Friday, February 5, 2010
Politics / Woods After Media Hype, Tea Party Presser Falls Flat
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:42 PM
This will be the first such national plan for a political movement that arose a year ago, partly in response to President Obama's policies and is made up of hundreds of local tea party groups. It comes as hundreds of tea party organizers have convened to discuss ways to use their grass-roots power to create tangible political success this year.And it was all to be revealed to the mere mortals in the media at an afternoon press conference. Well, the presser is over, and we have to admit we're a little disappointed. The grand announcement? The fast-talking dude who by default has become the convention spokesman announced--ta da!--he's setting up a corporation to set up a political action committee to try to suck up tea party cash. Mark Skoda, a tea partier from Memphis, made it sound like his new Ensuring Liberty Corp. is backed broadly by the tea party movement. But he finally acknowledged under questioning that it's actually not. "Ensuring Liberty Corporation and the affiliated PAC which is being formed is distinct and separate from Tea Party Nation and the tea party movement," he told reporters. Who's PAC is it? "I'm the leader of the PAC," Skoda said. Update: The Post's Mr. Rucker seems deflated by the press conference too. His follow-up report is less hyperbolic: "It was difficult to determine during Skoda's 30-minute news conference whether his PAC had been embraced nationally or whether he was launching it as a lone wolf. Pressed by reporters, Skoda acknowledged that his PAC does not yet have support from the hundreds of activist groups that make up the tea party movement. The PAC, Skoda said, is 'distinct and separate from Tea Party Nation and the tea party movement.'"
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"'I'm the leader of the PAC,' Skoda said."
Did he make "vroom-vroom" noises after he said that?
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HA! Tom Tancredo putting down Obama voters, THAT'S A GOOD ONE! Saying THIS while surrounded by some of the most ignorant voters in US HISTORY...
Republicans/Conservatives need to face the FACTS! Anyone who calls themselves a PROUD/PATRIOTIC AMERICAN has got to leave behind Party politics and REALIZE it was the LOW GRADE THOUGHT PROCESSES of Bush/Cheney and the Republican controlled Congress (1994-2006) that GOT the USA IN THIS HORRIBLE MESS! So DO WHAT’S BEST FOR AMERICA and quit being brainwashed by FOX Spin…. Ahhhh, I mean News and AM Radio Free Conservative! Your children will thank you later.
Funny I didn't hear a word from these so-called great Americans during 8 YEARS of waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, incompetence, corruption, reckless economics, pettiness, DEBT, lies, war profiteering and Constitutional VIOLATIONS dished up by Bush/Cheney.
All those TEA PARTY dolts blaming President Obama for the outrageous DEBT and DEFICIT can’t possibly be that STUPID.
What with all those legitimate FACTS and STATISTICS that prove Bush/Cheney didn’t PAY for 2 wars, tax cuts for the rich and Medicare part IDIOT, passing the HUGE debt on to future generations without a second thought. George W. Bush (and the Republicans) spent our national wealth like a crack Ho with a credit card.
Pharmaceutical Industry should find a cure for the Conservative severe superiority complexes and religious delusions
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[quote]SPO says:
HA! Tom Tancredo putting down Obama voters, THAT'S A GOOD ONE! Saying THIS while surrounded by some of the most ignorant voters in US HISTORY...
Republicans/Conservatives need to face the FACTS! Anyone who calls themselves a PROUD/PATRIOTIC AMERICAN has got to leave behind Party politics and REALIZE it was the LOW GRADE THOUGHT PROCESSES of Bush/Cheney and the Republican controlled Congress (1994-2006) that GOT the USA IN THIS HORRIBLE MESS! So DO WHAT’S BEST FOR AMERICA and quit being brainwashed by FOX Spin…. Ahhhh, I mean News and AM Radio Free Conservative! Your children will thank you later.
Funny I didn't hear a word from these so-called great Americans during 8 YEARS of waste, fraud, abuse, scandal, incompetence, corruption, reckless economics, pettiness, DEBT, lies, war profiteering and Constitutional VIOLATIONS dished up by Bush/Cheney.
All those TEA PARTY dolts blaming President Obama for the outrageous DEBT and DEFICIT can’t possibly be that STUPID.
What with all those legitimate FACTS and STATISTICS that prove Bush/Cheney didn’t PAY for 2 wars, tax cuts for the rich and Medicare part IDIOT, passing the HUGE debt on to future generations without a second thought. George W. Bush (and the Republicans) spent our national wealth like a crack Ho with a credit card.
Pharmaceutical Industry should find a cure for the Conservative severe superiority complexes and religious delusions
consciousmc.blogspot.com
Posted On: Friday, Feb. 5 2010 @ 9:55PM[/quote]
Well, I couldn't agree more.
I'm just glad to see that not everybody here in Tennessee hasn't been swindled by these so called "Tea Baggers"
I'm glad the tea baggers have something to occupy their time. Get 'em out of the house and all. They're so cute in their funny hat with their misspelled signs! It's like watching a grade school play about whack-o extremists, only with less teeth.
You didn't hear any teabaggers complaining about the Supreme Court declaring this country ,the United Corporate States of America. Maybe they don't watch the news. At least now, the poor corporations can buy elections legally to suit their purposes. I did hear one speech by Tantego [sp?] who waxed nostaligia for the days of voter literacy tests , so "only real Americans can vote". You know, keep all those pesky minorites away from the polls. But that's not racist, no way!
Tea partys are for sissy's. You have Phil Valentine who would make a excellent Gay Poster Child, and poor Sarah Palin, who blamed Katie Couric for her demise. Kate Couric has a demise of her own. Last but not least the Tea Party is worshiping the same group of losers that got us in this mess.
