Tag Archives: Tea Party

Let’s go to the tape, shall we?

Although the Christianist right has been screaming blue bloody murder, we haven’t heard much from the teabaggers about last week’s DOMA ruling. According to the Washington Post, Tea Party libertarians and Tenthers are quietly thrilled with the ruling’s affirmation of states’ rights. The silence is by design, activists with the loosely affiliated movement said, because it is held together by …

GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle won’t talk to the mainstream press about her calls to withdraw from the UN, abolish Social Security, and shut down the EPA. She’s also warned of “Second Amendment remedies” if the teabaggers don’t come to power in 2010.

Sharron Angle, the GOP candidate to unseat Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), warns of armed revolution against the federal government. You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact, Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to …

Wait for the end.

According to a Washington Blade piece just posted by Lou Chibarro, some longtime supporters of ADAP in Congress are reluctant to approve supplemental funding this year for fear of angering the Tea Party. The AIDS Drug Assistance Program keeps tens of thousands of people alive by providing them with free or low cost HIV medications. William Arnold, executive director of …

A new teabagger project is the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Because they think U.S. Senators should be appointed by state legislatures, not elected by popular vote. Power to the people! Oh, wait.

JMG reader Allen tips us to this teabagger blogger practically wetting himself over Rand Paul’s Senate primary victory. But hey, he’s pretty.

Voiceover artist D.C. Douglas, who lost his gig with Geico after FreedomWorks publicized an angry voicemail he left for them, fires back with this hilarious bit. “Tweaking the nipple of hypocrites in power can be dangerous and lead to blacklisting. Please, don’t drunk dial FreedomWorks!”

The Tea Party has successfully replaced Maine’s GOP party platform with their own. An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists. The official platform for the Republican Party of Maine is now a mix of …

Speaking at a Tennessee Tea Party event, two GOP candidates for Congress told the audience just what they did with dirty homos back when they were in the service. Physicians Ron Kirkland of Jackson and George Flinn of Memphis were among the candidates Thursday night who talked largely about how they’re against the Obama administration and its policies, according to …

Angered as being characterized as violent, racist, hate-filled teabaggers, Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks has compiled the below clip of voice mails and emails sent by their opponents. Language NSFW.

Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann says that teabaggers are “actually the happiest people you’d ever want to meet.” Their rallies are like “going to a state fair or family reunion.” Uh, yeah. But only if your family reunion includes brandishing semi-automatic weapons, waving signs telling the president to go back to Africa, and calling for the violent overthrow of your …