Video: GOP rep who voted for TARP booed mercilessly at tea party
posted at 2:07 pm on April 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Emphasis on mercilessly, especially when he says, “I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.” The Palmetto Scoop caught it all, and no wonder: Barrett’s been eating crap from South Carolinians for his TARP vote for months so everyone knew what was coming here, right down to the guy screaming “Go home!” for the full six-minute duration. Believe it or not, according to CNN, Barrett’s planning to run for governor next year. Don’t get your hopes up, Gresh.
Normally the sight of a Republican being booed off a stage would be instant “Daily Show” material, but Stewart’s naturally got his own narrative for the tea parties. They’re about Obama, Obama, and nothing but Obama. Just ask Cody Willard.
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Absolutely this plus the fact the bums have rigged the system through gross gerrymandering and campaign finance/vote buying corruption. Rampant earmarks are nothing more than buying your vote by giving you a few of your dollars back and these bastards play to the hilt. Otherwise why is Bryd, Kennedy, Murtha, and any number of other brain-dead old fossils still in office.
The founding fathers envisioned real citizens with real jobs, real world experience serving the public trust, not carreer polls making themselves wealthy and powerful sucking off the government tit and raping the taxpayer.
dhunter on April 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM
You are an unashamed liar. You regularly spew leftist talking points in response to any topic or subject that appears on this website. You’ve never once held any kind of support for anyone other than the liberals.
Destroyed America? Another damned lie. If anyone destroyed America, it was the liberals who had control the last two years of Bush’s Presidency.
In 2006 Republicans tried to bring Freddie and Fannie to task, the Democrats voted against it, straight along party lines. They own the economic meltdown, not Bush. His was wrong to enact TARP, but he sure didn’t cause the situation we find ourselves in now.
Of course, I wouldn’t expect you, in your blind sycophantic devotion to Obama, to admit any of that.
ManInBlack on April 18, 2009 at 11:10 PM
This gives me hope that maybe, just maybe the Republicans out there are waking up and in 2010 will vote in the primaries and get rid of the RINOs who voted for TARP and the GIVE act ($6,000,000,000 to fund “volunteerism” initiatives). I’m thinking of you Senator Richard Burr of NC.
popularpeoplesfront on April 18, 2009 at 11:19 PM
It doesn’t work for POTUS. It creates an artificial imbalance where in the 2nd term of a presidency the executive is weakened.
Spirit of 1776 on April 19, 2009 at 1:25 AM
Mmm…how does that Kool-Aid taste? Getting that little hint of bitterness yet? Don’t worry, it’s coming.
Bush won the support of conservatives over his strong handling of the terrorist problem. Not Medicare Part D. Not McCain-Feingold. Not TARP I.
Conservatives took him to task for all of those things but supported him over national defense.
Conservatives also nailed him to the wall for signing onto TARP I. They are now nailing Obama for accelerating it.
The ingredients of this mess were in place long before 2001. They were called the Community Reinvestment Act, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Medicare, Social Security, and deficit spending. All the brainchildren of a Congress controlled by the Democratic Party since the days of the New Deal.
You have this delusion that Bush had blind sycophantic supporters, when in fact those of us who supported him on national security were the ones with legitimate criticisms, as opposed to the unhinged conspiracy theorists babbling on about the idiot President with an insatiable appetite for oil and a vendetta against a slimy despot.
You, as well as many Obama supporters, now exhibit the same delusions that your Dear Leader has any intention of “fixing” the mess that his own party was complicit in.
When you’re seeing your Social Security checks bounce, or taken away from you because you take in too much from your 401(k), will you still blame Bush?
When you’re sitting in a dank, DMV-like waiting room for your overworked, underpaid, government-owned doctor to tell you that you won’t be getting that life-saving organ transplant because the waiting list is longer than your life expectancy, will you still blame Bush?
When your life savings becomes worthless because government-spurned inflation has rendered the dollar obsolete, will you still blame Bush?
And when you finally wake up to the lies you believe, will you blame Bush when you can no longer hear an opposing viewpoint to government-owned, “fair” media?
TheMightyMonarch on April 19, 2009 at 3:13 AM
God love ya, Monarch (to paraphrase Joe the Clown). I agree 100%. But talking to this idiot is like talking to a brick wall. Except that the brick wall MIGHT actually listen once in a while.
GetMyHeadOutOfMyAss is a complete troll bombthrower. He tosses out little posts full of gibberish and obviously never reads the responses to his nonsense. If he ever did, he might actually learn something.
His / her / its only purpose in life is to try and piss us off. Don’t fall into that trap.
UltimateBob on April 19, 2009 at 3:52 AM
Since this started with some black eyed peas for Obama “yes we can” how about an anthem for “We The People” Let’s Get It Started.
