Axelrod: The tea-party movement could be “unhealthy”

posted at 2:44 pm on April 19, 2009 by Allahpundit

No surprise that the master of astroturfing would find a true grassroots movement distasteful. To be scrupulously fair, it’s not the parties themselves that he’s calling “unhealthy” but rather the potential of populist anger in an age of economic panic to boil over into more extreme forms. Even so, his intent is clear — to delegitimize the parties by framing them as a shot across the bow from some sort of inchoate militia. The same could have been said years ago, of course, about anti-war protests amid a climate of grotesque hatred on the left for George Bush. Imagine the screeching from the world’s Garofalos had Karl Rove sensed something “unhealthy” about those on a Sunday morning chat show.

Naturally, this is all punctuated with the moronic talking point about tax cuts this year for 95 percent of America without mentioning the inevitable tax hikes to come to pay off Obama’s leviathan deficits. After you watch, head over to CNN to see Carville pronounce the parties not only “harmless” but actually beneficial to Democrats because the only people who showed up were 72 years old or something.

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I’ll tell you what is upsetting the Dems and O…it’s the caliber and make-up of the protestors. Who would an ordinary American relate more to, the people you see wearing the red ACORN shirts, the filthy anti war protestors, vandals wearing scarves to cover their faces or the whacked out Code Pink women? Or, the clean cut intelligent middle class Americans…white, hispanic, asian, black, indian, many of whom brought their kids?

We didn’t get organized…we organized ourselves!

CCRWM on April 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM

Indeed. And for your reading pleasure….. click here.

In a word – Incrementalism.

GT on April 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM

Do not gloss over the “long, rich history” of polygamy that begat the tribal hatred over “legitimacy” between those posturing as descendants of Abraham.

Cultures defending their polygamous lifestyle do have those departed who tell a story that does not resonate within the “long rich history” perception.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM

Quite so, old friend. Greetings from Texas!

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM

hey, Rush – Longtime!!

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM

I am appalled by social Conservatives – I find them a small step above and beyond rabid Muslims.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM

That’s a really dumb statement seeing how the most wildly successful civilization in the known universe was entirely founded by social conservatives.

Guardian on April 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM

Not everyone who is opposed to gay marriage has ever been divorced. Don’t paint with such a broad brush.

BTW, how many of the Jewish holidays do you observe? Not that it matters, but I’m curious if you are Jewish by faith or Jewish by culture.

ladyingray on April 19, 2009 at 6:17 PM

Most and I am Jewish by faith & by culture. I could never imagine myself as anything but.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM

My rule of thumb:

Whatever James Carville says, believe the opposite. Same goes for Bob Beckel.

johnnyboy on April 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM

Most and I am Jewish by faith & by culture. I could never imagine myself as anything but.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM

I think you have touched exactly in the source of your intolerance for other religions.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM

Only in that there is no history of homosexual behavior. However, history does not bring a positive picture on how homosexual behavior impacts society.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM

You mention the Greeks and Romans. Don’t omit the English.

Scientists have done their bit of research. Since 1960, the academic fascination exploiting homosexuality has constructed that culture’s inbred defense mechanisms, now gone berserk. Academia today is absolutely homosexual in ideology, whether or not in practice. Where homosexuality was once the epitome of one’s private affairs (if at all), today there is nothing private about it. All is public; the cause, the relationships, the relations. And in the hoopla, the gays presume that everyone’s in their boat with them.

Homosexuality is the epitome of selfishness.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM

The interesting part of all this is that there are three topics that are considered taboo in “polite” conversation. They are sex, religion and politics. All three are protected in various forms by our Constitutional rights. In fact, religion and politics have explicit protections. There are no such explicit protections for sexuality in our Constitution.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM

Giving Axelrod any credence is like giving the ghost of Himmler air time.

old trooper2 on April 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM

Homosexuality is the epitome of selfishness.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM

I don’t think so. The politicization of homosexuality is a spectacle, but genuine, private preference is tolerable in full.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM

Only in that there is no history of homosexual behavior.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM

I didn’t say ‘behavior’. I said ‘gay marriage’, meaning any culturally accepted households that were officially recognized as being formed by two same-sex members on par with the normal, heterosexual, pair relationship. There have been a very few isolated instances of recognized homosexual unions, but nothing like ‘gay marriage’.

progressoverpeace on April 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM

My rule of thumb:

Whatever James Carville says, believe the opposite. Same goes for Bob Beckel.

johnnyboy on April 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM

Good rule.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM

It is only “unhealthy” to fascist/socialist/marxist/communist idiots like Axelfart. Come 2010 David and his ilk will have their power diminished. That is the threat David is addressing.

