Tea-Baggers getting lazy

[Fr8monkey]

A Christian civil liberties organization on Thursday asked centrist Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) to move his district office to a location more favorable to protesters.
The Rutherford Institute, which was founded by conservative constitutional lawyer John W. Whitehead, penned a letter to the freshman Perriello citing the concerns of a local tea party group and the University of Virginia College Republicans that the location of his Charlottesville office interferes with their right to protest there.
“Unfortunately, it is your choice of office location that has hindered the ability of citizens to effectively communicate concerning issues of the utmost importance to you, Congress and the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” wrote Whitehead.
“The First Amendment clearly guarantees individuals the right to speak out publicly and address their government representatives on the important issues of the day,” Whitehead added.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/11/tea-partiers-move-office/#comments

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[Tribesman]

So these people can communicate with their representave by letter, on the phone, in person, by fax or e-mail, they have even communicated by having demonstrations inside his office....yet they can't communicate because he doesn't own the parking lot near his office??????????
So its a protest for small government and against government waste that wants the all small bits of government to waste money renting or buying open space near their offices so idiots can wave a banner.

[SteamWake]

LOL whatever I'm sure there is more to this story but its still funny.

[August]

I find the use of the term "tea bagger" to be insulting, rude and uncalled for.

First off the movement is called "tea parties", so named after the Boston Tea Party of revolutionary times, not the rude sexual slang it's opponents apply to it.

Secondly while there may be some Christians also protesting the horrible amounts of taxpayer money the government is throwing away, the movement is by no means a Christian movement and shouldn't be seen as such.

[Fr8monkey]

I think it's funny... and appropriate!

Anyway, liberal democrats have had to put up with worse name calling.

[August]

I think it's funny... and appropriate!

So if I thought that calling you say a popular slang name for a human penis was funny and appropriate you'd agree?

Anyway, liberal democrats have had to put up with worse name calling.But that's irrelevant. Tea party supporters come from all points of the political spectrum. All that they share is a healthy dislike for wasteful government spending.

[Tribesman]

I find the use of the term "tea bagger" to be insulting, rude and uncalled for.

First off the movement is called "tea parties", so named after the Boston Tea Party of revolutionary times, not the rude sexual slang it's opponents apply to it.
Tough, If they didn't like the word they shouldn't have introduced it to their movement.
Don't try and rewrite events , they themseves were calling it teabagging and inviting people to teabag politicians.
Just go to Fox broadcasts before they decided it was insulting. Listen to them talking about teabagging , watch their links to and interviews with people behind the tea parties, see them talk of teabagging.
You can go all the way to teaparties.com and hear the founder of the "grassroots" movement inviting people to a teabagging.
So it isn't uncalled for, their own choice of words is an open invitation to ridicule.
They should have chosen their words more thoughtfully.

[August]

They should have chosen their words more thoughtfully.

I don't know or care where you get your information from but "they" didn't choose that name. It originated on CNN during an on the air conversation between Anderson Cooper and David Gergen. Then it was continued on MSNBC by Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox.

In any case I'm sure you'll agree it is rude and uncalled for.

[SteamWake]

As August said before the original and still the 'real' name is the Tea Party movement.

It was bastardized into Tea Baggers to put a knock on them right on inital impression.

But meh its much adoo over nothing really.

As to the story while I find it amusing I can find you hundreds of other storys where Tea Party members went to great effort, drove great distances, at their own expense and sacrifice in order to protest.

But as Reid said "Yes we hear them but it will make little difference". That is what is really irritating.

[Tribesman]

I don't know or care where you get your information from but "they" didn't choose that name.
Well you should if you want to contest it.
It originated on CNN during an on the air conversation between Anderson Cooper and David Gergen. Then it was continued on MSNBC by Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox.

