- Teabagger Hero Rand Paul is Anti-American
- Glenn Beck Endorses Nazi Sympathizer
- The Daily Show: 'Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette's'
- Daily Show/Colbert Most Knowledge Viewers; Fox, Not So Much
- Even Republicans Think Mitch McConnell is Full of It
- GOP Lawmakers Fan the Flames of Hate
Tea Party Hypocrisy
“And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word "vote," or say it in English, put a committed socialist idealogue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama.”
This is a quote from Tom Tancredo, who gave the opening remarks at the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Feb. 4, 2010. And the reaction? Laughter. Let their be no doubt, the Tea Party movement is driven largely by hate. And the ultimate hypocrisy? Tancredo's grandparents were immigrants.
“Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar”
Self-proclaimed "President and Founder of the Tea Party" and owner of TeaParty.org Dale Robertson held up a sign up at a February 2009 Tea Party with these words. How are we supposed to take seriously a movement that is full of hate, ignorance and stupidity (two of the four words are spelled wrong)?
Longtime Conservative Republican Says Teabaggers Ignorant About Taxes
Posted April 9, 2010
Bruce Bartlett, a longtime conservative Republican, has a column in Forbes magazine titled "The Misinformed Tea Party Movement." The subtitle is "For an antitax group, they don't know much about taxes."
The thrust of the article is that the Tea Party movement seems to know very little about federal taxes. Not only are taxes not very high, particularly when looked at historically, but they have gone down under President Obama:
As noted earlier, federal taxes are very considerably lower by every measure since Obama became president. And given the economic circumstances, it's hard to imagine that a tax increase would have been enacted last year. In fact, 40% of Obama's stimulus package involved tax cuts. These include the Making Work Pay Credit, which reduces federal taxes for all taxpayers with incomes below $75,000 by between $400 and $800.
According to the JCT, last year's $787 billion stimulus bill, enacted with no Republican support, reduced federal taxes by almost $100 billion in 2009 and another $222 billion this year. The Tax Policy Center, a private research group, estimates that close to 90% of all taxpayers got a tax cut last year and almost 100% of those in the $50,000 income range. For those making between $40,000 and $50,000, the average tax cut was $472; for those making between $50,000 and $75,000, the tax cut averaged $522. No taxpayer anywhere in the country had his or her taxes increased as a consequence of Obama's policies.
Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud
Posted April 7, 2010
Bob Cesca, a political writer and one of the more level-headed progressive bloggers, has a new column out titled "Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud." It is the first of what will be an ongoing look at what Beck really is — "A dangerous faker who deliberately manipulates his audience by appealing to their basest instincts. As a man who only embraces conservatism and the tea party movement as a means to furthering his significant personal wealth and career as a successful TV goon."
I know there is virtually no chance that any Teabagger would read this column and begin to question one of their leaders, but they really should. They are being taken for a ride by con man, plain and simple.
When Tax Refunds Go Up, Teabaggers Rejoice. Right?
Posted April 7, 2010
I think most Democrats don't need proof that the Tea Party movement has very little to do with policy and mostly to do with fear and hatred. But for Independents who may be in the process of evaluating Teabaggers, take note of this story.
White House officials said Monday that tax credits launched under last year's economic recovery bill have boosted the average refund by nearly 10% from the previous year.
The average tax refund for 2009 has reached $3,036, up $266 from a year ago, according to early data from the Internal Revenue Service. Link
Even Accountants are taking notice:
Jackson Hewitt Manager Patrick Shields says that in the 300 or so returns he filed, most were substantially more than in previous years. Shields says his customers were more than happy.
"Very happy," he said. "Some of them extremely happy."
If Jesus Returned as Glenn Beck
Posted April 7, 2010
This would be funny if it weren't so true. How does anyone take Glenn Beck seriously? Beck doesn't take himself seriously. He just knows how to play the part to make himself millions of dollars.
Tea Partiers Distribute Signs Paid for by RNC
Posted April 7, 2010
For whatever reason, the Tea Party movement actually wants us to believe that they are not affiliated with any of the established political parties, and better yet, even include some Democrats. The latter is obviously nonsense, but the former is up somewhat for debate. While there are probably a small number of Teabaggers who are genuinely independent, the vast majority are Republicans who are either embarrassed or unwilling to admit they are Republicans. For proof of the Tea Party-Republican Party relationship, review this story:
The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups — despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear from it.
The items, paid for by the RNC, were on full display at a Friday press conference of Tea Party activists in Washington. At the afternoon event at the Capitol Hill Suites, activists in town for the “Take the Town Halls to Washington” project passed out the red-white-and-blue buttons and signs emblazoned with the words “Listen to Me!”
Text at the bottom of the sign reads: “Paid for by the Republican National Committee.” Link
