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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:23 PM Original message |
The Teabaggers have already succeeded. Their influence has been much greater than their numbers. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because billionaires are the teabaggers. Those people wearing teabags off their heads are |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. On the national level yes, but not on the local level. |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. That is true |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-18-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #29 |
56. Very true. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. They have the big corporations backing them. nm |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-18-11 12:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
57. On the national level that is very true. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:25 PM Original message |
The Tea Party didn't resuscitate the GOP. The Democrats did n/t |
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Huey P. Long (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
51. How true. Well paid capitulators and enablers. Money knows no 'party'. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
53. +1 |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. I suspect their flatulence is more overbearing than any influence they have. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. I love the smell of desperation in the morning.. |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. I disagree |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. They took over PA. A teabagger governor and US senator plus the State House and Senate. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. Yes but it wasnt because of the pretend TeaBagger movement, it was because they had big |
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stillwaiting (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. Any influence the Tea Party has made on our nation has to do with the media |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Bingo. |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. if you listen to faux snooze tell it |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. ... |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Bull. The Tea Party has been successful because they organized politically |
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stillwaiting (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
38. Rubbish. The Tea Party was organized top-down with massive amounts of money funded |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #38 |
47. Whether the movement was top-down or bottom-up is irrelevant |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
41. No they didn't... |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. That's a distinction without a difference |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. No, I guess I didn't make myself clear... |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. I'd have to disagree with that |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 05:36 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. An insurgent movement would be grassroots... |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. +1 |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
6. There are many reasons |
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libinnyandia (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. One of the reasons so many of their candidates won in 2010 |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
39. Good point! n/t |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
7. The teabaggers are pawns of billionaire Birchers. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
9. Their influence has been much greater than their numbers |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. They put their influence in the SAME system they said was corrupt?! Seriously, How did that help... |
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apnu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. The tea baggers are astroturf. They already had influence, the "movement" changed nothing. |
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Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. Bill Krystal has taken over pnwmom's DU account. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. The teabaggers have Fox News. OWS doesn't have anything remotely close b |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. The pugs wore out the religious right so.... |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. The "Tea Party" is a small group of old white people - |
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suffragette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. Their numbers are actually the $$$ the Kochs spent financing them |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
22. right. and they got absolutely no help from the Koch brothers... |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
23. I THINK THESE OCCUPIERS ARE THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD! |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
26. Where do you get this crazed idea that protesting means not |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
27. Ron Johnson, Pat Toomey, Mark Kirk, Marco Rubio is how they succeeded. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. Not much of a win... |
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sandyshoes17 (100 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
28. They are a front group |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
30. They were created by the political system. OWS was not. It was created |
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caledesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
31. "Wait till the Rethugs are in charge ."....they will never be! |
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whatchamacallit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
32. They sure fooled you |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
33. Fox talking points. Shame on you. I noticed you dropped your turd and ran. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
36. WTF? Nonsense... |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
40. Bullshit they are an AstroTurf bunch of crazies being used by the 1%. |
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Philosopher King (269 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
43. I don't know if they have more influence than their numbers suggest, |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. They haven't done anything... |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
44. Them results of those elections 10 days ago knocked the Third Way on their corporatist tushies! |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
45. The Teabaggers are just the Republican base rebranded |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Well said... |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
54. Yet another one who doesn't get it. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-17-11 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
55. In a stunning blow to the Tea Party movement, |
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