Oh dear, you are out on that vein by almost exactly a month.
So take the date of the Cooper piece take away a calender month and looky at what Fox was broadcasting and looky at Chad Peace of Teaparty.com.
Though you could go back a month before that too to get some even earlier coverage which puts your "origins on CNN" even further into the realms of fantasy.
In any case I'm sure you'll agree it is rude and uncalled for.
No I don't agree, like I said if they were worried about being ridiculed then they should have chosen better words.
If someone wanted a group pushing global warming called the Climate Research Associated Publishers then they shouldn't be surprisred when someone says they write crap.

BTW August if you do find the references from two months before you said they originated you will notice the teabagging posters were printed from the FreeRepublic.com website

[August]

But as Reid said "Yes we hear them but it will make little difference". That is what is really irritating.

I'll thinking it will make quite a difference come next election.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

But that's irrelevant. Tea party supporters come from all points of the political spectrum. All that they share is a healthy dislike for wasteful government spending.

http://www.arturasserver.com/funny/ROFL.jpg

Oh, COME ON!!!! :har::haha::har:

[August]

Oh, COME ON!!!! :har::haha::har:

Dude, your party has spent more far more of the publics money than any other previous US government. You have a record deficit. You're printing money to cover increasing shortfalls.

Now maybe it's just me but I don't think there is anything funny at all about what that's eventually going to cost this country.

[mookiemookie]

Tea party supporters come from all points of the political spectrum. All that they share is a healthy dislike for wasteful government spending.

I'd love to see a poll of Teabaggers and how they identify on the political spectrum. I bet the conservatives would dwarf the liberals.

Dude, your party has spent more far more of the publics money than any other previous US government. You have a record deficit. You're printing money to cover increasing shortfalls.


And who tripled the deficit? Reagan. Who doubled it again? Bush II. Where were they then?

[August]

I'd love to see a poll of Teabaggers and how they identify on the political spectrum. I bet the conservatives would dwarf the liberals.

Just remember that there are plenty of fiscally conservative Democrats out there and I think they'll be making their presence felt come election day.

And who tripled the deficit? Reagan. Who doubled it again? Bush II. Where were they then?

You'd have a point except that the deficit is created by Congress, not the President. Now guess which party controlled Congress during the Reagan years? That's right, the Democrats. As for Bush II, yeah, that was the Republicans and the American voters certainly made them pay for it in the last two elections.

[IanC]

Excuse me if I'm wrong here (I'm just a simple french canadian) but of course the current U.S. administration would be spending the most in history. Isn't there inflation? Prices for 'things' cost more year after year, also the current administration had to bail out banks (or else the economy crashes), and it inherited two wars! So of course it would be spending the most in history.
Pointing this out as some kind of negative point, is a serious partisan twisting of the truth.

Edit: Of course, I'll be the first to admit I may be wrong. I'm not an economists.

[GoldenRivet]

I find the use of the term "tea bagger" to be insulting, rude and uncalled for.

Agreed, quite offensive.:nope:

[Dowly]

Ow for crying out loud. As if "tea party group" is any less gay. :haha:

[Tribesman]

As if "tea party group" is any less gay
There is no suggestion that the mad hatter was gay, the march hare may have been mad but he was full of usual leporidea lusts for mating even in april so he asn't gay, the dormouse may have been slightly gay which perhaps explains why they wanted to put him in the teapot as a closet was not available. But a slight possible link to an as yet unproven allegation about one small mammal is not enough to write off a whole group as gay.
So please avoid the link between tea parties and gayness.
Just call them mad instead, especially as the opening post demonstrates how dormousecrazy they are with their request for local government to spend more so they can protest about government spending.
Actually the dormouse was clearly a very conservative wingnut. When he refers to the bat and questions its position in the world he is obviously talking about liberal moonbats.

[SteamWake]

There is no suggestion that the mad hatter was gay, the march hare may have been mad but he was full of usual leporidea lusts for mating even in april so he asn't gay, the dormouse may have been slightly gay which perhaps explains why they wanted to put him in the teapot as a closet was not available. But a slight possible link to an as yet unproven allegation about one small mammal is not enough to write off a whole group as gay.
So please avoid the link between tea parties and gayness.
Just call them mad instead, especially as the opening post demonstrates how dormousecrazy they are with their request for local government to spend more so they can protest about government spending.
Actually the dormouse was clearly a very conservative wingnut. When he refers to the bat and questions its position in the world he is obviously talking about liberal moonbats.

