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Speaking of tea-party "Values",Hooker-guy Vit... - 9/17/2010 7:05:00 PM

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/vitter-pledge-to-tea-party-i-will-conduct-myselfin-a-morally-and-socially-appropriate-manner.php

"I Will Conduct Myself...In A Morally And Socially Appropriate Manner"

On a bigger point,.....

Is the "tea-party" just the same old bunch of moral high-grounders,fundies and better-than-thos trying to hide behind a new label but just pulling the same old same-old?

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RE: Speaking of tea-party "Values",Hooker-guy... - 9/18/2010 4:04:19 AM

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Or how about this list of wonderful things about the other Tea bagger who won.

http://thinkprogress.org/christine-odonnell-record/

I'll list a few of them

O’Donnell believes that handing out condoms at schools is like legalizing drunk driving. Arguing that abstinence is the only acceptable option, O’Donnell if said of condoms at school, “go ahead and have a condom. That’s like saying, don’t drive drunk but if you do, make sure you wear your seat belt. It’s going to kill.” [Hannity & Colmes, 6/6/00 She must have talked to palin's daughter about how well her abstinence program worked

O’Donnell claimed abstinence-only education has been an ‘incredible success.’ “Overwhelmingly, programs that teach abstinence only have an incredible success rate because you’re not giving them a confused message.” [Hannity & Colmes, 6/6/00]

O’Donnell believes Roe v. Wade needs to be overturned. “We need to turn the power back to the state. And Roe v. Wade, if it’s overturned, will not make abortion illegal. It will simply return the power back to the state.” [Donahue, 8/27/02]HOW CAN SHE MAKE THIS STATEMENT AND THEN CLAIM SHE IS FOR LESS GOVERNMENT IN OUR LIVES

O’Donnell believes AIDS victims should not be called ‘victims,’ and that too much money goes to fighting the disease. Appearing on C-SPAN in 1997, O’Donnell said calling them “AIDS victims” is “the kind of spinning with words and manipulating words that empowers the bias when it comes to AIDS.” O’Donnell also complained that “there is a gross disproportionate allocation of funds” going to AIDS treatment and prevention in comparison to resources designated to combat heart disease. O’Donnell suggested people change the “lifestyle” (i.e. homosexuality) that she said leads to AIDS.” [TPM, 9/15/10]

O’Donnell warned about mice with ‘fully functioning human brains.’ “Now we’re using this to start cloning humans. … They are — they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.’ [O'Reilly Factor, 10/16/07]

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RE: Speaking of tea-party "Values",Hooker-guy... - 9/18/2010 5:50:48 AM

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Is the "tea-party" just the same old bunch of moral high-grounders,fundies and better-than-thos trying to hide behind a new label but just pulling the same old same-old?

The Tea Party is at least two different things.

1. It is a group coalesced about a single issue - government spending/power, and taxes. It likely would have come into being anyway, but the massive bank bailout caused the Tea Party to come into existence more quickly and emphatically than otherwise.

2. It is an assortment of malcontents that oppose the Obama administration and whatever it decides to do. There is a racist component there, but it doesn't define the Tea Party any more than its other (non-taxing and non-spending) stances do, some of which seem totally off the wall.

I don't see the Tea Party continuing to be a part of the GOP. If it does break off and form a third party, then it will be fascinating to see what happens - the GOP is far better than the Tea party at getting money, but they can't match the Tea Party's ability to organize and get votes.

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RE: Speaking of tea-party "Values",Hooker-guy... - 9/18/2010 8:17:25 AM

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Wow a politician who broke a promise, stunning.

Barak Obama promised me change................ I am disappointed.

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RE: Speaking of tea-party "Values",Hooker-guy... - 9/18/2010 4:21:57 PM

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I would have thought it was the millions a Texas Billionaire used to start the "grass roots" organization that really got it started.

I mean with them bitching over the Federal Government having to much power and size, why didn't they start bitching when Homeland Security was started, or the illegal wiretaps, or all the borrowing the GOP approved when Bush was in charge??? I mean everything they bitch about was worse 6 years ago.....But then the Texas Billionaire was happy

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