Difference Between Tea Party & GOP Base? None

A new Gallup Poll reveals that the people who identify themselves as Tea Partiers, and those who represent the GOP "Base" are virtually the same.



So what we see here is that the allegedly brand spanking new "Tea Party" - is really just the rotted core of the same Old not-so-Grand Party. Surprise, surprise...

But then again, it's not as if there weren't some hints.

From the HBO Documentary "Right America, Feeling Wronged" which documented the McCain/Palin campaign and their supporters - it's not like some of the rank distrust of Obama and Democrats just suddenly happened after he was elected President.

Obama is a Muslim.

Obama is a Terrorists.

Obama Hates America.

He's going to swear his oath of allegiance on the Quoran.

He won't wear a Flag Pin.

He won't pledge allegiance to the Flag.

McCain just didn't take the Gloves Off.

The way the youth is behind him, all I could think of is "Hitler Youth".

The fact is that the Tea Party are just a pack of bitter Conservative Republicans who can't stand the fact they lost - they're nothing more then Sore Losers!.

You can argue that some of the crazy statements by supporters in this video don't matter - except that we've been hearing just as crazy stuff for quite a while from elected (and nearly elected) Republicans. What's even funnier is to watch how fast they run when they get called on it.

People like John Boehner, who now say "Nobody ever said the Stimulus wouldn't produce any jobs" --- except that HE DID. (And so did Scott Brown)



Wanna see what Obama has done to our Jobs? This.



Or Rep. Steve King who says Obama hasn't helped out Lousisiana on the BP Oil Spill because "Bobby Jindal is a Republican". So is that why George Bush did such a shitty job during Katrina, because Jindal's predecessor was a Democrat? That's Really your argument Steve, that the President is that Petty? Maybe it's because he hates White People, cuz he's only "Half White" or he hates Christians since he was Sworn In on the Quoran!

Hint to the Sarcasm Challenged, that was a Joke!

Tea Party Wacko or GOP Base - it does tend to sound the same if you bother to listen to them doesn't it?

Then there's Wannabe Senator/Tea Party Crown Prince Rand Paul who said he thinks the Public Accommodations portion of the Civil Rights Act goes too far... but then he wouldn't try to REPEAL it or anything. Sure you wouldn't.



Poor Rand Paul has been so maligned See he doesn't want to repeal Civil Rights, he only wants to abolish the American's With Disabilities Act. Paul also thinks the EPA is Running Amok with too many restrictive regulations, Doesn't think anyone's going to miss a Few Mountains Here and There that have been mined into oblivion, and has endorsed banning guaranteed citizenship to people who were BORN in America.

Golly Gee Willickers, how much more UnAmerican can you get than that!?

Lastly there's Wannabe Senator Sharon Angle who is rapidly trying to SCRUB (rinse and repeat) any evidence of her past radical statements such as...

Abolishing Social Security:

Social Security and its attendant Medicare are broken and bankrupt systems because we, as voting citizens, have allowed congress to transform these systems from insurance programs to and [sic] entitlement programs. [...] Free market alternatives, which offer retirement choices to employees and employers, must be developed and offered to those still in their wage earning years, as the Social Security system is transitioned out.

On drill, baby drill:

As a long-term policy, America must expand its own domestic energy supplies. Sharron Angle would legislate to .repeal regulations that prohibit off shore drilling, drilling in ANWR and development of American owned petroleum resources.

On climate change:

Cap and Trade, which is based on an unscientific hysteria over the man-caused global warming hoax, steps over the constitutional boundaries of the federal government and is merely another way to tax the people.

On her plans to reduce the deficit by ... cutting taxes!

As your U.S. Senator, Sharron Angle will introduce legislation in line with her economic policy of:

* Pay back the deficit
* Cut back on spending, taxation and regulation

On the UN:

The U.N. continually threatens U.S. sovereignty, with endless rhetoric and treaties and it has now become the “umpire” on fraudulent science, such as global warming.

On immigration:

Sharron Angle has been endorsed by Minuteman PAC.

Or her argument that"We may need 2nd Amendment remedies" if Republicans fail to take back Congress.

