The teabagger "movement" started as an Astroturf scam. It was developed to play on rightists' fears of government healthcare and their racism by lobbying and PR people for the HMOs and the health insurers. It was designed to create the false impression that there is wide public opposition to single payer healthcare and the public option, despite the fact that both have consistently overwhelming public support in opinion polls. The original name of the rallies and participants, "teabaggers" even has the fingerprints of that origin. It is precisely what one would expect of nerdy, out of touch DC PR ...
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... but I have a few problems with the Balmain collection that showed in Paris this week. Yes, yes, of course I would still beat my mother with a tire iron for one of his jackets, and thankfully designer Christophe Decarnin's peak-shouldered aesthetic is still abundantly on display. It's these two dresses that distress me. The first seems to be suffering from a case of the Lively's. As in Blake. NOW WHEN I WAS A GIRL, my granny always told me a lady CHOOSES between her décolletage and her legs. If your BAZOOMS are on display, you cover ... Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post 
The whole teabagging thing started as an astroturf scam by corporate interests trying to block government provided healthcare. However, an actual grassroots movement sprouted from these poisonous seeds, and the corporate masters were losing control. Teabaggers were expressing their own opinions, many of which were unflattering to Wall St. That wouldn't be tolerated for long.Thus, there should be no sense of surprise that the big teabagger convention was set up to be an exclusionary event. They made people travel long distances, pay for hotel rooms, and pay conference fees during the Great Recession to participate. This wasn't ... Flag post Flag post Flag post There is an excellent post on We Are Respectable Negroes about the racist double standards in our society. Here's part of it that uses Sarah Palin to illustrate just how bad things still are.If Sarah Palin were black she would have disappeared into obscurity long ago.If Sarah Palin were black, her daughter's out of wedlock, "baby daddy drama" would have been presented as an example of both pathological behavior and a dysfunctional family that is symbolic of the social problems in that community. If Sarah Palin were black, never would the poor decision making by the Palin ... Flag post Flag post
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Sarah Palin’s keynote speech was quite a hit at this weekend’s Tea Party convention. She even took a shot at pinning responsibility for the deficit on the Obama administration.
“The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government,” she added, saying voters all over the country are sending a message that they want change in Washington.
She harkened Obama’s famous campaign slogan, asking, “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for you?”
It’s too bad Palin didn’t have proper notes on hand, as she did for the Q & A after ... Flag post Flag post
