The Tea Party Strikes Again?

[saxitoxin]

Meanwhile, in Nevada, no one wins ...

Nevada Democratic leaders acknowledged earlier this year that they had failed to recruit a credible candidate to face GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval in the fall. And on Tuesday, Silver State Democratic primary voters agreed, casting more votes for the state’s “none of these candidates” option than any one of the eight actual humans on the ballot.
“None of these candidates” earned 30 percent of the vote when The Associated Press called the race, outpacing the leading actual candidate, Robert Goodman, a retired state Economic Development commissioner from Las Vegas who’s run statewide twice before and shares a last name with the Vegas mayoral dynasty, at 25 percent.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/2 ... z34M0p7Cdc

[kuthoer]

They see us rollin

They hatin

Actually you have those Socialistic Democrats rolling on the ground laughing. The right wing nut jobs who usually vote in the primary, just picked a guy who'll lose in November.

Yep, should have supported Cantor.

Tea Baggers won their primary, but lost the main event.

[saxitoxin]

They see us rollin

They hatin

Actually you have those Socialistic Democrats rolling on the ground laughing. The right wing nut jobs who usually vote in the primary, just picked a guy who'll lose in November.

Yep, should have supported Cantor.

Tea Baggers won their primary, but lost the main event.

The primary was the main event. Cantor's district is rated R+10 on the Cook scale, so the general is a formality; a dead opossum would win if it has a "R" next to its name.

(P.S. What socialist Democrats? The only socialist in Congress is an independent.)

[kuthoer]

They see us rollin

They hatin

Actually you have those Socialistic Democrats rolling on the ground laughing. The right wing nut jobs who usually vote in the primary, just picked a guy who'll lose in November.

Yep, should have supported Cantor.

Tea Baggers won their primary, but lost the main event.

The primary was the main event. Cantor's district is rated R+10 on the Cook scale, so the general is a formality; a dead opossum would win if it has a "R" next to its name.

(P.S. What socialist Democrats? The only socialist in Congress is an independent.)

I love Sanders! Only Congressman who has his head screwed on right.

[saxitoxin]

They see us rollin

They hatin

Actually you have those Socialistic Democrats rolling on the ground laughing. The right wing nut jobs who usually vote in the primary, just picked a guy who'll lose in November.

Yep, should have supported Cantor.

Tea Baggers won their primary, but lost the main event.

The primary was the main event. Cantor's district is rated R+10 on the Cook scale, so the general is a formality; a dead opossum would win if it has a "R" next to its name.

(P.S. What socialist Democrats? The only socialist in Congress is an independent.)

I love Sanders! Only Congressman who has his head screwed on right.

He definitely puts on a good show. But, in the words of the late Thomas Naylor ...

The more often he is accused of being a socialist by his political enemies on the Right, the more convinced the Left becomes that he surely walks on water. Rather, he behaves more like a technofascist disguised as a liberal, who backs all of President Obama’s nasty little wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/ ... e-sanders/

[TA1LGUNN3R]

He sounds kinda crazy to me.

Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality. Read Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on. Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily. The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong. We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it. If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.

So his solution to preventing another Hitler is to be a Hitler? He's not wrong, I guess.

-TG

[mrswdk]

They sleep while their leaders speak appealing things towards fear and hate.

Indeed. It's nice and comforting to pick one of the designated teams and assure yourself that your team is 'good' while the others are 'bad'. It helps provide a comprehensive, over-arching narrative that explains all the things you don't like about the world and blames them on someone else.

'Republican', 'Democrat', 'Socialist', 'Capitalist', 'Christian', 'Muslim', 'Fascist' etc. It's all the same bullshit.

[muy_thaiguy]

Anyone else find it ironic that Scotty uses a British band (named after British royalty no less) to promote a group named after a bunch of people who threw British tea over the side of a ship?

