President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers' - Polidicks

[url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/president-obama-gop-opposition-to-stimulus-helped-to-create-the-teabaggers.html]Source[/url] [url=http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2010/05/04/obama-gop-helped-create-tea-baggers]Source 2[/url] [quote]Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations. In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an November 30, 2009, interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.” Tea Party activists loathe the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns. On Saturday, the president delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan where he said one way “to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate … But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.” The book also describes many of the president’s top advisers cautioning him against trying to tackle health care reform in the first year because it might be too much to take on at the same time as the recession. “‘I begged the president not to do this,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says. “They’ll give you a pass on this one,” Vice President Biden told the president. -jpt UPDATE: Some liberal bloggers, taking issue with this post, have noted that some Tea Partyers coined and originally embraced the term "tea-baggers." That seems true, and I didn't address the coinage of the term above. But it was fairly soon, by April 2009, when anchors on CNN and MSNBC were employing the term with mocking innuendo, as seen in the links above, and pretty quickly after that Tea Party activists began taking umbrage with it. It's now a common way for some on the left to mock Tea Partyers. [/quote]

No shit.

Yeah, well the Fundies gotta side with someone.

Who's the dumbshit that thought siding with the republican party was ever a good idea? I thought the tea party group was a libertarian group?

Nah, the tea party seems to be more of the "brains" group. They have none, and where were they when a certain president was spending a shitload of money on 2 wars, one that had nothing to do with 9/11? Just asking.

I thought this was about a large amount of stimulus monies were spent on buying MW2 :v:

[QUOTE=CivilProtection;21750543]Who's the dumbshit that thought siding with the republican party was ever a good idea? I thought the tea party group was a libertarian group?[/QUOTE] No. They're conservatives who base their opinions on what FOX News tells them.

"Man I hate these gosh darn [i]liberal socialists[/i] callin' us tea baggers!"

Who cares? They deserve to be called that. Good job Obama.

[QUOTE=CivilProtection;21750543]Who's the dumbshit that thought siding with the republican party was ever a good idea? I thought the tea party group was a libertarian group?[/QUOTE] They're "conservative libertarians" because Glenn Beck brands himself as just that. I suppose they rather follow the Church of Beck instead.

[quote]Tea Party activists loathe the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.[/quote] I could've sworn they started that trend, then realized what a teabagger was.