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- Oct 8:
- Detox not likely to close before new city treatment program opens
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- San Juan Regional Medical Center got $2.1M from Safety Net Care Pool
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- Farmington City Council will discuss closure of Four Winds Recovery Center next month
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- San Juan County Commissioners approve tax raise
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- Tax vote scheduled Monday for County Commissioners
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- Funding sources are not covering the cost of detox services at Farmington's Four Winds Recovery Center
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- Doors likely to close at Four Winds Recovery Center
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- San Juan County Commission expected to vote on tax raise later this month
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- Eight percent of county workforce has been frozen, abolished since 2009
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- Majority of people who spoke to San Juan County Commission on Tuesday support tax increase
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- San Juan County looks at many options to fix $6M deficit
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- San Juan County administrators outline ideas to deal with looming deficit
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- Rep. Paul Bandy says he would join lawsuit against Gov. Susana Martinez
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- Changes in state fund for uninsured cause confusion
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- Some counties considering suing Gov. Martinez
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- County not required to pull $3M from indigent fund
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- County commissioners approve changes to health care funding reimbursement
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- If San Juan County cuts indigent fund, some predict grim consequences
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- New Mexico officials say San Juan Regional Medical Center will get help paying for indigent care
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- San Juan County tries to cope with Safety Net Care Pool
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- San Juan County struggles to avoid tax raise under new law for uncompensated health care
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- Commissioners approve ordinance promising county will contribute to Safety Net Care Pool
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- Legislation cuts into San Juan County's health care coffers, leaving county facing $4.2M deficit
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- San Juan Regional Medical Center will close Bloomfield clinic in June
FARMINGTON — San Juan County commissioners Tuesday could approve proposed deep cuts to a fund that partially pays health care providers' uninsured medical claims.
These revisions to the indigent health care fund, according to county documents, would cut in half the reimbursements many of the health care providers receive for uncompensated care claims. If the cuts are approved, those providers say the consequences will be grim.
"The fact that we're having to reduce the reimbursement rate to 33 percent is not good," Commission Chairman Jack Fortner said. But "it's better than paying zero."
The current rate is 70 percent.
The revisions to the indigent fund — which soon will be known as the "health care assistance program" — are numerous and severe. They are an attempt to avoid bankrupting the fund as the county tries to comply with Senate Bill 268.
That bill, passed in the recent legislative session, created the Safety Net Care Pool, which requires counties to contribute one-twelfth of 1 percent of their gross receipts taxes to a fund that helps finance hospitals' uncompensated health care claims. It requires San Juan County pull $3 million from its projected $4.2 million indigent fund.
"That's most of it," said Liza Gomez, the fund's director. "That's three-quarters of (the fund), really."
The indigent fund also helps county residents pay health care bills, but the revisions will reduce the number of people who are eligible. According to county projections, 329 households would lose eligibility if the commission raises the indigent fund's income guidelines to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Gomez said this will mostly impact single-person households, which are 90 percent of the households that benefit.
The change would save $840,251, according to county documents.
The indigent fund pays claims up to $45,000 but the revisions would limit these reimbursements to a $10,000 per-claim maximum. Gomez said the reduction will most impact hospitals, which have the most high-dollar claims.
This change would eliminate a projected 267 claims and save the county about $3.3 million, according to the documents.
Many county residents eligible for the indigent fund's services apply several times, and 19 have exceeded $100,000 in claims, according to county documents. The revisions would reduce the fund's lifetime limit from $250,000 to $100,000.
This change would have denied 268 claims in fiscal year 2013 and saved the county $1.4 million, according to the documents.
To be eligible for the indigent fund's services, households need to document money in stocks, bonds or checking or savings accounts. These are known as liquid assets.
Currently, one-person households can have no more than $10,000 in liquid assets, two-person households no more than $20,000 and three-or-more-person households no more than $30,000, according to county documents. But the revisions would reduce one-person households to no more than $5,000 and two-or-more-person households to no more than $10,000, according to county documents.
This change would have omitted 36 households, saving the county $198,427, according to the documents.
Fortner said the revisions — especially the one that more than halves the health care providers' reimbursement rate — are hard decisions. But, he said, they could be worse.
"It's like the best of the worst alternatives," he said.
Dan Schwartz covers government for The Daily Times. He can be reached at 505-564-4606 and email@example.com. Follow him @Dan_J_Schwartz on Twitter.


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…after a long day, you need to hang out with your best friend
We become religious,
then we turn from it,
then we are in need and maybe we turn back.
We turn to making money,
then we turn to the moral life,
then we think about money again.
We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We're, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.
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Lori, my Zen Master and a bubbling brook of knowledge and wisdom, shared this FastCompany article titled: 10 Simple Science Backed Ways to Be Happier Today. I reflected on it for a few days. Here's my conclusions and scorecard:
Thursday. He was running late for lunch. My college roommate. Just like him to be late. My mind whirring back to college…
Short (very) and stocky build. Permanently attired in University of Minnesota Gopher sweatpants and an oversized sweat shirt with hoody. Everything hung large. Everything rumpled. "Unkempt, having an untidy or disheveled appearance." Webster's should have added his name. He was the magnetic center – the beating heart – of every college party. Quarter-bounce champ into Pabst Blue Ribbon at the Alibi. Ringleader for late night games of Hearts. Out late. (Very) Up late. (Very) Blessed with a quick wit and quicker on the ice. Selected easiest path to graduation: Art. Sculpture. Sociology. Physical Education. And even this was a struggle. Yet, he was never late for hockey practice. Vote never taken, but most likely to end up next to the curb.
He walked in. Hair salt and peppered grey. Blazer. Blue open collar shirt. Tropical skin tone. (He's got it together.)
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"…maybe that's the lesson for me today. to hold on to these simple moments. to appreciate them a little more. there's not many of them left. i don't ever want that for you, finding things that make you happy shouldn't be so hard. i know you'll face pain, suffering, hard choices, but you can't let the weight of it choke the joy out of your life. no matter what you have to find the things that love you; run to them. there's an old saying: that which does not kill you makes you stronger. i don't believe that. i think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. strength comes from the good things: your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. those are the things that keep you whole, those are the things to hold on to when you're broken."
~ Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy
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21 Balançoires (21 Swings) from Daily Tous Les Jours on Vimeo.
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Yet they will give that money to a liberal statist and wall street puppet Mitt Romney, or a religious zealot like Rick Satantorum whom voted 5 times to increase the debt ceiling.
Gee, I thought the Tea party was dead? Tell you what libs, you just keep hanging your hat on the OWS useful idiots.
Just shows how many people are eager to see our president lose his job. We need to save this country while we still can and send Obama packing in November!!
It's the only "political party" or "candidate" I give money to besides Scott Walker....
Just because the country isn't moving to the right fast enough, some people will do things that in effect will move it farther to the left. To the right is good, to the left is bad.
lets get rid of the communist, then worry about the rest of it.
There is nothing to see here.
the only folks who seem to think the tea party has lost its mojo are the democrats and the media. you will be suprised come election day lefty loons.
There is nothing to see here.
Oh NO... Does this mean the Tea Party is going to start forming mobs and smashing stuff and attacking the Police even more then they already are? Woops, my bad, that's the Occupy Wall Street movement. Well I'm sure the Dems will come out and denounce the Tea Party for something else....
Tea Party walks softly but carries a BIG stick!
God Bless the Tea Party Patriots and others who are uniting to stop Obama's scourge of communism on this once great nation.
It's ironic I have to spend money donating to the Tea Party to stop the government form wasting my money.
Europe is about to go under due to the scourge of socialism and communism, yet Obama and the democrats still want to model America after Europe. To hate America is to vote Democrat....
The TEA Party does not need to march in the streets.
They are simply going to walk to the polls.
Go Tea Party...kick butt and take names.
The Left and Mainstream Media is very mean and condescending to us Tea Party folks, calling us "teabillies," "teapotters," or "teabaggers." Liberal loons like Maxine Waters, who never had a real job in her life, said we can all "go straight to h*ll." And this is because we are a threat to them, because we would CUT OFF thier government-tax-payer-funded salaries and never-ending careers in the Beltway!
We're all still here doing what we do best. Work hard, mind our family and friends, honor the Lord, help our neighbors and when pushed . . . Fight with the weapons we have and our founding father's us. Smart voting as a group. 2010 was a warm up.
Funny they call it Tea Party Patriots. Should it just be people that want this country to do its best and continue to grow.
