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The Tea Party movement
Watchful Yeoman:
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" --- because it is a grass roots movement.
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It's not by any stretch of the imagination. See article above re: Koch brothers. It's astroturfing at it's best/worst.
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The "Tea Party Movement" is s imple corporatist political marketing plan. It was conceived and funded by right-wing Republicans like Dick Armey and the Koch brothers. It is by no stretch of the imagination "grass roots." It's corporatist "astro turf" with the "Tea Party Express" funded by Newscorp (Fox News).
Watchful Yeoman:
--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---I don't know how grass-roots it is or not, or who started it, but I like it because it bothers people who adhere to one party or another...again.. this is a good sign.
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It's fun for campaigning, but when it comes to actually governing, Tea Partiers are non-starters. There is no possible way the Tea Party agenda can come to fruition in a pluralistic society. They're not smart enough or educated enough about civics to realize that anger is not a governing strategy.
Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: "Watchful Yeoman" ---
--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---I don't know how grass-roots it is or not, or who started it, but I like it because it bothers people who adhere to one party or another...again.. this is a good sign.
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It's fun for campaigning, but when it comes to actually governing, Tea Partiers are non-starters. There is no possible way the Tea Party agenda can come to fruition in a pluralistic society. They're not smart enough or educated enough about civics to realize that anger is not a governing strategy.
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Well, that and their spokespeole are nuts!
And the only people it bothers are the Dems. The Reps love 'em, especially because of the social agenda.
Froderik:
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---Reps love 'em, especially because of the social agenda.
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Also, nearly half [of tea party members] think the government should limit Wall Street executive bonuses, according to the nationwide poll which was conducted between March 19 and March 22, 2010.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---Reps love 'em, especially because of the social agenda.
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Also, nearly half [of tea party members] think the government should limit Wall Street executive bonuses, according to the nationwide poll which was conducted between March 19 and March 22, 2010.
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I think it is great that some of these people are starting to wake up. I support just about any movement that stirs up the people resulting in getting more of them involved in the political process. We haven't had much grass roots movement activity since the 1960's. The bonuses are so out of proportion that these people should be put in jail.
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