The 'baggers have probably gotten more exercise in the last year than the entirety of their sad, disappointing lives. Change you can believe in.

At least if they are caught in a rainstorm outside they will not, like turkeys, look up with their mouths hanging open and drown.

At least I don't think they will.

"It's like scouting..."

I rofl'd. What I find hilarious is that these are the same people who got all snarky about lefties protesting the war and other Bush era policies.

How's that first amendment workin' out for ya? Good stuff, ain't it. Have a *ball* with your bootstrappy selfs.

Sounds fun! I'll bring the kool aid!

I think it is less like scouting and more like Renaissance Faire weekends. Take that any way you like.

take this any way you want, but I was at one and the majority of men looked liked sex offenders.

What they don't seem to realize is that should they be successful in their goal of installing anyone other than the evil dems, there will be no substantive change in policy and they're going to get the same appreciative treatment that Ibn Saud gave to the Ikhwan.

I think we should come up with some badges for these people.

"Cognitive Dissonance"
"Reagan Criticism"

It's like scouting if the scouts were angry and demonizing the peace corps and trying to undermine their funding so they would have more for themselves.

Indis: I think we should come up with some badges for these people.

"Cognitive Dissonance"
"Reagan Criticism"

"Idiot Pawn Of Billionaire"

With all the dressing up, the role-play and the non standard English, it's more like a renaissance fair for the elderly.

so they are basically the douchebag, lazy trustafarians' parents?

Political affilation be damned. Anybody who's going to great lengths to keep taxes low is okay in my book.

The radio played a sound bite of Sarah Palin at the Boston event. She sounds like a screechy cheerleader who doesn't really belong. I can't imagine her as vice president.

The state's new Republican senator, Scott Brown, did not attend. That was probably a smart decision.

I absolutely hate the Tea Party, but damn, that is one enormous, passive aggressive attack on them. It even gently goes to Godwin levels near the end.

I've been stuck inside listening to boring powerpoints all day when I would rather be out riding my motorcycle.

This headline just made my day suck less.

Thank you.

I kid, but it's a good thing they're expressing their anger rather than letting it fester. Pent-up anger like that has a way of coming out in more...creative ways.

Diogenes: A whole lot of them are miles away from getting their sign-making badges.

For amusement we wandered over there after eating lunch. We saw a sign that said "CAN YOU HERE US? STOP RAISING TAXS!!!" Tried to take a picture with the phone but it didn't come out well.

The weirdest ones to me were the ones that said "OBAMA'S WAR" in reference to Iraq/Afghanistan. Seriously? Tea Partiers are blaming Iraq those on Obama now? I mean, I know they're rather divorced from reality, but that really takes the cake.

Confabulat: Angry stupid white people in large groups are funny, until someone starts passing out the badges.



/well done

Confabulat: Angry stupid white people in large groups are funny, until someone starts passing out the badges.



You are correct, sir.

Next Tea Party national event: "Get-off-my-lawnapalooza."

Kitwilly: take this any way you want, but I was at one and the majority of men looked liked sex offenders.

I take it as the sound of a racist, sexist, bigot. It comes from the same type of political prejudicial thought that would have complained that the majority of men at a NAACP civil rights rally from decades back looked like criminals. Congratulations on being the 21st-century heir to the Ku Klux Klan mentality.

cleverscreenname77: Confabulat: Angry stupid white people in large groups are funny, until someone starts passing out the badges.

You are correct, sir.

a near perfect simul-post!

about 90% of their merit badges are misspelled

GQueue:
The weirdest ones to me were the ones that said "OBAMA'S WAR" in reference to Iraq/Afghanistan. Seriously? Tea Partiers are blaming Iraq those on Obama now? I mean, I know they're rather divorced from reality, but that really takes the cake.

Well, Afghanistan is his to win or lose now. There's not really another option as pretending that withdrawal will make Afghanistan/Pakistan go away is silliness.

i call them 'neo-yokels.'

Neil Steinberg sounds just like a spokesman for the socialist liberals in Washington. They fear the Tea Party movement and so they must try to talk bad about it. It's just typical, tired political maneuvering on the part of the Democrats. Demagogue the opponents motives but never get into a rational discussion with them. The press, incidentally, has doing most of the heavy lifting for them since the election. Same old "stuff"!(yawn)

They are boomers who (rightly) suspect they won't get a comfortable retirement.

The problem is, if you look at the human condition in the grand sweep of history, it's hard to feel sorry for them.

/boomer

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I came here for the crazy teabagger pics

/left disappointed

bukketmaster: Political affilation be damned. Anybody who's going to great lengths to keep taxes low is okay in my book.

I'll give you a hint: it has NOTHING to do with taxes. They existed before Obama was president, and they will exist after Obama is president. This is about racism masquerading as politics.

Not many people have faith in these groups. (new window)

I love the hate and misconstruing of the tea-party people. My mom is a successful mental-health professional, and takes personal time off to attend a handful of rallies because she's upset at the reckless spending of the government. People she meets there are doctors, businessmen, retirees, mothers, and other such people.

Neil Steinberg acts like an elitist, walking through the rally looking down on the protesters instead of acknowledging them. He repeats incorrect rumors, like claiming past rallies were "excessive". Really? Ask D.C. police, who love the tea-party rallies because they are pretty much peaceful and clean.

But it's much easier to straw-man the movement, hurl insults like "tea-baggers", and dismiss them as red-necks, rather than acknowledge that they're reasonable people with reasonable arguments.

Blue is one of my old HS teachers. I'm pink :\

cristo_delenda_est: GQueue:
The weirdest ones to me were the ones that said "OBAMA'S WAR" in reference to Iraq/Afghanistan. Seriously? Tea Partiers are blaming Iraq those on Obama now? I mean, I know they're rather divorced from reality, but that really takes the cake.

Well, Afghanistan is his to win or lose now. There's not really another option as pretending that withdrawal will make Afghanistan/Pakistan go away is silliness.

Yea, that's unfortunate. Afganistan should have been handled correctly from the beginning. But Teabag Bush got all busy with Iraq and lost focus.
Where are those dang WMD's.??

Rumsfeld.

That none of them uttered so much as a peep of complaint while Bush was growing government spending, increasing deficits and the ballooning the overall size of the federal government fundamentally undermines their contentions that this is what they're angry about rather than who it is (Obama) continuing Bush's policies.

Hence, such silence then requires that their complaints now be wholly dismissed out of hand without so much as thought.

Sorry folks, you blew it.

Further, how could anyone take them seriously when they're now aligning themselves with the same republican politicians who were - to a man - staunch supporters of the previous president who initiated this economic collapse?

hngilchrist: Demagogue the opponents motives but never get into a rational discussion with them.



/I was very young, but I remember Longshanks' notion of peace.

Alien Robot: Kitwilly: take this any way you want, but I was at one and the majority of men looked liked sex offenders.

I take it as the sound of a racist, sexist, bigot. It comes from the same type of political prejudicial thought that would have complained that the majority of men at a NAACP civil rights rally from decades back looked like criminals. Congratulations on being the 21st-century heir to the Ku Klux Klan mentality.

Easy there spanky.

Sweet Chin Music: The 'baggers have probably gotten more exercise in the last year than the entirety of their sad, disappointing lives. Change you can believe in.