Welcome to the Republican Tea Party
How refreshing to see an effort to actually hold Republicans accountable for their nasty, selfish attitudes toward fellow citizens. The Democrats have an answer to the Republicans' effort to craft a new "Contract With America".
Behold, the Republican Tea Party Contract ON America, where Democrats are prepared to remind the country of what Republicans have been up to this year.
Contract high points include:
- Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Health Insurance Reform)
Put insurance companies back in charge, repeal tax credits for small businesses, allow insurance companies to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions and to drop coverage when a person gets too sick and make prescription drugs for seniors less affordable.
- Privatize Social Security or phase it out altogether
Turn the guaranteed retirement benefits of America's seniors over to Wall Street CEOs by putting Social Security at risk in the stock market or, as some Republicans have called for, phase out Social Security altogether and end a program millions of American seniors rely on for their survival. - End Medicare as it presently exists
Phase out and end Medicare as it presently exists for future generations of seniors -- ending Medicare's guaranteed healthcare benefits for more than 40 million American seniors -- and replace it with a voucher system which will result in higher premiums and fewer services for seniors.
- Extend the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy and big oil
At a cost of nearly $700 billion, extend the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and big oil, which are set to expire and which have and will continue to explode the federal budget deficit.
- Repeal Wall Street Reform
Roll back the toughest consumer protections ever enacted, allow banks to continue to grow too big to fail, and ensure that predatory lenders continue to utilize their most abusive practices.
- Protect those responsible for the oil spill and future environmental catastrophes
Cap liabilities for those responsible for environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill and let companies like BP decide which victims deserve compensation for the disaster and what the timeline for relief should be. - Abolish the Department of Education
Put the big banks back in charge of student loans and put an end to federal assistance for public schools.
- Abolish the Department of Energy
End America's investments in a clean-energy future and disband the organization responsible for oversight of nuclear materials.
- Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency
Gut the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act -- which together protect our kids from air pollution and keep drinking water safe -- and disband the watchdog that holds polluters accountable.
- Repeal the 17th Amendment
Take away your right to pick your U.S. Senator
That's what they've promised. Not just a walk back to the Bush years, a walk back to another century. Perhaps they could repeal the Emancipation Proclamation, too.
11. Begin construction of LIC's - Liberal Internment Camps.
12. Impeach Obama.
13. Government supplied kittens for Dick Cheney
14. 200 Acres of free land to Sean Hannity, under the Protection of the Manatee Act
15. Oxycotin designated an OTC drug (The Limbaugh Amendment to the Health Care Reform Act)
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I wouldn't be surprised if privatization/censoring of our socialist internet is within range of their ideology.
the ticker at the bottom read "Feb. 6, 2011 to be Ronal Reagan Commerative Day." Or some such, I don't remember the exact quote.
Heaven help us.
..traded arms to our enemies in Iran thus becoming a sitting American President who was a traitor? Or is it the day we remember he ramped up the national debt to a level so high, our great grandchildren will be paying it off. I hope so! Except for w, WORST President ever!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
that wants his name on something in every state must have gotten to the Federal Guv'mnt and they declared (with Nancy Reagan standing by) Feb. 6 (his birthday-he would have been 100 years old this year) as Ronald Reagan Day...looks like we're stuck with that goon forever.
And, isn't it just karma that February is also Black History month.....yuck!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
burning.
Absolutely.
We, the people need the internet!!!!!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Rethuglican Tea Party Agenda:
1. GET THE N*GGER OUT OF THERE.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
For many that is it in a nutshell. Nutshell seems very appropriate in the tea party biz.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
NUTS in the Party.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Perhaps they could repeal the Emancipation Proclamation, too.
It will be a tough fight, but once they retake the White House VP Huckabee will cast the 51st vote.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You KNOW they want to.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
"Haven't you heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?"
"I don't listen to hip-hop."
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I love the Mafia-hit connotations of 'contract on'. It's like they're going to whack America. And indeed, that's what they want to do.
By saying "Contract on America". A more accurate assessment of what they want to do is more like " Thinning the herd". To what end? Who knows?. That question would take me to some very dark places and I'm not going there.
