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The "Crazy", "Deadender" Tea Party: The BusinessWeek Cover Does It Again
While Bloomberg's BusinessWeek division is no stranger to provocative covers (here, here and here), it will be interesting to see what reactions among a growing segment of the US population, those that don't believe that unsustainable, reserve currency-threatening spending like a drunken sailor is the equivalent of "wealth creation", its latest cover (to the following story) will provoke: namely, the "crazy", "deadender" tea party.
Those curious how this particular attention-grabbing cover was made, can find out here.
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Yeah, so much smarter to keep taking on unlimited debt. Fucktards
The best thing for Amerika is for the Rebooblicans to split in two. Let's see; we have Tea-Party/Libertarians on one side and French Republicans on the other. Gee, I wonder which one is actually standing-up for American Liberty's and Freedoms? (rhetorical) Anyone with an IQ over Room Temperature knows the answer. French Republicans, McConnell, McCain, Boehner, Etc. rollover and play dead at the first sign of trouble. Senator Cruz had to stand up and fight for the average American against Tyranny on both sides of the aisle. Ted Cruz is the “Second Coming” of Ronald Reagan. The Republican Party needs Senator Cruz and Mike Lee, more today than ever before!
"they" always let you know who/what they fear the most
Bad Boys of Congress... Whatcha gonna do?
Kick your ass and take your lunch money.
There gonna need to do a little more than that if they want to make any changes...
Dup...??
For 36 hours NPR has been running horror stories about people who couldn’t eat/breathe/wipe their ass without government help during the "shutdown" interspersed with admonishments about how we must never, ever, ever let this happen again.
Sickening.
The Republicans and the ever-flaccid Boehner could have drawn up and publicized a list of all the things the Feds could have shut down instead of all the things they actually did (to cause as much pain and inconvenience as possible).
Why does a federal employee have to be present for you to look at a statue anyway?
They could have also illustrated in detail why the government wouldn’t actually be forced to default in the event of no deal by Oct 17….but they didn’t.
They could have pointed out how the shutdown charade proves that the government is blatently in business for itself at this point...but they didn't.
They suck and the party deserves to die although clearly they will survive by just becoming indistinguishable from Obama Democrats.
Not one media outlet referenced Barry in 2008 saying that breaking the spending limits showed a failure in leadership. Not one.
Cowards (or hypocrites....knowing they'd get called on earlier debt ceiling votes). Still, I'd have read that damn(ing) statement every time I took to the chamber floor. Everytime some self-righteous reporter or news show host (talking to you Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo...two of the self-perpetuating elite class) tried to pin their blame on the R party I would have pulled out that statement and read it. Every rebuttal question, read the statement. Maybe eventually I'd have read that briliant Senator's comments on the debt ceiling once he became the President. Then I'd ask "Anderson...one of these diametrically opposing statements is pure partisan lies...which is it?"
Yes but if they had done any of those things or anything of that sort, it would merely be admitting the whole thing is a theatre production, and by the whole thing I mean federal politics itself. They'd be highlighting how superfluous they are. You don't bite the hand that feeds, particularly not when it feeds so well. Step outside the (approved) frame (of discourse) and you no longer exist.
The GOp did votes, tried to get the word out but the only media sources is blog news sites and maybe Fox. I don't watch TV but we have a police state where the news reports what Obama and the DNC want reported. I am not a fan of the GOp but the others control the media.
LOL!!!
Well done Barry... Couldn't have done it without you..
Since Barry pines to be like Mussolini, I wonder if he'll end up like him?
One can hope
When "Business" Week bashes a pro-business politician....you know that they're part of the Fascist Regime.
Doesn't matter who is in office....just make sure the Spice Flows.
Its not a sprint. The Tea party will triumph in this political guerilla war. In the end the gov checks will bounce.
Too little, too late. By triumph, I assume you mean the Tea Party will be able to gain control of the government and fix it. Collapse will happen long before that does. No one will triumph.
Since there is no Political Solution and the size of Government has grown monsterously to garantuan proportions a collapse is the triumph.
When the Government can no longer continue the charade of "meeting Financial Obligations" then the Government fades into irrelevancy. Perhaps Liberty may have a chance, or, the alternative of sliding into dark totalitarianism. The public, at large, will then have a real choice, instead of the faux Red Team-Blue Team Socialist "choice", presented.
But this cannot continue as the present kleptocracy for any duration of time. It has become too corrupt and has failed. The Government demonstrates no repect for any Constitutional Law and acts to protect the criminality of itself and the elitist class. It is a farce, a shell of noble intentions gone horribly wrong. Murder and Torture are the hallmarks of those in power. It needs to be stopped.
