And even as all these people buy into the republican line that tax cuts must be extended to the wealthy, the rich laugh all the way to the bank as the rest suffer. If these people support policies that clearly hurt them can we really expect them to be able to tell the difference between a candidate who will go to work for them and one who will try to exploit them? As my favorite political commentator, Bill Maher once said, "you can never underestimate the stupidity of the American people".
The gop infused, media enabled, Tea Party candidates prevailed last night.
The only question is who they hate the the most: Obama? Muslims? Blacks? Gays? Hispanics? Liberals? "Big Guvment" and its bureaucrats? Teachers? Scientists? The Republican Establishment? All of the above?
We are now far outside the bounds of any political movement this country has seen since the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850's or the apex of the Klu Klux Klan's influence and power in the 1920's. Those groups arose by appealing to racist and anti-immigrant sentiments and they are the only comparable movements to which I can compare the modern day Tea Party movement.
For at its heart, the Tea Party feeds on the anger and blind rage of its self-identified members against anyone who is not like them. The beliefs they hold are often inconsistent and contradictory, but the hate they share for "people not like me" is what binds the movement together.
Stop calling them Tea Party candidates and call them what they are. Republicans.
It's time we changed the meme and change how we talk about the teabaggers. There is no "Tea Party" in the USA, not as a political party. There may be a bunch of clubs scattered around the country, groups of like-minded mostly-white, mostly-bigoted, super conservative no-brainers that don't see the stupidity and hypocrisy in most of what they do & say.
But there is no "Tea Party" on any ticket in this country this year.
There is only the Republican Party for these people. And it's high time we quit calling them Tea Partiers or teabaggers and call them what they are:
REPUBLICANS.
We will reap what we have sown;
Republicans are still poised to have an exceptionally good election cycle, and many of the lunatic candidates who've won primaries without the party's backing are very likely to win anyway.
But stepping back, even with the GOP's expected gains in mind, Republicans' carefully-executed strategy will leave them with (a) fewer wins than they would have had; (b) a smaller, more extreme party; (c) a base that's been taught to reject any and all compromises; and (d) a party incapable of governing effectively.
What enviro said;
I woke up all cheery about O'Donnell winning in Delaware and the R's chances of taking the Senate that much smaller . . . but then I see something like this and think of what it means when a tea party candidate can create momentum like she did and I feel sick instead. I want to believe that the people who put this together are the hard core, and some of the tea party voters are just protest-voting and don't necessarily buy into this . . . but I really don't know.
What color is the Terra Lert?
This post is dedicated to Denise McNair, Carol Robinson, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Wesley also known as The Birmingham Four.
A Blues for the Birmingham Four
By Amin Sharif
They say the Devil walks the land
way down in Birmingham.
And when a black child
goes to sleep,
they dream of hell’s hounds
at their small brown feet –
no fairy land will they ever
greet – way down in Birmingham.
And in each poor cabin found
down the way,
black men sweat and black women pray
that a blind white vengeance does not
take their soul away –
way down in Birmingham.
For in the night beneath the stars –
the rope, the gun, the burning fire,
the pungent smell of roasting flesh
will this Devil never rest – way down
in Birmingham?
Now in the church four come to pray
but these young souls are marked to stay
‘til they wake on Judgment Day
way down in Birmingham.
Broken bodies! A tattered dress!
The fires of hell! A demon fest!
Yes, Lucifer is at his best – way down
in Birmingham!
As the blue black smoke begins to fade,
black heads have bowed and they
have prayed for heaven’s vengeance
to be displayed – way down in Birmingham.
But still black children dream
of Dragon’s Grand,
hell hounds' teeth, the bogey man –
and with pounding hearts they lay awake
way down in Birmingham!
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