said:

    I saw this article over the weekend and also just went blitzo! No one paid me for the sign making materials I bought. No one paid my gas to drive 35 miles each way to the Overland Park Protest and certainly no one orchastraed my attendance.

    But what really gets me is that O’s team sends out a text message to his minions telling them to stand on their head for his stimulus bill, defend his signing a bill with 9,000 earmarks, and attack us – and that’s supposedly grass roots!

31. #31
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm, dominigan said:

    So… when I picture liberals commenting and sneering at the Tea Parties… why do I picture them doing it with a British accent?

32. #32
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm, TxSkirt said:

    I find it appalling that fellow conservatives would be negative about any grassroots movement meant to protest our speedy march towards socialism. That elitist attitude is what has kept many conservative Americans away from our party. Ric Moran and his ilk sit in front of their keyboards and think their clever words are enough to change the world. Someone has to get their hands dirty, people. If you can’t offer anything except negativity, shut up.

    P.S. I’d also like to know the Koch Foundation address. I drove 8 hours round trip to the Houston Tea Party and want to know when I can get reimbursed for my mileage and lunch.

33. #33
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm, granite said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm, sonofdy said:

    Does anyone who reads Playboy actually read it for the insightful political commentary?

    There are WORDS in that magazine????

    WOW…

    ROFLMAO!
    I burst out laughing when I saw your post!
    Kudos!!!

34. #34
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm, thirteen28 said:

    Thanks, Michelle – not only for calling out the tinfoil brigades, but the “conservative” casterati who would rather us sit back and do nothing.

    The efforts of those who organized and promoted the Tea Parties have done more for the conservative movement in the last few weeks than Moran, Brooks, Frum, Ruffini, Parker, Noonan, et al. combined have done in years.

35. #35
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm, iamsaved said:

    Sure the tea party protesters appear amateurish. Why wouldn’t they since this is foreign territory for them?

    Those from the party of perpetual victimhood and perpetually being offended by someone or something have lot’s of expericence and are professionals at protesting. I’m sure the colonials during the Revolutionary War appeared like amateurs to the British Army. They learned quickly though didn’t they?

    We may have been born yesterday, but we went out last night. The liberals will see what it means to offend the “silent majority” again.

36. #36
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 pm, wighttrasch said:

    The left tells so many lies, it’s hard to keep their stories straight.

    What are you–some kind of racist for pointing this out?!

37. #37
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    Room 237…I agree. I’m a democrat, but a fiscally conservative one. This isn’t about parties.

    What brings me to mm.com is the fact that she calls a spade a spade. When politicians forget to put the good of the country ahead of their own interests, she calls them on it whether they are republican or democrat. Too many people, including politicians, commentators, and reporters twist logic to make excuses for folks on their side of the aisle. It’s a way of life on the left, but it happens on the right too. It’s embarrassing when the right abandons its values in the name of partisanship. We’re better than that and MM proves it here daily.

38. #38
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm, mojack420 said:

    a loon at Playboy.com claimed that the Tea Party events this weekend were part of a grand cabal funded by something called the Koch Foundation in cahoots with CNBC’s Rick Santelli:

    first off it seems im not the only one who thought , “what the heck people read playpoy and not just look at the pictures” and then wow I have never been part of grand cabal. yeah for me .

    I will be in Las Vegas for the Tax Day Tea Party. and im going to get an extention on my taxes . thats right bo im holding out on paying as long as possible. Hey if i whoops forget to pay cvan i head the irs too

39. #39
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm, TxSkirt said:
    PS. I’d also like to know the Koch Foundation address. I drove 8 hours round trip to the Houston Tea Party and want to know when I can get reimbursed for my mileage and lunch.

    Priceless!!!

40. #40
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm, Room 237 said:

    iamsaved — Other than the odd political rally (I went to one in 2008 and cannot remember the last one I went to before that) I have not been a something like this in years. And I have a feeling many of those there on Saturday were in the same boat.

    We are at a disadvantage viz the left. Namely, we have lives, politics is not everything, and we distrust political crowds (too easy to turn into mobs). We do not have the organizing ability and expertise.

    To give you an idea, a few months ago, when I lived in Chicago, I suggested on an e-mail list that we needed to look into the community organizing model. The idea was to combat emminent domain abuse in Cook County. I was shouted down.

