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WE NEED A FEW OF THESE IN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS FRIDAY
He may not have known it at the time, but CNBC reporter Rick Santelli started a revolution last week when — from the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange — he called for a “Taxpayer Tea Party” to put an end to President Obama’s socialized system of massive government bailouts.
That single statement has now led to the creation of the “New American Tea Party,” which aims to “stand up for all the regular people who played by the rules” and “end the stand up for all the regular people who played by the rules” by organizing protests across the country this Friday.
Thus far, Tea Parties have been planned for numerous cities like Washington, Atlanta, and Fayetteville, N.C. But still nothing in South Carolina. And that’s a damn shame.
So I’m thinking we organize one in Columbia at the Statehouse. If you would like to help or take part, shoot me an email at editor@palmettoscoop.com.
You should also hop on over to the official website and sign the petition. And, if you’re on Facebook, be sure to join the official group.
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UPDATE: The Greenville Young Republicans have organized one in the Upstate. Details on Amy Wood’s blog.
Greenville is having one on Friday. I’ll send you the Facebook invite.
Sure wish I could be there with y’all in SC for all that Repug passion experience of which you tout, but I gotta wait by the mailbox for all my free money to arrive here in GA. (Sonny ain’t looking no gift horses in the mouth when it comes down to it.)
Wondering why they can’t just send it to my PayPal account though. Sure would save the taxpayers some $$.
You people couldn’t start a tax revolution even with the Russia Army at your side!
I suggest you contact the 101 st Montana Miltia and spent at least 3 months in their basic training program before you even think of serving tea at Aunt Patty Porch.
If you’re serious Adam, then try looking here:
http://www.freedomworks.org/petition/iamwithrick/index.html
Makes me feel kind of dirty to admit it, but I agree with this.
Of course, you have a short memory and forgot it was the GW administration that conceived and implemented the TARP and other bailout programs. But then again, when have the facts mattered to Republicans?
Ain’t nothin like a East Side tea partay! Raw tea in the parlor makes the ladies holla!
You really should have done even the bare minimum of research before this blog post, Adam. You would have known that Greenville is having one. And Brad, Obama is already well past Bush’s spending for his entire tenure (as irresponsible as it was in spending).
Brad you are as wrong as two boy F#*?ing. When TARP got rammed down our collective throats, there were 74 Yah votes in the senate (democrats 50, Republicans 22, Independents 2) and 25 Nay votes (15 Republican, 9 democrats, 1 Independent). Based on the numbers, it is disingenuous to say that TARP was a republican spending experiment. Democrats overwhelmingly supported TARP(50 vs. 9) giving their political bed fellows on Wall Street help, while Republicans were split. Don’t blame TARP on the Republicans just because the residing President was Republican, but had the money nonsense of a democrat. If you really believe that TARP was Republican driven, do you also believe that Gore invented the internet, or that in 10 years Florida will be underwater due to global warming…ignorance is bliss Brad, and you must be one happy bloke.
BS on TARP. Bush, Paulsen, and Bernanke came to congress and said we don’t have time to explain, but if you don’t give us 750 billion in bail out money the entire US Economy is going to collapse before Bush is out of office. Paulsen and Bernanke put the terms together, and Paulsen spent the first half of the money. Only an idiot would believe Republicans had nothing to do with this plan. Which was nothing more than a plan to hopefully save us from 8 years of Republican mismanagement, malfeasance, and outright theft.
Also, BS on Obama spending more than Bush. The US debt when Bush took office was 5.7 trillion and going down. When he left it was 9.8 trillion and going up; and that does not even count the off the books Iraq war which will cost 1.5 trillion dollars by the time it ends, so bump that into W’s term. In case you can’t add that’s 5.6 trillion dollars down the tube and not one damn thing to show for it. We are all poorer that we were 8 years ago, except for Dick Cheney and a few CEOs, and I’m willing to bet on which party they donated the most money to.
And don’t tell me Bush was the idiot and not Republicans in general, because I didn’t see any of them getting in his way except John McCain and the party trashed him.
Right on Charles. I don’t understand why in a state that is one of the poorest in the nation, we have so many people drinking the Republicant Kool-Aid. I guess it’s because its easier to lie than think. But then again, we all need someone to make us look smarter. That’s why I read what Adam Fogle writes.
