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Want to see a proud “independent” teaparty solution to Obamacare?

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Here’s their grand plan:

Reporting from Washington— Mary Brown, a 56-year-old Florida woman who owned a small auto repair shop but had no health insurance, became the lead plaintiff challenging President Obama’s healthcare law because she was passionate about the issue. Brown “doesn’t have insurance. She doesn’t want to pay for it. And she doesn’t want the government to tell her she has to have it,” said Karen Harned, a lawyer for the National Federation of Independent Business. Brown is a plaintiff in the federation’s case, which the Supreme Court plans to hear later this month. But court records reveal that Brown and her husband filed for bankruptcy last fall with $4,500 in unpaid medical bills. Those bills could change Brown from a symbol of proud independence into an example of exactly the problem the healthcare law was intended to address.

via: BalloonJuice

See, ain’t no need for higher taxes or some socialist-Marxist health care plan like Kenyacare. Just rack up some medical bills and file bankruptcy. No one pays — Amerrikuh — woooooo! (Well, at least not THEM.) “Passionate” teabaggers against Obamacare and / or self-responsibility have this all figured out.

Idiots.

Turd Blossom thinks the Snowbilly Grifter will run for president

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Naturally Palin is the Chosen One keynote speaker for a Tea Party event in Iowa. The tea party is calling this event “Restoring America.” Really? Restoring it to when? to what exactly? From the Huffington Post:

Palin is set to appear in Iowa on September 3, serving as the keynote speaker at the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” event.

“This is her last chance,” Rove said on the broadcast. “She either gets in or gets out after this visit next week. I think she gets in.”

Rove’s forecast comes one day after Palin released a new video highlighting her Iowa travels. Entitled “Iowa Passion,” the ex-Vice Presidential candidate profiles Iowans who explain why she is “a normal person just like every one of us.”

A video of rightwing teabaggers in Iowa explaining why Palin’s a normal person like every one of us? Okay. Good luck insulting normal people like that. With public support of the tea party at a low 20% (support for the Teaparty is now even below ‘atheists’ and ‘Muslims’), it’s absolutely no surprise this woman was chosen to be their spokesman. Both are circling the drain.

 

Wisconsin: Teaparty Republicans lost two seats. Democrats retained both of theirs.

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Crushing defeat for the Tea Party in Wisconsin

Just sayin.

Teaparty related:

New study that will make Teaparty members even angrier then they are now

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FIVE YEARS AGO, IN 2006, DAVID E. CAMPBELL AND ROBERT D. PUTNAM INTERVIEWED 3,000 AMERICANS and re-interviewed many of the same people again this summer. Their findings indicate what most of us already knew: that Teapartyers were far-right, social conservative Republicans (and still are). Or, as Jon Stewart said: “They’re just moral majorities in a tri-cornered hat.”

[W]e can look at what people told us, long before there was a Tea Party, to predict who would become a Tea Party supporter five years later…

Our analysis casts doubt on the Tea Party’s “origin story.” Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party’s supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today.

What’s more, contrary to some accounts, the Tea Party is not a creature of the Great Recession. Many Americans have suffered in the last four years, but they are no more likely than anyone else to support the Tea Party. And while the public image of the Tea Party focuses on a desire to shrink government, concern over big government is hardly the only or even the most important predictor of Tea Party support among voters.

As so many have been arguing for the past 3 years, priority #1 is not small government with these people! So what do (rank and file) Tea Partiers have in common (from 2006 through today):

  • They’re white and
  • have a low regard for immigrants and blacks (*ahem* racist?!)
  • are disproportionately social conservatives
  • have a desire to see religion play a prominent role in politics
  • seek deeply religious elected officials
  • approve of religious leaders engaging in politics
  • want religion brought into political debates

Absolutely no surprise. They’re the same weird, eccentric group of religious RWNJs with a brand new Koch-funded name: Tea Party Patriots. What rubbish. They have always wanted a form of government for the USA that’s a straight-up Christian Theocracy, and nothing has changed.

Sometimes it seems that teahadists needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was not one of the founding fathers. And, newsflash! Their idea of Christianity is so far removed from mainstream belief that it borders on freakish: Jesus as a gun-toting, white-power, women-belong-in-the-kitchen, immigrant-hating, ‘get your own wine and fish’ conservative Deity, who gladly puts the world on hold to personally speak with politicians like GWB, Perry, Bachmann and Palin.

But here’s what’s funny — people have already figured out the teaparty:

Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent.

 [...] the Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23 other groups we asked about — lower than both Republicans and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned groups like “atheists” and “Muslims.” Interestingly, one group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian Right.

Read the rest….

With the growing disapproval of the teaparty in general, it’s nice to know that most of us ARE actually using the brains God gave us.

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The Teaparty just cost you $322

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The tea party just cost you $322

That’s the latest cost of their incoherent national tantrum — $100 billion in increased financing costs for which America gets nothing in return. That works out to $322 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

So the Tea Party just cost you $322. They just cost my family $1,288.

You don’t get anything in return for that $322, nor does my family get anything in return for that $1,288. It is simply an added cost due to our sharing this country with aggressively stupid, resentful, angry fools who would rather let the whole thing burn than bother to learn even the slightest bit about others or about the world they live in.

[...] I would say they were thieves, stealing this money from you, but they’re not lucid enough to be thieves.

Thieves at least enrich themselves by taking from others. These folks take from others and just set the money on fire.

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As they say, ignorance is bliss, which has never been more apparent than now. You can see this each time the teabaggers think they’ve won something — like our credit downgrade.

via: namelessgenxer

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The 112th Teaparty Republican Congress convened 01/03/2011. The credit rating of the U.S. was downgraded for the first time on 08/05/2011

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That only took 7 months — and it’s an historical first! When bad things happen to our country, expect the Teaparty to be there cheering their handiwork.

More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011. — S&P Downgrades U.S. Debt Rating — WSJ Press Release

“When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the white House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I’m pretty happy.” — Speaker of the House John Boehner, August 1, 2011, CBS News interview

Bill Maher: “If you are racist, you’re probably a Republican.”

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On on ABC Sunday (see VIDEO here):
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Conservative columnist George Will seemed to take Maher’s words personally. “Mr. Maher, just said — if i heard him right — that conservatives basically are racists and like government intrusion only against people that aren’t white,” said Will.

“Let me defend myself,” countered Maher. “I would never say and I have never said, because it’s not true that Republicans, all republicans are racists. That would be silly and wrong. But now days, if you are racist, you’re probably a Republican. And that is quite different,” explained Maher.

But that wasn’t a topic that ABC’s Jake Tapper was willing to cover. “That’s a whole other round table conversation,” Tapper said as he quickly changed the subject.

I don’t agree with Maher on many things but on this statement, I can’t disagree. At all.

via Crooks & Liars

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• Imagine if the Tea Party was black

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protesters — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose…

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