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We have all seen the Tea Party rallies all of them complete with friendly signs and nice people. Equipped with teabag earring this man is either here to skewer Democrats, or do their gardening for them.
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Tea Party at the Capitol! Bring your Friends, Stuffed Animals, and Threatening Signs
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There is honestly too much going on in the world of politics for any one person to follow (At least without getting a massive migraine).
So equipped with pain killers and a stack of cold compresses, we at USDemocrazy have set out to provide highlights from the wonderful world of partisan politics.
On Thursday, thousands of angry protesters descended on our nations Capitol. …read more.
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That’s right President George H. W. Bush, the father of our previous President, has invited current President to speak at The Bush Presidential Library located at Texas A&M University.
Not only that, but good ole H. W. has asked, in an open letter, that the Texas A&M students act as good hosts. President Bush points out that Obama is coming to campus to speak about community service
not about politics.
This was in response to a planned tea party protest being organized
to make sure Obama gets a very clear TEXAS SIZED MESSAGE to stop the liberal assault on our country.
US Democrazy is glad to see that despite the shrill political divide in much of the country today, there are some Republicans and Democrats longing to partake in civil discussion rather than civil war!
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We at USDemocrazy keep hearing a lot lately about Tea Parties in the news.
We picture scenes of polite grandmas sipping tea from their china cups. When we saw pictures in the news of these “Tea Parties” (see below) didn’t see much tea or grandmas.
So, after a little research we discovered these “Tea Parties” are not-so-polite political rallies involving activists unhappy with Obama’s presidency!
Tea Party participants are particularly peeved with what they believe to be wasteful spending on the part of the President and his administration.
With regards to the Tea Party movement one blogger wrote in a recent post…
“Last weekend may well have marked the zenith of the national Tea Party movement, as founders and followers rallied in Washington, D.C., to rail not only against pending health care legislation but out-of-control spending.”
Although most Republicans aren’t big fans of Obama, they aren’t all Tea Party activists either.
In fact, many Republicans are working to separate themselves from Tea Party radicals. Tea Party activists claim to be bipartisan…
…No one, including Republicans believe this at all.
So the next time you are invited to a Tea party check the invitation closely make sure to bring a bull horn.
When we at USDemocrazy heard about a upsurge in teaparties around the nation, we were delighted!
We love tea! Lipton tea, green tea… oh, hold on. Not that kind of tea party you say? Oh dear…
Well, apparently these tea parties are protest parties. Angry citizens lined up on good ol’ tax day, coast to coast, to convey their dismay over the Obama administration’s stimulus plan. The NYT tells us here, that…
On a day when the government deadline for filing income tax returns offered some Americans a timely excuse to vent their frustrations over the sagging economy and ride a metaphor two centuries in the making, 773 Tax Day tea parties were scheduled in cities from Boston to Washington, East Hampton, N.Y., to Yakima, Wash., to protest government spending — namely the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package and $3 trillion budget.
Uh, huh. So… a bunch of people dressing up in 18th century garb talking about the politics of today. Sounds kind of curious. So what are the pundits making of the Tax Day Protests?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds at the WSJ says here that the impact is somewhat unique, as it involves “ordinary folks.”
So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing “flash crowds” — groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month.
Speaking of pillow fights… Paul Krugman at the NYT takes a bash at the Republican Party, saying here that…
Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people. Better, perhaps, to focus on the real policy debates, which are all among Democrats.
Even though the protests are pretty wide spread, The Caucus politics blog at the NYT says that Obama has nothing to fear from the tee’d-off Tea Bag demonstrations. In fact, the Caucus says Tea Parties? Obama Passes the Sugar.
This is all pretty crazy stuff. We here at USDemocrazy want to know what YOU think about all this. In the mean time, we’ve put the kettle on for some Earl Gray…
