Tea Party Fools????

[KillTheIndustry]

You're criticizing the "Tea Party" on the grounds that one of them was driving a non-American made vehicle? :dunno:

 

[BioDefenseGrad]

Driving home from work I came along a large pickup. This pickup had a giant American flag in the back window. This pickup had more than a dozen Tea Party stickers along the back. This pickup had Don't Tread On Me anywhere else you could find. This pickup was a Toyota........

WTF???????????

A lot of Toyota pickups are made in the U.S. nowadays. Would you rather she bought a Chevy made in Mexico?

 

[BioDefenseGrad]

The interesting thing is, they are immediately making the same mistakes the Democrats made before them, the Republicans before them and so on.
In 2004, riding on Bush's momentum, Republicans picked up a couple of seats in the House and Senate. This was considered a major victory. The Republicans acted as though this would last forever. It did not, coming to a crashing halt.
During the '06 and '08 elections, the Dems picked up several seats in both the House and Senate, as well as the President. This was considered a major victory. The Democrats acted as though this would last forever. It did not, coming to a crashing halt.
Now, the Republicans have picked up the House majority as well as gained a couple of seats in the Senate - and have once again considered this a major victory that will last forever. It will not. Like all recent political movements, the Tea Party will come to a crashing halt, and is in fact doing this as we watch.
I've a feeling that the union-busting/anti-government worker movement will come to bite the Tea Party in the ass, in the end. Voters' memories are not that short - after all, the next elections are only 20 months away (no...seriously). The Tea Party has dug itself quite the hole with the general public - one so deep and steep, I doubt it has the ability to reverse that trend in that short of time, however, a great ability to make that hole much deeper and steeper.
Then, the trend will continue, on and on and on and on and on.

If they were smart, they could get the populist movement running again by staying with the movement stop PUBLIC unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere and going against the movement to weaken PRIVATE unions in Indiana.

 

[Stephen1956]

Driving home from work I came along a large pickup. This pickup had a giant American flag in the back window. This pickup had more than a dozen Tea Party stickers along the back. This pickup had Don't Tread On Me anywhere else you could find. This pickup was a Toyota........

WTF???????????

^
And...the driver of the Toyota truck has a driver's license with a photo of himself and his dog on it.

 

[Stephen1956]

The interesting thing is, they are immediately making the same mistakes the Democrats made before them, the Republicans before them and so on.
In 2004, riding on Bush's momentum, Republicans picked up a couple of seats in the House and Senate. This was considered a major victory. The Republicans acted as though this would last forever. It did not, coming to a crashing halt.
During the '06 and '08 elections, the Dems picked up several seats in both the House and Senate, as well as the President. This was considered a major victory. The Democrats acted as though this would last forever. It did not, coming to a crashing halt.
Now, the Republicans have picked up the House majority as well as gained a couple of seats in the Senate - and have once again considered this a major victory that will last forever. It will not. Like all recent political movements, the Tea Party will come to a crashing halt, and is in fact doing this as we watch.
I've a feeling that the union-busting/anti-government worker movement will come to bite the Tea Party in the ass, in the end. Voters' memories are not that short - after all, the next elections are only 20 months away (no...seriously). The Tea Party has dug itself quite the hole with the general public - one so deep and steep, I doubt it has the ability to reverse that trend in that short of time, however, a great ability to make that hole much deeper and steeper.
Then, the trend will continue, on and on and on and on and on.

^ I have a message for the Republican, union-busters..go ahead..crush the unions...then watch what people do. Revolutions begin with lots of men out-of-work. Its funny to watch the rich dictators, in the middle east, dole out jobs and cash, when the mobs are pounding on their doors. Treat working people unfairly, and you'll get what you deserve, you greedy bastards!

 

[bahodeme]

Umm... That little girl is giving the finger to that kid.

And by the expression on her face it was meant.:1orglaugh

 

[xfire]

The Tea Party is Ross Perot in a new dress.

 

[BioDefenseGrad]

^ I have a message for the Republican, union-busters..go ahead..crush the unions...then watch what people do. Revolutions begin with lots of men out-of-work. Its funny to watch the rich dictators, in the middle east, dole out jobs and cash, when the mobs are pounding on their doors. Treat working people unfairly, and you'll get what you deserve, you greedy bastards!

Ummm most of the people out of work are PRIVATE SECTOR men. The unions getting crushed are public sector and the male dominated ones (Police and Firefighters) are not getting their collective bargaining rights taken from them.

Public sector unions are exploiting the middle class just like the rich are.

 

[Peter Gazinya]

^ I have a message for the Republican, union-busters..go ahead..crush the unions...then watch what people do. Revolutions begin with lots of men out-of-work. Its funny to watch the rich dictators, in the middle east, dole out jobs and cash, when the mobs are pounding on their doors. Treat working people unfairly, and you'll get what you deserve, you greedy bastards!

Unionized workers make up 12% of the work force in the US. You think the other 88% are working in some sort of awful, inhumane, unfair working conditions amid soul crushing poverty while eating bugs to stay alive?

Wake up. It's not 1905 anymore.

 

[Peter Gazinya]

The Tea Party is Ross Perot in a new dress.

Your point?

 

[xfire]

Conversely, PG, 12% of the workforce engaged in collective bargaining aren't breaking their employers.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

the point is if left to Chance and fate it could very well be 1905 again.

 

[busaguy79]

I'd like to tea bag Sarah Palin, ok moving on......