Tea Party!! America Thanks You!!
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Actor, voice over artist and part-time Tea Party gadfly, D.C. Douglas, released a video over the weekend thanking the Tea Party for its contributions to the debt ceiling debate. Immediately upon it's release, his video took on even greater meaning.
Though the video's release occurred at roughly the same time that Standard & Poor's credit downgrade for the US became official - it was mere coincidence. The Twitterverse, however, picked up on the video's sentiment and began forwarding it to friends as way of expressing their displeasure regarding the Tea Party's hand in the credit downgrade.
Actor, voice over artist and part-time Tea Party gadfly, D.C. Douglas, released a video over the weekend thanking the Tea Party for its contributions to the debt ceiling debate. Immediately upon it's release, his video took on even greater meaning.
Though the video's release occurred at roughly the same time that Standard & Poor's credit downgrade for the US became official - it was mere coincidence. The Twitterverse, however, picked up on the video's sentiment and began forwarding it to friends as way of expressing their displeasure regarding the Tea Party's hand in the credit downgrade.
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you gotta admit - they played a key role in the debt negotiations ... if congress got a deal done earlier and showed a capacity to work together ... there may not have been a downgrade ...
If it was simply the timing of the deal that lead to a downgrade, then the downgrade is laughable....
It's time for a change, and not this bs Obama change.
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Tea Baggers are like the bratty cry baby bullies in 3rd grade who start fights and then burst into tears when they get caught by the teacher.
Yes. This is the tea party's fault. Their "my way or the highway" tactics are what caused this problem. Anyone who's paid attention can see that.
That's funny.... Hardcore conservatives claim the tea party started gaining steam during Bush's out of control spending. They use that as their response when people ask
Hey, where the fuck were you guys when Bush turned this country upside down with his spending? So they don't look like they just don't like Obama for the obvious reasons
Bush had huge surpluses , Obama was handed a beat up Buick
Easy to level the whole financial system, tough to stabilize it and make it grow
People act like we are the only ones going through shit, I think Americans are freaking out more cause we are not use to this
funny stuff.
"Look, I inherited this mess, we are not going to be able to fix it overnight"
Failed leadership and not being able to take responsibility for is trainwreck.
...is exactly what we expected and exactly what we got from the Tea Party.
It's a power grab, nothing more nothing less
TEABAGGER is a derogatory term used to describe millions of people who have different opinions than yours.
Read the posting guidelines before classifying a whole group of people in a deragatory manner.
You've been reported. Enough of this biased shit.
Once again, it's Keynesian economics that's to blame for the debt problem. To be fair to Democrats, however, Keynesian economics does not discriminate by party-line. For instance, it could be easily argued that Bush was a Keynesian. And it would take little arguing to say a majority of Republicans have been in one way or another Keynesian.
The irony, of course, is that the one political force trying to oust Keynesian economic ideology is, in fact, the Tea Party or like-minded individuals. Yet, ignorant people are blaming them.
It's pretty funny, actually.
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TEA BAGGER is a derogatory term for a whole group of people. You've been reported.
If anyone thinks this downgrade was caused by the tea party they are kidding themselves, and just cannot bring themselves to blame the people who let this crap happen. Big spending liberals AND republicans who spent and spent with no regard for actual revenue receipts. They are to blame...people like Boehner, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, they are to blame...the tea party finally said enough is enough...and the DNC and the rest will spin it so the tea party is to blame when it is all the big spenders who have been in washington for DECADES that are to blame. Or should we just go into debt forever, consistently strapping the poor and middle class with dollars that are worth less and less because of poor fiscal policy?
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
who is saying the tea party is to blame for the debt? ... why do you keep saying this?
So if you HAVE the power to "ram it down the countries throat" what do you do when the other side is unwilling to work WITH you on an issue?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Well said.
Oh please.
The members of the Tea Party were the one who originally called themselves "tea baggers" and thought they were clever until it was pointed out what "tea bagging" means.
Then they suddenly burst into tears and claimed that it was those mean liberals with their fancy public school high school diplomas and grasp of grammar and spelling that made up the term to denigrate them.
But the tea ba...er... tea people are known for their revisionist history. Check out the Wikipedia page for Paul Revere for more.
in hindsight, obama should have stood on principle and vetoed this if is was not what he wanted. s&p said they were going to downgrade us anyway due in part to partisanship fueled on all sides, but mainly by the extreme righties in the tea party...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
David Axelrod called it the "Tea Party Downgrade".
It signals the Administration's plan to deflect blame off of Congress and the President, and blame 25 freshman Congressman who had the gall to suggest a Balanced Budget Amendment.
WASHINGTON: The United States was dealt a severe blow Friday when lost its coveted triple-A credit rating as Standard and Poor's downgraded the nation's debt standing.
Here is the full text of the S&P statement:
"We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to 'AA+' from 'AAA' and affirmed the 'A-1+' short-term rating.
"We have also removed both the short- and long-term ratings from CreditWatch negative.
"The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics.
"More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.
"Since then, we have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.
"The outlook on the long-term rating is negative. We could lower the long-term rating to 'AA' within the next two years if we see that less reduction in spending than agreed to, higher interest rates, or new fiscal pressures during the period result in a higher general government debt trajectory than we currently assume in our base case."
"Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act. Key macroeconomic assumptions in the base case scenario include trend real GDP growth of 3 percent and consumer price inflation near 2 percent annually over the decade."
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part of the blame is the fact congress is dysfunctional ... the tea party is partly to blame for that ... it's obviously not the sole reason ... but even the GOP were saying in public the negative role of the tea party in the negotiations ...
blame the ones who referred to themselves as teabaggers. not those of us who were paying attention.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
yeah ... the downgrade ... but not the debt ...
Really? Because it seems that the same people who are now banging the tea party drum are the ones who fought pretty hard to lower taxes and still go to war.
No. It's many things. But funny is not one of them.
Que Cher's " if I can turn back time"
Anyone who doesn't believe in evolution or science need not chime in. America is held back by these individuals. Most come from states sucking on Americas tit anyway. They just don't get it. Fighting for billionaires when their broke ass is sacrificed for these tycoons. Economics should be, and is in fact the only issue that affects us all. The other stuff is distractions meant to divide
I'm sure Trump(mr. Bankruptcy) loves these idiots fighting for his next bailout or tax refund
I don't care anymore, ignorance is bliss.
That is false. They sent teabags to Congressmen in the mail. The Tea Partty has always referenced the Boston tea Party, a demonstration against on overreaching legislative body that no longer represented the interests of the Colonists.
Even so, African-Americans call themselves the N word- that doesn't mean you or I should. Your juvenile attempt to continue to post the deogatory term with missing letters has gotten you reported again.
People on this site had better start respecting other people's opinions and beliefs, or as Kat says, "It's gonna get a lot quieter in here."
This is pretty true.
Kinda like an abusive husband who beats his wife and then screams "LOOK AT WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!"
Yes.. Democrats should have been more hardline about raising taxes on the people who need to pay more. They should have been better at selling that idea. That said... we waited til the last second because - and you can look this up, it's true - the Tea Party newbies in the house were the ones who stomped their feet at anything John Boener brought to them unless it was 100% their way and 0% anyone else's way.
That refusal to work in a pro-active way was a major reason for the Tea Party Downgrade. And no amount of crying about it now will change that.
REPORTED.
So anyone who doesn't believe what you believe needs to be silenced?
That sounds like everything America is NOT, like Totalitarian...