I'm not sure if the Tea Party are really "patriots." From what I've heard and seen, they are not particularly informed people; so how can they really be patriots, if we accept that patriotism is believing in and wanting the best for one's country? There is a difference between patriotism and self-interest, between patriotism and anger, between patriotism and resentment, between patriotism and blind desire to return to some vaguely defined earlier period.
You ain't seen nothin' yet! We're taking America back from the whiners, professional victims and free stuff army.
I forgot to add......."informed" people like Jim.
Tom wrote :
.Oh NO… Does this mean the Tea Party is going to start forming mobs and smashing stuff and attacking the Police even more then they already are? Woops, my bad, that's the Occupy Wall Street movement. Well I'm sure the Dems will come out and denounce the Tea Party for something else….
Tom, I would say queue the music for Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson because you know the race card in the deck.
TP will just vote with their collective wallets and walk to the electoral stations i November. When the lame stream media figures out their collective campaign of dis-information has failed it will be tooooo late and Obummmer will be toast.
JIM You ain't seen anything yet. We are very INFORMED PEOPLE.........WAIT AND SEE IN NOV.
And the lame stream media said the tea party was gone and not valid. Hee Hee Hee
scott walker got more votes in the primary than ----BOTH--of the evil liberals combined (and he didn't even need to be on the ballot ..bet the dems wish now they wouldn't have ran a fake republican ,it gave us a glance of whats to come for the state of WI.
not to mention the fact the UNION backed Falk was trounced by tom barrett (in her own back yard no less
MADISON .....now that's great news to proves the tide is changing .
Another 5 letter word for Fraud... OBAMA!
@ Jim
"...not particularly informed...", you say. Five or six examples please?
IMO they are very well informed.
So what is your point?
This should show the losers who tried to hijack the Tea Party's appeal during the Republican primaries that the Tea Party is as strong as ever - just still focused on the core message - lower taxes, smaller government, more safeguards of individual liberty.
This is not consistent with senators who repeatedly voted for pork barrell spending to save their jobs or to "take one for the team", nor is is consistent with larda$$ representatives who line their pockets with lobbying fees (sorry, "historian consulting fees") and trash fiscally conservative Republicans for attempting "right wing social engineering".
The Tea Party is correctly targeting the House and Senate elections. That's where spending bills have to be passed and Obamacare has to be repealed.
Hail to the Tea Party! People are fed-up with the tax and spend and tax and spend and spend some more Progressives.
Lugar the gun-grabber is OUT!
The TEA Party is merging with We the People!
Hey davereber, watch out! The US people will support Romney because he HAS done something with his life; unlike Obummer who voted "present" and has ridden the system all his life.
watch the OBumbles supporters cry & whine -- November cannot get here soon enough -- here is a thought - a prisoner got more votes than OBumbles - now that's sending a message - don't ya think --- People are fed up -- DON'T TREAD ON ME
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "10 Times Worse Than Watergate; Biggest Media Blackout In History."
As if Mitt Romney needs any more money. "Tea party" is GOP part deux
JIm, I would say that what you mistake for Tea Partiers' uninformed state is in reality a depth of understanding in this country's first principles that I'm sad to say is lacking among most people under 50, apparently you included. As a substitute they've been brought up thinking that government is the root cause for their well-being. That's what passes for being "informed" in today's public discourse. I don't blame you for thinking that way, Jim, but it certainly is your fault if you persist in your ignorance...
I'm glad to hear this! Let them keep up the good work and help get Obama out of office.
And don't you have to just laugh at the poor fools who continue to believe, as Jim below does, that people in the Tea Party are not well informed. Right, Jim, we just like to give this organization our money simply because they asked for it. We have no idea what they stand for or why they are necessary. So, of course, we cannot possibly be patriots. Wake up...you're the one who needs to be better informed. nce you do, perhaps you'll join us.
I can't wait to see the sad faces of the MSM on the morning after Election Day.
I am not a member of any group but I understand the desire to stop the bleeding of the entitlements to those who do not deserve it. The military members deserve their entitlements, the senior citizens deserve their entitlements. The less than fortunate for good reasons, medical, etc. Those that do not deserve these unending steam of entitlements are illegals, people who manipulate the system with production of children out of wedlock, those who game the system by using many benefit cards and not having to show an ID to use them, those that play the unemployment game by working under the table and collect to include seasonal workers. Well I am all for this if this is what they stand for. This is not racial but something that goes on all over the nation. I have traveled a lot, seen a lot and reported a lot. But we do not stop this criminal activity. Just look at the ITIN number for tax returns and shelling out 4+billion in cash that they know is illegal. We have the address's and we still do not arrest or deport them. .It is my money that they are stealing that is taken form my paycheck each week
I'm glad to hear this! Let them keep up the good work and help get Obama out of office.
And don't you have to just laugh at the poor fools who continue to believe, as Jim below does, that people in the Tea Party are not well informed. Right, Jim, we just like to give this organization our money simply because they asked for it. We have no idea what they stand for or why they are necessary. So, of course, we cannot possibly be patriots. Wake up...you're the one who needs to be better informed. Once you do, perhaps you'll join us.
the OBumbles administration will give out / sell more presidentakl pardos than any other administration in history -- ( Because they have to ) I hope President Rommney unseals OBumbles records - all his records - and opens a investigation into Pelosi's & Reids involvement in the OBuimbles fiasco ( Pelosi / Reid & Holder will be some of the first to get 1st class Presidental Pardons
I'm in a teacher union in Ohio and I wouldn't back a democrat no matter what. I've been RiF'd 3 times as a teacher in Ohio.... because of the union.
Go CONSERVATISM! Get out and VOTE. Discuss the real issues with your moderate friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. Make sure they are informed on the real issues.... not just what the talking heads on PMSNBC and CNN are droning on about. Work for the rebound of your country! ....or not and let Obama win 4 more years.
I prefer ANYONE over Obama even the fellon from texas! The only difference between Obama and the texas fellon is the fellon is doing time for the laws he broke.
.the OBumbles administration will give out / sell more presidentakl pardos than any other administration in history — ( Because they have to ) I hope President Rommney unseals OBumbles records – all his records – and opens a investigation into Pelosi's & Reids involvement in the OBuimbles fiasco ( Pelosi / Reid & Holder will be some of the first to get 1st class Presidental Pardons) MOOCHIE should be made to re-imburse the US Taxpayers for her vacations
Look at that idiot in the stars and stripes shirt holding a photo of Washington. This is he mentality behind the Tea Party. Meanwhile, you have another idiot like Ellie Lightt making a lame joke about O'Bumbles. It doesn't exactly scan, Ellie. Don't give up your day job.
Great news and a great focus for their organization - it's at the ground level the game will change: city councils, mayors, state legislatures, the House and the Senate.
It reveals a real naivete in MSM when their sycophants repeat the mantra "The Tea Party is dead." The people who "turn the wheels" of the country, waste no time on meaningless protest, (we laugh at those do), we know what works and when to 'show up' in support of principles and values. The founders created a system that rewards honesty and we know how to use it.
Amazing in this political climate the t party with little influence over the establishment will have to vote for Romney the RINO. LOL
Heh heh. Sweet. Conservatives are done working their butts off, sending their kids to school and keeping their heads down. We're taking time out to look around an pay attention to the erosion of our great country. We are the majority. Sweet indeed.
Way to go Tea Party! Keep the pressure on for a Constitutionally limited government!
.the OBumbles administration will give out / sell more presidentakl pardos than any other administration in history — ( Because they have to ) I hope President Rommney unseals OBumbles records – all his records – and opens a investigation into Pelosi's & Reids involvement in the OBuimbles fiasco ( Pelosi / Reid & Holder will be some of the first to get 1st class Presidental Pardons)....
Libs-make fun of the Tea Party at your own peril. The Tea Party people are Americans who realize that we can't keep spending money like we have been. The money that we have been spending has shown no results. To make derogatory remarks about them shows your ignorance.
Someone please post the link to donate to the cause ... And volunteer! Time to join in on the fun and make history.
1:11 pm May 9, 2012
davereber wrote :
Yet they will give that money to a liberal statist and wall street puppet Mitt Romney, or a religious zealot like Rick Satantorum whom voted 5 times to increase the debt ceiling.
Please get up to speed. The TEA PARTY is a grass roots Fiscal Conservative Group. They are going after local political elections. They will back whomever the Rep. candidate is because they want to defeat Obama more than they want to spout 3rd party dead end rhetoric. You swollowed the anti-Romney hype most of the Lib media put forth. If Romney was what you accuse he would not have won the Priomary. Now stop whining and get on the Obama -out- of -Office train.
