Tea party Reaches New Low

[Satchel]

How can the most ardent Obama hater support this kind of thing?


Tea party pledge against job creation by small business owners takes protest too far

Star-Ledger Editorial Board

Once again, the tea party zealots are holding a gun to our economy. This time, they're demanding all small businesses go "on strike" and refuse to hire anyone, as a protest against President Obama.

Even given their past dogmatism, it's a dumbfounding statement. They're asking businesses to sign an anti-job creating pledge posted on the website of Tea Party Nation, the group that featured Sarah Palin as its keynote speaker. It's a diatribe reminiscent of their refusal to compromise over the debt ceiling.

And it's no joke. Tea partiers have made it perfectly clear they will do anything to prove their point. Remember that in the name of deficit reduction, they were ready to allow a federal default that economists warned would lead to economic catastrophe and massive job losses.

This is unpatriotic. Using ugly tactics like these is not the American way. In order to get anything worthwhile done in politics, we need bipartisanship based on rational problem-solving. That takes a certain amount of goodwill and compromise, not just ideologues armed with high-stakes threats.

It's not hard to see what national politics would become if we let this kind of hostage-taking rule the day. Tea partiers want to tank the economy just so Obama can be defeated. As joblessness soars and Americans suffer, they have other priorities on their minds.

So if any small business owners take this pledge, we have a suggestion for its patrons: Boycott that business, and create a job at the competition.

 

[Leftwith]

Thanks for the link.

Something here is screwy. This sounds more like something libs would do. Gonna need more than your mystery copy and paste.

 

[Satchel]

None is so blind as those who refuse to see. You know damn well this Tea Party craziness.

 

[A. BETTIK]

That reminds me. I saw a 2012 Obama bumper sticker for the first time the other day. I marveled at how bright and shiny it was and how dull the driver must be.

 

[AustinBat]

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[Satchel]

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[Satchel]

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[HornHuskerDad]

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[Knoxville-Horn]

That sounds almost as bad as sitting on your *** in some major city park while asking the government to take care of your life for you. Very un-American.

If the article is true, it's nothing more than a boycott. Granted, if you own a small business and need help, you're only hurting yourself by not making the hire(s).

 

[Knoxville-Horn]

BTW, I also don't see how this is much different than a union strike.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

It does not take much effort, Satchel.

So it's just a blogger that has Satchel and his leftist ilk dealing with some exceptionally wadded up panties this time.

 

[FridayNiteLites]

Thanks Sangre, and I like your sig. I guess one could post the same thing about unions going on strike and causing work stoppages.

 

[HornHuskerDad]

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[Sangre Naranjada]

If I had put as much faith as they into an empty suit loser like bHo, I'd probably have perpetually wadded panties too.

 

[Bevo Incognito]

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[Satchel]

For those of you who need more:

Tea Party Nation sent the following to their members from conservative activist Melissa Brookstone.

In a rambling letter titled “Call For A Strike of American Small Businesses Against The Movement for Global Socialism,” Brookstone urges businesses “not hire a single person” to protest “this new dictator”:

Resolved that: The current administration and Democrat majority in the Senate, in conjunction with Progressive socialists from all around the country, especially those from Hollywood and the left leaning news media (Indeed, most of the news media.) have worked in unison to advance an anti-business, an anti-free market, and an anti-capitalist (anti-individual rights and property ownership) agenda. [...]

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

Brookstone cites Democrats’ support of the Occupy Wall Street movement as proof that Obama, media elites, and the like are “against business, private property ownership and capitalism.” Although she fails to explain how a freeze on hiring would send a bold pro-business message, given that such a boycott would further damage the economy and exacerbate high national unemployment.

But these Tea Partiers are only too happy to put politics ahead of the well-being of 14 million unemployed Americans, not to mention the businesses who are looking for qualified workers.

Those of you who continue to defend these people should know that the Tea Party Nation, the fourth largest national Tea Party faction with 42,100 online members, continues to move towards an explicit expression of white nationalism. The group has already been widely criticized for its proposal to deny voting rights for those citizens who do not own property, and for promoting anti-gay bullying. It has asserted that “American culture” will soon perish since the “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) population is headed for extinction. Now, taking it one step further, Tea Party Nation is defending the now defunct and indefensibly racist National Origins Act of 1924.

 

[Texas007]

so when obama enacts policy that causes thigns to be so expensive no one will hire any extra workers that is A-OKAY, but if the tea party refuses to hire anyone in protest of said policies that won't allow them to hire anyway, that is pure craziness. Uh...okay. keep drinking that obama koolaid, adn don't mind the pieces of corn or peanuts in it.

 

[Satchel]

what do you mean by "tea party refuses to hire anyone"?

 

[ProdigalHorn]

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[general35]

i guess i didnt realize how powerful the tea party had become. i guess now they control the economy. and this is the group cnn and the rest ignored for over as year and said they were a joke.

 

[Satchel]

I think many of you are intentionally missing the point. I know you've already searched for the link(s) and found them. Now you're fumbling all over yourselves trying to deflect attention from these crazy *** people and on to me.
Knock yourselves out and even as you do, your Tea Party crazies are leading an effort to keep businesses from hiring needy Americans out of work. Deal with it.

 

[Uninformed]

The needy should start their own companies. Obviously, they would be able to grow their companies faster than their tea party counterparts.

 

[Satchel]

Obfuscate to your hearts content. Those hateful crazy people belong to your Tea Party. They're your people.

 

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[Leftwith]

Is that the infamous Tea Party rally where they printed up fliers asking rape victims to "keep it in the family" instead of going to police?

 

[ProdigalHorn]

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[Satchel]

Would any of you care to comment on the despicable activities of the Tea Party?

 

[ProdigalHorn]

Which ones? If you'll comment on the OWS issues with arrests, sexual abuse, anti-semitism, calls for violence and other things that have been done by some individuals in that movement, then I guess people could comment on similar acts by tea party individuals. But you're tying to claim that the entire movement is based on hate and racism, and you're using your own echo chamber to "prove" it. So far I've seen a whole lot of "dispicable acts" you've claimed are being perpetrated, and none of them have been proven to be anything other than a few individuals - and a lot of the ones you've cited you haven't even bothered to substantiate even to THAT level!

The reason this discussion gets shifted to you is that you keep making ridiculous arguments and ignoring anyone that ever tries to engage in a discussion with you.

Are you trying to get people to condemn some of the signs that have been held up? I think that's been done. Are you wanting people to be outraged because some guy claims he's going to boycott hiring people? Well, tell you what, when he has a need to hire people and actually does pass on it, I'll call him a moron on whatever thread brings it up. Until then, it just looks like a guy spouting hot air.

Of course, if he has good economic reasons not to hire people, I guess he'd still be a racist and a hater of America to you.

 

[Satchel]

Are you trying to engage me in discussion or just wanting to give an indication of what you might say about the particular strain of Tea Party cited in this thread?

 

[ProdigalHorn]

I gave up trying to engage you in discussion a long time ago as you made it clear you weren't interested and didn't care to do so. I'm simply pointing out why this thread is focusing on you and not the issues you bring up. One, you've already made up your mind and evidence to the contrary won't change it; two, any reasonable issue you may have is drowned in a sea of hyperbole and vitriol that makes it impossible to take what you say seriously. There are guys on the right on this site that have the same issue.