The corporate elite has created a monster that it can no longer control

[Hugabear]

Call it Freeperstein

It's no secret that large corporate interests are behind this whole "Tea Party" movement. By tapping into base fear, racism, and anti-government sentiment, they created this "astro-turf" campaign to make it look like there was this vast popular uprising taking place. They staged rallies around the country, gave marching orders to their talk show propagandists. They urged local teabaggers to run for office.

But this monster they created began to grow out of control. Fueled by the propagandists like Beck and Hannity, they began to feel a sense of empowerment. Unable to think for themselves, their entire existence centered around hatred towards Obama and anti-taxation. Through Beck, they learned a perverted, twisted form of our nation's history. Instead of rebelling against the concept of taxation without representation, it became about rebelling against taxation, period. ALL taxes are considered evil, especially those for the ultra-rich. Democrats are tools of Satan, and must not be negotiated with. No compromise is allowed.

So now, as we careen out of control towards a debt crisis that could very well severely damage the entire world economy, the teabaggers dig in their heels. Indeed, many of them seem to relish in the thought of this, if nothing else so they can attempt to blame it on Obama, who they consider the Black Antichrist. Even as many of the corporate elites watch in horror at the prospect of losing their vast fortunes, the teabaggers are more concerned with sticking a dagger into Obama's back. Doesn't matter to them that Obama is willing to make unprecedented concessions, they refuse to budge on the concept of raising taxes. After all, they've been brainwashed into thinking that tax increases are evil, something to be avoided at all cost, and that compromise with Democrats is the ultimate taboo.

[woo me with science]

1. I disagree. I think they are doing exactly what they were designed to do.

It is very easy for a President to move rightward when there is always someone crazier and further right.

We are at a point where we are being asked to be grateful for SS and Medicare cuts as long as some revenue increases are involved.

We used to use cutting Social Security and Medicare as the HYPERBOLIC, even comedic examples of the line in the sand that Democrats would never tolerate for capitulation.

Yet here we are, being groomed to accept this as the best deal we could get.


This is not a fight between Obama and Boehner. That is the tableau we are being fed. This is a fight to the death between all of us and the banks/corporate thieves that have infested both parties.

[Demeter]

3. The inabilty to raise the debt ceiling says not

The Tea Party peasants are revolting, but they are also not going along with the plan.

[woo me with science]

4. I don't know that they aren't doing exactly what they were groomed and expected to do.

This is not over yet by a long shot.

[Hugabear]

6. You don't gamble the world economy just to get what you want

I have no doubt that people like the Koch Brothers are 100% behind the Tea Party demands to cut SS and Medicare.

However, you don't hold the entire world's economy hostage to accomplish this. They've gotten the cuts they want from Obama, but it's not enough for them. They want more.

If we default on our debt, and the world economy goes into a tailspin as a result, a lot of very rich people are going to lose a lot of money. Sure, some of them will escape unscathed, and I'm sure a few will come out even richer. But a lot of them could very well wind up broke.

[musiclawyer]

2. Me and others have been saying the same thing

I'm not at all worried about the spending cap because wall street has enough mainstream congress people in pocket. With them snd dems it will pass
The key is to steer clear of any safety net cuts.... at all. This has to be all on the GOP. With such discipline the dems should be able up take back the house
Once POTUS has both houses he won't screw it up again. He's not stupid. And although his advisers are still corporatists, the worst of them , Rahm, is gone.

[The Big Vetolski]

5. I think you're right. The Tea Party is no longer entirely in the

control of its creators. They are actually applying their pathetic, simplistic ideology to a government they don't even believe in. Like most of the Reagan voters, they want a return to idyllic days that never existed, to a time when the lifestyle depicted in "Father Knows Best" was considered the ideal, and when minorities and women stayed in their place.

And they are convinced that cutting taxes on their corporate masters is a surefire way to achieve that. They support the same people whose ideas and policies threaten their own standard of living, and often confuse those ideas and policies with Christianity. They are, in short, irrational at best and clinically insane at worst. And now, they threaten at least the short term profits of those who financed them.

I cannot help but appreciate the irony.