I remember, when all of this Tea Party stuff started a couple of years back, I recall Tea Party spokespeople, their apologists and fellow travelers all saying that the TP was in no way identical to the Republican party. Can someone explain to me, since the Tea Party seems to match the GOP agenda of the last two decades word-for-word, how they are different?
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Originally Posted by Jess
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"We cannot elevate nature above people," explained Edna Mattos, 63, leader of the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots, in an interview. "That's against the Bible and the Bill of Rights."
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Against the Bible, I'm willing to believe but against the Bill of Rights? Really? How many times does this or that ultra-conservative have to get a non-trivial point of Constitutional content or American history completely, utterly, totally wrong before people will stop believing the myth that conservatives but not liberals, are the true keepers of the American flame?
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The Citrus County tea party group's website says Agenda 21 is "designed to make humans into livestock."
Mattos said she enjoys showing off the manatees to her grandchildren, but she had little use for the Save the Manatee Club, explaining, "If some of these environmental movements had been around in the days of the dinosaurs, we'd be living in Jurassic Park now."
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Make humans into livestock? Really? When will the media start calling this kind of stuff out for the absolutely insanity it most manifestly is?
Cheers
Aj