A fairly articulate rant, but please recognize that the laws of men are irrelevant. The earth has a very real carrying capacity and while imaginary paper money can be "created" in an instant from nothing at all, the calories required to actually do anything at all cannot.
" then the Government fades into irrelevancy"
Lol, Marx said the same thing. Didn't work out as theorized.
Dark totalitarianism is the order of the day. The (literal and figurative) supply-lines of the State must break totally, only then will it fall. And it never stays dead.
Yes, I think you're probably right. But the tea party IS sounding the alarm that nobody else will, and that at least gives fair warning to those whose ears and minds are open enough to receive it. It gives a lot of people a fighting chance in the coming troubles.
That's not worth nothing.
In the end the gov checks will bounce.
maybe...if there is an emp over the entire country, and we go back to the days of no electricity.
The Tea Party won't win. Ross Perot said 20 years ago that manufacturing would be gone in the US. The guy is still laughed at.
I voted for him. I would again if someone like him ran. We need a lot less flashy smiles and shiny teeth and $1000 suits and $500 haircuts, and a lot more charts and graphs. The very stuff they poke fun at him for is the stuff that was best about him. I never worried about the national debt until he showed how bad it could get.
Everything he ever warned about is now fact, except for the final consequences which seem just around the corner now. It's like we're in the first part of the third act of a play he wrote.
Just because the fed gov checks bounce, doesnt mean the stone ages. It just means a guy and his family may have to take some responsibility to provide for themself rather than suckle at teat.
Does that apply to too big to fail banks, insurance companies, oil comapnies, Universities etc. as well?
I don't think you really understand how entitlement spending and wealth transfer works.
It applies to everyone expecting a payment from the government. Yes big banks etc. When the gov doesnt have money, not everyone gets paid. Its not complicated. I didnt think I need to spell everything out.
And what happens when the FSA doesn't get paid?
You really think they'd let that happen? Either way the result would be the same.
Boiling the frog is the plan. Don't spook the sheeple flock unless you really need to.
I dont know who will get paid and who wont. Im not a politician. But the math concludes someone will be shafted. Infact alot of people will be shafted.
When the gov doesnt have money, not everyone gets paid.
doc, you missed my point...as long as there is electricity, the digital money will be created...
got it "EMP"; missed that part.
Maybe if the Tea Party would suggest cutting their own members off of the Big-Gov scams people would take them seriously.
All I ever hear them bitching about is "those people" getting welfare.
You can't have the white-trash on welfare and expect the black-trash won't want it too.
Plus all the vituous free-enterprise lovin' "conservative" "patriots" living off of: Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-Energy, Big-Ed, Big-House, Big-Fin, Big-OldFart, Big-OldFartHealthcare, Big-AntiDrug, & Big-PoliceState.
Git yer socialist hands off my Medicare, I'm entitled to that hip replacement surgery.
Duplicitious assholes.
do they ever mention the welfare that wall street is on at 85 bill a month or what about the biggest socialist welfare state, the MIC, do they ever complain about the MIC or all the "tax" breaks GE has.......curious, I don't follow teabagging as a sport so i can't really answer those questions definitively but i suspect the answer is no, oh and most of these dudes are white right? and republican right?
seriously Team Bag where's the river of tears for the real criminals?.....trillions of tears
As the saying goes, when the flak is heavy, you're close to the target.
Obvious the Tea Party is now being used by the MSM as a scapegoat for everything going wrong in America. That's why I dont believe anything coming from Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, McShitstain or any other GOP hack.
They threw their own members under the bus on purpose.
bu bu bu bu bu but but but the tea party .... and those evil white people too
Oh Yeah. The Tea Party is just wacky for wanting adherence to the US Constitution and not draining the treasury w/o appropriation. Just CCCCRAAAZZZY. How far we have fallen, to this time when the media protects an illegal British born President, and the treasonous Congress that allowed him there.
By the way, neither Cruz nor Rubio are eligible natural born Citizens either, no matter where birth occurred, since they were born of 1 or more foreign parents.
The eligibility is subject to debate, the fundamental question is are there more than 2 ways to become a US citizen? Since one known method is to be born a US citizen and the other known to be naturalized a US citizen... Another alternative would be to argue that he is not now a US citizen, but I don't that one has legs. So IF one is a US citizen and one is did not at some point post partem go through the naturalization process to become a US citizen, then what other type of US citizen could they be than a natural born US citizen?
And keep in mind that the whole point (founder's intent) of the obscure wording was to prevent Banker-Bitch-Extraordinaire Alexander Hamilton from following in his father-figure/mentor GW's footsteps when the fact is that is that NOT ONE of the founding fathers was born in the USA or had two parents who were citizens of the United States at the time of the founding father's birth.
