The Tea Party IS nuts, and this proves it.

[White Eagle]

The Tea Party wacktivists™ in New Hampshire are finally showing their colors. If the state Legislature does not make laws with the approval of the TP, well, lets arrest them and put all of the Dems and any Reps that voted against them in jail! Sure, that will work!
Can you believe this? Does Jack and Benvolio agree with this?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/new-hampshire-stand-your-ground_n_3071774.html

New Hampshire Stand Your Ground Law Opponents Threatened With Arrest, Removal From Office

The Huffington Post | By John Celock Posted: 04/12/2013 5:54 pm EDT

Tea party Republicans in New Hampshire want to press criminal charges against state legislators who voted to repeal the state's Stand Your Ground law and kick them out of office.

Two Republican members of the state House of Representatives and a former state GOP chairman have filed a petition to remove 189 members of the state House and file criminal charges against them for their March 27 vote to repeal the controversial gun law. The group claims that the vote violates the lawmakers' oath of office, unconstitutionally challenges the Second Amendment and fails to adhere to state constitutional protections on life.

 

[CowboyBob]

Now that the republicans finally realized these nut cases are sucking the life out of their political party they're trying to shake off these parasites. Republicans whored themselves out for votes and between this group and the wretched Sarah Palin they're spiraling down into oblivion.

 

[JayHawk]

Lets hope they keep spiraling. Every time I read a story like this, I know that at their base most communities are sane. So having their ignorant ideas broadcast far and wide makes the nutbags even less appealing.

 

[Orlandude]

We need to get rid of gerrymandering. That's how these nutjobs got into Congress in the first place. The idea of arresting lawmakers because you don't like the law is right out of the nazi playbook. The upside is that these extremists are making the GOP look really bad, even to a growing number of hardcore republicans. At a time when republicans are looking to broaden their voter base, they are being defeated internally by these extremists. It will be interesting to see what republicans do about their own internal civil war.

 

[JayHawk]

Hopefully their spiral will last until 2020... working them out of office across the states. then leaving the gerrymandering to the democrats in office.

 

[Sausy]

I don't want gerrymandering Republican OR Democrat... guarantee a party a near lock on a legislative seat is corrupt and undemocratic, no matter how noble a party seems(and the Dems aren't a whole lot more noble than today's GOP). Get the parties out of divvying up the district spoils. Can't progressives be intellectually coherent at least on the matter? What an irresponsible comment.

The Tea Party isn't about small government, but a backdoor way for ideas that seem more in lock with John Birch Society nuttiness...
the GOP may finally soon reach a point on whether it wants to truly be a national party or an ideologically pure, reactionary one. That cold splash of reality to its face is the only good thing that can come out of this Tea Party mess.

 

[JayHawk]

I dont like gerrymandering either but it is the nature of our political system. Right now it is very easily illustrated that without gerrymandering the republican party would be damn near extinct. I figure a single ten year grip by democrats will at least move the scales the other direction after the last three decades of republican tampering.

Would be a fantasy world where we could have a fair and equally divided districts across the united states but that will never be the case.

 

[Kulindahr]

I don't want gerrymandering Republican OR Democrat... guarantee a party a near lock on a legislative seat is corrupt and undemocratic, no matter how noble a party seems(and the Dems aren't a whole lot more noble than today's GOP). Get the parties out of divvying up the district spoils. Can't progressives be intellectually coherent at least on the matter? What an irresponsible comment.

The Tea Party isn't about small government, but a backdoor way for ideas that seem more in lock with John Birch Society nuttiness...
the GOP may finally soon reach a point on whether it wants to truly be a national party or an ideologically pure, reactionary one. That cold splash of reality to its face is the only good thing that can come out of this Tea Party mess.

THe GOP should seriously start to champion laws that would make a multi-party system workable -- or they may find themselves shut out completely by the rise of a new party.

 

[ChickenGuy]

THe GOP should seriously start to champion laws that would make a multi-party system workable -- or they may find themselves shut out completely by the rise of a new party.

Meh. The U.S. is locked into the two-party system and I can't see anything ever changing that. And the level of polarisation is enough that HOWEVER disillusioned they are with their party, they will STILL vote to keep the other party out. ANYTHING to keep the other party out. And that is the mantra of both Republicans and Democrats.

And another point - both major parties are canny and sensible enough that the moment the polls and figures show a major shift among the general population against an issue, they'll drop the controversial mesaure like the proverbial hot potato.

Case in point: 10 years ago the Republicans were as hawkish for war as I've ever seen them, now all that rhetoric has disappeared. Coincidence that the American public has grown war-weary?

The same might happen for the gun control debate. If the percentages supporting controls show a significant increase (sadly most likely after another massacre) then just watch how quickly Republican politicians conveniently reverse their views.

Politicans don't HOLD views, they simply reflect whatever views will get them elected or re-elected.

 

[Ninja108]

Indeed,Chicken guy,just look at how fast a lot of Democrat and Independents are rushing to be on the right side of history for gay marriage.
As for gerrymandering,it IS the reason Republicans are in power in many states but I think either party having too much power is a bad thing.

 

[frankfrank]

I dont like gerrymandering either but it is the nature of our political system. Right now it is very easily illustrated that without gerrymandering the republican party would be damn near extinct. I figure a single ten year grip by democrats will at least move the scales the other direction after the last three decades of republican tampering.

Would be a fantasy world where we could have a fair and equally divided districts across the united states but that will never be the case.

