Wow, did someone strike a nerve?! I beleive the point of this photo blog is to give folks an actual look at Tea Party memebers instead of just making assumptions and repeating opposing talking points about them as was done above. I like how you beleive that is is just impossible that he could have formerly been a democrat and that MSNBC is now out to get Liberals and Independents. You're not making a very good case for your side.

Coming from a "Super" Yoda as if someone is greater than Yoda himself, I can safely say your reply is TEA Baggerish... so what's the face? young and green? Freshman? If it is, maybe the health care reform can help you on that. I've heard green TEA is good for the skin.

LouisJ

All you seem to be able to do is bash anyone that disagrees with you and your liberal whiners. You want everything given to you, no accountability, and no responsibility. Then, when someone disagrees with you, you launch into the personal assaults about green skin and green tea or you delve into racial assaults against "white" people. Who is the freshman or Racist here, junior?

I guess either Tyler or the new masters of Newsvine are no longer enforcing the Code of Honor (at least against the Liberal Mafia). had a conservativeve made comments like yours they would have been suspender from Newsvine for a few weeks.

Feel free to rant your racist and liberal whiny rant. Not only are you a wast of time, but a waste of everything. Just a liberal troll.

Yes, when the liberals run out of ideas that don't work, they turn to racism to blame others for their defeats.

I guess if a democrat is corrupt in even a small township, that is ok, because liberals can do no wrong. well hopefully people like LouisJ will learn you can't judge a book by its cover.

"Extreme times call for extreme measures."

I thought that this man was that guy on FOX news with a little hair under his nose.

You come off as a racist and an ignorant and under-educated one at that. Your post number 3.1 is a premier example.

A black president? He is only black because of a "Federal" definition.

With so many hungry children in America today how can any one justify his deeds?

I urge you to read, to study, and to stop hating on other people.

Man Cool, that was harsh. I never said anything that warranted that kind of attack. Sounds like you are trying to overcompensate for something. But when it sounds too good, shout and drown it out with hate and name calling... sounds very familiar. Oh yeaahh... the town hall debates. Health Care still passed. Get over it.

Absolute... you absolutely sure of that?

I could go into the TEA bag book of SPIN and say that by you calling me racist, you yourself are racist... but I won't, because I've learned when you sink to a level filled with hate and anger you'll likely become a victim of pity... I pity people like you brad-338082, not for your snide comments or your view on racism, but for your skewed view on life, that you support people that would do you and everyone else injustice based cultural misunderstandings and misgivings.

Past blogs? I don't have or own any blogs...

I can only imagine with your "Obama, a failed experiment" that you are against the president for his accomplishments, you know the accomplishments that have benefitted the middle class and reigned in the big corporations... Since a black man has orchestrated some of the greatest feats that no other presidents have even come close to, it must drive you absolutely nuts.

But wait, you mean to illustrate the black man in office simply because you can't cope with the fact that black people have not only perservered but prospered to the point of the highest office in the land.

Hmmm... from the Slave's Prison to the White House... yeah, you sound pissed.

But hey, I'm sure MSNBC, the liberal media, will allow the personal assaults to continue since they are so anti-Republican.

BTW LouisJ, if you think Obama has reigned in big coperations then you need to take off your jaded racist glasses. What Obama has done is make it where the big corperations will not hire because they are not sure they can still be viable companies during Obama's presidency. With the added burden of thousands upon thousands that will have to be spent for Obamaworkingclasstax, err i mean Obamacare, it looks doubtful that the coperations will hire any time soon. So you can chalk up as one of obama's achievent was keeping Americans out of work.

By far obama is the worst president this country has ever had and has done more damage than any presedent ever. This has nothing to do with his skin color and everything to do with his so called "achievements".

And yes, I am pissed. I am pissed at him and all the democrats who helped him destroy my country.

Agreed but common sense answers are wasted on people such as Louis who cant see beyond his own skin color. Sad really. I pity him.

I didn't know Obama was a slave. From what I read he is a Harvard educated lawyer as is his wife. It seems to me he did pretty well for himself in this "racist white" land you call America.

Is it just me, or does it seem that LouisJ thinks all white people are racists out to get him?

Iceman25-835270

Is it just me, or does it seem that LouisJ thinks all white people are racists out to get him?

its not just you. Everyone that reads his rants see it too. Its either one of two things.

1. extreme paranoia - There are medications available for that.

