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POPSTea Party Movement's New Target :The GOP
They feel they were had by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who urged them to stomach earmarks for the good of the party; by George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, who urged them to stomach a massive expansion of education and Medicare for the good of the party; and by the rest of the Washington gang that collaborated in the largest expansion of government in their lifetime for the good of the party. Erick Erickson, founder and editor of the conservative RedState blog, said grass-roots activists are done listening. “Republicans are going to have to come our way,” he said, before going on to trash NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for backing Scozzafava. Their “level of disingenuousness ... is disgusting,” Erickson said. His influential blog is now calling for Sessions to get the boot from the NRCC as a penalty for mishandling the race. Erickson’s bombast may seem overboard, but it captures the dep
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POPSCorporate Dirty Work (or Big Fat Lies Exposed) Peta kills animals. Mercury in fish is not a problem. Increasing wages of the lowest paid will harm America. Trans fats and sugars are good for you. Junk food is good for you. Climate change not a problem. The Washington Tea Baggers protest grew out of a grass roots movement: American corporate spin, aided and abetted by Rick Berman and exposed by Maddow. Brilliant!
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POPSSpin Doctors for Obamacare The White House event was organized in conjunction with DFA and Organizing for America, Obama’s campaign outfit. OFA and DFA are behind a massive new Obamacare ad campaign, letter-writing campaign, and doctor recruitment campaign. The supposedly “grass-roots,” non-profit DFA is a spin-off of Doctors for Obama, a 2008 campaign arm that aggressively pushed the Democrats’ government health care takeover. DFA claims to have thousands of members with a “variety of backgrounds.” But there’s little diversity in their views on socialized medicine (98 percent want a taxpayer-funded public insurance option) " or in their political contributions. DFA president and co-founder Dr. Vivek Murthy, an internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, served as a member of the Obama Health Policy Advisory Committee and the Obama New England Steering Committee during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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POPSPINK SLIPS on their way. "There is a revolution brewing across this country," she said. "People are angry about losing their country and they are ready for action. This campaign is just the latest evidence."
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POPSOpen Letter From Alex Jones to Glenn Beck My own reactions to the Beck Boycott were to battle back. Digging a little deeper, much of this letter coincides with questions I had. As in: ~ "Some of the health reform resistance seems so extreme (death panels) it may have been sprouted by the radical left to drown out serious resistance and questions." That said, I have appreciated Beck pointing in certain directions (history of "progressive movement", etc.) in which I can head off on my own to educate myself on wider ideas. And for calling out the most radical in the current administration, as well. But then, neither am I so sure about all that Alex Jones purports to be the "truth". I sure do know the truth lies in that general direction as opposed to the socialized state or dominant governments.
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POPSThe Coarsening of Culture The undercurrent of bigotry is erupting with increasing frequency. From the "grass roots", hate filled ravings of the tea baggers to the backwater swamps of rural Georgia. I grew up surrounded by these people. All they needed was an excuse and now they've found it among the likes of Glen Beck and other purveyors of propaganda to stir up the mob. The FBI is investigating bringing a charge of hate crimes against this scumbag. I hope they do.
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POPSSome Blacks Now Have Doubts About Obama Almost a third of blacks consider themselves conservative according to a Pew Research Center report.. Even a star like Bill Cosby incurred the wrath of the black establishment when he started talking about black families and personal responsibility. As result, he backed off and toned down his message. Recall during the campaign, candidate Obama ruffled Jesse Jackson's feathers when he spoke about personal responsibility among black males. An inadvertently "on" microphone picked up Jackson saying that he wanted to castrate Obama (not exactly in that language). these folks have always been inclined to be quiet because of the social pressures and intimidation. But this is changing. Despite slurs, intimidation, and widely reported physical attacks from union thugs, a few brave black souls have showed up at tea party protest rallies.
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POPSGoing Green Helps Keep Tahoe Blue For years lodging properties and recreational companies around the world have been stepping up to offer eco-friendly vacations. Now travelers are taking an active role and making conscientious efforts to travel green.
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POPS We Are The Change ~ We Are The Party of HELL NO!!!
