Papantonio: You Can’t Make Nice With The Tea Party

G says:

Now you have the Republican Party aided and abetted by Corporate America, extreme right wing Tea Baggers and our own Christian evanglists version of the Taliban fighting against all kinds of equality in this country

Stef says:

June 10, 1964, was a dramatic day in the United States Senate. For the first time in its history, cloture was invoked on a civil rights bill, ending a record-breaking filibuster by Democrats that had consumed fifty-seven working days. The hero of the hour was minority leader Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.).

On June 10, 1964, Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act.
Grand Old Partisan reported, via DANEgerus:

On this day in 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats’ 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats still call Robert Byrd “the conscience of the Senate.”

In his speech, Senator Dirksen called on the Democrats to end their filibuster and accept racial equality.

Michael Zak wrote about this in his book Back to Basics for the Republican Party and reminds us that Democrats, the party of Slavery, Secession, Segregation and the KKK… fought against equality.

Scott says:

There’s only one way to deal with the left-wing lies about the Tea Party, and that is to expose them.

Jon in MD says:

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1785737

link to AP fact check of Dec 2011 Rethuglican presidential debate where Mitt Romney bet Rick Perry $10,000 (out of touch display by rich Romney) that Romney had never included support for requiring people to buy health insurance in his book “No Apology”). Hardcover editions had support for health insurance purchase mandate while paperback editions didn’t. The library that I work in has had the hardcover edition in its collection. Public libraries usually copy each others’ collections so voters should search their local libraries for the hardcover edition.

The very initials in the name “TEA Party” stand for ‘taxed enough already.’ The very name “TEA” is based on a lie. Call the Tea Party the Koch Party or the LIE Party. Or call the Tea Party the Caricature Party because their extreme Rethuglican views are based on caricatures and distortions of progressive Democratic views in order to stir up opposition that includes working class people voting against their own economic interests.

Passage at end of article fact-checking Newt Gingrich statement (sure to be repeated by Romney or surrogates) about levels of tax and its burden on people:

“GINGRICH: “It starts very simply, taxes — lower taxes, less regulation, an American energy plan and actually be positive about people who create jobs. The opposite of the Obama plan, which is higher taxes, more regulation, no American energy and attack people who create jobs with class warfare.”

THE FACTS: By “no American energy,” Gingrich really meant Obama has not exploited enough American energy in his opinion, but that’s how the former House speaker talks, shorn of nuance and often overreaching.

On taxes, the record is more complex than Gingrich suggests in asserting that Obama plots merely to raise them. He is not the only GOP candidate to ignore the hefty tax cuts that Obama has pushed for and achieved, as well as some tax increases.

Overall, as a share of the nation’s economy [GDP], federal tax revenues are the lowest they’ve been since 1950.

For the third straight year, U.S. families will pay less in federal taxes than they did under Bush. Much of this is due both to recent tax breaks and the weak economy. Obama has called for extending Bush-era tax cuts for all but the wealthiest Americans, and for extending and expanding the 2011 tax cut in the federal payroll tax, which finances Social Security and Medicare.”