Second Amendment Remedies eh? You mean remedies like these guys who Murdered Police Officers?



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Yeah, THAT, that deafening SILENCE FROM THE GOP/TEA PARTY - punctuated by the occasional cricket - as they race each other clawing hand and foot to denounce Murdering Police Officers because of some Nutbag Radical Constitutional Theory!

But give a few more seconds and they'll start whining that they've been Wrongly Associated with Domestic Terrorists. Yeah, right ok. I'm sure Bill Ayers didn't mind his name being used to trash Barack Obama either.

That's right I invoked the dreaded Bill Ayers, who never killed anyone, and was never even tried, let alone never convicted of Anything largely because of gross Right Wing Crimes - including witness tampering, evidence planting and false confessions - in the effort to "Get those Dirty Pinko Leftists" by Herbert Hoover's FBI.

Oh yes, now do you see why those pesky 4th and 5th Amendment Rights Matter? Wanna see what REAL Fascism Looks like? Try this...



There's a reason you don't fight criminals with more crime - it backfires!

Yeah, they called Dr Martin Luther King Jr a "Socialist" too - the FBI illegally wiretapped him and tried to use that information to blackmail him into suicide - but it had nothing to do with his race. Right, sure it didn't.

Truth is, there is a difference between the center of the GOP and the most radical and potentially violent fringe elements of that group just as there is a massive difference between Dr. King and Bill Ayers (not that the FBI didn't try to Railroad both of them) - but in the case of the GOP/Tea Party and their violent radical fringe, that difference is practically paper thin.

The philosophy of the Weather Underground and Black Panthers compared to Dr. King were radically different - but with the GOP/Tea Party and groups like the Hutaree Militia the Philosophy is identical, only the methods differ - so far.

As I wrote yesterday about the Tea Party "Yup, I'm a Racist" T-Shirts - the real problem here is that when you openly admit you Hate Non-Christians, you openly admit you Hate Liberals and you Hate Socialists, you openly admit you Hate Communists, you openly admit you Hate Gays, you openly admit you Hate Scientists and you hate Doctors who dare to give all those Slutty Women an Abortion just because it's LEGAL ... When about 70-80% of the rest of the Nation includes Blacks (who tend to be Democrats and Liberals), Women (most of whom of may not get an abortion, but would at least like to have the Freedom of Choice on the issue) and Gays (who would like to be able to serve their country openly and have the FREEDOM to marry the consensual party of there choice) and what was that other group again, oh yeah DEMOCRATS and Liberals who happen to have been fighting to protect all those peoples FREEDOMS as well as YOURS for generations - then whining about being called "Racist" is like complaining about the Barn Door being open after all the pigs have run down the road, been picked up and already taken to market to slaughter.

That Ship has SAILED already.

We already KNOW the GOP Base and Tea Party are a bunch of Hate Filled Ignorant Bigots - now we're just haggling over HOW Ignorant and Bigoted.

And how dangerous...

Vyan

Michael "Honest Injun" Steele Thinks Harry Reid has a Racial Insensitivity Problem?

RNC Chairman Michael Steele who recently told complaining members of his party "Get with the Program - or Fire Me" has decided to berate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his remarks describeing why he was an early supporter of Barack Obama:

“[Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,’ as he said privately.”

Well, gee at least he didn't say he was "Clean and Articulate" - or he might have become Vice President!



From FDL (Yes, FDL - and I don't wanna hear about it!)

Yeah, this is pretty rich.

Here’s a guy who promised to woo African American voters with fried chicken, refused to criticize Glenn Beck for saying that the president was a “white culture”-hating racist, and who just a few days ago dropped the Native American equivalent of “nigger” on national teevee.



And when it was pointed out to him by a fellow Republican that “injun” isn’t kosher, Steele told him to “get a life.”

Steele is an assclown who should stick to what he does best: busting out early ’90s hip hop slang in an effort to sound cool while generally making a mockery of the Republican Party.

'Sho nuff.

Let me state just for the record as a Black Man, that I don't have the slightest problem with what Reid said because it's absolutely true.

It's not like America is exactly ready for President Flava Flav!

