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I doubt the 'mailed to Congress' angle. Since anthrax, any mail is difficult to get through. "Delivered" might be accurate.

Last edited by daemon (2009-10-23 8:28 pm)

resedit wrote:

Oh, we mailed them to congress.

So you're a tea-bagger?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/? … UwNzQ0NGU=

sheesh.

Gatchaman wrote:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjgzYjFmMTc1N2E5ZGVlYjk0OGJjMTUzY2UwNzQ0NGU=

sheesh.

Did they even HAVE tea bags before the American Revolution?  I suspect the tea thrown overboard was loose leaf that needed to be strained.

The Tea Party baloney has zero credibility.  How many signs and speeches have brought up PAYGO ?

Lets see if they speak out against the proposed estate tax cut in the works, that isn't revenue neutral.

See also "only 3% of respondents to a CBS News poll this month thought the deficit was the most important issue facing the country."

Pithecanthropus wrote:

I've always had a big problem with the "Original" Boston Tea Party, at least the way I learned it.

A bunch of guys are pissed off at the English for taxing the hell out of them, so they decide to protest by throwing the Brit's precious tea into Boston Harbor.

"Ooh! What if the Brits see us?" asks one.

"I know! We'll dress as Indians! That way if we are seen, the Brits will think it's them!"

What a bunch of smurfing racists.

If they'd had any real balls (pun intended) they would have gone onto the British ships dressed as Americans.

Given the backwards era they were living in, and given our young nation's wholesale slaughter of Indians, it's safe to assume that a good number of those guys probably were racists, though the concept of "racist" as we understand it may not have existed for most people. It's not that they were racist, per se; it's that nearly everyone thought that way.

I'm not making excuses, mind you.

The other thing is that I don't believe the tea partiers actually expected to fool anybody into thinking they were really Indians- the costumes were mainly to hide their identities, so as to avoid reprisals.

We finally dragged Bren into MiniThink

one of us one of us one......

Bren wrote:

Regarding Resedit: If he is a tea bagger, this proves at least one of them isn't an idiot.

I've never participated in any of their activities but I generally agree with them.

Chickenhawk wrote:

I like minithink bren. He is a good replacement for shnicky.

Is that a compliment or a condemnation?

I'm not really familiar with what Schnicky's posted here, so I honestly don't know.

I don't really understand the tea-baggers' solution. After eight years of fiscal mismanagement and botched foreign policy adventures, we've been left with a decimated economy and a crumbling domestic infrastructure. As far as I can tell, they're proposing that we turn our back on health care, social services, education, and general American well-being in order to avoid raising taxes on the rich.

This seems like it will just further the United States' decline, as we're already way behind average on all those marks.

resedit wrote:

Pariah wrote:

resedit wrote:

I've never participated in any of their activities but I generally agree with them.

What? That the government should cut spending during a depression?

It's not as black and white as that.
Don't pretend that it is.

What this government done has increased spending in ways that do not benefit the economy by significant amounts resulting in increase in taxation that is hitting a public already hurting and decreasing what buying power they have.

The spending this government has done has been spending to push a liberal agenda under the guise of fixing the economy, and it is wrong.

What increase in taxes?

Pariah wrote:

resedit wrote:

Pariah wrote:

What? That the government should cut spending during a depression?

It's not as black and white as that.
Don't pretend that it is.

What this government done has increased spending in ways that do not benefit the economy by significant amounts resulting in increase in taxation that is hitting a public already hurting and decreasing what buying power they have.

The spending this government has done has been spending to push a liberal agenda under the guise of fixing the economy, and it is wrong.

What increase in taxes?

You think the trillions of dollars they spent will be paid for by a money tree planted in the white house lawn?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch … get-a.html

details some of them.