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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
The Associated Press: Rand Paul: Obama's criticism of BP 'un-American'
So let me get this straight--
The Tea Party, the jokers who are constantly rambling on about "personal responsibility" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps;" who oppose national healthcare because "I got mine; if you don't, tough titties;" who oppose the regulation of Wall Street because they see it as a threat to the free market, even though the reckless practices of Wall Street led us down the path to a recession; who see nothing wrong with racial profiling and violating civil rights to keep those "brown people" in check--THESE SAME MOTHERFUCKERS are perfectly okay with giving a multi-billion industry a get out of jail free card and chalking up a global ecological disaster as "oops, accidents happen"?!
Two things should be completely obvious to even the most obtuse observer. First, the Tea Party platform is nothing but blatant hypocrisy. Second, the Tea Party is a populist tool of big business, who care nothing about your rights as an individual and everything about big business' pursuit of the almighty fucking dollar. So go right ahead, Baggers, and march lock step in time with the corporate drummer boy; eventually, all lemmings end up falling off the cliff.
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You don't have it right. The Tea Party is about fiscal conservatism. You are mixing many different splintered points of view held by different groups. But, like most people I feel strongly about some things i.e., I support Tea Party principles, NRA principles, some libertarian principles, Constitutionalists principles, etc., but some come to the Tea Party with a different mix, some of which I don't support - but what we all have in common is the understanding that governmental spending and taxation is out of control. Certainly you have some who want to use the power of the Tea Party to promote their agenda on issues outside of the core of the Tea Party, but that is a given in any new populist movement. This is not complicated, why you, others and the media make the Tea Party things it is not is beyond my understanding.