Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity.....(We're a bunch of insane racists ??)

LA Times ^ | April 15, 2009 | Marc Cooper

[IrishMike]

What, exactly, are the protesters protesting? The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?

The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here's a simpler recipe:

Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.

I can recall only a few outbreaks of such collective insanity as these tea parties in recent years. There was that time in the mid-1990s when a $19.95 video proving Bill Clinton was some sort of serial killer went viral. And then, a few years back, there was that chilling, televised midnight seance from the floor of the U.S. Congress aimed at reviving the long-brain-dead Terri Schiavo.

And now this. Whip out your Lipton and don your tinfoil hat and join the protest against ... against ... against what exactly?

The original Boston Tea Party was caffeinated by a very simple injustice: American Colonists refused to be taxed by a government that lacked any popular representation. That was remedied a few years later in a heroic struggle that stretched from Concord to Yorktown.

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Then again, this rash of tea parties is being organized not only by the pseudo-journalists at Fox News (with Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity actively stoking the flames) but also by FreedomWorks, a conservative lobbying outfit headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. I suppose it was Armey's constitutional if morally dubious privilege to have built an entire political career out of defending the wealthy.

[IrishMike]

Now the LibTard drive by MSM spin masters are completely out of their minds

[cripplecreek]

OK fine but I’m an insane racist with rights.

[agere_contra]

the protest against ... against ... against what exactly?

Grotesque government spending that has pauperized people who have yet to be born.

[tgusa]

Another reason the LAT is going under. Good luck collecting a paycheck, doofus.

[benjibrowder]

If that’s what they think we’re protesting, they’re obviously clueless. We’re protesting the massive lack of fiscal responsibility of our government. They seem to think spending trillions of dollars we don’t have is a good thing.

[Loyal Buckeye]

The writer is more than a little disingenuous. The tea parties are not anti-Obama per se, even though he is a big part of the problem.

[ltc8k6]

His taxes are going up whether he realizes it or not...

He will see the light, it’s just a matter of time.

[thecabal]

They are now furiously trying to win the war of defining the Tea Parties. Notice that all of these hit pieces ignore the fact that these are pro-freedom, anti-spending...not anti-tax. They also throw out the usual scare words: “racist”, “tinfoil”, “black helicopter”, “insane”.

[bill1952]

What, exactly, are the protesters protesting? The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?

Among other things, yes.
The primary item is of course the sale of this country's immediate future via multi-trillion dollar bond sales, mainly to the Chinese, that is absolutely going to result in confiscatory tax rates plus inflation and the devaluing of the dollar.

Mega TRILLION dollar deficits are something that the LA times would be frothing at the mouth about id Bush did it.

[BunnySlippers]

Krugman even did an Op Ed this week bashing tea parties. We must be doing something right ...

[kinsman redeemer]

What the HELL (!) is this charge of racism?

I am protesting the government's out-of-control spending.

I am protesting the leftist, marxist TAKEOVER of this country.

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TEA PARTY - TODAY -- GO!

[paulycy]

[thecabal]

Marc Cooper is director of Annenberg Digital News at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC

Another steaming pile of propaganda from the usual suspects.

[IrishMike]

Paul Begala the democrap media whore was on Imus this morning with the Rahmbo line that the protesters were insane, that paying taxes is a small price to pay for the glories that America provides.

[tobyhill]

The MSM can't quite figure out why the protest. It's not just the 3% tax rate increase on “Millionaires”, it's the Government continuing to spend trillions more than it takes in. The only reason Obama won't make tax cuts permanent is because he plans on raising taxes for all those who pay. Obama will let the Bush tax cuts expire which will raise taxes by an average of 4% then he will propose a “tax cut” an average of 2% and conveniently forget to mention that taxes are still higher under him.

[bgill]

Here’s hoping there are lots of millionaires so that 3% will wipe away the national debt sometime within my lifetime.

[thecabal]

Notice how the author of every anti-Tea Party article in the recent tsunami has been knocking down the same fake strawmen?

[thecabal]

It's a willfully perpetuated fallacy that Obama instituted tax cuts. He handed out a piddling tax credit, that expires after two stinking years.

[sirchtruth]

The liberals know darn well how dangerous these tea-parties are to their stupid insane, detrimental causes. The tea-parties are about much more than just taxes they are to inspire people to understand the idea of America is still very strong for EVERY American. Every American has a voice, not just liberal weenies!

[Jeff Gordon]

The tea parties are not about Tax. They are not about Obama. They are about big government and big government spending. We can not let the progressives redefine these tea parties to meet their own fears and prejudices.