Do you really belive that nogames?

Show me.
Who has he eliminated?
There are plenty of opportunities if that is someones objective.
Who has Obama eliminated?

this whole Thing (the Topic) is Brought about by Moveon.org to Besmirch the Efforts of Americans who Don't Like What is Going on in D.C.!

Besmirch sorry...i think that is a funny putin type word i'm on pain meds...cut me some slack

Same with me With all the crap I have said on the internet I am probably on a DHS watch list too. If they are watching me then they will probably fall asleep

it's like an Anne Coulter special

fanta could you show me one criticism on thinkprogress.org

i scanned it and did not see any

till such time that they also criticize his not good actions i will consider it a pro obama site

just as i consider smirking chimp an anti bush site

if they do not cover both sides they have an agenda thus leaves what they report a little questionable

If you dont read it I dont know how else to help you.

Gha-is Askia

ok i guess this could possibly be a criticism maybe.........

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/15/scarborough-dhs-report/


i was as you posted

No one can be pleased with the spending that has been going on by both parties. Its pointless for people to be protesting Obama when Bush did the same things. Bush didn't do bad with deficits at the beginning of his reign, but got much worse as time went on. I think the true debate about the differences lie in what the money was spent on under Bush and what Obama is spending the money on now.

That is where the debate and differences should be held.

Oh no! I'm going to be owned by a black man! Well, 1/2 black.

Here's another one boss!

This afternoon, groups of angry conservatives will gather on street corners and in parks across the country to protest.

They will carry signs and deliver speeches expressing outrage over the Democrats' stimulus bill, over entitlements, over budget pork, over taxes. They will dump boxes of tea on the ground and wear three-cornered hats. The leading lights of the Republican Party will be on hand to cheer them on.

But as with so much on the right, these apparent displays of populist rage are not what they will seem.

Six weeks ago, two of us (Mark Ames and Yasha Levine) published an investigation exposing the nascent "Tea Party" protest movement for what it really is: a carefully planned AstroTurf (or "fake grassroots") lobby campaign hatched and orchestrated by the conservative advocacy organization FreedomWorks. Within days, pieces of the scam had crumbled, exposing a small group of right-wing think tanks and shady nonprofits at its core.

The Tea Party movement was born on Feb. 19 with a now-famous rant by second-string CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli, who called for a "Chicago Tea Party" in protest of President Barack Obama's plans to help distressed American homeowners. Santelli’s call blazed through the blogosphere, greased along by a number of FreedomWorks-funded blogs, propelling him to the status of a 21st century Samuel Adams — a leader and symbol of disenfranchised Americans suffering under big-government oppression and mismanagement of the economy.

That same day, a nationwide "Tea Party" protest movement mysteriously materialized on the Internet. A whole ring of Web sites came online within hours of Santelli's rant, like sleeper-cell blogs waiting for the trigger to act, all claiming to have been inspired by Santelli's allegedly impromptu outburst.

At first glance, the sites appeared to be unconnected and unplanned. But many were suspiciously well designed and strangely on point with their "nonpartisan" and "grassroots" statements. It was as if all of them were reading from the same script. The Web sites heavily linked to each other, spreading their mission with help of Facebook and Twitter feeds. FreedomWorks, as if picking up on rumblings coming from the depths of the conservative netroots, linked to them, too.

But as our investigation showed, the key players in the Tea Party Web ring were no amateurs, but rather experienced Republican operatives with deep connections to FreedomWorks and other fake grassroots campaigns pushing pro-big-business interests.

FreedomWorks has a long history of using such campaigns. Founded in 2004 by **** Armey, the former Republican House Majority Leader and lobbyist from Texas, and publishing titan Steve Forbes, FreedomWorks represented the consolidation and rebranding of two older think tanks, Citizens for a Sound Economy, founded by the notorious Koch family, and Empower America, a powerful lobbying firm that has battled health care reform and minimum-wage bills while championing deregulation, corporate tax cuts and whatever else their corporate clients desire.

The idea was to bring these two dinosaurs into the Internet age so they could compete with the newly created MoveOn.org.

FreedomWorks got caught AstroTurfing their sponsors' agendas almost as soon as the group was formed. In 2005, when President George W. Bush was trying to get the public to go along with his plans for handing Social Security over to Wall Street bankers, the New York Times revealed that a "regular single mom" paraded by Bush's White House in its PR campaign was in fact FreedomWorks' Iowa state director.

Last year, the the Wall Street Journal exposed FreedomWorks’ role in sponsoring AngryRenter.com, a site designed to imitate an amateur blog with a plutocrat’s agenda: to shoot down a $300 billion bill meant to help distressed American homeowners. Freedomworks and its clients understood that if the superwealthy Republicans who opposed the bill were fronting the campaign, it wouldn’t fly with regular Americans buckling under the housing crisis, so they set up Angryrenter.com to give the impression that millions of ordinary Americans were the ones opposing it. The bill passed, but AngryRenter.com served as a warm-up exercise for the Tea Party movement.

Freedomworks and its clients understood that if the super-wealthy Republicans who opposed the bill were fronting the campaign, it wouldn't fly with regular Americans buckling under the housing crisis, so they set up Angryrenter.com to give the impression that millions of ordinary Americans were the ones opposing it. The bill passed, but AngryRenter.com served as a warm-up exercise for the Tea Party movement.

more,,,,,

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/136688/fake_teabaggers_are_anti-spend%2C_anti-government%3A_real_populists_want_to_stop_banks_from_plundering_america/

So now they say they're upset about:

Deficit spending: been going on for 8 years. Why the fuss now?

Higher taxes: 95% of are getting a tax CUT. You have probably seen the new lower rates reflected in your withholding, giving you more money in your pocket NOW.

So.....

but are not wittlessly just following the republican agenda to smear obama

you are dancing on both sides of the issue now

i must say fanta you learned something for past discussions yep i think so




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it is not whether you agree or disagree it is that the info gets out

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You know this all kills me the first tea party was back in Feb. there was only a few hundred people there. And local people from around the country were the organizers of these events. Is it not ok for news chanels if they want to tell the news to let them know of these such events?

This isnt about right wing left wing or whatever wing you are or claim to be or claim not to be. No matter what political views you follow you were welcome to join.

Its about people standing up for themselves and what they believe in. and that is wastefull spending and getting the crap taxed out of us. Yes its happened in the last 8 years wastefull spending ,but its still going on in this admin also at a more alarming rate. Those of us that are in our 20's and 30's will owe over $100,000 and thats just from the interst accrued from whats been put into law by congress and President Obama.

I'm sick of all the back and forth bantering going on in here and its just as bad if not worse in congress. What ever happened to FOR THE PEOPLE? nothing will everget accomplished if one side allways claims we won so this is how its gonna be. Their like little kids playing on the playground.

Back to the tea parties. Here in Madison, WI at our state capitol one was held and people from all political views were there people from all races and religions were there. They werent just protesting wastefull spending and tax increase by our fed gov but also what our Gov is trying to push through on top of what the fed gov is doing.

I find it funny how two way different stories are told my the different media around. The left thinks its an uprising by the right and they couldnt be more wrong. Its an uprising by AMERICANS. And the left fears its the right, the right has no clue what to do but sit on their thumbs and watch the left do what it wants.The only thing I have to say is both sides nned to watch out because the one thing that might come out of the tea parties is a third party.


The scariest thing is this country is going to He!! in a handbasket and all our so called representatives can do is bicker over bull **** and get nothing done!


What ever happened to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-9_fDEsv-Q

And on that note I hope you all have a good day
And may God bless you all

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