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The Tea Party Movement
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realclearpolitics.com — Not long after the tea party sprang into being in the spring of 2009, America's liberals started vilifying the movement. In an article worthy of a class-action libel suit, The New York Review of Books depicted the first march on Washington as a parade of bigots.
Ex-president Jimmy Carter spit venom at tea partiers by saying they resented an African-American president - a baseless charge of racism willingly echoed by the media.
When they weren't being defamed as racists, tea party supporters were described as irrational, enraged, seething, and livid. Constituents at town hall meetings who rejected the superficial Democratic Party talking points and demanded answers instead of political spin were portrayed as mobs on the verge of riot. At the very time that real Muslim terrorists were planning a record number of attacks inside the U.S. right under their noses, political apparatchiks in the Department of Homeland Security warned ominously of imaginary right-wing violence as the nation's newest terrorist threat.
When the liberals weren't depicting their fellow Americans as out-of-control racists and anti-government zealots, they tried to downplay their social and political importance. They did so with a demographic attempt at marginalization; the tea partiers, they said, were too old, too white, too middle class to matter in contemporary America, and thus could be safely ignored.

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Do you agree with the liberal view of the Tea Party as a dangerous mob, but of marginal importance in post-racial America?
Yes
28%
Lean to yes
11%
Not sure
1%
Lean to no
1%
No
59%
This is not a scientific survey, click here to learn more. Results may not total 100% due to rounding and voting descrepencies.
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lastbaldeagle
Posted 966 days ago
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Hard to believe that any sane person could agree with the liberal elitist view on anything.
Freddd
Posted 966 days ago
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75% of Americans do not agree with the 'liberal' view.
945call
Posted 966 days ago
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More Liberal crap James? LOL
hank10303
Posted 965 days ago
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If you never accept the facts of any given situation then how can you provide a solution. If you can't provide a solution to the nations problems then how can you lead.

YOU CAN'T

Until the Tea Baggers stop voting for people that can't manage their own checking accounts to manage out national economy; until they stop voting for people that are just like them - unskilled at governance, nonprofessionals in relevant fields and stubborn as well as hard head and unwilling to learn they can't be anything more than a distraction.

For example, many of them want to abolish the department of education in favor of state education and/or home training.

How the hell is this country suppose to compete on a global scale with home schooling where your parents know only a fraction of what you need to learn in this century and almost nothing about the "new math". Mean while China and the like send their kids to school for 10 hours a day for 12 months a year with a two week vacation.

Lazy Tea Baggers are not up to the challenge of remaining among the intellectually elite on this planet and that's just one aspect of how this country must be run. The Tea Baggers are like "Fredo" in the God Father Movies - I CAN DO STUFF.

Their a bunch of ignorant simpletons.
945call
Posted 964 days ago
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Hank says, "For example, many of them want to abolish the department of education in favor of state education and/or home training."

For nearly 200 years this country existed without a Department of Education and for much of that time we had the best education system in the world. In the past 31 years, with the help of that same Department of Education and Liberal politicians we are near the bottom of the list of 30 developed nations. If this keeps up the third world will start moving ahead of us in five years.
945call
Posted 964 days ago
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hank says, "How the hell is this country suppose to compete on a global scale with home schooling where your parents know only a fraction of what you need to learn in this century and almost nothing about the "new math". "

First of all there are programs developed by the "Department of Education" for use in home-schooling. Despite the source of the material, home schooling actually beats out the school systems in 25 states. Additionally, most parents who take on this resposibility actually care that their children succeed, wheras many tenured teachers don't give a damn so long as they get their pensions, health care and annual raises.

Go Chris Christie!
945call
Posted 964 days ago
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Hank says, "Until the Tea Baggers"

Please keep your pornographic language to yourself. There are women and children who read these comments. As one of those women who was raised to respect others, I am offended.
945call
Posted 964 days ago
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hank says, "not up to the challenge of remaining among the intellectually elite on this planet"

You must be kidding. The only way you could possibly among the intellectual elite on a planet would be if you went solo on the first flight to Mars.
TPCBF
Posted 961 days ago
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I may be one of the few REPUBLICANS that lean toward agreeing, but them I consider myself a moderate, not a zealot.
elziba
Posted 959 days ago
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More comes out every day about how Goofy tea partiers are. People are grasping at straws now because we're in so deep, so these biased, uneducated, rebels w/o cause get their 15 min. of infamy. There WILL be groups who succeed, but what they're drinkin', none of the rest of us need (like laced Kool-Aid). Tea people are bad street theatre, at best.
hank10303
Posted 958 days ago
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945call

THIS IS THE HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; CLEARLY YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE; MUST HAVE BEEN HOME SCHOOLED

A previous Department of Education was created in 1867 but soon was demoted to an Office in 1868. As an agency not represented in the president's cabinet, it quickly became a relatively minor bureau in the Department of the Interior. In 1939, the bureau was transferred to the Federal Security Agency, where it was renamed the Office of Education. In 1953, the Federal Security Agency was upgraded to cabinet-level status as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education
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