Dr Evil on April 19, 2009 at 10:05 AM
I attended this tea party. The booing was even more pronounced than you hear. I was on the steps opposite the speakers platform. We were unable to hear him speak from all the booing. The crowd also booed at the mention of Grahm, and Inglis who supported TARP I. I hope the rage at these dem lighters manifests itself in the next election and we get rid of these clowns. No attendance numbers in the local paper but the radio said 10,000. CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!
chicken thief on April 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Term limits are useless, you’ll get a revolving door system where places are traded as commodities so that everyone can switch chairs every year.
The only way to stop politicians from exercising arbitrary economic power is to remove their power to do so by constitutional amendment.
ebrawer on April 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Gotta love it! Anyone who voted for these outrageous bailouts and hyper spending bills should be thrown out of office. Term limits should be forced upon them, but they will not give that up without a fight! Former politicians should be banned from the House and Senate floor and not allowed to be lobbyists! Representatives and Senators should not be guarenteed benefits for live! We the people must force these “changes” upon them!
CrusaderPatriot on April 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM
If only John McCain had received the same treatment last year.
cjk on April 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM
2010=Toast
flyoverland on April 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Please check out this link: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/post/Tax-Day-Tea-Parties-a-HUGE-Success.aspx#comment
This is from their home page:
“On April 15, 2009, at over 800 locations across this great country, the Tea Party Patriots gathered to protest government spending, bailouts, deficits and high taxes. The events were peaceful, patriotic and non-partisan, involving Democrats, Republicans, and many who no longer associate with any political party. All across the nation, people came out to protest against government irresponsibility and politicians who are no longer interested in the public good. A great wave is sweeping the nation.
One speaker summed it up well when he said, “For too long politicians have used party affiliation, social issues, and the intentional promotion of class warfare to divide the American people. They have caused Democrats to hate Republicans, conservatives to hate liberals, pro-life advocates to hate pro-choice advocates, and the list goes on and on. Using the strategy of divide and conquer, politicians of all parties have distracted the American people while they destroyed our economy, increased our taxes, and lined their own pockets and the pockets of the special interests to whom they are obligated. They have consolidated their power, to the detriment of the people they serve.
Many groups are trying to take credit for the Tea Parties, and many are trying to promote their own organizations by taking that credit.
The credit belongs to the 1,000,000+ patriots who sacrificed work or family to come out to protest their lack of representation in the political system. The credit belongs to you, the Tea Party Patriots.”
PrincipledPilgrim on April 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Funny how Getalie went silent
The reality is the market started tanking after the Dems won congress…Sadly idiots like Getalie thought the GOP ran Congress as proven in polling.
Jamson64 on April 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM
I have a way for this RINO-weasel to redeem himself. The far-left has ACORN and the $5 billion bucks of our money that was just given to ACORN as part of the Democrat’s Porkulus Plan. Well, this Congressman should offer a bill for the founding and five billion funding of a Conservative get-out-the-vote group, similar to ACORN except for ideology. But we need a snappy acronym. Perhaps CASHEW – Conservative Associations for Stimulus Health Education & Welfare. Seriously.
CASHEW workers could go around rural areas stopping off at tornado-ravaged trailer parks signing up redneck inhabitants with “Summer teeth” (that’s how the MSM would portray us signing up free-thinking conservative students on college campuses, church-goers leaving Saturday temple or Sunday church services, and so on)
If the far-left Obama, Pelois and Reid try to railroad this, then we sue the hell out of ‘em using their damn “Fairness” Doctrine.
Just sayin’…..
CatchAll on April 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Michael Steele, Are you listening? This is your base and you better figure it out soon, or we are all in deep poo-poo.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on April 19, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Hear, Hear!
Hear us now John McCain, Meghan McCain, Lindsay Graham, Arlen Specter, Collins, Snowe, other asssorted RINOS and ALL Democrats?
We heard from you and now your going to hear from all of us soon! Vote the BUMS out, get rid of the carreer pocket lining pols and elect citizen legislators, institute TERM LIMITS, take away their lifetime pensions and healthcare, their ability to lobby or run again. Return our country to We The People. It does work for POTUS regardless of what the politics of old will tell you.
Don’t let the Tea Parties be co-opted by the same old parties! Let the Panderers beware We The People are pissed and we are coming to take our country and our rights under the constitution back!
2010, 2012, Only Reformers need apply Palin/Plumber 2012
dhunter on April 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Barret is among the 87 Republicans who voted against the execrable but popular AIG confiscation bill. Which means he clearly belongs to the better half of the House GOP.