[saxitoxin]

lol

“The negative ads calling me a liberal professor at first they started off with kind of comic strips,” Brat said in an interview here late Tuesday night. “And everyone kind of liked them. Me and my boy watched them the first night and kind of died laughing. We thought they were funny.”

“They gave me $1 million in name ID and I think that got us going, I think.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/2 ... z34MW9OicF

[patches70]

PS, what's Brat's views on the Central Bank?

[kuthoer]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

[saxitoxin]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

[Phatscotty]

Sorry gang I started working 15 hour days this week, I tried to get to get back to you last night Patches. I have not come across anything I can quote directly concerning the central bank, but there are still 3 hours of radio clips I'm listening to from Jan 2014 to now to try to learn as much as I can.

Brat is preaching term limits, which I consider to be the 50% of the general solution (the other 50% the Fed abolition), and he said he's term-limiting himself. Also if he proves to be as free-market as he preaches then I have a hard time believing he would support the monopoly of the central bank. But words are only one thing, actions are another, and actions are what I decides the final judgement for me. In general, about 85% of Congress needs to be thrown out. Will their replacements be better? Cannot know. I know they will have a hard time being worse. One thing that is for sure is digital media is changing EVERYTHING, just like Ovo said somewhere recently, and I believe mankind has the potential to be absolutely liberated on a new level. One thing for sure, the people are getting wiser to the process, louder towards incumbents, and more active in civic participation.

[kuthoer]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

President Obama did not said, "if God got behind him"

Why don't you stick to posting Putin with puppies on his lap.

[kuthoer]

Sorry gang I started working 15 hour days this week, I tried to get to get back to you last night Patches. I have not come across anything I can quote directly concerning the central bank, but there are still 3 hours of radio clips I'm listening to from Jan 2014 to now to try to learn as much as I can.

Brat is preaching term limits, which I consider to be the 50% of the general solution (the other 50% the Fed abolition), and he said he's term-limiting himself. Also if he proves to be as free-market as he preaches then I have a hard time believing he would support the monopoly of the central bank. But words are only one thing, actions are another, and actions are what I decides the final judgement for me. In general, about 85% of Congress needs to be thrown out. Will their replacements be better? Cannot know. I know they will have a hard time being worse. One thing that is for sure is digital media is changing EVERYTHING, just like Ovo said somewhere recently, and I believe mankind has the potential to be absolutely liberated on a new level. One thing for sure, the people are getting wiser to the process, louder towards incumbents, and more active in civic participation.

Pretty gay gay video Phatts. Guys dancing with each other dressed like, well.....

Texas is enacting some type of Reparative Therapy, this may help you or is it all those long hours you've been putting in? I feel your pain as my normal working hours are 12 hours or more.

Thank GOD! Yes Saxi, without God behind me, I have my lap top to ease those hours working and keep an eye on all GAY postings and trying turn Conservatives into real men....mmmmmm, men dancing together, mmmmm......errr, ummmm, never mind I've been working toooo long.

[Phatscotty]

Aint no stoppin us now! We came here to do what we're gonna do, and if you don't like it, TOUGH!


BTW Kuth, your anti-gay comments, I don't care one bit where the singer of Queen liked to stick his pecker, and I'm not surprised one bit that's all you can focus on.

[kuthoer]

Aint no stoppin us now! We came here to do what we're gonna do, and if you don't like it, TOUGH!


BTW, your anti-gay comments, I don't care one bit where the singer of Queen likes to stick his pecker.

Sorry to break the sad news to you, but the original lead singer Freddie Mercury died from AIDS.

You know that God punishes Gays for their life style practices.

[saxitoxin]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

President Obama did not said, "if God got behind him"

Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him, as per the linked transcript.

[kuthoer]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

President Obama did not said, "if God got behind him"

Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him, as per the linked transcript.

And together with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.


Not exactly what you said Saxi, but you do like to make. make believe quotes to make your point. Unless I missed the exact quote you're referring to.

[saxitoxin]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

President Obama did not said, "if God got behind him"

Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him, as per the linked transcript.

And together with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.