2. proof that the comedian Ron White is correct when he says:

If you break your hip, you can get it replaced. If you belly gets flabby, you can have it tucked. If your chin starts to sag you can get your Face Lifted, but you Just Can't Fix Stupid!

Daniel 2516541.

You are racist. Remember this: Reagan raised taxes and Reagan signed the last Immigration Amnesty Bill. In addition, Reagan and his cronies broke the law (Iran Contra). Talk about tirany? You need to read more!

I dislike it so much that I will be voting straight republican this year because Obama must be reigned in. No one can spend trillions upon trillions and not know there will be a downside.

It's statements like this that shows just how misinformend people like you are. Apparently you don't realize that 40% of the Obama stimulus is in tax cuts the very thing that the GOP has been screeching about doing. It's not like he printed up all the money for the stimulus.

Out of the other 60% of the stimulus, most is ear marked for infrastructure. Again, the exact same thing the republicans have been advocating. The GM bailout is looking like a success. If he would have let GM fail like the republicans wanted, thousands would be collecting unemployment and the coveted free market would have carved GM up and most likely sent those jobs overseas. The extensions to unemployment benefits are temporary and those on it can continue buying goods and services to help mellow the economic down turn.

Again, Obama's bailouts are TEMPORARY and only an attempt to stabilize our economy. Once we head back into safer waters and the economy picks back up then the task of reducing the deficit can begin.

No matter what Obama and the Dems do it would never be good enough for the Tea Party/ Republicans which is big on rhetoric and small on any sort of solutions. The tea party is capitalizing on FEAR and uncertainty with no feasable plan to get our country back on track.

The economy is coming back albeit slower than Obama and the Dems had hoped. Look at who has fought them every step of the way, the GOP.

How is he racist? You can at least back up your claim.

Also, Reagan raised taxes after he had cut them by 25%. By 1988 the tax increases only brought back about half of his original cuts. Therefor over the course of his presidency he had a net cut in taxes.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act was not amnesty for all illegals. Your point is weak. It only granted possible amnesty to those who had resided in the country for at least 4 years. It also went after illegal immigrants with false ID and the employers who hired them. However, in 1986 the number of illegals in the country were far less. Only about 2.8million received legal status through Reagan's programs. We didn't foresee the problem we have today.

The Iran Contra was carried out without Reagan's knowledge. He still accepted responsibility for it.

How about those arms to Iran for hostages? Or CIA stinger missles for the Taliban? Republicans are great for giving weapons away to America's enemies. Why won't they present Americans some decent jobs, instead of the other garbage they push?

Republicans are not helping the country. They're helping themselves.

Reagan knew that trickle down didn't work, but went along with the party when told it would be political suicide to admit it.

Is that Pres Obama is doing with trickle up?

Androloma, the stingers where used to shoot down Russian helicopters. At the time the Soviets were our enemy. Not the taliban.

The arms for hostage, or Iran Contra was carried out in secrecy. Though he did know we were trading arms with "moderate factions" in Iran, he didn't know all the details. Plus he took responsibility for the deal. At least he had the guts to do so.

Well, I did return to see how much flaming I recieved. From another news post it said I had 39 messages and didnt know what it was about and followed the link here to see it. Funny how I get labeled as a racist with out any inclination of proof backing it up. It also seems Reagen has struck a nerve among the democrats trolling this board.

Reagen did raise taxes and also cut taxes. Yet he never once apologized for being an American. He never once backed down to those against us. He started Dare (or his wife did) to try to help the country. Ronald Reagen did a lot for this country. Things might not of been perfect but they were far better than they are now. Wha has Obama done? Let see. Unemployment is at all times high since the great depression. Any relief in site? Not on Obama's watch there isnt. The economy is horrible. Any relief in site? nope... How about the drilling moritorium in the gulf. One operator failed miserably and now all has to pay with lost jobs, lost income, and still no relief in site. Obama had such a drastic impact on the gulf coast that it is worse than a hurricane slamming into New Orleans and I really dont think he even considered how many people was affected byt him. Its not just the rig workers who was placed out of work. It the entire ecoenomy down there. Hot shot drivers laid off. Stores who made their money from rig hands going to or from work not able to afford to stay open. All the support companies who lost because some of the drilling rigs already went over seas. Yep, Obama did a wonderful job.

And we cant forget obama care. The job sucking lemon of a law hat will prevent jobs from being created. Will force hard working Americans to stay in poverty because obama thinks he knows better than everyone.

If Obama wanted to make a differance then he should of provided government aide to those who lost their jobs to enable them to continue on without the worry of losing thier homes. Instead he provided financial aide to the lending institutions who continued to sue americans and forclose on them.