All during the Bush years Axeldouche’s supporters were in full jihad mode. Calling our president everything from a fascist to a genocidal maniac. Literally painting him as a blood thirsty devil while our nation was a war. According to many of these people, 9-11 was an inside job, perpetrated by the Joos, Haliburton, Dick Cheney, Neocons, and anyone else on the right they wished to malign. To me this kind of vicious unfounded seditious vile rhetoric went beyond “unhealthy” into Treason.

So, when Axelfacsist calls Constitution loving taxpaying patriotic Americans exercising their right to peaceably assemble and redress grievances to their government “unhealthy”, then pardon me for saying “bovine excrement”.

This is a classic case of projection, if there ever was one.

DeathB4Tyranny on April 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM

The interesting part of all this is that there are three topics that are considered taboo in “polite” conversation. They are sex, religion and politics.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM

Good thing polite conversation is “optional” in the blogosphere.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM

The problem is that we are in the process of redefining the word “marriage”.–GT on April 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM

Newspeak redefines words.

Why rape the words “marriage” or “polygamy” merely to placate the homosexual’s demand to misapply them inappropriately?

Too bent on corruption? Too lazy to find the correct term? No such terms or roots from Sanskrit, Greek, or Latin? Go figure. But quit barking up the wrong tree just because gays want it to be so.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM

Cultures defending their polygamous lifestyle do have those departed who tell a story that does not resonate within the “long rich history” perception.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM

Our cultures eventually rejected polygamy for various reasons, just as many of us are against gay marriage. But if you are for gay marriage, on an “Equal Protection” racket, then the case is more easily made for heterosexual, polygamous marriage than for gay marriage. That’s just a fact. One has a cultural history. The other doesn’t. But your argument treats the one with no history as being more natural than the one there is already a long history of. Kind of a weird argument, isn’t it?

progressoverpeace on April 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM

This guy looks like um

That character from Disney Goofer?

Or a rat of some sort

blatantblue on April 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM

He looks like a sleazy used car salesman to me.

jimmy2shoes on April 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM

Homosexuality is the epitome of selfishness.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM

Exactly right. Therefore, because you believe that you are hereby deemed a right-wing loon. ;)

My point in all of this is that what we determine to be right and to be wrong is based on what our source of what is moral. We’re told by people like AprilOrit that one’s faith can not be involved in political decision-making and to do so is wrong. Yet when we do attempt to remove Faith which is our source for morality, one only has to look at history to see the disastrous results.

And please don’t anyone confuse the exercise of one’s conscience derived by Faith as an attempt to install a theocracy. There is right and there is wrong. My Faith tells what they are and I vote accordingly.

There are certain human behaviors that are a detriment to a stable and free society and I oppose them. And for that, people like AprilOrit to professes to be a practicing Jew call me a “right-wing loon”.

On a side note, the Torah speaks clearly about mishkav zakhar. Now to April, because I as a social conservative oppose homosexual marriage I’m a right-wing loon” and that one’s faith has no business in government or politics. I wonder she will say when one day she stands before G-d to account for her life here on Earth. “Its none of your business”?

.

GT on April 19, 2009 at 7:15 PM

Back to the original point of this topic…

Axelrod is once again proving himself to be nothing more than a hypocritical political hack. I didn’t hear him criticizing anybody when protesters were disrupting the funerals of American soldiers killed in war. I didn’t hear him criticizing protesters of G.W. Bush. But now, all of a sudden, when the opposition is gaining traction, the tea parties become dangerous.

Well Mr. Axelrod, you reap what you sow. If you sow liberty, responsibility, and morality in our society then you will get a lot less people wanting you out.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM

Most and I am Jewish by faith & by culture. I could never imagine myself as anything but.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM

Are you afraid to give specifics?? I have a NYC born and bread Jewish friend whom I greatly admire and she wouldn’t be so dismissive.