Tea Party = shallow end of the pool. (Genes')
Be as you wish to seem
apologized to the British East India Tea Company yet for the 1775 Boston Tea Party?
RTP! I like it!
Now we'll have both the GOP and the Tea-people screaming about how they have nothing to do with each other. Nothing in common at all except Obama derangement syndrome.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I love the way they hung the tea party albatross around the republicans' neck. It looks so politically fashionable there.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Speaking of student loans...
Is anyone on this site interested/available to write something up about the changes to student loans. It's REALLY difficult to find what's up with this sort of stuff and contacting my government official doesn't help... they still don't seem to get the difference between the different student loan types out there.
I have Sallie Mae private loans. They were guaranteed by the government. The interest rates are nuts and I'm paying over $1,000 a month to them on an original balance of about $60,000.
I can't even figure out what my options are. I'm under the impression things were changed to help me in this regard, but obviously Sallie Mae isn't exactly cooperative with me doing anything or finding anything out about it.
So I'd really love to see C&L or someone I can trust discuss this on a public level.
Today's addition: make sure to hurt small businesses to benefit much bigger businesses, which 'category crush' the small ones almost at will.
MyMy
... of not being a sycophant, exactly why is #5 referring to the banking "reform" as " the toughest consumer protections ever enacted"? It does nothing about payday lending, and still leaves us quite naked to the abuses of derivatives trading and virtually unregulated commodities markets. It was, much like the health insurance bill (don't call it a healthcare bill, it would upset *real* health care legislation) a watered down compromised between pseudo-conservative and uber-conservative politicians.
Bring back Glass-Steagall if you're so committed to banking reform, or enact a single payer system for healthcare if you're so interested in how insurance companies are dicking people. Doing any less is basically masturbation. I'm sure it feels good, but it's not really accomplishing much.
political operatives gots to be political operatives
There, fixed that for you.
The only reason why this stupid political system is in the current state of crapulence is that we have allowed it to become this terrible by accepting mediocrity instead of expecting something better from politicians.
If they say "reform health insurance", I expect some single payer action. If they say "reform banks", I expect bankers to be walking funny for months. This half-assed reacharound crap is killing us.
submit to the newspeak, citizen!
drink your Victory-brand Gin, and forget...
it would be a shame to have to send you to Room 101.
is making a comeback.
So, that's at least one small plus if they win and take us back to The Middle Ages.
Uhm, women, I'd be worried about voting for these people. Their other favorite form of entertainment was "Witch Burning."
That was the Renaissance.
This was in consequence of Pope Innocent VIII, Summi Desiderantes, in December 5, CE 1484, declaring Witchcraft an active heresy and conspiracy against God, and to disbelieve in it a punishable crime, when before it was the Canon Episcopi, first mentioned in Libri de Synodalibus Causis et Disciplinis Ecclesiasticis, CE 909 (Supposedly going back to the 4th century), where Witchcraft was a delusion caused by Satan where deluded women flew with Diana, and it was a sin to believe in it.
Funny thing, when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, his three witches didn't cavort with Satan, but with Hecate, and that it was performed for King James I, writer of the book Daemonologie in 1597.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/history-of-jous...
About the rest, I'll take your word for it. I'm impressed, I'm sure it's right, it certainly sounds familiar.
My interest in the Middle Ages centers on Russia, of which there is a much poorer historical record. But very, very interesting.
Medieval Witchcraft was more like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Their uh... 17th amendment thing.. o_O That always creeped me out. I get the other stuff, by how does that fit into tea party ideology? I'm genuinely asking.
Do they think that.. they can't win elections anymore, and therefore, need another way to keep conservatives in the senate?
.....will let the King appoint senators!
MZ
I much prefer to belong to the Cofaigh Céilidh Alba.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Sure but only among their dreamers. Don't want to get too ambitious.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
#1 and 5...sorry, but NO reform to repeal, Ins. cos. and banks STILL in charge.
And #2,3,4,6....Obama will take care of those with or w/out the stinking teagaggers.
Cue the Kabuki....
It's on their HIDDEN agenda.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
It's not exactly hidden...