Not exactly what you said Saxi

And Brat didn't exactly say it "was God who got [me] to win the primary" either.

Actual Quote: "this is a miracle from God" (http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/ ... -from-god/)
Kut Summary: "it was God who got [me] to win the primary"

Actual Quote: "with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward" (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ory-speech)
Saxi Summary: Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him

Overall, I feel more confident with the accuracy of my summary.

[Dukasaur]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

President Obama did not said, "if God got behind him"

Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him, as per the linked transcript.

And together with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.


Not exactly what you said Saxi

And Brat didn't exactly say it "was God who got [me] to win the primary" either.

Actual Quote: "this is a miracle from God" (http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/ ... -from-god/)
Kut Summary: "it was God who got [me] to win the primary"

Actual Quote: "with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward" (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ory-speech)
Saxi Summary: Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him

Overall, I feel more confident with the accuracy of my summary.

[kuthoer]

Brad said it was God who got him to win the primary.

To be fair, in his 2012 victory speech, Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him. Because, like, God is probably really interested in export incentive tax reform.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ry-speech/

President Obama did not said, "if God got behind him"

Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him, as per the linked transcript.

And together with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.


Not exactly what you said Saxi

And Brat didn't exactly say it "was God who got [me] to win the primary" either.

Actual Quote: "this is a miracle from God" (http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/ ... -from-god/)
Kut Summary: "it was God who got [me] to win the primary"

Actual Quote: "with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward" (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ory-speech)
Saxi Summary: Obama said he'd only be able to implement his campaign goals if God got behind him

Overall, I feel more confident with the accuracy of my summary.

So Brat said that God created a miracle just for him. Brat is God's choice for November!

[oVo]

Ha ha ha! Governor Perry of Texas
compares homosexuality with alcoholism,
and says "it's a choice."

We already know the governor is not pro-choice.

[Metsfanmax]

Brat is preaching term limits, which I consider to be the 50% of the general solution (the other 50% the Fed abolition), and he said he's term-limiting himself. Also if he proves to be as free-market as he preaches then I have a hard time believing he would support the monopoly of the central bank. But words are only one thing, actions are another, and actions are what I decides the final judgement for me.

So how long does he need to stay in Congress before you decide he wasn't really serious about that whole term limiting thing?

[saxitoxin]

Is David Brat really a tea partyer?

Is it accurate to call Dave Brat a tea party member? After all, that’s a label that Mr. Brat himself rejects. Asked yesterday by Politico if he’s a tea partyer, Brat replied that he wishes the press would stop describing his victory as a triumph of the insurgent Republican right wing.

That said “tea party” may be as much descriptive of attitude and style as of policy choice. According to political scientist Ron Rapoport of The College of William & Mary, the tea party per se constitutes a majority of the active Republican Party. It’s a big tent itself, with only about a quarter of self-identified tea party activists labeling themselves libertarians. The better term to capture what many people mean by “tea party activist” is “anti-establishment activist,” Professor Rapoport says.

“All the investment banks in ... those guys should have gone to jail. Instead of going to jail, they went on Eric’s Rolodex, and they are sending him big checks,” said Brat on the campaign trail last month, according to a John Judis piece on the subject in The New Republic.

With this language, Brat was drawing on an old tradition in US politics, writes Mr. Judis: economic populism. On the left, it has its roots in figures such as Huey Long of Louisiana. On the right, it echoes in the words of George Wallace and Pat Buchanan.

“The Tea Party is a heterogeneous movement, but many of its members, and many of the local candidates it champions, are rightwing populists. And that was certainly true of Brat,” writes Judis.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder ... tyer-video

How Tea Party groups missed the David Brat boat

So how much did their groups spend to help Brat win?

Zero.

Of the measly $4,805 in political expenditures against Cantor reported to the Federal Election Commission, none came from the big national tea party groups, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation.

The fact that Brat took off without the help of those organizations now makes it harder for them to claim his victory as their own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... brat-boat/