Do you go to Temple weekly? Do you observe each and every Jewish holiday? Do you observe a kosher kitchen/home? Do you send your children, if you have any, to Jewish schools? If not, do they at least attend Jewish classes?

It truly makes a difference in how some will consider your requirement that religion not be involved in politics.

Oh…..and just what do you think about the hard stand of Israel against Arab and Persian aggression?

ladyingray on April 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM

The interesting part of all this is that there are three topics that are considered taboo in “polite” conversation. They are sex, religion and politics. All three are protected in various forms by our Constitutional rights. In fact, religion and politics have explicit protections. There are no such explicit protections for sexuality in our Constitution.

Hawthorne on April 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM

Actually, a 4th topic could be added to that. Music

Many elite Leftists refuse to listen to anything but classical music, as evidenced by the New York Times’ long-time ownership of a classical music FM radio station in New York City.

To them, anything else isn’t music at all, especially country music.

But it’s not just Leftists who are musical snobs. Legendary Texas musician Bob Wills, who pioneered a fusion of country music and big band jazz that would later become a major progenitor of “rock and roll”, was for many years not allowed to play at the Grand Ole Opry. The snobs there had listened to how he had added drums and electric guitars to “their” music, and concluded he had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

They were wrong, of course.

Del Dolemonte on April 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM

In terms of Axelrod’s job – just how do you pimp for a pimp?

TexasJew on April 19, 2009 at 7:22 PM

I don’t think so. The politicization of homosexuality is a spectacle, but genuine, private preference is tolerable in full.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM

Think as you like.

I lived a lifetime defending my homosexual brother. I bought him and his lover a set of gold rings to wear at our family reunion. My spouse, children and I shared a cabin with them though they both had open AIDS sores. We had to shuttle our children to other cabins in the middle of the night because my brother & life partner were screaming and banging the walls with their sexual antics.

As time tells, it is the gays who assassinate heterosexuals.

When you live in a professional society comprised of homosexuals and in a family with homosexual members, THEN tell me what you know on the subject.

$.02

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM

I believe David Axelrod is the most dangerous man in America

ndulik on April 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM

Newspeak redefines words.

Why rape the words “marriage” or “polygamy” merely to placate the homosexual’s demand to misapply them inappropriately?

We’re not. The terms are appropriate.

Too bent on corruption? Too lazy to find the correct term? No such terms or roots from Sanskrit, Greek, or Latin? Go figure. But quit barking up the wrong tree just because gays want it to be so.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM

Newspeak indeed.

***********

When you live in a professional society comprised of homosexuals and in a family with homosexual members, THEN tell me what you know on the subject.

$.02

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM

So in other words, don’t tell anyone that drinking and driving is wrong unless you’ve done it or experienced the result?

I hope that isn’t what you are saying.

GT on April 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM

Hey, anybody got connections to a tour bus company? There’s one famous in my area where it takes people to the airport, and sites of interest.

Me thinks he wants a tea party @his house and his minions, Puerto Rican style…we call it “parranda”, at Christmastime. Hey, if ACORN rented some, why don’t we?

ProudPalinFan on April 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM

ProudPalinFan on April 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM

What color t-shirts do we get to wear?

GT on April 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM

Axelrod is worried, and with good reason. He and his flunkies, including the various MSM hacks, have been spending the past week trying to spread the meme that the Tea Parties were just a few disgruntled, white, racist, redneck geezers who hate the fact that a black guy is president. But the general public is starting to catch on, and the snotty, condescending, holier-than-thou elitism displayed by the MSM this week is going to backfire big time.

AZCoyote on April 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM

I hope that isn’t what you are saying.

GT on April 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM

Morality exists universally, even as amorality or immorality.

Sexuality is a private matter.

Homosexuality is the epitome of selfishness.

That conclusion follows history experienced as stated.

From previous posts, I have noted that experience is a good teacher but ignorant fools will learn by no other. Furthermore, fools who do not learn from experience are stuck on stupid.

Having researched hermeneutics for years, I value the essence of words, and repudiate the revision of a word’s definition to superimpose contrary meaning.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM

AZCoyote on April 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM

Yep. And yep.

ladyingray on April 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM

AZCoyote on April 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM

And hungry for any story that will sell papers, Obama’s espionage against his political opposition, “conservatives” (not enemies of the nation) is getting leaked in geyser proportion.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM

I thought Obama wasn’t aware of the Tea Parties?