Let's us all be truly greatful that they hide their pudendas.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
That's a bad mental picture.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
These "take my country back" fucks probably want to reinstate the Negroes being 3/5's a person shit.
Fucking scary.
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“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Each "race" shall have its own continent.
White racists and black racists seem to agree on that one point.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
What about the mixed-race people? Are we going with the "one drop of black blood" method of measurement?
I guess when those people can only think in black and white, things seem a lot more simplistic than they really are.
DemRapidResponse made a video of the "Contract On America" and points out the obvious - the Republicans and the Tea Party are:
ONE AND THE SAME
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Back in 1994, critics and activists called the Republicans' Contract With America "Contract On America," too. Back then, though, what's now called the Tea Party was just referred to as militias and white supremacists.
The Republicans, having repeatedly demonstrated they're meat puppets and a complete waste of air, ought to cease having air in their congressional offices until they come around!
Proud DFH, emeritus!
that Obama had presented...LOANS TO SMALL BUSINESSES!!!--who hire 70 percent of the people.
Oh, yeah, can't let those small businesses flourish...might accidentally help the little guy.
I HATE THOSE LYING THIEVING BASTARD RETHUGLICANS!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
They won't get away with this!
They are such liars and cheats and rip offs, i just can't believe
this is happening.
Like a good old man once said, this will not stand.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
R.I.C.O. the RepubliBaggers and their FOX TeeVee shack too! It must stink
in there now.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
A lot of people talk about them wanting to return to the 50s, but really when you listen to their complaints you realize they really want to return back to the 90's, 1890's. A time before the progressive movements had taken place, when powerful trusts and corporations were completely unregulated in any way and the Federal government was tiny and weak.
Trust me, if you know history, the gilded age is what these people really yearn for, most of their policies and ideas are throwbacks to the Laissez faire type of capitalism of the late 19th century.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
I have to agree.
and for some, try the 1770s? Really, that's where some of them are.
..and they are like zombies, but real.
Either vote or become one with the Bagger mob.
The world is what we make it.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
They like to imagine that they are patriots in the same vein as the founders, which is why you hear so much about the founders from them, it's a sort of ancestor worship except they tend to make up their own version of the founders. But I still think their way of thinking fits in best with the gilded age and the 19th centuries way of viewing things.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
The only thing wrong with the picture is the way the Republicans
and their cable networks have glommed on to these freaks.
Not only are we being led around by a handful of people in
their TV studio shacks, but they want us to swallow this Tea
Bagger bullshit instead of dealing with reality, like the
Republican party is insane. It is raving mad. There is no way
in hell they are the right party to be in government.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
And at this point, 30 years of following their laissez-faire principals in this country has resulted in 1890s levels of inequality. Some studies even show present US inequality exceeding the levels of the 1890s. The Gilded Age of the 1890s is also referred to as the age of conspicuous consumption, which kinda makes me think of the 1980s, when the current wave of laissez-faire began.
The use of "On" as in "Contract On America" says it all.
Tea Baggers cannot legitimately claim they're just protecting the
constitution, while they try to change it.
The Tea Party is a self contained bag of non-sequiter shit, gumming
up the normal democratic process.
Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Baggers.
I like the constitution.
Tea Party doesn't. Screw the Tea Party.
I like the constitution.
Republican Party doesn't. Screw the Republican party.
And all the TV Ruckess.
It's all to create a crisis enviroment, in which to destroy the
constitution. Screw the Ruckess too.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I like the constitution.
Libertarian Party doesn't. Screw the Libertarian Party.
If they went to a public school?
If they got a student loan from the govt?
If they've ever used anything funded by the public?
If they've ever called a cop or a fireman?
If they've ever used a library?
If they've ever been to a State Park?
Or a National Forest?
The way I see Libertarians is, a bunch a whiners.
Except some of them smoke pot. They're the ones who don't whine very much.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
most libertarians used to be liberals who just studied economics and logic, and got out of that whiny appeal to emotions bitchy stage that liberals are always in. ;)
another form of nut job republicans.
If a TeeVee person lets one of these RepubliBaggers claim they are
patriotic now, without discussing this list, i'm going to puke.
I mean come on! That's resentment. not patriotism.
We all know resentment when we see it.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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