Tea Party Passion or Put on?

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Tea Party Passion or Put on?
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Fri, 02-05-2010 - 9:05am

The sham calling itself the Tea Party Patriots is gearing up for another roadshow featuring protests of a cloudy and unexplicit nature. Does anyone really know what their complaints are, or are these zealots simply lost; having failed American history and now wallow in their own confused rhetoric regarding the Founding Fathers?


Fox News, which is more and more moving AWAY from the concept of being a reporting medium for the news, exhibits Tea Party enthusiasts as being representative of the American spirit. What a sad day for this country when we discover that the American spirit is, in truth, operated and motivated by corporate sponsors and lobbyists. Come on, patriots. Did our Founding Fathers live by the the rule of sponsorship? Did they attempt to manipulate the system of government through lobbyist interest? Did our Founding Fathers have a news station inflicted with such an addiction to ratings that it would undermine its own country to get to the top?


Beck and O'Reilly like to call Tea Baggers passionate. Are they? Or are they actors and employees being paid to set the stage for corporate interest? Learning that the Tea Baggers are padded so deeply with GOP influence gives that "passion" a whole new meaning.


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The BusBank, a Chicago-based charter company, a "Tour Partner" of the Tea Party Express, a rolling protest sponsored by the Our Country Deserves Better PAC under the supervision of former Republican state legislator Howard Kaloogian, now a PR exec for the GOP-linked firm Russo, Marsh & Rogers.


Check out the lineage.  Tea Party Express sponsored by Our Country Deserves Better PAC under supervision of a former Republican legislator who is now a PR exec for a GOP firm.  That's PASSION? Any who can't smell money here should see their ENT right away.


BusBank is also arranging to ferry Tea Baggers to their 9/12 march on Washington to voice their demands for unfettered capitalism.


Ah-ha!!  Unfettered capitalism. And all this time we thought the Tea Baggers were passionate about our country and the Founding Fathers and all that crap. Why not just be honest? Come out and say "we're greedy bastards and we don't want any restrictions whatsoever on how we do business." Why carry on the smoke and mirror shows, dragging busloads of paid actors from city to city to make it look like the majority of the population is all for letting business run amok and ruining the economy again?


Update: Commenter Casual Observer asks if there's a Dick Armey connection here. There is. Dick Armey's FreedomWorks Foundation is the premiere sponsor of the 9/12 march; and Kaloogian's OCDB PAC is a "Gold Co-Sponsor."

In 2005, a bus carrying seniors fleeing Hurricane Rita burst into flame outside of Dallas, immolating 23 nursing home residents. Investigators later found that the bus was: driven by an undocumented migrant without a valid U.S. driver's license, lacking adequate fire extinguishers, and not registered to operate in Texas. When the bus had mechanical problems before the crash, the driver took it to an unqualified mechanic who failed to notice the critical fault--an unlubricated axle that eventually melted and caught fire.

BusBank (aka Global Charters) hired the subcontractor, Global Limo. BusBank boasted on its website that it had a "rigorous operator certification process" to ensure the safety of contracted bus drivers. BusBank used Global even though the subcontractor had a long record of federal and state safety violations, had entered bankruptcy, and was being sued.

BusBank's association with Global appears to have been more than a one-off, Global Limo's owner Jim Maples even listed Global Charters as his employer when he gave $5000 to the RNC in 2004.

*BusBank CEO Bill Maulsby blamed insufficient federal oversight, "We're not safety experts," he said. "We clearly need to depend on the federal government."

In November 2006, a federal court convicted Maples and sentenced him to five years' probation for failure to maintain his buses. Investigators found 168 violations in Maples' four-bus fleet.

The following month, US Fed News reported that BusBank had been awarded a Homeland Security contract worth up to $55 million.

In June, BusBank and Global Limo settled out of court for a total of $11 million, a pittance when split between the families of the 23 victims and the patients who survived the crash. BusBank's legal troubles are far from over. According to one report, more lawsuits are getting underway this month.

The firm filed for bankruptcy in Delaware in August.


Passion is now a word used when a group of corporatists band together and use their country, its name and its history for their own personal gain and interest. This has nothing to do with the people of this nation. It has nothing to do with 98% of the Americans who show up for these snake-oil shows and feed at the trough of deceit that they are unwitting participants in. Absolutely nothing that the Tea Party leaders are doing will now or ever benefit the average American.


"Unfettered capitalism" will NOT provide decent jobs for the people. It will NOT add industry to the country. It will NOT make most American lives easier. It will NOT put money into the pockets of most Americans. If you think capitalism with no stipulations is a good thing, you missed the irony is that these rich sponsors and lobbyists couldn't even hire a safe, reliable bus service.

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Registered: 03-30-2007
Fri, 02-05-2010 - 9:19am

As far as I'm concerned, this whole tea party thing is nothing more than a GOP fundraiser.

It also has the look, feel, smell and probably the fingerprints of the usual suspects. Namely Karl Rove.

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Registered: 05-23-2008
Fri, 02-05-2010 - 1:09pm

The Tea Party is having a get-together in one of the southern states and they are charging five hundred dollars a head to get into it.


Doesn't that smack of something fishy?

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Fri, 02-05-2010 - 2:08pm

Such ignorance.........


>"The convention started off with fireworks Thursday night as former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado used his kickoff speech to slam President Obama.


"People who could not even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama," Tancredo said to cheers Thursday night.


A spokesman for the Tea Party Nation, the group that organized the convention, said Tancredo's speech may have provided some red meat but termed it problematic."<


Tea Party convention aims to boost the movement


http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/05/tea.party.convention/

 


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Registered: 03-16-2007
Sat, 02-06-2010 - 4:53pm
Tom Tancredo is a piece of work. If he is one of their "leaders' than that speaks volumes of the people involved.
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Registered: 05-26-2005
Sat, 02-06-2010 - 6:51pm

Since when did 'unfettered capitalism' become a bad thing?

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Registered: 04-21-2004
Sat, 02-06-2010 - 10:36pm

The sham calling itself...these zealots....

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Registered: 04-11-2009
Sun, 02-07-2010 - 12:41am

Exactly...the moderator of a Q & A session with Sarah Palin said that the goal was to elect a conservative House and a conservative Senate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOvQCkrm3Sg

 

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Registered: 05-26-2005
Sun, 02-07-2010 - 9:08am

The liberals blame the recession on the banks- for making risky loans and mortgages.

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Registered: 05-26-2005
Sun, 02-07-2010 - 9:10am
Exactly!

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