Tea Party Not a Factor in Tuesday's Elections

From all the media attention they have garnered for the last year, it seems the reality is that the teabagger movement is not as powerful as they try to make themselves out to be. Sarah Palin is getting herself in trouble with the teabaggers. She just endorsed the Republican Senatorial candidate in California, Carli Fiorina and the teabaggers are pisses at her. None of the teabag party candidates won on Tuesday's House and Senate primaries. All the incumbents won.

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Politico Proves that the Tea Party Leaders are Using Tea Partiers

Wow, if the tea party people don't turn on the Republican party after this bombshell, I don't know what to think. Politico broke story with a secret memo that Politico obtained talking about how to stir up a fake grassroots movement and use it to their own benefit. Click here to view the memo.

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Tea Partiers, You Need to Distance Yourselves from The Republican Party

Wow, Jon Stewart hit it out of the park last night with this story about the crazy people in the Republican Party, making the point that if the Tea Party wants to be respectable, they need to distance themselves from the Republican Party.

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Do You Have to Be Stupid to Be a Teabagger? That's a Rhetorical Question

This a hysterical conglomeration of people talking about health care reform. They really have NO idea what they're talking about. They don't seem to be able to name even one thing that is actually in the bill to be against. They seem to be against big government, against rationing of health care, the 2700 pages that make up the bill and on and on and on. You can't help fix stupid.

We need to have empathy for Tea Partiers

I don't agree, but this is an interesting article on the psychology of the tea partiers. This is an article from Psychology Today.

These tea-party folks seem to most liberals-well, to most of us who live in the "reality community," or, as I like to call it, "reality"-like crazy fuckers.

As a recent NY Times article reports, this hodgepodge of people and groups spout frankly paranoid beliefs as received wisdom, e.g. the Federal Reserve is our enemy and should be abolished, citizens should stock up on ammo, gold, and survival food in anticipation of an impending Civil War, states should "nullify" federal laws and even secede, medical records are being shipped to federal bureaucrats, the Army is seeking "Internment/Resettlement" specialists, Obama is trying to create crises in order to destroy the economy, convert Interpol into his personal police force, and create a New World Order. Conspiracy theories involving shadowy elites like the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations have resurfaced. Self-defense and armed resistance are frequently called for. Racist stereotypes, innuendo, and hostility run rampant. The Constitution is its sacred text and Glenn Beck its most beloved prophet. They don't usually wear aluminum hats but perhaps they should.

I hate these folks but I also understand them. And, well, uh, I also empathize with them. They share the same psychology as the paranoid patients I treat every day. The only difference is that the paranoid beliefs of the tea-party movement are political while those in my consulting room are of a more personal nature.

The causes and dynamics, however, are the same. And so just as I have empathy for my patients, I have come to have empathy for the tea-party'ers, even as I despise their influence and work hard to defeat their ideology. It's crucial that progressives do likewise because if we don't understand the ways that decent, god-fearing, and victimized people can come to espouse such a dangerous ideology, we won't be able to fight them effectively.

I treat people who are paranoid all the time. Sometimes they're only mildly paranoid. For example, someone I treat can't tolerate blame of any kind, can't take any responsibility for failures, and can't really be optimistic about the potential goodness in others. It's always someone else's fault. Other times, they're more severely paranoid. A patient I saw spun tale after tale of slights, interpreted innocuous events as malignant, saw conspiracies everywhere, and always imputed malevolence to others' motives. The most extreme cases can be found in the delusions of schizophrenics.

There isn't one cause of paranoia. Tomes have been written about it. Individual variations and exceptions abound. A few generalizations, however, can be made. Paranoid people are trying their best to make sense of and mitigate feelings of helplessness and worthlessness. Their beliefs are attempts to solve a profound problem, albeit in ways that distort reality.

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Tea Party Candidate Wants to Hang Her Opponent

The tea baggers deny that they encourage violence. At this campaign rally in Asotin, Washington one of the speakers made the statement that suggested one of the Senators from the state of Washington should be hung. Now, I'm for a good political contest as much as the next person, but saying your opponent should be hung is just plain wrong, especially when our country has its first African American President.

I would hope that others in the Tea Party movement would come out and denounce this despicable statement and that leaders in the Republican party will also denounce the violence that is encouraged by this idiotic person and her statement. The quote from the speaker is posted below.