But the movement has given birth to a new generation of movers and shakers who have rejected establishment partisan politics for nimble, Internet-facilitated, issues-based advocacy. The success of the Tea Party movement and its allies/successors shows that there’s no monopoly on “community organizing.” You are the change we’ve been praying for. March on! *** Livecam of the D.C. rally here. Wow! The Tea Party Express blog is here. 12:34pm Eastern: Police estimate 1.2 million in attendance. ABC News reporting crowd at 2 million, tweets Tabitha Hale from D.C. Teeny, tiny fringe, huh? Video highlights via Ed Frank: 9/12 Taxpayer Tea Party March on Washington, DC However big it was, it was bigger than expected. From the NYT: “Many came on their own and were not part of an organization or group. But the magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours.
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POPSDo You Trust Barack Hussein Obama? and it has nothing to do with the color of the president’s skin. Claiming to bring a “new kind of politics” to Washington, the only thing “new” was just how far off the ethical scale Team Obama has conducted itself. While asserting the administration would be “transparent” and frustrate the status quo of special interests and lobbyists, Obama and his cohorts have systematically cut backroom deals with every imaginable special interest; drug companies, auto unions, and doctors all enjoyed “favors” worth billions of dollars. Then, when faced with a real grass-roots movement, Obama, his supporters, the mainstream media, and the leaders of his party went to extremes in painting the country’s citizens as “Nazis,” “Brown Shirts,” “un-American,” and “astroturfers.” Claiming average citizens were a “mob” that was doing the bidding of his political opponents, Obama, et. al., labeled upset Americans as unhinged racists and more than implied they were implied they were . . .
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POPS'Tea party' Rally Attracts Thousands in Addison, Texas Organizers of the Tea Party Express said the health care issue has crystallized support for the movement. President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on that topic next week. The tour will make a "whistle stop" scheduled for 2:45 p.m. at an Interstate 30 rest stop in Mount Vernon, Texas; then will continue to Little Rock, Arkansas at 6 p.m. and Memphis, Tennessee at 10 p.m. E-mail bwatson@wfaa.com Tea Party Express Stops in North Texas Susy Solis, NBCDFW.com Thousands of supporters turned out in Addison for the Tea Party Express Caravan which is on it's way from Sacramento, California to Washington, D.C for a taxpayer march on September view video at link http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Tea_Party_Express_Stops_in_North_Texas_Dallas-Fort_Worth.html Official Tea Party Express Website http://www.teapartyexpress.org/
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POPSObama, the Mortal "...All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest -- from drug companies to auto unions to doctors -- in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged. " Yes. Not all Americans are have been hood-wicked or are unaware that his "change" is beyond his ability to practically and Constitutionally implement.
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POPSSoros-Tied Authors Launch Bid to Dislodge Conservative Best-Selling Books 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America! Look, Obama-bots: The book has the weighty endorsements of starlets, rappers, and yes, Teddy Kennedy. ....and it’s imperative that we keep that momentum going by involving the next generation.” "Jessica Alba …This book provides simple ways to use the arts and other means for making change.” "Will.I.Am, Black Eyed Peas “In 50 Ways You Can Help Obama ChangeAmerica"... ......for anyone interested in making a difference and helping President Obama get our nation back on track.” "The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy Co-author Michael Huttner urges his fellow Obama cultists to buy the book so they, too, can be inspired to “help Obama pass health care reform, enact other core campaign promises, and move the country forward.” The national media doesn’t want to talk about the dominance of conservative books atop the New York Times best-seller list and other national lists. But it’s clearly getting under the Left’s skin.
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POPSFake It! Big Oil asnd Big Coal's New Mantras If you can't find non-employees who support your issues, then have your employees "pose" as real people - tsk, tsk. I'd get real excited, except most politicla parties in US and elsewhere in the world have been telling employees to line up at rallies and paradesand act as if they are just "concerned citizens" forever. Tea Party right-wing Republicans have been doing the same thing in the non-debate about healthcare. I guess they all think we are just stupid - grin - now where did they get that idea?
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POPSAxelrod’s Profits: Uh, Who’s on the Take From the Drug Lobby Again?!?! Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul. One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist. This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, that is seeking to build support for a health-care overhaul, said the coalition’s spokesman, Jeremy Van Ess. You won’t be surprised to learn that the HEN coalition also includes left-wing Families USA, the sellouts . . .
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POPSObama Caught By Surprise "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform." "It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this." Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue. "It took on a life of its own," he said. In search of new momentum, Obama plans to discuss the matter Thursday with thousands of his most loyal supporters in a nationwide "strategy call" hosted by Organizing for America, a grass-roots arm of the Democratic National Committee. He is likely to repeat what he and his top surrogates have said for months: that he will not "draw a line in the sand" about the inclusion of a public plan and that no one provision is a "deal breaker" . . .