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasim but yes of course thats exactly the tea party were talking about. :doh:

The gay inference comes from the phrase 'tea bagging' but I dont want to go into details. I'm sure you can fill in the sordid blanks by yourself.

[GoldenRivet]

when it comes to politics in America choosing a party is a simple thing.

Do you want to be screwed over by a Lawyer (D)

or

Do you want to be screwed over by a business man (R)

[SteamWake]

I'd love to see a poll of Teabaggers and how they identify on the political spectrum.

Almost unaninmosly center right. No I dont have the links but I remember that a survey was taken and that was the results.

[NeonSamurai]

Funny I thought there were lots of lawyers on the republican side and lots of businessmen on the democrat side.

Personally see it as do you want to get screwed over by <censored> A or <censored> B. They both pull the same crap once they get voted in, they just use different rhetoric to appeal to certain target groups.

[Snestorm]

Funny I thought there were lots of lawyers on the republican side and lots of businessmen on the democrat side.

Personally see it as do you want to get screwed over by <censored> A or <censored> B. They both pull the same crap once they get voted in, they just use different rhetoric to appeal to certain target groups.

Yes, the illusionary "2" party system.
The Republicrats.

[GoldenRivet]

Funny I thought there were lots of lawyers on the republican side and lots of businessmen on the democrat side.

Personally see it as do you want to get screwed over by <censored> A or <censored> B. They both pull the same crap once they get voted in, they just use different rhetoric to appeal to certain target groups.

There ya go... the point i was trying to make exactly.

[Aramike]

Agreed, quite offensive.:nope:Heh, the way I see it, I have too much to worry about in life than to be concerned with the crass title some ideologue gives to another group.

Besides, the term says far more about the people using it than the people its describing, doesn't it?

[IanC]

Absolutely, let them make fun of our tea parties. I find it childish, crass, full of hate and deeply insulting.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish painting the mustache on my 'Obama is worse than Hitler' sign. :DL

[NeonSamurai]

As I recall though they were the ones that coined that name for themselves when they started mailing tea bags to politicians, and called it a tea bagging campaign. They even liked the name till they found out the other meaning behind it, then they quickly distanced themselves from it.

[SteamWake]

As I recall though they were the ones that coined that name for themselves when they started mailing tea bags to politicians, and called it a tea bagging campaign. They even liked the name till they found out the other meaning behind it, then they quickly distanced themselves from it.

Yes that would be known as sarcasim and trust me they knew what the phrase meant from day one.

[Tribesman]

As I recall though they were the ones that coined that name for themselves when they started mailing tea bags to politicians, and called it a tea bagging campaignCorrect , they were perfectly happy with that term for months, until lots of people started taking the piss out of it. Though the piss taking started all the way back in February and they had no problem until April when they decided to get upset over a name they had chosen for their own activities.
And now we have people attempting to rewrite history because they have become offended.

trust me they knew what the phrase meant from day one.
Ah you are going down the other approach. So instead of rewriting history ike August did you are saying they chose the name for their actions knowing full well the sexual conotations of the words....in that case who are the people complaining about the words being rude?
Obviously not the teabaggers eh:up:

[August]

Obviously not the teabaggers eh:up:

Yeah well like Aramike says it says a lot more about people like you than it does about them.

[SteamWake]

Well call them tea baggers call them astroturfers call them what you wish but the truth is that it is a grass roots movement which is gathering momentum.

Sure go ahead and impune the source. Fact of the matter is that the story is not fabricated.


