Profile of a confused Tea Bagger.

I came across the article in NYT and was shocked to finally see someone who appears to be somewhat educated and also has more then three teeth representing the Tea Party. I love these mental midgets. They have no answers other then “Cut taxes !!!” We all saw how well that worked under Bush didn’t we? Do they not understand we have to stimulate the economy to create jobs? How many jobs does cutting taxes create ? Does she even know that Freedom works ( the company training her to protest) is a front for corporations ?

The corporate fat cats must laugh pretty hard when thinking of the ” little people” like Keli doing their bidding. These protestors are the same people that would benefit the most from Universal Health Care, but yet they fight for the almighty Corporation. They have achieved what I thought was impossible. They have their heads up their ass and they are being tooled at the same time.

This is my favorite part ***********

Ms. Carender is less certain when it comes to explaining, for instance, how to cut the deficit without cutting Medicaid and Medicare

“Well,” she said, thinking for a long time and then sighing. “Let’s see. Some days I’m very Randian. I feel like there shouldn’t be any of those programs, that it should all be charitable organizations. Sometimes I think, well, maybe it really should be just state, and there should be no federal part in it at all. I bounce around in my solutions to the problem.”

SEATTLE — Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives here in a neighborhood with more Mexican grocers than coffeehouses. You might mistake her for the kind of young person whose vote powered President Obama to the White House. You probably would not think of her as a Tea Party type.

A year ago, frustrated that every time she called her senators to urge them to vote against the $787 billion stimulus bill their mailboxes were full, and tired of wearing out the ear of her Obama-voting fiancé, Ms. Carender decided to hold a protest against what she called the “porkulus.”

“I basically thought to myself: ‘I have two courses. I can give up, go home, crawl into bed and be really depressed and let it happen,’ ” she said this month while driving home from a protest at the State Capitol in Olympia. “Or I can do something different, and I can find a new avenue to have my voice get out.”

This weekend, as Tea Party members observe the anniversary of the first mass protests nationwide, Ms. Carender’s path to activism offers a lens into how the movement has grown, taking many people who were not politically active — it is not uncommon to meet Tea Party advocates who say they have never voted — and turning them into a force that is rattling both parties as they look toward the midterm elections in the fall.

Ms. Carender’s first rally drew only 120 people. A week later, she had 300, and six weeks later, 1,200 people gathered for a Tax Day Tea Party. Last month, she was among about 60 Tea Party leaders flown to Washington to be trained in election activism by Freedom Works, the conservative advocacy organization led by Dick Armey, the former House Republican leader.

This month, a year to the day of her first protest, Ms. Carender stood among a crowd of about 600 on the steps of the State Capitol, acknowledging the thanks from a speaker who cited her as the original Tea Party advocate. Around her were the now-familiar signs: “Can you hear us now?” “Is it 2012 yet?” “Tea Party: the party of now.”

Jenny Beth Martin, a national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella organization of local groups that Ms. Carender has joined, calls her an unlikely avatar of the movement but an ideal one. She puts a fresh, idealistic face on a movement often dismissed as a bunch of angry extremists.

“She’s not your typical conservative,” she said. “She’s an actress. She’s got a nose ring. I think it’s the thing that’s so amazing about our movement.”

Reading about the stimulus, she said, “it didn’t make any sense to me to be spending all this money when we don’t have it.”

“It seems more logical to me that we create an atmosphere where private industry can start to grow again and create jobs,” she said.

She put out the word to some friends from the Young Republicans, which she had joined in late 2008, but it was not a big group. She called Michael Medved, the Seattle-based conservative radio host, but he did not put her on the air. She scanned a list of economics professors who had signed a Cato Institute letter opposing the stimulus and found two locally, but they could not make it.

In a video viewed 68,000 times on YouTube, she confronted Representative Norm Dicks, Democrat of Washington, at a town-hall-style meeting on health care. “If you believe that it is absolutely moral to take my money and give it to someone else based on their supposed needs,” she said, waving a $20 bill to boos and cheers, “then you come and take this $20 and use it as a down payment on this health care plan.”

Ms. Carender is less certain when it comes to explaining, for instance, how to cut the deficit without cutting Medicaid and Medicare.

“Well,” she said, thinking for a long time and then sighing. “Let’s see. Some days I’m very Randian. I feel like there shouldn’t be any of those programs, that it should all be charitable organizations. Sometimes I think, well, maybe it really should be just state, and there should be no federal part in it at all. I bounce around in my solutions to the problem.”

She, like many Tea Party members, resists the idea of a Tea Party leader — “there are a thousand leaders,” she says.

Glenn Beck? “He can be a Tea Partier, but it’s not like the movement bends to him.”

Sarah Palin? She will have to campaign on Tea Party ideas if she wants Tea Party support, Ms. Carender said, adding, “And if she were elected, she’d have to govern on those principles or be fired.”

Ms. Carender herself has become a Tea Party leader, even a celebrity.

At the Olympia rally, she did a television interview and accepted a hug from Kirby Wilbur, the radio host who first publicized her porkulus protest. “This is the future of the conservative movement!” he declared upon seeing her.

Her biggest goal now, Ms. Carender said, is replacing Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat elected three times by wide margins, in November.

So Ms. Carender held a small anniversary rally on Saturday at a local mall. But her focus is on vetting candidates and using the contacts she has established over the last year to get out the vote.

“There is no way we will out-fund-raise the liberals,” she said. “The only weapon we have is energy and time.”

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  1. Steve Swanson says:

    Jason

    “For all these reasons, next year’s tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes, for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital.”

    Who said that? Was it …. Dick Cheney? Was it …. George Bush? Was it …. Karl Rove?

    It was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The iconic Democrat who understood that Federal coffers increase when you cut taxes because it DOES create jobs and increases the number of people paying taxes.

    Currently, 40% of Americans do not pay ANY Federal income taxes and this number is going up thanks to the New Democrat/Progressive/Socialists. We have got to quit spending money we don’t have.

    That is what the Tea Party movement is about. Posting a picture of a guy exercising his FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT with a misspelled word and calling these people names makes you the MORAN. We need smaller and more responsible government or we are going to be in BIG trouble.

    But cutting taxes without cutting expenses is useless.

    BTW- the Bush tax cuts you complain about increased revenue into the Treasury but it doesn’t matter how much money we bring in if they spend MORE than we take in.

  2. Poot says:

    The picture of the gentleman who cannot spell moron precedes the tea party movement. That picture was circulated in the early 00’s.

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  4. hermano says:

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  5. memeticalchemy says:

    Yeah the pic is from pro-bush/iraq war rally

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  7. Dave says:

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  8. Thanks for the post!

  9. Matt says:

    Yeah the pic is from pro-bush/iraq war rally

  10. Ian says:

    The picture of the gentleman who cannot spell moron precedes the tea party movement. That picture was circulated in the early 00’s.

  11. David says:

    The picture of the gentleman who cannot spell moron precedes the tea party movement. That picture was circulated in the early 00’s.

  12. Kelly says:

    Get the facts on the tea Baggers & just
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    President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations’ Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body.
    A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet.
    A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery.
    The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world’s savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan.
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  13. Sean says:

    Yeah the pic is from pro-bush/iraq war rally

  14. Charles says:

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  17. Thunderman says:

    Sometimes i ponder about the reason why modern society has become like this. It really is just depressing :( . I’m gonna go consume a beer and loosen up now! sorry if i got everyone down.

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