41. #41
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm, jsr said:

    The MSM and Dems have been caught off guard by this and, like Sarah Palin, recognize it as a serious threat but have not coordinated their attacks yet. Thus we get sneering comments about low turnout, dead-enders, unprofessional, etc… at the same time as accusations that this is all orchestrated by the usual evil corporations, big-oil, etc…

    If these things continue to grow they will put together a more coordinated response that vilifies the leaders without pissing-off and insulting those attending. Something along the lines of ordinary people facing difficult economic time are often drawn to dangerous ideologues with hidden agendas. Undoubtedly, the irony will be lost on them.

42. #42
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm, shimauma2 said:

    But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out,

    What the nutroot libtards keep forgetting is that the 200 conservatives that are NOW out protesting are probably doing so because a lot of them ARE OUT OF JOBS!!! That, or they took a day off work because they are so strongly against the “o”bamanation of taxation that is being forced on them as hard working citizens. And that’s how the revolution is going to form, once hard working folks end up with enough time on their hands to overthrow this communist regime, you wait and see how organized it gets!

43. #43
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    Playboy?

    Really?

    The website of a magazine whose sole reason for existence is to get young women naked is relevant how?

    Waste o’ bandwith (or however else Al Gore’s invention works), imho.

44. #44
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Yeah, yeah fine – quotes from Playboy. Where are the pictures?! Whoops I mean, yeah, Playboy is where I’d go for intellectual analysis…

45. #45
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm, Room 237 said:

    Stillwaiting — if Heath Shuler ran for president he would get my vote.

    This CANNOT be about parties. Because the left is correct when they ask where we were in 2002 when Bush was on his spending spree.

46. #46
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm, mojack420 said:

    Unfortunately, even with a filing extension you’re required to pay your estimated tax bill by 4/15…unless you’re serious about wanting to work for the curent administration.

47. #47
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm, kevin45 said:

    How dare we question ‘the one’ or protest his miraculous policies!!

    FIGHT EM UNTIL YOU CAN’T MY FRIENDS its going to get a lot thicker the next 18 months

48. #48
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm, pabarge said:

    I suggest that we start holding the Tea Party protests in front of the corporate offices of local newspapers.

    They’re the ones not covering these events, at all.

    Push back against the biased MSM and the Obama fiscal irresponsibility.

49. #49
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm, Room 237 said:

    shimuauma —

    I think all should read Wendell Willkie’s sppech accepting the GOP nomination in 1940.

    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75629

    “But I want to ask anyone in this audience who is, or has been, on relief whether the support that the Government gives him is enough. Is it enough for the free and able-bodied American to be given a few scraps of cash or credit with which to keep himself and his children just this side of starvation and nakedness? Is that what the forgotten man wanted us to remember?

    What that man wanted us to remember was his chance his right—to take part in our great American adventure.”

    So yes — we believe in helping those who cannot support themselves IF they truely are in need. But the best way to get things going again is not a few dollars of cash but getting the economy going again. And this spending orgy is not it.

50. #50
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are:

    “ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today.”

51. #51
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm, bradley said:

    This April 15th should be ANOTHER “tea party” and Americans should tell the US goverment to stick it, no taxes filed or paid, since the head of the IRS didn’t bother, why should we? Besides he paid NO penalties either.

52. #52
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    This could be a real-life “John Doe” movement…without the evil backers who tried and failed to pervert the ideals of the movement.

53. #53
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm, granite said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    That was also my understanding.

    The money pretty much has to be paid by April 15.
    The “extension” is pretty much merely for the niceties of the paperwork.

54. #54
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm, hunter said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    You are wrong and just looking to make what we are doing look like the same as the Soros crowd is doing. They are not the same.

55. #55
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm, Laree said:

    Speaking of tin foil hats

    Too Funny, The Global Warming Rally going on as scheduled at the Nations Capitol. D.C. got 10 inches of snow overnight.

56. #56
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm, GodblessedtheUSA said:

    April 15 Tea Party: I’m in!

57. #57
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Sam Adams Alliance

    Is this like a club for people who like micro-breweries?

58. #58
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm, txvet2 said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are:

    Did you make that quote up yourself, or did you just steal it from another moonbat?

59. #59
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are:

    “you people” count +1

    Can you explain in your copy/pasted and unsubstantiated theory why these “Republican sleeper cells” would wait until after the election to activate?

    It’s more likely that since this is how many liberal organizations operate under George Soros, there is a presumption that this, too, must be how conservatives work.

    Physician, heal thyself.

60. #60
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm, cpodug said:

    You know, I have never figured out just exactly WHAT country Ilovemycountry actually loves. I have an awful hard time believing it it the United States of America.

61. #61
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm, txvet2 said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are:

    Did you make that quote up yourself, or did you just steal it from another moonbat?

    It’s from the Playboy article. I don’t believe that ILMC authors much beyond his “you people” tirades/mocking.

