Mr_Right said:

Why don't you provide the list instead of making wild charges?
If there is a list, it will prove my point.

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"An analysis of campaign finance by Climate Action Network Europe (Cane) found nearly 80% of campaign donations from a number of major European firms were directed toward senators who blocked action on climate change. These included incumbents who have been embraced by the Tea Party such as Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and the notorious climate change denier James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma."

http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-tea-party-is-sleeping-with-the-enemy

I commend them. The europeans have seen how climate change is a scam to rip of people and corporations.
I say a big for the Tea Party and the brave Europeans who helped their cause.

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Mr_Right said:

Why don't you provide the list instead of making wild charges?
If there is a list, it will prove my point.

Do your own research. The skills you gain will help you in the future.

You got nothing.

Mr_Right said:

You got nothing.

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"The other major sponsor of the Tea Party movement is Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, which, like Americans for Prosperity, is promoting events in Washington this weekend. Under its original name, Citizens for a Sound Economy, FreedomWorks received $12 million of its own from Koch family foundations. Using tax records, Mayer found that Koch-controlled foundations gave out $196 million from 1998 to 2008, much of it to conservative causes and institutions. That figure doesn’t include $50 million in Koch Industries lobbying and $4.8 million in campaign contributions by its political action committee, putting it first among energy company peers like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. Since tax law permits anonymous personal donations to nonprofit political groups, these figures may understate the case. The Kochs surely match the in-kind donations the Tea Party receives in free promotion 24/7 from Murdoch’s Fox News, where both Beck and Palin are on the payroll."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html



It's OK if your views coincide with those of billionare corporate america. Just don't pretend that yours is a grass-roots movement.

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Mr_Right said:

You got nothing.

Someone else is more generous than I am, and is feeding you the information you asked for. Read and weep.

Mr_Right said:

Did I make a single mention of the phrase 'grass roots'?
Common sense pulls in money and donations, so nothing wrong with that.

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Mr_Right said:

Did I make a single mention of the phrase 'grass roots'?
Common sense pulls in money and donations, so nothing wrong with that.

"Tea party is comprised of Joe Sixpack and benefits from small donations from individuals, families and small businesses." is what you said. That's how grassroots organizations are defined.

Mr_Right said:

. said:

Mr_Right said:

Did I make a single mention of the phrase 'grass roots'?
Common sense pulls in money and donations, so nothing wrong with that.

"Tea party is comprised of Joe Sixpack and benefits from small donations from individuals, families and small businesses." is what you said. That's how grassroots organizations are defined.

Not everything that is liquid is water.
Grow up, will you?

And, once again

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Mr_Right said:

. said:

Mr_Right said:

Did I make a single mention of the phrase 'grass roots'?
Common sense pulls in money and donations, so nothing wrong with that.

"Tea party is comprised of Joe Sixpack and benefits from small donations from individuals, families and small businesses." is what you said. That's how grassroots organizations are defined.

Not everything that is liquid is water.
Grow up, will you?

And, once again

Your side lost, hippie.

Mr_Right said:

I am relishing it. It proves that the cause is noble, and there are some corporations and rich individuals who will back the cause.

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Mr_Right said:

I am relishing it. It proves that the cause is noble, and there are some corporations and rich individuals who will back the cause.

Noble causes that just happen to have tremendous upsides for private companies?

Mr_Right said:

Tea party is comprised of...

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"From an organizational point of view, the tea parties are a prime example of “astroturfing”, top-down machinations operating under the guise of a faux grassroots movement—like a phony, conservative version of MoveOn.org, but operated by a corporate puppetmaster. In this case, as was reported in The Atlantic and ThinkProgress, they are being led by corporate lobbyist-run, Republican-affiliated front groups and think-tanks: FreedomWorks, a conservative action group led by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey; the free-market group Americans For Prosperity, and the online-oriented, free-market group DontGo Movement, which was born out of last year’s offshore drilling debate in Congress. These organizations are writing the press releases and talking points, thinking up the ideas for the signs, setting up the conference calls, you name it.

Americans For Prosperity operates through the generosity of philanthropies such as the ultra-conservative Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (which bankrolled Ward Connerly’s anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives, and The Bell Curve author Charles Murray), and the pro-oil drilling Koch Family foundations.

In accordance with the interests of Armey’s client base FreedomWorks has lobbied for the privatization of Social Security, and the deregulation of the life insurance industry. It supports the status quo in America’s use of fossil fuels, and has lobbied against healthcare reform. Further, FreedomWorks has received funding from telephone giants Verizon and AT&T, and has opposed net neutrality legislation that would keep the Internet democratic and open. One FreedomWorks funder is the Scaife Foundation, from Richard Mellon Scaife, key patron of the American Right."

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Mr_Right said:

Tea party is comprised of...

Again with the sloppy language. It makes your posts hard to take seriously.

Mr_Right said:

Like cutting taxes and red tape and unnecessary laws and control?
Who would not love that, but a government or union parasite?

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a passing fad with roots in corporate fascism

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a passing fad with roots in corporate fascism

fixed.

Mr_Right said:

Proves my point that America, big and small are pushing back the communists and big government frauds.

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There are a few teabadgers that are racist but it does not represent anything close to the majority. It would be just as unfair to consider every democrat equivalent to those vegan freaks dressed up in tie-dyed psychedelic Uncle Sam suits on stilts with giant puppets made out of bread, for example.

Nevertheless I agree the Tea Party is a passing fad. It will (actually, already has been) be coopted by the neocons and theocons and moneyboys, and will turn into just another ultra-conservative establishment excuse to rip dumb poor supporters off and syphon cash into smarter, more psychopathic pockets. In other words, business as fucking usual, only moreso.