From progressive.org - In a great piece this week for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi defines the whole Tea Party movement with a few deft keystrokes: "millions of pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the handful of banks and investment firms who advertise on Fox and CNBC." Taibbi spent months interviewing Tea Partiers, attending rallies, and researching the whole organization before he came to this conclusion.
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Among his findings: many of the most fervent Tea Party critics of government spending on stimulus and health care programs are themselves recipients of government largess--including retirees on Medicare; and Tea Party poster boy Rand Paul attacks Medicare and Medicaid spending but defends doctors like himself taking payments from these programs because they need them to "make a comfortable living. "It is impolitic to attack American voters' intelligence, of course--particularly for Democrats afraid of being labeled elitist and out of touch. But the deception that the Tea Party's creators are pulling off really leaves you scratching your head. read more here:
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Sounds typically like sour grapes from a loser who hates conservatives because he himself has nothing worth conserving. The tax loving jihad is almost over. The majority of us would rather get back to work, keep at work or help those who aren't working find work. You can't swing a dead cat in a food stamp line without hitting one of these left-wing ideologues. The "free lunch" they thought they had will be coming to a halt soon.
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