62. #62
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm, groundhunter said:

    I suspect that that loved country is well south of the border.

63. #63
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm, right_on said:

    The liberal anti-democratic interpretation of all conservative strategic planning, is “conspiratorial.”

    Their fear is palpable.

64. #64
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm, walterc said:

    mojack420 said: Hey if i whoops forget to pay cvan i head the irs too.

    That spot’s taken, but I hear Commerce is still available.

65. #65
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm, Jenn of the Jungle said:

    My pet Moonbats were all over the evil conspiracy theories as soon as I posted the pics from the San Diego Tea Party. All I know is Dawn said, come on down, let’s show ‘em how pissed we are and I went. There was no grand scheme.

66. #66
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm, Paul Revere said:

    Why hasn’t(insert Republican politician’s name) attended one of these?

67. #67
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:27 pm, Room 237 said:

    >Can you explain in your copy/pasted and unsubstantiated theory why these “Republican sleeper cells” would wait until after the election to activate?

    You have all figured out the plan now. You see, back in 2007 I attended a Sam Adams Alliance happy hour in Chicago. They slipped a computer chip in my beer. I was activated last week in order to sow discord amongst the happy and contented populace of our land.

68. #68
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm, mike volpe said:

    Here in Chicago only one politician attended the rally, Tony Peraica. Furthermore, he made political hey of asking where other politicians were. The reason of course is that in the Chicagoland area only Tony Peraica truly believes in fiscal responsibility.

    So, if the GOP were pulling the strings, I would ask why only one in the GOP showed up for the rally.

69. #69
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm, Jenn of the Jungle said:

    My pet Moonbats were all over the evil conspiracy theories as soon as I posted the pics from the San Diego Tea Party. …

    Only protests that:
    -Assault military recruiters
    -Sabotage military supply lines
    -Harass senior citizen Mormons or anyone else that supported a ballot resolution
    -The list goes on, but I truncate for brevity…

    …can be considered “patriotic” protests. All others are nefarious conspiracies with unfathomable endgames.

70. #70
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm, lgm said:

    I didn’t think anyone actually reads Playboy. Who knew they were part of the vast liberal conspiracy?

    Question for tea partyers: are you against deficits or taxes? If you’re against deficits, do you promise to oppose the next tax cut?

71. #71
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:27 pm, Room 237 said:

    You have all figured out the plan now. You see, back in 2007 I attended a Sam Adams Alliance happy hour in Chicago. They slipped a computer chip in my beer. I was activated last week in order to sow discord amongst the happy and contented populace of our land.

    Clearly it goes much further back than that in a fashion only the fevered mind of Dan Brown could plagiarize from someone else.

    It’s the Illuminati.

    You see, they’ve waited until both the Presidency and Congress were completely controlled by the Democratic party to act. Their goal? To pollute the Cedar River with tea, thereby changing the color of the river to a color all too close to what it already was.

    This brown river would mark the first stage of the Illuminati apocalypse.

72. #72
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Mister P said:

    lgm: you are living in the past. It has just flown you buy. The only alternative is to declare bankruptcy and cancel all debts. There is no one to pay off the deficits.

73. #73
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm, TxSkirt said:

    Excuse me, Mr. Ilovemycountry.

    Do I sent my receipts for travel to the Tea Party to the “Sam Adam’s Alliance” or the “Koch Foundation”? You wouldn’t happen to have a phone number in that secret cache of e-mails would ya?

    Oh, and don’t call me “you people” again.

74. #74
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:40 pm, John Deaux said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
    This is who you people are:

    And we would have gotten away with it too if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!

75. #75
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm, John Deaux said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Stillwaiting said:
    This could be a real-life “John Doe” movement…without the evil backers who tried and failed to pervert the ideals of the movement.

    This is a family site. Let’s leave my movements out of this.

76. #76
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm, right_on said:

    I suspect that that loved country is well south of the border.

    Bill Clinton was very elucidative during his years in office. I give him all due credit for so vividly explaining how to understand liberal-speak. It’s so very simple, even a caveman could understand…you take the opposite of what they say, and that is their true meaning or intention.

    For example: Ilovemycountry becomes Ihateyourcountry.

    I trust no liberal/progressive/socialist, no matter what they like to label themselves, and neither should America. Theirs is the party of ruination, distrust, obfuscation, disorientation, confusion, confiscation, and misuse of every authority given to them.

    The elites in that party want to rule (DICTATE) over the “clueless” masses, and will attempt to gain complete control over our lives, no matter the cost. I, for one, choose to dissent and I will fight them!

