BTW, I have never used or approved of any of the names that you accuse me of using. If I were like you, I would report this insulting and totally false accusation.
All Republicans, including those in the TEA PARTY (NOT teabaggers, that epithet is the sole property of homosexuals and their sympathizers, like you) condemned slurs IF they were ever hurled at these two overly sensitive Democrats.
I looked at the article. He was not arrested in response to the stray bullet. He was arrested for posting material on his website. The bullet is still regarded as stray bullet by the authorities. The arrest is totally unrelated to the stray bullet.
The Liberals and Democrats HATE to have people out in the streets protesting against them. This Tea Party Movement is an anomaly to US Politics. It is unheard of until recently. Libs and Democrats are typically on the stage yapping to the conglomerate of liberal orgs. during protests. Now they find themselves on the other side of the yellow tape and they do not like it one bit.
That is known in technical jargon as exaggeration. It is an accepted and effective way of getting one's point across.
There is no anomaly here, EagleSmack. It is the Republican Party base who is mad because they don’t have any power in Washington any more. For 12 years Republicans controlled Congress. The far right said ‘jump’ and the Congress jumped. For eight years the far right said ‘jump’ and Bush jumped.
Now if far right says jump, it does not produce any reaction in Washington, they don’t have any power any more. The are not used to being out of power. So they are mad, they are hungry for power. It is just the Republican base mad, angry for being out of power, it is no more than that. When Republicans get back into power (and they will it is a question of when, not if) Tea Party will disappear, they will be calling the shots again in Washington.
Re #202.
PLease, show me again, or more appropriately, for the first time. I repeat: I NEVER CALLED ANYONE either of those names you accuse me of.
And I did not report you, because only those who are weak in their arguments, weak in their convictions and are just plain stupid, do that.
"There were cries of 'nigg*r' aimed at Rep. Lewis, and cries of 'f*g' directed at Barney Franks, the openly gay member. There is reason to believe that at least some of them are racist and homophobic."
So WHAT??? Lewis is BLACK. Franks is a self-admitted HOMO. As I said earlier, invectives and adjectives are only a matter of degree. Neither of these two worthies can deny what they are and what they've been called. In fact, if they should wear it as a badge of honour.
Only the overly sensitive could make a montain out of this mole hill.
What the Tea Partiers said was absolutely no worse than the idiotic chants like "Bush lied, people died" or for that matter, calling honest Americans tea baggers.
blabber
Conservatives organizing like this for public protests IS an anomaly no matter how long your blabbering posts are.
The Tea Party upsets liberals because public protesting is their MO. Liberals are the ones that are supposed to carry signs, not conservatives. It is unheard of and the libs and Democrats don't like it one bit.
Noooooope. Wrong again joey.
The Tea Party is new. It is new and it drives the libs and Democrats nuts. So what else are they going to do? Just brand them all as racist and religious nuts and try to get them silenced. Nothing out of the ordinary for libs. When all else fails, call them bigots and racists and that should do the trick.
The Tea Party is new, it is still picking up steam. Give them time. They will peak. When they support only Republican candidates in the election, they will be exposed as the far right Republican base. Then it won't be a novelty any more, it will be just one more far right group (like Moral Majority or Christian Coalition).The thing that perplexes the libs and Democrats now is that the Tea Party Movement is picking up steam.
Ah, I see. Still though, what does it matter to us Canadians?
Seems that some who fit that category, take issue with my statement that in the last 234 years the United States has been the most desired destination for immigrants, implying - Hell saying - that I am a traitor to Canada for saying so. And the most idiotc of them all claims that saying this fact is nothing but slavish admiration of Ammerica and would like to see me move there. Well, I have EARNED my Canadian Citizenship, while this jackass was BORN into his.
SirJosephPorter, even in the post you quote attributed to me you can not say and/or prove that I called anyone a ni***r or a fa***t. I said that invectives and adjectives are only a matter of degree. So, to anyone with the slightest amount of brains it means that regardless of what you and Lewis and Franks allege, they are black (sorry, African-American) and homosexual, respectively. And if they are not proud of it, then what in the heck is political correctness for???
If I took a poll of the posters on this forum, I am sure quite a few would agree with me.