The Tea Party is a group of Patriotic Caucasian Americans, who---after eight years of George the Dubya spending money like there was no tonight, let alone tomorrow, shredding the Constitution, demonizing dissent, fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq, bankrupting the country, eliminating our civil liberties, and lying about it for the 8 years of his (Cheney's) Administration---woke up on January 20, 2009 and realized this was all the fault of Obama.
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See, you Godless Pinkos? Nothing racist here!














(Did you really need the icon? )

teaklanners.

I sure wouldn't vote to hide it.

a comparison of mailing lists/membership lists/donation patterns. I suspect that if you drew a Venn diagram, the Klan circle would be almost completely included in the Tea circle. Maybe not a wholly owned subsidiary, but close.

Deal with it.

We could use more like him.

This is Wrong...your silence concurs. That makes you an accessory to stupidity.

Remember Hilary Rosen who happened to make that serious blunder of noting that Ann Romney did not work. Oh, the insult and the depths she had to go to "redeem" herself.

Congressman Grayson is a Democratic treasure. I believe he is leading the way and taking some heat in the process, so that it will once again be OK, yea appropriate, to call a racist a racist ... stand by it ... and let them sputter on in the aftermath of their own ignorance. Well done.

Durbin did it somewhat, by publicizing the insult hurled directly at the President. No doubt this has happened many times behind the scenes.

PBO and his family have done nothing but uphold the dignity of their position. The 18th Century Party, on the other hand, constantly embarrass themselves and our country, but are too blinded to notice.

the line a little. Well, he was happy enough to take my campaign donation, so it's harder to shut me up than it is to muzzle him. Not that that was my goal, understand. Just feedback. And yes, I totally support the occasion at issue here.

Meanwhile I sincerely invite those who number themselves among the farthest left 'purity party' to reconsider or at least abate some of the flaming arrows shot at those of us you sometimes shrink from in horror. We might be a little more pragmatic and slower than you appreciate, but we're not the enemy. Save your arrows for bigger game. Time enough for infighting after we've finished off the GOP. If you want a big in-house rumble after that, we can find ourselves a quiet parking lot somewhere and go at it. By the time the last rooster crows, however, you might find you have a slightly improved disposition and view.

we settle on a candidate...then it's time to get in line. The time to change the Party is in between elections, not on voting day.

Not for anyone, unless I think they represent me and my interests.

This is where folks lose me -- when they say they're only in favor of things that are in 'their' interest. What about supporting the moral and right thing, even if it has absolutely no impact on YOU? For example, I'm way beyond child-bearing age, but I'm in full support of a woman's right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, for ANY reason. I'm straight but believe in equal rights for all. I already have excellent health insurance, so I don't have a dog in that fight either. But I support EVERYBODY'S right to have what I already have. I'm well fed -- not hungry and not worried about my next meal. I have enough money, right now anyway, to pay my bills. I could list ten other issues we support, as progressives and Democrats, that I, personally, have no vested interest in. As compassionate human beings, we must stand up, even if there's no direct impact on us as individuals.

are climbing mountains and white water rafting, mountain biking, fucking windsurfing and having all kinds of fun. They all look so happy and healthy, and not at all like the promiscuous, sullen, sunken-eyed junkies living in squalor we were warned about in high school health class, lol.

When have you ever seen a Teabagger on a mountain bike? And a Rascal scooter with mud grip tires does NOT count as a mountain bike.... lol

He's great on policy, but when he goes over the top on the rhetoric, it gets to me. Members of Congress should be above that shit and doing this sort of this brings him down to the level of the likes of Gohmert.

You're better than that, Congressman Grayson.

Grayson does that kind of thing because he knows that he needs to talk to them on their level of intelligence and their capacity of comprehension so they might at least understand what is being said.even then it is questionable if they comprehend.

Those are the people who should be saying stuff like this.

It is beneath a congressman to behave this way.

Rhetoric does not deny accuracy...

It does not aid your cause. Especially when a high elected official is the one engaging in the nasty rhetoric.

Let the activists and pundits do that. Feed them the base material, but when a high ranking official engages in this shit, they become Louis Gohmert or Michelle Bachman regardless of what side they are on.

these racist, hateful, scumbags.

nt

Glad to see it for a change!

The TRUTH shall win out....

He's honest. Upfront, but honest.

Give two shits what anybody says Grayson has BALL'S and stands by his statements,That alone speaks volumes about the man.

since they are so offended about connections to KKK.

In France people make money cleaning it up
It cleans the dog out
and is good for judging the health of a dog.

#TeamDogPoop

Display their hatred.... So in your face it can leave no doubt. Then when it comes back on them it doesn't mean what it says, or it's the work of a lone 'bad apple.

The average 'bagger looks like an unmade bed.

Give 'em hell! Fear no man!!

When someone speaks the truth about the ignorance that is plaguing our society. Then, stands by what they said. I respect the Congressman for his position. This is not an issue that needs to be discussed in private or behind closed doors. The only way to heal our past is to put it out there. BTW, I know a lot of friends of all racial backgrounds who know that it's (racism) is still alive. I also know a lot of Black people, including myself, who sees this round of challenging it head-on as, Welcome to the Struggle. We've been waiting on you.

"If the sheet fits, wear it."

I had a Teabagger pass me on the interstate with bumper stickers. Including a racist one. I gave him a one fingered editorial on what I thought of him.

called them out for what they are -- ignorant, hateful, bigoted PIGS. Good for him.

The TP is closer to the John Birch Society than the Klan.

Of course, there is/was so much "cross-pollination" between the JBS and the KKK that they're intertwined.

I hope Rep. Grayson keeps rattling cages. They need to be rattled.

