If you go by what some are saying, tea party participants are insane peasants manipulated by Pajamas Media (?!) and Fox News who are upset that the “marginal tax rate will be rising 3% for millionaires”, and most likely are pervs because “it’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.”
(For those of you, like myself, who didn’t know what “teabagging” means, here’s the NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK Urban Dictionary definition.)
You can believe that.
Or you can believe that the reason for the Tea Parties is
this,
We must protest against the taxes and the spending while recognizing that we must also resist the growing control over our lives. We used to fight terrorists, now we fight our own corporations. The President of the United States is firing executives. The Treasury secretary is setting peoples salaries. Obama is also determining product lines, not based on the market place but on the whims of politics. The President of the United States is looking to artificially raise the cost of energy with cap and trade, while ignoring our own resources.
This,
And also this:
At some point, we have to start paying these bills, and when we do, it will hammer the middle class.
That’s what drives the Tea Parties — not taxes today, but all of the spending that will eventually require crushing taxes to resolve. The Obama administration plans a spending spree unlike anything outside of world wars in our history, and wants to sell a fantasy that only the rich have to pay for it. It’s ridiculous on its face. The amounts are staggeringly high, and even 100% confiscation wouldn’t begin to cover it.
Believe what you want.
Anderson Cooper, “It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.” Sort of like that question, does it taste salty? How would he know?
I wondered when you would issue an explanation. It’s obvious that you never spend any great periods of time talking or worse listening to 15-year old boys. Something akin to the seventh planet said out loud.
I had no idea what “teabagging” was until I clicked on the link. I am not sure if his comment was vile, childish, or both – but I have complained to the FCC. I suggest others do the same – Changing the calculus of the cost and benefits of snide, obscene comments is the only way they will stop.
Of course I had to also complain to the FCC about the FCC when the first person hung up on me, telling me they no longer took complaints about obscene material via the phone.