The "tea party" movement: Page 5

... storm of the issues that the tea parties have, combined with the issues inherent in popular voting systems. Please see both links for a discussion of those issues. The current top five proposals in the immigration category are impractical, and supporting them would not only not solve issues with massive/illegal immigration but would give their opponents yet more ammunition to use against them....

[UPDATE: I changed the title of this post from "Tea Party Nation bans Rachel Maddow seven minutes after she joined; no dissent will be tolerated!" to the present because Maddow says the person who they banned wasn't her: link. I assumed that Teaparty Nation had verified it was her either by doing a reverse DNS or through direct communication. Either they didn't do that, or - as Maddow says - this...

... sad and hilarious plan from the tea parties is to hold a national strike on January 20, 2010. On that day, several of their groups plan to go Galt, if only for a day (link): "What's proposed is a nationwide strike by all Tea Party members, no matter where they are," said Lloyd Rekstad, an organizer of the Yucaipa Tea Party. "The idea is to strike where we are, in our communities, at our...

... Santelli's rant that launched the tea parties, Weigel says "liberals from the blogosphere to the White House attacked Santelli directly as either a know-nothing or an agent of fiendish libertarian strategists. (The latter charge was immediately found to be bogus.)" That links to the Playboy "expose" (openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11934), which indeed had several problems and which they later...

The tea parties braintrust (Missouri division) turned out in full force yesterday in front of a Claire McCaskill office and - despite their best efforts - she still supports Obama healthcare. Their efforts were, of course, encouraged by Glenn Reynolds (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/90466). To them, it's a mystery why she'd still support it since they're doing their best: they left lumps of coal on...

... and now their successors in the tea parties have their own anti-intellectual airborne effort (link). This from the Danville Tea Party "Patriots" - the same group that wanted to burn a Rep. in effigy - The group’s project coordinator, Susan Lee, raised funds during the last two months to fly a plane over Washington, D.C. morning traffic today with a nearly 100-foot-long banner reading “OBAMA...

... we come to a blog post [1] by tea parties organizer Dana Loesch about Charles Jaco formerly of CNN sending a legal threat to another blogger over that blogger's claim that Jaco faked his Gulf War coverage; see the last link for the answer (he didn't). In her post, Loesch fails to point out that the claims about him are wrong, and she also falsely says that "Pat Buchanan wrote about [the claim...

... another cheap stunt from the tea parties, and - like most of their other stunts - it's ripped off from the far-left. Why exactly they think the only way to get their point across is by using the methods that groups like Students for a Democratic Society and ANSWER use is unknown, but it definitely has something to do with their general intellectual and emotional failings. 2. The idea that the...

... piggyback anti-amnesty on the wider tea parties movement. Whether they got any help from any other tea party groups isn't known, but neither Glenn Reynolds nor Pajamas Media nor FreedomWorks nor other usual suspects promoted them; this illustrates once again that those pulling the strings on the tea parties movement are libertarians who at the least are weak on immigration if not outright open...

... hundreds or thousands from the tea parties and related groups "stormed" Capitol Hill in an attempt to block Obama healthcare. That follows a conference call yesterday (link). If they had listened to me, they would have already blocked the plan or at least have eliminated any possible debate over the immigration-related provisions. Since February 2007 I've been promoting the question authority...

... not have the numbers. See the tea parties summary for an extensive summary of their electoral and other problems. And, due to the fact that many of their leaders and many of their followers are imbued with libertarian principles (such as they are), they aren't opposing attempts by the Democrats to import voters. Those leaders and followers aren't able to figure out the role that massive/illegal...

... people who attended the 9/12/09 tea parties march in Washington DC is still open to debate. Was it as high as 738,915? I ask because that's the current view count on this anti-Tea Party video. Now, certainly, many of those viewing that video already had their minds made up one way or another, but no doubt many others were undecided and some or most of those came away with a negative view of the...

... DC link above and in the main tea parties coverage I'm not much of a fan of them either. However, what Blumenthal will never discuss is that when it comes to immigration, both he and Armey are on the same general side. It's also worth noting that the tea party organizers will probably have no defense against videos like this; many of them will probably have never have heard of him before, and if...

... make sure and see our extensive tea parties coverage. Also, ask yourself why your leaders encouraged you to go to townhall meetings unarmed (intellectually speaking). They just wanted you to act out in public and throw a tantrum; they didn't encourage you to ask questions like these despite how really pressing a politician on that could have quashed Obamacare. UPDATE: OK, maybe the estimates...

... shows the extent to which the tea parties and those in their orbit are open to Randroid concepts. And, it shows the extent to which the tea partiers/libertarians/Ron Paul supporter types rely on stunts rather than being able to engage their opponents in debate: at the end, she holds up a $20 bill and urges her representative to come and take it away from her in order to give it to someone else....

... Reynolds elucidates that one of the tea parties groups has a new site: teaparty.thearenausa.com/insight/home.jsp While I enjoy :33 to :37 of the video in the upper right corner of that page (attached hereto), I have to wonder: - Why are they falling into the LBJ/Paul Krassner trap of denying they're racists? The correct way to deal with things like that is to show how their opponents are lying...

... fashion. If you've been following our tea parties coverage, you're probably thinking: "corporate astroturf? Call in the tea partiers!" And, in fact, FreedomWorks did call them in to the Houston rally. However, those inside the meeting apparently didn't want to rub shoulders with the hoi polloi and turned them away, as you can see on the attached video. Bear in mind that the source is Public...

... argument. Starting earlier this year, the tea parties-promoting "grassroots" group Americans for Prosperity (linked to the Koch family [1], which is in the energy business) skipped the dress-up game stage and went straight for the gold: they've been conducting their own "2009 Nationwide Hot Air Tour" featuring a "70-foot-tall hot air balloon" (hotairtour.org, [2]): "This cap-and-trade scheme is...

... specific policies, a group from the tea parties showed up and began chanting "just say no!" in an apparent attempt to show how dumb, childish, and much like ACORN they are. Needless to say, this depressing display is being promoted by Glenn Reynolds, who says: "Remember, protest is patriotic!". Grow up.