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To: puborectalis who wrote (11236)	4/13/2009 11:27:09 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 103300

how many times must one say that this op-ed writer krugboy is a moron writing for a bankrupt paper....post it on the huffandpuff compost where it belongs. don't you ever get tired of making an ass of yourself?

To: puborectalis who wrote (11236)	4/14/2009 1:34:39 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

The Highjacking Of The Tea Parties 13 Apr 2009 11:40 pm andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com A reader writes: Just wanted to let you know that Mark Thompson is right. The tea party idea has actually been around for a while now. It grew out of the left over Ron Paul supporter groups from the last election. I was heavily involved in that campaign and, as such, still am on the contact list for a lot of the grassroots groups that were created during it. The first time I heard about the "Tea Party" idea was probably well over a year ago. More recently, a flurry of e-mails started to show up from those groups that led to the first couple of tea parties being organized. However, since the lost in the woods Bush conservatives and mass media have picked it up, all the grass roots libertarian organizations have pretty well backed off. Like so many other things, it is now a casualty of Republican party political leaders and those who follow them blindly. TrackBack URL for this entry: typepad.com The Tea Parties Were Hijacked? 13 Apr 2009 06:05 pm andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Mark Thompson says they were: The concept started out as a relatively small idea organized by a handful of libertarian activists. Movement conservatives saw an opportunity to co-opt it - and they did. To them, the Tea Parties aren’t just an outlet for expressing frustration over the recent orgy of government spending, they are an opportunity to complain about gay marriage, affirmative action programs in government hiring policies, and just about everything else that movement conservatives oppose even more vehemently now that they’ve been beaten - badly - in consecutive national elections. Never mind that the original point of the Tea Parties, so far as I can tell, was completely libertarian in nature and was to be as much a protest of the Republicans as it was of the Democrats. Of course, if the Tea Parties had remained the sole province of a handful of libertarian activists, they never would have received the national attention they’re now able to receive, and thus would have had even less impact. By accepting the involvement of the movement conservative multitudes, the originators have lost control of their message even as the message has access to an ever-larger platform. The result? An incoherent jumble of protests that is going to wind up resembling the same sort of incoherence that has characterized large-scale protests and demonstrations for decades. TrackBack URL for this entry: typepad.com

To: puborectalis who wrote (11236)	4/14/2009 5:44:54 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 103300

krugman is clueless, he has a love fantasy about obama, what do you expect he would write? I consider his opinion less meaningful than my dog's... GZ

To: puborectalis who wrote (11236)	4/14/2009 7:07:51 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Yeah, those Republicans are so crazy: ibabuzz.com sanfranciscosentinel.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com zombietime.com Zogby poll: 42% of Democrats are either Truthers or Quasi-Truthers proteinwisdom.com Washington Democrats Boo Pledge Of Allegiance April 9, 2008 – A liberal eyewitness to a Democrat caucus in the 43rd Congressional District of Washington state described how Democrats booed a suggestion that they recite the Pledge of Allegiance. According to Eli Sander, writing in The Stranger, says that more than a 1,000 caucus members attended the meeting in Seattle’s 43rd District. .... Sander notes that during repeated votes and tallies, someone suggested that they recite the Pledge of Allegiance. “At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos. Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the Pledge of Allegiance up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down. One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag (of which only one in the room, by the way, on some delegate’s hate) was shouted down.” traditionalvalues.org Democratic delegates boo the Boy Scouts of America Valerie Richardson THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 8/18/00 LOS ANGELES When Gloria Johnson learned that a group of Eagle Scouts was about to take the stage at the Democratic National Convention, she immediately went into action. She and other California delegates grabbed poster board and markers and made signs that read, "We Support Gay Boy Scouts." As the uniformed Scouts took part in the opening ceremony, the delegates, seated in the front of the hall, waved their signs and booed. Under normal circumstances, jeering at children is the sort of behavior that might get a delegate sanctioned, if not booted from the convention altogether. But anyone who expected the Democratic leadership to scold the Boy Scouts of America bashers is attending the wrong convention. mail-archive.com@listserv.aol.com/msg49056.html Seriously, Republicans couldn't match liberal Democrats in craziness in a thousand years.