With the Gulf oil crisis Obama did real good except for the moritorium. The economical impact from that to an already struggling nation was unacceptable.

And with health care, Obama should of went after the health care industry instead of forcing Americans to otbtain Obama's version of insurance. Strike three obama!

And Begbie wanted to comment on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of Reagens. How is that any worse than Obama's campaign promise of legalizing all illigal imagrants in the country now?

Shall I continue?

Flame away.

Gadfrey, Daniel, what awful spelling. Must be the class you failed, with all the others.

What policies have been around for a decade? Obamacare? TARP?

Which ones are you talking about?

Plus, the reason nobody was complaining is because unemployment was down and we were in a booming economy. Most Americans were ignorant to the fact the banks were on the verge of collapse.

A booming economy you could say it was, but only for rich people. Nobody was complaining because they didn't know they were being slowly strangled.

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/US-Income-and-Poverty-in-2009.html

Unemployment was lower, yes but everyone but the rich was getting paid less for the same work.

TARP wasn't a decades long policy, but it was a policy that was introduced during the Bush administration. That money went to the banks.

The stimulus was under Obama which went to many different entities, much of which was civil entities like state education, police and fire agencies.

That's fine, but the original argument was that we were fighting the same policies that Bush had for 8 years. That's not true.

So i guess it is better to have less people working versus flat-lined wages? That doesn't make sense.

TARP was brought in at the very end of the Bush administration, and was actually one of the first things the Tea Party protested. It's just that Obama inherited TARP and continued it that everyone seems to think the Tea Party didn't oppose it.

Well, large corporations provide millions of jobs for the middle and working class.

The crumbling infrastructure is a valid point. We do need to update our roads, dams, levees, etc.

I don't see how the corporations prey on the middle class. Do explain.

Very simple Iceman,

By exporting jobs overseas - why hire an American for $12 when someone in Asia will do the same job for $4... And right now large corporations are cutting jobs because of the housing implosion, yet salaries for the top corporate employees are rising faster than ever. Profit sharing, health services and insurance, etc. are being cut at alarming rates...

None of it helps the middle class..

I wouldn't say corporations are attacking the middle class, but BobbyG is right, shipping jobs overseas sure doesn't help.

Corporations sole goal is to make money for the shareholders. Period. If they can do that best by stepping on the middle class, they most certainly will, but it's not their main objective, it's a means to an end. If it was no longer profitable to ship jobs overseas they would stop.

Same thing for "providing millions of jobs for the middle and working class". Corporations certainly aren't doing that out of the goodness of their (theoretical) heart. If they didn't need someone to do those jobs, they most certainly wouldn't provide them.

So what is your solution to lower the costs of the corporations? Raise taxes?

Plus, the majority of the workers in this nation work for small to medium businesses. These businesses can't absorb higher taxes like the larger corporations. That is who I want to protect more so, but at the same time lower taxes means more money.

true! And tea party is one major cause

I am a very old man, please do me a favor. Would you define what you mean by the word:

"Progressive"

That's the new term for liberal.

Nancye, the Tea Party doesn't have to sway the liberals. It only needs to sway the independents, tne "purple". That's the deciding factor in this country. There are more conservatives in the US than there are liberals, but there are more independents than either of them.

Thank you. This is a solid and excellent point.

There was a time, on election day, that I could not understand why any American would not go out and vote. It made me feel so good. I was like the most important person in America. It was such a great feeling, and it lasted for hours. The right to vote and to exercise that right. It was wonderful.

Dick Gregory stated a long time ago" we keep voting for the lesser of two evils, eventually we will end up with the evilest of evils."

There is no flaw in his logic. There seems to be a long standing flaw in a system that fights against any third party. We are not England. Our founders did not have a two party system in mind, and that includes The Federalists.

Maybe for once MSNBC is trying to be "Fair and Balanced." Nah, who am I kidding. This is like a dartboard. Post a picture and let everyone take their shot at em.

Believe me I don't write these people off. Hitler was elected and people are shelfish enough to do really bad things to others "true believers" are very dangerous. Read ERIC HOFFER'S BOOK of that name.

Thanks for the book reference, I will check it out.. I suggest: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism by Max Eastman. I believe the full verse is online.

Except that I can't think of any Tea Party candidate advocating these things. Who wants to get rid of public education, or minimum wage? I've heard a few Democrats accuse their opponents of it, but that's all.