Quiet majority. Not silent. Not pushovers. See what happens when we let liberals push us around for years because we are trying to play nice. NO MORE. I don't want to play dirty. Just play the same way the opposition does. Oh, ok we'll play dirty for a while til this communist mess gets cleaned up. Romney was never my first choice. But he's ok. He IS our team captain now so let's show him some support and he will be obliged to show us support in return. Tea Party folks are not the blind stupid sheep that active liberals are. And we are all about accountability. The tide is turning.
BO is next!!
This $12.2 mil was the year ENDING May 31, 2011. That's almost a year ago and includes the 2010 election season, which was their hay-day. This article is typical non-news that gets misinterpreted by conservatives because they tend to be less discerning when reading news than the average person. The goal of this article is to make some people think that the T-Potty is still alive and well. It is history.
It is time for America to embrace Socialism.
Soon 20% of workers will be needed
to produce 100% of the goods and services needed.
What then will Capitalism say ?
What will happen with the "Army of Unemployed" ?
Wow I am surprized Jack -- you can read something other than the name on your Gubmint check and the label on your Gumbint cheese -------- Bye Bye OBumbles & Moochie in November ---- remember sealed reciords can be unseald by the next president in office
The Democrats are forced to buy their "grassroots" organizations with "contributions" by George Soros and his ilk. The Tea Party, not actually Republican, but Fiscal Conservative Constitutionalists ARE the American "Grassroots". In my State of Louisiana, I do not have to defend any of the Conservatives up for re-election. Thus I am working on the campaigns of Sean Bielat in 4th. District Massachusetts and Denny Rehberg in Montana. Like millions of Americans, I consider myself a member of the Tea Party, but am not on any of their "membership" lists. If you're a Democrat like James Carville visualizing this election year, think "worse than 2010!!!"
To Tom: I know you are right minded, but I am 66 years old and worked for 50 years, all the while paying into Social Security. I am offended when someone calls my SS check an entitlement; it's MY money and I want it back - period!
And they tell us the Tea Party is dead!!!!! Way to go TP!!
Jack wrote, "Look at that idiot in the stars and stripes shirt holding a photo of Washington."
He's holding a copy of the Constitution. On it's cover is a drawing of James Madison. I guess it just shows the ignorance of some Americans.
Let me be clear, uhhhh, um, uhhh, the teabag...uh, teaparty is just frustrated witht he gridlock in DC. Uhh. And they should be, uhhh, upset, uhhh. Just like the uhhhhhhhhh, uh, uh, uh, let me be clear, uhhhhh, occupy movement. Um, uhh.
Were not dead. We've been watching liberals all along. We are BETTER than occupy: we get majority vote.
'#conservative #republican #teaparty #romney 'flipflops' but #liberals #democrats #obama 'evolve opinions'?'
follow me @themisseshelp
King Demo...pathetic...less discerning?? are you kidding...if you'd care to pay attention to the direction America is heading...and the principles the Tea Party stands on..you'd find we are very informed and not blinded by the media or political correctness
Take tea and see ...
To Montycowboy: I'm sorry brother, but it's not your money. Your money went to the generation that proceeded you and to government programs during your working years. Your money has been spent. You gave it to politicians with the hope they would safeguard it for you future. Well, they didn't. Don't make future generations of Americans get lied to like that. Let's end the scam.
"This $12.2 mil was the year ENDING May 31, 2011. That's almost a year ago and includes the 2010 election season, which was their hay-day. This article is typical non-news that gets misinterpreted by conservatives ..."
If you read a bit further you would see this," They also say they've raised even more money for the 2012 fiscal year,..."
It is naught but wishful thinking that the Tea Party is going away. They never left and are getting stronger by the day. It is the very worst nightmare for you and your Liberal friends.
"To Tom: I know you are right minded, but I am 66 years old and worked for 50 years, all the while paying into Social Security. I am offended when someone calls my SS check an entitlement; it's MY money and I want it back – period!"
You're not alone, Montycowboy. There are millions of Illegals who haven't paid into and they want it too. I guess the lesson is not to expect the govenment to be responsible with your money.
The "Tea Party" is not a party, it is the embodiment of any and all of the values permanently embedded in the soul of every American and enshrined in our declaration of independence and constitution.
It is who we are.
For the last 60 years or so we have assumed that those elected by us and taking the oath of office were part of those values.
We have awakened, after many years of dreamily pursuing our right to Life Liberty, and our personal vision of Happiness, to find out that the old Communists, now sheathed in the cloak of "progressivism" have undermined those values and now, threaten them.
The name of the wakeup call is "Tea Party".
Those who do not understand who we, as a nation are, will be shunned by those who do.
It is not an organization, or a movement, it is the United States of America ethos.
That is what the tea party is, no less, no more.
Tea Baggers united against the futile re-election of our 4th greatest president.
The direction we are headed is back to greatness. Look at Britain, they are
the correct model we are striving for.
Long live the Constitution of the United States.
Any politician, Left or Right, who doesn't follow it is my enemy. Period.
And I don't believe that I am alone.
Let's see, a convicted felon pulled over 40% of the democratic primary vote from the slow jammin Preezi And, a 36 year RINO incumbent Senator lost re-election primary by a landslide to a Tea Bagger as America finds out Democratic Senator hopeful, Elizabeth Warren is exposed as a non-Cheroke minority, but a descendant of those that evicted the native indians to Oklahoma. God and the TEA PARTY are alive and kicking.
No fault of you own BUT the money you paid into SS will be completely repaid to you in 3-4 years(with interest).....after that you are using OUR money.
Its not your fault that they set up a system which would fail but that is where we are. While I appreciate that you want YOUR money back....but those of us who are younger(and I am only 15 years younger) don't expect to get ANYTHING back when our time comes.....does THAT seem fair to you?
And you want to be insulted by someone calling it an entitlement? Come on man! My kids who are paying in now are guaranteed not to get anything....that's sort of horrible don't you think?
Don't be part of what will be called in future years the greediest generation.
Tea party people don't have to be a group of verbal yahoo's. We just do.
OOps, I erred. Tea Baggers united for their futile efforts to not re-elect our 4the greatest president.
Tea Party Patriots are indeed a group but the TEA Party as a whole is a movement of millions. We are individuals of all races, ages and genders. We are of all income rungs and social status. We are Republicans, Libertarians and Democrats.
Most of us have never been political activists before. However, we are united in a common cause. That cause is returning our country to the principles outlined by our framers and reigning in an increasingly out of control Federal Government.
To do that we start from the ground up. From local elections to House Representatives. The Presidency, and even the Senate in some cases, is in the hands of moneyed interests. We will change things from the grass roots.
Alex Epperson needs to move to Great Britain.
He will be happy in his Socialist ant hill, but will also he understand that Britain is no longer Great?
november 2010 is coming to a town near you. liberals, take shelter.
Don't think that Richard Mourdock was the benefactor of any money from the patriots organization. I did not see any ads or mailings that they sponsored. I do live in Indiana.
Hopefully the Superpacs pump money into the grass roots organizing efforts of the Tea Party. For people who have not actually ever gone to a Tea Party event basically the people you meet are like the parents you meet at a PTA meeting - mainly small business people, laborers, farmers, family people, all races. It is interesting to see the reality then compare it with the misrepresentations in the media. You then get to see whether you believe your own eyes and ears or to trust the ideologues and pundits and their misrepresentations.
i have been in the thick of liberty movement for almost a 6 years. At no time did we organize and form a Tea party patriots group. this is a PAC as all other PAFC and they will co opt whom they can, whrre they can, if they can. Liberty does not need a PAC, it just needs "We the people", so get off your duff and start doing the work not just sending fiat currency to a group that seems to have appointed themselves in charge. This is not to say there is not a valid tea party-there is. But it is citiznes like you and I who show up, speak up, and demand accountability.
Wait - I thought the Tea Party was over? That's what Ed the Red who's Overfed Shultz said on his MSNBC program, "The Mr. Ed Show."
I never imagined myself, an immigrant woman and lifelong Democrat, to have become a proud member of the Tea Party American Patriots, but there it is! obamanation radicalism and goonianism and charlatanism has turned me into a Tea Party activist learning all over again what it means to be an American and how and WHY we must defend this miraculous American Constitution gifted to all of us. the scummery of obama and his disgusting minions has turned me into a soldier w/ angels on our side.
