Analysis: Is the tea party brewing a revolution? ["Lot of noise, no muscle." -GOP hack]

They heeded a pamphleteer's call for "manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny" — the 60 American colonists who stormed Griffin's Wharf and emptied 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. And with that, a revolution brewed.

Now, more than two centuries later, come the angry throngs of the modern-day tea party. They've gotten the nation's attention. Can they foment their own revolution?

The Associated Press reviewed tea party operations in almost every state, interviewing dozens of local organizers as well as Democratic and Republican strategists to produce a portrait of the movement to date — and its prospects for tilting this November's elections.

Though amplifying widespread voter anger at the political establishment, the tea party movement is unlikely to dramatically affect the congressional elections — unless their local affiliates forge alliances with Republican candidates. And how likely is that? Republican operatives look at the possibility of GOP-tea party collaborations with some anxiety, and many tea party activists frankly don't want to see them.

Born of protest and populism, the United States is a nation of movements — people galvanized by causes, summoned with the latest technologies. But none of those causes — not abolition, women's votes, civil rights or anti-war — was certain to succeed in its first fateful steps, or even to leave a lasting mark.(continued)

To each his own, but if we keep voting for RINOs we will keep getting them. All the Rino lovers know that we will continue to vote for them, so they will never support a conservative. I won’t do it again. The Mitt and Huck lovers, will have to try to win without my vote. The Rinos just kill the country slower, they still kill it just as dead...

[While I was there, one branch in California was “caught” falsifying APPRAISALS!!]

There were Appraisers in the Argent (Ameriquest's wholesale division) Database who'd been caught, flagged, and "suspended"... multiple times.

Argent also had a process of appraisal checks intended to flag an application for "corporate review"; but loan applications were consistently APPROVED before the results of that review were ever returned. It was a facade. I know because I wrote the webservice responsible for communicating with the outside auditor - and I observed how the results were and WERE NOT being used.

The icing on the fraudulent cake was the Empower(tm)ing of FICO scores on "Liar Loans" to be completely, DELIBERATELY, fabricated.

Result? AAA ratings based upon fudged appraisals / phony FICO scores.... and....

Bubbletime with Benny and Barry

[but the investors and the market with that one!!]

Gaming the system.... and why not - when the rules of the Republic had been reduced to this:

"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/

So far the GOP has
(a) NO PLAN
(b) NO PROGRAM
(c) NO LEADER
(d) NO CLUE

All the GOP seems to want at the moment is to get its numbers back up so they can get back to business as usual. We need more than that for 2011 and 2012.

IMHO, we need General Petraeus or equivalent to start running now to coalesce an Obama-Cleanup Program. It has to be designed and very clearly spelled out. Everyone is very cocksure about a Republican takeover in 2010. It is not a done deal yet, and the deck is going to be stacked with massive voter fraud. Only a dynamic, clearly stated Obama-Cleanup Program is going to turn out the numbers the GOP needs to offset its minority party status.

Again IMHO, we are in just as much trouble as Chile was under Allende. The difference is that we can get out of it without a military coup to balance the anti-constitutional coupthat Obama has successfully engineered. Where's the Plan, Stan?

Again IMHO, if half the bandwidth on this site went toward removing Steele from the RNC, as toward "proving BHO ineligible," the country might be better off. We need a killer in that post, not a namby-pamby Affirmative Action Anus who doesn't appear to know what side his ....and our....bread is buttered on.

I especially love the "senior republican consultant" who says the teaparty movement makes a "lot of noise" but nas "no muscle"; but insists on remaining anonymous so he won't alienate them!

With a party full of chickenshitz like this guy, with Steele and a bunch of a-holes going to a S&M club with our donations, no wonder a turd world alien dirtbag got elected president. Basically the Usurper ran unopposed.

I especially love the "senior republican consultant" who says the teaparty movement makes a "lot of noise" but nas "no muscle"; but insists on remaining anonymous so he won't alienate them!

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