Tag Archives | Tea Party

Has political discussion changed?

By on December 8, 2011 in General Discussion, Human Behavior, Politics

My first childhood memories about politics may have included the knowledge that Eisenhower was the President.  In my family that was a good thing because, Eisenhower was a republican.  What I don’t recall is the level of acrimony that characterizes today’s political discussions.  OK, one grandfather did say some very unflattering things about FDR but [...]

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Tea Party will never be a majority in US

By on December 5, 2011 in General Discussion, Politics

Interesting article I happened upon at Alternet.   http://www.alternet.org/story/153255/A_Look_at_America%27s_Geography_Shows_That_the_Tea_Party_Is_Doomed/?page=1     I wrote, ‘interesting’, as I am not totally convinced. The Dixie-Tidewater-Greater Appalachia-Far West (mountain) axis may indeed be in the minority, but the Wall Street occupation of Washington, the Citizens United ruling of the SC, and the possible win of Georgia’s Newt Gingrich next [...]

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Gingrich proves he’s a nutjob.

By on November 21, 2011 in Economics, Human Behavior, Politics

Gingrich has suggested eliminating the minimum age work law. He has apparently suggested 9 as a number. I saw a little clip where he suggested that eliminating that restriction would allow school kids to replace the hired help as janitors in the schools. He said it would save money, but more important, it would restore [...]

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The transformation of the political process.

By on November 4, 2011 in Human Behavior, Politics

The political process in the U.S. is undergoing a rapid shift, and what should be clear is that we don’t know precisely where it will take us. While we focus on the here and now we should remember the impact the MoveOn.org, a liberal movement, had on the 2008 election, and in the last election the Tea [...]

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Syncronicity.

By on October 16, 2011 in Human Behavior

From a New York Times piece covering a  global research effort tracking peoples moods on social media, ‘drawing on messages posted by more than two million people in 84 countries, researchers discovered that the emotional tone of people’s messages followed a similar pattern not only through the day but also through the week and the changing [...]

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Take a losing message and….spread it!

By on October 10, 2011 in Politics

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/09/us-usa-campaign-teaparty-idUSTRE7980JW20111009?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29 Piece from Reuters on how the TP movement is losing interest in the presidential race and shifting it’s focus to senate races, hoping to take a majority there. The disillusionment with the presidential race is fueled by Romney’s front runner status and the faltering campaigns of Bachmann and Perry. So this makes a lot [...]

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Perry comes in third.

By on October 6, 2011 in Politics

Two recent polls of likely Republican voters have shown that Perry has slipped to third for who they would like to see run for president, the leaders are now in first Romney, and in second Cain. I like this, and here is the reason, the more moderate, or at least the TP non favorite, Romney [...]

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Palin

By on October 6, 2011 in General Discussion

If you want to avoid hearing blithering idiocy, tuning in to the Sean Hannity show, on Fox News, is a bad idea.  Hannity is one of the dumber men in media, but he’s actually not usually the source of the more breathtaking flights of stupidity on his show.  Instead, it’s his guests.  He tends to [...]

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The people begin to wake up.

By on September 28, 2011 in Politics

  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/world/as-scorn-for-vote-grows-protests-surge-around-globe.html?_r=1&hp This is a piece from the NYTimes about how protests against corrupt or inefficient government are spreading across the globe. The interesting part about this is that many of the countries where these protests are occuring are democracies. I think it is fair to say that the TP movement shares its impetus with [...]

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