Michele Bachmann - Tea Party - Congress | Mediaite

Michele Bachmann - Tea Party - Congress | Mediaite

The smell of schadenfreude in the morning: Christine O'Donnell sparks all-out right-wing civil war | Crooks and Liars

The smell of schadenfreude in the morning: Christine O'Donnell sparks all-out right-wing civil war | Crooks and Liars

Hot Air � Colorado GOP candidate: These tea-party dumbasses need to stop asking me Birther questions on camera

Hot Air � Colorado GOP candidate: These tea-party dumbasses need to stop asking me Birther questions on camera

Olbermann, Matthews, Ratigan, Schultz, Carville.. Racists? Dallas Tea Party

There is racism...

Racism on the right, racism on the left, racism amongst whites and racism amongst blacks and browns and yellows and reds. Young people are racist and old people are racist. It exists.

However, what the NAACP and the New Black Panther Party are doing doesn't advance a discussion on the issue. An honest discussion would be had by the two sides talking, the blanket insults used by the NAACP and The New Black Panther Party push people apart, and make communication impossible.

in reference to: » I Condemn the NAACP: The New Black Panther Party Are the Real Racists - Big Government (view on Google Sidewiki)

This loss will change what it means to be conservative...

and what it means to be liberal ultimately. In the end, I think both sides are going to be further apart than ever and our democracy is going to suffer.

in reference to: 'Tea party' clout: What was learned from Sen. Robert Bennett loss - CSMonitor.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

MSM's Tale of 2 Protests: Immigration vs. Tea Party

Paul Krugman Thinks AZ Immigration Law Proves Tea Partiers Are Hypocrites

Paul Krugman Thinks AZ Immigration Law Proves Tea Partiers Are Hypocrites:

We have these massive protests in this country about alleged authoritarian tendencies that we are going to have some kind of — inside the Obama/Hitler stuff — the idea that the government is encroaching too much in our lives.

And now all of the sudden, we have by pretty much the same people, demanding that we set up a system that will turn us into one of those apocryphal foreign authoritarian regimes where the police are saying hand over your papers, right? A world where you constantly have to prove who you are. And yes, it will be racial profiling but who knows what else?

He has a point, either you are for giving more power to the state to control people's lives are you aren't.

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Every group says it speaks for individuals...

But as of yet I have not found one I believe honestly does. I agree with this paragraph, but I have seen behavior that would make me believe the Tea Party is not true to it.

clipped from biggovernment.com We are a grassroots movement made up of people who believe in individual freedom and individual responsibility.  Racism and hate are inherently collectivist ideas.  As individualists we judge people as individuals, based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

At least not everyone on the right is a birther...

I think everyone has had enough of these silly birthers and their crazy ideas.

clipped from hotair.com Dave Weigel has been covering the Tea Party Convention in Nashville for the Washington Independent, and earlier today walked into an unplanned but heated debate between World Net Daily’s Joseph Farah and Andrew Breitbart.  Farah claimed that the Tea Party movement was partially fueled on the notion that Barack Obama isn’t really a native-born citizen of the US.  When WND reporter Chelsea Schilling asked Breitbart- to comment on Farah’s speech, he criticized the attack and said the Tea Party movement would do better to focus on substance.  Weigel asked Farah for a response, which led Farah to start an argument:

Sarah Palin Keynote Speech at National Tea Party Convention

clipped from www.youtube.com Sarah Palin Keynote Speech at National Tea Party Convention

Can the GOP and 'tea party' activists get along? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Can the GOP and 'tea party' activists get along? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

They should have thought it through

With all due respect to the people who are fighting for what they believe, they really should have put more time into thinking about their protest. Their ideas are solid, their concerns are valid, but the concept always seemed weak to me. This is just another point of embarrassment. Of course, true believes won't be stopping.

clipped from www.mediaite.com As we noted on Monday, “teabagger” was one of the runners-up for the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year. From the start, it threatened to get more buzz than the winner, the trendy/techy neologism “unfriend.” Enter: Keith Olbermann.

Where Have You Gone, Joe the Citizen? - NYTimes.com

Where Have You Gone, Joe the Citizen? - NYTimes.com

You can't deny that the tone of discussion around health care has been heated, you can't deny that their have been people who are working together with shared interests. You even can't deny that some of these people could be called leaders, and some of them have positions of power. What that does not add up to, at least not in my mind is astro-turfing. What makes someone who believes something, and then finds figures that represent that belief and meet with others that share it some how false? What makes a movement invalid because it has strong and connected leaders. We are not talking about organizations busing people to events, sometimes even paying them to be there - that would be union organizing.

However, as this points out, when the tone and the volume of debate gets too loud, those who speak quietly and calmly have a harder time being heard. They deserve to be heard as much as anyone else. I have my doubts about health care, but I have greater doubts about the nature of the discussion around it.

Obama's SEIU Thugs Attack Black Conservative

Violence at Tampa health care forum | 10connects.com | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater

Violence at Tampa health care forum | 10connects.com | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater

This is not good, this is very not good. Where ever you stand on the issue, you have to know that interactions of this nature are not going to help anyone.

Todd Akin: My Colleagues "Almost Got Lynched" At Town Halls

Malkin on tea parties