The disconnect astounds me. What makes these people

[babylonsister]

think the republicans are doing them any favors when they vote against HCR, unemployment assistance, new jobs bills? Someone's been really good at selling them a load of crap, so I guess props to faux and its minions. Oh, and this makes my head hurt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html?hpw

With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party

Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Tea Party supporters rallied Saturday in Searchlight, Nev., Senator Harry Reid’s hometown.

By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: March 27, 2010

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.

In the last year, he has organized a local group and a statewide coalition, and even started a “bus czar” Web site to marshal protesters to Washington on short notice. This month, he mobilized 200 other Tea Party activists to go to the local office of the same congressman to protest what he sees as the government’s takeover of health care.

Mr. Grimes is one of many Tea Party members jolted into action by economic distress. At rallies, gatherings and training sessions in recent months, activists often tell a similar story in interviews: they had lost their jobs, or perhaps watched their homes plummet in value, and they found common cause in the Tea Party’s fight for lower taxes and smaller government.

The Great Depression, too, mobilized many middle-class people who had fallen on hard times. Though, as Michael Kazin, the author of “The Populist Persuasion,” notes, they tended to push for more government involvement. The Tea Party vehemently wants less — though a number of its members acknowledge that they are relying on government programs for help.

Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law,” which denounces public benefits as “false philanthropy.”

“If you quit giving people that stuff, they would figure out how to do it on their own,” Mr. Grimes said.

(ME: This is the same Mr. Grimes who receives Social Security, the same guy who's being given 'stuff'. How come he can't see the hypocrisy?)

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html?hpw

[chillspike]

1. bunch of annoying old farts

you know, if you really think about it, if these "DIY" conservative douche bags ever got everything they wanted, humans would become a lower level solitary species because forming communities (note the communist tie), pooling brain power and resources or helping anyone would no longer happen. it would be everyone for themselves. if they didn't have D.C. to break up they would break up their own family over television access. they just can't play nice with anyone.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Maybe they think it's a valid entry on their resumes until they're employed again.

[JohnnyLib2]

3. People in Nevada are calling it "Burning Man Festival South."

Sarcastically!

Something to do, someplace to go, rituals to follow.

:crazy:

[DrToast]

4. How about: Burning Hillbilly

[JohnnyLib2]

9. If they plan another in summer heat, it just may be!

:evilgrin:

[NJmaverick]

5. "Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security"- irony is lost on these assholes

[RedCloud]

6. When Independence Day aliens attack, keep Area 51 off limits this time!

[unblock]

7. proof positive that idle hands do the devil's work. give the teabaggers JOBS!

then they won't have the time to wreak havoc....

[saltpoint]

8. Re that photo of the Baggers' Searchlight event --

Folks, does that look like a swell time or what?

[rug]

10. Looks like a scene from Close Encounters.

[saltpoint]

11. LOL!

And it might just be!

[TomCADem]

12. Three Letters - F - O - X

Why take responsibility when you can just blame the black man in the White House? Yet, many folks accept Fox's propaganda as the gospel troop. When Fox promotes death panels, viewers gran their guns and rush to protect grandma and grandpa from the federal storm troopers who will barge in any moment to haul them before a death panel. It must be scary place to live in that reality.

[political_Dem]

13. They are there because they are afraid of losing their white privilege.

They are so scared of the new order of things in today's society that they will resort to violence and viciousness to halt things in their tracks.

But the good thing is that their wish is not going to come true. There are too many of us who want change to come so we can have a better society that benefits all of us instead of only the top 2 per-cent.

[mwb970]

14. Is there anybody in that picture that's not white?

I doubt it. Why don't they just get it over with and call themselves the White People's Party (WPP), or maybe just White Power?

[Cha]

15. It's like a ..

"brng on more misery" rally.:silly: Bring It.

[maxsolomon]

16. Dick Armey and Freedomworks

these confused old white people have legitimate fears (job loss, deficits, a global economy designed to impoverish them and their offspring) and illegitimate fears (socialism, muslim kenyan presidents), and, as usual, the GOP got to them first with a message that both amplifies and legitimizes those fears. propaganda 101.

Decipimur Specie Recti - we are decieved by the semblance of what is right.