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Quotes
Below From Freedomeden
Blog
Obama said that the
unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act ‘set the tenor for the whole
year’: ‘That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole
wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the
Republicans.’ ”
From Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter’s
book, “The Promise: President Obama, Year One
SUZANNE
MALVEAUX: Do we expect to see the kinds of big
rallies and the kind of- some of the theatrics, the circus
atmosphere that we saw the last go-round over the summer when you
were talking about controversial policy... Teabaggers and all that
other thing?
CANDY
CROWLEY: And by way of marquee races, it's hard to
beat the soap opera of New York's 23rd congressional district,
where the Republican moderate dropped out over the weekend,
leaving the race to a conservative, Doug Hoffman, the choice of
many on the right, including Sarah Palin, former House leader Dick
Armey and tea bag partiers.
DAVID
SHUSTER: For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15,
will be Tax Day, but... it's going to be Teabagging Day for the
right wing, and they're going nuts for it. Thousands of them
whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the
parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated
about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong
tongue-lashing and lick government spending.
GWEN
IFILL: So whether it's Jeremiah Wright or Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., or what Jimmy Carter said about this, the Tea Baggers
or whoever, it's always going to be with us?
PAUL
KRUGMAN: But the teabaggers have come and gone, as
have the cries of 'death panels' and the demonstrations by
Medicare recipients demanding that the government stay out of
health care.
BILL
CLINTON: The reason the teabaggers are so inflamed is
because we are winning.
MAXINE
WATERS: I want journalists to be all over those
rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers.
OBAMA:
Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are
going to support them if they bring down health care?
E.J.
DIONNE: The conservative party in New York state put
up a Right-wing candidate supported by the teabaggers.
GEORGE
STEPHANOPOULOS: This hardcore part of the base is in
a world unto its own right now. The Teabag Movement and the others
are sort of driven by the idea that President Obama and the
Democrats have a secret plan to impose socialism.
KEITH
OLBERMANN: Well, the teabagging is all over, except
for the cleanup.
...Congratulations, Pensacola teabaggers. You got spunked. And
despite the hatred on display, a few of you actually violated the
penal code. But teabagging is now petered out, taint what it used
to be. And when you co-opt the next holiday, Fourth of July, try
to adopt a holiday food that does not invite the double entendres
like, you know, franks and beans.
KEITH
OLBERMANN: I wanted to apologize for calling
Senator-elect Scott Brown an 'irresponsible, homophobic, racist,
reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging, supporter of violence
against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.' I'm
sorry, I left out the word 'sexist.'
JANEANE
GAROFALO: This is racism straight up. That is nothing
but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around
that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers
anything and they'll believe it, except the truth.
JANEANE
GAROFALO: If there's any teabaggers here, welcome,
and as always, white power.
ANA
MARIE COX: Who wouldn't want to tea bag John McCain?
This is all part of the midterm strategy. You know it's going to
be teabagging 24/7 when it comes to the midterms.
RACHEL
MADDOW: The GOP, in other words, is clearly in exile.
But the conservative movement has found a reason to live, have
found something about which they feel very positive about,
something they are ready to rally around. I speak, of course, of
teabagging.
...They don't want to teabag alone, if that's even possible. They
want you to start teabagging, too.
ANDERSON
COOPER: Teabagging. They've got teabagging.... It's
hard to talk when you're teabagging.
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JOHN
CONYERS:
But we're here now to understand the frustration of the teabaggers
and the people that are angry, because many times when you're
angry, your rational abilities are compromised. And you get mad at
the wrong party or the wrong thing or whoever is the president.
...The facts are that many of the teabaggers that were hollering
and being profane and screaming and using profanity-- Guess what?
They are going to be beneficiaries, but they don't know it.
BILL
MAHER: I thank the Teabaggers....
Any Teabaggers here tonight? They're the ones who got it passed.
And I'm sure they're saying, 'What are you talking about, Bill? I
was so against the health care bill I marched on Washington with
tea bags hanging from my hat, dressed up in my Founding Fathers
costume, with a picture of Hitler, you know, and Obama's face on
him, and you know, screaming about his birth certificate.'
And America saw that and said, 'What loons! We're going with the
calm black man.' These idiots can't even spell 'go back to Kenya,'
you know.
JIM
McDERMOTT: On my way to work this morning, I saw a
group of teabaggers. And I'm really happy that they'll be in
Washington to witness Congress pass the historic health care bill
tomorrow. When I got to the office, I did a little research on my
own and found the website of a teabagger group called the 9/12
Project....
MARK
KNOLLER:
Obama's motorcade arrives at Capitol Hill. Boos and jeers
passing tea bagger protests.
MIKE
MALLOY: The latest from the crazy people in the tea
bag movement is, uh, a story about, um, Virginia Thomas, she is
the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; and she's
setting up a teabagger nonprofit group. Now this will be
interesting because the teabaggers are essentially racist; and how
are they're going to deal with a very dark Clarence Thomas and a
very white Virginia Thomas setting up subdivision of their crazed
tea bagger party; how they're going to deal with that will be
great fun to watch.
...[Virginia's] in for a big surprise, when the inherently racist
nature of the teabagger movement slams her in the face. She's a
very, very, very, very, very white Omaha, Nebraska woman married
to a very, very, very, very black South Georgia man. And when the
pictures of the two of them together get out, you can almost hear
the squealing right now from the real teabaggers.
ROGER
EBERT: TeaBagger crowd: polite. The nutjobs who were
bussed to Town Halls didn't get their way paid to Sarah [Palin]'s
$100,000 speech.
JOHN
KERRY: We also see how revved up the teabaggers are
at the thought of hijacking health care reform and every chance we
have at making progress in Washington.
BARNEY
FRANK: I, like you, am skeptical. They haven't shown
the willingness to stand up to this intense Right-wing pressure
and the fear of losing to the teabaggers in primaries.
KATRINA
VANDEN HEUVEL: The idea of a responsibility tax on
these banks which have cost people jobs, homes. I think it's a
test for the Teabaggers moving forward, too. Which side are they
on? Are they on the side of the people as they claim?
CHUCK
SCHUMER: Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest
of Ted Kennedy's term, and her opponent is a far-right teabagger
Republican.
CHRIS
MATTHEWS: Every single teabagger in America is white.
CHRIS
MATTHEWS: So who will lead the teabaggers? Will it be
Rick Perry down in Texas? Will it be Michele Bachman out in
Minnesota? Will it be Sarah Palin? You first Mark [McKinnon] it's
your idea. The teabaggers are an interesting group to watch.
They're not far right. They're probably center-right, in fact some
centrists. But they're generally, I think, Republican voters.
Right? Is that fair to say? They vote Republican?
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