President Obama said that Romney is "pledging to rubber-stamp the Tea party agenda in Congress," at several campaign events. He clearly believes that the Tea Party is a "lost" cause and proves that the politics of polarization continues.
Politico reports that during the divisive "Romnesia" speech, the president blasted Romney by telling "folks he was 'the ideal candidate' for the Tea Party." Romney, unfortunately, is not the ideal candidate for the Tea Party, however, his vision comes much closer than the president's vision. The president has previously shown support for the Occupy movement.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also accused Romney of "kowtowing" to the Tea Party. Reid also dashed all hopes of bipartisanship, by declaring, "Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable."
The Tea Party
What exactly is the problem with the Tea Party? The movement has been vilified as "radical" by the left and even the right-wing in the government. The grassroots effort may be radical in that it believes that America needs to return to the vision of the founding fathers, which has been eroding in America for a century.
A century of minimizing the Constitution by referring to it as a "living, breathing, document", dismissing the founding fathers as "old, white, slave owners", and a century of promoting and implementing unsustainable entitlements has left it's mark on America. Unfortunately, Americans have lost their way and as time has gone by, politicians on both sides of the aisle have trampled on the founding documents that enabled America to achieve unsurpassed heights, including the ability to inspire and help other nations.
President Obama and all those who trash the Tea Party are turning their backs on the founding documents. The president, instead, has chosen to embrace the America-destroying ideas promoted by many in the Occupy Movement, such as greater, more intrusive government, keeping racism alive with polarizing racebaiting and class warfare; or the ideas promoted by the founding documents—liberty and equality. Perhaps the Tea Party is radical, but so were the founding fathers.
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Comments: 54
In other words the 53% are at least potential supporters.
Not only that - he did NOT say he did not care about them, he only implied they
do not seem to care about him enough to even consider a vote for him.
Other than those two wrong facts in your sentence - I guess you were kinda right - your name showed up accurately.
I just love to see people talking about themselves in a derogatory way.
John S. Nov 3, 2012, 9:27pm EDT
As mr coulter would say you are a bunch of retards .
Was simply re-inforcing it.
1. Alienated our allies
2. Mistakenly decided our enemies will not attack us, because he is a great statesman (in his Mind).
3. Socialized the control of 2/3 of our auto industry, most of our larger financial institutions, our Doctors, nurses’ and health insurance industry,
4. Taken every step within his power to reduce domestic oil production,
5. Waived our rights to not be arrested and held without charge for an indefinite period of time (denied the right to legal counsel all the while),
6. Dismantled the trust in contract law, and bankruptcy law by manipulating them both to show patronage to the unions, instead of the people that actually risked their own wealth to invest,
7. Stood by and watched American citizens being murdered,
8. Doubled the true unemployment rate,
9. Decreased the GDP growth,
10. Increased the CPI (inflation),
11. Doubled the number of people in the poverty level, and the number on food stamps, ............
12. Guaranteed the tripling of our electricity bills.
I could site more if I had a couple minutes, but you get the idea.
Yes, many of the things he has done were more or less started by Bush – he just enhanced, enlarged, and multiplied the control.
Yes - he has done OH-so-very-much to our country!
It is NOT that I do not like him - I simply detest what he stands for, and what he wants to do to us.
Bush started rolling the ball. O added a turbocharger to the ball.
At least half of the things on your list are flat-out lies.
Reduced the number of lobbyists????
FOMCROFLMAOPIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you get most of your info from Mad Magazine?
Bush was rushing "pedal to the medal" in the economic car - towards the cliff.
Obama kicked in the nitreous oxide, and turbo boost.
That is about the only difference.
Renee, Robert's comment is relevant.
If you understand that he is responding to your response immediately above his... ["Ohhhh that list just burns me up!]
If you understand it in that context you can see it's relevant. Relevant not only to your own comment, but also to the content of his own character. Anyone who would offer the match that would start a person on fire ...
I could be wrong, but in that case his comment is off the wall, as well as irrelevant, and just plain creepy.
Richard P. Nov 4, 2012, 1:34pm EST
Here, let me light the match for you.
Renee Nal Nov 4, 2012, 2:12pm EST
So, just out of curiousity...do you ever say anything relevant, Richard?
To a certain extent I wish Obama's statement was true. But once again he is wrong. I think Romney is part of the Washington establishment that will gladly take the support of the Tea Party but has no real desire to support the Tea Party "agenda". Although Romney will be much better than Obama (I am predicting Romney will win by a significant margin), it will be politics as usual in Washington under Romney/Ryan. I don't forsee a drastic shift back towards a government under the chains of our Constitutional republic. I hope I am wrong.
He is? Proof? What kind of snake? Rattler? Copperhead? Boa? Python? And where is he burying all of the snake bodies after he squeezes the oil out?
Dan Rather does not think Obama could sell watermelons.