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POPSBREITBART: George W. Bush-by-proxy syndrome "Rule 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)" Alinsky rule #12, democrat rule #1
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POPSCrazies said the Civil Rights Act would 'enslave whites' "Death panel" craziness - it's a recurring theme in America: "the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and ... elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests." "Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill," he laments, "because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites."
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POPSSorry Snobs: Townhall Rage IS Real Democracy Then, public opinion intervened. Obama is now on the wrong side of a genuine grass-roots revolt by people who feel ignored by everyone who is supposed to be representing them. Consider the AARP. It has all but endorsed a plan to slash several hundred billion dollars over 10 years from Medicare. It is providing cover for the creation of a new system that, if it ever succeeds in "bending the cost curve," will have to scrimp on expensive end-of-life care. The AARP is overwhelmingly favorable to a plan opposed by the elderly more than any other age group. Who is the more authentic voice of seniors -- the AARP playing along with its Democratic allies, or the elderly at town-hall meetings wondering what the Medicare cuts will mean for them? The inside-Washington players are easily co-opted and cowed. The American Medical Association came out in opposition to a public option in June, and then -- after a stern talking-to by Washington's political barons -- immediately backtracked.
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POPSGrass Roots? Check again...
Who funds Americans for Prosperity? The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, …Before 2003, when the AFP was still named the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, it received $18,460,912 in funding. 84% of that funding came from the Koch Family Foundations ($12,906,712) and the Scaife Family Foundations ($2,510,000). Koch Family Foundations is funded by Koch Industries. According to Forbes, Koch Industries is the second largest privately-held company, and the largest privately owned energy company, in the United States. Koch industries has made its money in the oil business, primarily oil refining. Presently, it holds stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, forest products, and chemical technology. Americans for Prosperity is also connected to oil giant ExxonMobil. According to ExxonSecrets, between the years 1998-2001, Citizens for A Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation received $380,250 from ExxonMobil.
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POPSDon't Tread on U.S. Do they mean Code Pink which never missed an opportunity to bash the military and our “terrorist” former president? How about ACORN whose tactics have earned that organization indictments–and convictions? How about the New Black Panther Party whose attempt to intimidate voters in Philadelphia was referred to the Justice Dept.–which inexplicably dropped the case? How about MoveOn.org which called General Petraeus General “Betrayus” for “crime” of dedicating his life to protecting America? And who can possibly forget the countless number of left-wing college students on campuses across the country who have intimidated, harassed–and attacked–conservative speakers daring to exercise their First Amendment rights? Hypocrites one and all, but they pale in comparison to an administration headed by a former community organizer not only denigrating community organizing, but creating a website, flag@whitehouse.gov for Americans who wish to rat out their fellow Americans f
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POPSPresident and Congressional Democrats - Do not like Democracy in Action NBC holds back nothing in their support for Obama's position. In an article under the header "News/Politics" they ran this column, which calls the folks speaking at town hall meetings "fake" "angry" and "comical." That was just the first paragraph. The column later calls them "infamous" "yokels" and "astro-turfing wing-nuts." Again, this is under the heading "news." MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell has in interesting way of supporting Obama. While not directly questioning the sincerity of protesting Americans as does the President, Mitchell claims they "just don't know what's good for them." Not that Andrea's an elitist or anything.
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POPSWH advises Dems on health care protests Get your talking points and then go *home*. I haven't seen Reps "seize on them"...only the media as news events. Actually the GOP have not been exempt. As the news travels (thank you internet) people are learning about the Massive "change" that is being thrust upon them and they are not happy!!!
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POPSHow To: Dress for Redress To that end, Exurban League has assembled a sartorial tip sheet for our fellow greedy plutocrats. Leave the Brooks Brothers in the closet and don some authentic protest wear. Sur les barricades, mes frères! UPDATE: The Divine Miss MM shares her excellent protest fashion tips here. By Jove, those are some unsightly accoutrements, but when in Rome... Well, off to the tailor to pick up my silk balaclavas. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/06/how-to-dress-like-an-authentic-grass-roots-activist/ Michelle. Merci! Follow me on Twitter: @exurbanjon
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