Conservative_SAHM on April 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM

Preaching to the choir again, Ax? The increasingly diminishing choir.

PattyJ on April 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM

THEN tell me what you know on the subject.

$.02

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM

You made me flinch with your story. Does this satisfy you, or avenge your pain? In your heart of hearts, do you hold the behavior of two individuals against all homosexuals? I have read you for years, and I scarce believe that.

I do have a much less lurid family history with a homosexual relative. For what it’s worth, I have a cousin who fled to my town after my acceptance of a lover years ago when the rest of our family rejected her. She and I have not spoken since she called me shortly after their arrival and disrespected her partner by bragging about their relationship in most vivid language.
C
an I condemn all homosexuals for her déclassé behavior? No I cannot. Can I oppose the organized political behavior of the gay community? Yes I can.

Gays do not assassinate heterosexuals, nor vice versa. People love as they will, hurt others carelessly, and have the capacity to forgive.

It’s all part of freedom.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 8:04 PM

What color t-shirts do we get to wear?

GT on April 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM

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Might I suggest red, white, and blue.
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RalphyBoy on April 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM

I thought Obama wasn’t aware of the Tea Parties?

Conservative_SAHM on April 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM

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Score!
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RalphyBoy on April 19, 2009 at 8:07 PM

To Axelrod – Thanks for the warning ferret face.

AUINSC on April 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM

The sour grapes of Axelrod, consigned to bitter tea.

Gorbama

President Barack Obama has gone abroad and gored an ox—the deeply held belief that the United States does not make mistakes in dealings with either friends or foes.

And in the process, he’s taking a huge gamble both at home and abroad, for a payoff that could be a long time coming, if ever.

By way of explanation, senior adviser David Axelrod describes the president’s tactics this way:

“You plant, you cultivate, you harvest. Over time, the seeds that were planted here are going to be very, very valuable.”

Steven R. Hurst (AP)

Axelrod skimmed over Jesus’ parable and missed the point that more seed fall on hard ground, on pavement, on rocks, in weeds, stunts or dies of drought or pest, and get eaten by birds than flourish.

Besides, this analogy is creepy since Chavez grows and exports illicit crops. All that posturing over “evil USA” drug consumption smacks hard.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM

The right change is coming.So to Axelrod and all the other inside the beltway elites get ready for real change.

thmcbb on April 19, 2009 at 8:12 PM

Having researched hermeneutics for years, I value the essence of words, and repudiate the revision of a word’s definition to superimpose contrary meaning.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM

Hmmm……I bet you’d get into a real conniption fit if you ever moved to New Orlean’s French Quarter.

Nevertheless, since homosexual marriage is a new concept relatively speaking, whether you like it or not the word “polygamy” is appropriate choice since there is no other word that can as easily express for the sake of this discussion.

If you’d like to invent a word in order to preserve the term, knock yourself out.

Now get on with your bad self. ;)

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GT on April 19, 2009 at 8:13 PM

David Assholerod can kiss my teabags….

(on second thought, no)

Captain America on April 19, 2009 at 8:14 PM

What’s going to become of a country where the ruling administration feels free to lie to us, betray us, and insult our intelligence? It’ll probably end up–

LOOK OVER THERE it’s Rush Limbaugh being evil!

OneGyT on April 19, 2009 at 8:15 PM

Axelrod skimmed over Jesus’ parable and missed the point that more seed fall on hard ground, on pavement, on rocks, in weeds, stunts or dies of drought or pest, and get eaten by birds than flourish.
maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM

He also failed to note that he who sows tares is not divine.

Maquis on April 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM

David Axelrod should be tarred and feathered and tossed into the bay.

Viper1 on April 19, 2009 at 8:43 PM

Viper1 on April 19, 2009 at 8:43 PM

With our luck, Obama and the Democrats will try to reduce the deficit by raising the taxes on tar and feathers.

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GT on April 19, 2009 at 8:53 PM

GT on April 19, 2009 at 8:13 PM

I’ll let the polygamists deal over “rights” with the homosexuals over trademark.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM

GT on April 19, 2009 at 8:53 PM

…another phobia why they prohibit drilling for oil.

