[Rolling Stone] Matt Taibbi goes to Kentucky, leaves behind carcass of Tea Party

Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Public_Safety_Commissioner_dismissal#Final_Conclusion

This is after your article. Palin has been cleared of all ethics charges

 

Paul's platform is ultimately about turning back the clock, returning America to the moment of her constitutional creation, when the federal bureaucracy was nonexistent and men were free to roam the Midwestern plains strip-mining coal and erecting office buildings without wheelchair access.

Solid. Gold.

 

So, I sent him the Taibbi article and he replies:

Considering the source and the fact that it only took two paragraphs to tie the Tea Party and the Death Star, I doubt I'll take the time to finish the article. Somehow I've outgrown Rolling Stone's utopian political rants.


So, I paid for a subscription to Mother Jones in his name and have it being delivered to his work.

 

That's just cruel, he'll lose respect among his peers. You might as well pay for a subscription of a gay p*rn mag and have it delivered to his work.

 

Is moe tucker really a member of the tea party?

 

Apparently, yes.

 

That's crazy. It makes no sense.

 

Frank Rich essentially call Tea Partiers suckers. Here's an excerpt...

What's the big money buying? For those folks, this is an investment, not a cause.

 

same **** different day, rich people have been playing the culture war to hold on to their money since the beginning of the republic. its really sad that the middle class just doesn't get it.

 

How about waiting till the midterms to declare victory there Hoss? Indeed owning D&D mightily strikes a blow against the forces of evil but I must be one of the addled minded who thinks maybe the larger point will be how people cast their ballots.

Verily we will be more tolerant than any previous generation, except when it comes to people who disagree with any part of what we believe. Man **** those guys. When it comes to those people, we'll be less tolerant than any generation that has preceded us. We'll characterize them by race (white, natch). Demonize their motivations. Dehumanize their politics. Marginalize their beliefs. And hold ourselves above them and wish they would all just die off. We'll dream of the utopia this country can be without them (not in a Nazi or Confederate way obviously) Until finally we have moved America to that beautiful shade of gray where we have the diversity where everyone agrees on everything... which will be beautiful sight.

Until that day we'll fight the good fight, segregating in our minds the good people who think good thoughts from bad people who think bad thoughts. We'll have no problems with this because bad people are bad and old and live in the South, are white and smell of cheese, shamelessly ride scooters in public and probably even go to Church (where I hear they sit around talking about how Jews have horns and Muslims have hooves). Good people are good and young and multicultural and watch Jon Stewart and MSNBC and know that opinions make you smart! Good people are dedicated to very important things like reposting zingers in block quotes about bad people that someone else thought up and someone else has previously articulated. Kind of like the dude who can recite all the lines from Caddyshack. Damn that kid was funny. Whatever happened to that kid?

Lol okay I admit I'm trolling as hard as I can to some of the stupider things posted. But Jesus Christ, I read this thread and are you all are with a straight face blaming "old white" for all the problems surrounding a contentious mid-term election on a newly elected President whose own team is golden parachuting to safety? I admit I have a lot of Rachel Maddow to watch and much krugman and klineberg to read before I'm fit for public discourse but is the fear and loathing in this thread seriously how you people see your "opposition" on the other side of the aisle

 

What we've proven in this thread is that a large percentage of the American population is easily herded by the forces of misinformation to do the bidding of big money against their own interest.

So with democracy rendered invalid, I say we give back control of the country to the liberal elite, just like it was in the time of the founding fathers. Proven progressives who can debate the actual substance of issues and derive compromises that will stand the test of time.

 

just saw a bumper sticker the other day...

The Founding Fathers Were East Coast Liberals!

 

A rather disturbingly accurate analysis and a brilliant solution.

 

The fear and loathing in this thread is what shocks you?

It's shocking to you that there would be fear and loathing directed at a bunch of people who suddenly became hardcore fiscal conservatives when a black Democrat became president?

It's shocking to you that there would be fear and loathing directed at people who think the government shouldn't be spending money to help people, unless it's to help them specifically because, after all, they don't make that much (unlike those lazy welfare stealing illegals and blacks)?

It's more shocking to you that fear and loathing would be directed at people for screaming 'Nazi socialist communist fascist Muslim' every time the president tries to do anything than it is that these labels are so carelessly thrown about every time the "liberals" try to do something to help the country (even if you disagree that it will help)?

 

Interview...

 

Yikes. Scary prediction. 6 years of nothing getting done. The worst part is: I can totally see it happening.

I like Taibbi. He seems pretty middle-of-the-road and uses logic instead of emotion. I might buy his book.

 

Apparently "Liberals" make up more than 1/3 of the electorate and the GOP has no problem demonizing them.

Tea Party = small radical segment of electorate.

 

"The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests."

"That's the genius of the Tea Party—you take these people who are all themselves middle class or below, and you make them focus on poor minorities so they think they're above somebody else."

Gotta love Taibbi, just cuts it right down to the bare truth.