Dear "Teabaggers"

[ravan]

Screw you.

Seriously, your man Bush spent us into this hole, all the while cutting services and infrastructure. His guy Paulson wanted us to bail out the fucking banks without any oversight at all on where the money was going

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[norsebiker43]

Sorry, I think you and I would not be compatable in the screwing dept.
Now, yes, Bush was terrible. Won't argue that. But that isn't what the Tea Party was all about.
It, at it's core, is about the Constitution and the Amendments.
As a Libertarian and a Centerist, that is all that matters.
The rest is BS. From both sides.

B

[ravan]

The teabagging that I saw was all about taxes. Whining about taxes going up for the top brackets.

The Constitution and Amendments? Taxation voted on by duly elected representatives is legal under the Constitution.

Now, if someone wanted to hold a protest to reverse the effects of the last 30 years of Constitutional erosion - habeus corpus, takings via "civil asset forfeiture", full faith and credit clause screwed by DOMA, illegal search and seizure (wiretaps, net privacy, etc), and so on, I'm there with you.

But the taxes are legal, and they're actually paying for stuff we need, rather than Bush's desire to make a name for himself.

The protests are more NeoCon astroturf, fueled by wing nuts for Republican benefit.

[norsebiker43]

A quote from another blog that fits here;

"The wingnuts and moonbats have valuable roles to play in both camps and it is always a mistake to silence them, I think. But it is suicidal to let them set all of the policy."

As to 30 years of Constitutional erosion, I am still waiting on the Obama-christ to produce his "transperant" leadership and rule setting. So far he's stalling, deffering and bluffing like all the past leaderships.

B

[ravan]

Heh. Christ? Hell no, he's a lawyer and a politician, from Chicago, no less. But at least he's fairly pragmatic. I know what I expect from chi-town politics.

He's done better than Bush on transparency, which is about all I hoped for, actually. He has repudiated a lot of the Bush excesses (but not all, damnit) on national security, which is actually better than I hoped for. I'll be thrilled if he can buck the banker lobby well enough to push Congress into re-regulating the financial and insurance industries. But that has a pigs chance - the bankers own Washington's soul.

Congress (both parties) has helped make a big mash of the Constitution by pandering to wing nuts and special interests. Bush hastened the process considerably by appointing ideologues to the Supreme Court.

[heethen_crone]

The organizers may say otherwise but all we heard on the news was people protesting how Obama is spending tax money. See my post on the subject. They're marching in lockstep with what Thrush Limberg et al are requesting. Our local Republican elected wingnuts were here in force to protest anything the Democrats are doing.