I stand by my comments at 125, and the tenor of posts here bears me out, such as vague exhortations about "the Constitution" with no substantiation at all, ditto for "progressivism." I'd bet that most such posters have no idea what went into constructing and ratifying the Constitution, which founders stood for what, and what is really in the best interests of the United States right now and going forward. It sounds like most of these commenters are Fox News lemmings, went to the Beck/Palin "prayer rally" to get informed, screech about Obama being Muslim or non-US-born, etc. It's Tea Partiers who took guns to town hall meetings, and voted for a bunch of inexperienced rubes in 2010 who've got nothing done in Washington. None of this patriotism. It's anger, suspicion, ignorance, and most of all fear. It's not wisdom and it's not patriotism.
Thee MSM likes to say that the Tea Party doesn't matter any more that the action is on the side of the Occupy movement, Tuesday proved them wrong. We are here and we are staying. We may not demonstrate and leave crap behind we do organize and vote. We are here and we are growing.
The donators must not have gotten the memo from MSM stating the Tea Party is dead.
Poor little occutards.
I do love the smell of irrelevency in the morning.
It's true what the facists say, the TEA party is dead, what, wait aminute, didn't the rino win, hell no, lets kick the rest of these Anti-constitution collabarators out of D.C.
The handwriting is on the wall. We will not be denied!
Obviously, Alex Epperson was being funny in his post. No one could be that dense.
Isn't this something? 'Anonymous', below, hit it on the head: The Tea Party -- which the dinosaur media tried oh-so-HARD to wish away as a faded fad -- is not only still around, it turns out...but is growing RAPIDLY. Meanwhile, OWS???? Never heard of 'em. Not only can they not articulate a single dang thing they stand for, but they haven't even affected a single, solitary political change, anywhere on earth's surface.
The self-deceiving fantasy world, your average Obama-loving 'progressive' must live in, nowadays. Talk about individuals who are wholly divorced from reality. Can you imagine how much worse that's going to make their shock, come election day?
Looks like we have a bitter, angry Dem troll on this post. It must suck, waking up to a nuclear landscape where a RINO has been ousted and 'gay marriage' has just been rejected by the 32nd state in a row...oh, and in Colorado now, too.
We feel your pain, drip...and we're enjoying it.
You -- and your guy Obama (weirdo that he is) -- lose.
Hey Jim, Know of a more inexperienced rube than your beloved Obama? Whats wrong with taking guns to town hall meetings?You must be an ABC News lemming or a CNN lemming. You will find Obama confirming that he is a muslim, if you take the trouble to check out U Tube.
By the way there is no such word as " commenters". Download Websters Dictioanary when you have a moment.
Jim, you keep standing by your comments, your opinions, and your unfounded suppositions. There is no convincing people such as yourself of the merits of the Tea Party and what it represents.
Many of the Tea Party descriptions are informed well expressed. You choose not to believe them.
You represent that against which we now fight.
Is there anyone more despicable, detestable & unnatural than a career politician? Maybe.
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HELP IS NEED IN Illinois new 8th district... Joe Walsh, an original tea party candidate, who CALLS himself a tea party person BEFORE he states he is a republican... is up against TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Obama's handpicked candidate... Axelrod & Rob are her biggest supporters... 90% of the $$$ she has raised so far comes from OUTSIDE of The 8th district... This 8th district was gerrymandered in order to remove Joe from Congress.... in the polls it is dead even!!! Now we need the push to get to the finish line... CREDO has made Joe public enemy #1. They attend his town halls, videotaping his every word in hope they can take something out of context… SOOO if you can, please go to "walshforcongress.com" and donate (if you can), volunteer, or just offer an encouraging word… and yes, GOD BLESS AMERICA…
I have always said Obama is the best thing to happen to the conservative movement.
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Pelosi walking with that cartoonish gavel in hand, snickering at the American people. Yea THAT is team building.
And not to forget our beloved leader Andrew Brightbart who helped plant it, water it and watched it grow.
Yes the Democrats gave us The Tea Party and Andrew.
They gave us the WAR on Women, the OWters, Tax the rich like France, and the fear that we will never get out of debit (which we will) That's team building I tell ya, Our team....
Ha ha ha ha hah ha h a
Wonderful comments on here from the conservative crowd. It does leave me with a nagging worry that many who comment won't be voting. If you are not registered to vote, now is the time to do it. No matter how much you dislike our president or your local politicians, YOU can't do anything unless you are registered to vote. Make it a matter of urgency to register and know your local polling place. Be prepared.
It seems that the reports of the TEA Party''s demise is somewhat premature! The TEA Party is really the "silent majority" of everyday, coomon sense people that are sick and tired of the status quo! Politicians; discount the TEA Party at your own risk!
Give that $$ to Ron Paul, not Mitt (who is an Obama clone). Fake conservatives, yet another violation of our rights. The gov't constantly violates our rights.
They violate the 1st Amendment by caging protesters and banning books like "America Deceived II".
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by allowing TSA to grope you.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.
Impeach Obama, support Ron Paul.
Last link of "America Deceived II" before it is completely banned:
Show us the donor list, I'll bet 11 million of that came from the Koch brothers. Sigh...
The media did everything they could to minimized and besmirch the Tea Party movement -- and everything possible (and then some) to pump up OWS as some sort of 'iconic' resistance movement.
It must hurt to have the opposite of their template -- known to most other folks as REALITY -- punch their lights out (again), this morning.
The RINO Lugar is gone in Indiana, 'gay' marriage has just been rejected by NC (the 32nd state in a row)...and in Colorado, too...and their guy Barry Obama is on the ropes, economically and in the polls.
This has not been a good day, for the left...and they haven't seen anything, yet.
The left sneers, mocks, condescends and baits the Tea Party movement and majority conservatives, in general...meanwhile the latter two continue to work away at the grassroots, quietly and determined, and rack up victory after victory, and merely adding to that thundering locomotive barreling down the tracks straight at Obama, this November.
And the left doesn't even see it coming.
Their backs are to it, their earplugs are in, they're humming loudly and their middle fingers are in the air.
It's going to be a mess, when they're hit. And then they'll just start screaming curses at the public, claiming fraud, and denying it ever happened, to them.
But, they'll be out of power, and S.O.L. -- and that's what really matters.
I am not being funny. Our great president has done everything I elected him for. He has made us respected country especially in the eyes of the U.N. - our economy, once on the brink of falling off Bush cliff, has veered into solvencty and escalating employment, albeit not as fast as tea baggers would want. Steady growth builds solid futures as opposed to the flimsy economy of the Bush years, egad. Please join me in re-electing this 4th greatest, or arguably, the greatest president we have ever had.
Well, 'Alex,' I'm just so pleased that the half-white racist Obama has made our country respectable to the United Nations...by going around apologizing for us.
Personally, I'd rather him make it respectable to the American people, not a bunch of foreign diplomats.
BTW...when was unemployment ever this high, under Bush?
Alex....your use of the term "teabagger" says it all about you. I stop reading anyone who uses that derogatory term, as I know exactly who and what you are. Only the unintelligent use that.
Alex Epperson - here is a serious question: do you believe that the United Nations should steer the direction of our country, or should we adhere to our 200+ year old Constitution?
As the republicans said about Obama in 08 - show us the donor list... Wonder how many "Shell Companies" from the cayman islands donated?
our great president and you elected him and you are proud of that he has made us a respected country.sounds like you don;t live in america comrade
The TEA Party's dead. OWS is where it's at. TEA Party is just a bunch of old racists. OWS is showing us the way to go.
You would be most foolish to believe any of that. This is a slightly right of center country and we are going to take the country back. The TEA Party is going to save your future for you.
OFF TOPIC....Why is it taking President OBAMA so long to "figure"out what ot say about GAY marrage? We were told on ALL the stations he would speak at 1:30. Could it be that he does not know what he believes? Or could it be that he does not want RUSH to comment on his statement until the MSM has a chance to talk about it all afternoon, night, and tomorrow morning before RUSH has a chance to speak about the subject? Just saying. Obama ...wow what a COWARD!
Bush had 52 months of job growth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In spite of his horrendous record, one can readily understand liberal democrats sticking by their President as the general elections loom. But the adulation of one 'Alex Epperson' for Obama is so myopic as to be mind-boggling. He insists that under Barry, the country "has veered into solvency"... while in reality, Obama has added $5 trillion in debt in 4 short years. This is the kind of delusional thinking that makes one very skeptical about the future prospects of America.
