Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

[Jaskalas]

And he had the guts to not lie and call Obama a socialist.

What else is a man who worships collectivism enforced via big government?

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

And you liberals want us to live by Sharia Law. I defend your right to that belief though!

Wow ignorant and bigoted, all in one short sentence.

I believe you would be the poster child for a lot of the people that Inglis was complaining about. Way to go FNE, keep lowering the standards of the country, you will be a star tea partier real soon now.

 

[zsdersw]

What else is a man who worships collectivism enforced via big government?

Incorrect assessment always leads to an incorrect conclusion.

 

[Jaskalas]

Incorrect assessment always leads to an incorrect conclusion.

Obama and Collective Salvation.

The man speaks of the collective religiously and you run and hide feigning ignorance.

 

[zsdersw]

The man speaks of the collective religiously and you run and hide feigning ignorance.

No he doesn't.. nor has he pursued collectivism "religiously" in his presidency.

 

[hal2kilo]

government employees who insult themselves by saying all government employees are retarded (usually military people saying this, and our very own Spidey07)
-people receiving farm subsidies then complaining about other people sucking on the government tits

I've had to listen to their (civil servants) whining about people on welfare and everyone else who waste government money nigh on 30 years. But of course what they are doing is productive and necessary.

And they bitched and moaned about the new pay system that actually wanted to use merit in determing pay raises that it pretty much got killed.

It's hilarious.

 

[dawp]

Quality is hard to determine in a system without supply and demand. Thats why you should have a two tiered system. One system where you hire average teachers and pay them the median US wage and another system that is private and not publically funded where teachers can be paid whatever the hell they want. The quality teachers will still teach and educate students if the private system deems them worthy of their salaries. In the end, you have the same amount of quality teachers teaching students but you have a two tiered cost structure where the best teachers are paid the most while average teachers are paid like average citizens.

Edit: And no, student evaluations are not a good indicator of the quality of a teacher. Test scores may indicate the quality of a teacher but it may not if the teacher is given a rough hand. You need a system of supply and demand where teachers are free to be hired and fired at will in order to determine who the quality ones are.

So you all for an underclass the will do the menial work and has no way to advance. Gotcha.

 

[Steeplerot]

So you all for an underclass the will do the menial work and has no way to advance. Gotcha.

Advance? God made the poor that way, it is his plan for them to be wage slaves.
If they were worthy they would have been born to money duh.

 

[ShawnD1]

Advance? God made the poor that way, it is his plan for them to be wage slaves.
If they were worthy they would have been born to money duh.

Proof that god has abandoned the US ever since the north won the war.

 

[brxndxn]

Bob Inglis voted for the financial bailout.. That alone is enough to get the real Tea Party pissed off enough to vote against him. He was an establishment Republican that only voted 'conservative' when it was establishment platform conservative (socially, not fiscally).

He was a lawmaker for 12 years.. a career politician.. There's nothing wrong with changing dirty diapers.

He made no attempt to understand the Tea Party.. He generalized them as a bunch of 'Glenn Beck' watchers. Now he is bitter - a sore loser.. Meh.. fuck him.

Calling the Tea Party names won't make it go away.. making stupid generalizations about it won't make it go away either.

 

[Fern]

Link

Interview with Bob Inglis, who lost because of the tea party, despite having a 93/100 rating on conservative voting.
-snip-

Also from the article:

He voted for the bank bailout.

He voted against the surge (Iraq).

He had also ticked off right-wingers in the state's 4th Congressional District by urging tea-party activists to "turn Glenn Beck off".

He called on Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) to apologize for shouting "You lie!" at Obama during the president's State of the Union address.

I'm under the impression that Inglis is from a very conservative district. Accordingly, I'm inclined to believe he lost the primary mostly for supporting the Wall Street bailout and somewhat for opposing the surge. I don't think you can overstate the anger in conservative places over the bank/Wall Street bailout.

He has been in Washington for too long and lost touch with his constituents.

I'm going with 'sour grapes'.

Edit: I need to look for my SS card so I can see which bank owns me.

Fern

 

[JSt0rm]

Also from the article:

He voted for the bank bailout.

He voted against the surge (Iraq).

Fern

Well its starting to look like the bank bailout worked and the surge didnt...

 

[Amused]

Also from the article:

He voted for the bank bailout.

He voted against the surge (Iraq).

He had also ticked off right-wingers in the state's 4th Congressional District by urging tea-party activists to "turn Glenn Beck off".

He called on Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) to apologize for shouting "You lie!" at Obama during the president's State of the Union address.

I'm under the impression that Inglis is from a very conservative district. Accordingly, I'm inclined to believe he lost the primary mostly for supporting the Wall Street bailout and somewhat for opposing the surge. I don't think you can overstate the anger in conservative places over the bank/Wall Street bailout.

He has been in Washington for too long and lost touch with his constituents.

I'm going with 'sour grapes'.

Edit: I need to look for my SS card so I can see which bank owns me.

Fern

And now we have the other side of the story.

This would make a LOT more sense. His voting record and stances on key issues were contrary to those of his party's voter base. Period.

 

[JSt0rm]

And now we have the other side of the story.

This would make a LOT more sense. His voting record and stances on key issues were contrary to those of his party's voter base. Period.

and looking back his parties vote base was wrong. Hows that feel?

 

[shira]

And they call liberals idealogs.

What I don't get is that the reports I've read on the demographics of the tea party indicate that as a group they're significantly better educated than average. If that's true, where does this embracing of ignorance come from? How can intelligent people be so stupid?

 

[JSt0rm]

What I don't get is that the reports I've read on the demographics of the tea party indicate that as a group they're significantly better educated than average. If that's true, where does this embracing of ignorance come from? How can intelligent people be so stupid?

uhh... Think about what the average is... and then think about something just above that

 

[shira]

Finally we agree on something. People are finally waking up to the fact that hope and change was a bunch of bullshit and Obama is not the messiah everyone thought he was. He is a false prophet, engulfed with self-hate.

Have I mentioned recently that your name includes the word "Fail?"

 

[Amused]

and looking back his parties vote base was wrong. Hows that feel?

Feels like nothing. But to claim the Tea Party cost him his seat is bullshit. The facts point to other reasons.

 

[JSt0rm]

those other reasons are tea party marching orders.

 

[hal2kilo]

What I don't get is that the reports I've read on the demographics of the tea party indicate that as a group they're significantly better educated than average. If that's true, where does this embracing of ignorance come from? How can intelligent people be so stupid?

Beats me. Why are crazy people crazy? Sometimes it takes years of therapy to figure out.

 

[Amused]

those other reasons are tea party marching orders.

They are hardly limited to the Tea Party.

 

[Fern]

Hey, I found one of Inglis' constituents. Check this out:

http://www.viewzone.com/collateralx.html

Fern

 

[Throckmorton]

The Tea Party is the first step toward Idiocracy.

 

[xj0hnx]

That's the point and part of the Republican agenda. They want all Government employees to make minimum wage/part time like a Wal-mart slave. Then, when all they can get are Wal-mart quality workers, they can bitch about how Government doesn't work and demand more votes to help "improve" Government by further slashing costs.

Yea, because government works real good now. Funding for schools should be based on performance. If the school constantly cranks out shitbags, and has a bunch of substandard teachers it must go.

 

[Theb]

Hey, I found one of Inglis' constituents. Check this out:

http://www.viewzone.com/collateralx.html

Fern

Excellent read. How many weeks do I need to stay awake before it starts to sound plausible?