In case you wondered if the tea party actually represented something more than a bunch of fringe conservatives bitter that they lost the election… no.
For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public’s mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.
Intensely worried about their personal finances and medical expenses, Americans nonetheless appear realistic about the time Obama might need to turn things around, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. It shows most Americans consider their new president to be a strong, ethical and empathetic leader who is working to change Washington.
But… but… Fox News.
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Nobody should be surprised by that irrelevant number. The Obama term is early and little has been achieved.
BTW: I wouldn’t belittle those tea parties though.
Joaquin, if it’s too early to say he’s doing well, does that not also mean that it’s too early to say he’s doing poorly?
I’m amazed by how much attention Oliver continues to give the tea party protests given that they are thoroughly irrelevant and were only attended by members of the lunatic fringe.
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Yep everybody but the teabaggers. I wouldn’t worry about them much. Evidently nobody else can hear their voices anyway what with the nuts in their mouths.
I’m amazed by how much attention Oliver continues to give the tea party protests given that they are thoroughly irrelevant and were only attended by members of the lunatic fringe.
Because they’re funny. (And I know Funny.)
…and Republicans insist peppering the media with how important they are even though they are about as popular as the party. Highlighting how absurd and hilarious your party has become tells more rational people to vote Democratic
They’re funny and constantly on my television as if they’re somehow relevant.
The Republican party is rudderless and in shambles, but anyone knows that can change on a dime. It’s happened before.
Again, I wouldn’t belittle those tea parties.
Again, I wouldn’t belittle those tea parties.
Why on earth not?
Otto: Don’t call me stupid!
Wendy: Why on earth not?
The tea parties are stupid, the Otto character is stupid. Keep on keepin’ on belittlin’!
Colin: “I’m amazed by how much attention Oliver continues to give the tea party protests given that they are thoroughly irrelevant and were only attended by members of the lunatic fringe.”
Teabagging is a sex act. It’s funny. Oliver has admitted he’s not above grade school humor, and this is the greatest source or grade school humor in politics that I’ve seen in years.
I’m amazed by how much attention Oliver continues to give the tea party protests given that they are thoroughly irrelevant and were only attended by members of the lunatic fringe.
I’m amazed that conservative supporters of these protests have been reduced to citing the level of other people’s ridicule as evidence of the “movement’s” relevance.
Don’t you have anything more substantial to prove your point?
Colin doesn’t get it, as he shouldn’t. Wingnuts are so dense, they don’t get irony. They don’t understand when they are being mocked, relentlessly at that. Dildo Reilly thought Stephen Colbert was flattering him, all the while not realizing he was being mocked and made a fool of.
They just don’t have it in their brains to get it, which is why there’s also no such thing as conservative humor. They think political statements are the same thing as joke. Did anyone ever suffer through Fox News horrendously bad attempt at copying the Daily Show? Remember that show, the 1/2 hour news hour? It was beyond bad/
joaquin: “The Republican party is rudderless and in shambles…”
At least you are willing to admit it.
“…but anyone knows that can change on a dime. It’s happened before.”
Yeah, but right now the party leaders seem to want to take the party in the same direction that cost them the elections in 2008 and 2006.
“Again, I wouldn’t belittle those tea parties.”
I would.
Well, I’ve had no less than 5 different people respond to tell me how absolutely hysterical the tea parties were for their absolute moonbat-ery and unintentional humor. It’s almost as though you guys are all trying to reassure each other how crazed and out to lunch the opposition is.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Right, Colin. We mock because we’re scared.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
And yet we’re not protesting. We’re laughing. It’s the teabagger’s who are doing the protesting.
Now really, Colin, do you want to go on record as saying that one can actually laugh too much?
Please do. That would be freakin’ hilarious.
Colin, we don;t need to reassure ourselves of the opposition being batshit crazy…they do that all by themselves, thank yew very much. We just love to laugh at it because every single day it seems, some wingnut or cable host or talk radio idiot says something that is beyond the pale of stupidity. And their audience of dim bulbs and bitter impotent white men believe every word.
Yesterday the idiot from TX, Rep Joe Barton trying to put Dr Chu on the spot? I bet that was a proud moment in wingnuttery, boy, he sure made a Nobel Prize winning physicist look like a fool, yup, har har har. Um, no, redneck, it was the other way around…Dr Chu was baffled that he was asked a question that every 5th grader knows by some asshole wingnut whose prick is held by the oil industry, trying to make it seem like that them thar global warming is a hoax.
Oh well, that’s the modern GOP for you; the Earth in only 6000 years old, evolution is a lie, and oil was put in the ground by Jesus riding a dinosaur. Way to build a bridge to the 18th century.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
When you see your own side ridiculed mightily and have no logical comeback (or even a witty illogical one) it’s only natural that you would try to turn the ridicule back on us. We feel your pain, Colin. Won’t stop us from keeping the teabag jokes coming, but we feel your pain.
Oliver has admitted he’s not above grade school humor
Far below it.
It’s almost as though you guys are all trying to reassure each other how crazed and out to lunch the opposition is.
No reassurement required. The GOP is handling their end of the deal splendidly.
Insofar as the tea parties advocate any sort of policy at all and are not simply mindless bumper stickers and blithering nonsense, their policy ideals put into action would cause a deepening of the pre-existing economic disaster. So in one sense, Colin, you’re quite right, they do scare me just a bit. However, as there is no chance of their policy ideals being implemented in the near future, all they get – indeed all they deserve – is ridicule. But by all means, continue fooling yourself.
Colin: “Well, I’ve had no less than 5 different people respond to tell me how absolutely hysterical the tea parties were for their absolute moonbat-ery and unintentional humor. It’s almost as though you guys are all trying to reassure each other how crazed and out to lunch the opposition is.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Teabagging is what you call it when a man dips his balls up and down in someone else’s mouth.
How can you not laugh at that?
Seriously, will you not admit there’s plenty of reason to laugh at these people besides fear?
“I’m amazed by how much attention Oliver continues to give the tea party protests given that they are thoroughly irrelevant and were only attended by members of the lunatic fringe.”
I’m not. It’s high comedy. The Republican Party and the conservative movement are dying in front of our eyes, and I couldn’t be happier.
You and your party serve to amuse me. No less, no more. Thanks again, dancing moron.