[Amun-Ra]

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2...c_park.php

[Hoot Gibson]

I could point out that this is one left winger's internet blog about one county tea party official's opinion but I won't. I could also point out that we have a president and vice president of the United States who have both taken nuttier positions than this tea partier but those statements have been posted before for anybody who is interested.

Between now and the 2012 elections, the Democratic Underground, Media Matters, and other Marxist organizations will be scouring the landscape from coast to coast for nutty sounding statements made by tea party members and the main steam media will be repeating many of those accounts to see that they reach a broader audience.

However, distractions from this administration's failed first term will not be enough to cause people to ignore a persistent high unemployment rate (much higher than when Obama took office), a rising inflation rate, a declining dollar, and the explosive growth of the national debt.

Obama has a record to defend in 2012 and it is not a good one, hence these "tea partiers are crazy" and "tea partiers are racists" attacks.

[TheRealThing]

I could point out that this is one left winger's internet blog about one county tea party official's opinion but I won't. I could also point out that we have a president and vice president of the United States who have both taken nuttier positions than this tea partier but those statements have been posted before for anybody who is interested.

Between now and the 2012 elections, the Democratic Underground, Media Matters, and other Marxist organizations will be scouring the landscape from coast to coast for nutty sounding statements made by tea party members and the main steam media will be repeating many of those accounts to see that they reach a broader audience.

However, distractions from this administration's failed first term will not be enough to cause people to ignore a persistent high unemployment rate (much higher than when Obama took office), a rising inflation rate, a declining dollar, and the explosive growth of the national debt.

Obama has a record to defend in 2012 and it is not a good one, hence these "tea partiers are crazy" and "tea partiers are racists" attacks.

I doubt whether those involved in the iconic Boston Tea Party which, occured in Boston in 1773 were all perfect people. They were a group of Boston's colonists thay had had enough of being taxed by people other than their own elected officials. In this case the Brittish Parliament. Hence the now ledgendary quote " no taxation without representation." There is a point at which the rate of taxation becomes too burdensome. Many Americans believe we have reached that very threshold. Therefore, the latter day tea party has been formed to organize tax payers into a group of folks that would require our government to stop the waste and fraud, and be accountable for all spending. And, good news folks! The Obama Administration is asking, no, DEMANDING even more of our money. Money they can give to anybody who will stand still long enough to stretch out their hand to accept it.

The fight is about to who and, how much money we are going to give away. The Obama Administration believes they have the right to take as much money from taxpayers as they want, to fund the liberal ideological dream. That of a government that provides people with their needs. Rather than government providing an safe environment for these same folks to go out and EARN what they need by WORKING. Come one come all, we cull absolutely no one. Everyone may belly up to the liberal bar boys. From The Muslim Brotherhood to planned parenthood and, everybody in between, we've got something for you. That is unless some of those crazy tea partiers get in the way.--- If the best shot the left and the parrots on their shoulders (the main stream media) can take is to expose tea party members like the manatee hater in Florida, the left is in real trouble.

Never has any group of honest, (and admittedly in some cases a little nutty, but hey, no nuttier than the left's spokesman Alan Combs) well meaning American voters been more maligned. In other posts I have called out the fact that there is no bottom to which the left will stoop, or dive, to concoct, or connive to enflame any unflattering story they can come up with in order to defame the conservative. They are indeed desperate and it shows in stories like the one cited in this thread.

I'd say there was some screws loose somewhere within that crowd of rowdys that wasted all that tea back in 1773 too. Back then people focused on the weightier meat of the matter though. And, the injustice of unfair taxes by an out of control Parliament was recorded in history, rather than whether one of the colonists secretly really didn't like tea anyway. :Thumbs:

[BillyB]

So, they might be crazy but their our crazies!

[SKINNYPIG]

So, they might be crazy but their our crazies!

There are crazies in every party. Surely you don't suggest this guy is representative of the entire Tea Party, do you? With all the feces politicians and "parties" are slinging right now I can't imagine why you would bring it up. On second thought, I can imagine why.

[Hoot Gibson]

So, they might be crazy but their our crazies!

How about, they might be crazy but they are not working in the White House! Even if the blogger described the local tea partier accurately, the guy is in no position to affect policy as an individual to the extent that Barack Obama or Crazy Joe Biden does.

[TheRealThing]

Obviously Edna Mattos is misguided and incorrect in her assessment of Florida's Department of Fish and Wildlife's efforts to protect manatees. We are to be good stewards of resources and wildlife according to God's Word. Letting over zealous boaters run over them with props under full power mortally wounds manatees thus, boat traffic should be regulated to help manage the situation. In no way could regulating boat traffic be construed as elevating the interests of the manatee above man.

Quoting a so called news blog is scrapping the bottom for credibility if you ask me. I doubt sincerely, that Edna Mattos is a "leader" of the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots of any appreciable stature. Pulling up their website reveals their organization to be bush league at best.

The writer of this story is likely just another Matt Lauer wanna-be, who spends his time on facebook repeating the liberal drivel from Anthony Weiner's old running buddy Debbie Wasserman Schultz and, trying to impress some higher up for a promotion,( if he even gets paid for what he does.)

[BillyB]

Obviously Edna Mattos is misguided and incorrect in her assessment of Florida's Department of Fish and Wildlife's efforts to protect manatees. We are to be good stewards of resources and wildlife according to God's Word. Letting over zealous boaters run over them with props under full power mortally wounds manatees thus, boat traffic should be regulated to help manage the situation. In no way could regulating boat traffic be construed as elevating the interests of the manatee above man.

