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		<title>By: Bob O.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob O.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant. Protest taxes right AFTER a Democrat passed the largest middle-class tax cut in American history. Protest spending AFTER Regan&#039;s quadrupling of the debt and Bush&#039;s doubling of it, and AFTER the economy has fallen apart on a Republican&#039;s watch. Then claim that the Dems deserve ALL the blame!?
If these protesters were such staunch fiscal conservatives, why have they waited until NOW to protest? For decades I&#039;ve encouraged Republican protests of ALL out-of-control spending, but fiscal conservatives lost control of the Republican party in the 60s. The people protesting now are pure party-line Republicans, too cowardly to protest against tax-and-spend Democrats AND Republicans. What&#039;s the point of taking action now that any chance at effective protest is GONE?
P.S. The Boston tea party was the beginning of the revolution that gave us our democracy.  Didn&#039;t anyone realize that calling this a tea party would come off as being a revolution AGAINST democracy.  Again, brilliant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant. Protest taxes right <span class="caps">AFTER</span> a Democrat passed the largest middle-class tax cut in American history. Protest spending <span class="caps">AFTER </span>Regan&#8217;s quadrupling of the debt and Bush&#8217;s doubling of it, and <span class="caps">AFTER</span> the economy has fallen apart on a Republican&#8217;s watch. Then claim that the Dems deserve <span class="caps">ALL</span> the blame!?<br />
If these protesters were such staunch fiscal conservatives, why have they waited until <span class="caps">NOW</span> to protest? For decades I&#8217;ve encouraged Republican protests of <span class="caps">ALL</span> out-of-control spending, but fiscal conservatives lost control of the Republican party in the 60s. The people protesting now are pure party-line Republicans, too cowardly to protest against tax-and-spend Democrats <span class="caps">AND </span>Republicans. What&#8217;s the point of taking action now that any chance at effective protest is <span class="caps">GONE</span>?<br />
P.S. The Boston tea party was the beginning of the revolution that gave us our democracy.  Didn&#8217;t anyone realize that calling this a tea party would come off as being a revolution <span class="caps">AGAINST</span> democracy.  Again, brilliant.</p>
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		<title>By: No more taxes with representation &#124; my blog name!</title>
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		<dc:creator>No more taxes with representation &#124; my blog name!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: JR</title>
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		<dc:creator>JR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guys,

If you aren&#039;t a lot richer than I am, a whole lot, President Obama is CUTTING your taxes already.


Only the richest 2% of American taxpayers will see their tax rates return to Reagan-era tax rates, the rest of us working stiffs get a TAX CUT!


Read a real newspaper or something to get educated about our real government tax rates.

Jay</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guys,</p>
<p>If you aren&#8217;t a lot richer than I am, a whole lot, President Obama is <span class="caps">CUTTING</span> your taxes already.</p>
<p>Only the richest 2% of American taxpayers will see their tax rates return to Reagan-era tax rates, the rest of us working stiffs get a <span class="caps">TAX CUT</span>!</p>
<p>Read a real newspaper or something to get educated about our real government tax rates.</p>
<p>Jay</p>
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		<title>By: Buck Naked Politics</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buck Naked Politics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Maddow on the Conservative Movement to (Their Actual Words) &quot;Teabag Obama&quot;; Meanwhile, Sullivan Accuses the &quot;Tea Tantrum Movement&quot; of Petulance...&lt;/strong&gt;

by Damozel &#124; How many times can Maddow say &quot;teabagging&quot; in a single sentence? Teabagging, teabagging! Maddow can barely control her tendency to grin, then gives up trying. Meanwhile, guest Ana Marie Cox thinks David Vitter is totally the right spokes...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Maddow on the Conservative Movement to (Their Actual Words) &quot;Teabag Obama&quot;; Meanwhile, Sullivan Accuses the &quot;Tea Tantrum Movement&quot; of Petulance&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>by Damozel | How many times can Maddow say &quot;teabagging&quot; in a single sentence? Teabagging, teabagging! Maddow can barely control her tendency to grin, then gives up trying. Meanwhile, guest Ana Marie Cox thinks David Vitter is totally the right spokes&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: swok</title>
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		<dc:creator>swok</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DIRTY SANCHEZ PARTY!!!  LOL!!!!

