Tea Party Movement a Front for Big Oil?

[edgray]

Never!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/13/tea-party-billionaire-koch-brothers
http://astroturfwars.com

Who'd have thought it?

 

[MoonOwl]

As soon as Sarah Palin was installed as the 'head' of the Tea Party it was quite obvious that Ron Paul's Tea Party had been infiltrated:surrender

So, duhhhhhhhhh

 

[Accountable]

We need a Tea filter.

 

[edgray]

what the tea party needs to do is split it's anger between the government AND the corporations.

 

[porterjack]

We need a Tea filter.

stop bagging on about it

 

[porterjack]

btw welcome back Ed:clap

 

[Minor Axis]

Never!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/13/tea-party-billionaire-koch-brothers
http://astroturfwars.com

Who'd have thought it?

Lol! Purity lost, stupidity remains... not to imply the Tea Party has cornered the market on stupidity.

 

[edgray]

btw welcome back Ed:clap

thanks.

Lol! Purity lost, stupidity remains... not to imply the Tea Party has cornered the market on stupidity.

They've had their cause hijacked and are being used as a propaganda machine for big corporate interests. It's really quite sad if you think about it.

 

[MoonOwl]

They've had their cause hijacked and are being used as a propaganda machine for big corporate interests. It's really quite sad if you think about it.

Indeed it is.

What is also sad is apparently the members of this morphed Tea Party don't realize it. If they think Sarah speaks for the idea that was Ron's supporters, well.... :willy_nilly:

 

[Accountable]

btw welcome back Ed:clap

Seconded! :thumbup

 

[Minor Axis]

thanks.

They've had their cause hijacked and are being used as a propaganda machine for big corporate interests. It's really quite sad if you think about it.

In politics, attaining power is the most important goal no matter the method. Tis sad but very human. You were gone? Welcome!

 

[edgray]

Thanks everyone

An interesting view from an ordinary science teacher:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qoRG9Q3XVc

An interesting side note and a question for y'all: in Europe, liberals support laissez faire capitalism and as much economic liberty as possible and reduced govt intervention. Does anyone know why liberals in the US don't?

 

[Accountable]

Um, maybe because your liberals want to be liberal (generous) with freedom, and ours want to be liberal with services?

Or .... OR ... maybe liberals have to take the opposite side of conservatives - who want to conserve - and your conservatives want to conserve, hell I don't know, government power (?), and ours want to conserve personal liberty.

OR ... maybe our liberals want to be liberal with favors to their union contributors, and our conservatives want to conserve their flow of contributions from Wall Street.

 

[edgray]

Um, maybe because your liberals want to be liberal (generous) with freedom, and ours want to be liberal with services?

Or .... OR ... maybe liberals have to take the opposite side of conservatives - who want to conserve - and your conservatives want to conserve, hell I don't know, government power (?), and ours want to conserve personal liberty.

OR ... maybe our liberals want to be liberal with favors to their union contributors, and our conservatives want to conserve their flow of contributions from Wall Street.

I don't know I'm just really confused about that right now...

The thing is, our conservatives ARE liberals..... now I'm really confused....

 

[Accountable]

I don't know I'm just really confused about that right now...

The thing is, our conservatives ARE liberals..... now I'm really confused....

It might help if you chuck all the labels and look at the individuals. Judge them by their actions rather than the labels.

 

[porterjack]

It might help if you chuck all the labels and look at the individuals. Judge them by their actions rather than the labels.

this is why i like local civic politics, no party affiliation, candidates are held to account for their action not some party line

 

[edgray]

It might help if you chuck all the labels and look at the individuals. Judge them by their actions rather than the labels.

amen, brother.

 

[edgray]

this is why i like local civic politics, no party affiliation, candidates are held to account for their action not some party line

you know you'd make an awesome anarchist. Come over to the dark side, we've got cookies

 

[Peter Parka]

Does anyone still take this shit seriously??? Apparently the've started up in Britain to take over where the BNP dismally failed. Yeah, thats the last I heard of them too, Jesus! :24::surrender

 

[Minor Axis]

Tea Party in the U.S. Musings:
"That this was never a movement about taxes or the deficit. It was always a movement about ignorance."- Bill Maher refering to the U.S. based Tea Party.

What is funny is that Rob Reiner after his appearance on Real Time, is being accused by conservatives of comparing the Tea Party to Hitler. What he actually did was make fun of the political groups who are comparing Obama to Hitler and then said (paraphrased) if you want to invoke the name of Hitler, all Hitler did was sell fear and anger and this is what the Tea Party is doing and he was afraid they would get a charismatic leader who would promote this message.

Huffington Post-Nevada Tea Party Candidate Sharron Angle back tracks from her comments on "2nd Amendment (the right to bear arms) Solutions" on how to solve problems in government. In essence advocating "guns" to achieve solutions. Think about it... Genghis Khan politics.