"How many of you have watched the movie Lonesome Dove?," asked one speaker from the podium. "What happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? What happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd. He got hung. And that's what I want to do with Patty Murray."

Competitive politics is one thing, inciting violence against one's opponent is a despicable act that needs to be called out in the strongest terms possible. I challenge my conservative readers to make their comments denouncing this king of speech.

Have You Noticed The Lack of Minorities at Tea Parties?

I have. When ever they show crowd shots of a tea party gathering, whether it's local or a national gathering on the Mall in D.C. there is a definite lack of minorities in the crowds. If you ask the tea partiers they will deny being racist. Then there was the speech of former Congressman Tom Tancredo at the Tea Party Nation recently in Nashville, where Tancredo called for a return of Jim Crowe laws. But they're not racists, are they? Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann addressed this issue. I wonder if they have to pay some African Americans to show up to these "friendly" meetings. MEDEFCO has invited all the Michgian gubernatorial candidates to speak. Sounds like something even I should be welcome to attend.

A local tea party group, MEDEFCO will be holding a meeting on Tuesday, February 23 at Barrister Gardens 24225 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores at 7 p.m.

Apparently I'm not welcome, according to Brian Pannebecker, one of the leaders of MEDEFCO.

The MEDEFCO meeting is a private monthly meeting of supporters of our Constitution who want to take our government back.

Anti-Tea Party protesters and agitators will NOT be allowed inside to disrupt the meeting, especially "low-life lurkers" like Bruce Fealk.
The St.Clair Shores Police will be more than happy to help us prevent disturbances from left-wing wackos like Fealk and his buddys.

Teabaggers at the State of the State

Some tea party protesters were at the State of the State address on Wednesday. Apparently they were protesting all manner of taxes and spending and they generally believe government just isn't run very well. Too bad they don't seem to really know anything about government, except that they don't like it and they don't like paying taxes of any kind whatsoever. The one guy in the video seems to think the 14th amendment was established in the middle of the 20th century. I'll have to let these idiots speak for themselves.

New Mexico Teabaggers Are Now Armed at Rally

This looks like a dangerous trend, teabaggers bringing guns to tea parties. The confluence of the 1st and 2nd Amendments in New Mexico looks like a dangerous development.

"Nearly 350 right-wing protestors crowded a New Mexico town’s busiest intersection yesterday to protest President Obama’s supposed anti-gun agenda and the “government takeover of our health care system.” While the event mostly looked like any other recent right-wing rally — complete with signs reading “replace the communists in DC” and “the sky is falling! A black man is president!” — what set this protest apart was that there “were plenty of handguns and rifles displayed.”

The local Tea Party and a group called the Second Amendment Task Force (2ATF, a reference to the ATF, which enforces gun laws) encouraged people to bring guns to the event in Alamogordo, NM, in order to “put a positive light on gun ownership,” said 2ATF’s founder Dan Woodruff. While the two protests were technically separate, they were planned together for the same day in adjacent locations. Otero Tea Party Patriots coordinator Don Omey said he was “proud” of the gun-toters. “That’s what we need to turn some minds around,” Omey said. Under New Mexico law, it’s legal for anyone over the age of 19 to open-carry a holstered firearm in most public places.

And while there was no violence during the event, one protestor wearing a Tea Party shirt said his loaded gun was a “very open threat” to anyone who might “try to take over the country completely as a socialist communist [state].”

The Tea Partiers Have been Had - The Gift That Keepson Giving

Oh, those misguided tea partiers. The gift that keeps on giving, the Tea Party have finally realized that the Tea Party is just a way for the GOP and the monied groups that put together the Tea Party Express and other Tea Party event, are just money makers for their founders. It turns out the Tea Party companies and have either kept the money directly or funneled it into GOP coffers.

Turns out the Tea Partiers apparently can also time travel. They are planning a national day of strike on January 20, 2010, and if the companies of America don't stop funding socialism. Promising to return in February 2009, apparently the tea partiers can time travel. Silly, silly tea partiers.

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Conservative, Andrew Sullivan breaks with the right

This is a very interesting segment with Andrew Sullivan, well-known conservative. Listening to him give me hope that the conservative movement can be brought back to reality from the fringes of society and those that have taken over the right wing of American politics. The craziest thing is that in a poll released in Politico today, is that the so-called Tea Party out polls the Republican party.