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President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Teabaggers'
ABC News ^ | Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 05/04/2010 8:26:16 AM PDT by kristinn

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”

Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.

On Saturday, the president delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan where he said one way “to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate … But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.”

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To: kristinn

Obama is an idiot.


81 posted on 05/04/2010 10:44:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: a fool in paradise

well, that may be true. But I don’t think you would seriously claim that if Bush had served a 3rd term or if McCain had won that we’d be seeing anything like the current Tea Party movement, even if their policies had remained roughly similar.


82 posted on 05/04/2010 11:10:57 AM PDT by jeltz25
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To: kristinn

Lying PUNK!


83 posted on 05/04/2010 11:11:46 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: jeltz25

McCain had little support in 2008 from Conservatives. Some came on board when Sarah Palin was named VP but too many sat the election out altogether which is why Obama won.

Doesn’t hold that “they wouldn’t have voiced opposition”. They did and America lost.


84 posted on 05/04/2010 11:13:45 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Sorry. But Harriet Miers had nothing to do with the Tea Party movement.

You're 'revising' history there, fip.

85 posted on 05/04/2010 11:14:44 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Kaslin

She was a Supreme Court Justice nominee. Never said she WAS a justice.

And I want the GOP to vote NO on any Obama SC nominee who is to the Left of Meirs. It wouldn’t be “partisan”, it would be CONSISTENCY with GOP stance on the SC.


86 posted on 05/04/2010 11:16:13 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: ohioWfan

“Tea Party” by name perhaps but millions of people in a backlash for sure.


87 posted on 05/04/2010 11:16:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: jeltz25
You're absolutely correct. The leftist's cry is "why didn't you protest Bush?" The answer is.....we knew he wasn't trying to deliberately destroy the country and its economy and turn us into a communist state. He was and is a patriot who did what he thought best for the country he loved.

Any comparison of what Bush did, even exaggerated, and what Obama began doing the moment he took office, is foolish.

88 posted on 05/04/2010 11:17:42 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: kristinn

We complain about bad government, the left immediately thinks of pornography.

A clear demarcation of ideologies.


89 posted on 05/04/2010 11:18:29 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: kristinn

Dear Mr. President, is Larry Sinclair a “tea-bagger?”


90 posted on 05/04/2010 11:18:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (70 mph shouldn't be a speed limit; it shoud be a mandate!)
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To: kristinn

They sure inject their faith into the public square a lot.


91 posted on 05/04/2010 11:19:05 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: a fool in paradise
The Tea Party movement began because of the excesses and arrogance of Barack Obama.

You're falsely comparing frustration with spending and fierce anger with someone who is doing his best to destroy the country deliberately.

The Tea Party movement began with Obama. Some Bush haters have joined it, but they are in the minority.

And if it is taken over by Bush haters, it will become as impotent as they are politically.

FOCUS.

92 posted on 05/04/2010 11:20:26 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: kristinn

He (0bama) is a vile human being.


93 posted on 05/04/2010 11:32:29 AM PDT by happygrl (Continuing to predict that 0bama will resign)
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To: ohioWfan

I don’t lump all conservative rallies/protests into this “back history” (as in “helped create”) and as evidence I offer up the 2000 recount (it was important protest/counter protest but it took the debate to the streets as the Democrats tried to manufacture enough votes to take the White House as Al Franken would later take a Senate seat).

These uprising can be found going back to the way the Clintons tried to ram through Hillarycare in the 1993 in closed-door sessions. (largely the same legislation we know as Obamacare)

Peter Jennings said in 1994 that “America threw a temper tantrum” in giving the GOP a majority in both the House and Senate.

Eventually the public grew to dislike the Republican Congress as well.

These backlashes against the government are not so much “support for a piece of legislation” as they are an opposition to proposed changes and spending.

Obamacare was passed through purchased votes, no bipartisan support, no public support through debate. Pork. Nothing but set asides to get enough Democrats in Congress to support it.