The "tea party" movement that gained steam shortly after President Obama took office is seeing a surge in popularity, with a string of candidates and officials willing to take up its cause and a political infrastructure that's starting to mirror that of an actual political party.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/15/tea-party-movement-evolves-political-force/?test=latestnews

Be wary liberals :rock:

[Sailor Steve]

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish painting the mustache on my 'Obama is worse than Hitler' sign. :DL
That was done by anti-Bush liberals many years ago. You have that one backwards.

[August]

That was done by anti-Bush liberals many years ago. You have that one backwards.

Not according to the junior democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse:

Worse, these messages have been delivered with a crudeness and a venom; for example, the President portrayed with a Hitler mustache. That is unprecedented in my experience in government.http://whitehouse.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=68820FB3-27C1-4DA2-BA35-5BAFFFD8D5A0

One wonders what rock he's been living under for the past 9 years...

[AVGWarhawk]

What is tea bagging anyway? :hmmm:



:D:O:

[AVGWarhawk]

http://saysomethingfunny.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/teabag.jpg

[Tribesman]

Sure go ahead and impune the source. Fact of the matter is that the story is not fabricated.

Wasn't Fox caught out faking their coverage of the protests.
Having Hannity talking about the great turnout but showing a different protest because the actual turnout was so poor.

Yeah well like Aramike says it says a lot more about people like you than it does about them.
Considering that you have had to invent "facts" to support your position it speaks volumes about you and your position

[AVGWarhawk]

What is teabagging? :06:

[SteamWake]

What is teabagging? :06:

Sigh ...

It actually comes from multiplayer fps games believe it or not. It has to do with a series of gestures in which one dangles their private parts or at least that region of thier 'toon' in the face of a fallen victum as a sort of victory dance.

Very classy, very immature, very much why I dont play games like WoW.

It also has some further inference in pornographic and homosexual Connotations.

So one can clearly see why some would find this phrase offensive.

[Tribesman]

So one can clearly see why some would find this phrase offensive. Which is why the protesters were rather silly to use it in the first place.
It could be said that their choice of words has come back and slapped them in the face.
They certainly made a balls of it when they printed those posters didn't they.

[AVGWarhawk]

Sigh ...

It actually comes from multiplayer fps games believe it or not. It has to do with a series of gestures in which one dangles their private parts or at least that region of thier 'toon' in the face of a fallen victum as a sort of victory dance.

Very classy, very immature, very much why I dont play games like WoW.

It also has some further inference in pornographic and homosexual Connotations.

So one can clearly see why some would find this phrase offensive.

I love ya SW....I know what teabagg'in is :har:. Just trying to confuse Tribeman:D Help me out.:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

Which is why the protesters were rather silly to use it in the first place.
It could be said that their choice of words has come back and slapped them in the face.
They certainly made a balls of it when they printed those posters didn't they.

'slapped them in the face' What slapped them in the face.....you trying to be funny or something http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q62/avgwarhawk/whistle.gif

[SteamWake]

I always found it a tad abstract. After all when the actual Bostan Tea Party took place there was no such thing as a tea bag. :haha:

[August]

I always found it a tad abstract. After all when the actual Bostan Tea Party took place there was no such thing as a tea bag. :haha:


It was a pretty obscure bit of slang until the Democrats on msnbc and cnn popularized it as a way of ignoring what these people were protesting.

That's ok though. I believe their message will be heard loud and clear next election.

[NeonSamurai]

I always found it a tad abstract. After all when the actual Bostan Tea Party took place there was no such thing as a tea bag. :haha:

Tea bags are easier to mail then loose tea I guess

[SteamWake]

I also find it Ironic that I misspelled Boston seing as I have family living there :haha:

[August]

Every time someone talks about loose tea leaves I think of Donald Pleasence
hunched over his makeshift tea strainer talking about "these wretched leaves" and how "tea without milk is so uncivilized". :DL

[Platapus]

What is teabagging? :06:

in the age of the internet and especially wikipedia you really can't find out by yourself?

[AVGWarhawk]

in the age of the internet and especially wikipedia you really can't find out by yourself?

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