Alex, Even illegal aliens know how horrible Obama's economic policies are. With Mexico's economic growth rate at nearly or even double that of the US we have more illegals returning to Mexico than breaking into our country. I can see Obama supporting that giant guarded border fence now not to keep illegals out but to keep illegals...errr..those democrat voters from escaping the country.
Anonymous, for a irrelevant group you sure do pee your pants in fear of them Why else use tard to attack them.
Not surprising. Tea Party members are part of the 47% of Americans who work and actually pay taxes.
why the shock..the Koch Brothers are multi millionaires
2:53 pm May 9, 2012
Angry.American wrote :
Alex Epperson – here is a serious question: do you believe that the United Nations should steer the direction of our country, or should we adhere to our 200+ year old Constitution?
That's just it - this is not a serious question. It's a rhetorical game based on foolish ignorance. To wit: the Constitution has changed over time - additions, subtractions - and anyone with a brain realizes you can't always live and think the same way over the course of 2 centuries. "Angry American" is doubtless more angry than he is informed or aware. Ditto, re: the UN supposedly running the United States, a classic conservative red herring. Note that Mr Angry doesn't substantiate his UN charge with any detail or fact at all. It's just inflammatory talk by someone who's got nothing else. The UN was created by your hallowed Greatest Generation and, as imperfect as it is, it has no doubt kept peace where there would have been war without it. No wonder Republicans can get so many people to vote against their economic interests; they can always make people mad with "Angry American'-style fulmination. The GOP is the waste of a perfectly good elephant.
Go fellow Tea Partiers!
why not..koch brothers are very generous
Bu..bu..but I thought the MSM declared the Tea Party dead?
Predictions of the death of the Tea Party have been greatly exagerated.
Ann Olivier wrote "why the shock..the Koch Brothers are multi millionaires." Point taken, and George Soros, the puppeteer of the Obama regime is a billionaire as is Warren Buffet, who by the way owes over 1 billion in taxes, and Soros is hell bent on destroying the USA, They are Obama supporters - what's your point. The Tea Party wasn't started by the Koch brothers it was started by those sick of our country being turned into a Marxist regime. Get a new name other than the Koch brothers. You sound very jealous.
"No taxation without representation" was a necessary revolutionary war against England's socialism of America's Tea Party Patriots 225 years ago in Boston as it is necessary against the Democrat party of socialist/commies today. Commie-leon Maobama and his comrades are sooooo gone in January 2013! Kudo's to the GA Tea Party Patriots.
Instead of making false accusations against the Koch brothers, why didn't the Dems pass legislation that would mandate the identification of ALL contributors within 72 hours of the donation when they had control of the House, Senate and Oval Office? Could the answer be that the Dems do not want to publish from where all that $$$ came from last presidential election???
"No taxation without representation" was a necessary revolutionary war against England's socialism of America's Tea Party Patriots 225 years ago in Boston as it is necessary against the Democrat party of socialist/commies today. Commie-leon Maobama and his comrades are sooooo gone in January 2013! Kudo's to the GA Tea Party Patriots.
Yeah Tea party!
Restore America to a Constitutional Republic.
Looks like the MSM reports of the Tea Party's demise were... exaggerated.
Go Tea Party!!
The name says it all.
Patriots: Support your local tea party organizations. The establishment have organized against the American people. Left and right have been reduced to government vs the people. Which side will you be on?
It only stuns a stupid democrat. After all, they fell for Obama, didn't they? Liberals lose, liberals lose, liberals lose. We are free and clear of these godless, America-hating communists for at least 16 years.
No big thing to those who have the values and goals of the Tea Party. If anything a bit less than anticipated. But, many of us do contribute directly to vetted candidates to target our giving.
Stealth, is key, let it be known that the Tea Party is dieing out......when in reality it is growing ever so stronger...it is important for all that the ground rooted effort keeps growing....a victory against the unions in Wisconsin would be even so sweeter....time to clean house in Washington D.C. starting with Pres. Obomination......2013 is key for this country or we lose her for good......
The Koch brothers are my kind of people. I think I'll send them my resume...
The Revolution has begun!
Jeff better send a copy to Soros, he will be better fitted for your talents.
Lyndsey Graham and McCain should be kicked out next. McConnell and the house leadership must go as well. Shame that McCain got in last time. A born again hard liner on the border was he. Arizonans forgot he was Mr Amnesty a year before. A tea party patriot always remembers...
God Bless the TEA Party. Donate alot and often
I forgot, Dems that know how to read...God is who created us, gave us our country and gives us moral guidance to live our lives by, not Obama, his jack booted thug unions or Nancy Pelosi and her gang of crminals.
@ Jim,
Right because the comment section of the WSJ is exactly the spot to write a doctoral thesis on the Federalist Papers.
Funny watching the MSM crowd try to avoid the election results from last night or frame them in more favorable terms for the left. Squirm babies squirm !
The TEA Party......What a powerful organization it is. Long Lived the TEA Party and the Constitution of the United States of America! We will prevail over all!
Wonder what happened to Mr Tingles leg? He may have wet himself. Glug Glug Glug....
I am sure they just want to buy some real nice dipping sauces for the testicles before they plop them in their mouths. Silly tea baggers.
Jim wrote "Note that Mr Angry doesn't substantiate his UN charge with any detail or fact at all...The UN was created by your hallowed Greatest Generation and, as imperfect as it is, it has no doubt kept peace where there would have been war without it."
Funny that you bemoan one person's lack of detail or fact on his claim yet you make a claim without any detail or fact.
RiNOs to the right, Progressive Commies to the left. TEA Party will sweep you all the curb in 2012.
We need to stop electing the rich, Ivy League graduates, career politicians or lawyers to Congress. We need plumbers, lawn care technicians, brick layers, carpenters, factory workers, artists, everyday normal Americans who will represent OUR interests and if it results ind deadlock? So what? At least they are not taking away more freedom or creating more costs or destroying more social programs. Our government only represents the rich. Vote these traitors out.
Ages ago, I heard an expression "conservatism of the cave" and thought it just hyperbole but I sense that many who frequent this site would revel at returning to some provincial cave where books are banned and anyone with a worldview broader than their own zipcode would be quickly eliminated. How very sad to be be surrounded by such people and to consider that if Thomas Jefferson were around today, he too would be an outcast. Well, perhaps he would just head off to a more cilivized place like Canada...
@ Tim wrote :
"I am sure they just want to buy some real nice dipping sauces for the testicles before they plop them in their mouths. Silly tea baggers."
Typical Liberal Hate Speech.
You idiots send money to a rightwing organization and you think that means something? $12 mil? That's nothing, much like your intellect.
Curious how that Maddow boy will react. Lemme guess: fear mongering and nazi references. The left never changes tactics, just faces (and the faces get uglier all the time)
Funny how you idiots go through a laundry list of name calling, but then feel slighted when you are called one. Grow a pair, little boy.
Too bad it's been hijacked by Neocons.
Typical Progressive...
You have to resort to bathroom language to illustrate your verbal and mental IQ.
Go back to Mommy Jones and Willie Maher for some new lines...
Your's are simply trite, worn out and boring.
The article doesn't say how many people donated the money. Was it just one guy?
I read and read...and don't get it. What is the communism you see?
The federal government spends its money on social security, medicare, medicaid and defense. It also makes interest payments on the debt we owe, and then spends another 25% or so on everything else under the sun (border patrol, DEA agents, and all the socialist stuf like food stamps and welfare.) Everywhere you look, you can buy a gun (and frankly, I could care less). Everyone has the right to say what they want, pray how they want, and frankly mostly to mind their own business and be left alone. What is the communism you have experienced or are seeing??
Meanwhile, the bankers are laughing their asses off at you people, as they once again got a huge bailout (socialism in its truest form) and have raised an army of people like you to oppose "the communism" that Obama has brought to destroy their lives. I know, Freddie and Fannie did it (by trying to help the n**rs, which we know is the root of ALL EVIL in the country in truth...and the illegals of course...)
You all have a duty as citizens to be informed. Not about conspiracies or the "truth" behind Obama's secret communist plot...but the basic facts of your government. Where does your money go? What percent goes to lazy blacks and illegals? Why does that bother you so damn much? How much money did we owe after WWII? How did we manage to pay it off? How much of the recent government spending is new programs and how much is automatic spending b/c of the recession? these aren't liberal or conservative questions, they are the basic queries of a responsible electorate.
