There was a protest today in Washington:
Angered by the closure of national landmarks due to the partial government shutdown, a crowd of conservatives removed barricades Sunday at the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial as they rallied against President Barack Obama and Democrats for their role in the ongoing stalemate.
Before the protestors left the World War II memorial for the White House, they were addressed by Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz. Upon their arrival at the White House, some of them began brandishing Confederate flags, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Party of Lincoln ain’t what it used to be.
It’s just pathetic. The whole crappy event. What losers.
They couldn’t continue to exist without the regular, ginned up, feigned outrage.
It’s the Tea Party’s crack cocaine.
Ignorance truly is bliss. And Cruz/Palin will do their part to keep it that way.
Ignorance is strength.
It gets easier to whip up their base as it gets smaller.
Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, confederate flag-wavers, all trashing federal property to protest the shutdown which was their goal. Most Americans will be repelled. This movement is dying out with a bang.
My bet is they’ll turn to violence soon, in hopes of triggering a jackboot response.
That was my first thought – any protest, even of 300 people, leaves trash behind. Who’s gonna pick it up? Or was littering Abe’s memorial (or leaving pro-Confederate graffiti) without fear of the tyranny of some jackbooted guv’mint employeee cleaning it up the whole point for these traitors?
And I love in the link how Sarah Palin is quoted regarding the shutdown, “Let government chill for a little while.” Given that her home state is the most dependent in the country on federal spending, winter is starting there already, and home heating oil programs are among those in deep freeze, I’m wondering what her former constituents thought of that quote. From her current home in Scottsdale I’m sure it made perfect sense.
Sarah Palin, AINO.
Also 75,000 – 100,000 dead cows in South Dakota littering the landscape and putting a lot of farmers in financial jeopardy.
I wonder how they’re liking their smaller government about now?
Well, dontchaknow, those veterans were just Republicans wanting to liberate Bobby E’s ole homeplace.
#Lincolnfacepalm
Did they go up around the Lincoln Memorial and wave that rag under Abe’s nose?
Well, well, well, why doesn’t ole Ted Cruz quit now so he can get started on his griftin’?
Angered, my ass. This is the biggest staged piece of shit since 2009. Damn, I wish that the Metro police and Park Police had treated them like the Occupy movement. After all, prominent Democrats already labeled them anarchists. Isn’t that the magic word to get the cops out?
Papa pastor. On the stump for sonny. Like the Pauls, a family small business preying on suckers.
Actually it does under the name “end of life counseling”. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Pretty sure they took that provision out, sadly.
And, the hysterical and ironic part is that that portion of the bill was added at the behest of one of my GOP Senators, who of course subsequently voted against the bill.
Letting the Confederate flag fly openly = not really trying to hide the racist basis of opposition to President Obama any longer.
Just watched ABC News’ broadcast. They led with coverage of the protest, but cut out the Confederate flags and insane rhetoric. They even disappeared Palin/Cruz/Lee. Just a bunch of upset Real Americans at that protest.
ABC covered Occupy Wall Street exactly the same way, right?
Senators Cruz and Lee joined Palin at this farce, where Confederate flags flew and Larry KKKlayman (of COURSE he would be at an event like this!) spewed his seditious garbage. No, they’re not marginalizing themselves at all…
Love Frum’s tweet with photo: “Pro tip:…”. Comedy gold.
Josh Barro is pretty much the real-life version of Will McAvoy in the media, except he’s an editorialist and not on TV (but he is a registered Republican).
I believe he may be a frequent guest on MSNBC. The nighttime shows, that is. I’ve seen him on Hayes show, and/or Maddow, maybe even O’Donnell’s. He’s definitely not a liberal.But he’s brought in quite a bit.
More like male teenagers snorting meth and carrying AK-47s.
There’s some (minimal) merit to the idea that this attachment to the Confederacy is not (purely) racist, in that they seem really attached to the economic system of the Rebellion (weak central government, inability to tax, industrial disinvestment). Even more to the old Articles of Confederation, as in Rep. Griffiths (R-VA) yesterday: my take here.
Dream on. It’s about irritating Yankees. And intimidating blacks. Not a whole lot of philosophy behind it; few except the dilettantes have ever read their John C. Calhoun or Edmund Ruffin.
