Posts Tagged: Tea Party

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11
Mar 10

Kaffee statt Tee, Kooperation statt Hass

Leonie Seifert | Die Zeit | March 11, 2010

Während die rechtskonservative Tea Party in den USA gegen Obama hetzt, wächst in diesen Tagen eine weitere Graswurzelbewegung heran: die Coffee Party. Die Mitglieder organisieren sich über Facebook und sammeln rasant Unterstützer. Was sie wollen, wissen sie selbst noch nicht.

“Wenn uns einer fragt, wofür wir stehen, müssen wir eine Antwort haben”, ruft ein Mann im “Vote-Obama”-Shirt. “Wir brauchen konkrete Ziele!” Die anderen klatschen Beifall. Sie haben sich über das soziale Netz Facebook kennengelernt, in der Bar Le Monde Deli in Manhattan sehen sie sich zum ersten Mal.

Sie sind Mitglieder einer neuen Bewegung in den USA, die sich Coffee Party nennt. Es ist eine Gegenbewegung zur sogenannten Tea Party, einer rechtskonservativen Gruppierung, die sich vor rund einem Jahr aus zunächst losen Protesten gegen Barack Obamas Politik entwickelte. Mittlerweile ist die Tea Party zu einer großen Protestbewegung geworden, die lautstark und radikal gegen die Obama-Regierung hetzt.
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16
Feb 10

Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

David Barstow – New York Times
February 15, 2010

Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.

But all that was before the Great Recession and the bank bailouts, before Barack Obama took the White House by promising sweeping change on multiple fronts, before her son lost his job and his house. Mrs. Stout said she awoke to see Washington as a threat, a place where crisis is manipulated — even manufactured — by both parties to grab power.
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14
Feb 10

Teabagging the Nation – A Patriotic Pursuit

Sarah Palin on Twitter

On February 10, Sarah Palin tweeted a public birthday greeting to Glenn Beck: “Happy B’day Glenn Beck! Ah, the wisdom of our elders…” Apart from the feigned folksiness of the word “B’day” and the astonishing attributing of wisdom to Glenn Beck, the tweet primarily declares an attempted strategic alliance. Self-professed “rodeo clown” Glenn Beck soon reciprocated by suggesting one of the few strategic alliances described by the American Constitution: “Happy belated birthday to my younger friend Sarah. Let’s just have a combined party in 2013, to save the WH pastry chef some work.” So, however jokingly it may have been put forth, we now have the proposition of a Palin/Beck ballot in 2012.

This twittering mating game may not disclose actual political plans and aspirations on behalf of Glenn Beck but Palin has declared herself ready and willing if not rough and ready, she has publicly cuddled up to elderly wisdom, and the wise old man is apparently going along as far as the ride will take him. Both twitterers seem to be flaunting blatant political opportunism in a giddy, frivolous manner indicating that whatever they are doing, it is working.
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7
Feb 10

Palin Says Democrats Are ‘Running Out Of Time’ — But Also Warns Of Primary Challenges For Republicans (VIDEO)

Sam Stein – The Huffington Post – February 6, 2010
In a fiery speech before a small crowd of Tea Party convention-goers, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin branded President Obama and the Democratic Party as “out of touch, out of date” and “running out of time.”

She mocked Obama’s supporters: “How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for you?” she asked. And she savaged the whole Democratic program: “The only place the left hasn’t placed the blame is on their agenda,” she said. “So, some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that’s where you gotta look because that’s what got you into this mess.”
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6
Feb 10

Le mouvement “Tea Party” tente d’organiser la fronde anti-Washington

Corine Lesnes – LE MONDE | 06.02.10

Le mouvement populiste Tea Party tient ce week-end à Nashville (Tennessee) sa première “convention nationale”. Rien de comparable avec la manifestation du 12 septembre 2009 lorsque plusieurs centaines de milliers de radicaux avaient débarqué à Washington avec leurs pancartes protestant contre la dictature rampante qui sévit depuis que “MaoBama” a franchi les grilles de la Maison Blanche. La réunion de Nashville se tient dans un hôtel cossu. Les participants ont payé 549 dollars d’inscription, auxquels s’ajoutent 269 dollars pour un dîner au homard suivi d’un discours de Sarah Palin (l’héroïne de la base républicaine se fait payer 100 000 dollars pour s’adresser aux convives du banquet final).

La convention est organisée par un groupe appelé “Tea Party Nation”, fondé par un avocat de Nashville. Elle est boycottée par les “Tea Party Patriots”, un groupe parti de Chicago et qui se proclame l’organe originel. Le “Tea Party Express”, fondé en Californie, attend son heure : ce sera en mars lorsqu’il organisera une traversée du pays en bus qui culminera avec la date de remise des déclarations d’impôt le 15 avril.
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