Tea Party

[eXcommunicate]

I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!

It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!

....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...

Please tell me if they do grow to rule I can move in with you!

And me!

We can all form a sexy sexy commune. To each a cake according to his needs.

[Kristie]

I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!

It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!

....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...

Please tell me if they do grow to rule I can move in with you!

And me!

We can all form a sexy sexy commune. To each a cake according to his needs.

[Twoflower]

I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!

It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!

....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...

Please tell me if they do grow to rule I can move in with you!

And me!

Come flee to Scotland with me.

[Clinton Huxley]

I'm trying to think what the UK equivalent of a "Mamma Grizzly" would be. Maybe a "Mummy Badger". Can't see that catching on.

[Robert_S]

Well one thing that is good is that it isn't actually a 'party'. It looks to me like the Republics are tearing themselves apart. Big democracies can only ever be governed by parties from the 'middle' with any degree of success. Even if they successfully get some Republican seats of one sort or another my guess is their more moderate colleagues will see some of them as loony right wingers.

For all intents and purposes the republican party and the tea party are one and the same; anyone with the slightest of moderate leanings has been purged or likely will be in the next election cycle. Couple that with rightward-leaning "Blue Dog" democrats and the apparent lack of a spinal column that seems to inflict most of the rest of the dems, and I suspect two years from now we'll be longing for the good old Bush days...

I gather there are a lot of Republicans who want nothing to do with the Tea Party. Some because of electability issues, others because they are not on the batshit crazy/woefully uninformed end of the conservative spectrum and might have a shred or two of decency.

[eXcommunicate]

I gather there are a lot of Republicans who want nothing to do with the Tea Party. Some because of electability issues, others because they are not on the batshit crazy/woefully uninformed end of the conservative spectrum and might have a shred or two of decency.

Those "reasonable" Republicans tend to be the business types. Unfortunately, they've also radicalized around the whole corporate tax and regulation issue, making the Republican Party a den of strange bedfellows, using each other for political gain.

[Warren Dew]

Actually I know next to nothing about them. Where can I find this documentary?

You won't know any more after watching a sensationalist documentary emphasizing the fringes; it's like concluding the Democratic party wants to increase the unemployment rate based on Jerry Brown's "we need more welfare and fewer jobs" comment.

If you want to know something about the Tea Party, here's a more balanced and accurate discussion:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... y+patriots

[Warren Dew]

I gather there are a lot of Republicans who want nothing to do with the Tea Party.

Yes ... basically the same Republicans that want to keep feeding at the public trough, and are afraid the Tea Party folks will cut them off.

[eXcommunicate]

I gather there are a lot of Republicans who want nothing to do with the Tea Party.

Yes ... basically the same Republicans that want to keep feeding at the public trough, and are afraid the Tea Party folks will cut them off.

If you mean the business types who want government subsidies and lucrative contracts, then yes, those Republicans. However, the Tea Party will do no such thing as to cut those Republicans off.

[Ronja]

I watched a documentary on the Tea Party last night and was honestly gobsmacked! Yeah I knew it existed and I knew it was gaining ground, I knew they loved Palin (says it all!) and that the bible belt tied with Fox News was helping drive the wagon but YE GADS! Nothing could have prepared me for the eye popping twaddle. People crying over it being called racist, people saying it was the holy spirit, tears, smiles and being 'very excited' seemed to have replaced any desire for, let alone effective, thinking!

It's as though the stupid people have banded together and reinforced each other's stupid to the point where their numbers just grow, a reservation for the terminally thick!

....please merkins, please tell me that cannot grow to rule... please...

Please tell me if they do grow to rule I can move in with you!

You are exceedingly welcome anywhere in any of the northern parts of Europe - to visit or to stay!

Hmm - that IS actually an idea: start importing upper-middle-age and elderly atheists from the US to the UK (for obvious language reasons), if they can ensure that they get their pension (plan)s with them.

On the other hand, if Tea Party wins, the economy of the refugees will not be an issue, as then the atheists fleeing the US will be in real need of asylum.