Not 'just' tea anyway,....maybe a whole-lotta Long Island ice tea-? On Feb 21, 9:24 pm, "Bill Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe that not tea in the cup. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: DUG Nunya-Bidness<mailto:[email protected]> > To: DUG Nunya-Bidness<mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 5:29 PM > Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Is The Tea Party Over?-:-Teabaggers completely > ignorant about taxes-:-CONFUSION-BASED RAGE > > Is The Tea Party Over? > > http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/tea-party-down<http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/tea-party-down> > > http://tinyurl.com/ybxlb4c<http://tinyurl.com/ybxlb4c> > > Teabaggers completely ignorant about taxes. > > Pretty embarrassing when you know jack shit about the issue that's > supposedly your raison d'etre. > > Of people who support the grassroots, "Tea Party" movement, only 2 percent > think taxes have been decreased, 46 percent say taxes are the same, and a > whopping 44 percent say they believe taxes have gone up. > > Idiots. > > http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2010/02/teabaggers-completely-ignorant-...<http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2010/02/teabaggers-completely-ignorant-...> > > http://tinyurl.com/y97d797<http://tinyurl.com/y97d797> > > CONFUSION-BASED RAGE.... > > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022399.php<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022399.php> > > http://tinyurl.com/yay7rnx<http://tinyurl.com/yay7rnx> > > National Review published a couple of items recently about President Obama > having cut taxes for 95% of working families. This is, in reality, what > happened, but the conservative magazine was incredulous. > > "If the taxes of 95 percent of Americans actully [sic] had been cut, surely > somebody other than Obama would have noticed," one NR writer put it. > > It was a curious argument. > > It doesn't matter what President Obama did -- in this case, approval of a > tax cut -- it matters what people perceive, even if the perceptions are > patently false. > > And perhaps no group of people is fueled more intensely by misperceptions > of reality than the Tea Party crowd. > > Of people who support the grassroots, "Tea Party" movement, only 2 percent > think taxes have been decreased, 46 percent say taxes are the same, and a > whopping 44 percent say they believe taxes have gone up. > > Now, we know that this 44% is wrong. > > We also know that in nearly every instance, the 46% are wrong, too. > > Indeed, my challenge to them would be to go look at their most recent > paystub, and then dig up their paystub from, say, December 2008, before Obama > took office. > > The math isn't that hard -- did their tax rate go up, down, or stay the > same? > > Opinions and perceptions are nice, but arithmetic can be stubborn. > > But as this relates to politics, John Cole noted that these folks "don't > even know what they are mad about." Indeed, it's easy to forget this, but the > first Tea Party crowds started protesting in March 2009 -- exactly one month > after President Obama signed one of the largest tax-cut packages in American > history into law. > > The protestors wanted to make clear that they are "taxed enough already," > choosing to pretend that they hadn't just received a tax cut from the > president they hate so intensely. > > John added, "It really is quite amazing what you can do with a group of > people who are completely uninterested in the truth, unwilling to believe > anything that comes from someone other than Rush or Glenn Beck or an > 'acceptable' source of information, and who have a vested interest in > believing what they want to believe, reality be damned." > > This is important to the extent that there are still some who believe the > political mainstream should do more to listen to the Tea Party crowd and take > its hysterical cries seriously. > > But how can credible people take nonsense seriously and hope to come up > with a meaningful result? > > The truth may sound rude, but in general, Tea Party activists have no idea > what they're talking about. > > Their sincerity notwithstanding, this is a confused group of misled people > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/webtv-pals?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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