77. #77
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:44 pm, Average Joe said:

    The minutemen were amateurs too. Not a bad group of folks to emulate when the nation is at risk of losing everything they fought for.

78. #78
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm, lgm said:

    I didn’t think anyone actually reads Playboy. Who knew they were part of the vast liberal conspiracy?

    Nice try at turning it around.

    Michelle said “a loon” made the statement at Playboy. There were no inferences to any conspiracy. We are mocking the attempt at painting the tea parties as conspiracy by that author.

    Question for tea partyers: are you against deficits or taxes? If you’re against deficits, do you promise to oppose the next tax cut?

    Once again you leave spending completely out of the picture. We are against the gross overspending by our government that has no clue as to what it is doing. Even Geithner has more or less admitted this in his “trying new things” quote.

    In the face of over $2T of spending, you cannot be so intellectually dishonest as to suggest that this is only about tax cuts. This congress has quadrupled our deficit with no signs of stopping.

    ..but, hey, I’m glad one of us is unworried by that fact enough to criticize those that protest against it.

    The guilt trip included in your rationale to trap conservatives into saying they’ll agree to continue paying for all the pork is amusing.

    Here’s a novel idea: Let’s reduce government spending so they will not need more taxes. Cutting taxes doesn’t alone cause a deficit. It’s the spending that isn’t cut along with it that creates that effect.

79. #79
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm, corona said:

    Um, speaking of clueless, how about the new RNC chairman?

80. #80
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm, corona said:

    Um, speaking of clueless, how about the new RNC chairman?

    Sigh.

    Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you.

81. #81
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm, Regulus said:

    I’ve heard quite a bit of smug and snobbish condescension towards the Tea Party rebels from naysayers in the Beltway and blogosphere.

    I’ve been unimpressed with the “tea party” protests mainly because they’re too little, too late. The donks are cramming their gargantuan spending boondoggles up the American people’s collective posteriors, and there’s nothing that conservatives and Republicans can say or do to change that until 2011 at the earliest.

    And by then, the irremediable damage will have already been done.

    I’m not a defeatist in the “we’re screwed” sense, but there comes a time to recognize when a battle is over and when it’s time to continue the fight into another phase.

    We’ve already lost the battle to avoid having the donkeys lay the groundwork for the destruction of our system of government and our free market economy. We lost that battle in November of 2008. There’s no way that the out-of-control spending is going to be repealed, or even scaled back, until maybe — maybe — Republicans can (1) make significant gains in the 2010 mid-term elections, and (2) not lose their bearings when it comes to fiscal conservatism.

    Rather than protesting in a manner and to an effect that is no different from crying over spilt milk, those who want to salvage this country would be better advised to be thinking ahead to the next battles: the 2010 and 2012 elections in the short term, so we can delay the day of reckoning, and the Second American Revolution in the longer term (after the unpayable national debt gets renounced and everything goes to Hell).

82. #82
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm, cpodug said:

    If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify. Alexander Hamilton

83. #83
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 pm, Salt said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm, corona said:

    Um, speaking of clueless, how about the new RNC chairman?

    Sigh.

    Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you.

    Rush was going to ignore it, but is talking about it live now.

84. #84
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

    Any and all protests started small. How does one think that getting the masses ready for revolt has ever occurred? To dismiss these tea parties as small and too late is foolish, even ignorant. Keep them coming…. stand on the steps of court houses, capitols, television stations. When I see someone writing that the tea parties were too little to late, I see someone not of the courage to bleed, much less fight, for a cause. Forgive my bluntness but I have no time for summer patriots.

85. #85
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm, rambler said:

    A pox on both their houses! Both parties have invested more in their reelection than listening to the public. It’s refreshing that the American public is returning to the spirit which made this country great. I’m going to buy more tea!

86. #86
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm, jjmurphy said:

    I applaud each and every person taking part in or supporting these tea party protests. Ya gotta start somewhere. And I notice the republicans “bigwigs” like Steele are not exactly lighting a fire under anyone, unless it is to burn Rush in effigy!

    Ignore the cocktail crowd like Moran, Parker, Noonan and others. There will always be people telling you why something can’t be done.

87. #87
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm, nail49 said:

    If you’re against deficits, do you promise to oppose the next tax cut?

    lgm: No, because I understand that tax cuts actually INCREASE federal tax revenues (see Democrat JFK’s term for proof — along with Ronnie Reagan’s and GWB’s terms).

    Deficits come from spending more than what one takes in.

