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/...fice/#comments

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]

Originally Posted by Fr8monkey

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.

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]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

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.

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]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

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]

Originally Posted by August

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.

Oh, COME ON!!!!

[August]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

Oh, COME ON!!!!

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]

Originally Posted by August

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.

Originally Posted by August

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]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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.