A sickening bumper sticker that was seen really says it all.
Despite what the teahadis, Curleys, and Rushbos say, the election of Barack Obama has always been about the color of his skin.
Tag Archives: Tea Baggers
Readin’, Ritin’, and Running Amok
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 the incumbent decided not to run and she was unopposed (note that there were 4 candidates for the at-large seat and none of them decided to contest Minard). From her brief bio:
Sandi is an active member of the Delaware Family Policy Council and the Education Concerns Chair for the 912 Delaware Patriots. Mrs. Minard will be the Board representative on the following committees: Arts, Technology and DSBA Legislative. Mrs. Minard is employed by Jack Lingo Realtor, Inc. as a Webmaster.
It’s interesting that she’s serving on the Technology committee, seeing she was in the forefront of the fight against the technology referendum a few years ago that would have funded the technology needs for the school district for many, many years. But I digress.
It seems as though Minard decided to take matters into her own hands last month when she went on to a school bus and ordered the middle schoolers already seated to get off the bus. Yep, someone who is not an administrator pulled kids off of a school bus, no reason given.
A former Cape school bus driver says a school board member removed students from his bus Jan. 12 and would not let him drive his route because of Internet postings he made, some of which he says have been posted for years.
“They really have no basis to do what they did,” said Tighmir Sayles, who until Jan. 12 drove a bus route for Mariner Middle School.
Sayles said Transportation Supervisor Vanessa Moore was at the school during afternoon dismissal because she was going to follow him along his route – a standard evaluation procedure for bus drivers that Sayles said did not seem unusual. While he waited for students to board his bus, Sayles said, school board member Sandi Minard unexpectedly got on his bus and told students already on the bus to get off. Sayles said he didn’t understand why she removed the students and says Minard said nothing to him.
About 15 minutes after what Sayles said looked like a heated exchange between Minard and Moore, the students got back on the bus. Sayles said Moore took the bus driver’s seat about 15 minutes later and drove the students home, with Sayles in the passenger seat. Moore did not respond to calls for comment.
Minard has been tolerated by her peers on the board. She demanded that they get new history books for the district because the books currently used refer to BCE and CE (Before Common Era and Common Era) instead of BC and AD. She has also falsely accused the business director of not giving the board a complete accounting of the budget and expenditures each month. What was apparent was that she didn’t understand what was being explained to her.
During the 2010 election, Minard was reported to have driven by the homes of all the GOP committee people in the 14th, 36th, 37th, and 41st districts to see if they had signs promoting Urkel and COD. She reportedly took down the names of those who didn’t and wanted them expelled from the GOP committee.
Sayles, in his defense, added more details to his side of the story via Dan Gaffney’s Facebook page. It makes for some interesting reading.
Now, back to Minard. If she does this with a bus driver, what’s to stop her or any other board member from yanking a teacher out of the classroom because she doesn’t like the way they’re teaching? Her actions remind me of a former DC school board member who set up an office in a high school for himself and basically tried to run the school.
Minard is no better than Christopher. Come to think about it, she’s one of his biggest and loudest supporters, after St. Bodie Girl and Don Ayotte. Yeah, I keep wondering what they put in the water down here that makes these people act so crazy. Thankfully I drink bottled water.
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 had to puff his chest out to.
First off, I doubt that the taxpayer-funded government email system was supposed to be used in this manner. Political messages should be sent from a personal email account, not a government account. If he had done this from a Federal government email, he’d be fired.
Second, the website the sheriff and his loyal subjects from up North direct people to is scary as all get out. “Wild Bill” (apparently he has no last name) has ties to the Sovereign Citizen movement, which the SPLC has deemed racist. Watch the video and then listen to it again and picture Christopher saying the same exact words.
It’s really too bad that we cannot make political candidates undergo a psychological examination before they run for office. If we did, this crazed clown with a gun might not be in office today, terrorizing the citizens of Sussex County with his belief that he is above the law. No wait, he believes he is the law, courts and the Delaware Code be damned.
GOP Civil War Explodes In Florida
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 a chance. However, the landscape for the GOP has changed a lot in the last year. The far, far right has risen at the expense of the merely far right and Charlie Crist may be a casualty.
The casualty of the civil war is Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer, a strong ally of Governor Crist. He released a statement that was critical of his far right critics:
“As you know, there is a great debate in our party on the direction, moderates vs. conservatives, whether we should have a big tent or a small tent,” said Greer. “And while I have made it my utmost concern to try and keep those arguments and discontents out of the Republican Party of Florida, over the last six months there has been a very vocal group within our party that has become very active in seeking an effort to oust me as chairman. They have distorted facts, they have talked about misspending of money, when the facts have been shown over and over and over that that’s not true. They have talked about my support of Gov. Crist for the U.S. Senate race. They have, as they say, thrown everything up against the wall as they possibly can, to either embarrass me or embarrass the Republican Party of Florida.
Steve Benen reminds us, Greer is no moderate Republican. Greer is the GOP politician who started the GOP hysteria over President Obama’s speech to schoolchildren.
Looking ahead, keep two angles in mind. First, this isn’t a fight between Republican moderates and Republican conservatives, at least not in any meaningful sense. Olympia Snowe vs. Jim DeMint? That’s the GOP center vs. the GOP right. Jim Greer, meanwhile, is perhaps best known for creating a national “controversy” in response to President Obama’s plan to tell school children to do well in school. At the time, Greer threw a tantrum, accusing the president of trying to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda,” adding that Obama “has turned to American’s children to spread his liberal lies.”