    I’ll make it simple for you, if you make $100/month as a math teacher and spend $20,000/month, YOU are running a deficit. Further, it is NOT incumbent on the school board to collect monies from your students’ parents to make up your deficit.

    And don’t EVEN try to lay THIS deficit at the feet of GWB. The Stimulus Plan was brought upon us solely by the Dumbs — Party of Obama (D, Mob), Pelosi (D, Botox) and Reid (D, Stupidity), but I repeat myself.

    Whenever one gets in debt, there are tough decisions to be made about what to give up and what to keep, no matter the sacrifice required. The Dumbs have sold some in this country that the solution they are providing will mean nobody has to sacrifice for everyone to keep everything.

88. #88
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm, cheapseat said:

    lgm#69 i promise to support a fair tax that taxes the comsumers as well as the producers. after all, does our army and police protect the rich or everyone? do the roads get driven on by the rich, or everyone? so since our government seems to need 40% of everyones money to operate it’s largess, let’s all support a 40% no deductibles no minimum income tax. i’ll support that, will you?

89. #89
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm, cpodug said:

    If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense… – Alexander Hamilton

    The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. – Alexander Hamilton

90. #90
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Room 237 said:

    One thing though that is funny — despite trying to tie this to the GOP — The Koch Foundation and the Sam Adams Alliance is more tied to the Libertarian Party (one of the Kochs was the LP VP nominee in 1980). And at the Sam Adams Happy Hour I attended in 2007 (or was it 2006, I forget), the Adams folks seemed more pissed off about George Bush than the Democrats.

91. #91
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm, Jet Jaguar said:

    If they spot it, they got it. Scheming scumbags…

92. #92
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm, sonofdy said:

    Question for tea partyers: are you against deficits or taxes?

    YES

    If you’re against deficits, do you promise to oppose the next tax cut?

    No because the real answer is to stop spending.

93. #93
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm, pdigaudio said:

    Question for tea partyers: are you against deficits or taxes?

    Both.

    If you’re against deficits, do you promise to oppose the next tax cut?

    Nice try with the false dichotomy. Tax rate reductions ALWAYS increase revenue. ALWAYS. Did for JFK. Did for Ronaldus Magnus. Did for GWB.

    But when spending outpaces those revenue increases, you get deficits. Or daffuzits, as Jim Sasser used to say.

94. #94
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm, tamarah180 said:

    Protect the Microbreweries

95. #95
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I hope these tea parties just keep growing and growing. I will use vacation time to get to one. Liberals cannot stand to hear one word out of even one conservative’s mouth…and they will have a major convulsion if a whole crowd of conservatives start protesting.
    Right on #75 hit the nail on the head! Liberals are liars, cheats and hypocrites—so, believe nothing they say.

96. #96
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm, Stillwaiting said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm, John Deaux said:

    John, You don’t have to jump to bring crediblity to the Tea Parties!!!

97. #97
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    I’m waiting for the “Tea Party Girls” issue. You know it’s coming.

98. #98
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm, chotii said:

    I want to make a bumper sticker that reads:

    Taxed into Foreclosure!
    can i has bailout too?

    Of course, I’m not IN Foreclosure, so it wouldn’t be honest. But sometimes I wonder how long it will be before it hits that point. There’s not a lot of wiggle room in my budget right now.

99. #99
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm, zorro said:

    Mark Tapscott thinks GOP leaders should get involved.

    The GOP leaders are too weak to get involved anyway. Most can be bought by more earmarks.

100. #100
     On March 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm, RetFireman said:

     You know, as I mentioned in another link, you can’t help but love the blatant, obnoxious, hypocrisy of these Liberals.

     When you look at the “vast” amount of Liberal “grassroots” groups and look at who it is who actually either began them, sponsor them or have their filthy little fingers involved in them in some way, it makes you want to just rub the list right in their fat, smug little faces.

     How many of these groups are funded in whole or in part by the American Communist Party? What about the American Socialist Party?

     As far as them being oh so indignant concerning the false allegation that the “Tea Party” thing is being funded as a front for Rick Santelli, the Koch Foundation or any of the other Conservative Boogie-men that they can’t help but mention anytime someone shows just how destructive their plans are, let’s just look at George Soros, all the pots he has his fingers in, and especially the run on the banks it is suspected he caused on September 18th in order to get Der Fuhrer elected and keep Democrat control of the Congress.

     Michelle, I know you know all this, and while maybe it is doing a “tit-for-tat” type thing, I think you would be doing all of us a great disservice if you did not throw this right back in their face every time they try to spin this story and throw up these strawman arguments in order to distract the public from the destruction they are doing to our very existence and way of life.