Obviously you know nothing. If you are not born of US Citizen parents in the United States then you are naturalized in some way, either by the statutory framework of the 14th Amendment (8 US Code s. 1401) or by oath, at which time the oath taker swears to throw off all other foreign country allegiance.
One may be born a statutory citizen, but no statute is needed to make one a natural born Citizen--- as they are born ibn the US of US Citizen parents. What else would they be (natural law).
"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens .also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners." Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167 (1874)
The fallacy in your "thinking" is that being born in the US means no naturalization occurs. It does passively, by statute.
By the way A. Hamilton was eligible to be POTUS, since he was a "citizen of the United States at the time of the ratification of the Constitution." The first natural born Citizens, born since 7/4/1776 were only 13 at the time of the ratification (1789), so those that were citizens of the United States, who adhered to the US, were grandfathered in. The first "natural born Citizen", born before 1789, was Martin Van Buren, b. 1782 in NY. No one born after 1789 of foreign parentage is eligible. It's called the grandfather clause. It is also the first law of naturalization.
"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States". A2S1C4
Dessert- wonderful!
And exactly what statute, pray tell, passively naturalizes the child of a US citizen born on foreign soil in some fashion so as to negate the possibly that they are a natural born citizen? (and hopefully references in that statute what body of existing law it sought to modify, clarify or expound upon) My original post wasn't a false dichotomy it was a question, and the organization of the 1940 act is consistent with that dichotomy.
In the case of Cruz, there is a peculiar issue since both the 1790 act 1795 act don't deal with the circumstance of only ONE parent being a US citizen (which later legislation explicitly dealt w/ once "natural born" had been removed from the statues at large, but since Cruz's father was a legal US resident- that avoids the OBVIOUS disqualification to the definition of "natural-born" in the 1790 act, and raises some rather interesting issues in re that bastard Hamilton - which was a BIG deal back then among the American Aristocracy...) As to Hamilton's qualification, look at his original proposed text (the later Madison copy and the earlier variants available at Avalon) against what was adopted- we move from no mention of the qualification issue, to some crap wording that he (Hamilton) would have certainly passed, to something which certainly would have (and did elsewhere) created a McCain/Cruz/Obama type political event in the 18th century. Moreover, when, and by what means or law, did Hamilton affirmatively gain CITIZENSHIP of the State (or colony) of New York as opposed to RESIDENCY prior to adoption of the US Constitution? (seriously there is wayyyyy too much crap on the internet to find a simple answer to what should be a simple question, but which unfortunately is not addressed in any of the more substantial treatments I came across when I looked into this years ago), and neither one of us is on firm ground argumentatively until that point is firmly resolved.
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What is brilliant about this is Ted Cruz's wife went to Claremont, interned in DC, worked in Brussels on expanding the EU, and now works for Goldman Sachs with derivatives. Ted Cruz doesn't use Congress's super healthcare package because Goldman's is better. He is the "leader" of the Tea Party. Total propaganda. This soap opera is tough to watch.
Whoa. Then my theory is correct: hes the controlled opposition.
white republican dudes with an agenda, same as always, the Boca Blue Hair Echo Chamber eats this stuff up like free viagra, GO extra BLUE team, go!
I want to like Ted...but, if I may...white hispanic republican dudes with an agenda
he "parts" his hair to the side, whitey all day everyday the rest is all pandering
Doesn't all that dovetail nicely into this cesspool of lies, deception and propaganda? Cruz is a plant sent to discredit the real Tea Party, not lead it.
"Heidi Cruz, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics and international relations from CMC in 1994, is a vice president in the Private Wealth Management Group at Goldman Sachs, Texas. She and her two partners work with clients to implement high net worth portfolios across a range of investments and asset classes, including complex derivatives products, private equity, hedge funds, single stock risk management, U.S. and international equities, and fixed income.
- Ms. Cruz began her career as an investment banker with JPM in New York, focusing on international structured finance and subsequently on Latin America mergers and acquisitions.
- Heidi Cruz is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)."
http://www.dailypaul.com/300348/senator-ted-cruz-and-wife-heidi-nelson-c...
standing behind every politico apparachik is a squid tentacle, at this point it's structural
In this case, he's married to that tentacle.
who's doing the penetrating is now ambiguous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jie3ARElIZk
She has snuck her tentacle into Cruz and will control him.
He will get elected, rip off a mask-- and it's Bath House Barry again!
Gawd, this is that movie come to life where the guy has glasses which reveal earth is controlled by aliens!
I think it was "They Live" or something like that.
If you told me satanic fallen angels now possessed politicians, I would believe it.
***
It was "They Live," with Roddy Piper! I just ixquicked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmT4kYoM4NU
O-M-G, the movie is real!
