LOL repubs sure hate when the Dems use the same dispicable tactics that have worked so well for them. Tea parties are just corporate funded wings of the far,far,far,far out,right wing of the republican party.

Really Bill? Which corporation funds tea parties? What’s the name of the business?

That would be Koch industries, and the PAC headed up by Mr. Koch, one of the richest indivduals backing this phoney repub organization, did you think those buses and signs with the red hands on them sprung up from the grassroots? The sponsorship and free advertising from the Australian mogul who owns Faux Noise went a long way too.

And of course you can prove this, right? I assume you do, making an allegation that serious.

And assuming you do, does your proof show that Koch is funding the entire nationwide tea party movement or that it was involved in a tiny percentage of the thousands of demonstrations nationwide? A or B?

Bill,
I am a co-organizer for one of these conservative grass roots groups, and I can assure you we are NOT corporate-funded.

We are mothers, fathers, grandparents, and neighbors. We are retired, unemployed, employed, and stay-at-home parents. Our members range in age from teenagers to the very elderly. We are men, women, children, black, white, Hispanic and immigrants. We are Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Christians, Jewish, atheists, veterans, doctors, contractors, lawyers, office workers, etc.

We don’t take a single DIME of corporate money. I know because I am the one who scours the Giant Eagle ads every week to buy coffee, sugar, creamer, cups, plates, and napkins for our monthly meetings. At Walmart I wait for the pens, name tags, and legal pads to go on sale. We pay for these items through member donations, and that is our ONLY source of income.

We don’t have a corporate meeting place or staff to answer the phone and keep our schedules. Each meeting is planned depending on where we can find a place big enough to hold our members. Each co-organizer on the Steering Committee answers his own emails and phone calls, even though we work, run households, travel for business, home-school, take care of sick relatives, raise children, babysit grandchildren and manage every other aspect of everyday life that we all deal with. Come to our rallies and you will see 95% of our signs are hand-written in Magic Marker on tagboard bought from CVS, two sheets for a dollar.

You know what I think, Bill? I think you are afraid of people like us, because we ARE just like you. We are not the wealthy corporate “astro-turfers” that Pelosi and you are trying to paint us as. We are the everyday people who have enough of this out-of-control government, on every level. We are mad and we are not content to sit back anymore.

No wonder people like you are trying to spread mistruths about us; you have no other weapon against decency and the truth except dishonesty. Good luck with that, you will surely need it.

74 days, Bill, 74 days.

I’m tired of people bashing tea parties. The attendees are not doing anything at all that is wrong. Their view is no more invalid than those who do not attend. This is America for goodness sakes. Let people view the views and let the best view win.

The tea baggers should just acknowledge they r the republican party … or the masses of trabaggers r does bc they don’t realize how they’re being used by the repubs

As soon as I read “teabagger” from someone, he loses all credibility.

If you cannot address a group of people without using sexually explicit insults, you have nothing important to say. My kids speak (and type) better than that.

Bill Healy: Who was funding the Hippie Movement of the 1960s?

*crickets chirping*

Bill Healy, why don’t you respect the rights of each individual to think and act independently? Why do you believe in the group think mentality? Oh, right. I forgot, were to stupid.

When someone cannot win an argument they usually resort to name calling and insults. Like ‘sick of it all’ calling fellow Americans ‘teabaggers’!

Bill Healy,
Who are you ..really?
I think that you are :ACORN, SEIU, Moveon.org or some other Soros funded kool-aid drinker!

Tom Corbett’s commanding lead? LOL! In a year where the GOP is apparently supposed to trample over the Democrats, Corbett is only 11 points ahead by actual, truthful polls. Undecideds are about 20-something percent, and I guarantee you most of them will vote Onorato. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

This race will not be as easy as Tom Corbett and his minions believe it will be. End of story.

Man, is this post just dripping with hypocrisy or what? How about the all-but-explicit support the PA GOP gave to Romanelli’s campaign in ’06? How about all the other “third party” campaigns that have been bankrolled by Republicans in ’08 and even this year? This post only appeals to the proverbial idiot in a hurry – anyone who knows anything about PA politics knows that Mr. Barley is a first-rate hypocrite and his self-righteous drivel isn’t fooling anyone.

Furthermore, the last time I checked, the Tea Party isn’t actually a political party and the whole premise is that it is a decentralized, non-bureaucratic grassroots movement so anyone can call himself a member. Well, I guess that’s in theory, but this seems to be an implicit acknowledgement that it’s really just a group of conservative Republicans too embarrassed by Bush and the previous 8 years’ damage to the Republican brand to acknowledge their participation.

Shelly – “Teabagger” is a term first adopted by Tea Partiers themselves because they were “teabagging” legislators by sending them tea bags in the mail to protest Tax Day. Many words and terms in the English language have multiple definitions, sometimes completely unrelated.

Yeaaaahhhh, I’m sure that’s exactly how “sick of it all” meant it. And thanks for the linguistics lesson.

BTW, I have been an independent since I first registered to vote. I recently switched to vote in the primaries.

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