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EarlG

(23,659 posts) Tue Apr 29, 2014, 11:52 AM Apr 2014

Pic Of The Moment: Remember When The Tea Party Was All About Ending Wasteful Spending? [View all]

Tea Party Grifters Get Noticed, Finally (WaPo shows some temerity in writing about this)

Cherokee Co. tea party chief on track for a $450,000 year

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Pic Of The Moment: Remember When The Tea Party Was All About Ending Wasteful Spending? [View all] EarlG Apr 2014 OP

'Eecingflay the Ongregationcay', Sir The Magistrate Apr 2014 #1

And nobody from the TP/RW believes this bull except the insane erronis Apr 2014 #13

Grifters scamming their followers, just like the old time religion they espouse. Scuba Apr 2014 #2

The rank and file ... GeorgeGist Apr 2014 #3

That guy looks familiar... lame54 Apr 2014 #4

Uggh. That last poster was wretched VWolf Apr 2014 #7

The Abort Pelosi and Waterboard Obama HangOnKids Apr 2014 #36

Will this sink in with them? KT2000 Apr 2014 #5

Methinks you may be giving them more credit than they deserve. calimary Apr 2014 #6

DAYAM! Great band! AAO Apr 2014 #24

Why THANK YOU!!! calimary Apr 2014 #30

You say it like its a bad thing. HooptieWagon Apr 2014 #8

That IS a silver lining right there. FailureToCommunicate Apr 2014 #9

wow amazing oldandhappy Apr 2014 #10

It's pretty much always been a scam to divert MORE money AleksS Apr 2014 #11

The Tea Party Leadership Fund is my particular pet peeve starroute Apr 2014 #12

Can't copyright a name. Perhaps you mean Trademark infringement suit. nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2014 #17

You're right -- thanks for the correction starroute Apr 2014 #19

Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Apr 2014 #14

I remember when they first emerged.. SummerSnow Apr 2014 #15

Pursue Their American Dream: get fat off dumb teabag suckers. nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2014 #16

Assholes conning assholes #suckers - Glad to know they got taken for every $$ donated. nt TeamPooka Apr 2014 #18

Beats paying taxes... lame54 Apr 2014 #21

You are claiming money citizens donate to charity or political parties is stolen tax revenue and TeamPooka Apr 2014 #22

they are supporting a party that claims they will eliminate taxes... lame54 Apr 2014 #23

They are buying unicorns from con men. TeamPooka Apr 2014 #29

poisonous unicorns... lame54 Apr 2014 #35

Taking money from the stupid.. mountain grammy Apr 2014 #20

Pukes and now TeaTerrorists...the WORST at managing money! SoapBox Apr 2014 #25

When they pretended to be about concerned about wasteful spending. liberal N proud Apr 2014 #26

no, no, no! it was always about *privatizing* wasteful spending! unblock Apr 2014 #27

+1 n/t LarryNM Apr 2014 #31

No, I dont actually...they were about "keep govt hands off my Medicare" and hating Obama randys1 Apr 2014 #28

Why are they allowed to make ANY campaign contributions? ThoughtCriminal Apr 2014 #32

That's great. I stumbled on this a few days ago... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2014 #33

TP was always about Koch brothers. merrily Apr 2014 #34