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM

I saw this at Gateway:

** Barack Obama signed the largest spending bill in the history of the planet in his first 100 days in office.
** Obama and democrats pushed and passed the largest budget in history without a single GOP vote.
** Obama’s budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, and adds more to the debt than all previous presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — combined.
** Barack Obama managed to spend more than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
** Obama and democrats have already saddled America’s children and grand children with massive debt before they’re even born! Not that this bothers them.
** Barack Obama is on track to spend more money than any person in the history of Earth.
** The US debt is so large that America couldn’t qualify to join the EU if it wanted to.
** President Obama expects the deficit level to be 12% of GDP this year larger than Great Britain’s record 10% deficit to GDP.

And they wonder why people are upset.

Terrye on April 19, 2009 at 9:05 PM

I love how they keep mentioning those “tax breaks” for 95% of the population (you know, the extra $13 a week you get?), but fail to mention they want to triple your electric bill.

http://www.teapartynation.com

tnmama on April 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM

I’ll tell you what is upsetting the Dems and O…it’s the caliber and make-up of the protestors. Who would an ordinary American relate more to, the people you see wearing the red ACORN shirts, the filthy anti war protestors, vandals wearing scarves to cover their faces or the whacked out Code Pink women? Or, the clean cut intelligent middle class Americans…white, hispanic, asian, black, indian, many of whom brought their kids?

We didn’t get organized…we organized ourselves!

CCRWM on April 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM

Excellent point. Democrats & the White House should be concerned. Who you saw at the Tea Parties were people, for the most part, who don’t normally protest.

I expect the numbers to grow in the coming months.

Vyce on April 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM

maverick muse on April 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM

LOL!

GT on April 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM

Vyce on April 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM

Anyone remember what happened when Hillary went on her HilleryCare Bus Tour back in 1993?

GT on April 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM

You know, the N in that picture next to Axledorks right ear almost looked like he had elf ears.

I was at a Tea Party in Bucks County just outside of Philly on Saturday. The crowd was basically Mr and Mrs middle america and their kids with a few bikers thrown in. There were about a thousand people there. The local paper covered it pretty well but there wasn’t a news camera in sight. Hmmm

The blatant attempt at intimidation with the DHS report seems to be backfiring on the bamabi administration.

I’m going to be haranguing the hell out of my conservative friends who didn’t show up for this one. Hopefully they will have another one soon. Everyone needs to get out there.

I think the left is getting jumpy about this. It isn’t just a couple of crackpots getting together. It is AMERICA, the ture America.

bullseye on April 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM

Axelrod is still pedaling that “95%” nonsense when he knows it bogus His “unhealthy” statement is a sign of fear on his part . . . I believe he is afraid of the people.

rplat on April 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM

This all reminds me of some news anchor that accused the American Public of a temper tantrum when we all voted Jimmy Carter out of office.. in a sweeping victory. They smell the possibility again.

Noelie on April 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM

The Tea Party Movement could be unhealthy?

Axelrod could be unhealthy for the USA!

petefrt on April 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM

I don’t know of any democrats here, I am a Moderate Republican – and proud of it.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 5:16 PM

Umm… Then why exactly are you supporting Obama and his Porkulus bill?? Methinks that you aren’t a Republican… If you voted for Barry the Messiah in the election you no longer get to claim to be one.

Illinidiva on April 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM

having an @ssclown as our POtuS is unhealthy

gatorboy on April 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM

Proud of being both – a believer of small governemtn in a Moderate Country. And proud NOT TO BE a Far Right Loon who feels this country is too liberal.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM

Yes… spending a trillion dollars on supporting ACORN and other liberal groups is like totally something that Reagan would do and is like totally centrist and stuff.

BTW, one of the main advocates for the Chicago Tea Party was a group of Hillary Clinton loving Democrats who are gay and run a website call Hillbuzz.

Illinidiva on April 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM

To be scrupulously fair, it’s not the parties themselves that he’s calling “unhealthy” but rather the potential of populist anger in an age of economic panic to boil over into more extreme forms.

Which of course would explain why Obama rushed out to calm the populist anger incited by his teleprompter in the AIG bonuses thing. And didn’t he tell the bankers that he’s the only one standing between them and the pitchforks? Riiiiight.

ddrintn on April 19, 2009 at 10:16 PM

LIBERAL COMMIES

wade underhile on April 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM

Is there anyone in this admin who can speak of the cuff about anything without going into errr uhh ere uh ahhh ohhmm?

