Is there any organization more threatening to this democracy then the Tea Party, at this point?

[SammyWinstonJack]

Rand Paul saying that Sandy victims with their me me me attitude threatens national security comes to mind.

What a load of crap, that is!

[muntrv]

1. Hey Rand! Why don't you show these Sandy victims how to build their houses by themselves?

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. heh

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

3. I would say...

I would say that the forces behind the Teahooligans are more threatening than they are, in themselves. Those backers will keep trying to build and fund organizations and movements like, if not worse than, this one. The think tanks and conservative infrastructure are in place to help with that. Those driving this movement aren't going to give up, even when the current movement fizzles out or falls apart.

I read the national security quote as following up on the set-up provided by sequester-driven military cuts. Another one of their "set-'em-up, knock-'em-down" bits. They force the sequester, causing the cuts, then they suggest that national security is being threatened if we spend money on anything other than military. They're trying to carefully control the narrative about government spending and expenses, to avoid the introduction of any serious argument for raising taxes to increase income.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. The little tea baggers have no idea, do they?

[RKP5637]

13. Yep, the real slime lies in the rat holes, often out of sight, as they fund and

pursue their objective to destroy this country for most.

[CrispyQ]

25. This. ^^^

The MIC, a great tool for the elite to siphon our Treasury into their personal coffers. Wave a flag, create a boogeyman & a good share of Americans will happily put social programs on the block in the interests of "national security." My right wing mother, who lived on a fixed income & used government services, had no problem with the military budget. "We need a big, bad military."

[Berlum]

26. True. The Baggers are the willing SuckerPuppets of the 1% (R)

The Baggers allow themselves to be suckered and played for fools. It's sad to watch.

If they ever wake up and realize how they have been used by the Republicon 'elite' they will shit bricks.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

35. They are being expertly manipulated

Some of them have been manipulated in one way after another for two or three decades, now. Sadly, I don't expect most of them to be able to suddenly wake up and realize that they've been had. Instead, they'll just fall for the next manipulation, very likely becoming more and more extreme as their frustration rises. The forces manipulating them have their own agenda, which has little overlap with the ploys used to manipulate these protest and/or electoral movements.

I would perhaps start quoting What's The Matter with Kansas?, if my memory were robust enough to pull quotations out of the air like that.

[Berlum]

36. Yuppers. Here's one quote from What's the Matter...

"The movement (right-wing Republicon propaganda) speaks to those at society’s bottom, addresses them on a daily basis. From the left they hear nothing, but from the Cons they get an explanation for it all. Even better, they get a plan for action, a scheme for world conquest with a wedge issue."

[cthulu2016]

4. Yes. The Republican Party.

[kentuck]

5. That was going to be my answer also.

Because they refuse to stand up to the Tea Party. Their weakness makes them more dangerous.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Not much difference now, is there?

[pnwmom]

9. What's the difference? The Repubs are run by the teaparty-ers now.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. exactly. no difference and proudly so.

[LiberalEsto]

8. ALEC nt

[Zorra]

10. Yes, ALEC is a deadly threat to all of us. nt

[AnotherMcIntosh]

12. Yes, there's a more dangerous organization. It is the militarized police throughout the country.

Nationwide, they've been purposely trained to deliver unnecessary and excessive violence.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. I was thinking politically.....

Still.....

[RKP5637]

15. Bingo! It's a tremendous threat, power and violence, often going

unquestioned with the idiotic thought that it's protecting us from them and those ... fostering us versus them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. One would have to be a real lemming at this point to believe that the

militarized police are protecting and serving us little people especially after OWS.

[PowerToThePeople]

17. The Supreme Court via citizens united ruling

Well, I guess that was in the past wasn't it?

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. No, not in the past. Guess I was just upset by the rand paul bs toward Sandy victims. I really

hate the tea party!

[Bluenorthwest]

19. The Republican Party is the actual organization, there is no such Party as Tea Party

certainly no 'organization' call Tea Party, they have no national organization they are part of the Republican Party. They are Republicans.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Yes.

[pinboy3niner]

21. Well, according to House Republicans, there's ACORN...

House Republicans Defund the Nonexistent ACORN, Yet Again
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023372780

[markiv]

22. yes, the corporatists within the DLC

who pretty much make the tea party redundant

[Douglas Carpenter]

23. perhaps the NSA

[City Lights]

33. That's what I was thinking. nt

[limpyhobbler]

24. NY Stock Exchange?

[fredamae]

27. Yes! There are-

Those who Believe the "rand pauls"....Without them? Rand is Nothing--and the sad thing is-It's all a façade. They're being "duped" and don't even know it.

