Community Organizer questions Tea Party tactics, respects Tea Party activists

Hey everyone! ISSUE …
Hey everyone! ISSUE #1 at our next meeting will be: Should Annabel Park be replaced as the Leader of our party. ISSUE #2: Henceforth, we’ll be known as the COMMIE PARTY (Sponsored by Obama). And our only real platform issue is to support Obama. Thanks….

Absolute fact: …
Absolute fact: over 70% want Health Care Reform. But, over 60% of those that want Health Care Reform, DON’T WANT GOVERNMENT RUN Health Care Reform. Also, 58% want the new Democrat HC LAW Repealed.
One reason the majority of American Citizens want the new law repealed, is because of the mandatory, government run, unconstitutional language in the law.

@coffeepartyusa how …
@coffeepartyusa how is it inaccurate?? You chose them, therefore there is a partnership.

Robert Townsend …
Robert Townsend said “image controls everything”? I thought it was Pete Townsend.

shrimp-kabobs, …
shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it.

Yep, my Dad got the …
Yep, my Dad got the notice from his Cardiologist notifying him of the cuts to his care. Some how to me, the promise of HC for all, the seniors won’t see cuts, doesn’t ring true with the results. The ultimate determining factor.
One thing I think is shameful, is the way our older people have been treated, after months of making fun of old people, calling names, the President making remarks about getting all we we-ed up, race baiting, he doesn’t want to hear no noise.

It’s not just the …
It’s not just the left who doesn’t understand this, as the Coffee Party is attracting members from various political ideologies. The problem with the Tea Party’s public perception is that they allowed those radical and divisive voices who don’t share such beliefs as you’ve stated, to become the face of the Party and have distorted and misrepresented the original Tea Party’s objectives.

The Coffee Party has no leader. It has a founder and all chapters are autonomous.

@ smg1one “it would …
@ smg1one “it would still be nice to know what other solutions to the problem others might support ” My comments have been confined only to Chad’s apparent presumption that the gentleman who was unemployed was working against his best interest by opposing a particular type of health care system. Chad seemed to be assuming that the man was ignorant, in the very same video where Chad was talking about having an open dialog. The others concerns you mention are valid, just not to *this* point.

@lmcdowall And it …
@lmcdowall And it wasn’t from lack of health insurance. They don’t know if they even got insurance after the interviews. LOL, I had none 20 years ago either but that does not apply to me now.

@lmcdowall Actually …
@lmcdowall Actually according to the study, it was 3% or 9004, then math of probability applied to the overall general population.

@lmcdowall A lot of …
@lmcdowall A lot of c**p has come from Harvard. Don’t fall for the “Appeal to the authority fallacy” arguments. There are other studies out there showing the variables why people die, and why they don’t find healthcare, much noted to be lack of understanding of the healthcare industry, or inability to find a PCP even when obtaining insurance.

I’ll agree that its …
I’ll agree that its all well and good to oppose anything you feel the need to oppose but at the end of the day it would still be nice to know what other solutions to the problem others might support other than cutting taxes and dropping government regulations
(or they could at least explain how that helps).

rallies have their place but its good to see ppl getting together to talk out their differences rather than shout out their unity.

About that many die …
About that many die in the NHS in the UK and the UK is 1/4 the population of the USA

All this …
All this divisiveness we hear coming from the extreme right and the extreme left. . . most of us are in between these two ideologies. Most of us share opinions of both of these political extremes. From what I have read, this is what the coffee party is about.

@ smg1one “The …
@ smg1one “The legislation wasn’t crafted yet. Congress had yet put all the Committee proposals together.” There is absolutely no need to see a final draft before one can decide that a particular plan is not in one’s best interest. There were many elements of the plan expressed in the June ’09 speech, and it makes sense that if one opposes those elements, one may speak out against the entire plan, regardless of the stage of development.

Anything GOOD about …
Anything GOOD about “tea party” (as in Ron Paul 2007-2008, you remember, the same guy that 95+% of the Reagan “conservatives” would NOT support, indeed mocked) was HIJACKED by these same corporatist GOP hypocrites (2009-2010).

I, like millions, think that is tragic. Predictable, but tragic.

What the left …
What the left doesn’t understand about the Tea Party.

It has no leader because it doesn’t need one, only guiding principals. These can be found in the Declaration of Independence, and the U. S. Constitution.
Tea Partiers seek a smaller, less intrusive government, fiscal responsibility, and adherence to the Constitution. No more, no less.
Tea Party Patriots have their share of nuts with signs that you off… why do Tea Partiers allow it? Because the first amendment allows it.

that 45,000 number …
that 45,000 number is a lie and had been debunked. It is a 1997 study that followed people who didnt have health insurance. If they died during the study period, it was assumed they died because they didnt have health insurance…horrible methodology

YOU LEFTISTS own …
YOU LEFTISTS own the media.

true enough
… …
true enough
… but you don’t need formal leadership or spokespeople to get together and talk about what should be done with the real issues we have rather than just rallying around what shouldn’t be done or who should be blamed for the issues we have.

The Tea Party …
The Tea Party cannot present an alternative plan because they have no leadership or spokespeople.

Coffee party …
Coffee party exposed at Big Journalism! Annabel park is George Soros paid shill!

Listen to the …
Listen to the analogy “a child who cries because he wants attention” and I think that’s about all we need to write off this cat. For all the collected cool about not forgeting people would it kill you to not condescend them, by explaining in so many words they don’t understand what’s in their best interest?

Good points, Chad.
…
Good points, Chad.
However, we need to understand that the capitalists who have all the money and control the institutions care only about themselves and maintaining their wealth. They suck up the ideological oxygen. We are all ideologically starving because the capitalist media and their beloved 50,000 hired teabaggers keep chanting, “Freedom to the white rich men!” That is all the capitalist media says ad nauseum. We don’t need to listen. We need to tune it out. We need to love ourselves more.

You are seeing a …
You are seeing a philosophical difference when you see people in the Tea Party movement as people “working against their own self interest”. People in the Tea Party movement don’t see reliance on the state as anything remotely close to self interest- the unemployed guy wanted a job and to pay for his own health care. You either don’t or can’t understand that people want to take care of themselves and don’t accept the state forcing them to pay for someone else.