Re: Ms. Cruz began her career as an investment banker with JPM in New York, focusing on international structured finance and subsequently on Latin America mergers and acquisitions.
I'm SURE that Mr & Mrs Cruz have only be best interests of the white-trash motorscooter ridin' OldFarts who think they are entitled to medical welfare, unlike "those people" who are destroying this great-n-glorious country.
i don't even know or care about the tea party. i just want a 20+% cut in spending across the board.
>> i just want a 20+% cut in spending across the board.
Then you have noting in common with the tea party.
Re: Then you have noting in common with the tea party.
Git yer commy hands aways from my government motorscooter. I'm ENTITLED to that motorscooter.
And get a goddamn hair cut, you hippy!!
And Raytheon is entitled to those missle contracts.
You're the hippy.
A 20% cut in spending would only cut the government deficit in half - and that's not on a GAAP basis. It would still run a $600B annual deficit. On just a cash basis, the U.S. government spending needs to be cut from its current $3.4T/year to below $1.8T/year to generate enough of a surplus to fund a 30-35 year debt buydown plan. 'course, that wouldn't cover entitlements and interest...
Re: $3.4T/year to below $1.8T/year
The 50% of us living off of our Big-Gov scams won't let that happen.
Hell, the OldFarts would decend on DC in waves of socialist motorscooters demanding their welfare be restored.
Austerity for "those people" not the OldFarts!!!
Talk about controlled opposition. Ted Cruz voted for the compromise!
No, he didn't. He was one of 18 Senators who voted against it. Here is the list of those who voted no:
• Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
• John Cornyn (R-Texas)
• Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
• Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
• Mike Enzi (R-Wy.)
• Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
• Dean Heller (R-Nev.)
• Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
• Mike Lee (R-Utah)
• Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
• James Risch (R-Idaho)
• Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
• Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
• Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
• Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
• Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
• Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)
• David Vitter (R-La.)
So what. Look at that fuckan list. Cornyn, Grassley, Shelby? LOL, a bunch of sellouts, hypocrites and assholes.
So I'm just correcting Spyker's inaccurate statement, that's what. He is either misinformed or deliberately spreading disinformation. Facts matter.
Sadly, not one of those guys will stand up for anything that really matters. That is a fact too.
No, that's your subjective opinion. How they voted is a matter of public record and therefore easily verified as factual. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. They aren't however entitled to their own facts.
LOL. Keep drinking the Kool Aid if you those fucking hacks will turn against their money masters.
This fuckin media should be writing about the man they helped elect that has ruined the country but as good communists and comrades in arms they demonize a group of American heros! Fuck you to Newsweek and Fuck You to the New York Slime! Totally expected by the Nazi Mayor who ownes this toilet!
Re: Fuck you to Newsweek
Well, this is BIDNESS week NOT Newsweek You know, the "job creators" who make this great-n-glorious country great-n-glorious by creating wealth for the top 20% by living off of Big-Gov welfare and debt.
Who do you think get the most benefit of governemtn debt? "Those people" or Big-Corp?
Maybe if the Red Team dumbasses could think beyond their tiny-brained tribalism and actually fought Big-Corp as much as Big-Gov they might have more support.
Yeah, but look at all the success they're having against big gov. I'm sure it makes sense to expand their attack to the arguably harder-to-defeat enemy at the same time.
I'm just impressed that ANYBODY is even TRYING to do ANYTHING right. That in itself, while likely not enough to save the current system, bodes well for recovery after the crash. Maybe the tea party is the Foundation. Who is Hari Seldon? And, more interestingly, who is the Second Foundation?
Re: That in itself, while likely not enough to save the current system, bodes well for recovery after the crash.
Historically, populus movements are always thrown to the wayside when the revolution comes.
What the populus supporters (Tea Party and Occupy) can't comprehend is that the people who run things now have ALWAYS run things, in all societies, at all times in history - and always will.
There are people who live sleazy duplicitous lives (the adults) and there are the people who live lives in blank-n-white morality (the children).
Morals are used by the adults to screw the children.
By your historically ignorant and idiotic blanket statement, no revolution, invasion, or imperial collapse has EVER happened.
The current emperors of Rome, Byzantium, Parthia, the Ottoman realm, the great Mongol horde and the tributary states of Tenochtitlan will be much comforted by your theory, though.
DEBT = WEALTH
UNEMPLOYMENT = ECONOMIC STIMULUS
You forgot:
WAR is PEACE, FREEDOM is SLAVERY, IGNORANCE is STRENGTH
Tea Party is definitely being punished for thoughtcrimes.
