What has the tea party won? NOTHING

 The tea party did not get their Cut Cap and Balance plan.

The debt ceiling will be raised.

Seniors will get their Social Security Checks and keep their Medicare.

The Troops will get their pay.

The tea party did not get the trillions of dollars in cuts they wanted.

The tea party did not cause the complete and utter destruction of our economy.

The tea party did not get the extreme cuts to Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid.

The tea party did not prevent cuts to defense spending.

The President and Democrats have done what they needed to do to RAISE THE DEBT CEILING!

Now we need to get our asses in gear for 2012 and give President Obama a super majority.

We don’t have time to sit home and pout like a bunch of 2 year olds!

Let’s get to work! 

I agree, everyone needs to stop with the mean spirited hate speech.  I agree, the hateful rhetorical commentary needs to cease. But lets be honest about who started all of the lying, hateful commentary and rhetoric. Republicans kept fueling the fire and never called out their constituents or hate talkers Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck or Sean Hannity.  I’m tired of Republicans who feign surprise when a mentally unstable person obtains a gun and kills someone.  Right wingers refuse to take ownership over their inflammatory statements.  Now we’ve got to worry about the safety of our Congressmen and the general public due to their constant ratcheting up of lies, fear and hatred.

Over the past two years I have witnessed the most insane rhetoric and just blatant lies emanate from the right wing (i.e. Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, tea party).  Statements that made my ears burn and my eyes go wide with shock.  I’ve never witnessed anyone from the left wing (Democrats, Liberals, Progressives) perpetuating lies about health or financial reforms, gay marriage, President Obama’s nationality or religion, etc.  [I apologize in advance if I’m wrong but I just haven’t seen or heard any.]

I’ve selected quotes from some of the top conservative Republicans who have kept their followers well fed on the red meat of political rhetoric. How do they get away with working within our government while making anti-government statements???

Former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK): “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!’ Pls see my Facebook page.”  

NOTE: This Facebook page no longer has a picture of a map with crosshairs on certain Congressmen’s districts.  It was removed the day Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others were allegedly shot by Jared Lee Loughner, who is presumed to have ties to a hate group. One of those crosshairs was on Gifford’s district 8 in Arizona.  Palin may not have directly caused the shootings but she has not helped the tense situation in the US with her extremely snarky, hateful rhetoric and gun references.

Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ): “Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded,”

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN): “I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

Bachmann: “I think what the threat of ACORN would be deluding the ballot box and the effectiveness of our vote,” she said. “They will be in charge of going door to door and collecting data from the American public, this is very concerning.”

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC): “The Constitution doesn’t grant a right to health care, and most of us are living as much by the Constitution as we can. It also doesn’t give the federal government the authority to deal with health care”

Foxx also said health reform would “put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government,”

Senator Grassly (R-IA): “You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma”

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK): “What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight,” he said. “That’s what they ought to pray.” [Praying for the death of Sen. Byrd?!]

Congressman Steve King (R-IA): “They (tea party) will leave us if we go wobbly,” he said. “I am worried about that, but that’s why I think it’s got to be a blood oath.”

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROGRESSIVES/LIBERALS ON THE LEFT AND THE RIGHTWING TEAPARTY DRAMA!

I am offended when I hear people like Senator Mike Warren say that Progressive group MoveOn.org is like the tea party and won’t compromise.  We’ve watched Democrats do nothing but compromise for the first two years of the Obama Administration.  Yet with all of their compromising, thousands of MoveOn.org members, myself included, worked tireless hours FOR FREE to help get out the vote for the 2010 Midterm election cycle.  We did not get the health reform bill we wanted with a Public Option or Single Payer – yet we stayed loyal to the Democratic Party and helped with the GOTV efforts.  Senator Mike Warren – bite me you bastard.

WTF? RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY CRITICIZING THE SANITY OF THE LEFTWING?!

I am also disappointed in Jon Stewart who during his Rally for Sanity equated left wing commentators and journalists Keith Olbermann and Ed Shultz with right wing hate race baiters Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly (to name a few).  There is no comparison between the propaganda wing of the GOP, aka Fox, and any other commentator or journalist on MSNBC.  Stewart says that the left automatically shuts down debate with the right.  I don’t think his argument is fair or accurate.  It’s an absurd and absolutely outrageous accusation.  Good of Stewart to appear for an interview with (Goddess of intelligence) Rachel Maddow, however, he couldn’t seem to back up his false equivalencies between the left and right. 

The evening lineup on MSNBC from Ed Shultz, Hardball, Countdown, The Rachel Maddow Show and The Last Word always include conservative contributors, politicians and various radio hosts.  We get conservatives Howard Fineman, David Wiegel, Pat Buchanan, Ron Christie and Heidi Harris (puke) on MSNBC almost daily – and that’s not all.  I think Ed Shultz has more conservative talkers on his show than Chris Matthews! I love The Daily Show; however, Jon Stewart can bite me too.

FACTS VS. FICTION: DEBATING INSANE TALKING POINTS OF THE RIGHT WING IS FUTILE

Debate shuts down when the name calling begins.  How can I have a serious debate with people who try to label me elite? An elitist who only wants government welfare, or a Socialist who wants a government takeover of health insurance companies?  These accusations have been proven false over and over again.  AND these Nazi and Hitler analogies must stop.  The right wing is obsessed with Nazis.  

