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The Roots of Teabaggers' Rage

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You'll probably be hearing the term "Ruling Class" a lot in the weeks and months ahead.

There's a new book about it with a foreword by Rush Limbaugh. Apparently teabaggers see themselves as part of a downtrodden underclass. Like Carl Paladino, they're "mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore."

So just watch out all you Ruling Class elitist snobs! The revolution is coming! :boxedin:
 
Thanks, PC.

Ruling Class??? Teabaggers say this is elitist now? How about pinkies-up while drinking tea. That elitist as well?

(Yes, there's a hook for a joke if you want ;))

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Ironic but I think both Rush Limbaugh and Angelo M. Codevilla are both members of the 'Ruling Class'. Its like a case of the man sticking it to the man!
 
Why would a the TeaParty, which is primarily independents and nearly as many center-right membership, be so influenced by a book endorsed by hard-right Limbaugh and book by a heavily religious right-ish author ? Obviously you have some misguided concepts about TeaParty vs Limbaugh advocate demographics. See the Pew and Gallup polls. I'm not denigrating the book content, having read only a few excepts.

The fact that you need to propagate the "TeaBagger" term indicates you aren't interested in a serious discussion. ** ********* * ****** ** *** *** ******** *****? Is Rachel Madow an advocate of the ****** ******** party ? No - the Left seems excessively reliant on name-calling and mischaracterizations as the basis for (fallacious) arguments. Perhaps they have no valid arguments for their positions.

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stevea said:
Why would a the TeaParty, which is primarily independents and nearly as many center-right membership, be so influenced by a book endorsed by hard-right Limbaugh and book by a heavily religious right-ish author ?
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Of course, the teabaggers don't take directions from the pig man or any of the other talking heads. They do cheer some of them opn when they rant against the "eeeebil libruls." Buit they still deny that they are right wing nuts, even as they board buses provided by rightwhacker nutbars like Dick Armey to go make perfect asses of themselves at some mass rally.

The fact that you need to propagate the "TeaBagger" term indicates you aren't interested in a serious discussion.
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Well, one of the candidates they back has been found out as an utter perv, so, if they object to wearing a label that suggests that they are a pervs themselves.... Meh.
** ********* * ****** ** *** *** ******** *****?
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I suggest a modcum of restraint in this sort of thing.

Is Rachel Madow an advocate of the ****** ******** party ?
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No. She's a Democrat because she sees more benefit in that than in being a Libertarian or a GOPer.

No - the Left seems excessively reliant on name-calling and mischaracterizations as the basis for (fallacious) arguments. Perhaps they have no valid arguments for their positions.
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No, we just like to laugh at utter dimwits.
 
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stevea said:
Why would a the TeaParty, which is primarily independents and nearly as many center-right membership, be so influenced by a book endorsed by hard-right Limbaugh and book by a heavily religious right-ish author ? Obviously you have some misguided concepts about TeaParty vs Limbaugh advocate demographics. See the Pew and Gallup polls.
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Evidence?
 
stevea said:
The fact that you need to propagate the "TeaBagger" term indicates you aren't interested in a serious discussion.
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Do you come to the same conclusion when people use the incorrect, "Democrat Party" term?

Or are you one of those crazy TeaBaggers?
 
Originally Posted by stevea
Why would a the TeaParty, which is primarily independents and nearly as many center-right membership, be so influenced by a book endorsed by hard-right Limbaugh and book by a heavily religious right-ish author ? Obviously you have some misguided concepts about TeaParty vs Limbaugh advocate demographics. See the Pew and Gallup polls.



Upchurch said:
Evidence?
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Read.
 
mhaze said:
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Why would a the TeaParty, which is primarily independents and nearly as many center-right membership, be so influenced by a book endorsed by hard-right Limbaugh and book by a heavily religious right-ish author ? Obviously you have some misguided concepts about TeaParty vs Limbaugh advocate demographics. See the Pew and Gallup polls.



Read.
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Are you, or have you ever been, a TeaBagger?
 
stevea said:
Why would a the TeaParty, which is primarily independents and nearly as many center-right membership, be so influenced by a book endorsed by hard-right Limbaugh and book by a heavily religious right-ish author ? Obviously you have some misguided concepts about TeaParty vs Limbaugh advocate demographics. See the Pew and Gallup polls.
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Upchurch said:
Evidence?
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mhaze said:
Read.
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On the JREF, it is widely accepted that if one says, "here is a claim - it is supported by polls," then one has to either provide a link to the actual poll or provide enough information about the poll (date, title, some words from the actual poll question, etc.) that it can be easily found.

Disclaimer: I have no position on the accuracy of Stevea's counter-claim.

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On an unrelated note, I must agree with my distinguished colleagues across the aisle that "teabagger" shouldn't be used here.
 
Ladewig said:
On the JREF, it is widely accepted that if one says, "here is a claim - it is supported by polls," then one has to either provide a link to the actual poll or provide enough information about the poll (date, title, some words from the actual poll question, etc.) that it can be easily found.

Disclaimer: I have no position on the accuracy of Stevea's counter-claim.

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On an unrelated note, I must agree with my distinguished colleagues across the aisle that "teabagger" shouldn't be used here.
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You have a link?
 
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/09/28/the_republican_philosophy/page/2

Perhaps no one in modern times articulated the conservative philosophy about government and its rightful place better than Ronald Reagan, who said in a 1964 speech endorsing GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater:"This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_big_gov_crowd_ZH5w865ZksmDCA3CXeMhfN

The Tea Party movement may have arisen to protest rising deficits and increasing federal control of everything from health care to the auto industry -- but the big-government coalition it's fighting wasn't born in Washington. The federal agenda that the movement is now battling to overturn originated in state capitals like Albany, Trenton and Sacramento.

This agenda has been promoted with growing success in the last 50 years by a self-interested coalition of public-sector unions and social-advocacy groups that benefit from bigger government, higher taxes and more public control of the economy. Merely "taking back" Congress on Election Day won't stop the relentless rise of this coalition, which has at its disposal enormous resources.

President Obama President Obama is an expression of the big-government coalition, and his election to the White House was a signature event in its rise to power. He began his public life as a Chicago community activist heading a nonprofit funded heavily by government to organize neighborhood residents into a political force.
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And onto the current SEIU/ACORN support of 'big government'.

Today, states and cities face an estimated $3 trillion in unfunded pension and retiree-health benefits for public employees -- a burden that will squeeze budgets for decades.

The big-government coalition heavily supported candidate Obama for president, and he has rewarded them. The various stimulus packages of the last year and a half have included hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve state and local government jobs. Much of this aid came with huge strings attached: Local governments that took the money committed to not cutting their program spending or reducing their workforce.
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Goldwater was wrong because he underestimated the evil that corporations would work on us when government stopped cracking the whip to make sure they were not rippping us off and, instead, started kissing their butts and asking what more we could do to ensure their preofitability.
 
leftysergeant said:
Goldwater was wrong because he underestimated the evil that corporations would work on us when government stopped cracking the whip to make sure they were not rippping us off and, instead, started kissing their butts and asking what more we could do to ensure their preofitability.
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Could you list some corporations that are "ripping us off"?
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Could you list some corporations that are "ripping us off"?
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AIG and any corporation that is taking a tax break on "repatriation of capital."

Any corporation that has declared bankruptcy, defaulted on pension plans, and still paid any executives severance pay.

Oil companies that take tax subsidies.

For-profit health insurers.

Pay attention.
 
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