Comments on: Sunday Night All Politics Linkorama http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209 Missing Sleep Since June 2007 (Blogging Since 2005) Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jmh http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209&cpage=1#comment-1059 jmh Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:21:27 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209#comment-1059 That’s true, but he was still tolerated. I can only speculate that the Tea Party was getting more from his membership than they thought his racism was costing the group. It wasn’t until the wrote that vile crap that the scales tipped too far to the bigot side and they had to distance themselves from him. This is why noting in passing that they expunged him is essentially irrelevant.

The NAACP basically said that the Tea Party have vocal racists — not that the Tea Party itself is a racist organization as you implied in the original post — and they need to do more to police this. And there is a guy who appears regularly on CNN representing the Tea Party who previously claimed the president is a “welfare thug” and an “Indonesian Muslim”. It is this same individual who is selected to refute the NAACP. Given this context, I think the NAACP was correct in their concern.

Personally I’ll take the Tea Party seriously when they make actual proposals towards fiscal accountability. As soon as they list the programs they are willing to cut (which will have to include social security, medicare, and defense) in order to balance the budget and reduce the deficit, then I’ll consider their concern to be more than just frustration that the Republicans are out of power.

]]> By: Mike http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209&cpage=1#comment-1058 Mike Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:04:23 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209#comment-1058 Actually, Williams has been a pain the ass for a while and the Tea Party have wanted to boot him for some time.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/a-fissure-in-the-tea-party-movement/59994/

]]> By: jmh http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209&cpage=1#comment-1057 jmh Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:52:13 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=3209#comment-1057 I’d also note in passing that previously Mr Williams referred to the president as a “Welfare Thug” and an “Indonesian Muslim”. The tea party folks didn’t seem to have a problem with him then.

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