How about Secretary of State Ole' Dirty Bastard or T.I.?

Reid's comment was essentially that Obama doesn't fit easily in the stereotype of the Angry English-Mangling Black Man, because that's not who he is. And the fact is - it's not.

I myself wrote almost exactly two years ago the "Barack Obama is not the Black Candidate" for President.

The argument that Black people are so pavlovian as to simply vote for Obama's skin tone happens to be just as racist as the accusation that New Hampshire voters were so racist that they simply lied to the pollsters.

Now we have a huge brujah over whether or not a Clinton aide has dropped the "Shuck and Jive" bomb on Obama. People pUH_leeze, that term is so ancient that Black people tossed it out with their platform stacks and bellbottoms. It's so 1977 - it's irrelevant.

But let me tell you - in the opinion of just one black man to the rest of the world - Barack Obama is not the epitome of the "Black Candidate" or "Black Savior" to me simply because - frankly - Barack Obama isn't really all that "Black."

That's what I said then and I stand by it.

But now saying he doesn't use "Negro Dialect unless he wants to" is somehow a bad thing? Heck at least he didn't call it "Ebonics".

This we get from the Party who thinks "Barack the Magic Negro" is a good (and supposedly funny) song?

Let's listen again to it now and recall that the entire of the song was supposed a set of criticism being thrown at Barack by an Al Sharpton-ish characer for his not being "Black Enough"...

"Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper
Said he makes guilty whites feel good
They’ll vote for him, and not for me
'Cause he's not from the hood.[4]

Michael Steele didn't say JACK about this when it was being played on Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Republicans and Tea Baggers have called the President a Nazy, Fascist, Socialist, Marxist, Genocidal Communist Totalitarian Illegal Alien from Kenya - and their outraged, Outraged I Say - because Harry Reid told the truth and said he speaks proper English?

You have to recognize that Black people themselves have quite openly argued and discussed the long standing history of stratified racism against darker skinned black people and for the lighter skinned. Reid was correctly pointing out that feeling that the out-and-out discrimination that continues today has always been somewhat less for those of lighter (less pure African) complexion than those of darker skin tones. This conflict between the light-skinned "Wallabe's" and the dark-skinned "Gigaboos" was the entire point of Spike Lee's second film "School Daze".

Frankly, I''m impressed that Reid is that HIP to the issue.

It's actually a subject the deserves some serious discussion. For example, put all this in the context of the 2010 Census which does include the selection "Black, African Am., or Negro" on the forms that will be sent out. In decades past those forms used to have seperate selections for "Negro", "Mulatto" or "Octaroon". We've come a ways from those days, but just how far exactly?

The truth about this statement by Steele is really to get revenge for the ouster of Trent Lott when he said "Things would've been better if Strom Thurman" had become President.

Strom Thurman, the guy that set the filibuster record while fighting against Integration, would've made this s "Better" Country?

Sen John Cornyn has already made exactly that argument:

"In 2002, Democrats expressed outrage at Senator Lott and called on him to step down as leader. That same standard should be applied to Senator Reid and his embarrassing and racially insensitive statements; statements, I would add, that Senator Reid still has yet to clarify," Cornyn said in a written statement.

"As we await his explanation, Senator Reid should do the right thing, follow the example that he himself set in 2002, and step down as majority leader."

The fact is that Revenge for Trent Lott is the sole motivation brimming under the surface for Republicans on this issue was made crystal clear this morning by Liz Cheney on This Week. - and was amazingly slapped back down in her chair by GEORGE WILL of all people.

On the roundtable, George Will defended Reid against charges of racism and provoked this spirited exchange with fellow conservative Liz Cheney:



WILL: I don't think there's a scintilla of racism in what Harry Reid said. At long last, Harry Reid has said something that no one can disagree with, and he gets in trouble for it.

CHENEY: George, give me a break. I mean, talking about the color of the president's skin...

WILL: Did he get it wrong?

CHENEY: ... and the candidate's...

WILL: Did he say anything false?

CHENEY: ... it's -- these are clearly racist comments, George.

WILL: Oh, my, no.

