Wonder what happened to this fleabagger?

[NNN0LHI]

http://americadoomed.com/2010/03/27/tom-grimes-tea-party-activist-and-on-federal-dole/

Tom Grimes: Tea Party Activist and On Federal Dole

On March 27, 2010, in doomed, by admin ....

The Times reports on Mr. Tom Grimes who is an activist for the Tea Party. After being laid off, he went to his Democratic Congressman to get help getting on government health care. Later he returned to protest against health care reform. Of course, this is hypocrisy but not particularly surprising. Sarah Palin’s son is on government health care and she is opposed to health care reform. ALL Republicans (and some Democrats) who voted against health care reform are on government health care — also, opposed to health care reform. All Seniors — the only age demographic which is majority Republicans — which are on government Medicare and opposed to health care reform are also hypocrites.

In addition to being hypocrites, these people subscribe to the fundamental tenet that “I’ve got mind, screw the rest of you.”. This is what is behind the Tea Party, Republicans, and generally every aspect of conservative thinking in America today. It confirms the selfish, greedy mantra of vast numbers of Americans. The fact that health care reform passed — even in its limited fashion — is testimony to just how messed up today’s America is. Over 20% of Americans report they cannot support themselves on their present salaries, even if they are holding multiple jobs. Likewise, millions and millions have no access to health care. A study today showed that 30% of Latinos, 20% of African-Americans, and 10% of Whites do not have health care.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Dawna Summers.

She works hard for the money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKQcWEXSKU


Note the Time Card

[freshwest]

10. Love your signature.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Absolutely typical hypocritical, a-hole, repuke!!!

Every single, f^ckin' arrogant, ignorant one of them.....no exceptions.

[freshwest]

9. Don't back now! I appreciate you expressing it for me.

[Duwamish]

3. This reminded me of Matt Taibbi's article about the teabaggers in

an October Rolling Stone. He wrote about the inherent contradictions in the teabaggers opposition to health care reform and their utilization of government health care, focusing on the number of "medicare scooters" in the crowd.

from the article:

"Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn't a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — "Government's not the solution! Government's the problem!" — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.

"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928

The article is long but a worthwhile read.

[arcane1]

4. Ah yes, I remember that!

Thanks for the reminder, it's as fun to read again as it was the first time :)

[freshwest]

12. Thanks for that one. Did you see the one by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair?

Here are some snips from the article:

Tea’d Off

Forfeiting a both-houses Republican victory, rational conservatives ignored or excused the most hateful kind of populist claptrap (e.g., the fetid weirdness of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project). The poison they’ve helped disseminate will still be in the American bloodstream when the country needs it least...

So, Beck’s “9/12 Project” is canalizing old racist and clerical toxic-waste material that a healthy society had mostly flushed out of its system more than a generation ago, and injecting it right back in again. Things that had hidden under stones are being dug up and re-released. And why? So as to teach us anew about the dangers of “spending and deficits”?

It’s enough to make a cat laugh. No, a whole new audience has been created, including many impressionable young people, for ideas that are viciously anti-democratic and ahistorical. The full effect of this will be felt farther down the road, where we will need it even less...

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/hitchens-201101

P. S. 'Duwamish' as in the tribe or the river in WA?

[Enthusiast]

15. Great article!

"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."

LMAO!

[freshwest]

5. Excellent website there. Thanks!

The GOP brand Tea Party has already ruined its reputation, so now they've started their new brand, the No Labels Party! Pulleeze!

[butterfly77]

7. Nothing but

Moderate repubs and all of the rest of the fruitcakes in the republiCON party. I see Stabenow is in there time to give her a piece of my mind..

[freshwest]

11. Stabenow is great. Hope she keeps in there a long time. And great minds think alike.

Have you got her on a youtube link or CSPAN?

[butterfly77]

17. Found this..

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/event.php?id=188586

[butterfly77]

6. Kicked&Recommended...

[Donnachaidh]

8. think this is his FB page

http://www.facebook.com/#!/trgrimes

[MisterP]

13. it's not hypocritical to want healthcare and be against HCR... nt

[MattBaggins]

14. My favorite is the whole HCR is evil claim

To the conservative "forcibly taking" money and using it to keep people alive right here at home is EEEEEVILLLLLL.

Taking someones money and using it to kill people halfway around the world.... Not so evil.

I'm very confused.

[Enthusiast]

16. It is best termed "Randianism".

It began under Saint Ronnie.