It’s really starting to get annoying.

DSchoen on April 19, 2009 at 10:42 PM

I thought Obama wasn’t aware of the Tea Parties?

Conservative_SAHM on April 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM

Funny – he’s unaware of them, and attacking them at the same time. He even came out with a statement on 4/15 about how he was sticking to his promise not to raise taxes on anyone earning under $250k. Of course, if you smoke, he’s already broken that promise.

hawksruleva on April 19, 2009 at 10:42 PM

We didn’t get organized…we organized ourselves!

CCRWM on April 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM

Outstanding!

I was blissfully ignorant of the existence of people like Comrades Axelrod and Rahm until the election.

Truly creepy individuals. I wonder if McCain sees “K-G-B” printed on their foreheads?

Dr. ZhivBlago on April 19, 2009 at 10:43 PM

ProudPalinFan on April 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM
What color t-shirts do we get to wear?

GT on April 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM

I am gonna write MM on that one, she’s got great talent on her end. I was thinking of putting up the design myself, since I can work Publisher and similar software. Not the same, though!

Being a child of the 80′s, piece of cake!

ProudPalinFan on April 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM

I have to say to ernesto good on you for recognizing the truth and joining in the tea party movement. This shows true maturity. It is healthy to see that there are Democrat voters who do in fact recognize the truth. They should be applauded for this – unlike getalife who needs to getaclue

maggieo on April 19, 2009 at 11:02 PM

Unhealthy for you and your boy, for sure.

Can.Utility on April 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM

ernesto good on you for recognizing the truth and joining in the tea party movement.

Ernesto has long been our reluctant, seductive, and sexy friend. I would stand beside him at any parade, any time.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 11:11 PM

Umm… Then why exactly are you supporting Obama and his Porkulus bill?? Methinks that you aren’t a Republican… If you voted for Barry the Messiah in the election you no longer get to claim to be one.

Illinidiva on April 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM

You really shouldn’t assume. So many of the new posters here love to assume, they really feel it’s their duty.

I voted for McCain, and you can verify that with the other old timers like Rushbaby or look through the archives.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:13 PM

Axelrod causes a lurch to the far left, then whines about the inevitable reaction….inevitable they know what they are doing is dishonest, that is why they are so paranoid…because they know what they are doing to the country is wrong and unconstitutional…They have GUILT MASSIVE GUILT and they should have. What they really lack is any sense of SHAME. What happens when the inflation hits from this out of control spending and Cap & Trade kills the economy? Well whats left of the economy. They think then we will welcome any form of Government control to save us? As in the illusion of security vs liberity?

Dr Evil on April 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM

I believe David Axelrod is the most dangerous man in America

ndulik on April 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM

Actually his boss is, and the bosses TOTUS.

Dasher on April 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM

David Axelrod that’s not what happened in Argentina.

http://www.bankintroductions.com/argentina.html

No one has ever spent their way out of debt and socialism always fails.

Dr Evil on April 19, 2009 at 11:23 PM

Or maybe David Axelrod thinks the Zimbabwe model is the way to go.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13673645/-Zimbabwe-From-Hyperinflation-to-Growth-Cato-Development-Policy-Analysis-No-6-

Dr Evil on April 19, 2009 at 11:25 PM

Maybe David Axelrod thinks the Japanese model will work…sure lets stagnate for a decade.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88156284

Dr Evil on April 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM

I voted for McCain, and you can verify that with the other old timers like Rushbaby or look through the archives.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:13 PM

My dear AprilOrit, I’m afraid I have been absent for a number of months, and therefore unknown to your current interlocutors. I do, however, vouchsafe that you voted for McCain The Creepedishedness, and therefore abide in the Ab0minable Wastlande of the Republicande Partye.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM

My dear AprilOrit, I’m afraid I have been absent for a number of months, and therefore unknown to your current interlocutors. I do, however, vouchsafe that you voted for McCain The Creepedishedness, and therefore abide in the Ab0minable Wastlande of the Republicande Partye.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM

Thanks! because I am constantly accused of voting for The One, it’s kind of funny when I think about me – who always pulls the R lever – ever stooping that low to pull the D lever. LOL. I have never voted for the Democrat Party in my life.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:37 PM

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM

I will love the GOP ’til the day I die, and will vote for whomever they run.

