Tag: Tea Baggers

So Tell Me Again How This Is Not About Race

Filed in National by on March 16, 2012 81 Comments
So Tell Me Again How This Is Not About Race

A sickening bumper sticker that was seen really says it all.

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Readin’, Ritin’, and Running Amok

Filed in Delaware by on February 6, 2012 22 Comments

Newsflash: a Sussex County elected official doesn’t like to follow the rules and takes matters into their own hands. No, I’m not talking about Wyatt Earp Sheriff Jeff Christopher, I’m referring to Cape Henlopen School Board member Sandi Minard, (pictured 5th from the top). Minard is a teabagger. She won her seat in 2010 when […]

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The Sheriff Stands for ‘Merica

Filed in Delaware by on December 22, 2011 28 Comments
The Sheriff Stands for ‘Merica

In his never ending quest to show that he has the biggest penis in Southern Delaware, Sussex County Teabag Sheriff Jeff Christopher believes he’s sovereign over everything and everyone one in the county. So much so that he sent the following email out to numerous county employees, news people, and anyone else he decided he […]

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GOP Civil War Explodes In Florida

Filed in National by on January 5, 2010 2 Comments

The Florida Senate race has been a leading indicator of the trends of the national GOP this year. When Senator Mel Martinez decided to retire, the very popular, moderate Republican Governor Charlie Crist decided to seek the seat. However, Club for Growth favorite Marco Rubio also jumped into the race. No one thought he had […]

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Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)

Filed in National by on January 4, 2010 4 Comments

Remember this past summer, when we were all debating whether or not the tea-party movement was racist or not? One of the interesting parts of the movement was creative sign spelling.

Today brings us news that the two issues are related (as if we didn’t have some supicions all along).

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Teabaggers Target Corporate America

Filed in National by on December 28, 2009 9 Comments

Yep, you heard that right — the teabaggers are trying to organize a “National Day of Strike” for January 20, the first anniversary of Obama’s inauguration: The goal of the strike, according to the website where it’s being planned, is to “financially cripple” the companies across America the group says are “backing the leftist agenda” […]

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Bearly Political

Filed in National by on December 26, 2009 5 Comments

Nothing much the Teabaggers say or do these days really surprises me anymore. Their actions and words open up glimpses into their thought processes which is always intriguing albeit a touch scary sometimes. The latest teabagging episode was they got in an uproar over Build-a-Bear’s webisodes about globally warming. The LA Times writes: Conservative bloggers […]

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The Teapocalypse

Filed in National by on December 12, 2009 2 Comments
The Teapocalypse

Documented by Jon Stewart — and when will the traditional media cover this new scandal from the teabaggers???? There are likely teabagging parties all over the US who are appalled at the plastic Jesus on a spring!

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“Tea Party” Beats GOP On Generic Ballot

Filed in National by on December 7, 2009 33 Comments

An interesting poll from Rasmussen (so take it with a grain of salt) shows that a National “Tea Party” would beat the GOP on a generic Congressional ballot: A new Rasmussen poll suggests that the Tea Party movement is far and away more popular than the Republican Party it seeks to influence — so much […]

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Weekend Video Roundup

Filed in National by on December 6, 2009 15 Comments

Commenter anon points us to this video that Charlie Copeland highlighted at Resolute Determination apparently approvingly: Copeland adds: There is nothing that I could add. Indeed. Sarah Palin speaks for God: ABC actually does a decent job explaining the stimulus: Harry Reid shows a bit of backbone and lets loose on Aetna.

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Conservatives: Reclaim Teabagger!

Filed in National by on December 4, 2009 11 Comments

NRO wrote an article that may be unsnarkable. Jay Nordlinger documents the use of the word “teabagger” to describe the rightwing activists. To “teabag” or not to “teabag”: That is not the most pressing question of these times, but it is a question to consider. Routinely, conservative protesters in the “tea party” movement are called […]

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Tea Party: The Movie

Filed in National by on November 22, 2009 6 Comments

There is a new documentary coming out – it’s called Tea Party: The Documentary Film. Apparently it’s serious and not a parody (though it’s difficult to tell). Here’s the trailer: Seriously guys – the second American revolution? Two protests in Washington, D.C. does not a revolution make, even if you’ve got your own TV news […]

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Sometimes I Despair For Humanity

Filed in National by on November 8, 2009 14 Comments

Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel issued a statement condemning the use of Dauchau in a protest sign at the Thursday Bachmann tea party protest: Not much room for discussing who saw which sign in this statement from the Elie Wiesel Foundation: Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: “This […]

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