The Tea Party's victory was the Budget Control Act of 2011. It seems to have staying power. The Sequester is being nibbled on, but no one has eliminated it yet, and it is the ONLY manifestion of control on government spending growth that has ever existed.
It was a monumental blunder by Obama and the Democrats. They haven't been able to get around it.
Not that it matters. There is no fix for the crush of systemic drags that exist on society. Relentless EROEI erosion on what comes out of the ground, automation eliminating manual jobs that a huge proportion of the population do (and are the only jobs they can do), and global demographics cannot be countered. Descent is required, probably forever.
Though I can imagine a society of 1 billion total people on Earth in 40-50 years and a year in which true GDP growth occurs from the crushed level of that moment and the remnants saying "See? We survived all of those problems. The doomers were wrong again."
Is the EROEI on sunlight eroding?
You don't understand the math.
At the earth's surface, on average given clouds here and there, the sun delivers 1 kilowatt/square meter of surface area. That's before the 80% or so loss from solar cell conversion. That's just reality. The sun delivers 1 KW/square meter.
An 18 wheeler truck that carries food from Iowa to NYC has an engine in it of about 350 horsepower. That's for pushing the truck to get there in a few days and running the food refrigerator.
A horsepower is 745 watts. You want 350 horsepower, you need 745 X 350 = 260,750 watts. 261 kilowatts. That's 261 square meters with perfect solar panels (which do not exist and never will). About 48 feet X 48 feet. There are intermodal containers for 18 wheelers that are indeed 48 feet long. But they are only 102 inches wide (8.5 feet). Roads aren't 48 feet wide. So you can't have a truck with enough surface area to deliver 350 horsepower of solar power with even 100% efficient solar panels (which do not exist and never will).
It doesn't work. Now you can go off and devote most of the arable land to solar panels that you then are going to transmit in lossy wires to roads that magical trucks will pick up and use to move food, or you can just accept Occam's Razor -- it's easier to die.
When losers are your leaders, you lose. When they know they’re going to lose, you need to replace them. Otherwise they will lead you right to defeat, expecting it all the time.
These Establishment Republican consultants such as Karl Rove are trying to elect Establishment Republicans in the face of a Republican base that is issue-oriented, that wants opposition to amnesty, to abortion, to Obamacare. When these Establishment Republicans get their candidates, like Romney, they lose. And when they try to keep bi-partisanship rule in the Congress, as do McConnell and Boehner, they insure that the Democrats win.
There were enough Republican votes to stop Obamacare. An honest and/or accomplished leader could have succeeded.
The McConnells and Boehners lose because there’s no issue that they will fight for, they are more than satisfied to be the minority party.
If what Politico’s behind the scene analysis of why the Republicans lost on Obamacare is true, then why are Karl Rove and the other Establishment Big Money consultants setting up super PACS to defeat the issue-oriented base of the Republican Party (far larger than what McConnell and McCain try to denigrate as a minority of Tea Partiers)?
Already Mitch McConnell has in his corner the well financed super PAC known as Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, a super PAC that boasts a former McConnell campaign manager who is a key fundraiser for American Crossroads, Karl Rove’s super PAC goliath.
And there’re more new PACS to thwart the Republican Party’s conservative base. Says NewsMax, Crossroads has another potential super PAC weapon to assist McConnell in a primary fight if he needs it to defeat a conservative Tea Party challenger. Early this year, Steven Law unveiled the new PAC, the Conservative Victory Project, specifically to help candidates such as McConnell fend off challengers, such as Tea Party candidates in the Republican primaries.”
“Steven Law…an ex-chief of staff to McConnell who ran his first reelection campaign, Law is currently president of American Crossroads. For extra muscle, the PAC’s senior adviser is Scott Jennings, a political director of another McConnell reelection drive, and a former aide to Crossroads co-founder Karl Rove in the George W. Bush administration.”
That's three big super PACs to trump the conservative Republican base -- Crossroads, Kentuckians and Conservative Victory. To date, Mitch McConnell has raised more than $17 million for his 2014 Establishment reelection campaign.
Re: There were enough Republican votes to stop Obamacare
What KIND of Republicans? Those who were elected using the money from Big-Corp who NEED Big-Gov welfare and debt to survive (the "adults")?
Or Republicans who don't like "those people" getting all their hard-earned tax money (the "children").
There are the "adult" Republicans who run scams on the dumbasses, and the "child" Republicans who don't understand duplicity.
You don't understand the "surrender your way to victory" strategy? Well, for that matter, neither do I.
Elected Tea Bagger members who supported the "NDAA".I see now,hmmm.
Yes, Bloomy is a maggot, as are "Roid Reid, "Polyp" Pelosi and Chakka Obongo. But for those of us who stack... all these craven bags of rat offal are leading us to a massive explosion in gold and silver. I am more worried about amnesty for 40 million colon parasites called "undocumented".
