Teabaggers come together to rally against Obama in Denver.

[Sub Atomic]

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A group of about 14 Tea Party protesters were among those turned away on Colfax Avenue by police working the event. Police told them they had to walk down 14th or 16th avenues and could not be on Colfax.

"Now it appears as if there was no opposition to Obama and Bennet," fumed Daniel King, one of the Tea Party protesters. "It was reminiscent of Hugo Chavez and Castro."

He said it was cold out, which meant it took extra effort to muster the handful of people who did show up.

"And now we did it for nothing," he said.

His signs included one that said "Obama for Change" and used the Soviet-style hammer and sickle.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14430664#ixzz0fzqClpGw

[BR_Parkway]

1. If they'd been locked up in a "free speech zone" it would be reminiscent

of Bush & Cheney

[peekaloo]

2. Would have been a bigger crowd if not for the cold/shrinkage factor.

I guess. :dunce:

[Sub Atomic]

4. It wasn't that cold yesterday.

Yeah, it was around 35 at noon when this happened, but that's not cold for Denver.

At least not this year.

[Common Sense Party]

7. I thought this was in the evening. I was very close to Colfax & 16th

around 1:00 yesterday afternoon, and I saw nothing out of the ordinary. I thought the president was going to be in Denver last night.

[louis-t]

5. There was significant shrinkage!

[meegbear]

3. "It was reminiscent of Hugo Chavez and Castro." ...

or Bush and Cheney, but who's counting?

[SpiralHawk]

6. "Whine." - Teabagsters

As usual...no ideas, no solutions - just whines and whimpers and seething misdirected rage.

You want to get on the right track? Stop watching Fox corporate republicon propaganda -- and try thinking for yourself.

[HughBeaumont]

8. The Tea Klux Klan . . . legends in their own rattling minds.

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/base-instincts/Content?oid=1841551

Too ANGRY to Make Sense

It's time for "Angry White Conservative Pop Quiz," the game show where most contestants would rather demagogue than participate.

Fact: Most economists say large-scale government investment was needed to prevent the downturn from spiraling into a full-blown depression. As The New York Times wrote about a January 2009 meeting of the American Economic Association, "Nearly every economist who spoke here agreed that a dollar invested in, say, a new transit system or in bridge repair is spent and re-spent more efficiently than a dollar that comes to a household in a tax cut."

Question: President Bush's economic policies relied on tax cuts as their centerpiece, and yet the economic collapse occurred anyhow. How would more tax cuts reverse the situation?

Fact: Obama's plan imposes a 39.6 percent tax rate on the wealthy, up slightly from Bush's 35 percent rate. Still, the rate is far lower than many past GOP presidents; President Reagan imposed a 50 percent tax rate during his first term, President Nixon had a 70 percent rate and President Eisenhower had a 91 percent rate.

Question: Obama's been called a "socialist" for his plan, so does that make Reagan, Nixon and Eisenhower socialists too? Why or why not?

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Fact: Bush inherited a budget surplus but ended his presidency with large deficits. By late 2008, the national debt had increased to $11.3 trillion, an increase of more than 100 percent from the beginning of 2000, when the debt was $5.6 trillion.

Question: Why were no Tea Party protests held during Bush's presidency?

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Hopefully, some Tea Party-going, tax cut-loving conservatives will stop frothing at the mouth long enough to answer those questions for the rest of us. Meanwhile, the FBI first warned of an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud in 2004, as noted frequently by William K. Black, a University of Missouri economics professor who was a regulator during the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s. Tea Party-goers like to blame homeowners, but private lenders initiated 80 percent of these bogus loans, which they called "ninja loans" for "no income, no job, no assets." Lenders made the deals anyhow because they profited handsomely.

[Initech]

9. 14? That's it? Oooh scary!!!