NY/NJ etc send a Lot more money To the feds than they Ever get back---again, it's a "grand façade" he peddles.

[Myrina]

28. Ginny Thomas and her under-the-table crew.

Stillwater? TideWater? BongWater? ... whatever the hell the call themselves?

[liberal N proud]

29. You mean outside of the republican party as a whole

which includes the teabaggers.

The obstruction currently taking place in Washington is the single most damaging action against this nation since the civil war.

[tsuki]

30. Wall Street. nt

[KharmaTrain]

31. The Teabaggers Are A Gift That Keep Giving...

...their stridency and support of the most obstinate and backwards rushpublican candidates surely helped to re-elect Claire McCaskill. They're a far bigger thorn in the rushpublican party now as they are in ours...and to me that's a very good thing. While some here have been obsessed with other matters (NSA, Zimmerman) the rushpublicans are a party in total revolt. You'll hear teabaggers curse out Rove worse than they will almost anyone else but President Obama. Now you're hearing a "moderate" like Christie shooting back at the "selfish" wing. The chasm is wide and gets even wider when you throw the fundies into the mix.

On the national level the teabaggers are not as much as threat as they are on the state level. Years of working the grassroots has led the rushpublicans to build up numbers in state legislatures that has led to some of the worst legislation I've seen in my lifetime being passed. This is the forefront on the war on women, voting rights, gay marriage and other important social issues. It's also the key to the gerrymandering that goes on in Washington. It's time for the Democrats to really dig deep into those grassroots and take this country back one town, county and state at a time...

[sigmasix]

32. political legitimacy

Teabaggers love it when they are reffered to as a political party- It gives them political legitimacy that they don't deserve. They love it when "journalists" call them "small government conservatives" as well. Teabaggers certainly aren't conservative, given their propensity to distrust science and to revise American history. Teabaggers don't want a smaller government- they want a weakened America caused by legislation that destroys our national cohesion and the American value of live and let live. Teabaggers want to see government expanded into the body of every single woman in America and every single bedroom. Greenwald calls Teabaggers a "new breed" as well- when the reality is that teabaggers are just disguised far right wing Birchers that have been slinking around America's politics since the civil war. Birchers and Teabaggers hate everything our America stands for and they want to destroy it and turn it into "their America" by amping-up racist ideologies and antiAmerican hate-fueled lies about the founder's intentions and the pressures of history that caused Americans to fight off the 1%'s yoke of oppression. The teabaggers are paid for and "educated" by the most active and toxic members of the criminally wealthy elite paymasters of the extreme right wing. They support the 1% goal of dismantling American laws and liberties that prevent the criminally wealthy from stealing and destroying even more of America. How overwhelmingly hate-filled and stupid does one have to be to view teabaggers as anything other than agents of political chaos and partisan destruction?

[mick063]

34. Fox is the propoganda arm of the Kochs. The Tea Party is their creation.

It always begins with "follow the money".

That includes the Democratic Party.

[Egalitarian Thug]

37. Many. The tea party is just a tool, The US Chamber of Commerce is just one

organization that is incalculably more destructive. Goldman-Sachs, the Carlyle Group, every hedge fund, ALEC, third-way, almost every so-called think tank, the list goes on and on...

[pampango]

38. The TP is anti-immigration reform, anti-trade, believe in a NWO conspiracy but not global warming...

In response to Obama’s plug for the trans-oceanic partnerships, investigative reporter Jerome Corsi noted: “Obama’s open discussion of the two-oceans TPP and TAP free trade agendas during his recent SOTU attests to the persistence of globalists. ... In order to prevent this, both sides of the internationalists’ agenda must be countered simultaneously: Illegal immigration must be controlled and amnesty denied, and new “free trade” pacts between the United States and other nations must be stopped and existing ones, such as NAFTA, repealed.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/15010-permanent-amnesty-temporary-border

Do you believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order, or not?
'Very Liberal' : Yes - 12%, No - 69%;
'Somewhat Liberal' : Yes - 20%, No - 51%;
'Moderate': Yes - 23%, No - 56%;
'Somewhat Conservative' : Yes - 33%, No - 38%;
'Very Conservative' : Yes - 45%, No - 26%.

Do you believe that global warming is a hoax or not?
'Very Liberal' : Yes - 14%, No - 79%;
'Somewhat Liberal' : Yes - 12%, No - 82%;
'Moderate': Yes - 22%, No - 67%;
'Somewhat Conservative' : Yes - 52%, No - 28%;
'Very Conservative' : Yes - 71%, No - 17%.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. Yup, the NSA