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Thank you. I can accept a contradictory opinion but not a slur of either myself or my neighbors. For that, I keep my verbal sword bright and sharp. You may have noticed, that I provide civil answers for civil respondents. I could well be wrong, but I see this as a growing grassroots movement. Besides, it will be fun.
Are you sure about that? The last tea-party thread had an invitation with a bulleted platform statement of sorts, which strayed from the tax focus to more general (and misguided, if not misleading) anti-Democrat complaints. There seemed to me to be a very definite partisan bias.
Gee, don't you think these guys missed their chance during the most egregious period of the greed and arrogance of our political, bureaucratic and economic leadership in the history of our country as practiced during the Bush administration? Seems like they are just a little late to the party.
Yeah, if the tea-party also blames reckless deregulation, for instance, that would be more bipartisan. Most (not all) agree that failed oversight led to a lot of these horrific leveraging practices, which, upon collapse, yield mess. I haven't seen that cry against government failure in the tea party language so far.
Jon Stewart is always funny, but I didn't get the connection -- the tea parties weren't mentioned. From what I understand, the tea parties are non-partisan. it is a general protest rather than a specific protest. Participants (the ones to whom I have conversed) are just as unhappy over the Bush expenditures as the Obama expenditures and with all those controlling the battered economy.
IMO this anger has been building for quite a while. Obama just happens to be President at a time when the teapot is beginning to boil over. Younger people tend to vent their anger immediately. Us old fogeys generally take longer to boil.
Agree -- and both parties had their share of culprits -- hence the anger and motivation for the tea parties.
Then you should be politically aware enough to see the disingenuous "origins" and purely partisan underpinnings of this spontaneous combustion of the slowboil groundswell. Don't be so coy.
That I have not seen. Those with whom I communicate -- and I chat with a full spectrum of political views from those who make glynch look John Bircherish to those who make T-J look DailyKoseristic -- have a wide variety of axes to grind. However, the consensus seems to be the general irritation over the gamut of poor governance and corporate greed.
Nice shot! Would that I had been so prescient. Yes, I took a while -- probably much too long -- to become disenchanted with the profligate spending of George Bush. At first, I forgave him because I was wrapped up in the outrage over 9-11. But, that began to fade with a compounding of mistakes. Obama is making serious gaffes of his own, but so far I forgive him his ineptness because of his inexperience. I do not believe he is charting the right course nor selecting the right people for his administration, but my political foresight certainly has proved to be less than 20-20. That's why I am sitting back with a wait-and-see attitude and rooting like heck that he is successful. However, because I am a prudent soul, I am taking measures in case the worst case scenarios of his presidency prove true.
Coyness is hardly my style. In any civil gathering, there will be elements that want to turn events to their advantage. It's the way of the world. I'm going because I want to be a part of the populace that says, "Enough." If the pols heed that outcry, then perhaps they will govern with a little more care. If a new generation of corporate leaders listen, perhaps they will understand the need to reign in their greed.
If they were applicable everywhere, I might. There are all sorts of state laws that are in force in one place but not another. Anyway, I try not to digress from the main point of threads for the sake of quibbling. I am not always consistent in that because, for example, I do have a weakness for sparring with SamFisher. I don't know why. In literature Cyrano once observed that a duel of wits with someone like Sam is unsportsman-like in that it is akin to fencing with an unarmed man.
