Are Tea Baggers Self Loathing America Hating Idiots
If people could be counted on to vote in their own best interests, there would be no Tea Party movement, for if the economic agenda embraced by Tea Partiers -- a vastly pro-corporation, government-killing plan -- Tea Partiers would find themselves among the people most hurt by it.Some of the early tea bagger rallies featured people with signs saying keep the government out of my Medicare - the tea baggers astonishingly failing to realize Medicare is a government run insurance program. People like Dick Armey and FreedomWorks would like nothing better than to get their hands on Medicare and choke it to death. You know the program most tea baggers like and want. The same goes for Social Security. many tea baggers either depend on Social Secuirty or need it indirectly to help with with the costs of taking care of elderly relatives. Republican leaders and think tanks want to either destroy Social Security or hand it over to the geniuses on Wall St to manage. On almost every issue tea bagger is just another word for being a tool of greedy special interests.
To hear Tea Party activists tell it, they seek to save future generations from the crushing demands of big government. Yet the agenda they advocate, dictated by the big-money players behind the muscular interest groups that keep the movement growing, will likely render the Tea Partiers themselves the economically squeezed subjects of a corporate state, one in which the elderly will be left to scrounge for crumbs, small businesses will be crushed by lack of capital, and their own ground-level online organizing supplanted by the networks built by giant, corporate-funded astroturf groups.
As George Lakoff and Drew Westen remind us, people don't vote on the facts: they vote on emotion, according to Westen, and their notion of morality, according to Lakoff. The resentment of Tea Partiers toward liberals, East Coast elites, the poor and people who don't look like them has been effectively marshaled in service of a "free market" ideology cleverly packaged as "freedom." Never mind that free markets are anything but free for ordinary people. The packaging strikes the necessary emotional and moral chords: Free markets = freedom = liberty = endowed by the Creator, as written in the Declaration of Independence by the founders. It's the perfect exploitation of the worldview of conservative middle-class white people -- all in the service of enriching the super-rich at the expense of their unwitting, patriotic ground troops.
California millionaire Meg Whitman: let the poor fund higher education
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Newt Gingrich's Ex-Wife Goes Public: Messy Relationship Life, Meltdowns
The profile paints a silhouette highlighting the intersection of Gingrich's personal life and political career:Newt has a following because - like the tea baggers - conservatives do not have much need for the truth. And obviously lying and hypocrisy doesn't bother them at all
"There's somebody else, isn't there?"
She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed?
She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. "'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that many times. 'All I want is a Chevrolet.'"
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
He'd just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he'd given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.
The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing?"
"It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."
As for 2012, Marianne Gingrich shared her take on speculation swirling over the possibility of Newt Gingrich making a run for the White House in the next election cycle. The bottom line, she said, is that "there's no way" he'll be president.