I'm done, I know this is a waste of time, but maybe try googling the "number of employees in the federal government" over the past 40 years...and see what you see. (unless you don't believe Ayn Rand...and there is no A...and it's all just liberal BS and there are no facts anywhere...or is it that you people can only listen to Rush, but numbers and evidence mean nothing?)
Its unfortunate for many to see behind the republican smoke screen of 2012 elections. The goal of Republicans is not necessarily to win the 2012 presidential elections (eventhough it is a 50% chance of winning), but they want to gear up conservatives & evangelicals to vote for them in the local, state and federal congress races through the pursuit of social issues, then go for the killer (presidency in 2016) after they have gained control of state houses across the country. The problem for people unknown of this tactics is that, when the economy picks up between 2012 and 2016, then people will now face the deep cuts they never wanted. Simply explained, take care of the social issues in 2012, then enforce the fiscal issues when people pay less attention. How many people remembered Bush passing his tax cuts in 2001, I will bet that probably the 1%, because the economy was still assumed/projected to be doing fine. I believe many in France thought the same way until their reversal last week.
Wish everyone the best in their vote and the price of what it will cots them then.
Jim- the question was phrased in that specific manner in order to clarify the opinion of Mr. Epperson, not to illustrate my opinion or lack of knowledge regarding the UN. Your statement, however, display a certain assumption about the UN, and ignorance of what I believe and have knowledge of.
I never stated that I believe only in the Constitution as originally written. That is a foolish assumption often made about Conservatives by people on the Left. Also, to maintain that the UN has been some august body of wise diplomats that has prevented world-wide mayhem is laughable upon its face.
You are so tied up in your Leftist mantra that you are unable to see that it has been Liberalism that has dictated the economic policies of destruction for our country in the last 50 years.
The race baiting, organizing communities one against the other, The payoffs to his political friends/Phony "green jobs" that vaporize over night along with loan money from the taxpayers, using tax money to fund thugs with marching orders to disrupt decent Law abiding Americans. This is what Obama's offspring looks like. UGLY THE CORE (or "corpse" in obamaspeak)
Stop the hate liberals!
Why does maxine krinkle when she walks?
Live from New York, The democrap party !
Jackie, What did you score in Econ class? Did you even show up to learn about the economy? By the way, cuts in tax rates have always increased the flow of money into the Treasury....
We'll defeat you anyway. Bring on your union goons, your IRS auditors, your MSM creeps and your Race baiting preachers. We will defeat you and expose you.
Most people I know are New Yorkers with Phd's. They are progressive democrats who will say to be in all sincerity, expecting me to hold the same views, that people who do not live in big cities are stupid and that the opinions of those poor unsophisticated yahoos are irrelevant. The orthodox materialist progressive position is the consensus. All who disagree with the materialist intellectuals are hate-mongers who need to be kidnapped, robbed and drugged by the Loving Scientific State.
This is the address to donate to the Cause! The Tea Party Patriots have committed to putting at least a hundred people on the ground knocking on doors in Wisconsin and more people on phones making calls to stop the abuse of the recall system. They can really use your help in this effort dubbed by co-founder and national coordinator, Jenny Beth Martin as the "Save Wisconsin, Save the Country!" Campaign. Let's all help!
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-James Madison
Christina Jeffrey, fyi, if the Tea Party gained a significant amount of power, you and all other women would probably be banned from the workplace. And anyone who's not white would probably be in sweatshops.
Yay for blind, desperate nationalism.
Lets show brother Scott that he is not alone in taking on the SEIU and their bretheren at the state level who wish to support the lavish lifestyle of government workers and union leadership at the expense of struggling Americans everywhere.
the Tea Party was dead..what you don't know this article is about ONLY ONE Tea Party Organization..we many in different cities and all 50 states..be afraid liberals..be very afraid..tee hee..we are taking our country back!! and we will stand vigilant from here on out from generation to generation
Pssst...the tea party leadership are mostly women, dummy !
I haven't even been approached to give to the tea party yet. When they come to ask, I will give !
Pssst...the Tea Party leadership is mostly women.
Google your city or state and Give to the tea Party
OBL is Dead, TPP (or GM) is Alive? See you in Wisconsin, Indiana and November 2012.
I'm not a Democrat (I can wipe my own butt without the government's help).
I'm not a Liberal (I PAY taxes, I don't receive taxes).
I'm not a Republican (There isn't enough distinction between Democrat, Hand-out Recipient and Republican for my taste - too many RINOs).
Since I …
… don't racially profile blacks as thugs OR as victims,
… will gladly face the consequences of my decisions for the opportunity to reap the benefits of my accomplishments,
… don't feel guilty for being white and even if I did, wouldn't demand ALL other tax payers pay for my guilt,
… don't believe that blacks are inferior to whites and thus can't compete,
… would rather live in a republic as opposed to an oligarchy,
I gladly call myself a Tea Party supporter.
When all is said and done, there is only three reasons to be a liberal: Either you're paid to be a liberal, you're a tax receiver not a tax payer, or you just too stupid to realize your too stupid.
According to the so called "smart people" in the Lamestream Media, the Tea Party is dead. Wrong AGAIN! They are doing something completely foreign to liberals ... Working!
xJohnx I like your post!
There is a good article on the tea party defeat of Lugar on americasopinionon.com too that talks about how they supported (and won!)
The tea party drives the liberals nuts because they a) can't point to a single "head" of the party therefore cannot figure out where to attack and b) it KEEPS GAINING TRACTION!!!!
Hmmmm....now that the Tea Party is raking in the big bucks, how long until their members are just as bought & sold as their predecessors?
... some should go to RON PAUL ...!!!...
Response to Bill Smith's post earlier today:
"Don't think that Richard Mourdock was the benefactor of any money from the patriots organization. I did not see any ads or mailings that they sponsored. I do live in Indiana." Most of the tea party organizations are not political organizations and therefore cannot directly participate in elections. But tea party members tend to be very active even if they are very independent. They vote for the person, not the Party and they donate and volunteer as well, just not in the name of the Tea Party."
TEA Thugs are nothing more than a bunch of gnats flying randomly and clumsily around Karl Rove's head, the $240 million American Crossroads PAC.
It's time to become a party instead f a movement ....
The liberals on TV talk shows have been talking as if the tea party is waining and no longer significant. Well yesterday proves that was just wishful thinking by these media democrats. The tea party is strong in America because it easily represents the majority of American economic, cultural and Christian values. The media tries to portray anything 'conservative' as old fashion and stupid. Then last week a new survey came out that said Republicans were not only more educated than democrats, but also were the leaders of most cities that were economically sound...while Democrats controlled the losers.
Gee, I wonder who all those people are that have actually donated to this organization. Oh well, I guess the old saying is trule, a fool and their are money are soon parted.
Rational people, making rationale points in a rational manner, with facts. The libs can't stand it and have to resort to name calling, attacking and smearing not honest intellectual debate. Just read the threads and note the difference in tone and content! Just look at the OWS approach v. the TEA Party! GO TEA PARTY GO!
GEE... No more Drunk by Lame Duck Media.
Nov. 2012 WE will deliver A Super Big Cup of TEA.
For Freedom.
What a great grass-roots organization! While the OWSers are cheering for Obama to drag us further into a bankrupt nanny-state, the T.E.A. Party is creating positive change in our government! Hang in there America! Help is on the way!
yes we are here hoping with everything we have to save this country from leeches!
enoughalready911 wrote
"enoughAlready911 wrote :
No fault of you own BUT the money you paid into SS will be completely repaid to you in 3-4 years(with interest)…..after that you are using OUR money.
Its not your fault that they set up a system which would fail but that is where we are. While I appreciate that you want YOUR money back….but those of us who are younger(and I am only 15 years younger) don't expect to get ANYTHING back when our time comes…..does THAT seem fair to you?
And you want to be insulted by someone calling it an entitlement? Come on man! My kids who are paying in now are guaranteed not to get anything….that's sort of horrible don't you think?
Don't be part of what will be called in future years the greediest generation."
911, don't blame the average working guy for what the politicans took and spent. I've contributed about $222k into SS during my career. You're correct that I will overdraw this amount in 6 to 7 years. But, had I been allowed to invest this money myself, using the 12 year rule, I'd have had enough invested to pay myself the same amount during retirement for over 50 years. Any amount remaining in the investment following my death would go to my siblings. Washington took our money and blew it on social welfare programs.