I hope Michelle Malkin shows up to that one</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="caps">DIRTY SANCHEZ PARTY</span><img src="!" alt="" border="0" />  <span class="caps">LOL</span><img src="!" alt="" border="0" />!</p>
<p>I hope Michelle Malkin shows up to that one</p>
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		<title>By: vacuumslayer</title>
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		<dc:creator>vacuumslayer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t wanna send any money. Can I just lick someone&#039;s balls instead?</description>
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		<title>By: Mr Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mr Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1200931&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brick Oven Bill&lt;/a&gt;: 

That is one of the finest examples of unadulterated horse hockey I have ever seen in my life. Where do you come up with those figures? How will the dollar be devalued by 55%? You, like all republicans, are just making crap up.

Never mind that the economy is ALREADY showing signs of improvement (i.e. Wells Fargo earnings report), you just keep your head in the sand, maybe you&#039;ll suffocate and we won&#039;t have to put up with your wing nut buffoonery any longer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-1200931" rel="nofollow">Brick Oven Bill</a>:</p>
<p>That is one of the finest examples of unadulterated horse hockey I have ever seen in my life. Where do you come up with those figures? How will the dollar be devalued by 55%? You, like all republicans, are just making crap up.</p>
<p>Never mind that the economy is <span class="caps">ALREADY</span> showing signs of improvement (i.e. Wells Fargo earnings report), you just keep your head in the sand, maybe you&#8217;ll suffocate and we won&#8217;t have to put up with your wing nut buffoonery any longer.</p>
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		<title>By: Shawn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From Cpl. Cam: &lt;blockquote&gt;The sad thing is: there needs to be protests in the streets right now. Why are these lame goobers the only ones doing anything? If there was one in my area I’d probably whip up a &quot;Nationalize the Fucking Banks&quot; sign and hit it up.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

No truer words spoken: this way the Congress can regain control over the money supply as is written in Article I, Section 8 of the U S Constitution: &lt;blockquote&gt;Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

&lt;b&gt;To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

Read especially the last two verses; so you can understand what &quot;nationalizing the banks&quot; should be all about!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Cpl. Cam:<br />
<blockquote>The sad thing is: there needs to be protests in the streets right now. Why are these lame goobers the only ones doing anything? If there was one in my area I&#8217;d probably whip up a &quot;Nationalize the Fucking Banks&quot; sign and hit it up.</p></blockquote>
<p>No truer words spoken: this way the Congress can regain control over the money supply as is written in Article I, Section 8 of the <span class="caps">U S </span>Constitution:<br />
<blockquote>Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;</p></blockquote>
<p>To borrow money on the credit of the United States;</p>
<p>To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;</p>
<p>To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;</p>
<p><b>To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;</b></p>
<p>To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States&#8230;. </p>
<p>Read especially the last two verses; so you can understand what &quot;nationalizing the banks&quot; should be all about!</p>
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		<title>By: noncarborundum</title>
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		<dc:creator>noncarborundum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Did we change the majority metric ? Measure volume instead of votes?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Actually, yes, but the new metric isn&#039;t volume, it&#039;s land area.  Tom Brokaw on &lt;i&gt;Morning Joe&lt;/i&gt; the day after the election:

&lt;blockquote&gt;We still remain a centered country or a center-right country when you look at the geographic distribution. This is county by county.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

People don&#039;t vote, square miles do.</description>
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<blockquote>Did we change the majority metric ? Measure volume instead of votes?</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, yes, but the new metric isn&#8217;t volume, it&#8217;s land area.  Tom Brokaw on <i>Morning Joe</i> the day after the election:</p>
<p>
<blockquote>We still remain a centered country or a center-right country when you look at the geographic distribution. This is county by county.</p></blockquote>
<p>People don&#8217;t vote, square miles do.</p>
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		<title>By: ron</title>
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		<dc:creator>ron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope that the Tea-Baggers have a good Tea-Bagging. Obviously they have lots of practice at getting Tea-Bagged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope that the Tea-Baggers have a good Tea-Bagging. Obviously they have lots of practice at getting Tea-Bagged.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike in NC</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike in NC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I wonder if the rich folks have bi-annual parties where they all sit around and laugh their assess off about how they got the lemmings to carry water for them YET AGAIN.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Eh, pretty damn sure they have those parties every weekend.</description>
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<blockquote>I wonder if the rich folks have bi-annual parties where they all sit around and laugh their assess off about how they got the lemmings to carry water for them <span class="caps">YET AGAIN</span>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Eh, pretty damn sure they have those parties every weekend.</p>
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		<title>By: binzinerator</title>
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		<dc:creator>binzinerator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1201001&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roq&lt;/a&gt;: 