Greer, in other words, was never a moderate/centrist, but he was still not right-wing enough for the Teabagger crowd.
Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)
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). A leader of the Tea Party Movement and owner of TeaParty.org, Dale Robertson, was featured in a photo taken in February holding a sign saying “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar”
There is so much here. Poor spelling is apparently rampant. I mean, let’s face it… The word isn’t that hard to spell. If you can spell “bigger” or if you have kids, you will be familiar with “Tigger” it shouldn’t be a problem. Of course it is all thrown into flux when you think “figure” rhymes with it…
If you actually go to the source of the photo, you can also see that the sign used to say something else (perhaps “slave”) but someone decided that that word wasn’t offensive enough. Of course, it could also be that they thought the word underneath was spelled wrong…
Either way, there is finally a datapoint that irrefutably points to a leader of the movement with some racist tendencies.
Teabaggers Target Corporate America
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” and “funding socialism.”
How can you tell which companies are funding socialism? The answer, according to organizers: they advertise on CNN and/or MSNBC, and they donate money to Democratic candidates.
Cool! But apparently this just got announced on the 20th or so and is being led by a Christian Coalition organizer who is still looking for regional organizers and staff to pull this off. And it looks like they have some Facebook followers but nor much movement. Apparently they will be looking for their followers to call these businesses to harrass them that day and if they do not succumb to said harassment, they’ll boycott them.
Anyone see the problem here? Teabaggers taking a play out of the socialist and union playbooks to complain about socialism is awfully rich, even for these people. Probably work about as well as their Die In a week or so back.
Bearly Political
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 reposted the videos online and called for a boycott of the toy company, saying Build-a-Bear should not be presenting a political stance to children.
Politics? They’re talking about politics? Politics? Global warming is about science and the argument should just stick to facts. But politics?!
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
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 so that if it were a full-fledged political party, it would overtake the GOP on the generic Congressional ballot.
The question was phrased as follows: “Okay, suppose the Tea Party Movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?”
The results: Democratic 36%, Tea Party 23%, Republican 18%.
It’s no wonder that the traditional GOP is running scared. I question, however, how popular real tea party candidates would actually be. If Hoffman is any guide, they can even turn off conservatives.
Weekend Video Roundup
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.
Conservatives: Reclaim Teabagger!
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 “teabaggers,” and those calling them that do not mean it in a nice way. Many conservatives are mulling what to do about this term: fight it, embrace it, what?
Nordlinger points out, it was conservatives that first coined the term and Democrats and the media snickered and ran with it.
The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it.
He goes on in great detail to actually explain what the sexual practice is. I guess he doesn’t people to have to guess.
MSNBC had an outright field day. Rachel Maddow and a guest of hers, Ana Marie Cox, made teabag jokes to each other for minutes on end: having great, chortling fun at the conservatives’ expense. And here is the performance of another host, David Shuster:
“For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15, will be Tax Day, but . . . it’s going to be Teabagging Day for the right wing, and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.”
That still cracks me up. Yes, I have a dirty mind. Hey, I’m not the one who decided to call my friends by a term for a sexual practice.
In any event, it may well be too late to purge “teabagger” from our discourse, certainly from discourse controlled by liberals. But I’m for giving it a try: for running “teabagger” out of town, even at this late date. It is really a lowdown term. “Tea partier” is a neutral term. “Tea-party patriots” is a positive term, used by some of the protesters themselves. “Teabagger” — not so positive, and not so neutral.
Sorry guys, you’re stuck with it. If it makes you feel any better, at least some people get pleasure from the word (and the practice). I’ll make a promise: if a liberal group decides to name itself after a sexual practice you’re free to make fun of us.
Tea Party: The Movie
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 channel.
Sometimes I Despair For Humanity
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 kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting”
Rothschilds nothing! Everyone knows that Obama is George Soros sock puppet. Wasn’t Soros Jewish once upon a time? May the Schwartz be with you.
The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Chritian country.
This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish.
Eli Wiesel should just go back to Indonesia. I don’t see him condemnig the terrorist shooter at Fort Hood.
Elie is a whiner. She should stop her whining. You didn’t not complane when the libs were calling Bush Hitler.
You know what? The fact is that at a time in history, The Rosthchild family controlled practically everything.This is a fact. Not anti semitic. I resent the Jewish outrage at everything. I am a tea partier. obama is a Marxist and takes his orders from George Soros… it is similar and these people need to get a life., Why any Jew would support the Obama administation is a mystery anyway. He is a Muslim sympathizer and the greatest threat to Israel ever to sit in the White House. Wake up Jewish community. Take off the blinders.
Rothschild sign? Well its factually true. They were one of the primary families involved in founding the Federal Reserve and are still in it up to their necks. Obama, Bush, and every president since Wilson have done as the Fed told them. Since it a valid historical fact that this family was involved in creating and still has ownership of a substantial piece of the Federal Reserve (but nobody seems to know how much), I guess its now Anti- Semitic to discuss anything a Jew does critically? This guy is a Hebrew Al Sharpton.
Elie, how did that whole Madoff thing work out for you?
This is just a sampling of the responses highlighted at Americablog. I caution people not to read too much into these posts by disgusting morans (aka “nutpicking”) but it’s not just one poster and it’s not just one response.