If I’m a “tea bagger”, then they’re black tea or Texas tea bag-men, or, well, whatever I feel like calling them. The difference being that I’m credible and I don’t hate them. And they’re incredible, and incredibly hateful, and cynical, and hypocritical, and divisive, and in many cases, downright liars. But don’t get me barely started on liberals and the other “progressives”.
Couple of notes on that genius Barack Obama, who, like Michael Ignatieff (who constantly refers to Prime Minister of Canada as “this guy” or “that guy”) and Jack Layton, constantly lecture conservatives about “being civil” and engaging in more “civil discourse” even while constantly slurring all conservatives, and lying about us and our principles and political positions, and misquoting and generally being intellectually dishonest about us:
1. A recent article claims Barack Obama —that self-anointed arbiter of what’s civil and post-partisan and America-re-uniting and ever so smart — did what so many far-left bloggers and news media employee hack have done: he used the vulgar term “tea bagger” (WARNING: Wikipedia link includes graphic sexual image) to describe what turns out to be about half of America. The half which disagrees with him and his huge nanny-state anti-corporate and anti-capitalist government style. They’re also described by the left as “racists”. Or “Nazis”, ironically.
“Obama said that the unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act ‘set the tenor for the whole year: That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.’ ”
It’s apparently in a new book by Newsweek (known to be an Obama-luvin’ and conservative-hatin’ “news” magazine) columnist Jonathan Alter, “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” to be released May 18.
The snippet in the book was revealed not by Newsweek, of course, but by Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, who, I suppose, President Obama thinks of as among the most vulgar things on earth, despite his being a normal American who simply wants much needed tax reform. He reported to the Politico.com:
“This remark is the equivalent of using the ‘n’ word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk. It is indefensible to use this word. The president knows what it means, and his people know what it means. The public thought we reached a new low of incivility during the Clinton administration. Well, the Obama administration has just outdone them.”
In case you need to gain a better understanding of what liberals and progressives and President Barack Obama (and probably most liberals and leftists in Canada too) think of at least half of America and Canada, the (arguably liberal-biased) Wikipedia.com includes this helpful diagram, in grossly enlarged form, of what “tea bagging” is. WARNING; graphic display of sex.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Wiki-oral-scrotum.png
2. Barack Obama not only got tons of campaign cash from Freddy and Fannie and Goldman Sachs (and…), but also from BP (and….)
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.
On top of that, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.
During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.
… In Congress, Sen. Mary Landrieu (Democrat-La.), who last week cautioned that the incident should “not be used inappropriately” to halt Obama’s push for expansion of offshore drilling, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of BP’s largesse. …
Do I even need to say anything else? Well you knew I was going to. I found it interesting that when I “Googled” “tea bagger”, their helpful suggestions for further study included the term “fox news tea bagging”, without even a minuscule provocation or hint in my search about “Fox News” or anybody else who is “tea bagging”.
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