It’s hard to continue debating with people who believe that the President of the United States of America is an undocumented worker, a socialist, a Fascist or a racist who hates white people.

It’s hard to continue the debate with people who think that big government is the enemy while they enjoy the benefits of Social Security and Medicare.

It’s hard to continue debating with people who think that supply side economics, deregulating banks, oil, and coal and gas companies is helping our country’s economy. 

We’ve witnessed the near collapse of our economy due to risky investments by banks to big to fail.  We’ve seen the death and devastation caused by the lack of enforcement of safety precautions in the Gulf Oil explosion in April 2010 after the mining disaster at Massey Coal Mines where 29 miners were killed. 

In situations where it’s a difference between life and death – there are absolutes.  You’re either going to do what’s right to save lives or deregulate and take lives away.  No debate necessary – it’s just common sense.

AND FURTHERMORE…

Even Robert Gibbs with his outrageous “professional left” statement was out of line. But I’m not going to rehash that old nonsense statement. He can just kiss my grits.

 AND FINALLY…SO THERE!

I’ve heard enough from these critics who say we need to open up debate, tone down the rhetoric and compromise because we can agree on some things.  It’s laughable.  This is a difficult feat when most right wing conservative tea party Republicans are willfully ignorant.  I refuse to debate anything with “birthers” who are on a never ending search for President Obama’s birth certificate.  It’s almost impossible to keep a straight face or take them seriously when RWNJs accuse Obama of bringing Sharia Law upon us. Why waste time?  Seriously, how can I debate with someone who believes everything from public schools to health reform is a communist conspiracy theory? 

MY OPINION(S) BASED ON STORIES FROM THE FOLLOWING LINKS AND MANY MORE:

http://www.alternet.org/story/148939/why_do_americans_keep_getting_suckered_by_right-wing_lies

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/mark-warner-move-on-tea-parties_n_780864.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/jon-stewart-responds-to-t_n_780792.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/11/about-late-last-night-rachel-maddow-and-jon-stewart-talk-in-smart-still-dizzying-circles.html

Well, since the extremely wealthy, racists and bigots always get what they want I may need to vacate the US. The good old white boys club runs Washington. If President Obama doesn’t get re-elected I’m moving to Canada. I’m out of here. No place for single Black Moms like me anymore – wealthy conservatives have destroyed the middle class. I guess too many of us colored folks have made it out of poverty and the ghetto.  So they want to stop the flow.  Americans have been brainwashed by the right wing Republican extremists.  I’m tired of their shit.

I’ve already told my son that when he graduates from High School and goes off to college that I’m leaving America if things don’t get better.  We are becoming a third world country and even the poorest are helping the wealthy make matters worse by not voting OR voting for Republicans.  We’ve got an African-American President and the right wing nut jobs have lost their minds.  Republican scum only hear the wealthy and no one else. 

 Republicans keep cutting funding for education. WHY? Because they know that education provides a way out of poverty for a lot of minorities who grow up and become professionals. Minorities who have taken advantage of the public education system in the US go on to college and don’t usually vote for Republicans. 

These corporate, confederate flag carrying, KKK, tea party conservatives have figured out a way to stop the flow of minorities out of poverty, keep them out of an upper middle class life and out of the American Dream.  The greedy, racists are so determined to stop the flow that they’ve even begun to eat their own.  They’ve figured out how to sow the divide and further stop the flow of minorities out of poverty by making them an enemy to poor whites.  Poor whites too ignorant to realize they are being played with.

In the 1980s Ronald Reagan perpetuated the myth of the Welfare Queen.  The Blacks swelling the welfare rolls are the problem for our economic problems. Fast forward to 2010, now illegal immigrants are the problem, they’re taking our jobs and swelling the welfare rolls.  Same shit different day. 

Republicans have managed to fool their base into believing that Obama is bringing Socialism, Fascism, Nazism, Sharia Law and death panels.  The tea party has bought the whole bill of goods, most of the Democratic base has bailed on Obama and none of these people realize that they’ve stumbled head first into the trap Republicans have set. 

They will probably succeed in 2012 and beyond.  Republicans won’t do one thing but waste time with bogus hearings. There won’t be any new job creation and everyone will blame President Obama and Democrats – check mate.  These fools will get what they want, we’ll have Sarah Palin or some other Republican idiot for President and America will become a full-fledge third world country. 

GOOD LUCK BITCHES! CANADA HERE I COME!

I’d say absolutely NOTHING! 

The “Pledge” is nothing more than a photo album of all white constituents. Take out the pictures and you’ve got about 10 pages of fluff that basically repeats the same talking points that the Republican tea party has been saying for over a year now. Big government, spending, taxing, ad nauseum. Page 16 has their plan for jobs: tax cuts for “small” businesses and less regulation.  The “small” businesses Republicans are referring to are actually the wealthiest fortune 500 companies and rich people. 

To be fare, maybe the Republican’s Pledge is good for something…?

Good for starting a bonfire

Good for cleaning windows with vinegar douche

Good for stuffing your shoes to keep your feet warm in winter

Good for picking up dog poo in the park

Good for lining a cat litter box

Good for making paper airplanes

Good for wiping your ass when you run out of toilet paper – although very abrasive

Good for cleaning dirt from under your nails

Good for laughs

Good for making cone shaped dunce caps

Good for rolling tobacco cigarrettes or blunts….

Feel free to add your own good uses.

Rant off.