How can the Tea Party and austerity measures be stopped?

[LBJ Revivalist]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years? Does we have to wait until we are forced to replay the events of 1861-1865 in order to save this country?

What have they done in Congress so far?

[LBJ Revivalist]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years? Does we have to wait until we are forced to replay the events of 1861-1865 in order to save this country?

What have they done in Congress so far?

The Republican House budget, which will likely go through, is basically going to gut the FDA, EPA, OSHA and Dept of Agriculture to the point where they lack any real power.

And I have a feeling what they've done in Wisconsin--against unions--and in NJ--against teachers and education--is going to play out on a national scale.

The Republicans have the money, and the support of wealthy businessmen. Businessmen like the Koch Brothers are now de facto running our country, and getting what THEY want through, good of the country be damned. I feel this is basically a quiet coup of our nation.

The businessmen learned back in the 1930s that they couldn't take over America by using the military--with the failed Businessman's Coup--So they've decided a much more effective route: Finding greedy, power hungry people, bankrolling their campaigns and making them their puppets in the newly elected Republican governorships and House.

Their astroturf, populist, Tea Party campaign has also turned many uniformed, older voters to their side by using buzzwords like "DEATH PANELS" and "SOCIALISM", playing on fear and paranoia--fear of a black President, and left wing politics--to garner votes.

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

Any thoughts? Serious question for you.

Its like you attempted to make an idiotic and insulting question, if I thought you mentally capable of such a feat of underhandedness.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Please quit responding to this concern troll.

[tpfkaw]

uniformed, older voters

Are they going to the National Dance Finals?  It's on!

[LBJ Revivalist]

Please quit responding to this concern troll.

Ha. I think you're the concern troll. Either that, or just a typical limp Democrat who lets the GOP run rough shot.

[opebo]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

It can't be stopped. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

It can't be stopped. 

What is "it" that can't be stopped?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years? Does we have to wait until we are forced to replay the events of 1861-1865 in order to save this country?

What have they done in Congress so far?

The Republican House budget, which will likely go through, is basically going to gut the FDA, EPA, OSHA and Dept of Agriculture to the point where they lack any real power.

And I have a feeling what they've done in Wisconsin--against unions--and in NJ--against teachers and education--is going to play out on a national scale.

The Republicans have the money, and the support of wealthy businessmen. Businessmen like the Koch Brothers are now de facto running our country, and getting what THEY want through, good of the country be damned. I feel this is basically a quiet coup of our nation.

The businessmen learned back in the 1930s that they couldn't take over America by using the military--with the failed Businessman's Coup--So they've decided a much more effective route: Finding greedy, power hungry people, bankrolling their campaigns and making them their puppets in the newly elected Republican governorships and House.

Their astroturf, populist, Tea Party campaign has also turned many uniformed, older voters to their side by using buzzwords like "DEATH PANELS" and "SOCIALISM", playing on fear and paranoia--fear of a black President, and left wing politics--to garner votes.

really, you keep talking about how reforming Social Security is a right-wing conspiracy that means the end of the world and you are going to go there?

[opebo]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

It can't be stopped. 

What is "it" that can't be stopped?

In this particular case I was referring to the Right-Wing Juggernaut.  But in any question about things getting worse, I will always vote that that they're getting worse.  Pretty safe bet.

[courts]

Somebody should run on a platform of returning public union rights and social security coverage to where they were in the 1930s, since we've clearly gone so radically towards laissez faire since then.

[Napoleon]

Please quit responding to this concern troll.

Ha. I think you're the concern troll. Either that, or just a typical limp Democrat who lets the GOP run rough shot.

We usually call them moderate Democrats.

[tpfkaw]

Please quit responding to this concern troll.

Ha. I think you're the concern troll. Either that, or just a typical limp Democrat who lets the GOP run rough shot.

Are they running rough shot with their uniformed voters?

[patrick1]

It is roughshod, fwiw.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Please quit responding to this concern troll.

Ha. I think you're the concern troll.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years? Does we have to wait until we are forced to replay the events of 1861-1865 in order to save this country?