Humbly acknowledge your experience there, you’re the man. Or at least the Tarheel. Hilarious to think of Morgan Griffiths studying Ruffin. Or Cruz either (I don’t have any idea why people seem so impressed by his intellect unless it’s a kind of validation of their own–“I went to Harvard, therefore Cruz must be really smart”).
My idea was just to work out the reductio argument–what if they really believed what they’re saying?–and show that it amounts to arguing the Articles were better than the Constitution. For, like, fun.
If they believed any of that rot, they’d be first in line to reject all federal government monies. Instead they cut in line to get their monies first. What might have minimized the depression/recession in TX was all the additional military dollars that Bush/Cheney sent there.
Played around at rejecting Medicaid expansion funds, presumably because they thought it wouldn’t lose them any votes. Fun to watch them scrambling to change their minds as the truth sinks in.
That was an easy one for them since they and the dumbasses that elect them believe that those additional Medicaid funds will go to non-whites. Had it been labeled a new whites only entitlement, they would have been all for it.
Here’s what I know. A lot of my GOP friends from SC are retired military or retired civilian DoD contractors in the Charleston area. They’re all the time talking a good game. And they’re pretty anti-Obama right now.
But…push comes to shove, they love Uncle Sugar.
What I would have thought. Tactically, I think, the worst mistake the Republicans made was getting rid of earmarks (I guess they can still pass out goodies but it’s more difficult and harder to publicize, which is the main purpose amirite?). I can’t understand why they did it or why the folks who fund them allowed it to happen.
You forgot about the economic dependence on slave labor. They’re really attached to that.
Carrot Tree Kitchens Defies Government Shutdown Order.
This rebel’s last stand lasted about two hours.
Headlines should read: Racist F***wads That Shutdown Government Throwing Temper Tantrums Over Closed Federal Parks.
What is it about “one nation” in the Pledge they love to recite don’t they get?
Tenants on federal property with sweetheart lease terms to operate their businesses have temper tantrums over Republicans closing their businesses.
Ah’m a prahvate buserness. Why duh ah haf ta close just because the park is shut down? Folks can still get to mah parkin’ lot.
They might want to get someone to read the penalty clause for defying government orders in their lease agreement. Then they can either howl louder about the big bad government or STFU.
“We’re very excited. It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it. People will be very grateful”…..Rep. Michele Bachmann
“But people are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed”…..Rep. Marsha Blackburn
Yep, it’s working like a dream. These people running these businesses are just loving it.
Remember Mr. and Mrs. Voter, “It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it.”
Couple this with that crap posted by Joe the Plumber the other and the facade is really starting to fade from the GOP.
Oh, and this from Robert Costas:
So a 300 person protest is a “game-changer”, but hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees and keeping millions from buying affordable health care wasn’t?
GOP/Republicans/TeaParty are delusional.
How many House conservatives gave Costa this sentiment? They’re fired up after this horror show of a rally? F*** me, they’re really sailing off into never-never land now…
I’ve been kind of following Costa on and off this week, and my impression is that the number is just about always one. Somebody not expressing an actual belief but rather a talking point that he wants “out there”, where Costa dutifully puts it. Not necessarily always the same person.
The rules of the House essentially give Eric Cantor sole responsibility (until the House changes the rules) of ending the shutdown.
John Boehner has gone to Ohio to have his Gethsemane moment in the bar with his dad. Does anyone know whether he took his golf clubs?
Paul Ryan was doing the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V to the folks who were considering the Collins Senate compromise bill.
Ted Cruz and Caribou Barbie were leading Picketts Charge against the White House with a bunch of hired (or tired) Tea Party faithful and wiping Abe’s nose with a Confederate flag.
McCain was on the Sunday talk shows.
And more shock jocks are picking up the “You know you want a white Republican (male) President.” routine on their local stations.
And some folks are trying to drum up concern for government tyranny because there were snipers on the roof of the White House when a bunch of angry white guys muttering about Qurans show up with Confederate flags and yellow banners.
And next week at this time we’ll likely know how this round of craziness ends.
Will Karl Rove still be waiting for the results from Ohio?
Tour de force summary, Tarheel.
… than flying the symbol of treasonous losers.
Derp.
Gallup poll, Oct. 3-6.
identifying as Republicans : 20% — with “leaners”: 38%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
In a Gallup survey conducted September 5-8, Tea Party support is at 22%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/164648/tea-party-support-dwindles-near-record-low.aspx
I can’t wait for the next Tea Party support poll.