Jim Devine I think the Teabagger movement has deeper roots than that and goes back further than the Saantelli rant, all the way back to the 1980s. Maybe further back...
^^^^^ CB: They seem to think they are rooted in the Boston Tea Party (smile), the American tradition of individual liberty-libertarianism with the slogan "the best government is the government that governs least, rugged individualism, and bourgeois individualism. There was the tax revolt in California in the 1970's , Howard Whatishisname. Prop Whatever. From that period in Michigan we got the Headlee Amendment to our Constitution limiting tax increases. On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:52 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, michael perelman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was asked by our weekly paper to give some thoughts on the Tea Party >> movement. ?Here is what I came up with: >> >> The Tea Party movement combines ignorance, anger, and justifiable >> indignation. ?For some, this ignorance reflects a degree of racism and >> ethnic hostility. > > > > The infamous Rick Santelli rant that launched the Tea Party movement > is a perfect symbol of the ignorance and hypocrisy that this so-called > movement represents. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA > > While Santelli rails on against about the supposed bailout of "loser" > subprime home-buyers, in the background can be seen a trading floor > where a group of commodities traders are cheering Santelli on. > Apparently the rich irony of financial speculators complaining about > other people getting bailed out completely escaped these people. Truly > sickening.. > -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
