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Default America is being held hostage by right-wing purists


"Cyris P. Goober" > wrote in message
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On Aug 28, 6:17 pm, "Eddie Haskell" > wrote:
> "Dänk 42Ø" <dänk@nugget.örg> wrote in message
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> > On 2011-08-28 12:17, David Johnston wrote:
> >> On 8/28/2011 11:59 AM, Neolibertarian wrote:
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> >>>> On 8/28/2011 5:01 AM, Old Gil wrote:

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> >>>>> This is not to tar the entire Tea Party, because the movement
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> >>>>> includes a significant cohort that can grasp simple concepts like
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> >>>>> that you cannot be a libertarian and tell everybody else how to
> >>>>> live.

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> >>>> The TP isn't a libertarian movement. It's just a populist anti-tax
> >>>> movement.

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> >>> Even that must be inaccurate, since it isn't an anti-tax movement,
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> >> Oh really? What else is it other than a collection of people opposed to
> >> raising taxes?

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> > The Tea Party is NOT a libertarian movement -- it is a collection of
> > theofascist Republicans who are too embarrassed to admit they voted for
> > George W. Bush.

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> I'm a tea partier and proud to say I voted for Bush.
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> Verdict: wrong.
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> -Eddie Haskell
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> > However, it is ludicrous to say the Tea Party isn't an anti-tax movment,
> > since the name refers to the Boston Tea Party, in which American rebels
> > threw crates of tea into the harbor to protest a reduction in the tea
> > tax
> > (the tax was reduced to discourage smuggling, but the colonists objected
> > to being taxed without representation in the British parliament).

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> > But if the Tea Party does win a majority of congressional seats in the
> > next election, it has every right to cut taxes -- this is called
> > democracy. When leftards criticize the Tea Party, it has more to do with
> > their outrage that a majority of Americans should dare to hold opinions
> > that differ from their own than with any specific policy position.
> > Democracy is only acceptable when the majority votes their way, and when
> > they don't, it is either because they are ignorant rednecks who don't
> > understand the issues, or the election has been rigged.


> 29 posts in this thread and OCD Mike Flannigan contributes 11 of
> them, all content free as usual.


> You need a real job, asshole.


> Look at yourself! You make gibber jabbering clowns look like f**king
> Mimes!


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