Some Tea Partiers are in the wrong party, say Greens

[Pryderi]

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/03/02/some-tea-partiers-are-in-the-wrong-party-say-greens/

WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders and candidates said that many Tea Party activists might be in the wrong party and urged them to consider going Green.

“Not all Tea Party members are befuddled rightwingers screeching that President Obama is a socialist, fascist, pro-terrorist, or all of the above. Many Tea Partiers have legitimate concerns about how the Democratic Party’s health care reform plans will reduce Medicare and about trillion-dollar taxpayer-funded giveaways to Wall Street firms. They are as outraged as Greens are about how both Democrats and Republicans are coddling CEOs, major stockholders, and other wealthy elites while preaching sacrifice for the rest of us,” said Carl Romanelli, former Green candidate for the US Senate and a member of Health Care for All Pennsylvania (http://healthcare4allpa.org).

Greens said corporate royalists like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin who pose as populist leaders have hijacked the Tea Party movement.

“Republicans and rightwing ideologues in the media are thrilled with a Tea Party movement that will channel votes and money towards extremist GOP politicians. Their idea of the Tea Party has nothing to do with the 1773 Boston Tea Party. They prefer a movement full of people who would have denounced the original Boston Tea Party as leftist terrorism against the British East India Company. They would have criticized Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine for wanting to rein in what Jefferson called ‘the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations.’ * To these Tea Partiers, and to most Republican and Democratic politicians, restraints on corporate power are a symptom of ‘big government.’ Many of the Tea Partiers who vented their rage against health care reform at town hall meetings in 2009 were in effect defending the power of health insurance companies — the modern equivalents of British tea companies — to drive people who need medical care into financial ruin,” said Rodger Jennings, Green candidate for Congress in Illinois, District 12

[tosh]

1. "Corporate royalists.....

who pose as populist leaders..."

I like that.

[Demeter]

2. I'd Say they Were on the Wrong Planet

and victims of a time warp. But that's just me.

[K8-EEE]

3. "Not all Tea Party members are befuddled rightwingers..."

All the ones I've ever seen are!

[matt819]

5. Agreed.

I haven't seen one teabagger who isn't a befuddled - and that's kind - rightwinger. They are a dangerous lunatic element - willfully stupid and racist. Not only have the teapartiers not disavowed the overt hate groups, but they have embraced them. And RW politicians are pandering to them.

[The Traveler]

4. Interesting ... and a freakin' awesome avatar ...

Seriously. I think at least some of the Tea Partiers are reasonable folk who are just mad as hell but don't know how not to take it any more.

More seriously ... a really great avatar there, dude. An excellent choice, I must say.

Trav'

[jgraz]

6. The Green Tea Party?

:hide:

[blue97keet]

7. Who is the present day British East India Company.?

Big Pharma? The Health insurance sector? AIG FP? Tata Consultancy? Toyota?

A real "Tea Party" would be out to dump guess who?

[seattle_blue]

8. Teabaggers

The teabaggers are eight years and a few trillion dollars short. That's all I'll say about that.