Teabaggers

Jonathan Alter. As Democrats prepare to vote on the historic health-care legislation this weekend, a new look inside the White House is emerging from an upcoming book by Newsweek national-affairs columnist Jonathan Alter that's already being buzzed about in Washington political circles. The Promise, due out from Simon and Schuster in May, chronicles in a blow-by-blow narrative Obama's first turbulent year in office. According to an advance...  

How many of these tea baggers do you think idenify themselves as "Christians?" I'm going with a lot. My company just informed us that our health care premiums were raised over 50% by the insurance company rhyming with "Sumana" and thus went from around 500K to over a million. Yet if I asked any of them, they'd all be adamently against this health care bill. bboston88  

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Various Liberals, from Keith Olberman to local bloggers, have shown little interest or ability in trying to understand what the TEA Party movement is about.  All Liberals know is they hate what the movement stands for….ideals like smaller government, limited government, reasonable taxes, freedom, etc.  So rather than attacking the message, they intentionally use the [...]  

This video, shot by the Columbus Dispatch in front of Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy's district office, includes a segment in which a man with Parkinson’s is mocked and scorned by Teabaggers, one of whom throws dollar bills in his face. Chris Matthews of Hardball, in fine fettle this day (Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Chris!) offered the unfounded fantasy that Ronald Reagan “would have sat down to talk with this guy.”Chris’s “Reagan Democrat...  

You'd think the one base that the Teabaggers would not want to piss off is the Religious Right.   Well...guess what? Where shoulders once shrugged, fists now shake. Glenn Beck's comparison of social justice Christians with Nazis and Communists is a reminder of many things, not the least of which being that deep down, Glenn Beck is shallow. On Beck’s show, demagoguery reigns. His reactionary comments were clearly intended...  

#goddamnamerica Do you feel love for your fellow man today? Allow me to do something about that: here are some teabaggers throwing dollar bills at a guy with Parkinsons who has the temerity to support health care reform. [Via] More »  

Hey, uhh, this is great! This will DO IT. You people are safe from getting medical care when you fall off your roof again, hooray! And, uhh? United States - Business - Travel - Recreation - Shopping  

At the Young Democratic Socialists conference in New York, numerous speakers made reference to the teabaggers, usually to either denounce them as a nascent fascist movement or to characterize them as representative of the political and economic frustrations of the downwardly mobile white working class. Related to this second point was the frequently invoked corollary that many of the teabaggers could have been footsoldiers of the left if only...  

This is a musical tribute to the know-nothing tradition in American politics so bizarrely promulgated by the Teabaggers and ineptly exploited by the Republicans. This great parody by "Weird Al" Yankovic cuts close to the truth of the day:What is this song all about?Can't figure any lyrics outHow do the words to it go?I wish you'd tell me, I don't knowDon't know, don't know, don't know, ooh noDon't know, don't know, don't know...Now I'm mumblin...  

Screen grab from John Waters' Pecker.Last month I wrote about how the Tea Party™ movement was going to tear itself apart when forced to contend with the "social issues" so important to the nutty Christians, issues which they currently ignore altogether.Well, sure enough, push is coming to shove, as demonstrated by this long article at Politico about how the Christianists are upset with the Libertarian-type teabaggers for ignoring "their...  

Always with the fake British accents and the Guy Fawkes masks, the Paultards are. But there is a Reason why Tea Party Baggers are putting new embarrassing home videos on the YouTubes: The Man is trying to find The Leader of the Teabaggers, so as to imprison this Brave Knight in a Darke Tower of [...] Guy Fawkes - DavidLynch - Lynch - Tea Party protests - Opposition research  

But he drives a truck! Who knew that someone would misuse that incontrovertible teabagger bona fide? They better alert all the rest of the teabaggers that the liberals have cracked their secret code. Oh, wait, I'll do it for them: SECRET TEABAGGER MESSAGE FOR TEABAGGERS ONLY -- DRIVING A TRUCK MIGHT NOT BE A REFLECTION OF FUTURE POLICY VOTES! Well, that should do it.  

This is the first photo anti-tax group Common Sense for Oregon sent out with their newsletter congratulating an estimated 500 teabaggers for rallying in Salem this week in protest of Measure 66 and 67 tax hikes. Anti-tax weiner dog. That is all. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

I'm amazed at how many Democratic politicians are using the word 'teabag' to fire up their constituents. Chuck Schumer proudly called Republican candidate Scott Brown a "far-right teabagger" earlier in the race, and now it appears Sen. Kerry is following suit. "We also see how revved up the tea baggers are at the thought of hijacking health care reform and every chance we have at making progress in Washington." warned Kerry this morning.