I'm canceling my Bloomberg/Business Week subscription effective today. Why read a publication that suppports endless debt and destruction/confiscation of capital and savings?
Bloomberg is a fascist pig
Good for you, Tracerfan. And it was the recent $1 million contribution from Michael Bloomberg – used for blatant false tv advertising - that pushed the failed mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker, into the U.S. Senate winner’s seat over his fast-gaining conservative challenger, Republican Steven Lonegan.
Big Money and Evildoer Ideology, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court and indirect under-the-table largesse from the Fed, can now buy U.S. elections.
Says Bloomberg news: “Independence USA is a political action committee that Bloomberg founded in the final weeks before the Nov. 6, 2012 presidential election. He’s the sole donor to the fund, which had spent about $11 million as of earlier this year. To date the group has advertised against candidates supported by the National Rifle Association and supported those who favor gun control such as Booker…” and Obamacare.
Bloomberg's PAC was very active in California's last election cycle picking off the few pro 2nd amendment Democrats, helping to elect even more radical Democrats than Soros already supported.
So what was the recent polling? The TEA Party had an approval rating around 30%? (Down from 37% in June per Pew). That was with the President, Democrats in every branch of government and more mainstream Republicans all attacking it every time they got in front of a reporter or television camera. They got blamed for every ill imaginable yet they still pull a 30% in the polls.
The IRS shut down over a hundred organizations that would have been up and running in the last election cycle. Does that amount to voter suppression via the suppression of free speech? I dont know but if it were a left-leaning organization I would bet that the MSM media have charged that it was. According to some reports the problems with the IRS is still goiing on.
I admire that the TEA party representatives did what they said they would do if they got elected. No lobbyists got to them. That, in itself, is a remarkable thing.
And I am with drooly, I am not with the TEA party, I just want a 20+% cut in spending across the board.
>> No lobbyists got to them.
So protecting the MIC to the death is their own idea with no help from lobbyists? Heh, cute.
Okay, 'no' lobbyists was too broad. I'm sure that some did. Still they kept some campaign promises about trying to cut the size of government and that is what my focus was.
As for the 20%, I really believe there is room for everyone to give up something and still make out all right. The alternative is not so grand.
Re: I just want a 20+% cut in spending across the board.
I want a 20+% cut too, but I want the other guy's crony-socialist scam to be cut first. My crony-socialist scam keeps the turbine wearin' trrrrsss from crossin' er boarders and stealin' our women.
Then your crony-socialist scam isn't working.
I'm watching the MSM and seeing the Republicans say how they messed up, admitting it on national news. I start wondering what the heck is going on? What is this really about? Then I have a theory. Both sides are basically the same and controlled by the big corporations & bankers. So maybe the Republicans are trying to lose the House! That way, the House, Senate & White House will all be Democratic and can ram their agenda through. Then, next time it will be the Republicans turn to do the same thing. Just my theory.
Heh...and with the "next time it will be the Republicans turn" blows that theory to shit! There will be no "next time" for GOP asshats...their party is cooked...we are down to one major party...just the way the ruling class likes it...
Time for a new party.
Defund the GOP, their members can move over to the socialist party.
Problem solved.
Yes, the whole country will end up like California. What a horrible prospect.
You mean RINOS
But what agenda do the Republicans ever ram through? They never do much of anything except rule the roost.
The bums plaguerized WB7's style. This will increase the value of my WB7 stack. Good.
Ha! The TEA Party is more controlled opposition. More of the same shit. Whenever something rises from the ground and becomes a threat, it is infiltrated, co-opted and used against the very people that started it. Nothing more than a fake alternative to the red/blue facade. I would attempt to go one further and speculate this was designed from the ground up to help control the broiling anger of the disgruntled masses in order to stall the inevitable violent uprising that is coming, in an effort to buy them more time to prepare. Ya know, more fucking tanks, bullets and brainwashed goons. Yet, fools still think it's genuine and fall into the same traps.
Maybe. But if you are a Tea Party Congressman and you really believe, you can shut down the show no matter what the plan was. Round 2 coming up in 90 days.
The "TEA" party is an MSM monicker for people who used to be called Americans. They want smaller government and more freedom along the lines of instruction in the Constitution.
Exactly, demonization of the Tea Party by the sociopathic elites is demonization of the inherited American identity, traditions, and civilization, all of which are being deconstructed by the same elites. They are devolving our society, culture, and politics down to a war of all against all, all the better to keep us under their control. Unless we devolve Federal Gov power down to the States I fear that the only remaining solution to take power from the elites is a rope and lamp post.