It is easy to forget that at the time last year, there were good arguments to vote for TARP. Lots of good conservatives came out in favor of TARP, like Paul Ryan, who is as solid as it gets.
When you have actual responsibility, things aren´t as simple as some of you would have it. Why don´t you all direct your outrage where it will do some good?
el gordo on April 19, 2009 at 2:56 PM
el gordo on April 19, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Yeah, let’s give the guys with no foresight a pass. Give me a break. That’s what we elect leaders to do, lead. Not on shrivel up in fetal position because the MSM tells them the sky is going to fall. Oh Obama wagged his finger at them too, guess that spooked them. Just wait until the bailout filters through and things get even worse. Let me guess we’ll need some more gubmint to patch that too.
700 billion in new spending don’t sound so “solid” to me. Where one falls on the tough votes shows just how solid they are.
LevStrauss on April 19, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Gop and w are victims.
Obama Franks Waters LLC — destroyers of the world economy.
unclesmrgol on April 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Not surprising, confront “it” and “it” goes away. It can’t debate a point of view, because it doesn’t understand beyond the leftist talking points and blind Obama worship.
ManInBlack on April 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Gosh. I heard on TV this morning that the Tea Parties were just a GOP-organized thing. Does the GOP hire people to boo their own candidates now?
The crew on “This Week with George the Dem” trotted out all the typical stuff. Of course, George Will and Peggy Noonan were right there to defend the conservative viewpoint to the best of their ability. Which is to say, not defend it very well. George raises 1 soft, tangential argument, then shuts up while the others say all sorts of patently innacurate things.
I think we should lobby to have Will replaced on that show by Mark Levin. Now THAT would be some fun!
It was interesting that nobody on the Sunday shows seems to consider how the Tea Party movement threatens to create another Ross-Perot style 3rd party movement. Perot’s party harnessed the same feeling of government unresponsiveness. And the GOP had the same reaction of “well we’re still backing Arlen Specter”. I guess when the producers hand you your thoughts, it doesn’t leave room for unscripted possibilities.
hawksruleva on April 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM
I hope this is repeated across the country! I know I want all the people responsible for destroying our country booted off the government payroll! At this point, I’m all for the idea of picking the first 20 names out of any phone book to represent us.
DanaSmiles on April 20, 2009 at 8:44 AM
More proof that the Tea Partys are bipartisan. It is about ideals not partys.
jeffn21 on April 20, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Great!
but why isn’t the Teleprompter in Chief gettting this treatement? He is the main problem.
james23 on April 20, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Agreed. Congress will just continue to be a sludge-pot of incestuous seat-trading.
You want real results, remove the unconstitutional seat limit on the House. That means nearly 8,000 representatives. Not enough room in the Capitol? Throw ‘em in Verizon Center in between Wizards games. Hell, during Wizards games, at least that way they’ll have an audience.
This method, as Walter Williams postulated in a recent article, would have the effect of making lobbying incredibly difficult. It’s much harder to bribe 4,000 representatives than 200+.
TheMightyMonarch on April 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Hypocrite = 0
TEA Partiers = +1
FTW!
bluelightbrigade on April 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Just watch what is to come. Conservatives will throw their incumbants out in 2010 whilst the Dems re-elect theirs and use the opportunity provided by the disgruntled GOP to sway enough votes to get their candidates elected in place of the fresh GOP stock. The outcome will be a 78% Dem House and a 75% Dem Senate. That’s when you call end game boys and girls. Socialists we shall be. Term limits go bye-bye and Obama serves the rest of his life as President of the States That Were United. Pelosi will serve as the Vice-President in the third term.
Griz on April 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Griz on April 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Not a chance I remember the Jimmy Carter years and this batch of clowns is Jimmy Carter times 2.
In 2 and 4 years it will be hard to find anyone but Chris Mathews willing to admit voting for Presidente Pinnochio and the American people will be so pissed at the wealth destroying Dems and Republican RINO’s who spent our kids and grandkids college money that they will be ready to throw all the bums out or hang em!
dhunter on April 20, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Ever notice that Getalife never gets specific on his answers? She speaks only in bread generalities and therefore escapes scrutiny on her answers.
garydt on April 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Wow. This does not enhance the reputation of Tea Partiers. We have to be very careful not to look like Lefty Stalinists who use their STFU tactics.
Moreover, we should be careful not to go after people merely for having voted for TARP, but who have an otherwise sterling record.
Demanding 100% compliance on all issues will not be a winner for our side. There are plenty of reasonable arguments in favor of voting for TARP. Voting for, say, the the Stimulus package and the pork-laden budget is something altogether different than TARP (which in it’s current, ever changing form is not what was voted on originally anyway).
Buy Danish on April 21, 2009 at 4:10 PM
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