Which campaign propped up, and played to the teabaggers? It was John McCain's campaing. For crying out loud he put the teabagger queen Palin in as his running mate. Now he wants to complain about the Frankenstein monster he helped create? Piss off!
Except that Palin is not a true Teabagger. This whole tea party thing is as much smoke and mirrors as any of it. Palin jumped on the bandwagon when she saw it as a real way to align herself with a group of people that would pay attention to her and get her to appear on all those cable "News Channels" (and I use the term news loosely). I have lost complete faith in the system as a whole. They're all crooked, every last one of them Repub, Dem, Libritarian (who are they anyways), Teabaggers etc, ALL crooks.
This whole tea party thing is as much smoke and mirrors as any of it.
The Tea Party is the biggest astroturf of all time, heavily funded and orchestrated by the Koch brothers. The only people who don't know this are the useful idiots who are members. The TP message is tailored to appeal to the politically naive, and it is working brilliantly: an army of idiots who think that the next time a project is behind schedule they should stop working on it and instead spend all their time agitating for senior management to change the company's articles of incorporation to include a "No Missed Deadlines" amendment.
This is not to say the TP's aren't sincere in their rather belated concern about Federal spending, which somehow never once managed to come to their attention during the 80's, the 90's or the Bush II presidency. But don't for a moment think that they are suddenly getting all this media attention and organizational competency because Joe Plumber has finally realized he's a slave to the oligarchs who have borrowed America into servitude. It is because the oligarchs need something to further diminish American democracy.
Yeah, that chart shows the point at which the Koch-funded spin machine stopped down-playing the deficit and started promoting the mess Obama inherited from Bush--and subsequently made worse--as something terrible. The instant there is a Republican back in the White House deficits will again cease to matter.
McCain should look in the mirror. (Score:1)
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Except that Palin is not a true Teabagger. This whole tea party thing is as much smoke and mirrors as any of it. Palin jumped on the bandwagon when she saw it as a real way to align herself with a group of people that would pay attention to her and get her to appear on all those cable "News Channels" (and I use the term news loosely). I have lost complete faith in the system as a whole. They're all crooked, every last one of them Repub, Dem, Libritarian (who are they anyways), Teabaggers etc, ALL crooks.
Re:McCain should look in the mirror. (Score:3)
This whole tea party thing is as much smoke and mirrors as any of it.
The Tea Party is the biggest astroturf of all time, heavily funded and orchestrated by the Koch brothers. The only people who don't know this are the useful idiots who are members. The TP message is tailored to appeal to the politically naive, and it is working brilliantly: an army of idiots who think that the next time a project is behind schedule they should stop working on it and instead spend all their time agitating for senior management to change the company's articles of incorporation to include a "No Missed Deadlines" amendment.
This is not to say the TP's aren't sincere in their rather belated concern about Federal spending, which somehow never once managed to come to their attention during the 80's, the 90's or the Bush II presidency. But don't for a moment think that they are suddenly getting all this media attention and organizational competency because Joe Plumber has finally realized he's a slave to the oligarchs who have borrowed America into servitude. It is because the oligarchs need something to further diminish American democracy.
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Yeah, why doesn't the Tea Party use that time machine and travel back to complain about the Federal spending?
Oh wait, it didn't even start to exist until 2009. And you know this. Looks like you're trying to manipulate people through lies of omission.
Unless you honestly believed that the Tea Party has been in existence since the 80s.
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Yeah, that chart shows the point at which the Koch-funded spin machine stopped down-playing the deficit and started promoting the mess Obama inherited from Bush--and subsequently made worse--as something terrible. The instant there is a Republican back in the White House deficits will again cease to matter.