Cheney also said the episode highlights a liberal double standard on issues of race. “One of the things that makes the American people frustrated is when they see time and time again liberals excusing racism from other liberals. And I think that, you know, clearly, Senator Reid's comments were outrageous.”

What Reid said is "Outrageous"? No THIS is Outrageous.



Time and time again anything a Liberal even mentions about the subject of Race - Conservatives go screaming to the hills with cries fo "RACISM RACISM!", but they can walk around with signs like the above (or those shown in the Max Blumenthal video below) and when Janeane Garafalo says "This looks Racist to Me" they have nothing to say...

Ironical, isn't it?



These people don't care a wit about the honor and dignity for Black people they just want to screw over those "Damn Dirty Liberals" any chance they get. A better example of blind Hatred and Bigotry against a group - simply for being members of the group, ie. Liberal - would be difficult to find.

Vyan

Specter Lets the Big Black Obstruction Cat Out of the Bag

All of us who've been paying attention have known this for some time, but to have it so openly confirmed is a rare and special moment - Here's Senator Specter Blowing the Whistle on the Republicans Not-So-Secret Plot to use Obstructionism to retake the White House in 2012.



Via TPM.

During his appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) appeared to give out some inside dirt from his days as a Republican -- alleging that the GOP plotted early to stop any bipartisan cooperation with President Obama, and to instead look towards the 2012 election.

"I'd like to pick up on what Sen. DeMint says about the process. I think the process was very bad. But the process was really caused, in large measure, by the refusal of the Republicans to deal in any way," said Specter.

"Sen. DeMint is the author of the famous statement that this is going to be President Obama's 'Waterloo,' that this ought to be used to break the president," said Specter, referring to the political battle over health care. "So that before the ink was dry on the oath of office -- and I know this, because I was in the caucus -- the Republicans were already plotting ways to beat President Obama in 2012."

It's not often that a Senator will divulge private conversations from within the party caucuses. In Specter's case, he appears to be dishing out information from his former party caucus, declaring that they decided early on to focus on opposing Obama politically, and they now complain about a lack of bipartisanship that they themselves caused.

They told exactly what they were doing right up front...

The sad reality that we have to face is that this strategy has absolutely worked, it has sparked a wave of Democratic Fraticide we haven't seen the likes of since the Clinton/Obama Fued of the Primaries which some thought would fracture the party permanently.

The other day I watched near battle royale going on between Katrina Vanden Huevel of the nation and Jane Hamsher of Firedog Lake. It wasn't pretty:

JaneHamsher Well @thenation has come a long way. Opposing the Senate health care bill makes you Ralph Nader says @KatrinaNation

JaneHamsher So @KatrinaNation, you believe it's "Naderite" & "hurts progressive agenda" to say Obama is responsible for #hcr bill, and we should stop?

KatrinaNation @janehamsher Jane, Listen--I do respect your views & your right to criticize Obama/my retweeting that post did not mean I agree w/ it all!

JameHamsher RT @KatrinaNation Respect your views / how is that when you RT post telling me to stop criticizing Obama on #hcr? http://is.gd/5Dz08

JaneHamsher Point of the post is I'm "hurting progressive agenda" by criticizing Obama & should stop, not so "big tent" @KatrinaVandenheuvel @thenation

KatrinaNation @janehamsher Hope you'll contribute your view to Nation forum/ Obama @ One. If I didn't respect your right to criticize why seek your input? 8:44 PM Dec 27th from web in reply to janehamshe

KatrinaNation I hope progressive community in 2010 finds ways to disagree that don't divide us --as we work to mobilize, push power & build better future. 8:46 PM Dec 27th from web

JaneHamsher Criticizing the President on Health Care is “Naderite” and “Hurts the Progressive Agenda”: Ka... http://bit.ly/5BdUWB #publicoption

JaneHamsher If @thenation is shushing the President's critics on #hcr I hope everyone is relishing it @schwanderer, that's news.

KatrinaNation Jane-goodnight & let me try again. Point of MY posts: I do believe in big tent & your right to criticize O/Thanks for caring. 8:52 PM Dec 27th from web

This is how progressives are talking to each other - largely because Republicans have strategically abandoned the field and given all the power to people like Lieberman, Landrieu and Nelson.

