While I was highly annoyed by the people who yelled at Rick Santorum during his speech in Tacoma (TNT, 2-14), I was just as annoyed with the roving gangs of tea partiers who used the same tactics in 2010 with Democratic candidates.
It just goes to prove that extremists on both sides can be equally blind, forgetful, intolerant and impolite.
Re: “Liberal bias led to 2011 whopper” (letter, 1-5).
Unlike the tea party, the Occupy Wall Street movement was not organized by the 1 percent. It was not funded by Koch Industries’ money funneled to Super PACS like Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works.
Occupy Wall Street did not bring weapons to their protests. They did not suggest that if change did not occur they would use “2nd Amendment solutions.” They did not vandalize private property of their political opponents.
Because the tea party was a rebranding of the Christian Right melded to the Corporate Right, it continued to …
Re: “Lies, damn lies and the four biggest whoppers of 2011″ (TNT, 12-27).
The journalist did not pick the whopper of the year. I believe that award should go to the mainstream media for trying to convince us that the Tea Party and the Occupy protests were similar.
The Tea Party protesters were ordinary citizens who were mostly middle-aged or older. They wanted lower taxes, limited government and less federal spending. Their protests were peaceful and had few police incidents.
The Occupy protesters were mostly young people, uninformed college students and left-wing radicals. They railed against capitalism and the …
The tea party is not a real political party. It is a political instrument opposed to the whole political system. Tea party proponents vow no compromise and virtually say no to everything. They demand no or little government and no regulations for banking, transportation, environmental concerns, etc.
Tea party proponents seek to privatize most everything, including education and medical care, and they seek to abolish Social Security and other safety nets set in place to protect the average American.
We need a strong two-party system, not a weak GOP without direction. The GOP needs to get its mojo back. I …
Tea partiers believe in time-honored American values. They don’t believe corporations are inherently evil, nor should bankers be beheaded. They do not believe this country should be divided by class. They want more constitutional restraint on government so that the people have more freedom to achieve the good things the country offers.
By contrast, those occupying Wall Street and other cities, when they are intelligible, want a bigger, more powerful government to come in and take care of them so they don’t have to work for a living.
The tea party was a spontaneous, fast-growing movement, but it has maintained …
Leonard Pitts Jr. correctly observes that the Occupy Wall Street movement may be something big – akin to the tea party movement (column, 10-9).
Both, of course, object to the same behavior: big government sapping low- and middle-income taxpayers to bail out rich corporations and wealthy bankers.
The tea party people blame big government. The Occupy Wall Street people blame big corporations. But the behavior they both oppose is the symbiotic relationship between big business and big government.
It’s quite clear that D and R politicians in Washington, D.C., cannot cooperate. The question is whether “leftist” occupiers and “righty” …
The Democrats’ character assassination has been recently practiced by Leonard Pitts. He states that the tea party has moved from annoying to outright “terrifying” (column, 9-28) and that it is a radical anti-government group.
I’m an 80-year-old tea party person who loves my government and demands fairness from my fellow citizens. The tea party and thinking citizens are terrified by character assassinations by sanctimonious media pundits; President Obama’s frivolous spending creating deficits of trillions leading to near bankruptcy; the Democrats’ war against business with spurious regulations leading to unemployment; secret and costly Obamacare and plans for more expensive liberal …
To anyone who may wonder why some voters consider tea party members less than admirable/Christian/humane or bright, you need only watch the Republican debates. The timing of the cheering and applause is disturbing, to say the least.
At a recent debate, the host enumerated the number of executions in Texas under Rick Perry (234, including juveniles and the mentally disabled), then asked Perry if he struggled with the thought that some of those executed may have been innocent.
His answer was a resounding no – which was followed by big applause from the peanut gallery.
In fact, a commission had …