So, then, the French King infiltrated the guys who overthrew the Bastille and later cut off his head.
Good plan.
this is nothing but politics as usual.
the GOP is simply pandering to the masses - just as they have always done.
to get re-elected, Republicans are forced to embrace the most radical positions.
Is this the same money-soaked, spy-riddled Tea Party that a majority of which voted to extend Obama's Afghanistan funding package in 2009? Is that the one?
The Tea Party has made major mistakes. The biggest was the no tax pledge because in order to get a flat tax, someone that isn't getting taxed is going to get taxed. That pretty much killed the T.
There are many politicians posing as Tea Party members
I guess they decided it wasn't any fun to pick on us libertarians anymore.
Re: libertarians
Who needs to pick on Libertarians. You guys are as likely to win an election as the socialists are.
The purpose of government is to screw the dumbasses, not to make the rules fair for everybody.
The libertarians and socialist think like children.
LOL - half the people posting here have the same problem as bloomberg and the very cover on which they comment
If you aint taking flak, your not on target.
TPTB are scared and they are showing their cards.
Time to refuel the bombers and add to the fleet.
The Tea Party threatens the nice deal that Big Politics has going. Dems v Repubs is the exact same thing as professional wrestling has with "good guys" v "bad guys." The plots are the same. Every now and then a good guy flips to bad and a bad guy flips to good.
It gives the masses an "identity" because they don't have one of their own.
Same thing with television such as Kardashians and Honey Boo Boo. The masses can say to themselves well at least I am better than these people.
Politicians who actually do what they tell their constituents they will do? This is a travesty, I'm surprised we aren't at DEFCON 1 yet.
These pro-business PACs are banker PACs. Just raise the debt ceiling, just go ahead and spend the money, you know, trillions for the bankers and DEBTS for the people. It's called Fiat-Money Control Over America!
It’s going to be a fight leading up to the Republican primaries; a challenger announced yesterday in Mississippi to take on Thad Cochran in the Senate. And already, he’s gotten the Tea Party endorsesment.
This from NPR yesterday:
It's official: Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran is the latest GOP incumbent to get a primary challenge from the right.
State Sen. Chris McDaniel announced Thursday he'll try to unseat the six-term veteran in 2014, the day after Cochran voted for the compromise to end the government shutdown and avert a debt default.
McDaniel's move wasn't completely unexpected. What's interesting, however, is the firepower behind it — influential national conservative groups such as the Senate Conservative Fund, the Club for Growth and the Madison Project are all supporting the Tea Party-aligned challenger's candidacy.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/10/18/236932948/sen-thad-cochran-gets-a-tea-party-challenge
If Bloomberg is against it, I am damn sure for it!
People had better wake up and realize the Tea Party catch-all phrase is for those of us that are going against the established big gov and corporate whores. Just because some corporate boys jump on board, don't through out the baby with the bath water. We have got to find some common ground and start putting a halt to this.
Screw Congress defunding Odumbass"care". WE the American people need to do it. Just tell the SOB'S no and don't buy it. At least make them penalize you. The way to stop being a sheeple is to quit letting people shear you at will.
An army of one.
Re: People had better wake up and realize the Tea Party catch-all phrase is for those of us that are going against the established big gov and corporate whores.
I think that's what the Occupy movement thinks too.
The Tea-Party thinks the Occupy movement are vietnam like hippies.
The Occupy movement thinks the Tea-Party are authoritarian fascists.
Oddly, both are correct.
"If Bloomberg is against it, I am damn sure for it!"
I do hope that some day in the future, you realize that Bloomberg being retarded does not mean that you should automatically pick the other side of a false dichotomy. Any of the TPers in congress that are not co-opted yet either will be when they need a flood of money to get reelected, or they will not get reelected.
If they have any principles they won't run for the House more than twice and the Senate only once and that is IF they have not served in the house. Break up the big parties D and R and we may come out of this without shooting yet. BTW I mean the whole REST of the world will be shooting at US!
Good point. The Tea Party is being used as you suggest. The sociopathic elites that rule us put all their demons into the Tea Party.
Whenever you see projected demonization that does not describe the reality of the object it tells you that the subject (the one that projects) is showing their true nature and intent. The subject is reviling themselves, it is a self hatred.
Rank amatures...Bloomberg ain't no WilliamBanzai7, that's for sure!!!
Props to WB7
The same blooming idiot tha calls alGore "world renaisance man"
What bullshit.
Picture #5 of Boehner would make a great urinal cake if it was enlarged- only $10 ea @
http://www.peepeeface.com/political/political.php
The pot calling the kettle black. Who's more sensational, Bloomberg or ZH? I'd say it's ZH. More crap on this website that turns out to be bullshit than you can shake a stick at.