It came from the mouth of one of the biggest liberal news reporters there is.
Actually it was Dan Rather who offered up something like that. Last I checked Renee isn't Dan Rather. There are no comparisons to be made. This is why your non-theoretical comments are obviously coming from an endless sea of ignorance.
And they call him a dancin..dancin....Hes a dancing machine! LOL!
Great observation. Too bad your observation skills weren't as stellar when she offered up a racist remark from Dan Rather. She wasn't decrying what he said, she was agreeing with him. So stick that in your "endless sea of ignorance".
"Thanks, Optimus. As usual, Tony resorts to calling people racist when he doesn't have an argument. A typical ploy."
No, I resort to calling out racists when they resort to using racial stereotypes about blacks and watermelons.
Well, it could be the bigotry that pervades the tea party.
It could be that they are funded and organized by the Koch brothers, Dick Armey, and other rich lobbyists whose sole purpose is to ensure that the super-rich can avoid paying taxes or taking responsibility for the costs they force onto middle class Americans.
It could be that virtually everything the tea party says they believe in is false.
It could be that the tea party has fought to raise taxes on most Americans in order to pay for tax breaks for the super-rich.
It could be that the tea party has increased the debt several times through their actions and has plans to increase the debt even more should Romney be elected. All so they can give more tax breaks to the super-rich.
Yeah, that's the problem with the tea party. They are an embarrassment to every honest American.
A media driven lie.
It could be that they are funded and organized by the Koch brothers, Dick Armey, and other rich lobbyists whose sole purpose is to ensure that the super-rich can avoid paying taxes or taking responsibility for the costs they force onto middle class Americans Duh, it is grassroots. If you want to find an astroturf movement, look to Occupy.
It could be that virtually everything the tea party says they believe in is false. Anything specific? Or just silly ranting....? I suspect the latter.
It could be that the tea party has fought to raise taxes on most Americans in order to pay for tax breaks for the super-rich. TEA stands for "Taxed Enough Already", the Tea Party does not engage in polarizing class warfare.
It could be that the tea party has increased the debt several times through their actions and has plans to increase the debt even more should Romney be elected. All so they can give more tax breaks to the super-rich. That makes no sense. What are you talking about?
All blah, blah, blah. Silly.
Fact. Documented over and over. Even Republicans admit that their party is full of bigots.
Duh, it is grassroots.
AFP and FreedomWorks are hundred million dollar lobbyists. Fact. They swooped in to fund and organize all the bigots and delusional people that first called themselves teabaggers (before getting all false modest when they learned there was another meaning). The Koch-funded and other corporate lobbyists then turned these bigots into a fake movement based on falsehoods.
Anything specific? Or just silly ranting....?
The specifics are well documented.
I suspect the latter.
You've demonstrated your disregard for the truth many times, so it's rather immaterial what you suspect.
TEA stands for "Taxed Enough Already", the Tea Party does not engage in polarizing class warfare.
Bull. The fake "taxed enough already" was a bacronym desperately created to avoid being called teabaggers. It was made up after the fact. The original derivation of the tea party was as a group of bigots and birthers who didn't like it that "one of them" was elected. After the Koch's saw how they could use a bunch of ideological and bigoted rubes to further their own desire avoid taxation they funded and organized them and helped create the fake "taxed enough already" mantra.
Consider the idiocy of claiming an organization was created to fight high taxes during a time when 1) we are at the lowest tax base in modern history, and 2) one of Obama's first actions as President was to give 95% of Americans an additional tax break.
A lie doesn't work so well when it is so divorced from reality as to be pathologically unbelievable by anyone other then the most delusional ideologues and bigots.
That makes no sense. What are you talking about?
Perhaps if you knew some facts instead of getting paid to write right wing propaganda to increase Gather's advertising income you wouldn't appear so uninformed.
Fact is that the tea party has been directly responsible for the increase of the debt on multiple occasions, has been directly responsible for the slowness of the economic recovery, has been directly responsible for holding back job creation that would have occurred at a faster pace without them, and directly responsible for increasing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans.
The tea party has been a disgrace and an embarrassment to America.
But they've made the Koch brothers and Mitt Romney even richer. Good for you.
Yes Renee, you are correct!
As we have seen the TEA party attacked by their detractors trying to tar them with the racist label...What actually happened was when racists tried to attend the TEA party functions, (sometimes progressives posers with the intent to make the TEA party appear racists) the TEA partiers stopped them in their tracks told them to leave.
The fact that the Progressives tried to paint the Taxed Enough Already partiers with a derogatory sexual term "teabaggers" just goes to show how far they will go to dismiss and demean those who stand in the way of their agenda.
Fact is that Obama and his agenda and those progressive who support his agenda are responsible for the debt of our country!
When Romney is elected in a couple of days the healing can begin!