This is one pissed off women.

[Dave007inVegas]

April 16, 2009
Schakowsky: Tea parties 'despicable'
@ 1:23 pm by Eric Zimmermann

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted "tea party" protests yesterday, labeling the activities "despicable" and shameful."

"The ‘tea parties’ being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs ," Schakowsky said in a statement.

"It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt," she added. "Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”

This is the strongest language to date opposing the protesters, which, according to some estimates, topped 250,000 across the country

Typical boiler plate rhetoric that we’ve heard over and over, “an economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs” blah, blah, blah.

I wonder what post she is going to be nominated too. Maybe she can become cheerleading czar. @)

 

[RobFunk]

During the Bush years we had so many left wing activists protesting this and that. And now we have right wing activists. This stuff is just making me nauseous. I am starting to wish I never took an interest in politics.

Watching a bunch of broke people try to carry about like they are republicans. With whatever supposedly bothers them. Just leaves me in bewilderment.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

During the Bush years we had so many left wing activists protesting this and that. And now we have right wing activists. This stuff is just making me nauseous. I am starting to wish I never took an interest in politics.

Watching a bunch of broke people try to carry about like they are republicans. With whatever supposedly bothers them. Just leaves me in bewilderment.

I don’t think as portrayed by the media that people were acting like Republicans. I believe it was a cross section of Americans whether they be Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians or Independents that were protesting. I also believe it was more to it than just taxes. Out of control spending, big government and the fact that their elected officials aren’t listening to them were also factors.

 

[Georgiaboy]

Madam speaker is that you???

The idea that this was some sort of grass roots uprising is laughable. Are we to honestly believe that it was this last budget and election that was the tipping point? This anger was festering for years but just now has risen up? Coincidently coordinated by republicans looking to somehow find relevancy?

250,000 is pretty sad when you consider the money and organization behind this. You had a cable news network pimping it daily, big name speakers and the best they could draw was 1/4 million?

We get it. You're pissed off Obama won and you suddenly found this sense of fiscal responsibility and the idea of burderning your kids with debt is scary. The same debt that added a trillion because of Iraq. The same debt that cut taxes while marching towards war.

Some here (Willie99) think those who protest are losers - I love the idea personally. But it's very obvious by many of the people and signs that this had nothing to do with taxes. This was a group of hard core lemmings who still haven't swallowed the shit sandwich that was the November election.

An entire nation to draw from, and they muster about 25% of the size of Obama's victory party in Chicago. Pretty sad.

But hey, FOXnews had great ratings through the day I would think, so at least they cashed in.

 

[barman]

But it's very obvious by many of the people and signs that this had nothing to do with taxes. This was a group of hard core lemmings who still haven't swallowed the shit sandwich that was the November election.

I massively agree with the above

 

[guitarjosh]

The idea that this was some sort of grass roots uprising is laughable. Are we to honestly believe that it was this last budget and election that was the tipping point? This anger was festering for years but just now has risen up? Coincidently coordinated by republicans looking to somehow find relevancy?

250,000 is pretty sad when you consider the money and organization behind this. You had a cable news network pimping it daily, big name speakers and the best they could draw was 1/4 million?

We get it. You're pissed off Obama won and you suddenly found this sense of fiscal responsibility and the idea of burderning your kids with debt is scary. The same debt that added a trillion because of Iraq. The same debt that cut taxes while marching towards war.

Some here (Willie99) think those who protest are losers - I love the idea personally. But it's very obvious by many of the people and signs that this had nothing to do with taxes. This was a group of hard core lemmings who still haven't swallowed the shit sandwich that was the November election.

An entire nation to draw from, and they muster about 25% of the size of Obama's victory party in Chicago. Pretty sad.

But hey, FOXnews had great ratings through the day I would think, so at least they cashed in.

You are REALLY overestimating the republican party if you think they're organized enough to pull this off.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

And yet another….

By Amanda Carpenter on April 17, 2009

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

"Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House," she said on MSNBC's "The Countdown" with Keith Olbermann Thursday evening. "This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that."

Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions.
The actress went on to describe the brain size of typical "right-winger, Republican or conservative or your average white power activist."

"Their synapses are misfiring. ... It is a neurological problem we are dealing with," she said. This isn't the first time she's offered this analysis, either. Ms. Garofalo said similar things about Alaskan GOP Governor Sarah Palin's brain last February in an interview with an environmental blog.

The actress went on to bash the GOP on MSNBC Thursday because it had "crystallized into the white power movement" as well as Fox News, which she said has captured the "Klan demo[graphic]."

"Who else is Fox talking to? Urban older white guys and their girlfriends who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome," she said.

Ironically, Ms. Garofalo is currently playing a role on the drama 24, which is aired by the Fox Broadcasting Company and is popular among conservative circles.

Sounds eerily like some of the posters here. I am very much offended by that urban older white guys remark.

:hahahahah :homer: