Blaming "Washington" is stupid. Blame the Tea Party.

[gulliver]

Don't blame Washington, blame the Tea Party Republicans. Blaming Washington falls right into Tea Party hands. It lets them avoid the blame for the debt while simultaneously agreeing with their assigning the blame to government. It could not be a worse idea.

Bush and his Republicans created the debt on Bush's watch and the recession. The recession created the vast majority of the debt on Obama's watch. The Tea Party is fooling no one. They are all Republicans, and they all voted for Bush. They are in fact to blame for the very problem they are spewing so much spittle over. They shouldn't be angry; they should be in the corner in a dunce cap sucking their thumbs. They need to be slapped, not agreed with.

Slap the Tea Party, not Washington. Blame the Tea Party for the crisis they are crying about. They'll either go more hysterical and throw a (very entertaining) conniption fit or they'll start their much justified, humiliated skulk off of the political radar.

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Would the Tea Party have come into existence if John McCain hadn't

selected Sarah Palin as his running mate? Seems to me that having her as a symbolic leader paved the way for organization and funding of this group.

[LiberalLoner]

3. K&R

[William769]

4. I'll keep my blame on both

Washington can fix this easily & they refuse to.

:thumbsdown:

[malaise]

5. I disagree - Teabaggers are ReTHUGS

They ran as ReTHUGS. won as ReTHUGS and have been cheered on by ReTHUGS. Boehner rewrote the bill so that they would not humiliate him and humiliated the entire party.

Fuck all ReTHUGS - they are economic terrorists!!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

6. Yeah, the Tea Party terrorists are to blame...

Look these dumbasses raised the debt limit 17 times under Bush. I know they weren't called the Tea Party during Bush's reign, but basically every Republican/Tea Party member gave Chimpy everything he wanted. Don't you remember John (Orangeman) Boehner handing out checks from the tobacco lobby to the Repubican members of the House the night they passed the Medicare Part D Bill?

I certainly do and what I don't understand is how ignorant the American people are about this and all the other BS that went on under Fat Denny Hastert's term as Speaker of the House. Two unfunded wars and the Medicare Part D bill is why the American government is in this so-called mess. Put the blame where it rightly belongs on GWB, the Republican party and those Teabagger terrorists.

I'm sick and tired of hearing about the "debt crisis". It's a revenue crisis we're having and all blame goes to the GWB and the Republican/Tea Party. :mad: :mad:

[kenfrequed]

7. That should be the message!

The Bushites created this mess with wars of choice and tax cuts for the ubber wealthy.

The Tea Party was a PR move to get past Bush and justify the most obstructionist congressional minority in American History (2008-2010).

They are what has locked up real solutions under the aegis of squeeling about how horrible the taxes on wealth are (probably about the lowest or second lowest in about 50 years).

The Tea Party and the Republicans have created this mess.

The Blue dog democrats are just capitulators.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Can we blame Washington for caving to the Teabaggers?

Are the politicians powerless?

[TheKentuckian]

9. They don't have enough votes to pass a damn thing and cannot stop passage

When a group has like 60 votes, they are not the extent of the problem.

The rolling over and legitimizing are about as bad as anything else, so the establishment at large bears a tremendous share of the responsibility.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. I blame Canada!

What does that mean? Blame Washington? It makes no sense.

[hadrons]

11. Some blame for the fools who voted for them ....

[GoCubsGo]

12. Add to that the fools who stayed home...

...and didn't vote at all. They sure showed Obama and the Dems, didn't they?