What have they done in Congress so far?

The Republican House budget, which will likely go through, is basically going to gut the FDA, EPA, OSHA and Dept of Agriculture to the point where they lack any real power.

And I have a feeling what they've done in Wisconsin--against unions--and in NJ--against teachers and education--is going to play out on a national scale.

The Republicans have the money, and the support of wealthy businessmen. Businessmen like the Koch Brothers are now de facto running our country, and getting what THEY want through, good of the country be damned. I feel this is basically a quiet coup of our nation.

The businessmen learned back in the 1930s that they couldn't take over America by using the military--with the failed Businessman's Coup--So they've decided a much more effective route: Finding greedy, power hungry people, bankrolling their campaigns and making them their puppets in the newly elected Republican governorships and House.

Their astroturf, populist, Tea Party campaign has also turned many uniformed, older voters to their side by using buzzwords like "DEATH PANELS" and "SOCIALISM", playing on fear and paranoia--fear of a black President, and left wing politics--to garner votes.

We are not AstroTurf. We are real grass roots conservatives and libertarians. Don't believe Pelosi. I find it offensive that you think we fear someone because of race. It's because of his political character.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Please quit responding to this concern troll.

Ha. I think you're the concern troll.

     It's so perfect because it doesn't even begin to make sense to call BRTD a concern troll. It's like saying "I know you are but what am I?"

[King]

By banning you.

[LBJ Revivalist]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years? Does we have to wait until we are forced to replay the events of 1861-1865 in order to save this country?

What have they done in Congress so far?

The Republican House budget, which will likely go through, is basically going to gut the FDA, EPA, OSHA and Dept of Agriculture to the point where they lack any real power.

And I have a feeling what they've done in Wisconsin--against unions--and in NJ--against teachers and education--is going to play out on a national scale.

The Republicans have the money, and the support of wealthy businessmen. Businessmen like the Koch Brothers are now de facto running our country, and getting what THEY want through, good of the country be damned. I feel this is basically a quiet coup of our nation.

The businessmen learned back in the 1930s that they couldn't take over America by using the military--with the failed Businessman's Coup--So they've decided a much more effective route: Finding greedy, power hungry people, bankrolling their campaigns and making them their puppets in the newly elected Republican governorships and House.

Their astroturf, populist, Tea Party campaign has also turned many uniformed, older voters to their side by using buzzwords like "DEATH PANELS" and "SOCIALISM", playing on fear and paranoia--fear of a black President, and left wing politics--to garner votes.

We are not AstroTurf. We are real grass roots conservatives and libertarians. Don't believe Pelosi. I find it offensive that you think we fear someone because of race. It's because of his political character.

You may not think your little movement is astroturf, but on the grand scale, it is. It's being bankrolled by very rich people who are using and manipulating you to get their agenda--which helps them, and not you in the long run--through. One of these groups is the Koch Brothers. To such people, the marchers and voters are simply be people to be used--Useful idiots, as Marx would say.

Sure, there may be some real Tea Parties, but then again, their message and mentality too is no different than the stereotypical South Park, "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!" mentality. On the whole, with some exceptions, the Tea Party is truly an astroturf movement by and for Republicans--even though they like to claim it's not about parties-- who claim they simply want to ''take their country back.'' Funny how such tea parties never rose up under Bush, a white Republican president who was also a big spender.

he Tea Party is driven by this radical ideology which in effect wants to pretend the 20th century never happened in this country, or erase the accomplishments of it.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Both the Beck and the Ron Paul factions often blend. So sometimes its hard to tell who is in which faction.

[Capitan Zapp Brannigan]

Easy, by Obama and Harry Reid growing some balls and fighting back.

[opebo]

Somebody should run on a platform of returning public union rights and social security coverage to where they were in the 1930s, since we've clearly gone so radically towards laissez faire since then.

It really is amusing, when you think about it, that we still have the same 40 hour work week that we had in the 1930s.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

A special message to ModerateDemocrat1990:



Thnx and GTFO

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I find it hilarious that the Democrats on the forum are just as energized against BJrevivalist, if not more so, than the Republicans.