Why weren't people teapartying during Bush's corrupt admenstruation (bloody presidency wasn't it)?

Question

First of all, these tea parties will do nothing but empower domestic terrorists. Right now, the tea parties are social gatherings for middle and upper-middle class Americans, who like to feign desperation. But soon, when people have nothing and therefore nothing to lose, this tea party movement will morph into domestic terrorism and civil unrest. Teaparty goers, though, put me in a mental quagmire. Why now? Why under Obama?

I think Bush's Mimick Men--the naive flag-waving henchmen--would not have dared protest his "conservative" economics, but Bush, in hindsight, did deserve a few tea parties, right?

Sure, Obama is a war criminal and financial terrorist like Bush, but why are people only now assembling over tea? Why didn't people teaparty Bush, when he was pilfering the Treasury and needlessly blowing out the economy?

Answer 1

Your "bloody presidency wasn't it" comment pretty much sums up YOUR point of view. Sadly, you have swallowed the premise that the Iraq (and perhaps the actions in Afghanistan) were wrong.



You must remember that wars kill, but sometimes killing is the only solution.



Consider this -



Hussein attacked Iran, invaded Kuwait, and was rebuilding his army a third time all while his people suffered for want - much of which was due to the UN sanctions imposed due to his military activities.



You also seem to forget Clinton’s sword rattling when Democrats wanted to do something about Hussein, even though they imposed restrictions on Bush Sr from doing what should have been done at the end of the Gulf War.



Whether we found any WMD was irrelevant. Hussein had already used them on his own people and on Iran. Should we have waited until he obtained more?

Should his nuclear activities have not been bombed by Israel?

You do remember the SCUD missiles, but do you know about the extremely long range (about 400 to 600 mile range) cannon he once tried to build until England stopped its parts from being delivered?



So what was your game plan?

Appeasement?

Just hope for the best?



Boy, that really worked out for the world with Hitler now didn’t it ???



THE TEA PARTIES have a function - to voice an appeal that we have had enough!

Many of us hated Bush’s bailout too, but you will recall that it happened at the end of his term.

Although earlier bailouts did occur, they were small in comparison, and certainly not a trend like Obama’s.

We are asking - When does this insanity end, cause we have had enough!



It is not just one political sphere of thought which opposes these spending sprees, but a wide spectrum of political and physophical positions.

Answer 2

The Boston Tea Party was one of the first events in the American revolution. It is commonly referred to as a protest of British taxes on Tea.



While the Previous Bush administration was a disappointment in terms of financial responsibility, Obama's projected deficit in his first year in office will be three times as high as Bush's.



The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projects Obama's plan will double the National Debt in 5 years and triple it in 10 years.

With that kind of spending we know extremely higher taxes will be required.



The tea party's are a protest of Obama's irresponsible spending.

Answer 3

another Bush basher. If you thought so why didn't you . But what blows my mind is you can;t see the difference. It took no more than two months for barry to bankrupt this country. bush didn;t bankrupt the country and he was there for 8 years. and barrys taxing is simply outrageous. and as for bush blowing out the economy i didn;t lose my job and don't know many people did. The taxes weren;t sky high like now. people weren;t in a confused state all the time because the president was contantly breaking then making new laws. they had the tea parties because they are taxed to the limit. that;s why under barry.and where is your proof of bush pilfering. you are just throwin unwarranteded accusations evidently because you are a bush hater. and no i don;t think you are right about anything you said so far. if people thought they needed to protest about his taxes they would have done so. you know how loud the democrats can yell.

when bush was in ofice i was doing fine. but things have changed so much for the worse since barrys been in.

Answer 4

Your question is full of innuendo, and cannot be answered properly, as in When did you stop beating your wife?



There was no corrupt Bush administration, you just did not agree with it.



obama has pushed the limit with his money wasting.



Did you protest during the Bush administration? If not, why not? Did you organize any peaceful protests? If not, why not?

Answer 5

look at how many people were at the anti war rallies against bush, people did protest against him but the whole blowing money thing, there is a break point and I think it finally got reached, it has finally pushed the limits to where people aren't just upset they are mad, and there is a big difference in the reckless spending bush did to the reckless spending obama is doing, not saying that bush was justified, but when your going many times over what the last president spent that would be enough to push anybody over the brink

Answer 6

Libertarians have been having tea parties for several years now (even tea parties about the 9/11 commission report)...its just when the neocons @ fox news hijacked the protest (similar to them hijacking the republican party) is when it went mainstream..I dont know about anybdy else, but I want to be able to express my constitutional rights...1st and 2nd---WITHOUT BEING LABLED AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST.

Answer 7

People were "tea partying" in protest the raised taxes. Bush lowered taxes. It really can't be put any simpler than that.

Answer 8

A young mind is such a terrable thing to waste...

Answer 9

Haha...bloody...ad-menstruation. I love period jokes.

Answer 10

Well just look at the last one in office, and this President. They look nothing alike.. There were hundreds of people on the left side and independents who were out there in the streets protesting his destruction and that war of his, but nobody listened. People were angry because they lost family members for naught to his war! No they didn't call it no "tea party" either. People expect someone to listen to them now with these darn tea parties, but they didn't give a darn about those people protesting the innocent lives caused by that war of his. Then they get mad at and hate people like this woman for pointing out things.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg1wIOdN8uY&feature=related





Many people out there agree with her, and she's entitled to tell it like she sees it. But now she's hated for it. I guess that even her life is on the line now. There's some real sickos out there who she may need to watch out for! And look at the kettle calling the pot black in this video! Unbelievable! Everything that you read here from the rabid ranters are taken directly from this television channel. Those are some serious rabid people on that station.

Answer 11

Oooh, you so cute!