Quoting a so called news blog is scrapping the bottom for credibility if you ask me. I doubt sincerely, that Edna Mattos is a "leader" of the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots of any appreciable stature. Pulling up their website reveals their organization to be bush league at best.

The writer of this story is likely just another Matt Lauer wanna-be, who spends his time on facebook repeating the liberal drivel from Anthony Weiner's old running buddy Debbie Wasserman Schultz and, trying to impress some higher up for a promotion,( if he even gets paid for what he does.)

I heard that liberal Anthony Weiner is starting -- with the help of his liberal friend Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- the ManaTea Party. It will advocate for inclusion of manatees into the Socialist World Order that Barack Obama is now rumbling, bumbling, and stumbling into an unstoppable force. After all, they are "man"-atees so why not get all the rights of man? That should make Edna's eyes pop out of her head.

[BillyB]

There are crazies in every party. Surely you don't suggest this guy is representative of the entire Tea Party, do you? With all the feces politicians and "parties" are slinging right now I can't imagine why you would bring it up. On second thought, I can imagine why.

Identical to every member of the Tea Party? No. Representative of the Tea Party? Yes.

[Hoot Gibson]

Identical to every member of the Tea Party? No. Representative of the Tea Party? Yes.

:lmao: If a single, nutty local Florida tea party member is representative of the Republican Party, then would you also agree that Florida Democrat, Alan Grayson, is representative of the Democratic Party? Wait...I think Alan Grayson did represent the Democratic Party - in the House of Representatives.

I don't think you really want to start down this road. The Democratic Party is full of nutty people who are actually serving in high elected offices. But, fortunately, Americans are beginning to pay attention to politics again and have been busy voting lunatics like Alan Grayson out of office.

[TheRealThing]

I heard that liberal Anthony Weiner is starting -- with the help of his liberal friend Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- the ManaTea Party. It will advocate for inclusion of manatees into the Socialist World Order that Barack Obama is now rumbling, bumbling, and stumbling into an unstoppable force. After all, they are "man"-atees so why not get all the rights of man? That should make Edna's eyes pop out of her head.

Barack Obama is the ANTICHRIST? I thought he was going to decieve the masses into submission, not stupid them to death.

[BillyB]

:lmao: If a single, nutty local Florida tea party member is representative of the Republican Party, then would you also agree that Florida Democrat, Alan Grayson, is representative of the Democratic Party? Wait...I think Alan Grayson did represent the Democratic Party - in the House of Representatives.

I don't think you really want to start down this road. The Democratic Party is full of nutty people who are actually serving in high elected offices. But, fortunately, Americans are beginning to pay attention to politics again and have been busy voting lunatics like Alan Grayson out of office.

You did see that the topic was about the Tea Party, not the Republican Party. Right? Why do you equate the Tea Party crazies with Republicans?

[Hoot Gibson]

You did see that the topic was about the Tea Party, not the Republican Party. Right? Why do you equate the Tea Party crazies with Republicans?

I didn't you did, unless by "our," you were claiming him in the name of the Democratic Party? Or you were claiming membership in a local Florida tea party. Sure, that must be what you meant by the following post. Silly me...

So, they might be crazy but their our crazies!

[TheRealThing]

The only reason the tea party has to continually fend off all manner of verbal attack is because the left is afraid of them. The way they totally swept the last election cycle proved they are for real. Further, they haven't committed a single act to merit any disapproval from anyone, and are, in fact, completely innocent of doing the first thing that our founding fathers would not have welcomed.

Debate and accountability are certainly guaranteed by the very first amendment to the US Constitution in the form of free speech. If the tea partiers had committed so much as one infraction to date, the outcry from the left would be unequalled in modern times. So, since they are innocent of any wrong doing whatever, the left's propaganda/smear machinery is cranking out rumors, accusations and lies as fast as possible. I mean, you gotta admit, that manatee thing is potentially devastating to the tea party cause. LOL

Grass roots involvement by our citizenry is the essence of being free and self governance. Conversely, the blind subjection to some ideologue's marxist musings under the banner of the donkey seems to be the forfieture of the right of self governance to me. The tea partiers represent a segment of our nation that have a clue how to think for themselves and, they deserve respect, not scorn.

I contend that this isn't about politics ala dems vs republicans (though some of them are pawns.) It is instead, a culture war. If the left is successful and we make that "fundamental transformation" to some degree of socialism as a way of life in this nation. We will have seen a revolution. And, the willfull surrender of everything we fought for in every war to date including that most notable war, the American Revolution. Doubt it? How would you define the present state of affairs in congress? If one word had to be chosen I would choose CONFUSION. It's just not as simple as lining up behind one of the two political parties gridlocked in a state of dysfunction. The train is almost derailed with both of the US Houses headed for Aug 2nd screaming at each other like lunatics. I'd like to be wrong about this but, I believe we're in real trouble. The trouble isn't just looming on the horizon anymore, it's here! Millions of American's seniors and military are quite possibly less than 30 days form defaulting on cars, homes and dreams. Somebody has to call out when we make a wrong turn and the tea party is trying to get the driver's attention.

I believe history is repeating itself and, something very similar to our present state of affairs happened in Rome. It has been reported that principles in the Roman Senate which, at one time were accepted as absolutes fell into debate thus, became blurred into to something undefinable and unenforcable. As a result, people lost their will to continue and the state mutated into a clearing house for tolerance gone amok. THEY ARGUED THEMSELVES INTO OBSCURITY.

Nothing makes for a good argument better than contempt. There is certainly an abundance of contempt in both houses and, IMO the left is swimming in it.