Tea Party: Companies that support outsourcing - OK. Companies that support health care reform - EVIL

[ck4829]

Jesse Jackson isn't the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama's progressive agenda.

In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says: "Tea Party activists are willing to tackle progressive CEOs just as they tackled progressive politicians. Judging by the results of the midterm elections, progressive CEOs should buckle up, because Tea Party activists are going to give them a very bumpy ride."

His project partner, Tom Borelli, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, added: "Big businesses are now on notice that there is a measurable business risk for actively supporting the Obama, Reid, and Pelosi progressive public policy agenda."

The groups released a new Wilson Research Strategies poll to Whispers which shows how companies could suffer when conservatives are told of their support for Obama's agenda. The poll found that when customers are told of a consumer product firm's support for healthcare reform, bailouts, cap-and-trade energy policies or other issues pushed by the administration, their favorability among conservatives plummets.

http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/11/22/next-tea-party-target-corporate-america.html

"Feel free to send our jobs to 8 year old kids in third world countries, destroy the environment, secretly funnel money into mysterious advertising groups to affect elections, and get no-bid contracts full of conflicts of interest; but if you DARE give me health care, then I will DESTROY you!!!111!!!1one"

[Vinca]

1. Teabaggers remind me of the Jim Jones followers.

Kool-aid, anyone?

[Locrian]

2. makes sense....

Seriously. There *is* a twisted reason of why they behave that way.

They are behaving like corporations. They are behaving in pure self interest. Would make sense that they align their behavior with them, even though in the end it is AGAINST their benefit. Because the whole economic / monetary game DRIVES that behavior (short term at the expense of long term).

Read Douglass Rushkoffs book "Life Inc". It's an amazing and historical look at some of the fundamental forces of our behavior. Explains a HELL of a lot that on the surface doesnt seem to make logical sense.

If you've ever heard of "Century of the Self" and "Money as Debt" it's that and much more.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/238643/july-15-2009/douglas-rushkoff
http://boingboing.net/2009/05/04/life-inc.html

[pampango]

3. Most Tea Partiers Think Free Trade Agreements That Tea Party Candidates Support Are Bad

For The Country

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/30/tea-partiers-trade-bad

Earlier this week, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released a new poll surveying Americans’ views on trade. The poll found that 69 percent of Americans thought that free trade agreements the United States has taken part in have cost the country jobs, and 53 percent of Americans think these agreements hurt the country as a whole.

Interestingly, the poll also found that opposition to free trade agreements is particularly strong among Americans who define themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement.

It will be interesting to see how tea party elected politicians deal with the tp base on issues like trade and outsourcing.

[zbdent]

4. Obama has a "Wall Street" guy in his Administration ... "CORRUPTION"

Ohio elects one of the actual people involved in the collapse of Wall Street (Wall Street John Kasich) ... "Hey, he's going to turn Ohio around."

Don't forget ... TEA Party wants to rid the Government of corruption ... and they have convicted felon Jim Traficant (corruption, bribery) speak at plenty of their events ...

go figure ...