The sleeping giant is awakening out of it's short rest from 2010. Warning to all, this is going to get very, very loud. I can already hear the footsteps.
The tea party movement is simply what we used to call patriots. Just average Americans that believe in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, free enterprise, individual freedom and liberty. You know, those founding principles that created the greatest nation on earth.
Suck on it occupiers!
Why would this be considered stunning? The American people have woken up and they are ticked. They have had it with that phony in the White House and his liberal minions. They will all be losing big time in November. If they can't hack it, go to Europe where at least they don't pretend to be something they are not. They should fit right in.
You ain't seen nothing yet; the Tea Party movement is now the true soul of the America the Founders instituted.
This is just the START! Bye Bye Lugar NOW, bye bye Obama in Nov!
Unlike the liberals, the Tea Party does not impose rules on their fellow Americans. They simply do not want others to impose their rules on them.
Being dependant on government is not independance, and freedom is not free.
Meanwhile, the Occupy losers smoked dope and threw bricks ...
This entire situation is no different than in 08... everyone was TIRED of Bush.. you wanted hope and change. You got hype and blame.. you picked your president to prove you wernt a racist.. this year you will pick your president to rectify your mistake and prove you're not an idiot!.. well those will who actually research their candidates. Stop voting the same guy in over and over again. the retardicans are no different from the dumocrats...IT'S THE SAME PARTY BACKED BY THE SAME BANKSTERS AND PRESTITUTE LAMESTREAM MEDIA!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE! VOTE FOR REAL CHANGE...END THE FED! VOTE RON PAUL 2012!
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. -- Abraham Lincoln
GO TEA Party!!
Aaaaaaaaaah yes.......it must be so uplifting for the libs to know that OWS has their back and the Tea Party is going away......away to the bank. to support consertatives.......lol
Wow, the conservatives sure do have an edge here, I mean a private political action committee in Georgia collected 12 million now they can hand out pamphlets and buy 30 second commercials. And all the liberals have are ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, every hollywood star, Newsweek, Time, and almost every major city newspaper spouting socialist propaganda 24 hours a day. We buy 30 second ads in between the liberal news shows broadcast nationally on NBC, so on a 30 minute show, we get about 30 seconds maybe, and the liberals get around 22 minutes. And yet still around half of this country hates everything liberal, just imagine if the conservatives has the media on their side.
We've been laying in wait! November will show America the Tea Party is for reall!
Those that read the WSJ do know that more than half of the nation today hates the veritable guts of this monster Obama. But the main stream media is so invested in the success of this demon Obama, that they are completely blind to reality.
2010 was a good year for the tea parties. Let's pray that 2012 will be a great year for the tea parties.Not so much for the free handout puppets and their masters...
Be careful folks and make sure there are eyes on the vote counting, the left has stolen how many election?
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Oh and the leftie who said he will move to Canada if the big 0 gets put in GITMO where he belong, don't bother , we are in the middle of fixing the socialistic hell that TURDOH gave us. NO COMMIES WELCOME!
The Tea Party has pull in the primaries while being extremely weak in general elections. Their selection of poor candidates with narrow philosophical ideologies cost the GOP two senate seats in DE and NV. To be relevant you have to do better than Sharron Angle, who had a perfect setup to beat a weakened Harry Reid in conservative NV, or Christine O'Donell who's primary win over an Incumbent gave the seat to an unpopular liberal. TP might point to kicking Utah's Bennett out of his senate seat for their boy Mike Lee but this is Utah after all the most Republican state in the country. Jesus couldn't win as a Democrat in the Beehive State. Now they nailed Lugar will their boy be able to carry out a campaign without stepping all over his tongue or leave audiences scratching their heads as was the case with Angle and O'Donnell?
2010 was the beginning...just wait and see what November brings. All the tricks and lies the Left could throw has only made us stronger.
Nothing is going to help unless the GOP can counteract the
massive registration drive of the left which specializes in illegals,
the dead, fraud and duplicative voting. The very idea that the
left fights voter ID laws under the guise of voter suppression is
an outrage. My vote and countless others are being "suppressed"
by the millions of illegal voters rounded up by the Obama machine. The tactics they use to overwhelm "fairness" in elections
is criminal but allowed free rein under this corrupt DOJ. If this
election were restricted to citizens and legally registered voters,
Obama would be toast. However, the complete lack of integrity
of the Chicago gangster politicos threatens the very survival of this
country. Now I know how the people of Russia and Iran feel.
The second amendment can be the tool to make sure the election is not played with.
Doesn't stun me.
For every centrist vote moving from Obama to Romney there are 2 conservative votes dropping out of the election due to no representation by either candidate. Its hard to get enthused about an election where NO one represents you.
It is so entertaining to see the grass-roots tea party movement doing its best to forward a platform solely intended to allow big business to screw over the general populace. The resulting backlash of this will be very interesting to watch.
All polititions in or running for government are liers,thiefs,criminals or immoral ( Give me one just one that does'nt fall into one of these) and untill they get back to the most important and rational document (The Contitution of the Unites Sstates of America) in America. This country will continue to implode. The Tea Party wants the country to follow the rule of law.Simple. Ron Paul is the only one besides the Tea Party to follow the Contitution but paul is so far right he's left.Vote all of them out and insist on term limits for all. NO more sitting on your butt waisting our time and money for 40,50,60 Years its insane.
Of course no comment about the raising of 12 million dollars at one dinner for Obama by George Clooney.
I am delighted by the continuing success of the Tea Party. However when I read "The Patriots and other tea party groups are .... and doing more phone-banking," I cringed. I wish people with causes would stop with the phone-banking! A lot of us do NOT appreciate trash phone calls, even from those with whom we agree. I think it's alienating. Maybe I should just speak for myself. I just hang up on them. I'd rather hear a good radio ad or see a good TV ad.
Romney will WIN this election ...hands down but for only this cycle.. if he chooses to stray he will get tossed. and you RON PAUL supporter... go back to your sand box and play with your toys.. you are annoying in public.
what the tea party understands by reading the founding documents is were the ture power is in this country.
the tea party is going after the local and state seats and the halls of congress.. POTUS AND SCOTUS are not even on the radar.
Under the radar, out of view the modern day patriots have come to the aid of their country. Unlike OWS and the rent a mob presence, we have moved beyond public demonstraton and into the arena of local politics. We have examined the vote record of those who supposedly represent us and found many lacking. We have been maligned, joked about and called many unkind names but we are still here, we are active and you will never doubt again our ability to shake things up. First is was Bill Bennett, now Lugar and we are still on the hunt. Orrin Hatch had no idea he'd be where he is now, but he is. We are alert, we see what is happening in our country and we aim to set it right.
I was one of the original tea party founders and helped start Tea Party Patriots. Unfortunately, Tea Party Patriots has been taken over by the GOP and ego of Jenny Beth Martin. Recently, Mark Meckler, a board member, resigned because of the lack of mission including giving over $250,000 to the GOP. check out: http://Liberty.com if you want a real group.
I am SO proud of the people in the Tea Party. Proud. Proud Proud Proud. Proud!!!! Did I say Proud. I went to the rally to tell the jerks to read the damn bill and couldn't believe the caliber of people who were there. The real America actually does exist. I wish there were more rallys.
Romney is now the t party
T P 12.2 million in 1 yr and obama raises 90 million in 3 months
I wish the Tea Party would start going after these liberal judges, who legislate from their bench and reverse the will and vote of the people, by organizing recalls and impeachments to get rid of them. this needs to be done even more than electing the true conservatives to positions of power, because the judges hold most of the power in our form of government.
Lugar lost the GOPig primary, teabaggers. Good luck winning the general election. Now, all this talk of TP reminds me that I have to make a movement right now. I'll be using plenty of TP when I finish up.
The Tea Party is no longer a grassroots organization. When the chairman of the party hub makes $500,000 a year, flies around the country first class, (along with his buddies) they can no longer claim "fiscal responsibility." I used to be a part of the movement until it became opposing to its original purpose. I guess their mantra is now "Small Government, Big Controlling Tea Party." I have no wish to replace one controlling entity....with another controlling entity. I actually read a statement by a smug Tea Party person who said "The GOP is afraid of us." Yeah, we are afraid of you. We are afraid your need for power and control will give Obama a second term. You want control of the party? Okay, but remember Christine O'Connell, Sharon Angle and Joe Miller were Tea Party candidates. You weren't willing to take responsibility for that. That's not how this works. You take control, you own the result of that control. You have driven me away from the party. The last straw was forcing out a man who was best suited for a job because he is gay. This, after you ban gay conservatives from a conference. Control is control no matter what party letter you put beside your name and I want no part of it. This movement is no longer about unity or freedom, it is about power and control.
