From a recent hearing focused yet again on the Republicans’ ACORN obsession. Rep. Alan Grayson shows how this issue should be handled (are you watching, Rep. Welch?).
Talk about anything and everything.
FYI — From Judy at Central Command:
Bernie & Jim Hightower speaking together:
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and author Jim Hightower will discuss building a progressive grassroots movement to defeat the big money interests that dominate the economic and political life of our country.
FOR YOU FOLKS IN THE BANANA BELT:
Friday, October 30 @ 7:00 PM
Brattleboro Union High School
$10.00 Admission
AND FOR THE FOLKS IN THE HILLS OF CENTRAL VT:
Saturday, October 31 @ 10:30 AM
Montpelier High School
Comes w/Brunch!!!
$15.00 Admission
Jim Hightower, often described as America’s #1 Populist, is a national radio commentator and author of the recently released “Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow”. Tickets can be purchased on-line at www.bernie.org, or checks can be sent to Friends of Bernie Sanders, PO Box 391 Burlington, VT 05402. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.
thank you for the video
we should all send a note to Rep. Grayson
That is was it looks like to get owned. That was straight up from a Socratic Dialogue.
We just need to distill our message to sound bites that will reach what used to be the Democratic base: people without a lot of money, who work hard, and have families, and have no time outside of work and family.
the other side had spent millions learning how to deceive these people. We don’t need to spend millions, because we are speaking truth. We just need to respect people who are struggling, and reach them on their terms.
He replaced Charlie Norwood in Congress, who proudly flew a lit-up rebel rag 24/7 from his home near Augusta. If anything, Broun is even more of a wingnut. He’s a big christianist kkkrusader against Muslims, and a birther to boot.
Unfortunately, he represents his district well.
loved that Franken video. Man, was he furious at the Hudson Institute. Get them, Al. He could be a potent voice in the health care hearings. Great fun.
I read the forums and letters of the BFP all the time and see the wingnutters, the hate mongers, and the paranoids that fear any “librulism,” as an assault on their special privileges.
I would not be surprised if your estimates of 1 in 5 Vermonters supporting tea baggery is not far off. The number is far less in counties like Chittendon and Washington, or some down south, but teach baggery is flourishing in districts outside of these areas. There the assault against librulism is as much about macho as it is “keeping the government off our backs.” In the Kingdom, for instance, or many places of Barre, it is really strong, as it is in so many of the other back country areas.
Tea bagging and such is, of course, very thinly veiled racism. But it is racism based on fear that if the ex-slaves can get to the white house, then they can take our jobs as well. Tea baggers have been good at plugging into this fear and turning it on. Vermont is no exception, though less vitriolic than in Georgia, with its violent past and its kkk tradition. But, on the whole, undamned, I bet your estimate for Vermont of 1 in five is a good one.
Rep. Grayson does Florida pround. Sigh.
LOl..yep, especially among the males, though a lot of women also support the tea baggers. Some of them have more virulence than the guys do. One in four is most likely a good guestimate.
That was funny:) It does not surprise me, though:)