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Tempest in a Tea Party
By adamg on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 11:24pm
The Greater Boston Tea Party wishes it known it has nothing to do with - and wants nothing to do with - the Mass Tea Party Coalition that is organizing a rally on the Common this Sunday:
For nearly three years, Greater Boston Tea Party has been strongly focused on the serious fiscal issues facing the Commonwealth and this country. Our organization does not take positions on social issues, such as gay marriage or abortion. While these issues are important to many people, including some of our members, they do not apply to our mission of advocating for personal responsibility and individual Liberty.
The Mass Tea Party Coalition has a radically different view on tea party activism. Their main focus appears to be the above social issues, as evidenced by the speakers they have chosen for their rally, including two well known anti-gay activists. The coalition claims to represent 40 groups but there is little evidence of this being accurate. We know of at least one legitimate Tea Party group that has asked repeatedly to be removed from the "coalition", but to no avail.
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Scratch a tea bagger, find a
Scratch a tea bagger, find a homophobe.
You're the one using
You're the one using homoerotic terminology.
What's the proper name?
What's the proper name for a person who identifies them self as a Tea Party supporter?
The first name I heard was 'teabagger' and it was from a person at a Tea Party protest. I laughed because I had heard the term before in a sex act connotation but I understood the word could have two meanings, two connotations.
I've heard Tea Party People call themselves teabaggers many times since. What's the proper name?
Different kind of bag
The proper terminology used to denote a Tea Party supporter is 'douchebag.'
What is this "google" you speak of?
Seriously, the Greater Boston Tea Party has a website with "Advocacy" page and they're all fired up "welfare cheats", illegal aliens and those pesky hate crime bills - "a heinous piece of legislation written by and designed to serve special interests here in MA at the expense of the rest of us." Then there's that bit about Obama forcing employers to pay for contraception. Nope, nothing but the budget for these inclusive Tea Party types.
Of course, avoiding stating one's social leanings is part of their media training-
"It’s not necessary to identify yourself as a Tea Party member if you prefer not to although most of us are proud to announce our support of the tea party values. You may merely wish to reference the TP such as: “maybe the Tea Party is on to something” or something similar. Try to avoid social issues – stick with fiscal ones. Social issues have a way of being divisive — even among Tea Party members. We can usually all agree on the fiscal issues."
Allow me to
Allow me to translate.
they're all fired up "welfare cheats", illegal aliens and those pesky hate crime bills
they're all fired up at blacks, hispanics and those pesky gays
Tea Party Rally on the Common
READ: boston.com:
READ: dangerousminds.net:
WATCH:TheDailyShow.Com:
What a load of crap.
What a load of crap. The Boston Tea Party people will be there. They just don't want to take the heat for welcoming the haters to be featured speakers ...FEATURED SPEAKERS.
Have you seen the social issues the Tea Party Congress has tackled? They redefined rape, defunded Planned Parenthood, and in the states defined person hood as conception, forced women to have unnecessary vaginal probes and made legal abortions harder and harder to get, as well as rolled back equal pay for equal work and removed contraception from standard health care coverage.
It doesn't matter if the Boston Tea Party writes a few paragraphs trying to disclaim their extremism when its very apparent to anyone paying attention.
Not so much
Calling it a Tea Party Congress both over-emphasizes the actual impact the Tea Party managed during the 2010 election and gives run of the mill Republican Congressmen a way to distance themselves from what 90% of the population realizes is the lunatic fringe. The GOP - the whole party, not just the extremists - is responsible for the craptastic legislation passed in the past two years and as a whole party, they need to be held responsible.
The Tea Party should have been DOA the morning after the 2010 election, but the media has been giving them life support in the form of hysterical, undeserved publicity for almost a year and a half. There is no way this failed political experiment should still be a buzzword and yet as long as they get coverage, they have a reason to keep screaming crazy things.
Not really....
Seems to me most of the Tea Party cretins elected in the 2010 midterms have turned out be disappointments and the influence of this fringe group seems to be on the wane.
I say let them beef. It's actually kind of funny how they are all so clueless now that their "grassroots" organizers like Dick Armey and the Koch brothers have moved on.
I suppose
if you're not a woman and you're not gay, it's easy to say the Tea Party is yesterday's news. Tea Party candidates in public office in states across the country are doing a very good job restricting women's rights (over 1,500 bills introduced in state legislatures this past year, of which 130 became law, and maybe two of those -- the forced vaginal ultrasound laws in Virgina and Texas, made national news) and gay rights. What this means is that women's health community, the gay community, and the civil rights communty are forced to organize and spend lots of money to just tread water. Which means actually advancing our civil rights is much harder to do. Which means that poor women in Texas actually have no health care right now and most gay teenagers still grow up in states where the official public policy is hatred of them.
How do you know
I'm not either gay or female? Also, it's not easy for me to say anything about the Tea Party or either of the two major parties. You think the Democrats are standing up to these bigots?
and then this popped into my head...
Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
F--k off! We're the People's Front of Judea
Splitters!
How much do you hate the Romans?
So
are 45 people going to show up and move to faneuil hall where they can artificially boost their numbers by using tourists as a backdrop and using ultra telephoto lenses? (err, i mean protest city hall)
Cause thats what they did last time, and the media ate it up.
I just wish I had my camera which would have shown the real story.
It's sort of been a thing of amusement for me that the media always tends to under-count large protests because they're seen as coming from the left, while way over counting the ones they see coming from the right. Gotta hand it to them though, they are much louder and in your face, which probably is some of it.
Also why they really hated Occupy, who stole some of their thunder and media tactics.
It's sort of been a thing of
What color is the sky in your world?
Depends
on the time and weather, but typically 474–476nm.
Anyways, it's my observation. This was a recent example reported as a large crowd: