Donaldson To Will: Teabaggers Aren't Mad About Taxes, They Just Don't Like Obama

Tim, you must not have a grasp of the numbers. OH! Yes! a great many of the people that protested did not like what Bush did, nor did they agree with his policies!

Many of us were complaining and writing our congressmen, etc. about budget excesses.

I think if you analyze the mix at the Tea Party you will see the core to be Ron Paul Republicans and Libertarians, many of whom were against the budget increases and the war. Many others may have been against the budget increases but kept quiet because they supported the troops and the war. This was the case with most of the Republicans that I personally know.

Tim, you must not have a grasp of the numbers. OH! Yes! a great many of the people that protested did not like what Bush did, nor did they agree with his policies!

Yes, those people are called "Democrats" and were called un-American and traitors when they protested what Bush did.   Now the other side is doing the same thing, and somehow they're not hypocrites.

RNoel, you are totally wrong on this issue. The people involved in the T.E.A. demonstrations were a mix, a representative cross section of the population!

Ridiculous. If nothing else it is exposing a large number of people to the science of economics.

It will more than likely turn the Republican party more libertarian, a direction it was slowly moving anyway. That's a good thing.

Everybody I know that went had a good time. That's another good thing.

We are dissatified with the current administration. It pretty much doing everything we warned it would do, pretty much exactly the way we warned it would. Besides the hyperbole about gun control I would have to say that all but the most radical criticism is dead on.

I personally would rather spend my time beating the socialism out of the Republican Party then fighting avowed socialist while they are in office.

Ridiculous. If nothing else it is exposing a large number of people to the science of economics.

Hopefully that's true and then they will see how utterly ridiculous the tea baggin' parties really are. Economic data supports the type of stimulation that Obama is utilizing currently, the data does NOT support the idea that tax cuts.

Your "warnings" are invalid --It's too bad that conservatives are so self centered they just don't get it . Conservative ideas created the damage --conservative ideas put this burden on the taxpayers and conservative taxpayers have the obligation to support getting us back on course.

Conservatives have a lot of nerve pointing the finger at the current administration for the problems created by those people whose policies they supported.

The entire conservative rant is hyperbole. In fact it's safe to say the entire right wing has become even bigger drama queens then they were during Bush's terms while pushing the liberating Iraq crap to keep the egg off there faces.

I mean of course, the embarrassment of being totally wrong should be avoided at all costs , even if it would save the lives of our troops.

Which data are you talking about. As far as I know Keynesian type spending like we are seeing now has done nothing more than extend unemployment and set us up for the next crash.

Any objective analysis of what led to the current problems will show a mix of causes, none of which include conservative, by which I mean liberal free market ideas. The cause of these problems was chiefly government meddling and deviation from free market ideals. Even the egregious displays of greed and fraud were abetted by government regulation. A free market will weed out the thieves and con-men through competition.

The war is really irrelevant. If people didn't speak up about the spending for fear of damaging the war effort I am glad they are speaking up now. It is never to late to do the right thing. If their is any one who feels this describes their feelings maybe they would like to explain here. I to found it hard to criticize my government while it was involved in what appeared to me to be a just war.

Speaking for myself, I was objecting to taxes and the actions of President Obama's administration, and the Democratically controlled Congress which will lead to a reduction in the American standard of living in the near future.

Speaking for myself, I was supportingtaxes and the actions of President Obama's administration, and the Democratically controlled Congress which will lead to a increase in the American standard of living in the near future.

An amazing lack of anything resembling facts or statistics, I like my version better, sounds more......hopeful?

Memo to republicans: You lost fair and square. Stop whining and own up.

Or as Rush Limbough is fond of saying... "Until you win an election, shut up!"

Give me a break. Democrats are still whining about the "stolen elections" of 2000 and 2004, as evidenced by Gnostic1's post.

GWBush -- who's election was a far more egregious miscarriage of the electoral process in both elections.

I have resigned myself to listening to this nonsense until the day I die.

For me it just keeps going back to why didn't the spending and 10.5 TRILLION dollar debt worry you when it was Bush? Why all the sudden concern and protesting? Why now? Why wait until we are in an economic Tsunami, 7 million people have lost their jobs and countless others have lost their business's or homes and NOW you decide to care? Sorry, seems a little disingenuous to me.

How many times do we have to tell you it did worry us.

Ed - I live here in DC, I'd've heard of or seen a tea party or ANYTHING of the sort. Bush was elected to a second term, now there's a funny way to show how worried you were. Even if I accept you all were worried why did you wait till NOW to speak out? Why not when Bush kicked pay-as-you-go aside, or passed UNFUNDED tax cuts, or took the wars and prescription drug plan off budget, why keep your worries to yourself until NOW? Why were people who spoke out against Bush's spending called traitors and Anti-American?

Ed, please post just one single link to a Bush era tea party or ANY kind of rightwing anti-tax/anti-deficit/lower debt demonstration.

The people I know that observed T.E.A. were not all that happy with Bush. But he is gone, so we must deal with those in power NOW!

How convenient, you don't like Bush so you elect him twice and then within a couple months of the new guy getting in you are marching in the streets. Sorry, seems a little disingenuous to me.

You are not accepting the fact that the people that participated in the T.E.A. demonstrations represent a cross section. Many of them never voted for Bush!

Many are independent, some republican, and some democrats.

It doesn't matter who they voted for or who they are, this mixed group of people is protesting "spending" that was rampant under Bush for 8 years, then Obama gets in and within months this group materializes and is marching in the streets. They could have just as easily done it under Bush. Why NOW?

I wish we had a better way of measuring demographics etc because I'd love to know the actual make-up of the crowd. Somebody on the Vine last night was trying to convince me everybody is welcome, not just conservatives, and then she called me a socialist. I think it is a good thing to protest, I am not arguing you shouldn't be, I am suspect of the timing and the advertised reason that's all.

Bob, It is a function of always feeling one always has to vote for the lesser of two evils. I voted for Bush twice because I felt the alternatives were far worse.

Now in retrospect it is hard to imagine how anybody could have possibly been worse, I think we would have been better off with the others but we'll never know.