Yeah Brad and Charles you are so right gee lets get the facts straight when Clinton was in office there was a Republican Congress and who controls the funding of budgets you got it the Congress. All the President can do is submit a budget for approval and the Congress votes on it and than resubmits there own budget and they come to a consensus. So it was as much the Republicans forcinga balance budget on Clinton as it was Clinton. Also let me see we have had robust growth for the first seven years of Bushs term in office until you guess it the Democrats took over the Congress and the spending went way out of control. Oh by the way the Democrats could have blocked Bush budget but did they? Also let me see when did this housing bill they stated that everyone has a right to own a house and to regulate that banks lessen lending rules, let me see according to the New York Times it was in 1998 and who was the President, thats right Clinton. Oh and by the way when did we start having financial difficulties in this country late 2007 early 2008 and if I remember correctly the Democrtas control both the house and Congress and thus the allocation of funds since 2006 election seems interesting that all you Democ RATS or you liberal communist jerkoffs like to blame Bush but it was Princess Pelosi and Dr. Jekyl and mr Hyde running things that put us in the crisies but alas you did not say that the Democrats were running things in 2007 and 2008 and just look at the stock maket since the messiah was nominated it went from around 14,000 to now 7,000 and it still goes down you RATS must really be proud of yourselfs but alas you want socialism after all so you are all happy that you are trashing this great country.
Here we go again Republicans get kicked out of office and the world goes to hell in a hand-basket. Republicans had nothing to do with the financial crisis. Everything was fine as long as Republicans ran the House and Senate. They were doing a wonderful job. Which is of course why the public voted them out. Republicans ran the entire show for the vast majority of the last 8 years and had the ability to block, and did block almost everything the Democrats wanted to do since 2006.
The current financial crisis has been billed as a housing collapse, but that really is not the cause of the economic collapse. The collapse in the economy and the stock market can be attributable directly to the Republicans, in one of their anti-regulation tirades, repealing the Glass Stegal Act, which was passed after the last great Depression and required the separation of Banks, Investment Banks and Insurance Companies. Had this act remained in place none of the things that happened over the last year would have happened. The investment banks may have gone under, but they would not have taken the rest of the economy with them, and no bail out would have been required. But when the banks all became investment banks, and failed, the risk was a world wide depression that would have made the last Depression look like a cake walk. So the Government, in the form of Bush, Paulsen and Bernanke stepped in to bail out the Investment Banks.
By the way no one forced the new super Banks/Investment Banks/Insurance Companies to buy mortgage backed securities, the did that all on their on. Oh and why do Republicans conveniently forget the W “Ownership Society” theory in which he repeatedly bosted on how under his administration home ownership had reached an all time high.
As far as socialism, communism, and capitalism are concerned I have yet to meet a Republican who can intelligently discuss what those things are and how they relate to the history of this country or the Constitution. They prefer to throw the words around because they sound good.
Bush was fighting a war to protect our freedom from the terrorists who murdered thousands of innocent people on 9/11. That is the main reason why the deficit grew. It costs money to fight a war and protect America. Obama is just tossing our hard earned dollars to people who don’t give a s&%# about working, paying taxes, and bettering themselves! Just looking for a handout!
Charles,
which depression wre you talking about the one where fdr prolonged the depression until World War II which is precisely the resaon why we got out of the depression was WW II and that great generation who fought and died to keep punks like you out of office. Or the one where your buddy Jimmy Carter got us into where unemployment was double digit and inflation was over 20%.
yeah asshole we were fighting terrorist in Iraq or dont you know your current history? who the hell do you think we were fighting in Iraq but you proabaly cheered when the terrorist struck us on 9-11 oh I’m sorry we cant say the word terrorist under the messiah.
Oh Charles please explain why the Messiah is extending a hand out to HAMAS members to come live here or what is he planning on doing with the terrorists at Gitmo? also I do know what is the differenc ebetween socialism, communism, and capitalism is do you? you socaist commie.
oh Charles by the way the banks were practically forced to they were regulated to give loans to people who could not afford them and they were also pressured by groups like Acorn who protested at banks until these lenders gave them. I want to ask you have you worked in the mortgage industry and now you have to prove what I am saying is wrong or cant you?
also if the Republians were so bad why did they keep on getting voted back in office like in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004.If Bush was so bad why did he beat your candidate JFK in 2004. If the media would cover the Rats like they reported the Republicans does anyone think that the Democrats would have this much power? oh and by the way it was nice to see the media scrutinize the messiah like they did Sarah Palin, that was nice to see. They did a great job in covering the messiah and do you think if it was known before the election what is known now do you really think the messiah would have won? als it was nice to see that even though the Congress had such a low approval rate how every one knew that the Congress was controlled by the Democrtats.
Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. To the contrary, his every remark and the constant preoccupation of his Cabinet is to heighten the sense of crisis and to escalate the predictions of doom if we do not do as they tell us and raise spending now and taxes later.
Instead of being a firewall, reassuring Main Street even as Wall Street crashed, he has become a conduit of panic, spreading the mood of desperation from the stock exchange floor to kitchen tables across the world.