... he really should work in the John Birchers somewhere. Wasn't the Koch Bros dad the man who started the John Birch Society? I think the TP is a jumble of the KKK AND the John Birch Society.
Bigots + the actual descendants of the JBS = TP.

If not, why not.

nt

I wish we had a few hundred more congress critters just like him.

While Mr. Grayson has earned a reputation for overstatement, this isn't that far off the mark. In spite of the presence of notable blacks or Hispanics among the teabaggers, the Tea Party is the focal point for the political arm of bigotry of every stripe. Pointing to Allen West or Ted Cruz doesn't do the teahadists any more good in terms of a defense against racism than pointing to Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann shields them from charges of misogyny.

The Tea Party is the Klan and Dave and Charlie Koch are the Imperial Wizard and the Grand Dragon. Through the Koch funded organization ALEC, Tea Party members of state legislatures are furnished with bills to make it difficult for poor people to vote; while it is not true that poor people are necessarily black, it is true that blacks are disproportionately represented below the poverty line. The Tea Party legislators supporting these ALEC-originated bills claim it has nothing to do with race, and they are right. The legislation is aimed at suppressing Democratic votes, and the most efficient way to do that is to identify demographic groups that vote vote for Democratic candidates and require something of the members of those groups they are less likely to have in order to admit them to the polling place. Blacks, especially poor blacks, typically vote Democratic. Of course, officially the legislation is misrepresented as "needed" to fix a the non-problem of ineligible voters casting votes, but the legislators who support this legislation defend the charges that it disproportionally attacks poor people who are eligible to vote with a shrug of the shoulders and the usual worn out coded argument about those people being poor because they are lazy and stupid, characteristics that poor whites and even some middle-class whites often associate with being black. Since the legislation is not designed to fix a major problem -- only a handful of voter fraud cases come out of any election cycle -- the urgency to pass such laws must be motivated by some other problem. For Republicans, especially those on the far right, democracy is a problem, a voter ID requirement is the solution and racism is the selling point.

The reason we oppose the Tea Party is because their program is an affront to democracy, as was the Ku Klux Klan at the height of its power. It is nothing more than an organized hate group sponsored by wealthy industrialists whose anti-democratic agenda has more to do with establishing a state run by corporate elites without interference from the unwashed masses than it has to do with the welfare of poor, ignorant white racists who are willing to believe that nation's first black President is a Muslim born in Kenya and that his signature accomplishment, a giant step toward health care reform, provides for "death panels."

In order to save democracy, such as it is, and to promote a stronger democracy, the ability of fascist-minded industrial and financial elites to disproportionately influence elections and government policy must be destroyed.

Keep it coming!

We need a whole bunch more of him in congress.

It dehumanizes all of us, turning us into trained dogs who growl, bark and bite on cue.

It's the kind of thing that leads to death threats and worse.

But sadly, that's how modern American politics is done.

You think the teabaggers are going to threaten his life?

Why would anyone be sad that the teabaggers are being called out?

From a Daily Kos diary by Grayson in January 2011:

when this kind of stuff becomes the norm.

But yeah, didn't Cruz receive some death threats? You don't think those were motivated by this kind of speech? Sure, they're on the right too.

I posted recently about this kind of stuff. About how it is in each party's interest to keep their base full of hatred for their political opponents. And they do. Each side is pumped full of hatred for the other. No denying that. It brings in money. It wins elections. What's a death threat or two? Not everyone can contain the hatred that's been whipped up inside them.

Were they from teabaggers?

I mean those assholes are delusional (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815784) and likely to do something like that.

Appreciate the Republican rifts: Kochs, Jim Demint and teabaggers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023893429#post56

Have a good night.

Seems you're upset he called out the teabaggers.

I prefer terrorists.

I don't want to play spin the issue with you instead.

And this: "Seems you're upset he called out the teabaggers."

Yeah, that kinda shit. Personal insults. Knew it was coming.

Forgot you were on that team.

No thanks.

Later.

"And this: "Seems you're upset he called out the teabaggers."

Yeah, that kinda shit. Personal insults. Knew it was coming.

Forgot you were on that team.'

...no "personal insults" just an observation.

Your initial response to the OP: "Demonize your opponenets, fueling hatred and division."

He's calling out a bunch of racist teabaggers. They are racists. If you can't accept that, you're the one choosing to "deny reality."

To be fair, there were a lot of pictures circulated depicting President Bush as a monkey back in the day. He is even still referred to as "chimp" on this very website quite regularly.

All bigots are Republicans.

but remind then that they are a faction of the ReTHUGs
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I get that politics is a money game and it's not like Grayson invented the system.

But if you strip away the hype, all this really amounts to is him saying: 'Look at this burning cross. Now give me some money.' How convenient for him that the long and dark road of race relations in this country somehow leads to his campaign accounts.

Seems kind of cheap. Also, you would think somebody who publicly complains about his fundraising obligations might want to opt for the high road when actually doing so. Instead you get this.

I think I will mail him a check.
His sentence structure is exquisite.

Even worse, if Obama is asked, he will have to disagree.
A lot of white people immediately get defensive with that kind of rhetoric.
We know that racism is a huge motivator of the TP. But, even supporters who have a crazy uncle Joe TP supporter get offended if he is called racist when they believe he's not.

irrationally religious, the control freaks, the same lot, now under the name of Teabaggers. ... the despicable element of a society. And if one goes into other countries, the same can be found, just different names.

-Laelth

typical teaparty meeting:

but then I read liberal nonsense person.

dog poop, and this week he points out via another poll that they are on par popularity-wise with the klan.

And these right wing morons can't dispute it. LOL

I love it.

Rep. Grayson, you will always have my support!

The tea party is the American Taliban

n/t

I'm thinking it may not be a fair comparison?

Power to the people!

And would some Power the small gift give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!

--Robert Burns