Americans opposed immigration reform in 2006 and continue to oppose all of this talk of “amnesty” for 20 million people in 2010.

In California Democrats and Republican voters voted in support of Prop 8 to prevent the redefining of marriage.

These are BIPARTISAN (or non-partisan) voters standing up to “change”.

Republicans and Democrats opposes Bush policy on a number of matters, but finding where they are in AGREEMENT for why they oppose a stance (like the Dubai ports deal) are a trait shared with the “tea party”.

People HAVE taken to the streets.

The movement does not exist without the “silent majority” conservatives calling Washington DC and holding rallies (but they are not the only ones speaking up). It is for this that I point them out and past occasions they also rose up. Obama is claiming “they are newly created” (as a respone to The One). He isn’t that big. Kerry or Edwards or Kennedy would have faced similar opposition.


94 posted on 05/04/2010 11:45:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: Tzimisce
He can call me a “Tea Bagger”, but I can’t call him anything?

It seems some animals are more equal than others...

It's like the pot calling the kettle "black" with him.

Can I say that ?

For one who disparages "incivility", he sure spreads a lot of it around himself.

95 posted on 05/04/2010 11:47:20 AM PDT by happygrl (Continuing to predict that 0bama will resign)
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To: a fool in paradise
As a conservative Republican who "grew to dislike the Republican Congress" and has been part of the Tea Party movement from its beginning, I am familiar with the information you have given here. My husband and I were in DC on 9-12, and then with the massive protest against the healthcare legislation right before it passed.

(Not sure how Miers fits into this history, though, which was the point I was objecting to in your first post).

Thanks for the post, though. Others may not understand what the Tea Party movement is about, and sans the stuff in your first post, what you have written is accurate.

96 posted on 05/04/2010 12:31:40 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: a fool in paradise

btw, aside from doing something extremely important, it is FUN to be protesting alongside fellow conservative patriots, isn’t it?


97 posted on 05/04/2010 12:32:31 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: ohioWfan

I may have not put it into the best of terms. Yes this is different and more pronounced, but when Obama claims “nothing” like it before, he’s a little short sighted (or dishonest since EVERYTHING is always about him).

The public has HELD these views, the progressives pushing this agenda rarely move towards it so directly and forcefully.

He claims to be a moderate and THAT is what causes the backlash to his policies, Americans are not THAT dumb when push comes to shove.

An honest media would bring this debate out into the open (and actually undercut the activism of some in the tea party in doing so).


98 posted on 05/04/2010 12:35:01 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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To: kristinn; pandoraou812
The President is a childish, race-baiting a-hole. But the biggest reason he has strong opposition are his clearly Marxist-socialist policies dragging this country down into economic despair and moral malaise.

0bama the "Uniter" ...

Obama To Supporters: "Argue With Friend and Neighbors Get In Their Face!"

Obama Mocks Fox, "Teabaggers"

Obama Mocks Republican 'Armageddon' Rhetoric (Again)

Obama: Police Acted 'stupidly' in Scholar Arrest

Obama On GOP Running On Repeal: 'Go For It'

NRA: Barack Obama - "bitter gun owners"

A President who mocks and taunts Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, is troublesome.

99 posted on 05/04/2010 12:58:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
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To: a fool in paradise
An honest media..........even one voice in the MSM.........would have prevented this radical thug from ever being elected.

One lone voice crying out the truth in a slobbering media environment might have saved this country from this disastrous administration.

But you're right. An honest media, reporting the truth about the administration, would negate some of the need we now have to stand in the streets to try to save the country we love.

But instead, they are calling us dirty names, lying and saying we're violent, calling us racists and making us even angrier and more determined to fight the radicalism and Marxism of Obama.

They aren't going to win this. Truth is on our side. This regime will fall, and the slobbering media will come crashing down with it.

100 posted on 05/04/2010 1:28:09 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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