These are the people on the other side of the argument:



These people can't be reasoned with. They can not be argued into a better position. Reason has completely LEFT THE BUILDING in their house.

Sspecially with Demint, even though he's recently denied it he did indeed say Republicans need to make Healthcare Obama's "Waterloo..."



That is their true face - not this:



Jim Demint is a member of The Family as well as being the One Lone Senator whose been holding up the new head of the TSA from Confirmation. Because of Demint the agency has no leader, yet even after the failed Northwest Airlines Bombing attempt Jimmy contends he's doing the right thing because he oppose "Collective Bargaining" that would delay security improvements.

Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has held up President Obama’s nominee in an effort to prevent TSA workers from joining a labor union. DeMint, in a statement, said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s alleged attempted attack in Detroit “is a perfect example of why the Obama administration should not unionize the TSA.”

Unions are more scary than terrorists? Really?

Demint was also among the 30 Republicans who Voted against the Franken Anti-Rape Amendment doing so on the grounds that it would threaten Binding Arbitration.

Ok, so a deals a deal when someones been Raped - but when it comes to benefits for TSA Workers the last thing we want is for them to have an extra 15 mins for a coffee break.

He also opposed the New Hate Crimes Bill... because y'know a "Hate Crime" isn't really a Crime is it?



A Hate Crime is a not just a single Crime - it's an act of intimidation and TERRORISM. It's TWO Crimes, therefore it should be addressed as such.

These guys are willing to take down the President, to allow the Nation to be unprotected and attacked by Terrorists, to allow our Soldiers and Citizens to be victimized by Contractors, to allow people of color or of an unpopular religion, or sexual orientation to be terrorized and harrassed without protection?

They. Don't. Care. All they want is to regain Power at ANY COST.

We Progressives may disagree with each other, we might vigorously fight each other over various points within specific legislation - but the one thing we can't do - is let these FracKing NutBalls Back into Power again.

Vyan

Real Time: GOP = Just a bunch of Dicks!

I gotta say it, Maher simply nailed it this time. In his ending riff he points how outside the curve Obama was for the common sense suggestion of "washing your hands" to help prevent the spread of disease, particularly while so many chicken-littles were running around with surgical masks that aren't design to protect you from getting an infection, and really only function as a sneeze and spit guard for your own microbes.

He goes on to point out that when Obama suggested that fight rising oil costs by ensuring our tires were inflated, he was SCOFFED AT.

"Oh, no - don't ask ME to do something, just get me more OIL!"

Rush Limbaugh is doing odes to coal fired power plants and Glenn Beck is running around praising people who chop down trees in the midst of rising CO2 emmissions - and it's not about an ideology - (except apparently for Michael Steel) they simply do it To Be A DICK!.

Freedom Fries.

Ex-GOPasaur Sammy-Joe the Unlicenced Plumber-Pundit.

Wanda Sykes at Nerdprom-Gate.

Torture works great, you just have to keep trying harder.

Obama's secret FEMA CAMP round-up plan.

Four Different Winger NutBalls have shooting or bombing attacks/plans against Liberals - and the Neo-ConArtists think they're getting "Politically Profiled" because Bush's Homeland Security accurately predicted them.

Bilbo Tea-Baggins!

Show your a true Patriot by threating petulantly to Secede from the Nation!, when they offer you money to help the people in your state!

Isn't it obvious these guys have got NUTHIN! NUTHIN!

It's just plain ole' fashion Dick-ishness.

And I'm thinking the time to put in a call to Lorena Bobbit is drawing close...

Short Diary - just for laughs - Happy Mother's Day. Don't kiss her with that mouth.

Vyan

Michael Steel Showing some Class

Michael not getting all ButtHurt at the President's making fun of him at the White House Correspondents Dinner (aka #nerdprom).

I think it says something about his sense of self that he -unlike so many in the GOP- can take a licking and keep on ticking.

I almost he WAS the leader of the Republican Party now. Too bad - so sad, that he's not even the Class Secretary these days.