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It wasn't that long ago that CNBC's Rick Santelli gave his memorable rant from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and asked for a Chicago Tea Party. In his rant, he called for the tea party in July, which makes sense as it's the sanest time of the year to go to the lake. But supporters of Santelli's position had another idea and last Friday gathered at the Federal Plaza downtown to protest the new economic stimulus package recently passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Obama. The divisive package has struck a nerve, particularly in terms of those opposed to the bail-out for mortgages. The protest, which happened this past Friday, was one of many across the nation including St. Louis, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. Below is video from Chicago's Tea Party.
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Whoops. Turns out 'spontaneous grassroots outrage" takes quite a bit of advance planning.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/129523/right-wing_%27tea_party%27_movement_was_planned_months_ago_by_gop_billionaires/
Maybe next time, kids.
What a bunch of morons, standing around in the cold so rich people won't have to pay taxes.
That pretty much sums up the Republican party.
Glad to see families exploiting their children for causes that the kids don't understand. And, considering that the children are young enough to have not yet lost empathy, they may even oppose their parents if they did understand it.
I was just going to post "what kind of sociopathic narcissist brings their kids to something like this"
ahhhhh Mr. Sean "Pretty Much Like He Said" Caar
Yea, he's not Black Liberal, because he's a Republican House Negro!
They ask him a question and he looks to some scraggly white dude to answer for him
I bet the found him in some at some Wriggleville frat bar trying to "fit in" and be what he aint, white!
Serving in the military during the previous administration I saw the hideous waste that went on. Millions, billions, that was squandered on whatever pen and paper warrior plan Rumsfeld or Cheney thought might work. All while troops returning home couldn't get decent medical care, were denied due pay and found themselves stop-lossed time and again.
I don't agree with everything the President is doing, but I think that, unlike the previous occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. he's got the interests of most Americans at heart. I say this as someone who voted republican, not Bush, more often than not, until this last one.
Santelli's rant has been shown to be nothing more than some PR hot air, another attempt by the far right to fight about the wording and not the issues.
Crooks and Liars did a great bit on this over the weekend.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rick-santellis-rant-was-coordinated-eff
Here Here,
These mouth breathers were all strangley quiet and absent when The Bush admin was literally dropping of PALLETS OF CASH with no accountability in Iraq. Dep of Homeland Security, largest expansion of goverment in history. What can you expect of people too stupid to even look up the most dumbed down definition of "Socialism".
A black guy that isn't a democrat is a "house negro". Yeah, that's not racist.
Also, you think leftists don't plan protests? I know a lot of leftist activists, and they plan for months and coordinate. It's not like people are going to show up out of nowhere. I find the reaction of establishment liberals and Obama supporters to this highly revealing, to say the least.
The difference is that we do it openly. We don't have our PR people develop a sneak campaign in which some nudnik goes on the tv to deliver a scripted rant and then pretend that a grassroots movement spontaneously developed around it.
If you think Santelli's "rant" was anything but from the heart, you've obviously never watched him on CNBC before, nor did you choose to do any research before engaging in libel against him.
I always chuckle at those on the left who always think that whoever is against them is involved in some sort of conspiracy.
You know, maybe the Republican party is really that inept?
They certainly have done a terrible job sticking to their supposed core principals during this decade.
To be clear, I don't believe in conspiracies, what I do believe in is consensus and closing ranks. The financial sector has been pilloried for months now and they're doing everything they can to push back. Are there individuals with a great deal of money making great efforts to spin that push back? Sure, and they're wise to coordinate. That doesn't make them any less wrong.
The conservative movement has pinned its hopes on some loud-mouths like Santelli and Rush Limbaugh (a high school educated draft-dodging drug addict sports broadcaster who William F. Buckley wouldn't cross the street to kick in the shins) It's embarrassing to anyone who holds to the values and principles of conservatism to see this farce play out.
This FTW
Hey King of the Idiot mob, I guess you missed the fact that the House Negro had absolutely nothing to say, has the audacity to accuse some one else of drinking Kool Aid
He is just a black empty prop, but I guess that's how you like em, sucka
p.s and look at Mr. Sean "Pretty Much Like He Said" Caar
smiling and grinning with nothing to say like a good uncle tom stereo type. The reporter had to prod him into saying something by reminding him that Lincoln freed his people.
I hope he sees this!
But did you notice that every single person that was interviewed had nothing insightful to say? PMLHS was pretty much saying what they were all saying, which was pretty much nothing.
If you look past his skin color, he's being just as much of a kool aid drinking idiot as the rest of them.