Bank Bailout Spawned Obama and Dems’ Tea Party Problem

The teabaggers didn't spontaneously rise up in anger at the bank bailouts. They showed up last August in response to the pending health insurance reform. Last week's article in the New Yorker pointed out that they were corporate creations, funded by people like the Koch brothers and other rich fat-cats. Their assignment is to protest the reforms being attempted by the administration - like health care and finreg - because those reforms threaten to reduce (microscopically) the profiteering of the unregulated corporatists. Aside from the few hate groupies who have latched onto the teabagger spectacle to publicize their own agendas, most of the herds are just clueless right-wing very white folks who were given a free ride on the bus and complementary refreshments by their corporate sponsors.

So it wasn't the bank bailouts, it was the threat/promise of government regulation of irresponsible corporatists which spurred those corporatists to create and fund the teabagger circuses.

MGLoraine of NY 1:34AM September 10, 2010

Republicans: You say you're against socialism, but Bush passed Medicare part D (a huge social health care program). Plus Tea Party members refuse to cut medicare or social security (don't cut my favorite socialist programs, I'm entitled to them!) while they yell "down with socialism!" The republicans have shifted money and power to communist countries like China by opening their markets. Turns out free trade has made China a very powerful country and ruined our manufacturing base, but the corporations are making record profits and that's what matters. Surprisingly some republicans think that China's communist anti-Christian leaders will someday wake up and support freedom. Tea party members yell "pride, charity, freedom, God, country" and then support leaders that send factories, money, and technology to countries that hate all these things. Americans will have to take a 70% pay cut in order to bring down the cost of production to meet China. A Chinese engineer making wind turbines makes $7,000 per year! (and they're very intelligent and qualified). Thanks globalization republicans!

Independent of MA 8:16PM September 09, 2010

Obama didn't become president until winter 2009

starks23 of NY 3:31PM September 09, 2010