I guess some people don't like having to use critical thinking skills and prefer to be spoon-fed their SOMA?
If this place is so full of crap, why are you here?
What if ZH is a secret project of Bloombergs?
Think about it.
Remember that one comment about 4 years ago:
"I was wondering where you guys went". That whole thread was very telling.
What was the Tea Party was co-opted by the likes of Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachman, and others who forcibly associated themselves with the party (Rick Perry, John McCain?) to solicit votes but who are either establishment-minded or are otherwise idiots.
All enemies of the Tea Party have to do is say "Oh, your leader is Sarah Palin?" and they've won.
Even if she isn't truly the leader, all they have do do is make an association by saying: "Oh, your leader is Sarah Palin?". Newscasters on CNN and MSNBC all they have to do is say "Sarah Palin & Ted Cruz of the Tea Party [insert anything]"
Guilt by association is an effective propaganda tool. Just as Psyop (now usable on the American public) or ask Edward Bernays.
It's all bullshit. Once AIPAC points the money spigot at ANY of these fucking groups, it's all over with.
Beam me up!
Over!
You know you are near the target when you are taking heavy fire.
Looks like the powers that be are getting nervous.
What does the Fox Say
Note how they would never put Obama, Pelosi, or Reid on the cover like that. It tells us how they think, what they believe in, and what they demonize. That's why I refuse to read any newpapers or any rags like Time, Newsweek, or Bloomberg.
To all of them I say FU!
If you happenned to see excerpts of Ted Cruz's "fillibuster" you'd realize what a complete fool he is. He deserves to be depicted in all his moronic glory. Sarah ("Africa is a country") Palin, Michelle Bachman--equal idiots. Rand Paul is the only Tea Party leader with any dignity and sense although even he has gotten off the rails at times.
Not to over use the comparison but the main stream media, acting like the hopelessly addicted crack whore that they are, are attacking viscously and without logic or reason, the tea party. Much like the crack whore, the media can't admit that they have a crack and a whoring problem. they would rather villify the tea party for pointing out the truth. The government and its presstitutes in the media are hopelessly addicted to spending. Unfortunately the cherade in Washington must keep going until the checks bounce. So villify the people who speak the truth. Call them crazy right wing rascist nut jobs. They will be proven correct in the end. One day they will not be able to avoid the truth. The money will run out. The free shit army will have grown so big that they will turn and destroy everything. fundamental change.
Well said.
I don't know but when can we round up all of these fucking Bloomies, execute them and ship there carcases out to sea on a NYC garbage barge.
Whoever fires the first shot loses. They get trials.
Unless you cannot tell who's gun had blanks and who's gun had real bullets. Why induce guilt into the equation we need our troops to dispatch many organizations like this.
if you can rationalize running around killing people you don't agree with, you've got issues. If you post comments inciting others to violence, you're a pig.
Your American dream did not work bro, it was hijacked by the juice.
Your solution is to create another American dream?
You will have a steep hill to climb and your footing will NOT be firm.
So its steep. So its treacherous. Its always steep and treacherous. The blue pills only work up to a certain point.
Have you actually considered what we're facing? Have you looked at the minions? Even if I am not smarter than every tool I have ever engaged, I am more motivated. The more they dumb down the sheople, the easier it gets. The more sheople they breed, the easier it gets. The more they favor unworthy cronies, the easier it gets. Flush the juice. They have the authority but I know how to use it better than their forward line. How can you be daunted by the spiteful treehuggers whose whole life is about holding a shit job like that?
The suspects get a fair trial. Then those found guilty are executed.
Agenda 21, Mind Control and Groupthink - a story you'll never see in Bloomberg's luciferian despotic collectivist swill for the indoctrinated masses
Wow this thread really showcases the amount of actives who are engrossed in the theatrics.
Just wow. I guess once it's introduced it just cannot be ignored and so the show must go on.
Over.
Upside down world of the mainstream media and politicians. Increasing the debt is fiscal responsibility. Increasing the debt amounts to economic growth. Heh, heh, heh, heh. Oh boy. Paying down the debt is fiscally irresponsible. I am convinced we are going to the end times for the US. Maybe historians will blame the stupidity on lead pipes, or something of that nature.
Shut up slaves and get back to work!
It appears that the 'business' of Business Week is Marxism....but we knew that so I apologize for amusing myself at the expense of your time....
Didn't know BusinessWeek was still operating.
Hmpf! Fancy that.
Advocate for preventing a .gov healthcare takeover and fiscal responsibility and they put you on the cover of a magazine as the Mad Hatter.
2013 America....I want off this ride. Please help me God.
A V mask would fit this magazine cover.