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Matt Taibbi takes the Republicans apart for becoming the party that has removed itself from the legislative process.
Matt Taibbi on Republicans: Teabagging the Class Clowns
Seeded on Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:23 AM EDT
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Taibbi: What you are saying when you say that is that the GOP is serving as the rodeo clowns or the class clowns of this horrific financial era.
One of the problems they have is that they've really taken themselves out of the picture as a serious force in the Congress. The Minority Leader, John Boehner, has told the party that the GOP has to get used to being not legislators, and they have to focus on being instead communicators, which means they really haven't proposed any serious alternatives to the Obama budget which makes them really non-players in the whole congressional picture.
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#1 - Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:25 AM EDTTo be sure, the protest sizes so far are a far cry from the left’s anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations of the past decade. But they appear to have grass-roots origins. The organizer of the Kansas protest, Amanda Grosserode, calls herself a home-schooling mom who is “fed up” with the spending in Washington. She has been a member of Fair Tax Kansas City since last fall.
Many protesters expressed a sense that basic American freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are threatened by new Washington policies seen by many as more socialistic than capitalistic. The proposed taxpayer bailout of homeowners who may have inflated their earnings in order to secure mortgages is one example, says Jeff Crawford, a protester from Dacula, Ga.
“The first year after the Mayflower arrived, the colonists tried a communal method of storing and sharing food and it failed miserably,” says Mr. Crawford. “Why are things any different now?”
Great idea: Several readers e-mail that they are holding food drives at their Tea Parties. Reader SG writes:
TOP TEN ITEMS NEEDED:
Canned meats/fish/poultry
Canned/Packaged Meals
Peanut Butter
Cereal
Soups
Canned Vegetables
Canned Fruits
100% Juices
Pasta and Pasta Sauces
Diapers
"A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started" By Michelle Malkin
Aren't food drives for people who didn't think ahead and buy food socialistic?
Since food sharing didn't work for the Pilgrims, why do it now?
(My whole concept of Thanksgiving has been completely shattered, I don't think it should be a national holiday anymore since it celebrates the failed policies of our earliest settlers.)
Thank you to Amanda Grosserode and all the other grassroots organizers who suddenly realized they were being taxed to death and couldn't afford any more spending right before Thanksgiving 2008.
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#2 - Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:07 AM EDTAnd God forbid someone propose a health care program, or increased financial aid for college. Hell, that’s like offering to share your turkey with the other Pilgrims! That’s not what America is all about! America is every Pilgrim for himself, dammit! Raise your own motherf*&king turkey!
Matt Taibbi is hilarious! I love that guy...
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