Quote: (10-13-2011 10:11 AM)Thorfinnsson Wrote:
The Tea Party started out like OWS--a formless mob with the vague idea that something is very, very wrong with America. And being a formless mob is fine--that is how all mass movements start. But just as OWS is now degenerating into a panopoly of silly leftist demands, the Tea Party has been hijacked by beltway Republicans to use as a vehicle to push the same failed beltway Republican policies of the past generation.
You know, you sound like a smart guy, and I bet you are, and then you say stuff like this where you reveal that you don't know the facts.
Read this:
GOP leadership faces possible tea party revolt in 2012
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/21/gop-le...t-in-2012/
Here's what a Tea Party meeting looks like; not a beltway Republican in the bunch.
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/127229/
Here's what the true Tea Party does when an actual Beltway Republican acts like an asshole:
Rep. Steve Chabot Criticized By Tea Party Activists For Seizing Cameras From Democrats At Town Halls
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25...36465.html
Read how the Virginia Tea Party organization fought a planning commission issuance of search warrants for suspected “code violations.”
http://redstatevirginia.com/2011/07/decl...lynchburg/
Read how the Tea Party is going after the Beltway's most Beltwayian Senator...Orrin Hatch
Utah Tea Party Targets Orrin Hatch
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washing...rrin-hatch
I could give you dozens of other examples, but you get the idea. I think.
So yeah, you were right about folks uttering stuff that's not true. That's why when that happens, like in your unsupportable assertion, someone needs to get up and present the fucking facts.