Tea Party Dupes, Healthcare Politics, and Glenn Beck

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As a card carrying member of the National league of pseudo-conservative idiots, a
societal lower spectrum moron, and as one of the brainwashed Tea Baggers, I find "Agent of Truths" post quite interesting. Especially the "Truths" that we are one size fits all, hard core followers of Beck and assumes we are all conservative idiots. Well it normally takes one to know one. The real truth is that the Tea Party
consists of many different flavors. I for one consider Beck a bit radical and do not subscribe to his rants. There are groups who do, however all groups do not affiliate, necessarily other than around a common goal of getting our country on the right track. have joined in a group of Independents, Greens, Democrats, Republicans who are either conservative, Libertarian, but more often than not represent the average, middle of the road American who have been hurt by the economy, hurt by outsourcing hurt by regulatory burden fees, mandates and more of a basically in your face government. I for one believe government has a role. That role has morphed over the past 30 to 40 years form a government that once consisted of statesmen and great orators, who respected each others contrary opinions, yet managed to stay civil and never lost site of the fact that they are Americans first. It has been the injection of divisive social issues, an either hard left agenda or a hard right agenda that has effectively left the average American out of the equation and has led to the veritable destruction of the middle class as we know it. So, my question to "Agent of Truth" is this. Are you truly of the belief, if you have kids and grand kids, that they will have an American Dream, that they will not be straddled with our debt?
Do you believe that in twenty years or so that we will be a sovereign nation or a small part of a global machine, in which we have devolved into a third world status as a result of greed by a few and the failure to stand up and be counted when it was necessary to do so? Or are you of the belief that everything is just ducky and the right wing nuts and conservative idiots are just making a big to do over nothing? Where is your truth, other than ostracizing, degrading and making unfounded and disrespectful statements about fellow citizens whom you know nothing or little about. Perhaps you should change your name to "Agent of disrespect" or "What the heck, I don't like Beck" or "Purveyor of half truths" because there are 2 sides to every equation and you represent only one.

Devonshire of ME 4:00AM December 27, 2010

Tax cuts to rich do not increase government revenue. Bill, no offense but you should have considered buying one less house and using the money saved for education. "Can not defend you(your) politics with irrefutable facts." I don't see any irrefutable facts in your post. Maybe your poor use of grammar stems from some of that inbreeding you are talking about. Other corrections, it to if, "Doing something to bring about" That is not a sentence. Neither is,"To be all I could be." Also, you left out a couple an "a" in a few places. I know criticizing your grammar is a little childish, but I just couldn't help it. You write like you are drunk.

Bob of KS 4:19PM December 19, 2010

Why is it that liberal progressives are always criticizing named individuals with heavy, acidic vitriol, and yet are always the first ones to cry foul when anyone criticizes the philosophy of what a progressive is quoted as saying?
Conservatives are called racist if we disagree with anyone of ethnic origin--even if we happen to be black! If we disagree with a progressive woman we are labeled as hating women--even if we happen to be female! If we want to preserve marriage as between one man and one woman we are labeled homophobes! If we want to preserve life inside the womb we are labeled as dinosaur freaks who want to control everyone's lives! If we want more control over the education of our children and want to reduce the sex and violence in television programs, we are labeled prudes who are so stupid that we need a progressive to lead us out of our misery!
It sounds like you progressives have the problem, not conservatives. Just read all the posts on this blog. All you do is write terrible things about the people whom you disagree with.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt
Which one are you?
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" Eleanor Roosevelt

KenBob of SC 5:43PM December 17, 2010

Your not you...

Bill Hedges of MO 8:50PM December 16, 2010

MS is in America. Even it not, is there a rule against others from different Countries writing here ? I have more than one home. Hate me for planning my future when young. Doing something to bring about. To be all I could be.
Tax cuts to rich increase government revenue. Have not had liberal even try to disprove. That's result of brain loss from inbreeding. Can not defend you politics with irrefutable facts.
Is inbreeding not “in-breeding”.

Bill Hedges of MO 8:47PM December 16, 2010

Hold the presses!!! According to his latest comment, notorious advocate of in-breeding, Bill Hedges, has re-located from my home state of Missouri to MS (whatever planet that's on). If so, why does he persist on commenting on AMERICAN politics?