&lt;blockquote&gt;This is so painfully stupid. Don’t they know 95% of them are getting a tax BREAK? &lt;/blockquote&gt;

There&#039;s more than just stupidity at work here. Most of them do know they will get a tax break. But that&#039;s not really the point for these people. Ask them and they will tell you it&#039;s about &#039;principles&#039; or maybe &#039;fairness&#039;. Whatever that could mean to people who supported a party whose leader told them the Constitution was just a damned piece of paper -- and indeed acted as if it was. Or who thought it was fair to throw people into prison for years on end just on someone&#039;s say-so. 

But &#039;principles&#039; is what they are hanging their hat on but it&#039;s just a means to hide what they can&#039;t really say aloud without giving themselves away as ugly bigoted people who at their core don&#039;t like democracy or this country when it is run as a democracy or the rule of law when the law prevents them from doing what ever they want to other people. 

Taxes, schmaxes. These people won&#039;t be happy until they get to run things as they please regardless of the will of the majority. Authoritarian assholes are kinda like that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-1201001" rel="nofollow">Roq</a>:</p>
<p>
<blockquote>This is so painfully stupid. Don&#8217;t they know 95% of them are getting a tax <span class="caps">BREAK</span>? </p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s more than just stupidity at work here. Most of them do know they will get a tax break. But that&#8217;s not really the point for these people. Ask them and they will tell you it&#8217;s about &#8216;principles&#8217; or maybe &#8216;fairness&#8217;. Whatever that could mean to people who supported a party whose leader told them the Constitution was just a damned piece of paper&#8212;and indeed acted as if it was. Or who thought it was fair to throw people into prison for years on end just on someone&#8217;s say-so.</p>
<p>But &#8216;principles&#8217; is what they are hanging their hat on but it&#8217;s just a means to hide what they can&#8217;t really say aloud without giving themselves away as ugly bigoted people who at their core don&#8217;t like democracy or this country when it is run as a democracy or the rule of law when the law prevents them from doing what ever they want to other people.</p>
<p>Taxes, schmaxes. These people won&#8217;t be happy until they get to run things as they please regardless of the will of the majority. Authoritarian assholes are kinda like that.</p>
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		<title>By: asiangrrlMN</title>
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		<dc:creator>asiangrrlMN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I said it before, and I&#039;ll say it again.  I WANT MY TEA BACK!  Thank you, guys, for this hi-larious thread.  It has made my day as I mourn the passing of winter.

Teabaggin&#039;.  It&#039;s what&#039;s good for you.
Teabaggin&#039;.  Good for what ails you.

Talked 
Enough.
Also.

ACORN again, really?  I think I will have to donate to them every time the right takes their name in vain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again.  <span class="caps">I WANT MY TEA BACK</span>!  Thank you, guys, for this hi-larious thread.  It has made my day as I mourn the passing of winter.</p>
<p>Teabaggin&#8217;.  It&#8217;s what&#8217;s good for you.<br />
Teabaggin&#8217;.  Good for what ails you.</p>
<p>Talked<br />
Enough.<br />
Also.</p>
<p><span class="caps">ACORN</span> again, really?  I think I will have to donate to them every time the right takes their name in vain.</p>
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		<title>By: Todd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just want to say thanks - first to the Tea Baggers for planning such a wondereful event (in my wildest dreams I can&#039;t imagine how it would be possible to get the Repubs to plan an event called &#039;tea bagging&#039;!?!?!?!?!?)

And second to all the commentors here.  I browsed thru pretty fast, but I almost spit my coke all over the screen many times reading the many funny comments! 

Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just want to say thanks &#8211; first to the Tea Baggers for planning such a wondereful event (in my wildest dreams I can&#8217;t imagine how it would be possible to get the Repubs to plan an event called &#8216;tea bagging&#8217;<img src="?" alt="" border="0" />?<img src="?" alt="" border="0" />?!?)</p>
<p>And second to all the commentors here.  I browsed thru pretty fast, but I almost spit my coke all over the screen many times reading the many funny comments!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: kicker</title>
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		<dc:creator>kicker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;axed
&lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt;ot enough
&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;lready</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>T</strong>axed<br />
<strong>N</strong>ot enough<br />
<strong>A</strong>lready</p>
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