T party is only effective destroying the Re publican establishment butb useless, irrelevant and impotent against democratic candidates.
Jenny Beth Martin is a fraud and needs to be investigated.
Jenny Beth Martin is a fraud and needs to be investigated.
I read and read…and don't get it. What is the communism you see?
The federal government spends its money on social security, medicare, medicaid and defense. It also makes interest payments on the debt we owe, and then spends another 25% or so on everything else under the sun (border patrol, DEA agents, and all the socialist stuf like food stamps and welfare.) Everywhere you look, you can buy a gun (and frankly, I could care less). Everyone has the right to say what they want, pray how they want, and frankly mostly to mind their own business and be left alone. What is the communism you have experienced or are seeing??
Meanwhile, the bankers are laughing their asses off at you people, as they once again got a huge bailout (socialism in its truest form) and have raised an army of people like you to oppose "the communism" that Obama has brought to destroy their lives. I know, Freddie and Fannie did it (by trying to help the n**rs, which we know is the root of ALL EVIL in the country in truth…and the illegals of course…)
You all have a duty as citizens to be informed. Not about conspiracies or the "truth" behind Obama's secret communist plot…but the basic facts of your government. Where does your money go? What percent goes to lazy blacks and illegals? Why does that bother you so damn much? How much money did we owe after WWII? How did we manage to pay it off? How much of the recent government spending is new programs and how much is automatic spending b/c of the recession? these aren't liberal or conservative questions, they are the basic queries of a responsible electorate.
I'm done, I know this is a waste of time, but maybe try googling the "number of employees in the federal government" over the past 40 years…and see what you see. (unless you don't believe Ayn Rand…and there is no A…and it's all just liberal BS and there are no facts anywhere…or is it that you people can only listen to Rush, but numbers and evidence mean nothing?)
Tea Party Patriots, founded by Republican Activists, raised $12 megabucks from Obama-haters in an entire year. George Clooney and friends raised $15 megabucks FOR OBAMA in one dinner-party this week. Every single person who donated to Obama that night is not secret or anonymous. Can the Tea Party explain who gave them their dollars, by name?
Give this money to Ron Paul. He is the only representative that knows how to handle money honestly.
Mitt can't beat Obama and him and Obama are the same.
Ron Paul is the only chance for a Republican White House
A good idea is good regardless of where it came from, so keep your head where the sun don't shine, Mr. don't get it.
Vet, you should'a written "Lose this money by giving it to Ron Paul."
which wing of the Tea Party is being referred to? as we, the people, know, they are a fractious group.
trying to figure out where the "Tea Parties" stands on the individual issues ... illegal immigration? ... defense spending? ... taxes on the wealthy? is the collective of tea parties, in lockstep, mimes, with the Republicans on all issues? ... we never hear of the "Tea Parties" stand on any of the issues,.let alone see any independent action on their part .. are they, or aren't they, shadow Republicans, puppets on strings?
the Tea Parties needs to find their own voice ... however, being on the take, receiving funding from Republican coffers, and fractured into a myriad of small pieces, makes that, all, but impossible.
... politicians don't speak for you, or do they? ask yourself that question
when the Tea Party unties itself from the apron strings of the Republican party, and declares it's independence, then the American people, we, the people, will begin to think that maybe the Tea Party actually does want to do something to fix America ... but not until then .....
and then on the other hand, exactly the same thing can be said about Occupy... Occupy is tied to the Democratic Party in a thousand different ways
... the popularity of both groups is sadly lacking with, we, the people, and rightfully so
polls show national support for the Tea Party at just 25 percent,
9 points higher than Occupy Wall Street in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll.
... both groups keep forgetting the cardinal rule, that being, the power is with the people
... if the people are not with you, you are doing good only in your own mind.
on behalf of,
we, the people
This support and money will go to real republicans not RINO's like the likely GOP nominee. RINO Romney has flipped on so many issues so many times, I call him ObamaLite. Let's support real conservative republicans in the House and Senate; no sense in wasting funds on the Presidential race. We need to keep the House and take the Senate.
Waste of money giving it to knuckle dragging teapublicans.
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No team in baseball has been better in interleague play than the Angels. Since 2000, their 132-84 mark (a .611 winning percentage) against National League teams is the best in baseball's cross-league matchups. Since 2007, the mark is even better -- 62-28 (.689). They tied with the Yankees for the best record in interleague play last season (13-5) and have won nine consecutive series against NL teams, dating back to 2010.
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Mike Iaconelli has been working his way around main lake points with no success. He's got nothing in the box and is currently cranking and working jigs along shallow, rocky banks.
Lake Shelbyville has a greenish tint to it and is currently several feet low. We're in and among a small flotilla of six or so boats, some coming and going. As usual, Kevin VanDam has the largest following, his crowd numbering 25 or more.
We'll stick here for a while and see how Ike does. Iaconelli's wife, Becky, was due to have the couple's second child this past Monday, and Ike admitted that fishing isn't the first thing on his mind.
Photo by Bill Heller.
Photographer Seigo Saito just checked in with us to report on the action downstream, near the dam. Gerald Swindle and Ott DeFoe were nearest the dam. Both fished the area for a short while, without success, and have departed for places up the lake. Brent Chapman, the newly crowned Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year, is staying in that vicinity after boating a small keeper, Seigo said.
Aaron Martens has fished his way to the upstream side of the bridge, still pitching plastics on spinning gear. Finally, he has a keeper. He had to measure this one, and it made the grade, apparently with not much length to spare. The limit here is 14 inches, which makes it even more of a challenge to catch a limit on this lake. Aaron has a gallery of six boats at this point. One of the most popular pros on the tour, he won entry into Toyota Trucks All-Star Week when fans voted him in as one of four wild card entries.
Martens is fishing a Texas rigged soft bait, and it's constantly hanging up in the rocks lining the roadway. He's just inching it along from rock to rock, so it's not surprising that he's snagging the lure in crevasses from time to time.
Finding tournament anglers on sprawling Lake Shelbyville shouldn't be easy, but Steve Bowman and I were able to locate our assigned All-Star, Aaron Martens, right off the bat. He's fishing a riprap bank near the railroad track that crosses the lake. He caught a non-keeper just before we arrived, and I saw him swing on another, which he missed. Whatever he's throwing, he's fishing it on spinning tackle, which means a light-line presentation of some sort.
Martens is one of the best on the Bassmaster Elite Series tour with spinning gear, but he hates to use it. Bowman said Martens told him at the La Crosse Elite earlier this year that he really wished he didn't have to use it. Like any top-ranked professional, though, he'll do what it takes to catch the winning fish.
I talked with Martens before take-off, and he's a little more upbeat than the rest of the 12-man field at Toyota Trucks All-Star Week. In his one day of practice on Shelbyville, he said he boated four keeper bass and shook off two or three more. If he can repeat that performance today, odds are good he'll finish the day in the lead. He just caught another short fish, which won't help him a bit.
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Fans of B.A.S.S.'s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/bass, get updates and photos throughout the day right in their newsfeed. You can comment, ask questions and share photos, all within Facebook. Plus, most of the Bassmaster Elite Series contenders have their own fan pages, so you can watch your favorites (and get their fishing advice) all year long.
During the live weigh-ins, fans can watch the Live Leaderboard to see who's on track to make the cut for Saturday's four-man championship.
B.A.S.S. emcee Dave Mercer and The Bassmasters hosts Tommy Sanders and Mark Zona team up for Toyota Hooked Up!, a live video special, which airs at 3:30 p.m. CT Saturday and Sunday. After the champion has been crowned, you'll hear from the winner in his own words — while he's still absorbing the shock of his win.
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At the 2012 Bassmaster Classic, B.A.S.S. introduced the War Room presented by Triton, a concept that was extremely popular with fans. The doors to the formerly private TV and production trailers have been pried open, and you now get to hear what B.A.S.S. officials hear, when they hear it.
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The War Room opens at 9 a.m. CT Friday, Saturday and Sunday and provides updates on the hour until 2 p.m. CT.
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The very popular BASSTrakk will be running during competition hours all four days. When a contender catches a fish, his Marshal reports the estimated weight, which in turn is posted online so you can see how your favorite pro is doing — and where the fish are.
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