George M of MO 8:01PM December 16, 2010

Rich pay more taxes when taxes reduced. Prove me wrong. You can't:
“The Kennedy tax cuts”
“President Hoover dramatically increased tax rates in the 1930s and President Roosevelt compounded the damage by pushing marginal tax rates to more than 90 percent. Recognizing that high tax rates were hindering the economy, President Kennedy proposed across-the-board tax rate reductions that reduced the top tax rate from more than 90 percent down to 70 percent. What happened? Tax revenues climbed from $94 billion in 1961 to $153 billion in 1968, an increase of 62 percent (33 percent after adjusting for inflation).”
“The Reagan tax cuts”
“Thanks to "bracket creep," the inflation of the 1970s pushed millions of taxpayers into higher tax brackets even though their inflation-adjusted incomes were not rising. To help offset this tax increase and also to improve incentives to work, save, and invest, President Reagan proposed sweeping tax rate reductions during the 1980s. What happened? Total tax revenues climbed by 99.4 percent during the 1980s, and the results are even more impressive when looking at what happened to personal income tax revenues. Once the economy received an unambiguous tax cut in January 1983, income tax revenues climbed dramatically, increasing by more than 54 percent by 1989 (28 percent after adjusting for inflation).’
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates
CBO says rich paid more taxes with Bush tax cuts:
“According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Bush tax cuts actually shifted the total tax burden farther toward the rich so that in 2000-2004, total income tax paid by the top 40% of income-earners grew by 4.6% to 99.1% of the total.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/lying_about_bushs_tax_cuts.html
“The Soak-the-Rich Catch-22”
“Since 1978, the U.S. has cut the highest marginal earned-income tax rate to 35% from 50%, the highest capital gains tax rate to 15% from about 50%, and the highest dividend tax rate to 15% from 70%. President Clinton cut the highest marginal tax rate on long-term capital gains from the sale of owner-occupied homes to 0% for almost all home owners. We’ve also cut just about every other income tax rate as well.”
“During this era of ubiquitous tax cuts, income tax receipts from the top 1% of income earners rose to 3.3% of GDP in 2007 (the latest year for which we have data) from 1.5% of GDP in 1978. Income tax receipts from the bottom 95% of income earners fell to 3.2% of GDP from 5.4% of GDP over the same time period. (See the nearby chart).”
http://cliftonchadwick.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/the-soak-the-rich-catch-22/

Bill Hedges of MS 7:45PM December 16, 2010

I would just like to nod in agreement with most of what "Agent of Truth" wrote. I always spell Glenn Beck's name as "Glenn BecKKK." Here in Missouri the rumor is that "Bill Hedges of MO" regularly visits the grave of Harry S. Truman in order to relieve himself on it --- that's what brainwashing will do to a person of limited mental ability.

George M of MO 2:10PM December 16, 2010

People need to wake up the fact that Glenn Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology that he mixes with parts of Catholicism and his personal core as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. The two are not the same as one is a cult and the other is a religion. This makes Glenn Beck one very twisted screwed up moron who sold his soul to the lowest common denominator of personal stupidity. And for the record…the religion of Islam has far more in common with Christianity than the mormon cult.
Glenn Beck can be summarized simply as a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. Those are his only qualifications for anything in life as he never went to college and definitely knows nothing about American History or the US Constitution. Because he does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, this makes him the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. Considering the fact that Beck’s personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. He is definitely not a true conservative.
As with Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate who started the Jehovah’s Witness Cult, this over-paid idiot (Glenn Beck) got in bed with Satan a very long time ago. It’s really all about the money as hate, lies, promotion of ignorance and fear mongering are the only marketable skills that Glenn Beck has on his side and he has a growing flock of very impressionable idiots who do not understand the difference between a cult and a religion or truth & facts versus lies.
Glenn Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them frequently pervert truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths. Beck is simply part of a national league of pseudo-conservative idiots who make big money by selling lies and half truths to impressionable fools who occupy the lowest levels of society. Basically…tea baggers and registered republicans who are condemned to repeat the mistakes of history.

Agent of Truth of AZ 9:55AM December 16, 2010

Such a fan of Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson said regarding taxing the rich, "Don't touch my trust fund." You sure do like those rich guys (Beck, Limbaugh, Palin) who don't want to pay taxes just like you, but you want the benefits. Are you what they call "friends with benefits"?

Tree Hugger of CO 9:23AM December 16, 2010