Tea Party travesty

[driveby]

How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Tea Party Movement

[Perchoutofwater]

You are such a victim.

[evil_gop_liars]

I agree.

[dmarc117]

i thought this was about palin being their leader

[SEC=UGA]

I hate Sarah Palin

[dmarc117]

I hate Sarah Palin

 

 

she does give me hope that i could succeed in politics

[SEC=UGA]

she does give me hope that i could succeed in politics

 

True.

Pics?

Edited April 15, 2010 by SEC=UGA

[bpwallace49]

This guy bought his own TV time . . . remember him?

 

And who cares when they have a network in Fox that organizes their rallies for them and continuously promotes them?

[SEC=UGA]

And who cares when they have a network that organizes their rallies for them and continuously promotes them?

 

I freaking HATE Notre Dame

[bushwacked]

I agree.

 

I disagree.

[Jackass]

Maybe the Tea Party isn't getting positive coverage because it sux

[millerx]

Meh... both sides are right and both sides are wrong when it comes to the Tea Party. At this point they should call it the Tea Parties...simply because of the different factions. You can find whatever you want to support your argument whether good or bad.

 

Personally I do like the idea of the Fair Tax (Sales Tax) and doing away with the IRS and the tax policies politicians use as leverage and sway. It just lends itself to corruption.

[driveby]

Wow! 2 Democrats willing to admit the truth!

 

To turn a corner, Democrats need to start embracing an agenda that speaks to the broad concerns of the American electorate. It should be somewhat familiar: It is the agenda that is driving the Tea Party movement and one that has the capacity to motivate a broadly based segment of the electorate.

 

To be sure, great efforts have been made recently to demonize the Tea Party movement. But polling suggests that the Tea Party movement has not been diminished but, in fact, has grown stronger. The Winston Group found, in three national surveys conducted from December through February and published April 1, that the Tea Party movement is composed of a broad cross-section of the American people -- 40 to 50 percent of its supporters are non-Republicans. Indeed, one-third of self-identified Democrats say they support the Tea Party movement.

 

The electorate's dissatisfaction with the established political order has led the Tea Party movement to become as potent a force as any U.S. political party.

 

Last week, a Rasmussen Reports survey showed that overall more Americans say that they agree with the Tea Party movement on major issues than with the president of the United States -- 48 percent with the Tea Party and 44 percent with Obama. Among independents, 50 percent said that they're closer to the Tea Party, while only 38 percent are with Obama.

 

Moreover, the most recent Gallup poll shows that the Tea Party movement is at least as popular as the Democratic Party. And the Tea Party movement stands for fiscal discipline, limited government and balancing the budget -- an agenda that has broad public support extending well beyond the movement. Polling conducted by one of us (Schoen) found that 55 percent of respondents endorse that agenda. More important, a solid majority of swing voters endorse it.

 

The swing voters, who are key to the fate of the Democratic Party, care most about three things: reigniting the economy, reducing the deficit and creating jobs.

 

These voters are outraged by the seeming indifference of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats, who they believe wasted a year on health-care reform. These voters will not tolerate more diversion from their pressing economic concerns. They view the Obama administration as working systematically to protect the interests of public-sector employees and organized labor -- by offering specific benefits such as pension protection and tax reductions at the expense of all taxpayers.

 

Democrats must understand that voters will not accept seeing their tax dollars used to pay for higher wages and better benefits for public-sector employees when they themselves are getting higher taxes and lower wages.

[bpwallace49]

47% of Tea Partiers Pay No Federal Income Taxes!

Apr 14 2010, 12:30 PM ET

 

Taxed Enough Already? Or not taxed at all?

 

One of the striking ironies of Fox News running with the statistic that 47% of Americans might not owe federal income taxes is that Fox News also moonlights as the unofficial station of the Tea Party movement, which clamors for lower taxes. You might ask: half of the country pays no income tax, how much lower do you want? Here's a more troubling point: if the Tea Party movement has a similar share of Americans making under $50,000 as the broader population (as a recent Gallup poll suggests), then why is this movement rallying under the banner "Taxed Enough Already!" when half of them aren't taxed at all?

 

Forty-five percent of self-identified "Tea Partiers" make less than $50,000 per year, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll. Similarly, 50% of the total population makes less than $50,000 in the same poll. Despite this author's lack of direct access to the tax returns of the Tea Party movement, it seems safe to assume that if about half the country avoids federal income taxes, a similar percentage of the Tea Party movement gets away with the same even as they march and scream about their tax burden.

 

This is a gotcha point. But it's a gotcha point worth making, if only to shine light on the sad intellectual bankruptcy of the Tea Party, a political movement that has taken over the news cycle like a particularly aggressive strain of ragweed. Tea Partiers want lower income taxes. But many of them probably don't pay income taxes. If we listen to them and bring even more Americans into the zero-income tax pool, we would only concentrate more of the tax burden on wealthy earners ... which conservatives are against. Tea Party apologists on TV will explain that what they're really asking for is lower rates and a broader tax base to diffuse America's tax responsibility. But if half the Tea Party doesn't pay income taxes today, a broader tax base -- even with minuscule rates -- would raise many of their taxes!

 

The party's labyrinthine position on tax policy isn't worth untangling any further. It's a Gordian Knot that deserves a guillotine. When liberals and conservatives in Congress and think tanks and conference rooms debate tax policy in the coming months, they should consider a wide buffet of reform options -- but hold the tea.

[Perchoutofwater]

bp, do you think some of the people at the TEA parties are principled and don't think a few people should pay for everyone? Do you think that they might see our government spending on programs that would have are founders rolling in their graves, and want to get government back to the right size.

 

One of the biggest TEA party supporters I know barely has a pot to piss in, and definitely falls into the group not currently paying taxes, but he thinks it is absolutely wrong of the government to take from one individual and give to another. It is about fairness to so many, and they see the current set up as unfair, and are smart enough to know if you tax the business owners to oblivion, it is going to have a negative impact on business eventually, and thus on them as well.

Edited April 16, 2010 by Perchoutofwater

[westvirginia]

BP, 47% of all US citizens pay no federal income taxes. That's no stretch.

[bushwacked]

BP, 47% of all US citizens pay no federal income taxes. That's no stretch.

 

 

How many of those belong to a group called Taxed Enough Already?

Edited April 16, 2010 by bushwacked

[westvirginia]

How many of those belong to a group called Taxed Enough Already?

 

Perhaps those folks are seeing the ballooning deficits and, like obamessiah lied about increasing taxes once, they think they're next? Or they have kids they're worried about?

[Perchoutofwater]

BP, 47% of all US citizens pay no federal income taxes. That's no stretch.

 

If the percentage was much lower he'd be complaining it is only a group of rich people.

[driveby]

 

These are my people. Americans

[bushwacked]

There ain't no party like a tea partier Party cause a Tea Bag Party don't stop.

[driveby]

There ain't no party like a tea partier Party cause a Tea Bag Party don't stop.

catchy but eminem has nothing to worry about.

[bushwacked]

Here is another black tea partier.

 

I like this one.

[driveby]

Seems to be a fairly even-handed report for a left leaning publication.

[dmarc117]

Here is another black tea partier.

 

I like this one.

 

 

do you have proof of what you are claiming? .

Edited April 16, 2010 by dmarc117