[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting

2011-01-12 Thread c b
Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting by Garance Franke-Ruta The Atlantic January 9, 2011 -- 1:49 PM ET http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/tea-party-group-blames-leftist-for-giffords-shooting/69153/ cross-posted on the Cuentame Facebook page

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-15 Thread c b
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:40 AM, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: I know I'm being too harsh on Obama. I want him to leave office after this term or the second term renouncing the military interventionist policies, slashing the military budgets, and telling it like it is to Americans about the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-10 Thread c b
But Obama  was seen as an 'African-American' who said 'white Anglo-Saxon' things most of the time and this made him the darling of a temporarily expanded Democratic Party, ^^^ CB: Yeah, not only could he talk white but his racial ontology was half-white. He was half-white because his

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-10 Thread CeJ
I know I'm being too harsh on Obama. I want him to leave office after this term or the second term renouncing the military interventionist policies, slashing the military budgets, and telling it like it is to Americans about the death throes of the imperium and why their society and political

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-09 Thread c b
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:42 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/8/2010 8:20:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com)  writes: Tea Party Election   Results Diluted in Highly Populated States By Tom Moroney and  Terrence  Dopp - Nov 5, 2010

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-09 Thread CeJ
I have been scouring websites in the USA to try to find a good socialist critique of the ideology of the Tea Party. But so far I have found nothing. The WSWS website says absolutely nothing to critique the ideology of the Tea Party. It seems that many on the left are adapting to the reactionary

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-08 Thread c b
_Print_ (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-11-05/tea-party-results-diluted-in-high-density-states-as-christie-fades-at-home.html#print) _Back to story_ (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-05/tea-party-results-diluted-in-high-density-states-as-christie-fades-at-home.html) Tea Party

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-11-08 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 11/8/2010 8:20:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: Tea Party Election Results Diluted in Highly Populated States By Tom Moroney and Terrence Dopp - Nov 5, 2010 Tea Party supporters boasted of their 28 victories in U.S.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Nationalism

2010-10-22 Thread c b
Tea Party Nationalism By Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP http://www.teapartynationalism.com/ We know the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will. That is why the NAACP-an organization that has worked to expose and combat racism in all

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party

2010-07-06 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party oh , oh

2010-07-06 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party, Coffee Party: Why Not A Black Party?

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Tea Party, Coffee Party: Why Not A Black Party? By Ron Walters NNPA Columnist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-19 Thread CeJ
WL: Very reactionary political current reminiscent of the ideological bent of the pro slavery forces during the lead up to the Civil War in America. The slave oligarchy and the Southern elite claimed to stand on the side of the Constitution, and they did. That the Constitution legalized and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-19 Thread CeJ
Most people have forgotten who Thaddeus Stevens was (one of the greatest legislators in US history) while they remember James 'the Mercersburg Flash' Buchanan as the 'worst president' (thankfully George W. Bush will give him some competition in that category). It's ironic that Stevens was the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-19 Thread c b
On 2/19/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Most people have forgotten who Thaddeus Stevens was (one of the greatest legislators in US history) ^ CB: Wasn't he a Radical Republican and abolitionist ? ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party U.S.A.: It’ s Still the Economy, Stupid!

2010-02-19 Thread c b
February 18, 2010 Tea Party U.S.A.: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid! Posted by John Cassidy In the wake of yesterday’s fascinating report in the Times about sixty-something Tea Party activists bracing for a violent counter-revolution, several people have asked me why Americans are so angry. I am

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread c b
New York TIMES / February 16, 2010 Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right By DAVID BARSTOW SANDPOINT, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread Shane Mage
Common ground? Tea Party leaders say they know their complaints about shredded constitutional principles and excessive spending ring hollow to some, given their relative passivity through the Bush years. In some ways, though, their main answer — strict adherence to the Constitution — would

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread c b
I gotta find some of their interpretations of the Constitution. I'm sure they are gungho on the 2nd Amendment and probably the 10th Amendment. I don't know that they have much truck for Miranda warnings or Warren Court interpretations of the Constitution. They probably think affirmative action

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread Shane Mage
On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:42 PM, c b wrote: I gotta find some of their interpretations of the Constitution. I'm sure they are gungho on the 2nd Amendment and probably the 10th Amendment. I don't know that they have much truck for Miranda warnings or Warren Court interpretations of the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread c b
I don't know if this is representative. They don't like some Constitutional Amendments that come after 1913 ( like women voting ? smile). So, do they not consider the provision on the Constitution on Amendments valid , or what ? CB http://taxdayteaparty.com/2010/01/constitutional-reform/

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 2/18/2010 12:20:49 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: As the meeting ended, Carolyn L. Whaley, 76, held up her copy of the Constitution. She carries it everywhere, she explained, and she was prepared to lay down her life to protect it from the likes of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past

2009-10-02 Thread c b
Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past By Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect Posted on October 2, 2009, Printed on October 2, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/142988/ Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to racial resentment, it's curious to