This isn’t productive nor helpful. You are complaining about the same double standard that teabaggers are also complaining about. Your complaint is: Why weren’t we protesting Bush when he was contributing to the debt and spending the same way Obama is now, but all of a sudden when the D’s are in power we are having tea party protests and such. Our complaint is the same: Why have you stopped complaining all of a sudden when the D’s are in power and Obama is now contributing to the debt and spending in the same way that Bush did?

Do you see the conundrum? We are being more loyal to our parties than to the country. When did the party become more important than the country? Do we pledge allegiance to the party or to the republic? Arguing over the double standard doesn’t help. So drop the double standard whine because both sides can find an equal amount of what the other side is doing that they should’ve been doing before or what they were doing before that they should still be doing now. The bottom line is that the buck stops with us. The people are the only true defenders of the constitution. If we don’t get over our partisan bickering and focus on the nation together we will all sink with this ship of debt.

BTW- I don’t understand why the term teabagger is considered to be degrading. It’s actually quite appropriate. The reason for the coining of the label was because everyone was going to send a teabag to D.C. on tax day. So what’s the big deal? Are we back in 3rd grade again snickering anytime the teacher says “Uranus”?

Yes, I am a teabagger.

Go ahead……. *snicker*

(ok that is kind of funny)

I hear/read this a lot–”every economist I talked to…”–and I wonder why it’s never specified WHAT KIND of economist has been talked to. Are you talking to followers of Keynes? It’s akin to, were we obligated to make an important philosophical decision, saying you’d “talked to a lot of philosophers and they all say we have to do _____” without specifying whether you’re talking to Hegelians, Nietzscheans, pragmatists (of whatever kind).

(Note: I am not a supporter of the teabag “protests”.)

The only thing I’d like to add to your comments is: While the likes of Exxon-Mobil, Microsoft, Cisco Systems were racking up record profits in the billions of dollars, none of these three (and scores more) paid not one dollar in federal income tax. What is wrong with this picture?

Teabaggers have their knickers in knots over taxes? Why aren’t they protesting that these corporations aren’t paying a dime? All the while sending American jobs overseas and not paying taxes. Where is the outrage here?

If this is a “grassroots” “nonpartisan” movement, then who wrote the check for 1 million teabags, and a truck to deliver them?

“The reason you are having such a problem understanding what this is all about is because you believe in your partyline regardless of when they step out of bounds.”

Now tell me why you are being attacked.

You right wingers call foul anytime you are called on the ridiculous statements you make. Somehow you equate that to being “silenced.”
Run over to rightwing uber website freerepublic, and make a comment that doesn’t fit with the volks-speak, and you know what will happen?
Your comment will be pulled in minutes, and you will be banned for life.

Here you are allowed to make whatever statement you like, and that statement will be responded to.

So tell me again what your complaint is?