There are bad loans, which became bad assets, that lie at the root of the crisis. Through deregulation by the government and the greed of financial institutions, they spread to every portfolio in the world. But these basic facts have metastasized out of all proportion to their real harm into job and financial insecurity for every family on Earth. It is President Obama, not the markets themselves, who has spread this fear. A global Paul Revere, he has not only aroused us, but incited fear and trepidation in his wake.
Previous panics have been global in impact, but local in focus. The world panicked because of developments in Mexico or Argentina or Thailand or South Korea. Now, with Collateralized Debt Obligations spreading the poison of a bunch of bad loans all over the world, infecting every portfolio, the panic is not only global in impact but in focus as well. Modern communications have hastened the spread of the virus of panic throughout the global bloodstream.
In addressing this panic, the president of the United States must truly be the leader of the world — showing the way back to confidence.
Instead, Obama has been instrumental in purveying fear and spreading doubt. It is his pronouncements, reinforced by the developments they kindle and catalyze, that are destroying good businesses, bankrupting responsible people and wiping out even conservative financial institutions. Every time he speaks, he sends the markets down and stocks crashing. He doesn’t seem to realize that the rest of the world takes its cue from him. He forgets that he stands at the epicenter of power, not on the fringes campaigning for office. This ain’t Iowa.
Why does Obama preach gloom and doom? Because he is so anxious to cram through every last spending bill, tax increase on the so-called rich, new government regulation, and expansion of healthcare entitlement that he must preserve the atmosphere of crisis as a political necessity. Only by keeping us in a state of panic can he induce us to vote for trillion-dollar deficits and spending packages that send our national debt soaring.
And then there is the matter of blame. The deeper the mess goes — and the further down his rhetoric drives it — the more imperative it becomes to lay off the blame on Bush. He must perpetually “discover” — to his shock — how deep the crisis that he inherited runs, stoking global fears in the process.
So, having inherited a recession, his words are creating a depression. He entered office amid a disaster and he is transforming it into a catastrophe, all to pass every last bit of government spending and move us a bit further to the left before his political capital dwindles.
But the jig will be up soon. The crash of the stock market in the days since he took power (indeed, from the moment he won the election) can increasingly be attributed to his own failure to lead us in the right direction, his failed policies in addressing the recession and his own spreading of panic and fear. The market collapse makes it evident that it is Obama who is the problem, where he should, instead, be the solution.
Where/when are the South Carolina Tea Parties??
Any Tea Party n the Savannah, GA area??
How long until you people realize that both political teams are to blame?
They’re just two appendages of the same crappy government.
Bill – What do you mean, “you people”?
I am a Hillary national delegate and this past week a group of us had a summit.
We want to send DC a message that they can’t count on our vote any more and they are going to have to listen to us.
If you have the chance to speak at the Tea party tell everyone there to register on May 31st as undeclared. DC will get the results of this effort on July 4th. We are hoping to get at least one million by May 31st and from that point on the ball will roll. We want to send out a news press on the 4th declaring our independence
Well in that particular context, It means a person who uniformly defends only members their own political team while only attacking members of the other political team, regardless of who is actually at fault for anything.
Democrats attacking Bush for ridiculously unessecary domestic spying, and then praising Obama despite his acceptance of all those spy programs with open arms.
Republicans completely ignoring or defending Bush’s monstrous lack of fiscal discipline, and then turning on a dime when the guy wasting all the money is a democrat.
And while both sides get played off one another, year after year, government gets bigger and freedom gets smaller.
hey everyone I want everyone to know that I was against any bailouts for the banks but if you remeber right even though Bush was the one who proposed it. It did not pass the first time it was voted on because most Republicans did not vote for it. Than McCain and the the Democrats changed th vote the second time it was voted on and I was against McCain voting for it . But if you go back and look at the vote most Republicans voted against the bill while most Democrats voted for it and that was the reason it passed because Pelosi was able to change a lot more Democrats minds to vote for it. So I was against Bush and Mccain proposing for it and voting for it but the majority of Republicans voted against the bailouts. GO LOOK AT THE VOTE!!!!!!
Anyone having information on tea parties in South Carolina, or wants to help organize one in Rock Hill, please contact me – chas@navacore.net
Its better late than never, but if your as outraged as I am about government spending, and dumb government – it’s time to hit the streets, and send a very strong message we want a real change.
Chuck Parks
Charles you are a total idiot. Dumbass President Obama has spent more money then all the president combined. You must be one these people that don’t work for a living and want me to pay your bills. Did you noticed what OBAMA STANDS FOR REALLY O. B. A. M. A.
Or ONE BIG ASS MISTAKE AMERICA. This country is soon going to be divided. And since he is a supports leaders from our enemy’s then expect war soon. Also we have Korea shooting missles and OBAMA freezes anti-missle defense. What a suprise this man is the worst thing that could happen for AMERICA. Who ever voted for this idiot then you should go outside and shoot yourself!!!!!!