Comments on: Armageddon My Ass: Let's Debunk the Tea Party Line http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/04/armageddon-my-ass-lets-debunk-the-tea-party-line/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Thu, 24 May 2012 16:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/04/armageddon-my-ass-lets-debunk-the-tea-party-line/comment-page-1/#comment-4133 Glynn Wilson Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:42:47 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6925#comment-4133 Actually, the polls showed health-care in the top two or three issues of concern to the public. There's no way to do anything about the economy or unemployment without tackling the health-care crisis. It is done now. As Obama said, in six months this will not be an issue when people figure out it helped and was not Obamacare... Actually, the polls showed health-care in the top two or three issues of concern to the public.

There’s no way to do anything about the economy or unemployment without tackling the health-care crisis.

It is done now.

As Obama said, in six months this will not be an issue when people figure out it helped and was not Obamacare…

]]> By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/04/armageddon-my-ass-lets-debunk-the-tea-party-line/comment-page-1/#comment-4132 Yana Davis Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:33:55 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6925#comment-4132 Ayers makes a good point about the mis-focus of the first year of the Obama administration. Health care reform, while a good idea, was not the top issue for most Americans, as he correctly points out. Unemployment and the economy, taken together, were the top issue. If unemployment remains at around 10 percent, which many economists believe it will, Democrats will face a rough row to hoe this fall. Most of the benefits of health care reform do not kick in until 2014, far in the distant future as election cycles go. The crisis of high unemployment, if it continues, will be the single issue that most affects 2010 congressional mid-term elections. Right now, folks at the DNC are probably praying that the Republicans continue messing up a la the lesbian bondage sex club scandal in LA. They have reason to hope -- last time out, the GOP came across as scandal-ridden and incompetent. The elephants aren't running the DC circus these days, but enough new scandals could surface to make them unpalatable to voters. Or, so the Democrats should hope. All this speaks again to the pointlessness of the kind of sports-team-partisan politics practiced in the US today. Ayers makes a good point about the mis-focus of the first year of the Obama administration. Health care reform, while a good idea, was not the top issue for most Americans, as he correctly points out. Unemployment and the economy, taken together, were the top issue.

If unemployment remains at around 10 percent, which many economists believe it will, Democrats will face a rough row to hoe this fall. Most of the benefits of health care reform do not kick in until 2014, far in the distant future as election cycles go. The crisis of high unemployment, if it continues, will be the single issue that most affects 2010 congressional mid-term elections.

Right now, folks at the DNC are probably praying that the Republicans continue messing up a la the lesbian bondage sex club scandal in LA. They have reason to hope — last time out, the GOP came across as scandal-ridden and incompetent. The elephants aren’t running the DC circus these days, but enough new scandals could surface to make them unpalatable to voters.

Or, so the Democrats should hope.

All this speaks again to the pointlessness of the kind of sports-team-partisan politics practiced in the US today.

]]> By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/04/armageddon-my-ass-lets-debunk-the-tea-party-line/comment-page-1/#comment-4131 Glynn Wilson Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:03:44 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6925#comment-4131 In Alabama, for sure. The Coffee Party seems to be mostly a movement on Facebook... In Alabama, for sure.

The Coffee Party seems to be mostly a movement on Facebook…

]]> By: Esther Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/04/armageddon-my-ass-lets-debunk-the-tea-party-line/comment-page-1/#comment-4130 Esther Davis Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:49:48 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=6925#comment-4130 A "Coffee Party" movement? Well, good luck on that one. We couldn't even get two dozen people to come out to support health care reform when a special appeal, a pleading, if you will was made. Across the street (corner Governors Drive and the Parkway) dozens of tea baggers gathered to protest "big government." Democrats just won't effectively organize. No matter what the cause. A “Coffee Party” movement?

Well, good luck on that one. We couldn’t even get two dozen people to come out to support health care reform when a special appeal, a pleading, if you will was made.

Across the street (corner Governors Drive and the Parkway) dozens of tea baggers gathered to protest “big government.”

Democrats just won’t effectively organize. No matter what the cause.

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