“Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn’t a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — “Government’s not the solution! Government’s the problem!” — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.
“The scooters are because of Medicare,” he whispers helpfully. “They have these commercials down here: ‘You won’t even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!’ Practically everyone in Kentucky has one.”
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A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it.”
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- Matt Taibbi Among the Tea Partiers
Tea & Crackers: How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
via brooklynmutt
it appears the TEA PARTY is made up primarily of the upper middle class and upper class. The reason they got into office this last election is…the masses (middle class, lower middle class and low class) forgot to get out and vote. Now you’ll have to wait for two years to get the democrats back in power to stableize our country’s functions.
Rather than voting in Tea Party members, consider voting in INDEPENDENTS. They are not responsible to a party and are strickly for the people who voted them into office. ELIMINATE ALL PARTIES AND HAVE ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS INDEPENDENTS. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO STRAIGHTEN OUT OUR COUNTRY AND CREATE FAIRNESS FOR ALL!
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