Maybe they would actually go ahead and repeal some of the antidemocratic voting laws which seek to eventually roll back voting rights to white male property owners, as was true in the early years of this Republic. They're not talking about male-only and owning property - YET - but it's clear the Repukes want it to go that way eventually.

And another point - both major parties are canny and sensible enough that the moment the polls and figures show a major shift among the general population against an issue, they'll drop the controversial mesaure like the proverbial hot potato.

That's why the Republicans just voted to reaffirm the "One man and one woman" language in the revised Party platform, and why in the final Senate vote on background checks I fully expect them to "filibuster." Or, at the very least, for the Republicans in the House to make sure it doesn't pass, though I think the anti-trafficking provisions have already been removed...?

And in North Carolina, they want to LEVY A TAX on parents whose college offspring vote in their college district instead of their parents' district.

I thought Republicans HATED taxes...always??? Unless, of course, it's a poll tax. That, they can get behind with zeal.

Though there have been "worse" political Parties or cabals or dictators/monarchs/Kings/Queens (the latter two are, of course, counties within New York City...lol) over the years, I consider that the current Republican Party may be the most HYPOCRITICAL group of people who have ever organized anything in all of human history.

 

[Ninja108]

It's one of the reason Democrats do have a chance to hang onto the Senate. They still haven't figured out that nut job candidates can actually lose in Red States and elsewhere.

 

[Kulindahr]

And in North Carolina, they want to LEVY A TAX on parents whose college offspring vote in their college district instead of their parents' district.

I thought Republicans HATED taxes...always??? Unless, of course, it's a poll tax. That, they can get behind with zeal.

Here's the key language:


"If the voter is a dependent of the voter's parent or legal guardian, is 18 years of age or older and the voter has registered at an address other than that of the parent or legal guardian, the parent or legal guardian will not be allowed to claim the voter as a dependent for state income tax purposes."

They of course argue that it isn't a tax increase, it's catching tax cheaters.


Here's a way to choose your own source:

https://www.google.com/search?q=N+C...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[frankfrank]

THANK YOU Kuly (no, I mean Kuli, KULY is a radio station in Ulysses, Kansas - LOL), what you quote/link is so entirely different than the spin I've heard about it. It doesn't stop voting from being suppressed, though.

No doubt that among North Carolina parents who claim dependent children who are away for higher education, there will be many thousands of ultimatums (ultimata? ultimati? ultimatae?) given to dependent children that, if they dare register and vote in their college towns, they won't have a home to come back to.

That will still suppress the vote.

 

[Kulindahr]

THANK YOU Kuly (no, I mean Kuli, KULY is a radio station in Ulysses, Kansas - LOL), what you quote/link is so entirely different than the spin I've heard about it. It doesn't stop voting from being suppressed, though.

No doubt that among North Carolina parents who claim dependent children who are away for higher education, there will be many thousands of ultimatums (ultimata? ultimati? ultimatae?) given to dependent children that, if they dare register and vote in their college towns, they won't have a home to come back to.

That will still suppress the vote.

We may hope for a backlash -- that all the North Carolina college students will get their absentee ballots and vote against every last Republican in the legislature.

 

[Ninja108]

One only has to look at some twitter feeds tonight ti see how unhinged they really are. THey're calling out Faux news for not covering Bengazi enough.

 

[MisterMajestic]

The Tea Party wacktivists™

Wacktivists..LOL...I'm gonna have to steal that one Eagle...

The Tea Party here in South Carolina is almost like a shadow...They had their last gathering at the Capitol for the 2012 Election and Local news said it was less than 100 People...Even the Grandfather of the Party Jim DeMint showed them his Ass and took that $1-Million Smackers Job...LOL..

If the Tea baggers lose Ground here in the Bible-Belt then they are in trouble...

 

[CoolBlue71]

Wacktivists..LOL...I'm gonna have to steal that one Eagle...

The Tea Party here in South Carolina is almost like a shadow...They had their last gathering at the Capitol for the 2012 Election and Local news said it was less than 100 People...Even the Grandfather of the Party Jim DeMint showed them his Ass and took that $1-Million Smackers Job...LOL..

If the Tea baggers lose Ground here in the Bible-Belt then they are in trouble...

Jim DeMint's departure from the U.S. Senate, to go work for the rightwing Hertiage Foundation, was a hoot! He's from a deep-red state. (In presidential elections, DeMint's home state of South Carolina has voted the same as Alabama and Mississippi in the last 100 years' worth of cycles except 1960 and 1968.) DeMint could have been in the Senate the remainder of his life. How odd!

 

[MisterMajestic]

Jim DeMint's departure from the U.S. Senate, to go work for the rightwing Hertiage Foundation, was a hoot! He's from a deep-red state. (In presidential elections, DeMint's home state of South Carolina has voted the same as Alabama and Mississippi in the last 100 years' worth of cycles except 1960 and 1968.) DeMint could have been in the Senate the remainder of his life. How odd!

Actually more than COULD..I feel he would have died in the Senate like Old Man Thurmond...Jim had White & Black Conservative Christians voting for him like crazy...He's an Icon here...

Had you been in his shoes would you have said no to $1-Million for X amount of years and kept your Senate seat @ about $200K? (Both Gigs are in DC)

 

[skinIsIn]

Please do not forget House Congressional representation is arbitrarily fixed (in the early 1920s) at the totally random number of 435 seats distributed amongst the states through "re-apportionment." We are grossly underrepresented relative to our present national population: especially in dense liberal-leaning, mostly-Democratic, urban areas.

We deserve more elected legislative representation on the Hill, to delude the Tea Party nut jobs!