TEA PARTY Talking Points, Translated

[Segami]

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" The tea partiers have their talking points, which they repeat loudly and forcefully (and often misspell). But I wonder if they've actually really thought about the points they're parroting. I suspect not.


They rail against "Obamacare" and anything else that the White House (and Pelosi and Reid) might advocate, even though their protests fly in the face of their own best interests.


In repeating their talking points, here is what they're really saying to the Obama administration and Congress:


- How dare you force insurance companies to cover my preexisting conditions?


- How dare you not allow the insurance companies to drop my coverage when I get sick?


- How dare you try to regulate the financial industry that got us into this economic mess so that they'll be less likely to repeat the same greedy mistakes?


- How dare you pass a stimulus bill that has created some 3 million jobs so far?


- How dare you expect the wealthiest two percent to pay their fair share of taxes even as you extend the tax cuts for us middle-class folks?


- How dare my tax dollars be spent on your "socialist" agenda? (Of course I will gladly take advantage of our socialized fire departments, police departments, schools, roads, bridges, and clean water.)


- How dare you try to restrict more offshore oil drilling that could lead to even more environmental disasters like the recent BP oil spill? (As our Saint Sarah says, "Drill, baby, drill!")


- "Illegal" immigrants are stealing all the great lettuce-picking jobs.


- Oh, and keep your government hands off my government-run Medicare! (Huh?!)


Absurd stuff in an absurd political environment.


Which is what makes me believe that they're not really thinking about their talking points. Instead, it seems, they're only reacting to the brainwashing by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the conservative fear mongers who indulge these people's intellectual laziness, fuel their fears, and dictate their thoughts.


And it all boils down to the following:


- How dare you elect a president whose skin color does not match mine?



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[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Excellent! K&R

[Oceansaway]

2. K&R...n/t

[badgerpup]

3. "How dare you expect me to actually THINK about this stuff?"

and
"How dare you mess with my world-view like this?" :hide:

[FLyellowdog]

4. This list is awesome...

and just what I've been looking for. Thanks for doing my homework for me. :hi:

[HawkerHurricane]

5. Personal Thought

"- How dare you elect a president whose skin color does not match mine?"

Personally, I think it's more
- How dare you elect a president who's not a Republican, much worse have the wrong skin color?

If Hilary Clinton had been elected, they would have substituted gender for skin color. If it had been John Edwards, they would have substituded somthing else. But the crime is having a (D) instead of a (R). All else is gravy.

[Initech]

6. Tea party = KKK lite.

[nc4bo]

7. Sounds about right to me.

Only 2 things I'm not fully onboard about and that's that health insurance reform and the illegal immigrants picking lettuce jobs.

HIR - Great for insurance companies, not so great for those who have to figure out what to do without in order to pay for coverage.

and (Warning: I'm just thinking my personal thoughts out loud)

Not sure about where you live but in addition to being farm laborers I suspect in NC that they are also hired by big contractors to build homes, put on roofs, sheet rock and paint, install landscaping, pour the sidewalks and driveways, work on TARP funded highway road projects, work on nonTARP funded highway projects, working like slaves in hog and poultry plants, etc.

No way to find out without speaking to them but I strongly suspect it. An illegal working for one of those big contractors helped tar our driveway. In broken English (and while his boss wasn't around) he told us he was originally a roofer but the asphalt job paid more at that time so he laid the tar til something else came along. He told us he had no ID, lived in a MH park in a dismal single wide trailer shared with several others.

I also suspect that several of the households I attempted to do interviews with during the Census also contained families of illegal immigrants. No proof, just strong suspicions.

I don't blame them. I place the blame on the contractors who know damn good and well what they're doing but feign ignorance and innocence.

No taxes, no disability, no SS, no health insurance, no protections, nothing - all cash deals and it's wrong, wrong, wrong and I don't understand why this Administration is continuing to treat the illegal immigration issue as a third rail.

Pukes are owning this one with their fear-mongering and racism! When it's the WH that should be leading the discussions and doing whatever it takes to address the problem.

So much of it lies with big businesses!

[Kablooie]

8. They also imply...

How dare you continue to support liberal interpretations of the Constitution!
The Constitution must be followed strictly so we must eliminate:

The Air Force
NASA
The Right to Privacy
Jury of Peers
Paper Money
The Smithsonian
The Library of Congress
The Forest Service
National Highway Maintenance
Dept. of Health and Safety
Medicare
Social Security
Historic Preservation of Monuments
National Park Service
Environmental Control
Regulation of Business and Wall Street.
AMTRAK
CIA
FBI
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Endowment for the Arts
National Gallery of Arts

[MisterP]

9. none of this nonsense can sponge away Obama's actual toadying

to the insurers, financial industry, and BP

[pacalo]

10. This is a keeper!