It’s just the way it is, it’s in my blood.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM

It’s just the way it is, it’s in my blood.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM

My Precious AprilOrit, you will always be in my blood. Blessings and Blessings be upon you and yours.

RushBaby on April 19, 2009 at 11:43 PM

“this president cut taxs for 95% of americans”, well, I must not be in that percentage as I only make $40,000. May I ask, where is my tax money going and to who. What the fuge is going on in this country that we even think we have a president and congress that knows what they are doing? What??????????

foxone on April 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM

Hehe….makes me want to see Buchanan win the GOP nomination in 2012.

;)

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GT on April 19, 2009 at 11:57 PM

Hehe….makes me want to see Buchanan win the GOP nomination in 2012.

;)

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GT on April 19, 2009 at 11:57 PM

Have no problem with Pat. I’ll vote for him.

AprilOrit on April 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM

does anyone really give a sheets any more? you republicans and demo-rats can kiss this boys back side.

foxone on April 20, 2009 at 12:12 AM

I’ve got your “unhealthy” right here, Dave.

THE CHOSEN ONE on April 20, 2009 at 12:18 AM

Who do you think was responsible for the unsealing of the divorce records of his US Senate primary opponent and his general election opponent, Ryan? David Axlerod, who was an employee of the Chicago Tribune at the time. Because of Axlerod and the media generated scandal over the divorce, Obama literally pulled victory out of the jaw of defeat because he was more than 10% points down before Axlerod’s efforts.

In the general election, Axlerod pulled the same thing. He, again, got a compliant judge to unseal the divorce and claimed a scandal because Ryan proposition his wife at a strip club (as Ann Coulter put it). The feckless state Republicans pushed him into quiting the race. They replace him with Keynes, who didn’t even live in Illinois.

THAT’S WHY OBAMA IS PRESIDENT TODAY – all do the the dirty tricks of David Axlerod (spit!!).

georgej on April 20, 2009 at 12:19 AM

I’ll add him to the list. I do my list alphabetically so it’ll be cool to eat dave first.

THE CHOSEN ONE on April 20, 2009 at 12:44 AM

“I think the teabags should be directed elsewhere.”

Okay. Forward your tea bags to:

“Impeach Obama, c/o Congress”

Daggett on April 20, 2009 at 12:52 AM

Even so, his intent is clear — to delegitimize the parties by framing them as a shot across the bow from some sort of inchoate militia.

Axlerod didn’t call the ACORN Bus Tour to AIG employees houses unhealthy. AIG employees receiving actual death threats were not considered unhealthy??

Axlerod doesn’t seem to think moveon.org ads targeting/pressuring congress to vote for TOTUS’s budget/healthcare, unhealthy?!

Axlerod diminishes the right of Americans to peaceably assemble. Carville hates senior citizens.

President TelePrompter does not care about middle class America.

TN Mom on April 20, 2009 at 1:32 AM

This is why I stopped watching interviews on very important and high toned News Journal Programmes.

A wind bag talking about tea bags

A wind bag with claws

entagor on April 20, 2009 at 1:35 AM

THAT’S WHY OBAMA IS PRESIDENT TODAY – all do the the dirty tricks of David Axlerod (spit!!).

georgej on April 20, 2009 at 12:19 AM

That’s one man I seriously hope finds his death in a fire.

Chaz706 on April 20, 2009 at 2:14 AM

OT guys.

I don’t like to say this, but… OMG. This is alarming.

newton on April 20, 2009 at 2:51 AM

To think, I thought Bush the younger had a problem with public speaking.
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That’s one man I seriously hope finds his death in a fire.

Chaz706 on April 20, 2009 at 2:14 AM

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Let god decide how he is to die. Besides it would probably hurt him worse to be condemned to irrelevancy, and only noticed when he blocks traffic.

darktood on April 20, 2009 at 2:57 AM

You really shouldn’t assume. So many of the new posters here love to assume, they really feel it’s their duty.

I voted for McCain, and you can verify that with the other old timers like Rushbaby or look through the archives.

AprilOrit on April 19, 2009 at 11:13 PM

Then why exactly are you defending Barry the Messiah now and bashing the tea parties?? Something that should bind all Republicans together is a disdain for tax increases and massive increases in spending on cr*p.

Illinidiva on April 20, 2009 at 3:03 AM

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