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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

So, they had a 'tea party' in Perham Minnesota last night, Otter Tail County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otter_Tail_County,_Minnesota

Anyways with a pretty good draw area, approximately 300 people showed up.

They served tea (not much and black (and icky) with no milk or sugar available, heathens) although I prefer white and then green in that order.

Local 'conservative talk show jock' hosted it. Michelle Bachmann gave a 'keynote address' via phone, a fratboy FREEDOM, and the GOOD CONSERVATIVES OF PERHAM and stupid shit like that, blaming Obama for engineering the raising of the debt ceiling and fucking near orgasmic about the Brown win.

They had 4 governor candidates, 2 state senator candidates, one secretary of state candidate and some other shit, and while they talked about 'conservatives of every party' they were all republican. I can assure you that no democrats or other party candidates were invited to attend. They were woofing about Dorgan retiring and how bad Colin Peterson needs to be whipped out of office.

The candidates gave an elevator speech and then took questions from the audience (as we were told so that they could actually listen to the concerns of minnesotans, and get government back in their hands), well my question was:

What is our budget, what do we take in? Given that, how do we cut to balance, never mind further cuts.

They all went off on cut welfare, or cut taxes, or go thru every line of the budget, but nobody had any hard here is what we make, here is the shortfall and here is where we should be, someone did point out however that we are roughly equivalent to colorado, and their biannual budget is 40B and ours is 60B and so there is alot can come out ....

More involved than that, but I dont like to type.

Tim Pawlenty (our gov) has increased govt by 20% and he is roundly dissed as not conservative, but like Bush, Reagan and many other republicans thats what he called himself and thats what they yahooed throughout the administrations, and now, are like other politicians throwing them under the bus. Many of these guys were in the legislature during some of this time, but they are distancing themselves now and LOL to quote the dogsock 'lying and pretending' to be fiscal conservatives.

All in all it was canned answers, jingoes, mottos, and soundbites.

Aint no change in Minnesota politics, and these tea parties are a fucking sham, not one astute individual amongst them, professional politician or joe six pack.

Total waste of fucking time and energy. And the turn out....well, they are going to have to have several thousand tea parties a day to even come close to claiming that there have been 1 million people attending tea parties all told since 2000.

LOL, a fuckin joke, same old same old.

Ron

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ORIGINAL: KatyLied

Julia is also a tea snob.  Evidently I like the tea snobs of the world.  Said as she sips Earl Grey with raw sugar & vanilla soy milk.  That does not sound quite right.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

I guess I really don't know a fuckin' thing about American politics...

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ORIGINAL: cuckyman

Every polling source that has merit has been showing the sea change in support for the democrats.... Obama's massive red ink...the moving of the terriorist trials..... his fumbling on security issues, and the health care debacle has ripped his political ass, and the dems are scared shitless.... keep believing that the 'tea party' stuff is all unreal and you will be liberal roadkill along with the rest of the arrogant, elitiest northeastern know it all types.... the people have  awakened  with massive unemployment...with democrat anti capitalism initiatives abounding, they simply reached the magic tipping point....  for you non believers of what is to come, just get yourself a good seat come November, and fasten your saftey belt....this is going to make 94 look like a rehearsel..... the Obamaites are going to be swept from power in both houses, and then they will just 'run the clock out' on this lightweight idealouge presidency, and he will join Jimmy Carter as the second most lame one termer in history....deal with it.....

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ORIGINAL: DomImus

Parties in the minority seem to be more willing to vote in bloc fashion in a circle the wagons effect. It's when they get the majority that the factions start to come out.